DEVASTATED Angela Scullion and her two young children were praying for a miracle today after thieves stole their Christmas. Generous Blackburn residents and traders were today rallying round to collect goodies for the family after their £220 Christmas
THE great game of football is being bled dry by the crazy wage demands of players and the sheer greed of the football club. The lifeblood of every club, the supporters, are being ripped off and many of them, walking around like advertising hoardings,
SUPER Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog were under fire as a price probe was launched into computer games giants. The government launched a secret investigation into computer companies Nintendo and Sega after hearing allegations that they were charging excessive
LANCASHIRE Hawks take a break from Christmas Cup duties tonight - but there's no festive season breather. The local ice hockey side invade the Kingston Hawks' nest in Hull in a bid to play catch up in the Northern League with a rare midweek assignment
IN AN increasingly politically-correct age, one might hardly expect a head teacher who "cancelled Christmas" at her primary school to be inundated with praise. But Barbara Milne-Redhead has been, after she carried out her threat to scrap the Christmas
A CONTROVERSIAL scheme for shops and flats is being recommended for council approval. MJB Pension Scheme wants to move the existing Metro petrol station in Gisburn Road, Barrowford, on to the adjacent site of the demolished Halstead textile shuttle factory
SEARCHING for Christmas cards that are a little bit unusual, but convey just the right message is a pain of a chore for most of us. But the parents of pupils at Blacko County Primary School have found exactly the right cards - each pack designed by their
DAMIAN Matthew's proposed £50,000 transfer to Northampton is hanging in the balance with the midfielder still not aware as to which team he might be representing on Boxing Day. And the futures of two more Turf Moor players, Jamie Hoyland and Nigel Gleghorn
BUSINESSES in the region are predicting a bumper 1997 according to a survey out today. And senior bosses are expected to benefit from the booming economy with end-of-year bonuses. Sales to the home market and exports are expected to rise and firms in
IN reply to Mrs J O'Malley (Letters, December 16), while I sympathise about the number of cars parked at school times, what on earth has that got to do with parents trying to get a pelican crossing? It is the people who walk to school who are desperate
IN reply to Mrs J O'Malley's remarks (Letters, December 16) concerning the demonstration for a crossing on Preston Old Road, at Cherry Tree, Blackburn, I would say that the children's safety comes first and foremost. Secondly, the traffic was at a standstill
A fan's eye view of the season, with Stephen Cummings SO THIS is Christmas, and what have we done? Well, not particularly well to be honest. The Clarets will be next to bottom of Nationwide Division Two on Christmas Day, and that stark fact alone makes
IWAS at the junction of Bolton Road and Branch Road at Ewood, Blackburn, last Thursday when, at about 4.15pm, a convoy of some 12 taxis came down Bolton Road travelling at about 10 miles per hour, holding the rest of the traffic up. They were obviously
IT SEEMS incredible, but no one at Turf Moor seems too concerned about the situation. Do they realise that relegation is now stark reality - that monumental debts could end the football club as we know it? The new manager was to be the resurgence of a
DAMIEN Duff has handed Blackburn Rovers boss Roy Hodgson a king-sized Christmas selection headache with his dynamic display against West Ham. Leading goalscorer Chris Sutton, available again after a one-match ban, looks certain to return and link up with
IREAD with interest the article and letter by the mother of the police officer involved in the unfortunate incident with the stripper (LET, December 17). She has every right to be proud of her son. What is the Chief Constable of Lancashire thinking of
DELIGHTED Nina Rostron has danced her way to a prestigious ballet scholarship. The 13-year-old, from Rishton, was selected from hundreds of hopefuls up and down the country who auditioned for the British Ballet Organisation award. The incentive scholarship
EAST Lancashire received a Christmas jobs cracker with a £3 million Anglo-Japanese joint venture creating 120 high-tech jobs. New joint venture company Euro Technology Industries was to build a factory at the Clayton-le-Moors Enterprise Zone. The move
REGARDING the situation of the poor woman in 'A desperate plea for help' (Letters, December 19), what sort of god-forsaken country are we living in? For Goodness sake give the woman the darn stair lift. Did you read her letter, Bishop? Not much hope there
THE WHOLE trouble with the BSE disaster is that, more than a decade since the disease was diagnosed, the public still does not know who to trust or believe over the safety of beef. For agriculture and the meat industry have livelihoods and profits in
A YOUNG woman with a history of substance abuse has died after being found collapsed by staff at a Blackburn hostel. Police recovered a container filled with lighter fuel in the room used by 20-year-old Nicky Walmseley at the Young Women's Christian Association
AN OFFICE furniture firm has two new additions to its fleet. Accrington-based Senator, which employs more than 500 people, has taken delivery of two of the first new Leyland Daf 95XF trucks. Senator's fleet of 14 trucks covers more than 1.5 million kilometres
