DISABLED campaigners are furious after they were left without a single public toilet they could use at night in Blackburn centre. The last remaining disabled toilet in Ainsworth Street was removed without explanation. There are disabled toilets in both
RONNIE Jepson will be among the first to put pen to paper on a new deal to keep him at Turf Moor next season. The experienced striker is currently back at Lilleshall undergoing further rehabilitation on the injury that ruined much of his first year at
Valerie Cowan Surfs the Net ADVERTISING watchdogs are to get their teeth into ads on websites for the first time. The Advertising Standards Authority is currently developing an online complaints service, which will be launched next year. It is being devised
LANCASHIRE look set for a title-decider with Yorkshire in the final round of the Northern Counties League after moving up to second spot in the table at the weekend. The Red Rose county were in full bloom against Northumberland at Pleasington on Saturday
ACCRINGTON Stanley have arranged an eye-catching friendly with Nationwide Second Division outfit Wrexham as part of their pre-season build-up. Former Burnley favourite Bryan Flynn has promised to bring his full first-team squad to the Crown Ground for
THE season climaxed with the finale Woolwich Junior Table Tennis League Merit Competition and in B Division, Group One was extremely tight as Gary Blackburn, Jake Bolton and Adrian Bond all finished with two match wins each. However, Gary came top because
MARK Aspinall and Garrie Prosser led host club Rossendale Harriers to the team award in the Rossendale Half Marathon, but were unable to prevent veteran Tony Duffy from taking victory for the fourth successive year, writes ANDY McALLISTER. Prosser stayed
MUTTIAH Muralitharan made a spectacular home debut for Lancashire, and delighted Old Trafford's marketing chiefs who believe he will pull in more fans to championship cricket. The Sri Lankan spinner devastated Warwicks with figures of 34.5-16-44-7 at
I SHARE R Hadcroft's desire (Letters, may 31) to see inward investment in Great Harwood. I agree that Safeway's supermarket proposals look tempting - 180 new jobs would be a veritable tonic. However, the small print says that, to survive, Safeway need
BURNLEY MP Peter Pike has welcomed the £1.1million Heritage Lottery Fund grant for major improvements to Towneley Hall - the jewel in Burnley's crown. Mr Pike, who stepped in to voice his support for the bid when it ran into difficulties over access arrangements
EURO election fever has failed to grip voters in Burnley's most fiercely contested ward. Just a month ago, a record 1,150 people applied for proxies - allowing someone else to vote on their behalf because they were out of town - as Labour and Liberal
A LEUKAEMIA sufferer who is too sick to hold her five-month-old baby wept today after claiming Benefits Agency staff told her that she must collect her invalidity allowance herself. Mum-of-two Tracey Cullen, who has just returned home from the Christie
A FED-UP couple today said they wanted to be left in peace after saying that a mineshaft which appeared in their front garden had turned into a local attraction. Curious passers-by keep walking into Arthur and Doreen Uttley's garden at their home in Halifax
COUNCIL bosses could face a repair bill of £1.4million to fix hundreds of Victorian drains across Pendle - despite having a budget of just £4,000. Pendle Council has set aside £4,250 to carry out emergency repairs to dangerous unmade streets while the
HI-TECH alarms will be fitted to empty Darwen council homes in a bid to phase out ugly metal screens on the windows. Blackburn with Darwen Council last night gave the go ahead to a £40,000 trial scheme which would see a company take on responsibility
A 36-YEAR-MAN is believed to have bled to death after falling down stairs at his home. The body of Dean Francis was discovered by his father when he called at his house in Sydney Street, Darwen yesterday. Mr Francis, 36, is believed to have fallen down
A LEUKAEMIA sufferer who is too sick to hold her five-month-old baby wept today after claiming Benefits Agency staff told her that she must collect her invalidity allowance herself. Mum-of-two Tracey Cullen, who has just returned home from the Christie
BLACKBURN: A 17-year-old boy was found hanged from a tree in Blackburn early today. The teenager, who is from Blackburn, is not being named until all his relatives have been informed. A group of youths discovered the body hanging from a tree outside Accrington
DETECTIVES are hunting a sex attacker who indecently assaulted a 45-year-old woman as she walked along a busy main road. The incident happened close to shops in Copy Nook, Blackburn. An Asian man in his early 20s approached the woman at 7.10am on Tuesday
SAD. That's the only word to describe it. I could have wept. How could the gorgeous Sarah's mum leave her just when the two had become reacquainted? I really wanted to give her a cuddle. It had taken me less than 20 minutes to switch over to Neighbours
BLACKBURN: The uncle of Shaun Smith, whose body was found in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, today said thank you to friends and family who had helped in the search. Seven-year-old Shaun, of Gloucester Road, Whitebirk, was found by police divers on Tuesday
THE newly elected Mayor of Todmorden, Coun Ruth Goldthorpe, is recovering in hospital in Germany after suffering a heart attack on an official visit to the twin town of Bramsche. She is now out of intensive care. Her husband, Rob, who is Mayor's Consort
ANGRY Deborah Yewdall is urging tougher credit checks after her identity was stolen to open catalogue accounts. Deborah, 28, was shocked when a county court summons arrived claiming she owed more than £89 for an unpaid item with catalogue firm. When she
WORK has begun on demolishing the old fashioned shed roof over Blackburn railway station as part of a £5.5million re-development. The roof will eventually be removed to make way for a glass dome structure over the platforms. In recent years, holes in
POLICE have sent out another appeal to the public as they step up their bid to trace a missing East Lancashire woman. Beatrice Ashbolt has been missing from home for almost two weeks and there hasn't been any sightings of her in the area. But detectives
THE son of a Blackburn couple stabbed to death inside their Preston jewellery store has re-opened the shop nearly three months after their horrific deaths. Shafiq Karim, the eldest son of Mohammed Karim, 52, and his wife, Bilquis, 48, has reopened the
BLACKBURN Rovers are backing "unhappy" record signing Kevin Davies to come good and help them mount a promotion challenge next season. Davies has endured a torrid time since his £7.25 million signing from Southampton last summer with just two goals to
Sudellside Community Association's AGM, in the Community Centre, Darwen, 7pm. Jack Straw MP Advice Surgery, 4pm-5pm, Mill Hill Community Centre, New Chapel Street; 5.30pm-6.30pm. Bank Top Neighbourhood Centre, Oakenhurst Road, Blackburn. Janet Anderson
A SUPERMARKET has dismissed rumours that it is shedding staff at one of its East Lancashire stores. Rumours that Sainsbury's in Clitheroe was about to close or turn into a HomeBase outlet have also been refuted by supermarket bosses. Sainsbury's opened
POLICE reinforcements were drafted into Blackburn to patrol its crime-plagued streets. The town was given priority because of the high number of offences committed in the area. The move came as crime figures for the county were down by 11 per cent for
ANGRY transport bosses reported a council to the Office of Fair Trading as bus wars got into top gear. Blackburn Transport chiefs claimed Burnley town hall discriminated in favour of Burnley and Pendle Transport in the allocation of passenger stands at
A PRIZE of £20,000 is on offer for the first individual runner who beats the leading horse home in the Man versus Horse Marathon. The 22 mile off road challenge covering farm tracks, forestry paths and open moorland takes place this Saturday at Llanwrtyd
EAST Lancashire riders performed well in two open 10-mile time trials held during the past week. In the midweek Ribble Valley Cycling Racing Club held on the Garstang course, fastest of our local riders was Jonathan Boothman of the Pendle Forest Club
CHORLEY expect to name their new manager by the weekend. Chairman Jack Kirkland confirmed he has received over 50 applications for the post and the Victory Park club have been holding interviews this week after drawing up a shortlist of six. "Most of
THE match of the day in the between A Division leaders Whalley Road and third-placed Taverners produced a comprehensive nine wicket win for Taverners at Wilsons. Whalley Road began well with an opening stand of 48 between Mick Johnson (44) and John Dewhurst
MARTIN Meadows will make his British Rally Championship debut this weekend. The Clitheroe driver has been drafted into the Proton team for this weekend's Scottish Rally, following a serious testing accident by their regular driver, Jenny Davies. Meadows
IMAGINE the anguish of young mother Tracey Cullen, so ill with leukaemia that she cannot even hold her baby child. Who would add to the suffering of anyone in her state? Yet, incredibly and outrageously, we find that the staff of the Benefits Agency at
TONY Holt will play off one for the first time in his life as he bids to hang on to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph Harold Ryden Trophy at Burnley this weekend, writes ANDY NEILD. The Wilpshire member lifted ELGA's showpiece title after an epic scrap
THE past few weeks have seen the disused Calderstones Hospital at Whalley and the recently-closed homes for the elderly in Blackburn identified as buildings to house the victims of war from Kosovo. You reported (LET, May 20) that the recently-closed Park
GOLF: Kim Andrew lead the qualifiers going into the match-play stages of the British Women's Amateur Championship at Birkdale today. The Clitheroe player knocked in a 10ft putt at the last yesterday for a birdie four and a second round 73 which gave her
HOW lucky we all feel to live so near to the lovely Witton Park in Blackburn. Certainly, with the warmer weather, what a lovely pastime it is to go for a quiet stroll in the park. But no, in these days where the youth of the 1990s have no respect whatsoever
WHAT a strange message our police chief gives to her force (LET, May 27). She should study the messages the then General Montgomery issued to his troops in the Western Desert and Italy and learn how to get loyalty and unbiased efficiency from the rank
IN response to my remarks a week earlier, Mrs A M Garner (Letters, May 28) states that my comment about the British public not wanting any more refugees and outcasts (and this includes all these so-called political and economic asylum-seekers who flood
COUNCILLORS have backed local residents by refusing a planning application to convert two properties into 11 bedrooms at The Coach House, Rosehill Avenue, Burnley. A petition by 19 residents of Rosehill Avenue was received objecting to the commercialisation
A DOUBLE success is being celebrated by Julia and Stephen Baker at the Sparrow Hawk Hotel, Burnley. The hotel is the first independent hotel in East Lancashire to get the Investors in People award and has also been short-listed for the Training in Tourism
YOUNG air cadets had to be spick and span when they came under the watchful eyes of a senior officer during their annual inspection. Members of the 1104 Pendle Air Training Corps Squadron were inspected by Wing Commander Kevin Greenhalgh during a ceremony
JUNIOR soccer and rugby, together with more exotic sports such as the Asian game of kabaddi, will be encouraged in Pendle as a way of making more of the area's under-used facilities. Saturday football is in very low demand while the number of games played
A RACE equality watchdog's last remaining cash backer has pulled the plug on its funding. Burnley and Pendle Racial Equality Council (REC) has been given a month's notice that Pendle Council's £28,000 a year funding will stop. The council will clear outstanding
