ROBBIE Fowler has a few more impish celebrations planned for Liverpool's remaining games. And, being a thoughtful, considerate kind of scallywag, he has already prepared some explanations for manager Gerard Houllier to feed to the blissfully unsuspecting
A PIGEON fancier who is objecting to the increase in the peregrine falcon population has been criticised for attacking a very successful conservation initiative. The RSPB has hit back at claims by John Ledger that the society has reintroduced peregrines
WISDOM, patience and understanding have helped William and Susannah Owen stay happy through 60 years of marriage. The Blackburn couple were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary today with a meal with family and friends. William, 84 and and
A STRONG Blackburn Rovers Reserves side routed neighbours Preston North End in the Pontin's Premier League at Ewood last night. And, while Kevin Gallacher crowned his first game in three months with a glorious hat-trick, there were many other positive
CUSTOMS and excise investigators leading the fight against East Lancashire's bootleg booze pedlars and counterfeiters are facing the axe, according to unions. The Public and Commercial Services Union is claiming hundreds of jobs could be under threat
LEGAL bosses at Lancashire County Council are considering whether to fight the closure of a stretch of the Ribble Way described as the most beautiful riverside path in the country. Defiant ramblers are also considering legal action in the High Court against
THE picturesque village of Wycoller proved an ideal launching point for the Lancashire Evening Telegraph Grimewatch campaign's sixth year. Mayors from the six boroughs of East Lancashire, council officers and invited guests were welcomed to the Pendle
THE Nelson Wheelers promotion of the Circuit of the Dales has a long and glorious history going back 50 years with many epic performances in all-weather conditions on the 50 mile course between Ingleton, Kirkby Lonsdale, Sedburgh, Hawes and back to Ingleton
EAST LANCASHIRE plays a special part in the tribute taking place at Anfield today to Liverpool FC legend, the late Bob Paisley, as memorial gates dedicated to him are unveiled at the ground For the giant gates were made here - by specialist wrought iron
RUGBY UNION: On a scorching hot day and in front of their largest crowd of the season, Blackburn produced one of their best performances to beat (at long last) their more loftier neighbours. The game began badly for Blackburn with the visitors looking
BRITAIN is facing a precarious future, brought about by the loss of an empire which supplied cheap food and raw materials and was a guaranteed export market. There has been a catastrophic decline of its manufacturing industries, maritime trade and fisheries
SNOOKER: The final two weeks of the Blackburn and District Churches Snooker League turned out to be a nailbiting run-in for the championship with a grandstand finish. The current holders Westbury were challenging this year's pacesetters, Dugdale D, the
HIGH-FLYING Barrowford Celtic were brought back to earth in the Under-13s Red League, only managing a draw with third bottom club Blackburn United. In the Under-16s Red League, the 100 per cent record of Anchor fell when they were defeated 2-0 by fellow
JOHN Crawley has set his sights high for his first season as Lancashire captain - an improvement on 1998. That will take some doing, as in Wasim Akram's first and only summer in charge, the county won the NatWest Trophy and AXA League, in addition to
I WOULD like to comment on NATO's action concerning Kosovo. As many have pointed out, NATO has, for some time, made many mistakes which have added to the plight of the Kosovo Albanians. NATO began the bombing of Serbia without the UN Security Council's
WE write in response to the technical consultation paper 'Teachers meeting the challenge of change'. Our school (St Hilda's RC High School, Burnley) was recognised by Ofsted as 'Good and Improving' and each year appears in the National Press as one of
A WOMAN allegedly attacked a young mum in the street, dragged her into a house then sexually humiliated her, a jury heard. The alleged victim had been chased down the road by Anwar Begum Jan and abused in Punjabi before others joined in the assault, Burnley
HUGE job losses in engineering are predicted over the next two years in the wake of falling orders, according to a gloomy new survey today. The Engineering Employers' Federation warns that up to 170,000 jobs could be lost in the industry over the next
A BT employee made phone calls to her grandmother in Pakistan and charged them to other people's phone credit cards. Blackburn magistrates heard that Parveen Hassan ran up a bill totalling £1,908 as she cheated the system using a staff phone at work and
A MAN tried to steal more than £10,000 from an elderly relative who was in a nursing home and travel to New Zealand with the cash, a court heard. Andrew James Stewart, 28, of Wordsworth Drive, Great Harwood, managed to take more than £1,737 from his relative's
THE firm which operates East Lancashire cable television and telephone network has revealed it is in merger talks. The talks between Cable & Wireless Communications and Telewest Communications had been rumoured to be under way since late last week
BED and furniture giant Silentnight today reported record sales but a slight dip in profits. The Salterforth-based firm, which employs more than 4,000, saw turnover increase by three per cent to £236 million, with pre-tax profits falling by one per cent
WORKERS from an East Lancashire firm were today helping to pay tribute to a soccer legend. Specialist wrought iron company B Rourke was asked to produce a giant set of memorial gates for Anfield as part of a tribute to the late Bob Paisley, the former
NEW incentives are being offered to hospital workers in a bid to reduce absence through sickness. The opportunity to win cash will be offered to departmental groups and individual employees at the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust to try
REVITALISED Burnley have turned the corner in their relegation scrap but midfield dynamo Lenny Johnrose insists there will be no letting up. A successful Easter programme on the back of a first win in nine games against Macclesfield Town has lifted the
KEVIN Gallacher is back in business and determined to try and play a part in Blackburn Rovers' desperate battle for Premiership survival. It was hats off to the injury-dogged Scottish international star at Ewood last night, as he banged in three goals
ANGRY parents are threatening to keep their children off school in protest against being offered secondary school places in neighbouring boroughs. The Ribble Valley parents have been told their children must attend schools in Blackburn or Hyndburn. About
A DOSSIER about a river pollution incident was referred to Environment Secretary Nicholas Ridley. If he decided not to answer the demand for action, backed by every party on the county council, punishment for the pollution of Colne Water seemed set to
A GRIM survey of our region's pub trade today shows more than half of licensees actually expect to be put out of business before long by rising beer prices and bootleg booze. But while their problems are actually much more complex - also involving such
KIDETOK is an African village in Uganda. Since the troubles, terrorist activity even included blowing up the village ambulance. Our church mission in Kent raises money for medicines for the 60,000-patients-a-year hospital. Now, there are two water supply
THERE was a double celebration for the ladies of Chorley Harriers in the Rivington Pike fell race. Jeanette Coleman (16th), Janet Chaplin (18th) and Daryl Peter (20th) were the first team home, beating Horwich by one point, and as all three are veterans
GRAHAM Lloyd tossed up as Lancashire captain for the first time in his career at Fenners today. Lloyd stepped up as skipper with John Crawley not selected for the three-day first-class pre-season friendly against Cambridge University. "I've been captain
GOALS in each half from Neil Otley and Warren Peake helped Great Harwood continue their valiant fight against the drop last night. Harwood's win over fellow Unibond League First Division strugglers Farsley means Dennis Underwood 's men have now collected
MAY I enhance my thoughts and feelings on the Kosovo situation and the results of ethnic cleansing, another name for rape, pillage, butchery and massacre of innocent men, women and children over the recent years. It breaks my heart, as an elderly person
I SAW a copy of your newspaper (LET, March 10) in which a number was displayed, misleading your readers into believing that there were 297 days to go to the new millennium. This is, of course, arrant nonsense. As the year twenty hundred (2000) is a leap
A COMMUNITY in Burnley is in mourning after a six-year-old girl died following a road accident. Blanish Kauser was with her family in Wakefield visiting her uncle who had just returned from a pilgrimage. She was playing out in the street when she was
POLICE hunting a masked robber who stabbed a shop assistant in the stomach have renewed appeals for help from the public. The victim, 16-year-old Robert Wyllie, was injured when he had a go at the knifeman who tried to rob Joyce's off-licence and video
PERSISTENT offenders will be named and shamed in a new anti-burglary scheme targeting Burnley, announced today by Home Secretary Jack Straw. Thirty pilot projects were announced across the country with two in the Burnley areas of Stoneyholme/Daneshouse
MARKET tenants in Burnley have gone to war with their council landlords by withholding service charges worth thousands of pounds a week. They say they have been driven to direct action because the council has gone back on its promise of compensation for
A FRIGHTENED teenage girl was held captive by an attacker who insisted on telling her about his family problems. The 15-year-old girl was held captive by her attacker for more than an hour on a bench on a council estate. The incident took place around
KEVIN Gallacher is back in business and determined to try and play a part in Blackburn Rovers' desperate battle for Premiership survival. It was hats off to the injury-dogged Scottish international star at Ewood last night, as he banged in three goals
DAWN Watkinson has been appointed as senior account manager to support the continued expansion of Burnley-based call centre Connections Plus. Mum-of-one Dawn has previously worked in telesales with BUPA and has also worked for bed and furniture firm Silentnight
A POPULAR student services centre in Accrington is set to step up training opportunities by introducing new computer facilities. Step One, which was opened by Accrington and Rossendale College bosses in December, has proved a hit with people looking for
SIX district councils have joined forces with police, the County Council, business groups and colleges, to make sure East Lancashire's voice is heard now that the new regional development agency for the North West is up and running. The East Lancashire
A GROUP of Polish industrialists are hoping to learn from East Lancashire's know-how to help them back home. The party of 15 industrialists and training staff are looking at how local firms train their workforce using new technology and training methods
WORK is about to begin at a Pendle engineering firm on a high-tech "rocket boat" aimed at breaking the world water speed record. Space-age materials to be used on the Quicksilver speed boat have been delivered to PDS Engineering, Nelson, and staff will
A MOVE for a new railway station at Spring Vale, Darwen, has hit the buffers. Councillors are to focus their efforts instead on other ways to improve the Blackburn-Manchester line. The six councils of East Lancashire - Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn,
A COMMUNITY in Burnley is in mourning after a six-year-old girl died following a road accident. Blanish Kauser was with her family in Wakefield visiting her uncle who had just returned from a pilgrimage. She was playing out in the street when she was
CUSTOMS and excise investigators leading the fight against East Lancashire's bootleg booze pedlars and counterfeiters are facing the axe, according to unions. The Public and Commercial Services Union is claiming hundreds of jobs could be under threat
