THE Muslim community has offered to pay for a designated burial site following protests about Asian funerals causing chaos at a council cemetery. A funeral cortege and grieving relatives have been prevented from entering Blackburn Council's Pleasington
A THOUGHTFUL grandson sent a message of love across the miles when he helped to make his grandparents' Golden Wedding anniversary extra special. Tony Riley, 25, wrote to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph from his ship, the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS
A MAN whose son died from a previously undiagnosed heart condition during a road race plans to run five marathons this year to help prevent it happening to others. Sponsorship money raised by Granville Staff will be used to buy equipment capable of detecting
MY friends and I were quite horrified and outraged by two recent reports. The first (LET, March 17) concerned the attack on ex-miners at a memorial service at Burnley Cemetery and the second was about the behaviour and attitude of Asians at Blackburn
ARAB leader Yasser Arafat was found alive in the Sahara Desert after his plane crash-landed during a sand storm over Libya. Officials of the Palestine Liberation Organisation said their leader, along with nine companions and a crew of three, were missing
LOWERHOUSE have signed experienced South African spinner Corrie Jordaan. Jordaan, 33, has vast experience in South Africa though this is his first professional engagement in England He has had 12 consecutive seasons with Eastern Transvaal and in that
FOUR health centres and a doctor's surgery in Burnley were evacuated today after police received a warning that a bomb had been planted. Part of Burnley town centre came to a standstill as police sealed roads and evacuated about 150 people from health
YOUNG people in Burnley could have a better future if a multi-million pound scheme goes ahead It could result in more job opportunities and better training for hundreds of youngsters. Money could also be ploughed into providing them with more to do in
FUND-RAISERS are hoping flower power will bring a healthy crop of cash this summer. Rossendale Hospice Appeal staff have come up with the bright idea of raising money by staging a sponsored sunflower grow during May and June. Sunflower seeds donated by
CASTLE Cement is to appeal against Environment Agency orders over clinker piles and Cemfuel sampling systems at the Clitheroe plant, it was announced today. Environment watchdogs say that an automatic system to test samples of the controversial fuel should
CLARETS manager Adrian Heath has slammed reports linking Paul Smith with a £1.5 million summer move to Premiership Arsenal. A rival newspaper today claimed that Gunners chief Arsene Wenger is closing in on the promising Turf Moor youngster. Heath rapped
SOLICITORS handling the will of the sister of famed singer Kathleen Ferrier say they are about to distribute the proceeds - 18 months after her death. Winifred Ferrier, sister of the internationally renowned Blackburn contralto, died in 1995 at the age
PET-LOVERS have poured scorn on a psychology professor's claim that cats and dogs are not really man's best friends after all. John Archer, a professor at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, told a national conference in Edinburgh that pets
A CLAIM of racial discrimination against a Blackburn solicitor has been dismissed, although she has yet to face disputes over breach of contract and pay. Miss Bushra Anwar sacked Mrs Susan Watson from her job as a conveyancer after £1,251.25p of client's
A CASUALTY unit is poised to treble its full-time consultant staff - just a year after fears were expressed over its future. Hospital chiefs have recruited two new consultants to work in the accident and emergency department at Blackburn Royal Infirmary
TONY Parkes dropped Jason Wilcox for the first time last night and then offered the winger a potential lifeline before Saturday's crunch Ewood clash with Premiership title favourites Manchester United. The Blackburn Rovers caretaker boss admitted that
SO Muslims are tolerant of other religions? The grieving relatives prevented from visiting graves at Pleasington Cemetery during Asian funerals (LET, March 25) may not think so. This is not the first time this has happened. What has the Racial Equality
Leeds United 0 Blackburn Rovers 0 - Peter White's big match verdict THE jeers of the Leeds United faithful, as they booed their team off the field at Elland Road, must have been music to the ears of Blackburn Rovers. And Tony Parkes could certainly be
A FORMER council leader watched his family business go up in flames last night. Bill Fleming, former Tory leader of Ribble Valley Council, could only look on as 50 firefighters fought the blaze at the waste paper and scrap metal business, Ellen Shirley
A WAR on drugs is to be launched in Burnley, following demands for action from townspeople. Council chiefs are to step up drugs initiatives in direct response to widespread and growing concern. Labour bosses aim to build on present schemes by putting
A VOLUNTARY group that investigates suspected UFOs in East Lancashire claims the number of sightings in the area is on the increase. The Pendle, Hyndburn UFO Network, or PHUFON, is busy investigating a series of sightings of alien craft centred around
EAST Lancashire schoolchildren were taking free butter and cheese home - to stop the food being wasted. As the EEC cut its food mountain, Darwen faced its own surplus after running out of needy customers for the European food. Broadcasting bosses were
PUNTERS at the Hyndburn Bridge pub in Clayton-le-Moors were celebrating success at Kelso yesterday. Rascally, part owned by John Townson of Whalley and a syndicate of locals at the pub, led from the fourth in the Croall Bryson Handicap Hurdle and held
ON viewing the German Shepherd dog on Granada Tonight (April 1), described as a victim of one of the worst cases of cruelty the RSPCA had ever seen, I despair of most of the human race. To see him lapping up all the attention given to him by the children
CHURCH leaders lob a bombshell into the election campaign today, putting the spotlight on unemployment and accusing all the major parties of not doing enough to end poverty. But while, in essence, improving the lot of the poor, the jobless, the low-paid
A WELCOME and positive solution is offered today to the vexed problem of people - and, on one occasion, even a funeral cortege - being prevented from entering Blackburn's Pleasington Cemetery because of crowds attending Asian burials. Now, the Muslim
BUSINESSMAN Simon Moyle is to speak to industry leaders about how companies can share profits among employees. Mr Moyle, chairman of Altham-based uniform and business clothing firm Simon Jersey, will address the Catering Forum Conference on the issue
THE opening fixtures in the Lancashire Cricket League season on Sunday week will once again be hit by a dose of absenteeism in the professional ranks. Meryck Pringle, new professional at reigning champions Rishton, will miss at least the opening league
IT was with interest that I read Bill Jacobs' article 'Alarm bells ring on union policy' (LET, March 28). I was able to reflect on the so-called trade union-dominated 1970s. In the process of the destruction of the unions and cropping them to the levels
Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter YOUR wedding day should be the best day of your life - but it can also be the most expensive. Thousands of couples in East Lancashire will be counting the cost of loving when they walk down the aisle this spring, having
THE Blackburn Ethnic Minority Young Persons' Forum is an initiative which should be disowned and rejected by the Asian community. Organisations like these are primarily instigated to provide photo opportunities, media coverage and, more importantly, some
A GOLD award to honour the service of disgraced ex-mayor Peter Swainston will be withdrawn by Burnley Town Hall bosses. The £450 medallion memento, which is traditionally presented to retiring civic leaders, was sent away to be inscribed with his name
COPS from the streets of San Francisco pounded the beat in England to track down vehicles to help in their fight against gun crime. And they found just what they were looking for in the Humber Pig and Shoreland armoured personnel carriers owned by property
THE man who helped found the Airtours holiday empire in East Lancashire with a loan of a few thousand pounds has sold most of his shares - for £31.5m. Tom Trickett, brother-in-law of holiday giant Airtours' chairman David Crossland, sold 3.4 million shares
STEVE Ledger has said 'saw long' to unemployment - thanks to a training programme! Steve, 54, enrolled on the Target scheme in East Lancashire after a two year spell of unemployment. He completed his training with Training 2000, which arranged a work
