GRADUATES from British Aerospace took on a community project for a day - and ended up painting the town! A team of 17 from BAe Samlesbury asked community development staff from Blackburn with Darwen Council to come up with a list of venues to be painted
SCOTLAND'S football manager Craig Brown will give East Lancashire bosses tips on how to get the best out of their team next month. Craig, technical director of the Scottish Football Association, will be speaking to ELTEC at Ewood Park on September 9.
WHAT is happening to Witton Park? The park was bought for the people of Blackburn. Yet, two schools have been built in it and now access is restricted. The Easter Fair is held in it as well as various sports meetings, the Lion's Gala, and Asian sports
AN alcohol advice group dealing with East Lancashire children as young as eight with drink problems has slammed a pop record which it claims encourages youngsters to drink. Burnley group Chumbawamba has shot into the charts at number two with Tubthumping
WE welcome the speedy move by councillors in Hyndburn, who have joined the Lancashire Evening Telegraph in condemning delays which are forcing elderly people in East Lancashire to wait an average of nine months for a wheelchair. They have described the
I WAS pleased to read (LET, August 12) about Pendle Council's scheme, whereby any cat or dog found dead is left for up to a week so that its owners may choose their own method of disposal. It's brilliant idea and more councils should adopt this scheme
COMPUTER simulation is helping ring the changes at Silentnight Beds. The firm, Britain's leading bed makers, have called in experts from Bolton Institute to help them reorganise manufacturing, storage and distribution at their Barnoldswick plant. "The
PROTESTERS have criticised the decision of the Environment Agency to lift a ban on the burning of Cemfuel. And Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans has demanded that Castle Cement stop "hiding behind the cloak of confidentiality" and state once and for all what
FORTY callers in two weeks have joined our campaign to tackle the flow of drugs onto the streets of East Lancashire. The calls came after we changed our Drive Out Drugs hotline number to help deal with the number of people wanting to give police information
A COUNCILLOR claims his complaint about an overgrown Remembrance Garden in Oswaldtwistle has been ignored by Hyndburn Borough Council. But the council says the garden at the bottom of Rhyddings Street was inspected, and work to improve the area is under
VANDALS are being blamed for a creating grotspot after they smashed down fencing and hurled it on to wasteland. The concrete fence on the walkway between Marquis Close and Duchess Street, Lower Darwen, has been destroyed over the last few months. Residents
EIGHT months pregnant Maxine Hargreaves can't get treatment for her toothache - almost a week after it left her writhing in pain. And today she blasted the system which is causing scores of dental patients to be turned away. Maxine, 26, of Lincoln Road
A HUGE fall in farm profits is putting rural jobs at risk, industry leaders have said. Farm incomes are expected to drop by as much as 20 per cent this year, wiping about £800 million from the industry's coffers. Low prices for milk and meat, the BSE
DETECTIVES are probing a possible link between an armed robbery at an Accrington sub post office and a similar raid in Clayton-le-Moors more than three years ago. They are also studying the files on similar raids in Lancaster and Preston. A week ago today
A JOINT venture behind the bamboo curtain has been unveiled by a rapidly expanding firm. BMP Europe has struck a deal to assemble components manufactured at its Altham site at a plant in Southern China. The move will give BMP Europe, which manufactures
IN your article (LET, August 14) about access on Buncer Lane, Blackburn, to Witton Park being fenced off at the request of nearby Witton Park High School, Coun John Fairless, chairman of the governors says there was a fence there originally. And that
A MOTHER'S love is often all addicts have left when they reach rock bottom. Such love prompted a Blackburn woman to join our to Drive Out Drugs campaign and tell her harrowing story. She works in the community and has asked us not to print her name and
MOVES to build a mosque with a 50 foot high tower in the heart of a Blackburn residential district look set to fail. The Muslim Hanfi Sunni Association want to build the mosque and school in the middle of terrace housing in the Bastwell area of the town
ROY Hodgson could swoop on his former club after a Blackburn Rovers transfer spying mission to Sweden, writes TONY DEWHURST. Chief scout Mick Brown ran the rule over several potential targets at the weekend after watching Hodgson's old club Halmstad in
IN reply to Mrs J W Walkden's remarks about blocked drains (Letters, August 1), there is only one man who cleans the drains for the whole of Blackburn, Darwen and surrounding areas. He is out in all weathers, doing a thankless job. Most of the drains
FIVE Clitheroe Grammar School sixth-formers raised cash for a children's charity from a sponsored cycle ride to Paris - then had their bikes nicked! James Gill, Michael Wood, Matthew Fishlock, Daniel Parkinson and Jonathan Carter were due to return from
DEBT-ridden East Lancashire bakers Kenyon's closed down with the loss of around 160 jobs. Receivers at the troubled company finally called time after negotiations to sell the business as a going concern collapsed. The receivers, called into the company
THE peace of the Queen's family holiday at Balmoral was shattered by newspaper pictures of a topless Duchess of York. Intimate photographs of freckled Fergie, clad only in bikini briefs, in clinches with her "financial adviser" John Bryan, were emblazoned
LOWERHOUSE CC officials remained tight-lipped today about the final outcome of Monday night's extraordinary general meeting to discuss the Corrie Jordaan situation, writes BRIAN DOOGAN. The committee met again last night to decide what offer, if any,
ZIZI failed to finish top for jockey Carl Lowther on the opening day of the Ebor meeting at York. But the Blackburn apprentice's best chance of glory was expected to come today when he had the mount of Champagne Prince in the opening race, the Motability
IT must have come as a nasty shock to toothache victim Maxine Hargreaves, of Blackburn, when she was told that she had been de-registered by her dentist because it was more than two years since she had a check-up. Apparently the shortage of dentists in
THE Home Office will have to jettison the policy under which all young girls sentenced to detention are sent initially to adult women's prisons. It was ruled unlawful by the High Court after they considered the case in which a 16-year-old girl was sentenced
A TOP police chief who has helped combat crime on the streets of East Lancashire for the last 34 years will retire next month. And as he bows out, Superintendent Malcolm Rawcliffe, 50, is urging the public to work in partnership with the constabulary
THE risk from BSE-infected cows buried in East Lancashire have been assessed at between one in a million and one in ten million, Burnley Borough Council has been assured. Health risk fears from infected cows buried at Rowley Tip, Burnley, are causing
A RETIRED brewery worker died from a fractured neck after falling down the stairs at his home, an inquest heard. The body of Gordon Ewan Bibby, 44, was discovered on January 5 behind the front door of the house in Infirmary Street, Blackburn. A post mortem
A FOUR-year-old boy was injured in an accident with a van in a street where residents are calling for traffic calming measures. Police said Ali Abdin, of Belford Street, Stoneyholme, Burnley, ran from the offside of the road into the path of a Ford Transit
EYESORE mounds of pulp paper on farmland around Burnley have been removed after action by Burnley planners and the Environment Agency. The grey mounds of paper are used as a mulch on fringe moorland fields and first caused concern at a meeting of the
A DARWEN man will do his bit for charity later this year, when pulls on his running shoes on to take part in the New York Marathon. Neville Rickard, 28, is a faculty administrator in the Art and Design department at Blackburn College. He will travel to
MO Mowlam, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has without a doubt the worst job in British politics. Therefore, I hesitate to criticise her. However, I do think that it is going too far to offer to Sinn Fein the release of many IRA terrorists
IN these long hot days of summer and vehicle pollution, perhaps the wartime practice of government slogans would do something to ease the situation. My favourite one, intended to economise on the use of fuel of all vehicles, including trains and aircraft
A COUNCIL job creation chairman has slammed the shoe firm Lambert Howarth for being out of step with fashion trends. The Burnley footwear company stunned workers this month by announcing it was ceasing all production, making up to 200 jobs redundant.
A QUESTION mark is hanging over the future of a bus route following a review by bus giant Stagecoach. The company is considering axing the Burnley and Pendle 78 service between Nelson and Burnley via Harle Syke. Parts of the route between Waidshouse Road
COMMENTING on traffic-calming in Hyndburn, J Norris (Letters, August 15) asked if the elected powers were immune to public opinion and the feelings they have thrust on the community. The answer to that is they just don't care. For years now, the local
THANK you for printing my inquiry (Letters, August 9) about my Army comrade Don Smith, and all those who kindly phoned me with the sad news of Don's death. I was prepared for the worst, but hoping for the best - which, unfortunately, was not to be. I
WHEELCHAIR waiting lists exposed by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph have been branded "disgraceful" by borough councillors in Hyndburn. They have joined this newspaper in condemning delays which are forcing elderly people in East Lancashire to wait an
