GWYNN Williamson is rather proud of her reputation as a bag lady! Gwynn, who runs the Printed Bag Co in Colne, has recently won a string of contracts from local firms. She founded the firm six months ago to design and source printed carrier bags and received
PLANS by the owner of Bacup Borough Football Club to buy the club's West View ground from Rossendale Council look set for an early result. Councillors were due to be told today that an agreement drawn up by solicitors acting for Borough boss Brent Peters
THE MAN charged with leading the fight against drugs was in East Lancashire today to launch a major schools campaign. Drugs" tsar" Keith Hellawell spoke to 250 delegates at a conference to launch the Tackling Drugs Together in Lancashire Schools project
A SCHEME for a massive shops and office complex at the Colne end of the M65 is likely to be refused because of fears it would hit business in town centre stores. Pendle businessman Graham White's firm Greenfield Park wants to build non-food stores, offices
PUB-GOERS were left stranded in Clitheroe after a lightning strike by taxi drivers. Drivers from two firms, Safcabs and Euro Taxis, parked up for the night on Saturday in protest at police checks on cars parked outside the three-car taxi rank on King
A MOTHER of quins saw her young family taking their first steps after she survived a brain operation. Lesley Needham, 30, of Holcombe Drive, Burnley, was back home caring for her three daughters and two sons after having a brain tumour removed. When she
BLACKBURN Rovers have revealed ambitious plans to incorporate a hotel and exhibition hall in a proposed new 15,000-seater stand. The club wants to redevelop the Walkersteel Stand to boost the capacity of the ground up to 40,000 and wants to maximise the
A WOMAN was killed and her husband seriously injured in a road accident while out cycling. Dorothy Brown, 47, who was riding about 20 yards behind her husband Alan, suffered fatal injuries when she was hit by a car travelling in the same direction. Dorothy
OVER the next two years, our society will be siting commemorative plaques in the schools, colleges and universities where airmen who fought in the Battle of Britain were educated. Many of your readers will undoubtedly know of those gallant young airmen
WHEN it rains, it pours. That might be something of a tired cliche but its sentiments were sure to be ringing in the ears of Accrington's success starved players and supporters, writes ANDY NEILD. Few would have given the Thorneyholme Road side a chance
WELL, what a turn up, or turnip, Paul Browne has turned out to be. Loyalty to friends is one thing, but to admit (LET, June 18) in a court of law that he is ignorant of the social security benefits system makes people wonder whether his 25 years as a
THERE are grave fears that English and Argentinian football fans will end up in the same parts of the ground when their teams meet in the World Cup tomorrow night. It is a blunder on the part of the organisers almost beyond comprehension. Given the background
I ASSUME from their letters that Michell Pickering, Christine Lambe and Steve Beddard, of Uncaged, are advocating experimenting on people. They attack the use of animals in research, but fail to suggest any alternative. Animals are used when researchers
ANNIE Pickles went to a christening yesterday to welcome her great, great granddaughter into the world. And before the end of the year Annie, 87, of Brownhill Road, Blackburn, plans to go to New South Wales, Australia, to visit yet another fifth generation
CHURCH members paid an emotional farewell to their minister who is leaving the Rossendale valley to preach the Christian message in one of the world's poorest countries where voodoo still exists. The sight of starving children in rags on the streets of
GCSE exam results in Pendle will not be announced to the Press until a week after students are officially informed. Head teachers of the seven high schools in Pendle agreed unanimously to hold back publication of the results to allow students who might
Looking Back with Eric Leaver THE ANNIVERSARY on Wednesday of the first day of the forlorn Battle of the Somme in 1916 is the most painful one for East Lancashire - marking the day when the "Accrington Pals" battalion was decimated. That sunny morning
CLUB and pub bouncers rejected in other towns could end up in Accrington if Hyndburn does not introduce its own doormen registration scheme, a leading councillor has warned. Coun Ian Ormerod was speaking after Hyndburn licensing committee said it wanted
FRENCH defender Sebastien Perez was en route back to England today and looked set to complete a long-running transfer saga by becoming Blackburn Rovers' fourth close-season signing. I understand that Perez and his representatives left France early this
THREE young workers have tuned up their career prospects. Kieron Buck, 19, Ian Carter, 22, and Daniel Kinnerley, 20, have become the first in East Lancashire to complete Modern Apprenticeships in motor vehicle maintenance and repair through Blackburn-based
A PAINT factory's success in going green has helped its parent company hit a target three years ahead of schedule. A review of chemical giant Akzo Nobel's environmental achievements found it has already achieved targets set for the year 2000. And the
INVESTIGATIONS were under way after more than a100 children were evacuated from a school as a build-up of methane gas prompted fears of an explosion. Youngsters were hurriedly sent home from St Hubert's Primary School, Hallfield Road, Great Harwood, after
CUSTOMERS at a top hotel got steamed up when they heard their favourite chefs were leaving. Paulo Atalainha and Stan Rivers took redundancy from the Burnley's Comfort Friendly Inn after being told a switch to fast food made their skills surplus to requirements
A MAN is fighting for his life after suffering serious head injuries in a town centre incident. And the man's mother today praised villagers who have rallied around to support the distraught family - including one little girl who left a teddy bear on
I SEE the A-board saga is still running strong in Blackburn. But I can't say I am for or against them because I think that to have to detour off the pavement because of the tables and chairs outside cafes and pubs is just as bad. Then to top it all, a
LYNX moved back to the top of the league and also to the top of the Red Rose Trophy with a nine try demolition of Workington. Workington took an early lead in the second minute, with a drop goal from Steve Maguire Workington edged themselves further ahead
BATTLE lines have been drawn up in the store wars being fought by two retail giants. A consultants' report claims plans to develop a prime site at Newhallhey in Rawtenstall will enhance the whole borough, contradicting a similar report published last
WHEN I was halfway across the zebra crossing on Montague Street, Blackburn, a motorist came down the hill from Preston New Road like a bat out of hell. The speed he was doing meant he had no chance of stopping, so he increased speed and flew past me at
JOHN Cockcroft fired rounds of 72 and 66 to scupper the big guns in the Trafalgar Trophy over his home course Nelson. But the 18-year-old Lancashire B team player cut it fine - he birdied the last hole to deny Blackburn's John Ashton who led after a first
A DAY trip out turned the clock back more than 50 years and ended in a surprise birthday reunion for two childhood friends who lived in Pendle during the War. Dora Kretzschmar was on a coach trip to Pendle Heritage Centre, Barrowford, when she suddenly
IF your paper is now going to have regular reports on private meetings of the Labour group on Burnley Council, I think they should be reported accurately. I am proud to say there was dissent about Councillor Eddie Fisk becoming mayor - from myself and
MPS ARE kicking up about the behaviour of some of our England supporters in France, but I am surprised there are not more showing disrespect for law and order and the rights of innocent people. What do they expect? Don't they realise those people come
ON this side of the water it is difficult to understand what persuades thousands of Orangemen that they must embark on what is known as the marching season. Their annual strut, wearing sashes, bowlers and carrying rolled umbrellas leaves the vast majority
A BURNLEY student has had surgery to remove an air gun pellet from his heart. The 19-year-old football fan's mum said the operation at Blackpool Victoria Hospital had been a success and her son was recovering and was today "comfortable". The teenager,
THE people of the Duke Bar area of Burnley today gathered in grief to pay their last respects to James McParland. About 130 local residents were at the funeral to support Mr McParland's family, who travelled from Ireland. His sisters, Margaret, Mary,
A QUICK-THINKING neighbour and a dog helped save a man from his burning home. Derek Whitaker, 30, was asleep in the front bedroom of his terraced home in Clare Street, Burnley, when his dog's barking woke him in the middle of the night. Mr Whitaker found
THE ball is back in the Ray Ingleby court as Peter Shackleton's laboured bid for Burnley Football Club peters out, writes NEIL BRAMWELL. Ingleby's latest bid was officially rejected months ago after the Burnley board asked for several more promises over
