A SATELLITE dish firm has won a major order in the face of competition across Europe. Channel Master (UK) Ltd have clinched a deal to supply BSkyB with a new system ready for the launch of a digital satellite service later his year. Although the firm
THE mother of a toddler who drowned at a private nursery is to feature in a hard-hitting Panorama programme tonight calling for changes in the law. Catriona Rae's life was devastated when her 20-month-old son Alexander, of Withnell Fold, drowned in rainwater
A YOUNG boy slipped and plunged down a 70-foot deep ravine while trying to collect a football - but was saved from serious injury when bushes broke his fall. Steven Williams slid down the steep sides and became trapped next to the River Irwell at the
ARMY bomb experts searching the lake in Corporation Park, Blackburn, for explosives warned that "keep out" signs could remain until summer. Ammunition and a live grenade had already been found and although the lake had been drained, treacherous mud looked
A VICAR is singing the praises of a parishioner who has turned his neglected churchyard into a little piece of paradise. Canon Philip Dearden, of Clitheroe Parish Church, has praised Anne Musson and her helpers for creating the most "lovingly cared-for
A COMMUNITY forum has provided a platform to bring together different sections of the community and promote greater understanding, members were told at their AGM. Burnley MP Peter Pike, the Mayor of Burnley Councillor Enid Tate and other representatives
EDUCATION bosses have revealed the names of schools set to take part in a pioneering scheme. Blackburn with Darwen Council is bidding to become one of the first authorities in the country to have an Education Action Zone. And the plan is to form a partnership
A MAN gunned down on his doorstep in a gangland-style execution was a heroin addict who was trying to kick a £300-a-week habit, the Lancashire Evening Telegraph can reveal. The news comes as police confirmed the death of Paul Rothwell could be linked
IN reply to the Hyndburn Council spokesman (Letters, March 3), who said the housing repairs done at my home had all been in the time allowed, I must apologise for my complaints about the time it took. I didn't know the allotted time for reconnecting an
WITH regard to the concern over the possibility of the closures of the Shadsworth leisure centre and Daisyfield pool in Blackburn, the main reason why these facilities are at risk is because the true cost of keeping "Waves" open will put other pools in
IT IS, of course, part of the increasingly-strident anti-tobacco propaganda that accompanies national No Smoking Day, but the survey finding linked with Wednesday's event which suggests that cigarette manufacturers should cough up the cost of nicotine
NEWS that the Health Secretary, Frank Dobson, is encouraging fellow ministers to include means-testing the basic pension among proposals to reform welfare will be certain to cause outrage among the millions of current state pension holders - whether Labour
I AM an A-level student at Blackburn College and I spent my lessons on March 4 attempting to work through screaming, shouting, banging of tambourines, whistling and honking of horns - and why? Well, the people causing the noise didn't seem to know. For
A MAN was taken to hospital suffering from burns and smoke inhalation after a fire at his flat in Accrington town centre. David Rafferty, 50, was rushed to Blackburn Royal Infirmary after the fire at his flat in Edgar Street in the early hours of Sunday
PLANS for a new Ribble Valley hospital moved a step closer today. Communicare NHS Trust revealed it had completed a land deal for a site in Longridge for the development and the plan had been accepted by the Regional Office of the NHS Executive. The Trust
KEN Eccles has been appointed accounts manager in the business support department at Pierce chartered accountants. Keen sportsman Ken joins the Blackburn firm from Latham Crossley & Davis. Previous news story Converted for the new archive on 14 July
DEMOLITION work has begun on a former factory site which is set to become a new industrial park. A £167,500 grant is helping to pay for the work at the former bleachworks at Holden Vale, Haslingden. As part of the work the ground will be strengthened
HUNDREDS of people turned out to protest against moves to build a steel works on open fields between Blackburn and Chorley. Developers are planning to build a steel-making plant opposite the recently completed Mormon temple at Wheelton. Residents are
AEROSPACE "high fliers" will gather to mark the opening of a £1.5 million factory that will create 30 new jobs and play a key part in a company's future expansion. Colne-based engineering firm Cleveland Guest will officially unveil its new factory on
A TERRIFIED driver told how he was attacked by a gang armed with baseball bats and bricks as he drove home through Blackburn. Dean Turkington, a 31-year-old musician from Burnley, got lost on the Wimberley estate. He feared he would have been killed if
A TOWN hall boss today apologised for "a serious error" by staff which left Harle Syke residents without public parking spaces. Burnley chief executive Roger Ellis says officers should have taken proper legal advice before the go-ahead was given for housing
PRIVATE hire operators have vowed to take on Blackburn with Darwen Council in the courts after forming a new association to deal with a series of long-running disputes. The move follows the collapse of strike planned by the Blackburn with Darwen private
LEE McCash of West Craven High School, Barnoldswick, slithered face down through the mud to cover the last few feet of the course and win the English Schools Intermediate Cross Country Championship on Cheltenham Racecourse, writes GEORGE KIRBY. In a career
Lancashire Hawks 1 Peterborough Pirates 10 JIM Pennycook had the last word last night to prevent his luckless ice hockey side from being re-named Blank-ashire Hawks. Less than three minutes remained when player-coach Pennycook put Hawks on the scoresheet
MY wife and I shop regularly in Clitheroe, and on occasions buy vegetables etc, from David Brass at 'Banana News', Clitheroe, the subject of your article (LET, March 4). We have never experienced any problems with the display outside the shop, and the
THE year-long judicial inquiry that begins today into the BSE crisis may appear to many as a costly exercise in locking the stable door after the horse has bolted. For thousands of cattle have already been slaughtered to combat "mad cow disease" and the
A TERRIFIED 86-year-old woman woke up to find a burglar standing by her bed. Acting Detective Inspector Joe Kellet of Blackburn Police described the offence as "alarming" and asked anyone who might know the offender to come forward. The pensioner was
Looking Back, with Eric Leaver AS, arguably, the world's most famous dog, it's not surprising that Nipper - the cute canine in the renowned "His Master's Voice" trademark - should have a well- documented life story. The bull terrier-Jack Russell cross
A YOUNG woman was found with serious facial injuries after being attacked early today. Detectives believe the woman could have been lying on ground in Haslingden's Grane Road area for several hours before being found at 7am by employees starting work
THE Burnley board hope to clinch a takeover deal within a matter of days, writes NEIL BRAMWELL. I understand that a bid has been accepted in principle from the mystery businessman who has a base in Canada and interests in Europe. But the Turf Moor bankers
DION Dublin is just "one of many" players that Blackburn Rovers boss Roy Hodgson has looked at in his efforts to strengthen the Ewood squad. And a Sunday newspaper report that Rovers had been involved in talks with Coventry City about the striker-cum-defender
Walsall 0 Burnley 0 - Pete Oliver's big match report ON THIS evidence there can be no doubting Burnley's stomach for a fight as they set the benchmark for the rest of their away-days in the relegation struggle. At times it wasn't pretty, but Burnley proved
MARLON Beresford has landed a dream move to Middlesbrough thanks to the Bosman ruling. The First Division title-chasers landed the Burnley goalkeeper in a lightning £400,000 raid to ease their injury problems and Beresford will make his debut against
