A NEW, life-saving CT scanner is to be bought for Blackburn Royal Infirmary to serve the whole of East Lancashire. The machine will replace the scanner which was bought by Lancashire Evening Telegraph readers ten years ago. Hospital chiefs agreed to the
POLICE are warning people to be vigilant after a spate of garden ornament thefts. Two antique urns, which could be worth around £3,000, were stolen from the garden of a house in Stoneybank Road, Earby. The natural stone coloured urns are about 2ft 6ins
Crooks stole £9,000 worth of jewellery from a disabled woman's home. The items had been the lifelong collection of multiple sclerosis sufferer Marion Taylforth. Mrs Taylforth, 62, and her husband Ronald, 63, found their Accrington home ransacked after
ARMED robbers who stole £66,000 worth of designer spectacles from a Whalley optician could be from Liverpool. Lancashire police are liaising with officers on Merseyside after a witness noted that at least one of the men involved in the crime at Robin
TWO East Lancashire areas were revealed as the county blackspots for infant deaths and low weight babies. Statistics showed that during 1986, Blackburn had more babies weighing in at less than 5.5lbs than anywhere else in Lancashire. And Rossendale and
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A ROBBER who threatened a shopkeeper at knifepoint Colin Brady threatened Ali Sidat with a five-inch bladed knife at his mini market on Ballantrae Road, Blackburn. He forced Mr Sidat to open the till and ordered him to fill a bag with packets of cigarettes
THE Lancs and Yorks Historical Society runs coach trips to the battlefields and war cemeteries of northern Europe. The trips include visits to the Somme, Ypres, Normandy, Nijmegen, Arnhem, Berlin, Belsen, the Dambusters raid sites, Colditz Castle, Buchenwald
I AM trying to trace crew members of the destroyer, HMS Constance, who served on the China Station between 1945 and 1951. A reunion, to be held in London later this year, will enable these shipmates to meet again, many for the first time in 50 years.
WHILE I agree with John Blunt's comments on lottery lunacy (LET, February 25), I consider his remarks on the Queen's 'too posh' cut glass voice to border on the offensive. None of us can be held responsible for the class of life into which we are born
I WOULD ask Mr G Smith (Letters, March 3) if he has ever spent any time on a working farm? Would he be prepared to work seven days a week, with no holidays, getting up at 5.30am and some days not finishing until 10 or 11pm? And, on top of that, be expected
Friday Folk JANET O'Malley has just become a university graduate - without going to university. Nursery nurse Janet, who works at Longshaw Infants School, Blackburn, has achieved her BSc Honours degrees after four years of hard study, mostly at home,
DANISH international striker Per Pedersen is facing up to the possibility that his career could be plunged back into limbo this summer, writes PETER WHITE. Pedersen, on extended loan from Blackburn Rovers to Borussia Moenchengladbach, admitted today that
BURNLEY can't afford to get sand kicked in their faces when they face the full force of the French foreign legion at Walsall tomorrow, writes PETE OLIVER. A week ago a trip to the Bescot Stadium may not have held too many fears for the Clarets despite
BUSINESSES will be able to hear about the implications of the Spring Budget later this month. For the fifth year running business clubs in East Lancashire have joined forces to stage a post-budget meeting. Experts from accountants BDO Stoy Hayward will
NEW plans to help defence firms which employ tens of thousands of East Lancashire workers diversify have been unveiled. Defence Secretary George Robertson will launch proposals aimed at tackling concerns that the UK's defence sector, which has already
TRAINING and development of staff is not an option for East Lancashire firms - it is vital, according to site director Tim Thompson. Unless firms and their workforces are able to respond quickly to changes they won't be able to survive, warned the head
POLICE are turning to the world's oldest surveillance device - the human eye - in their bid to cut thefts of security cameras. Darwen police say between 30 and 40 cameras have been stolen in the area since January, and estimate the total value of goods
HOMEOWNERS are calling for lorries to be banned from a busy stretch of a Blackburn road. People living in Shadsworth Road say their lives are made a misery by the constant stream of lorries using it as a short cut to the motorway. A campaign was launched
A DECISION to issue councillors with mobile phones has been slammed by a leading Liberal Democrat. David Foster, deputy leader of the Lib Dem group on Blackburn with Darwen Council, has condemned the move. He claims it costs the council £34,000 each year
A MAN lay screaming on the ground with a broken leg after leaping for his life from the bedroom of his blazing home early today. Shane Hindle, 29, was injured as he jumped from a window at his rented house in Logwood Street, Bastwell, Blackburn, at 3.45am
FIRE bombers destroyed the offices of a roofing contractor in an area dubbed by local businesses as "crime capital of Rossendale." Two home made petrol bombs were thrown through the windows of J and J Roofing on Burnley Road, East, Whitewell Bottom, at
REFORMS of our antiquated 97-year-old animal quarantine laws are long overdue. It's 25 years since we experienced a rabies scare in this country and with major advances in science technology since, the myths and cobwebs in should be blown aside. EVAN
WITH reference to the art work across Blackburn and Darwen, it's OK to try and brighten up these areas, but don't you just think that this money should have gone to other causes like the homeless, hospitals or the roads which in East Lancashire are the
AUSTRALIAN Matthew Mott is to return to the EW Cartons Lancashire Cricket League this summer with Lowerhouse. Young Mott, who is a left-handed batsman and a right-handed medium pace bowler, had an enjoyable 1996 season with Church, where he finished sixth
PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice has urged the government to make extra time for the controversial Bill to ban hunting with dogs. He has cited as a precedent the help given his illustrious predecessor Sydney Silverman when he successfully abolished the death
NEIL Abel could be watching from the stands on Sunday when Lancashire Hawks take on Peterborough Pirates at the Arena (face-off 6pm). Veteran defenceman Abel could face official ice hockey suspension following an incident against Cardiff Rage last weekend
ON Saturday, February 28, the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team held a fund-raising appeal and vehicle display in Darwen Town Centre. The magnificent sum of £335.09 was raised, and the whole team expresses its immense gratitude for the support of the public
THE government U-turn on how much red meat is safe to eat without risking bowel cancer is not so much a political own goal, but another nail in the credibility of official food safety advice. And coming after the beef-on-the-bone ban, which is widely
IT WAS a Tory old guard of five former Cabinet ministers leading the attack today on Labour MP Mike Foster's Bill to outlaw fox-hunting - with ex-agriculture supremo Douglas Hogg alone tabling 124 separate amendments in a bid to block it. But it was the
Drive and Stroll with RON FREETHY LATE winter and early spring is the best time to visit St Chad's church at Poulton because at this time the display of crocuses is famous throughout Lancashire. As the crocuses fade they are replaced by waves of daffodils
STRIKER Matt Swailes is just one goal away from an important milestone in a dream debut season in the Unibond Premier Division, writes ANDY NEILD. When Chorley were struggling at the foot of the league back in October they seemed relegation certainties
CHRIS VINNICOMBE is poised to come in from the cold as Burnley chase a desperately needed third away win of the season at Walsall tomorrow, writes PETE OLIVER. Vinnicombe has not played a League game since the Clarets' 2-0 defeat at Gillingham on January
ROY Hodgson, Arsene Wenger, Roy Evans and Gianluca Vialla are four men with a mission. Given that almost everyone - including at least one bookmaker - accepts Manchester United are going to win the Premiership title once again, there is still another
