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  • Double delight for ace Cooke

    ANDY Cooke proved his goalscoring pedigree in stunning style with the double blast that sunk Millwall at Turf Moor last night. Cooke had a bad day at the office when drawing a blank in front of goal at Walsall on Saturday and admitted the spurned chances

  • Andy crafts victory for Clarets

    Burnley 2 Millwall 1 - Pete Oliver's big match verdict ANDY Cooke is back in business - and that spells bad news for Second Division defenders. Cooke has had an injury-disrupted start to the campaign and had one of those days when nothing goes right at

  • What's On: East Lancs events for Thursday

    Blackburn Artists Society meet St Gabriel's Church Hall, Brownhill, 7pm. Lancs Family History and Heraldry Society, Ewood WM Club, Bolton Road, Blackburn, 7.30pm. Darwen Afternoon Townswomen's Guild, Darwen Library Theatre, School Street, 2pm. An Evening

  • Jailed Scots Guards freed

    A WISH came true today for the parents of a Whalley soldier murdered by terrorists in Northern Ireland as two of his former Army pals walked free from jail. Scots Guardsmen Jim Fisher, then 19, and Mark Wright, then 24, were jailed for life for the murder

  • FIVE YEARS AGO: Squatters are banned

    FOUR squatters were banned from trespassing on all property belonging to an East Lancashire council following an historic court ruling. The injunction, at Blackburn County Court, was sought by council officials after damage estimated at thousands of pounds

  • Moscow circus state

    WITH an economic and political storm raging in Russia and the world's stock markets hectic with volatile reaction, US President Bill Clinton goes to Moscow to embrace embattled Boris Yeltsin. Here's the deal: Bill promises his backing for Russia as long

  • No future for violence in Ulster now

    IF THE Omagh bomb was designed to blow the Ulster peace process apart, then our surmise that it would have the opposite effect is surely demonstrated by the historic declaration by Sinn Fein that violence should be a thing of the past. This, after all

  • Research into wartime air crew

    IAM writing on behalf of Mr Daniel Brasseur of Belgium, who is researching into the crew of an RAF Vickers Wellington bomber of 196 Squadron, based at Leconfield in East Yorkshire, which crashed near his home town of Solre-sur-Sambre on the night of July

  • CRICKET: Lloyd's big chances

    GRAHAM Lloyd has been handed two big chances to stake his claim for a place in England's World Cup squad next year. Yesterday he was a surprise selection, alongside Lancashire team-mates Neil Fairbrother, Ian Austin and Peter Martin, for the Wills International

  • Hell, a left-over

    REPLYING to my remarks regarding the teachers of religion, Princess Diana and hell, the Rev Kevin Logan (Letters, August 28), misses my point. I wasn't angry because these two miserable creatures 'told of such a place.' My main point was that they suggested

  • Call to withdraw

    PENDLE Council leader, Councillor Alan Davies (Letters, August 13) accused me of suggesting to the inspector of the public inquiry into the appeal over the enforcement notice on the house at Barley, which the council said was built of the 'wrong stone

  • Developers poised to take over empty council homes

    EMPTY council houses in Burnley could be handed over to property developers in a major improvement-for-sale scheme. Building giants Wimpey Homes and the Lovell Partnership have both expressed interest in taking over properties in the problem West End

  • Double delight for Clarets ace Cooke

    ANDY Cooke proved his goalscoring pedigree in stunning style with the double blast that sunk Millwall at Turf Moor last night. Cooke had a bad day at the office when drawing a blank in front of goal at Walsall on Saturday and admitted the spurned chances

  • Pupils sit out return to school

    SCORES of pupils at an Accrington secondary school will start the new term a week late because building work has not been completed. Unfinished renovations in the science block at St Christopher's CE High mean children in year nine must sit out the return

  • Zoo with a conscience

    Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy THE recent deliberate release of mink into an area of the New Forest set me thinking about the conservation of our mammals. I doubt if many people these days agree with killing animals for fur. I certainly don't agree but

  • Abandoned Joanne hails new system on adoption

    RADICAL plans to reinvent the adoption process could mean age, race and so-called anti-social habits such as smoking no longer determine how a prospective couple is judged. So can a 45-year-old smoker with a different skin colour provide the same kind

  • Top level NVQs the real cash earners

    WORKERS with a Level Three NVQ can expect to earn significantly more than those without the qualification, according to a new Government consultation paper. The report, by the Department for Education and Employment, is good news for East Lancashire's

  • Students plug into future

    STUDENTS and the public will be able to plug into the latest technology after a Pendle high school unveiled its new information technology suite. West Craven High, Barnoldswick, used its own cash and a government grant to convert a classroom into the

  • Ancient building methods revived

    A "GREEN" field study centre built using medieval methods could be up and running in Pendle by the end of the year. The environmentally friendly timber-built building, which would have a turf roof and use a reed bed to recycle waste water, would be used

  • Row over as councillors go back to square one

    A POLITICAL stalemate over who should chair a Pendle Council committee has ended after a behind-the-scenes agreement. Labour and Tory councillors in Brierfield agreed Liberals Sajjad Karim and Allan Buck should be chairman and vice-chairman respectively

  • Population trend shows divide

    POPULATION levels in Pendle and Rossendale have fallen during the 1990s, according to the latest official figures. Around 83,000 people were living in the Pendle area in June 1997 - 2,000 down on figures for 1991. And in Rossendale there were 64,600 residents

  • Council sticks by decision on fluoride

    A COUNCIL is to stand by its10-year opposition to the fluoridation of tap water - despite expert advice to the contrary. An East Lancashire Health Authority document, "Dental Health in Children," has revealed that five-year-olds in the area suffer some

  • Spotlight on ethnic health inequalities

    PEOPLE from ethnic minority communities in East Lancashire suffer inequalities in health and social care, according to a health expert. Dr Iqbal Memon says factors including language, religion, culture, the gender of health staff and stereotyping are

  • Corbett has broken leg

    BLACKBURN Rovers' teenage winger Jimmy Corbett is out of action for three months after it was confirmed that he has fractured a leg. Corbett was injured playing for the reserves on Monday and examinations confirmed the news that the 18-year-old has a

  • Telegraph re-launches its bid to light up the Lantern Tower

    A CAMPAIGN to help bring a little more colour to Blackburn town centre is re-launched today by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. We have supported the Lantern Tower refurbishment since it began and now we want to buy one of its stained glass windows to

  • I'm not leaving, Sherwood insists

    BLACKBURN Rovers skipper Tim Sherwood today reassured Ewood fans: "I am not homesick." National newspapers continue to link the midfielder general with a move to Spurs. Rovers turned down a £3.5 million bid for the player, who has four years left on his

  • Power battle looming as Tory quits council

    THE future of Ribble Valley's split council hangs in the balance today after the sudden resignation of a councillor. Chipping representative Richard Walne told councillors in a letter that he was now working and living in the North East. "I am no longer

  • Market traders are told to open or quit

    TRADERS protesting against an extra day's trading at a town centre market have been told to pull their weight or quit their stalls. The row over new rules forcing stallholders on Clitheroe Market to trade on Thursdays erupted again in the council chambers

  • Tim's door of opportunity

    Valerie Cowan Surfs the Net SOME news this week will make some of the more mature readers of this column feel positively ancient. A 17-year-old web entrepreneur is preparing to launch a new UK-oriented portal site. Tim Dunton, who made a name for himself

  • TEN YEARS AGO: £1.8m. factory expansion

    A BOOMING office furniture company was set to build a £1.8 million plant at Altham, creating a "significant number" of jobs. The venture was a major expansion by Todmorden-based Alan Cooper, which has a smaller factory making office screening panels at

  • Root out the dangers

    THERE is no doubt that in England there are fifth-columnists and subversive elements at work, trying to stir up trouble like the communists in America in the 1940s and 1950s. They have infiltrated every part of our national life, not least television.

  • CRICKET: Secretary quit rumpus

    LANCASHIRE League secretary Rod Slater is sweating on a decision over his future as an official. Slater offered his resignation at last week's league meeting. But, after reconsidering his actions, the secretary decided to withdraw his resignation. The

  • Defending the dross

    I DO know that, in English law, every person is entitled to be defended in a court of law. But some of the solicitors mentioned in recent cases are no better than the dross they plead leniency for. I would also say that were I on the bench and was forced

  • Family saved from house blaze

    TWO youngsters and their mother were lifted to safety from an upstairs bedroom window while fire raged in their terraced house in the early hours of today. The family was asleep upstairs in the rented house on Perth Street, Burnley, when Jackie Mee, 31

  • War hero's tale revealed after 53 years

    THE HEROISM of a Burnley trainee mill manager who quit a safe job to fight the Nazis behind enemy lines has finally come to light - more than 53 years after the end of the war. Swiss-born Joseph Anton Richle could have sat out the war running his father's

  • Rovers skipper Sherwood insists: I'm not leaving

    BLACKBURN Rovers skipper Tim Sherwood today reassured Ewood fans: "I am not homesick." National newspapers continue to link the midfielder general with a move to Spurs. Rovers turned down a £3.5 million bid for the player, who has four years left on his

  • School security fence 'too tall'

    HYNDBURN planning bosses are set to throw out proposals to increase the height of a school's fence because they say it would be "overbearing" for neighbouring residents. A report to the development services committee claims a proposed new section of fencing

  • Design award

    A KITCHEN firm has found the recipe for success. Stuart Frazer of Accrington, has won a Design of the Month competition from kitchen manufacturer SieMatic. The firm, which also has showrooms in Rochdale and Preston, has designed more than 100 kitchens

  • New account manager

    RUSSELL Tebbutt has joined Clitheroe-based public relations firm AWPR as account manager. Russell, 36, from Colne, was a former marketing manager with Burnley Council before running his own event management company. AWPR has clients including government

  • Traffic lights plea at danger junction

    TRAFFIC lights are the only way to solve problems at a dangerous crossroads, a Pendle county councillor has claimed. Shelagh Derwent, who represents Pendle West, which includes Fence and Pendleside, on Lancashire County Council, said a friend of hers

  • Bed time for New Labour

    THE notion of the "nanny" state takes on an almost literal meaning now that New Labour is telling parents when to put their children to bed. For as part of the contracts that schools are to be required to draw up with pupils' parents, Education Minister

  • It's time to inject punishment

    The opinions expressed by John Blunt are not necessarily those of this newspaper. LABOUR might have been red hot on crime and the causes of crime in opposition but, in government, it's turning out soft and lukewarm. For now the latest tactic is not to

  • No charge for a piece of my mind

    IT IS, I know, only what it would cost to provide seven town hall executives with private lavatories near their offices - something that Blackburn with Darwen Council leader Malcolm Doherty evidently regards as their right by tradition. But the notion

  • The real price of these louts

    ANYONE who packs in his job at the age of 51 and loses a pile of pension rights in the process because he cannot stomach the affront it entails to his own standards has got to be a person of principle. Hats off, then, to Mr Michael Birkett, who has quit

  • Family fury as ward 'loses' overdose patient

    A WOMAN with schizophrenia took a series of overdoses and suffered "a catalogue of disasters" in hospital, her angry family has claimed. Health bosses have launched an investigation after Duncan McCartney complained about the way his 26-year-old sister