POLICE investigating a claim that a baby had been left 'home alone' found the child was being cared for elsewhere, a court heard. But they did find a cannabis cigarette when they entered the home of Sindy Livesey, 23, of Cherry Street, Blackburn. Livesey
SEBASTIEN Perez is the latest man to join Blackburn Rovers' ever-increasing casualty list and seems certain to face surgery. The Frenchman, who scored a first-half goal in Lyon last night, stayed behind as Rovers flew home from their UEFA Cup tie. He
FROM the outside it just looks like a hair salon. But Antony and Patricia's, on Bank Street, Rawtenstall, is much more than that. The upstairs is the nerve centre for the biggest street motorcyling extravaganza in Europe. It is from this office that Tony
PRIME Minister Tony Blair has been told to open up thousands of acres of East Lancashire countryside to ramblers. Pendle MP Gordon Prentice said the policy of seeking voluntary agreements with landowners was doomed to failure. The keen walker, who quit
LYON coach Bernard Lacombe paid tribute to Rovers' efforts as they came within an ace of inflicting his team's first defeat of the season. "I had said that with English and German sides you have never won until the final whistle and Blackburn were never
FLOWERS: Concern that he was beaten for the third time in recent weeks from a free kick but made a couple of outstanding saves 7 DAILLY: Did not appear very confident in the first half but, once he had made the assist for the second goal his game went
BBN ROY Hodgson was furious with Dutch referee Rene Temming's handling of last night's UEFA Cup tie in Lyon when Blackburn Rovers went out of the competition in a controversial first round tie. The Rovers boss feels his team have been a victim of refereeing
BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent may be forced to scour the transfer market in a bid to replace injured skipper Chris Brass. Ternent's worst fears were realised when the knee injury Brass sustained in Saturday's 1-1 draw with Wigan was confirmed as cartilage
Caveglia 3, Grassi 37 pen Perez 26, Flitcroft 57 Stade de Gerland, Tuesday, September 29, 1998 Att: 24,558 Ref: R Temming (Holland) 5 LYON (4-3-1-2) Coupet Carteron, Fournier, Laville, Delmotte Bak, Violeau, Linares Dhorasoo Grassi, Caveglia Subs: Cocard
CHARITY swimmer and MP Nigel Evans dived to the defence of Blackpool beach after it was hit by a Government health warning and vowed: " I'm not afraid to have a dip." The Ribble Valley MP leapt to support the North West's flagship beach after Environment
MANCHESTER'S Library Theatre Company has launched its own website -- which promises special offers for online theatre fans. The site, at http://www.libtheatreco.org.uk/, has information on all forthcoming productions. Gorblimey! LAST week I told you about
SHOCKED families in East Lancashire were waiting to hear whether they had lost loved ones in an earthquake which killed 4,000 people in Southern India. Villages were flattened and at least 8,000 people injured in the quake, which buried people under their
THE latest edict from the European Union declares that the Queen's head will not be shown on the Euro ('funny-money') coinage or notes. What would be more appropriate? A jackboot? W BULLEN, Albany Road, Blackburn Converted for the new archive on 14 July
THANK you for sending your photographer to the reunion of old girls of St Alban's School, Blackburn. We all enjoyed it very much and one of the girls came all the way from Canada. We gave Canon J Harrison a small amount of money for the church roof fund
A BEATEN up father-of-four is still unable to remember what happened to him in the eight hours before he was found battered and bleeding in a Nelson back street. Robert Lowry, 29, is recovering at home in Ford Street, Burnley, after undergoing surgery
TWO workmates were attacked with CS gas after they went to the aid of a colleague being harassed by her alcoholic ex-boyfriend. Keith Roberts and Stephen Sharples were sprayed in the face after Jon Fallows, 21, turned up at John Wilman's in Burnley, and
TENANTS on an Accrington estate have angrily rejected a councillor's criticisms of a housing company's refurbishment scheme. Conservative member Russell Davies, claimed Hyndburn Council's plan to lease houses to St Vincent's Housing Association for the
A MAN aged 29 who had sex with a 13-year-old girl and indecently assaulted her and a 14-year-old has gone to jail. Illiterate John Bainbridge's Accrington home was a 'haven' for truants and runaways, who were allowed to stay the night. The 13-year-old
A YOUNG entrepreneur has been given an extra boost to his business. Andrew Shaw from Burnley, who set up his mobile music workshop business earlier this year, has been given a year's free RAC membership to help keep him on the road. Andrew was given a
BOSSES from across the world jetted in for the offical opening of a £2.5 million factory. Sir David Trippier was guest of honour as Swedish-owned Camfil opened the doors of its purpose built headquarters in Haslingden. The new site on Knowsley Parkway
EAST Lancashire's Chamber of Commerce has made it into the nation's business elite. The Chamber, which has more than 1,000 members in East Lancashire, has been given accreditation by the British Chambers of Commerce -- a quality stamp of approval achieved
A DECISION by the Government to put CS spray under the microscope to make sure it has no long-term adverse health effects has been welcomed by Pendle MP Gordon Prentice. The spray is routinely carried by police officers in Lancashire. Mr Prentice said
FRIENDS of Pendle Community Hospital raised more than £400 to make patients' stay at the hospital more comfortable. The friends were formed a year after the hospital opened and the group organised its first fete a year later. This was its seventh. Publicity
PERHAPS it was an attempt to get the bad news out of the way, so that, by the end of Labour's conference this week in Blackpool, the announcement of the election of four hard-Left candidates to the party's national executive -- a result that had originally
IRRESPONSIBLE dog owners have fallen foul of new laws aimed at cleaning up the streets of Blackburn and Darwen. The first prosecution made under the Dogs (Fouling the Land) Order 1998 resulted in a Blackburn women being fined £100 with £220 costs. And
MYSTERY surrounds the death of a six-year-old girl at her Ribble Valley home. A doctor and an ambulance crew were called to the Whalley home of Elizabeth Bentley, the daughter of Clitheroe police officer Jane Bentley, early yesterday. But the Whalley
HIGH street shopkeepers are celebrating a "victory for the little man" after taking on a supermarket giant in a David and Goliath battle for a town centre. Rossendale Council planning committee turned down an application to build a large Tesco superstore
A FORMER Organist and Master Of The Choristers at Blackburn Cathedral who left for America in 1982 has returned to his East Lancashire roots. John Bertalot recently retired as Director Of Music at Trinity Church in Princeton, New Jersey, a position he
THE GENEROUS spirit of a village community has helped a Ribble Valley church achieve an amazing feat -- raising £24,500 for its spire appeal in just three weeks. The appeal for repairs to the landmark copper spire at St Peter's Church, Salesbury, is already
A MASSIVE plan is to be drawn up to improve standards in schools across Blackburn and Darwen after a council survey pinpointed major weaknesses. Each local council in the country has been told it must regularly carry out surveys of standards in schools
WORRIED traders have joined forces to put pressure on a coach company to drop plans for trips to the Trafford Centre. Blackburn businesses concerned about the impact of the massive shopping centre on the town were shocked to discover plans to run day
EVERY one of the 1,004 Blackburn Rovers fans in the Stade de Gerland last night knew their side had a mountain to climb. And those supporters had their own mission improbable -- to shake off the stigma of the English soccer supporter. While the team narrowly
MYSTERY surrounds the death of a six-year-old girl at her Ribble Valley home. A doctor and an ambulance crew were called to the Whalley home of Elizabeth Bentley, the daughter of Clitheroe police officer Jane Bentley, early yesterday. But the Whalley
A POLICE chief condemned the growing menace of town centre violence after a nightclub boss announced he was moving out of Accrington because of drunken thugs. Detective Inspector Edward Joyce said he was appalled at the level of violence in the town and
ONCE again the world is horrified at the stories of blood and terror coming out of the Balkans. Innocent women and children in Kosovo have been slaughtered in cold blood. A young girl lies with her throat cut, a woman had her stomach ripped open and a
TOM Bromley (Letters, September 23) feels that vivisection is justifiable and he is entitled to his opinion. The fact is 2.7 million experimental procedures are conducted on living animals in Britain, of which 65 per cent are without anaesthetics, each
MAY I congratulate you and Harold Heys on the well-written and well-researched article "A tower of strength" (LET, September 21) commemorating the centenary of the opening of Darwen Tower, and giving a little of its history. I well remember the tremendous
A MAN 23-year-old man has been cleared of raping a 13-year-old schoolgirl. Michael Stoiles, of Accrington Road, Burnley, was also found not guilty of sexual intercourse with a girl under 16. The acquittals on the second day of a trial at Burnley Crown
THOUGH you featured our family (LET, July 29) as our daughter, Alice, has a rare genetic condition called I-Cells Disease -- which is incurable and Alice is unlikely to live longer than three or four years -- sadly, nobody contacted us about our fundraising
BLACKBURN with Darwen planning committee chairman, Councillor Frank Connor (Letters, September 15) sheds no light whatsoever on the real reasons why Labour councillors voted en bloc to support North West Water's bid to 'develop' the fields of Guide and
TRADERS in Burnley are united in their opposition of plans to develop the former Prestige factory into a major new retail centre. Two sets of plans for the area have been received by Burnley Council and are awaiting determination by planners. One plan
MURDER hunt detectives were today quizzing two people in connection with the death of a 53-year-old father from Burnley. A 28-year-old man and a woman in her 20s were being questioned by police investigating the suspicious death of John Stoiles. Mr Stoiles
UNIFORM police officers and some detectives will become accountable for their own areas in a major change to police practice in Burnley. Details of the alternative approach to policing were announced by Supt Mike Griffin, head of the Burnley police division
AN INTERNAL investigation is to be carried out by health bosses after a coroner recorded a misadventure verdict over the death of a new born baby at Burnley General Hospital. Two long serving nursing staff, Sister Dorothy Holgate and Staff Nurse Susan
WHEN people think of the natural history of autumn they think of migrating birds, hibernating animals, fruits and seeds and the last of the butterflies soaking up the occasional warm rays of the sun. Far too few people give a thought to the late blooming
A CHILDREN'S author travelled from London to help open a section of Nelson library aimed at children and adults with reading difficulties. Lisa Kopper, pictured above with seven-year-old Gibfield pupil Wayne Dow and her bull terrier dog Dolly who featuures
A PLAN to demolish a town centre Victorian church and its neighbouring Sunday School building and replace them with a modern church is expected to get the green light. The new church would be used by Anglican, Methodist and Catholic worshippers while
THE royal family's image gurus must be patting themselves on the back. For an opinion poll shows that the new common-touch approach adopted by the Queen -- signing a Manchester United football, visiting McDonald's and Marks and Spencer, going to a pub
THE FANS in East Lancashire of writer Salman Rushdie and his abstruse novel "The Satanic Verses" could probably be comfortably contained in a couple of taxis -- thanks to his evidently arrogant demeanour and the fortune that it has cost taxpayers to protect
OF ALL the convolutions the Church of England has gone through in order to adjust dogma so that it falls in line with the times, the latest -- equating the collapse of someone's first marriage with a death so that they may wed someone else in church -
