A GRIEVING sister has hit out at an addict who he refused to tell police who supplied the methadone that killed her brother. After the inquest into the death of Ronald Michael Walsh, who had consumed six times the fatal dose of the drug, his sister Mrs
A FAMILY is campaigning for a disabled vehicle allowance to be made available for parents with children under five. The national Motability scheme helps families with disabled children aged five or over but Paul and Rachel Preston are campaigning for
IN response to the article 'Shock survey reveals diet defects of the poor' (LET, October 8), I work as a community dietitian, employed by Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Healthcare NHS Trust and based at Bangor Street Health Centre in the heart
COUNCILLORS agreed to fund a crisis-hit community relations group amid accusations of racism during a stormy meeting last night. The opposition Labour group on Pendle Council was blasted over remarks made in a press release on moves by the ruling Liberals
CAN readers help Eileen Mallett trace a lost friend from the mid-1940s? His name is Jack Mulligan, last known address 7 Brook Street, Mill Hill, Blackburn. She believes he is related to the Bentley family who were funeral directors. Anyone who knows Jack
IT appears some bishops in the Anglican church are to bless co-habiting and do away with the term 'living in sin.' However, God cannot bless sin and it is sin because a union of two people must be witnessed by the Church and God. To say marriage is simply
AT their conference last week, Tories spouted that they believed in family values. Yet they spoke of being tolerant towards single mothers and people living together outside marriage. We say it is a sign of the times. Look at all the murders, rapes, muggings
IT MAY be good news for consumers - particularly hard-up old folk who worry about the cost of cooking and heating - that electricity bills are to be cut in an interim move before competition between the power companies is expected to keep them down anyway
THE DISCLOSURE that the government is considering tough new measures to ban convicted paedophiles from public places used by children will surely be welcomed by parents. But, coupled with the possibility of electronic tagging of child sex offenders released
THE investigation of NHS complaints has sparked a series of improvements in East Lancashire hospitals, it was revealed today. Health chiefs said several "Good Practice" initiatives had been introduced at all local NHS trusts as a result of NHS gripes
A FORMER policeman dying of liver cancer is spearheading a £400,000 appeal to recruit two more Macmillan nurses in East Lancashire. Doctors have told 58-year-old Brian Haynes, of Young Street, Mill Hill, that he is unlikely to live beyond March. But he
A TROUBLED school is ready to turn itself into a fortress in a bid to keep out vandals and intruders. Shadsworth Junior School has won the backing of Lancashire County Council over plans to build a 7ft steel fence along its boundaries. The move follows
MOUNTED police were today scouring a remote wooded area after a couple claimed they had seen a small boy being dragged into bushes. The incident happened at around 10.30pm on Wednesday as the couple sat in their car above the Blue Lagoon, Belmont. Another
CONCERN has been expressed over the reduction in the number of food safety inspections following Hyndburn Council's cost-cutting drive. The reductions were part of a move to slash £800,000 from Hyndburn's budget by cutting services and shedding jobs.
FORMER Burnley starlet Stevie Gardner is about to re-launch his career with Bacup Borough - but he certainly won't need any formal introduction to his new manager, writes TONY DEWHURST. For 20-year-old Stevie has worked with Brent Peters not once, not
TWO young brothers were seriously injured today after their necks were slashed with a knife in an incident at their home. Daniel and Adam Schofield were discovered lying in a house in Lodge Street, Accrington, after Anita Pettifer, 27, ran into the town's
THE War Research Society, run mainly by retired and serving police officers and ex-servicemen as a charitable hobby, runs coach trips to the battlefields and cemeteries of Northern Europe. These include the Somme, Ypres, Mons, Normandy, Arnhem, Berlin
YOUNGSTERS gave would-be pop idols a grilling when they performed in the school assembly hall. But pupil Steven Mason, eight, wasn't interested in boy-band influences like Take That - he wanted to know if they liked musical legend Bob Marley! Budding
CHRIS Waddle has a double Scotch on order! After securing the services of red hot striker Gerry Creaney for a further month, the Clarets boss is tracking Scottish under-21 international Grant Johnson. The ex-Dundee United man has trained with the Turf
A TEACHER is coming "home" to take over as head of a Pendle school. Arnold Kuchartschuk, 44, will take up the top spot at West Craven High, Barnoldswick, in January. Mr Kuchartschuk, born in Yorkshire to a Romanian father and Estonian mother, is currently
CHAMPAGNE corks were popping as county council bosses prepared to kill off plans for a super tip. Anti-dump campaigners bombarded county hall with hundreds of letters opposing the bid by UK Waste to use a 190-acre green fields site at Moor Isles, Fence
WORKERS from besieged Blackburn brewers Matthew Brown took to the streets in a show of defiance against a massive £195 million takeover bid. Nearly 100 people from the Blackburn brewery set off to join colleagues in Workington on a protest march in a
DUTCHMAN Marco Gentile is determined to tough it out at Burnley - even if that means three years in the reserves at Turf Moor, writes TONY DEWHURST! The gifted stopper has suffered a personal torment since arriving from MVV Maastricht in the final days
IDISAGREE with your editorial (LET, October 8) concerning the comments of Lord Tebbit on the escalating race relations problem caused by the clash of extreme, incompatible, alien cultures. Some argue that the ancestry the indigenous British is composed
VOICES from Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale will unite with thousands more worldwide to raise money for hospices. The BT Voices for Hospices will see more than 550 performances of Handel's Messiah performed in 44 countries within 24 hours. The first will
SO Pendle Council's Policy Committee is to discuss the possibility of parish councils for Nelson and Colne (LET, October 13). Nelson and Colne, like Barrowford and Brierfield, are not parishes and never will be. Furthermore, these areas already have three
IF prostitutes did not have customers, they would change their jobs. The same law of supply and demand applies to drug users, drinkers, etc. Without customers, no-one would be fool enough to start a business or open a shop. Instead of all the silly complaints
CALLING all grimebusters! Isn't it time you got involved in our environmental success story? The Lancashire Evening Telegraph's Grimewatch campaign is going from strength to strength. This week it won the National Premier Award for Media in the Queen
STEPHANE Henchoz and Stuart Ripley have handed Blackburn Rovers boss Roy Hodgson a twin boost on the eve of tomorrow's Premiership clash with Southampton at Ewood. And Henchoz, given the elbow by Gianluca Vialli in Wednesday's Coca-Cola Cup tie at Chelsea
HIGHWAYS chiefs at Blackburn town hall are calling on the Government to change the system for handing out cash to councils to pay for traffic calming. At the moment the amount of money initially given to authorities is based on the number of accidents
SOUTHAMPTON boss David Jones has good cause to be thankful for the foresight of his predecessor Graeme Souness. For, one of the final acts of the Souness regime at the Dell saw 20-year-old striker Kevin Davies make a £750,000 move from Chesterfield. And
