ECONOMIC development firm Enterprise plc has welcomed a new member to its board following an £8 million deal. Charles Brocklehurst, the former managing director of Inner City Enterprises, has become deputy chief executive of the Preston-based firm following
UNIFORM firm Simon Jersey has won a top industry award for its success selling overseas. The Altham based firm won their category in the British Apparel Export Awards for 1997. The award, which was presented to the firm by the Princess Royal, is seen
COPIES of the latest psychological thriller by East Lancashire authoress Josephine Cox were snapped up at a book signing session at W H Smith in Blackburn on Saturday. Josephine, who has written the fifth in a series of thriller books under her mother's
BLACKBURN MP Jack Straw sparked a row when he described the Royal Family as a "soap opera" and warned that it might be scrapped. Mr Straw was criticised by Tory MPs, who said the Labour Party should make its position on the monarchy clear. But the Shadow
A HEALTH watchdog has welcomed Government plans to reverse the policy of sending seriously disturbed psychiatric patients into the community. There was a clear and recognised danger to the public which had to be addressed, said Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale
EDUCATION bosses in Lancashire could be forced into a policy U-turn following a row with the government over criminal checks on supply teachers. The government has threatened to shame the county council into changing its policy and has set the authority
A FAMOUS East Lancashire museum is threatened with closure - despite growing numbers of visitors. Blackburn with Darwen Council has plans to shut the Lewis Textile Museum - given to the town 62 years ago - to save about £10,000 and create extra office
Guildford 7 Lancashire Hawks 1 ; Lancashire Hawks 3 Telford Tigers 6 RETURNING hero Ismo Rokala couldn't halt Lancashire Hawks freefall this season as Hawks plummeted to nine losses on the trot - but it's not through want of trying. And there is hope
IF EVER a town destroyed too much of its heritage, it was Blackburn in the 1960s' rush to redevelop. But, it seems, the lesson of that mistake has not been learned. For now the council is actually contemplating shutting the country's first textile museum
IN STAGING yet another bloody-minded strike - timed to ruin Saturday night out for hundreds of people - taxi drivers in Blackburn and Darwen are once more trying to intimidate the council into backing down on safety standards. What they want is a cowboys
THE press release from Blackburn Town Hall and your article (LET, January 9) concerning the opening of access to Buncer Woods by a gate being installed in the fence on Buncer Lane, neglects to deal with the actual situation. The original construction
ANOTHER brilliant performance by Blackburn Rovers is buying time in the transfer market for manager Roy Hodgson, who is now being linked with Parma's Hernan Crespo. But the team's success is also making it tough for the Ewood boss to improve on what he
Blackburn Rovers 5 Aston Villa 0 - Peter White's big match verdict THE presence of former off-spinner and current Lancashire CCC chairman Jack Simmons in the guest box turned some thoughts towards summer and the cricket scores. And, if the vast gulf between
MORE than three quarters of firms in the region expect sales to increase over the next three months. The latest Dun & Bradstreet survey found confidence in the North West high for the coming quarter. It found 77 per cent of firms expected an increase
A MAJOR initiative to help East Lancashire aerospace firms break into Asia and America are under way. The Consortium of Lancashire Aerospace, which represents more than 100 firms locally, has set up two working groups to look at the best routes into the
A NEW cycle route will link East Lancashire with the rest of the country. The cycleway will go from Preston to Bury, via Hoghton, Blackburn, Rishton, Accrington and Haslingden. It is likely to go through Witton Park, Blackburn, along the Leeds and Liverpool
PLANS to pay more than 100 council workers a £1-per-day bonus just for turning up to work were slammed. Coun Peter Britcliffe said Hyndburn council's plans to cut absenteeism among it direct labour workers were "immoral". But highways chairman Ken Curtis
MORE than 60 patients in East Lancashire have been waiting more than a year for surgery, in breach of the Patient's Charter. Latest figures have revealed that all hospitals in East Lancashire are under increasing pressure to control waiting lists. And
NEARLY 100 firefighters from across the county fought as fire ripped through a converted mill in Hoddlesden and today investigations were under way to find out how it started. Flames could be seen for miles as the four-storey Vale Rock Mill - converted
HUNDREDS of people were left stranded after taxi firms in Blackburn and Darwen went on strike on Saturday night. And police had to be drafted in after tempers flared between the strikers and taxi drivers from other towns who helped give the stranded lifts
FARMERS are always beefing about something, or so it seems. Tomorrow, hundreds will set off from East Lancashire for a protest rally in London. Ribble Valley hill farmer Tom Robinson explains why BSE, European legislation and imported meat have blighted
NOTWITHSTANDING the environmental issues, the M65 motorway's recent completion has been marred by the daily snarl-up at Junction 4 with the A666 at Earcroft, Darwen. For about 100 yards, the A666 runs into five lanes which simply causes 'bunching.' The
AFTER 42 years of voting Labour I am disappointed to say that 'Tory' Blair and his buddies are terrorising the sick, disabled, old and frail, who are wondering who to turn to now that the people they elected have turned on them. Calling the poor 'scroungers
ON January 2 a man came into the Cancer Research shop in Blackburn, asking how he could get to it with his car as he had six bags of clothes to donate and the gates near the Library were locked. Unfortunately, no one knew of an alternative way to get
MY wife, who is a wheelchair user, has the dubious honour of owning a disabled driver's orange badge. But it is my firm belief that Hyndburn has some of the fittest orange badge owners in the country. Try parking at Accrington's Asda store, where there
Looking Back, with Eric Leaver WAITING for a train can hardly have been a greater torment than that experienced by the crowd gathered at Blackburn's railway station 46 years ago tonight. They didn't want to go anywhere. Instead, the mothers, fathers,
THE Burnley board have met with the mystery takeover bidder. The businessman - based abroad - is one of three parties interested in buying the club. Chairman Frank Teasdale and other board members held talks last week with the millionaire, who has business
Bristol Rovers 1 Burnley 0 - Richard Laytham's big match verdict MARK Ford's first half sending-off left Chris Waddle fuming and scuppered Burnley's hopes of sinking the Pirates at the Memorial Ground. The dismissal for a lunging tackle on Peter Beadle
