Mark Templeton Surfs the Net BARCLAYCARD is claiming an Internet first in Britain by allowing customers to check their credit card account and pay their bill over the web. By accessing Barclaycard Netlink, customers will even see their latest transactions
I AM totally opposed to the practice of hunting with dogs. I believe that it is unnecessary, barbaric and should be banned. The unfortunate animals, after being chased to exhaustion are then set upon by the pack, watched by the hunt as they writhe in
A PRIEST was among eight people arrested at an aerospace factory in Lancashire in the early hours of today. The arrests at British Aerospace's Warton site followed a service held by peace protesters outside the gates of the factory. The service was held
A SCOTTISH couple have launched a desperate search for the East Lancashire relatives of a critically ill army veteran. William Robert Sherlock, 71, who is on a life-support machine, has no known relatives in Forres, on the Moray Firth, where he is fighting
THE Circulation Club, Burnley, is on the market and is attracting lots of early interest, say the agents. The Holmes Street night club, which has been closed for about 12 months, is being offered for sale at £175,000 or for lease with an annual rental
SHOKAT Ali was in first round action today as the 1997 UK Snooker Championship kicked off at Preston's Guild Hall. Currently ranked 59th in the world, the Accrington-based professional was due to meet Karl Payne (117th) for the right to play Alain Robidoux
EURO-MP Mike Hindley was today claiming victory after the European Labour Party lifted the threat of suspension against him. The Lancashire South MEP and three others had earlier been told they were being thrown out for refusing to accept a code of practice
A VIDEO about security which was the brainwave of a Rossendale bobby has made the lives of millions of students safer and earned him and his wife a Concorde trip to New York. PC Steve Hobson is a community safety officer in south Manchester where there
PLANTING has begun on the £1.8m new Forest for Burnley. More than 400 pupils from 12 primary and high schools in Burnley and Padiham are taking part in the first stage of the project when, with help from town's rangers, they will be planting 254 specimen
ROY Hodgson today rubbished any suggestions that he was interested in Monaco forwards Thierry Henry and Viktor Ikpeba. And the Blackburn Rovers boss also laid to rest a story in one of this morning's national tabloids about Garry Flitcroft and Barnsley
CAR trim to inflatable dinghies group Wardle Storeys has seen profits soar. The firm, which employs more than 350 at its plants in Blackburn and Earby, reported pre-tax profits for the year to September increase by 18 per cent to £12.5 million. Chairman
WHEN I complained here about Blackburn Council placing speed bumps in Denville Road, I was not objecting to the bumps. My concern was the danger created by drivers swinging on to the pavement to avoid the bumps. It was pleasing to note that, a short time
WHILE understanding the concerns of Dino Christodoulou (Letters, November 5) about 'dangers' of celebrating Hallowe'en in primary schools, I think if schools want to celebrate Hallowe'en they should. Hallowe'en is a part of our heritage, being based on
MANCHESTER City have recalled Burnley's loan star Gerry Creaney in an attempt to help them climb out of trouble at the bottom of the First Division. The striker, who has scored eight League goals since moving to Turf Moor just under two months ago, would
COMPUTER giant Time has opened its latest store as part of a national expansion programme. The Tamworth store is the 37th to be opened by the Simonstone group since October 1996. "The retail venture was a natural extension of our mail order business,"
TWO Burnley police officers who tackled a man armed with a carving knife have won the Smith Cup bravery award for 1997. Constables Craig Illingworth and Sean Cunningham were called to a house in Burnley last year on Friday, March 22, where a man armed
A HEALTH supremo has been left in limbo after a delay in the appointment of NHS trust chairmen. Sheila Maw is anxiously waiting to hear if she has been re-elected as the £17,000 a year head of the CommuniCare NHS Trust Board. Her appointment ended on
IF Craig Brown really wants to know about Billy McKinlay's qualifications for next summer's World Cup squad, he merely needs to have a quiet word with Kevin Gallacher or Colin Hendry, the two regular Ewood representatives in the Scottish side. Either
THE Queen captured the hearts of East Lancashire folk as she and the Duke of Edinburgh paid a three-and-a-half-hour visit to Burnley and Blackburn. It was sunshine all the way as the Royal couple arrived at Burnley's Manchester Road station to be greeted
PEOPLE in East Lancashire were shell-shocked by rising debts, according to hard-pressed money advice units. Debt counselling had become a boom business in the recession-hit towns as people flocked to advisors for help. The Citizen's Advice Bureau in Pendle
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy SERIOUS walkers now regard the Ribble Way as one of the major walks in the North West of England. One of the problems of being interested in natural history, however, is that you have to sit still for long periods in order
BURNLEY Council officers have gone back to college to take a sign language course so that they can communicate more easily with the deaf. When they have completed the British Sign Language Level 1 course at Nelson and Colne College they will start running
DO Blackburn people not take a pride in their town any more? Obviously not - the streets are absolutely filthy, full of litter and dog mess. I thought offending dog owners were prosecuted. Surely, Blackburn Council could invest extra money into updating
MANCHESTER Airport dealt with a record 16 million passangers over the past 12 months. New airline services and building society windfalls helped swell scheduled traffic passengers by 19 per cent and charter traffic was up by 11 per cent. Previous news
THE ethos of sport should be all about competition and fairness. Ruthless cheats should have no place in the arena - not simply because they break the code, but because of the bad example they set across the broader spectrum of life. Thus, the leniency
AS LABOUR strives to remove the smear of sleaze and returns the £1million donation from Formula One racing supremo Bernie Ecclestone the whole issue of how political parties are funded comes alive. The government promises a searching review of the system
A MAN died after plunging from the top of Blackburn Shopping Centre early today. Police and paramedics were called to the pedestrianised area near to the clock tower in King William Street, Blackburn, at around 7.30am. Blackburn police Inspector Mike
BLACKBURN Rovers and the Lancashire Evening Telegraph today brought a smile back to the face of road accident victim Steven McLaughlin. Steven, 10, suffered a fractured skull and multiple injuries when he was involved in a collision with a car near his
A LONG-AWAITED cash windfall from the sale of council homes will be spent on sprucing up crumbling houses across East Lancashire. The Local Government Finance Bill has received Royal Assent, giving the green-light to the new investment which will be used
The John Blunt column TONY and Cherie Blair, it seems, are at it again. Unfazed by the row over sending their two sons to the elite, grant-maintained London Oratory School which is alleged to select pupils in a back-door fashion through parental interviews
WELL-WISHERS have inundated the parents of schoolboy Simon Laughland with cards and letters in a moving tribute following his death on a busy road. Simon, 12, died last Friday while crossing a dual carriageway on the Rawtenstall-Edenfield bypass at Rawtenstall
TRIBUTE has been paid to well-known Blackburn man George Eastwood, who has died aged 76. Mr Eastwood was known locally for his involvement with several organisations. During the Second World War, Mr Eastwood served with the Royal Ordnance Corps, including
