SPRIGHTLY centenarian Mary Hawley never gets fed up with birthday parties despite having clocked up 101 of them! The birthday girl celebrated again yesterday with family and friends at Greenway home for the elderly in Darwen. She enjoyed a glass of bubbly
POLICE have issued a description of a man wanted in connection with theft of cash from a 73-year-old man. The thief talked his way into the pensioner's home in Peers Clough Road, Lumb, Rossendale, by saying he was interested in old watches. The pensioner
LONG-TERM unemployment figures for East Lancashire showed an alarming rise. Figures for the quarter to January 1993 showed an eight per cent rise in those out of work for a year or more. The Ribble Valley area was the worst hit, with the long-term total
TEN-year-old animal lover and entrepreneur Holly De-Luca is advertising a hamster holiday service after spotting a gap in the pet care market. Holly has created her own advertising posters and distributed them in shops near to her home in the Pike Hill
SMOKE from burning toast sent firefighters racing to Burnley and Rossendale hospitals 11 times last year. In fact, the fire brigade responded to 113 fire alerts at the two hospitals - even though, in the event, there were only two actual fires to deal
LIBRARY opening hours could be slashed and private firms brought in to run some of Blackburn and Darwen's leisure services as the borough council struggles to save £500,000. Major cost-cutting in the Blackburn and Darwen Council's library and leisure
I FULLY agree with S Spence (Letters, February 18). Why must I and others like me have to pay for the privilege of living in this filthy, disgusting, dump of a town? It is time the council addressed this problem and came down hard on the people who create
MYSTERY surrounds Canadian ice hockey star Adrian Lomonaco. But it now seems certain that Lomonaco will not be involved in any of Lancashire Hawks' end-of-season play-offs which start tonight against Telford Tigers at the Arena (face off 8pm). Lomonaco
CLEAN air campaigners have produced a second postcard depicting a smoky-looking Clitheroe. One thousand of the cards depicting plume-grounding at Castle Cement's Ribblesdale works have been produced and are being sent to politicians and Governments around
CHURCH will be looking ahead to their EW Cartons Lancashire League campaign with added confidence after their new professional Neil McGarrell returned career-best figures against England. The left-arm spinner took 7-71 in England's first innings as Guyana
MR J Cowell who praises the dedication and care of District Nursing Sister Garrity and her team (Letters, February 18), and like-minded members of the public might consider voting in 'The Nurse of the Year Award.' This is organised by the Community Nurses
THE Second Division relegation scramble threatens to throw up some of its most significant twists and turns so far tonight, writes PETE OLIVER. And Burnley will be out to make sure they are not the major victims of the likely reshuffle. All the major
CHRIS WADDLE has no immediate plans to bolster his resources as Burnley face Wrexham tonight in the middle of a 16-game marathon, writes PETE OLIVER. Those fixtures have been wedged inside two months with Burnley due to play every Tuesday bar one in the
ROVERS have only just hit their first bad patch. They'll soon bounce back from it at the end of this month and next month will tell. As far as Kevin Gallacher is concerned they should only look at his disciplinary record now and they will see that he
A PARISH council chairman has been suspended from his job as a postman after bosses launched an inquiry into mail delivery. Kevin Robinson stunned colleagues on Cliviger parish council when he told them at a meeting he had been suspended from duty. Mr
ARMY weapons experts were called to Blackburn after a stash of bullets and shells was found near a lake at Corporation Park. The area was cordoned off after the cache was discovered by a YTS trainee working on leaking banks around the lake. Blackburn
A GOVERNMENT plan to scrap the television licence payment for pensioners has been warmly welcomed across East Lancashire. The proposal, which could see National Lottery cash used to offset the financial loss to the BBC, looks certain to be a part of Chancellor
TELEVISION chef Dave Smith helped stir up interest in an innovative healthy eating scheme on a Pendle housing estate. Dave, who comes from Darwen, featured in the television documentary Hotel, which looked behind the scenes at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool
PROUD mum Tina Shipperbottom had a real family event when her new baby boy arrived quicker than expected. Paramedics didn't even have chance to get Tina to an ambulance before little Blau arrived into the world two days early. Mother-of-three Tina, 31
THE proposal for car boot sales on Sundays in Blackburn town centre during the summer and, hopefully, associated fairground razzmatazz, is most welcome. Most folk have not got the convenience of a car nor want the aggravation of a trek with children on
REGARDING your story (LET, February 19) about the play area on the Ellenshaw estate in Darwen being wrecked before it is completed, I hate to say it, but I told you so. I was one tenant on the estate who filled in the questionnaire against building the
THE MASSIVE support in and out of Parliament for the Bill to outlaw hunting with dogs puts the spotlight more firmly than ever on the cruelty of hare-coursing as the sport's premier event, the Waterloo Cup, commences today at Altcar in South Lancashire
EVEN though I am a non-churchgoer, I support Bishop Alan Chesters' view that churches should be kept open for those who require spiritual contact and support (LET, February 20). This is showing the way by not giving in to criminals. Blackburn Cathedral
IT IS hard to square Blackburn with Darwen Council's slashing opening hours at public libraries and leisure centres to save money with its aim of improving the services by encouraging more people to use them. How can they if the doors are shut? This conundrum
WE are totally opposed to any bombing of Iraq. Clinton and Blair are not standing up for democracy and human rights. The US and Britain backed Saddam Hussein for many years and they support many of the most undemocratic and repressive regimes throughout
PUPILS in year 7 at St Bede's RC High School, Blackburn, have been studying the subject of cruelty to animals. Some pupils were so moved by their findings that they wanted to bring the subject to public attention by writing to us. I AM writing to express
Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter ALMOST 6,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed in Britain each week. Marie Curie Cancer Care, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, looks after a third of all people with cancer who want to stay at home
A fan's view by Stephen Cummings SO THEN - you think you are a committed supporter of Burnley Football Club, do you? Always ready to rally around the Claret and Blue flag and give the lads a shout of encouragement whenever they need it, home and away?
KEVIN Gallacher today refused to calm the growing storm which has followed the striker's FA Cup dismissal and Eyal Berkovic's subsequent claims that he was a victim of racial abuse, writes PETER WHITE. But Gallacher is believed to be considering legal
