TWO law firms have joined forces. Haworth & Nuttall, which has offices in Accrington, Blackburn and Great Harwood, has merged with Accrington's oldest law practice Whitaker, Pratt & Hudson. Following the amalgamation Martin Heyes, 40, of Oswaldtwistle
LAW firm Taylors has taken on the former finance director of one of its clients. Wilf Parkinson, of Pleasington, used to work with textile manufacturer J H Birtwistle of Haslingden. Taylors advised the firm when it became part of the John Lewis Partnership
AN entrepreneur is planning to gatecrash Whitbread's talks to buy 3,600 pubs from Allied Domecq by launching a rival deal worth more than £3 billion. The former PizzaExpress head Hugh Osmond said he would be prepared to stump up the cash to trump an offer
KIND-HEARTED youngsters have made up hundreds of gift boxes to bring a little joy into the lives of Kosovar refugees. Pupils at Belthorn County Primary School have collected soap, toiletries, underwear and food to fill shoe boxes to send to women and
A NEW video featuring drama students from Park High School, Colne, is set to be a hit with local schools. East Lancashire Training and Enterprise Council will launch its new Xtend video later this month. TV presenter Sarah Cawood introduces the video,
BLACKBURN College is going green tomorrow with a day of environment-themed events. The college's Green Day has been organised to raise awareness of green issues among staff, students and members of the public. Representatives of various organisations
BRIAN Kidd today spoke of his great debt to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson. But the Rovers boss also stressed that the Ewood long-term future was more important than one game against his old club. And he insisted his angry weekend words had not
NOW that the soccer season has reached its final few matches (I say "soccer" so it is not confused with the real football played with an oval ball by men who obey the ref's instructions to the letter), the FA should consider changing the rule regarding
A TEENAGE girl bit a policewoman and punched her in the head then kicked another officer, a court heard. Katrina Blacklock, 19, had a substantial record for public order offences and those involving the police - and all except one were linked to officers
STEPHANE Henchoz will step into the last-chance saloon tomorrow night, hoping that the pressure game will, for once, work in Blackburn Rovers' favour. The Swiss defender looked in tears as he left the field at the end of Saturday's devastating defeat
I WOULD like to add to your reporter's praise of the injured Roger Harper (LET, May 3) who proved too strong for Rishton as he led Nelson to victory in their Lancashire League clash at Blackburn Road recently. Rarely have I witnessed such a splendid innings
KEVIN Gallacher is almost certainly out of tomorrow night's game against treble-chasing Manchester United at Ewood. And Blackburn Rovers boss Brian Kidd, facing a massive test against his former club, does not expect Jason McAteer to recover in time from
Pete Oliver looks back over the 1998-99 season BURNLEY'S shirt manufacturers might have run out of ink if the Football League's plan to introduce squad numbers had come into effect this season. Tom Cowan and Paul Cook would have been wearing numbers 42
Peter White talks to former Ewood goalkeeper ROGER JONES HUNDREDS of millions did not witness it 'live' on television and the crowd at Notts County's then-quaint Meadow Lane ground was significantly smaller than the tens of thousands packed into Guadalajara's
THE venue: St James' Park, Newcastle. The date: Sunday, May 16 - Newcastle v Blackburn Rovers and Alan Shearer scores the goals that end Rovers' Premiership tenure. How ironic after last season, when the Rovers' fans were hoping that would be the event
Rossendale Organ and Keyboard Club meet United Social Club, Dark Lane, Newchurch, Rawtenstall, 8pm. Maddie Prior and Friends in Concert, Burnley Mechanics, 8pm. Luis Palau, King George's Hall, Blackburn. Blackburn and District Bird Club meet Hoghton Bottoms
JOBS in the brewing industry were under threat as organised crime was set to cash in on imported beer, said an MP. The outburst by Ribble Valley Tory Nigel Evans was directed at his own ministers as he demanded cuts in duty, prior to a Thwaites brewery
AS the miserable turn-outs in last week's municipal elections showed, the real winner was apathy, inspired by local government being dull and meaningless to so many voters. And that is so because town hall influence on people's lives has been so reduced
MY suggestion for a new site for St Wilfrid's School is Queen's Park, Blackburn - on the site of the multi-storey flats. Couldn't this be used for a desperately-needed new school for St Wilfrid's, which is at present situated in two separate schools at
TOP Break (Burnley) were too strong for Hoddlesden Con Club in the semi-finals of the Lancashire small table snooker tournament at Claremont Con Club, Blackpool, last night. Top Break, runners up two years ago, won 4-2. Captain Harry Gillespie clinched
I WAS a guest at the first social evening held by Rossendale Amateur Players in their new home, the former Bethel Baptist Church in Waterfoot. What a pleasant evening, with entertainment by people of the Valley with many talents shared so freely. The
ALL this season's issues were settled apart from one, that is the runners-up place in Division One. This will be between Swan, Whalley and Accrington Sports and this arises due to Swan, Whalley being beaten 2-0 by Apeks, Lower Darwen this Sunday. All
BLOOD-sports have long been favoured by the ruling classes, especially by royalty and titled people. The hunters of foxes say they must be kept down but, at the same time, take good care to keep up the supply of foxes by importing them into districts
WASIM Akram brings his Pakistan team to Old Trafford, his second home, for their last World Cup warm-up game against his beloved Lancashire tomorrow. And many good judges believe that five weeks on Sunday, Wasim will be crowning his career by lifting
COUNCILLOR Malcolm Doherty should take his head out of the sand and heed the criticism of Blackburn made in a recent travel guide (LET, April 26). Blackburn is a dump - evacuees from Montserrat said so. A prisoner would sooner be behind bars than live
CAN readers help me trace the descendants of my great uncle, Isaac Hoyle (1853-1935), who lived for most of his life in Blackburn? His daughters married into the Baron, Bennett, Betts, Bolton and Duxbury families, also of Blackburn and Darwen where, I
IN response to Director of Education Mark Pattison's remarks (Letters, April 22), I must support the Lancashire Evening Telegraph's coverage of the plight of parents in Blackburn with Darwen and Ribble Valley, whose children have been denied a place at
A BURNLEY factory has been spared the jobs axe as accountants try to find a buyer. Workers at a sister site of Thomas Ashworth & Co have been made redundant but receiver Malcolm Shierson said there were no plans for job losses at the East Lancashire
KEVIN Gallacher is almost certainly out of tomorrow night's game against treble-chasing Manchester United at Ewood. And Blackburn Rovers boss Brian Kidd, facing a massive test against his former club, does not expect Jason McAteer to recover in time from
SCOTS terrier Tom Cowan hopes his efforts in keeping Burnley up will land him a permanent move to Turf Moor. Cowan has been an inspirational figure for the Clarets since joining them from Huddersfield Town just before the March transfer deadline. The
CLIVE Maudsley has been promoted business services partner at accountants Baker Tilly. Clive, 31, from Blackburn, has been with the firm's Manchester office since 1995. He graduated from Manchester University with a degree in chemistry in 1991. Converted
LUCKY Louise Rawlinson has already achieved her career ambition at the age of 19, after landing a top job at Accrington and Rossendale College. Three years ago, Louise started as an Xtend modern apprentice and worked her way up from office junior to adult
BUSINESS confidence is rising in the North West. A series of interest rate cuts has helped restore some of the optimism that has been lacking over the past year, according to the latest quarterly survey by the North West Chambers of Commerce which East
PRAISE is being heaped upon our Newspapers in Education literacy scheme by teachers at a Hyndburn high school. All students in year seven at Norden High School, Rishton, are using their daily delivery of our newspaper to complete assignments in our Super
YOUNG readers are invited to become snap-happy to show us what they think of East Lancashire and to win some great prizes. Our latest link up with the National Year of Reading is a competition for young photographers and is designed to support May's "
TWO young soldiers who have been pals since school days are serving as tank crewmen in Macedonia. Lee Couzins, 21, of Marsh House Lane and Paul Astley, 21, of Sough Road, both Darwen, became friends when they attended the town's Moorland High School.
PARENTS at a private nursery school in Darwen are being told not to panic after a four-year-old girl contracted the killer virus meningitis. The youngster is said to be responding well to treatment in hospital. Her immediate family have been treated with
I WOULD have loved to respond to Neil Bramwell's article (LET, April 29) about Ron Atkinson, but nobody could have done better than him in outlining the ups and downs (mainly downs) of this manager's career. K SOWERBUTTS, Southwood Drive, Baxenden. Converted
A fan's-eye view from Turf Moor, with Stephen Cummings IT WOULD be malicious to mock any football club on the brink of relegation. It would be callous indeed to poke fun at the all-but-inevitable demise of an outfit which has had £100 million invested
AS BLACKBURN Rovers struggle desperately against relegation, I feel the club needs to reflect on the lack of business sense that has prevailed over the past five seasons. You have only to look at the class of players the club sold and the (I won't use
NIGHTCLUB queen Margo Grimshaw is opening her wardrobe on television tonight to share her passion for clothes. Margo, of Toad Hall, Preston New Road, Blackburn, is appearing in the programme 'Something for the Weekend' as part of the 'Ready to Wear' series
A fan's-eye view from Ewood Park, with Phil Lloyd THIS week's column, like Saturday's disaster of a game, will be one of two halves. In the first half, tongue in cheek and trying vainly to feign optimism, I'm offering ten reasons why Rovers fans should
SCOTS terrier Tom Cowan hopes his efforts in keeping Burnley up will land him a permanent move to Turf Moor. Cowan has been an inspirational figure for the Clarets since joining them from Huddersfield Town just before the March transfer deadline. The
A FURIOUS businessman has issued a warning to East Lancashire firms after discovering how phone calls cost him £1,500 and netted an employee free cigarettes and whisky. Joe Lee, boss of Blackburn-based Crown Eyeglass, found out that one of his employees
WHY didn't William Davis (Sports Letters, May 4) return the tickets he had bought for Southampton and Charlton when he heard about the live screenings at Ewood? Plenty of people would have gladly taken the tickets off him for the asking price, or even
THE overjoyed parents of youngster Martin Duguid spoke of their relief today as they prepared to welcome the youngster home. The family of 12-year-old Blackburn schoolboy were planning a double celebration to mark Martin's return after an agonising week
A CONSORTIUM of doctors and businessmen bought Burnley's Victoria Hospital and aimed to turn it into a 71-bed private nursing home. The group, led by Blackburn GP, Dr D Gupta, had put forward a planning application to use the former medical wards at the
BURNLEY Under 14s bid for glory when they take on Preston in the Final of the Lancashire Schools' Wrennal Trophy at Nelson FC, tonight kick off 6.30pm. Burnley Under 15s are also chasing some silverware and they will meet Preston in the Final of the North
THOUGH there is much apparent merit in the scheme unveiled today to pay children from poorer families £40 a week to stay on in education, the government is right to try it out first in only a few selected areas. This is because, for all its noble ideals
THERE was no play in the rain-affected Worsley Cup clash between Rawtenstall and Haslingden last night. And officials have agreed that, because of the state of the pitch and the weather forecast, there is no point trying for a resumption of the match
GREAT Harwood Town have been handed a relegation lifeline after winning the backing of the UniBond League's chairmen. The league's management committee served a motion at a meeting of club chairmen which would have seen Harwood booted out of the UniBond
RESULTS (May 4) - Under 14: Todmorden Colts 6, Fulledge Colts 1. May 5 - Under 13: Brierfield Celtic 1, Michelin 8. May 6 - Under 14: Todmorden Colts 4, Ighten Leigh 0. May 7 - Under 12 Red: Foulridge Minors 2, Brunlea 4. Under 13: Barrowford Celtic 5
