ACTION girl Katrina Morton raised £370 for the young victims of the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster. She travelled from her home at Simpson's Farm, Samlesbury, to Lincolnshire for a sponsored parachute jump after spending two days helping to
MORE than 1,200 ex-miners living in the North West have submitted claims for a share of £500 million compensation for Vibration White Finger Disease. And others are being urged to submit their claims as soon as possible to get their share of the cash.
SUFFERERS of the chronic tiredness condition ME have stepped up their call to restore a specialist service in East Lancashire. Members of the Blackburn and District ME (Myalgic Encephalitis)/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) Support Group were devastated
BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent is hoping for a £500,000 redevelopment of the club's Gawthorpe training ground to groom the Clarets of tomorrow. Ternent wants to upgrade facilities at Gawthorpe to improve Burnley's centre of excellence and help create a conveyor
COUNCILLORS have been slammed for taking time out from considering the proposed closure of special schools and homes for the elderly - to debate the Glenn Hoddle saga. Local charities have told Blackburn with Darwen council to concentrate on running the
Lunchtime Recital, Burnley Mechanics, Manchester Road, Burnley, 12.45pm. "Carmen" the musical, Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre, Union Road, 7.30pm. Blackburn Flower Club meet Trinity United Reformed Church Hall, Brownhill Road, Blackburn, 7.30pm. Practice
YOU know what it's like. You click on a link to a site you think sounds really interesting...but when it appears, you can't make head nor tail of it because it's so badly designed. There are flashing bits of text that are difficult to read, the type is
AN East Lancashire pet shop owner admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a lizard he sent through the post. The lizard was found, starving and dehydrated, in a damaged cardboard packet at Preston sorting office. The pet shop owner said it had been
LANCASHIRE'S pool stars are hoping for a marriage made in heaven at the National Inter County Pool Championships next month. While the men will be out to pocket their second successive national title, the ladies will be aiming to go one better than last
PUPILS are to be encouraged to take referees' courses at the age of 14 in a bid to smash schoolboy soccer violence, writes NEIL BRAMWELL. The plan was one of a number of measures proposed by a ground-breaking forum designed to combat increasing levels
RUDRA Singh believes he has come a long way since being appointed Lancashire cricket development officer more than two years ago. And with his contract up this September he is confident that if the worse case scenario ever happened, then he would have
IT IS, perhaps, a measure of some of our East Lancashire councillors' misguided view of their influence or importance that we see them trying to force on to the agenda issues that really have nothing to do with them and none at all with the jobs they
Netlon 3 Rishton 2 WE'VE all seen it before when, in one last act of desperation, the goalkeeper pushes forward in an attempt to salvage something out of a game. But NOT with 25 minutes to go! But that was the case with Netlon keeper and manager Russ
I WAS under the impression that the citizens of this country were obliged to tolerate all other citizens regardless of their race, colour or creed, or face prosecution in the event of their failure to do so. This no longer seems to be the case. However
AFTER enjoying a successful career at Habergham High School, during which time he won a place at Salford University and played football for Burnley Schoolboys, Aaron Hargreaves went back on Sunday and won their eight mile road race. It was an ambition
CARL Fogarty continued his blistering early season form with the second quickest time in testing in Australia today. But team-mate Troy Corser ended the three-day World Superbike championship test at Phillip Island, Australia, with the fastest time after
THE splendid old Accrington Grammar School has gone but the memories are imperishable. Mine, from my arrival in 1939 to leaving in 1946, include two remarkable headmasters - the illustrious Dr C W Edkins, who mysteriously 'glided' along corridors as though
BURNLEY MP Peter Pike today gave his support to the Bill lowering the age of homosexual consent from 18 to 16 - because he believes in equality. Mr Pike pre-empted a question by Independent councillor Harry Brooks to a meeting of Burnley Council tonight
A FURIOUS row has broken out between two charity branches after members of one went into a neighbouring town to collect cash. Members of Bolton ShopMobility were left seething after representatives from the Burnley ShopMobility collected inside Morrisons
"I am under pressure but I'm the happiest man in the world as I'm doing the best job in the world. I'm a footballer, healthy and wealthy," said Vialli. "And, as you can see, handsome!" So he has a sense of humour as well . . . Converted for the new archive
KAY Thompson, above, has joined Accrington-based Gaskell Textiles to head up their credit control department. Kay, 29, who lives in Crawshawbooth, previously worked for a textile firm in Padiham. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images
"The silly woman said that she ensured that Wright hit the post instead of scoring in Italy to avoid trouble on the terraces. Well, if she's that good, why didn't she ensure that somebody put the ball in Sweden in the net instead of hitting the post and
RESIDENTS who have been driven round the bend by wagons rolling past their terraced houses have called on an MP to put the brakes on the problem. Homeowners in Cambridge Street and St Hubert's Road, Great Harwood, invited Hyndburn MP Greg Pope to see
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy I LOVE the period between mid-February and early May. The days are getting longer all the time and new flowers are appearing all the time. Records sent in by our botanical nature spies always come in thick and fast during
A £3.5 million investment has started earning its keep! The first component has been produced on a new cutting facility installed at British Aerospace, Samlesbury for work on the Eurofighter Typhoon. The Swiss made machine will produce parts including
A TRADE group which represents more than 130 local aerospace firms is heading Down Under to fly the flag for East Lancashire. The Nelson-based Consortium of Lancashire Aerospace is sending a delegation to the Australian International Airshow later this
MORE than 450 jobs were in the balance today as Pendle furniture maker Buoyant called in the receivers. Worried workers were given the news in a special announcement at the giant Nelson factory at 10am. Leading national chartered accountants Arthur Anderson
IT IS, of course, hugely ironic that Britain's pounds, inches and pints have only been spared from Napoleon's revenge of metrication at the dictate of the Eurocrats thanks to the Yanks. So, because America has failed to adopt European standards - and
MOST of us, I'm sure, would love to escape the misery of winter with a two-week holiday in the tropical sun. But, then, most of us paying our taxes, mortgages, fuel bills and all the rest would have to save up many a long winter to be able to afford such
ORGANISERS of the Darwen Civic Society annual bulb competition and exhibition enjoyed a bumper crop of entries for their 1999 show in the town's St John Ambulance Hall. Green-fingered pupils from schools throughout Darwen have spent the last two months
COUNTY hall chiefs have hit back at Government claims they are not spending enough on the county's schools. Education Secretary David Blunkett wrote to the council leader John West saying more should be spent on schools after a meeting with MPs from the
COUNTY hall chiefs have hit back at Government claims they are not spending enough on the county's schools. Education Secretary David Blunkett wrote to the council leader John West saying more should be spent on schools after a meeting with MPs from the
A PUB which takes the place of shops and a post office as the place to meet has been nominated for a community award. The Buck Inn, Cowpe, has been nominated for a national scheme that rewards pubs for the contribution they make to the local community
Whinney Hill Res 2, Lamb Inn 5 "HOPE you've brought plenty of note paper pal. There's going to be loads of incidents in this game," Whinney Hill's goalkeeper Shaun O'Brien warned me seconds before the start. And how right he was! Within 20 minutes of
IN the UK, more than 300 women a week die from breast cancer - many of them mothers. That is why, in the run-up to Mother's Day on Sunday, March 14, I am joining forces with the research charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer to encourage readers to organise
YET another lamb has been led to the slaughter. I refer, of course, to the Glenn Hoddle saga. Whether you like or loathe him, surely, you must feel some remorse at the way he was duped by the Press. It is frightening how journalists and media personnel
A DRUNKEN man kept turning up at his ex-partner's home, shouting, screaming and demanding to be let in. Jason Miles Alexander Cropper, 33, was agitated and abusive when police turned up at Julie Bennett's home, while she was upset, shaking and crying,
PROBLEMS facing hikers including quarrying, wind farms and waste dumping will be discussed when North East Lancashire Ramblers' Association has its annual meeting at the Clayton-le-Moors civic centre on Sunday. The area president, Burnley MP Peter Pike
A CRACKDOWN on TV licence dodgers netted a total of £6,500 in fines in just one day at a court. Hyndburn magistrates convicted 24 people and a further 13 admitted watching TV without a licence. The 37 offenders were also ordered to pay a total of £1,785
THREE swans were in a flap when they woke up to find themselves trapped in ice on a frozen canal. The cygnets were stuck in the deep freeze by a severe frost on the Leeds to Liverpool canal at Church early yesterday. But caring firefighters winged their
The caption under the sequence showing a rare strike by Villa's captain began: "Making goalscoring look ridiculously easy is Gareth Southgate . . . " A couple of hours later, Rovers fans were more than ready to drink to that! Converted for the new archive
DIY stores across East Lancashire are getting a new look. Do it All stores in Blackburn, Rawtenstall and Burnley are being re-branded after a takeover by rival Focus - headed by Mellor-based businessman Bill Archer. "We are building on the strengths of
AMERICAN golfer Christian Chernock thought he had holed a 35-foot putt from just off the third green in the final round of the Malaysian Open to take the lead. But the ball had wedged between the flagstick and the edge of the cup and, because a quarter
THERE are, I suppose, a thousand and one things more important for MPs to bother their head about. Nonetheless, the private members' bill being prepared by Tory Ann Winterton to control the willy-nilly renaming of fine old pubs - so that the Red Lion
POLICE are hunting two boys who shot a man with an air rifle in Blackburn. The victim had approached the pair around 9pm on January 28 after he spotted them fooling around with the gun on the bank of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, close to Bolton Road
BUSINESS leaders met Prince's Trust workers to learn more about the Blackburn team's work helping young people aged 16 to 25 rise to new challenges. About 80 representatives from the county's largest employers, including British Aerospace, Rolls-Royce
SCHOOLCHILDREN in Lancashire are to be targeted in the latest phase of a campaign to encourage people to use public transport instead of cars. More than 100,000 youngsters throughout the county will be receiving a county council leaflet as part of the
COUNCIL tax payers in Blackburn look likely to be paying 4.8 per cent more on their council tax bills from April. Blackburn with Darwen has revealed its budget for the coming financial year which may also see council house rents rise by three per cent
ROB Jones could be the next player in Brian Kidd's sights as he continues his rebuilding job at Ewood Park. Jones is set to leave Liverpool where he has no place in Gerard Houllier's plans. The England defender is wanted by West Ham but a late hitch over
A JURY has returned a verdict of accidental death on a young dad who was found hanged in a police cell by a cord from his hooded sweatshirt. Paul Barry Buchanan, 21, of St Paul's Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, was found dead at Clitheroe police station
LEISURE industry companies were looking for canalside sites for a major leisure complex after a marketing campaign for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Corridor. Trusthouse Forte was seeking sites in Blackburn and Burnley and developers were considering
STASH under 10s 2 Rossendale United under 10s 0 THERE aren't many who can rival Manchester United when it comes to changing their team strip, but Rossendale's Joe Marcroft changed his three times in one match! The talented, if a little temperamental,
For the Government seems to be back-tracking from its manifesto pledge on greater access and is preparing its own proposals for voluntary agreements with landowners on a site-by-site basis that, even when not bogged down in numerous negotiations, might
IN the hounding of Glenn Hoddle, the media are as much to blame in setting back the cause of 'the disabled.' Common sense and decency should have dictated that his remarks were recognised for what they were and received minimum publicity. All the publicity
DARWEN boss Steve Wilkes has blasted Accrington Stanley chief Wayne Harrison for taking the shine off his team's shock Lancashire ATS Challenge Trophy quarter final victory. Harrison branded some of the Anchormen's tackling in the tie as 'atrocious' after
SOME time ago, you printed a photograph of a gentleman and his dog, a German schnauzer, on the moorlands. It was a great shot. The caption said he was a Dr Gerry Fitzpatrick, of Applecross Drive, Burnley. I wrote to him, but my letter was returned to
POLICE have pledged extra support after a community in fear vowed to fight back against hooligans who terrorised their estate. Officers faced a barrage of complaints as 100 angry residents at Kibble Bank, Burnley, voiced their concern after months of
AN engineering firm has won a first class award! PCB Machinery International of Haslingden won the accolade for its efforts to drum up new business using an international mailshot. The firm was one of the category winners in the Winning Post Awards, organised
Ces Van Nieuwenhuizen, the company's sports marketing director in Brazil, said Nike wanted a "return" for paying £300,000 to organise and promote each friendly. So if you are a small country but fancy your chances of facing the best - Oops sorry, second
FRANZ Beckenbauer has branded Germany as a "bunch of journeymen" after their 3-0 defeat by the United States. The football legend let rip as the once-mighty Germany's decline continued. Beckenbauer, now Bayern Munich president and head of his country's
THE whole business of international qualification for players is in danger of bringing the game into disrepute. We've had Vinnie Jones skippering Wales and, when Jack Charlton was in charge of the Republic of Ireland, it was said that a two-week holiday
WHAT'S Blackburn's MP, Home Secretary Jack Straw playing at? He is widely regarded as an honest politician and one of the best ministers in Tony Blair's team - thanks largely to his carting his lad off to the police when he was caught selling cannabis
