A SERIES of advice clinics aimed at ethnic businesses are being staged this month. The events in Haslingden follow a successful seminar supported by the Challenge Fund in the area. Dates for the clinics are currently being finalised. Further details can
SIX officers from the Transport and General Workers Union visited BAe's Samlesbury site to see its environmental management systems in action. Union officials at the factory are heavily involved in helping keep employees informed of environmental issues
A PRO-SHOOTING exhibition in the House of Commons which coincided with the second anniversary of the Dunblane massacre has been cancelled following the intervention of an East Lancashire MP. The proposal from the 120,000-strong British Association for
A BOGUS policeman met his match when he tried to get into a Blackburn pensioner's home. David Dickinson, 82, saw a man looking in through his window who said he was from the police, but when Mr Dickinson, a former policeman himself, asked for identification
VANDALS were today being blamed for causing a potential environmental disaster in the River Calder. Speedy action by workmen and environment agency officers at Seaways Services Ltd, Simonstone, prevented thousands of gallons of water contaminated with
THREE youths terrorised a television engineer before robbing him of £300. Rashid Patel, 27, was making an evening collection for his TV rental company when he was attacked on the Roman Road estate in Blackburn. The youths told Mr Patel to get out of his
A 15-MONTH-OLD tot injured in a head-on crash has been allowed home from hospital but his mother was still in intensive care today. Sharon Ely, 29, of Stuart Street, Barnoldswick, suffered serious injuries and was trapped for more than an hour after the
HUNDREDS of Ultraframe employees have seen their stake in the company double in less than six months. Employees who held on to all of their windfall, which averaged £20,000 when the Clitheroe company floated in October, have seen it rise in value to about
A FRIGHTENED grandmother who has been too scared to leave her home for five weeks today told how she was being terrorised by young yobs. Mrs Winifred Haworth, 73, broke down as she described becoming a prisoner in her own home because a catalogue of incidents
SPRINT star Rebecca White was delighted with the excellent debut she made in a Great Britain vest at the Indoor Athletics International held at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena. The Blackburn Harrier finished runner-up overall to German favourite Reucher
I WISH to congratulate your Newspapers in Education page (LET, February 2). The letters from the pupils of St Bede's RC school were very informative and compassionate. Well done, the teachers, for exposing world animal cruelty and providing information
WE heartily endorse the comments made by Blackburn Civic Society (LET, February 25) regarding the rash of unsuitable "art" objects scattered around Blackburn, in particular the collection of debris on the former church site in Bolton Road. If the people
THOUGH officially neutral, the government will, in the light of the mammoth countryside demonstration at the weekend, no doubt welcome the all-party move today to end the political row over fox-hunting. But it must tread carefully. For though it has been
ALL 190 in Year Eight at Ivy Bank High School, Burnley, have been keeping up with current events through our Story Search reading scheme. Head of English Mrs Sylvia Ware ordered the material from us for the third consecutive year and is delighted with
A COUNCILLOR has appeared in court charged with four separate counts of making a false statement to obtain benefits. Paul Edmondson, 49, of Hollin Street, Blackburn, had his case adjourned for three weeks by Blackburn magistrates. The move followed a
JOHN Filan is well down the road to recovery and believes he will come back to action fitter, stronger and even more enthusiastic after his lengthy lay-off. The Blackburn Rovers keeper was back on the training ground yesterday - as opposed to working
FORMER QEGS pupil Richard Hulyer (above) has been appointed to head a European operation. Richard, who lives in Langho, is at the helm of the healthcare valuation services department of surveyors Christie & Co, based in Manchester. He also manages
FINAL preparations are under way for a major business exhibition aimed at giving East Lancashire firms a boost. The Chamber of Commerce will stage the 1998 Business Day on March 10 at The Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors. As well as the exhibition,
BUSINESSES and Rossendale Council are counting the cost of a spate of smashed windows in the borough over the weekend. One of the targets was Whitworth swimming pool, where a 4ft square double glazed window costing £100 was smashed. The British Queen
A TEENAGE motorcyclist from Haslingden sparked a major police search after his machine broke down on moorland. Thomas Trafford, 16, of Helmshore Road, was scrambling across the moorland tracks with three of his friends when his bike suffered problems
AN Anglican priest has vowed to get his body back in shape in a bid to raise money for repairs to his church. The Reverend Peter Mott, Vicar of Colne, is trying to lose seven pounds during the 40 days of Lent to help meet a £12,000 bill for repairs at
SWIMMERS have been flooded with support for a campaign to preserve the future of Daisyfield Pools in Blackburn. Scores of people have signed a petition to make sure that the pools do not close as part of Blackburn with Darwen Council's proposed £500,000
A TERRIFIED East Lancashire family who narrowly escaped a Florida twister today told how they faced the frightening sting in its tail. A deadly coral snake trying to find shelter from the freak weather conditions confronted Susan Montague and her family
LANCASHIRE Hawks still face a potential injury pile-up despite last weekend's supercharged squad. But as Hawks step up a gear in their play-off bid, the usual suspects are still walking an injury tightrope. Neil Abel, Jeff Daniels and Jim Pennycook all
THEY grow up to three feet a year and can soar up to 100ft and there are 55million of them in the country. They are the conifers that form Britain's forest of Leylandii. The trouble is, many of them are not the trimmed-down, carefully-clipped components
I MUST protest about the large increase in Council Tax. I live in a one-bedroom flat and I draw the retirement pension, which goes up by less than £2 in April, while we are landed with a 12 per cent or thereabouts increase in Council Tax. I know that,
IT'S no wonder Hyndburn Council can spout about how much they have saved (LET, February 18). When I moved into this bungalow, it cost roughly £300 to make a back garden out of a wilderness. I also put new cupboards in the kitchen at a cost of nearly £200
Tuesday Topic with Christine Rutter IT WAS the greatest miracle since water was turned to wine. With the flick of a blusher brush and the flash of a camera this ugly duckling was transformed into an elegant catwalk swan. And, for someone who sports a
BURNLEY'S scheduled red rose showdown with Blackpool at Turf Moor tonight has been postponed because of a waterlogged pitch. Heavy rain overnight and again this morning left standing water on the pitch and made it totally unplayable. The decision to call
CLARETS Chairman Frank Teasdale has asked tycoon bidder Ray Ingleby to be patient in his wait for a Turf Moor takeover answer. Teasdale contacted the multi-millionaire in New York after Ingleby had slammed the delaying tactics of the Burnley board. And
