COUNCIL house rents in Pendle could rise by two per cent this year if proposals by a team of leading council officers and councillors get the go-ahead. The rise would generate an extra £154,000 of income for Pendle Council which would go towards meeting
A THREE-YEAR £670,000 scheme to improve road safety in Burnley will get the green light from county councillors this week - providing the local council agrees to extra measures. The scheme is for the Stoneyholme and Daneshouse area, where between 1985
AN urgent appeal for blood donors went out as North West transfusion workers looked certain to start a work-to-rule. Transfusion staff were set to vote at a Manchester meeting and union officials said the mood was for action. More protest action was forecast
COLLEGE students will learn to tread the boards in authentic Shakespearian style - thanks to two top experts on the bard's plays. Workshops focusing on Shakespeare and the theatre start at Accrington and Rossendale College on January 19. Royal Shakespeare
FURIOUS residents were left staring at blank TV screens after a communal aerial system failed for the second time in a month. People living in Scotland Bank Terrace, Blackburn, were left without television for most of the Christmas holiday when the communal
TV GLADIATOR Rocket delivered a knockout birthday surprise to five-year-old Natasha Thomas who is fighting her own battle against leukaemia. Natasha could not believe it when Rocket asked her to join her on stage at Colne Municipal Hall at the end of
EDUCATION chiefs will meet tomorrow to make the tough decision on where the savings axe will fall. Lancashire County Council has announced that £22 million worth of cuts will have to be made this year. And it seems likely the recently formed education
LABOUR councillors in Blackburn and Darwen are urging the Government to change direction in the row over benefit cuts for single parents. Councillors at Blackburn Town Hall took the decision to speak out against their own party leaders at a group meeting
A SHOP assistant today spoke of her terror ordeal at the hands of an armed raider. The gunman brandished a double-barrelled shotgun at Carol Taylor while demanding that she hand over the night's takings from Cheers off-licence in Whalley New Road, Roe
A HAPPY 1998 to all at the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. Your Web page keeps us ex-Blackburn folk in constant touch with the daily events throughout the town. It is also great to read how well the Rovers are progressing this season, so, on behalf of us
LET me say at once that I have no brief for drivers who drink. That said, I also deplore unnecessary invasion of liberty by those in authority. One often hears the police advocating "random testing" for drivers. Since there is no such law, how is it that
A PENSIONER has died in hospital following a road accident in Henry Street, Church, early today. Pedestrian Mrs Jean Logan, 64, of Maden Street, Church, suffered serious head injuries when she was involved in a collision with a van. She was taken to Blackburn
A FAMILY believes it has been blessed after finding a religious message inside an aubergine. Khadija Yakoob, 13, noticed that the veins inside the vegetable spelled the Arabic for "Allah is everywhere" when she sliced it open. Now she and her family,
A STORM-battered charity is counting the cost after part of a stone barn collapsed. A pounding from wind and rain weakened the gable end of the building at Lords House Farm riding therapy centre, Rishton. The collapse has set back a project to renovate
BURNLEY Football Club chairman Frank Teasdale today maintained his silence on the Turf Moor takeover saga. Mr Teasdale has been unable to arrange a meeting with any of the three interested parties - tycoon Ray Ingleby, a consortium fronted by Apax Partners
ROY Hodgson is facing up to the prospect of a battle for the consolation prize of second place in the Premiership, after the weekend's games left Manchester United looking down at the rest from a distance. The Blackburn Rovers boss will not throw in the
A NEW chief executive has been appointed at the parent firm of Bacup-based Bootham Engineers. Martyn Habgood, 42, has been appointed to the post at Dowding and Mills after the death on Boxing Day of the previous chief executive Jim Cole. The chartered
PETER Sharman is coming home - and he can't wait to get started in his new role! After a career which has taken him across the world, ending up as managing director of UK insurance giant Royal Insurance, Peter has returned to his home patch to head up
PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice has welcomed the Government's new toy safety campaign by warning local shoppers to watch out for dangerous toys in the January sales. He said parents and others buying toys should follow the key safety rules by clearing out broken
GOVERNORS were crying "foul" over a £163,000 award to a Nelson high school. The protest was from a rival school which lost out in the same chase for funding. Southlands High School, Chorley, wanted education chiefs to block the money going to Edge End
BRAVE leukaemia sufferer Aimee Read is recovering well after the bone marrow transplant which could save her life. Five-year-old Aimee underwent the transplant on Friday at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital at Pendlebury. It ended a year of anguish
Paisley Pirates 9 Lancashire Hawks 5 ; Lancashire Hawks 1 Paisley Pirates 11 HAWKS bitterly disappointing season brought another double dollop of dismay. Back-to-back defeats against Paisley Pirates in the Northern League - Hawks have lost all six Arena
THE present maximum alcohol level permitted by law for drivers has always seemed to me very reasonable and has for many years been treated with respect by millions of motorists. Moderate enjoyment of alcohol is one of the lawful pleasures of civilised
WHY won't Lancashire police tell us how many of the 13,000 breath tests recently given proved positive, and how many were either slightly or seriously over the limit? Can it be that they prefer not to reveal how many of the 13,000 drivers had their right
THE attack by the ruling Labour group on Blackburn with Darwen Council on cuts in benefit for single parents is typical of the flak Tony Blair and Harriet Harman will face as they seek to sell the government's welfare reforms in special "roadshows" around
I AM very interested in environmental issues and enjoy reading the LET items such as "Grimewatch." I recycle where I can - paper, cardboard, tins, glass and used postage stamps. I also have both a compost frame and wormery for vegetable peelings and garden
A MUSICIAN from East Lancashire is set to be remembered as the surprise hero of the Titantic tragedy when a new film about the doomed liner is shown at cinemas across the area this month. Among those eagerly awaiting the release of the movie Titanic is
CHILDREN are risking their lives by using in-line skates at railway stations, police warned today. British Transport Police officers have received reports of youngsters skating at both Blackburn and Mill Hill stations. And they say it will only be a matter
Looking Back, with Eric Lever GIANT-SCREEN TV is a big draw in many pubs today, but how many viewers, I wonder, are aware that king-size telly was flickering to life here in East Lancashire as long ago as the early 1950s - on some extraordinary sets made
A CHURCH created from an industrial unit - previously used by a packaging firm - marked its official opening with an "open house" and an evening celebration. Harold Hoggarth, who founded the Bacup Christian Fellowship in 1971, was due to open its new
FIVE road schemes in Burnley dating back almost 25 years are set to be cancelled by county councillors. They were inherited by Lancashire Council from the borough authority in 1974 but the work has never been carried out. Now the county's highways and
CHRIS Waddle's bid to bring Andy Payton to Turf Moor was given fresh urgency with the news that goal hero Andy Cooke is set for a two-game ban. Cooke's first half double strike provided Waddle with some welcome relief in the rousing 2-0 win over top-of-the-table
Burnley 2 Watford 0 - Richard Slater's big match verdict THE top and bottom of it was that Burnley crushed their loftier opponents in a wholly one-sided affair. League positions and the form book counted for nought as, from the opening whistle, the Clarets
Derby County 3 Blackburn Rovers 1 - Peter White's big match verdict NOT so much a Bald Eagle as a wily old fox - that's Jim Smith who, with a major assist from Lady Luck, masterminded the downfall of his old club on a weird and not so wonderful afternoon
