LUCKY lottery winner Brenda Wainwright was travelling to Liverpool in a stretch limo today - to collect £50,000! Brenda, of Manxman Road, Blackburn, scooped the prize on a National Lottery Cash Doubler scratchcard on Friday. Brenda, a grandma who works
THE political map of East Lancashire's councils looks set to be restructured in a survey of the way local boroughs are drawn up. A wide-ranging review of council wards in the county - the first for more than 20 years - is set to be launched in September
RESIDENTS in Blackburn who have welcomed hundreds of Kosovar refugees as neighbours were today praised for their efforts. Malcolm Doherty, leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council, has written to people living close to the Laneside Home for the Elderly
EDUCATION bosses at Blackburn with Darwen Council are hoping to take power at a troubled primary school after four members of the governing body resigned. The local education authority has applied to the government for permission to take full control
Blackburn Home Organists Club meet St Stephen's Con Club, Robinson Street, Little Harwood, 8pm. Quiz Night. BARSA Better Driving Courses, Blackburn Northern Sports Club, Pleckgate Road, Blackburn, 8pm. Week Four. Asthma Support Group meet Education Block
Blackburn Symphony Orchestra, at Blackburn Cathedral MARTIN Hardy conducted this concert of popular Tchaikovsky pieces, aided by a soloist from the BBC Philharmonic, in the suitably imposing setting of the cathedral. The first piece was the ever popular
"IT was all right. I made a few mistakes and ran wide in a few places." That was the level of enthusiasm that Carl Fogarty managed to reach about a Superpole lap that left the rest of Misano breathless. The first 14 riders had been dealing in the odd
THE dustmen of the Ribble Valley simply refuse-d to be beaten! And as a result, they were celebrating victory in the battle for the refuse collection contract to secure their jobs, and save taxpayers more than £100,000 a year. The men at the Kirkmoor
CLAUDE Henderson inspired championship-chasing East Lancs to a thrilling victory at Bent Gate on Saturday - Lancashire League games don't come much better than this. Henderson claimed eight wickets to take his season's tally to the half-century mark but
A CLUTCH of run-scoring records were shattered at Centre Vale on Saturday as Rambsottom successfully chased over 300 to beat Todmorden in a remarkable EW Cartons Lancashire League game. Todmorden's batsmen set two club records with professional Brendan
CARL Fogarty believes that only a change of luck can stop his awesome charge towards a fourth World Superbike Championship following another double win in Italy. The reigning World Champion claimed both races at the Misano circuit, where he had previous
ON WELFARE reform, on which it promised to "think the unthinkable," the government has gone gingerly so far. It has had to because, whenever it has displayed a radical streak, back-bench dissent - as with the proposed cuts in benefits for lone parents
Neil Bramwell in Italy with Blackburn's world champion, Carl Fogarty THIS, remember, was a track Foggy dislikes. So pity the rest of the World Superbike procession when the championship reaches a circuit he actually likes. His complete destruction of
I AM disgusted at discussions taking place concerning the subject of teenage pregnancies and the solution that people in authority think will work. I have lots of friends who are teenage mothers who care for their children very well. Many older mothers
I WOULD like to thank everyone concerned with The Glory Riders' MCC 3rd Annual Motorcycle Show, held on Sunday, June 20, at The Red Lion Pub, Whitebirk Road, Whitebirk. We had hoped to raise money for Hargreaves House Respite Care Centre, Thwaites Road
REGARDING the reporting of an unlicensed vehicle to the police and no action being taken (Letters, June 17), I can empathise with your reader. In April I reported four unlicensed vehicles, all of which are driven by one household. Since then I have reported
RESIDENTS in Padiham and Hapton will be setting up a forum to tackle policing and other community safety issues. Following a public meeting at Padiham Town Hall, more than 15 people put their names forward to join the forum which will regularly meet with
A HEADTEACHER is calling for Home Secretary Jack Straw to get tough on criminals after vandals smashed 53 windows at his school. Bob Pilborough, head of Rosehill Junior School, Burnley, said: "Even if they do catch whoever did this, the young people and
FINANCE chiefs at Burnley Health Trust have ordered department heads to control their spending and claw back a six-figure overspend, it was revealed today. The managers of individual directorates have been told to draw up urgent plans after budgets were
PUB regulars held a series of charity fun nights to help send young cancer sufferer Rebecca Baxter on the trip of a lifetime. The plucky youngster, who was diagnosed with cancer in November, is due to undergo an operation to remove tumours in her stomach
MANCHESTER Business School and leading business advisers KPMG are launching the first MBA in Entrepreneurship scholarship. The initiative gives owner-managers, entrepreneurs and professionals the chance of winning a place on the Entrepreneurship MBA.
TAXATION experts have warned that tax changes could bring construction industry chaos. In August, changes will be made to the Construction Industry Tax Deduction Scheme which has been in existence since 1971. But a North West tax expert has warned that
A PARTYGOER who produced a slaughterman's knife when confronted by an "aggressive" bouncer has been spared a jail sentence. A judge told Adam Bell, 23, that prison was the norm for what he had done, but because of the doorman's manner and the fact Bell
A NEW dance school is preparing to entertain friends and family with its first-ever show. The Dance Factory in Blackburn, run by former TV, West End and cruise ship dancer Joy Wareing, has only been running for nine months but already the 50 pupils have
A GROUP of 18 'hairdevils' lost their locks in aid of charity during a sponsored head shave at a Colne pub. The event, at the Morris Dancers, Byron Road, yesterday was organised by regular Carole Johnson, of Harrison Drive, Colne, who was diagnosed with
PAUL Cook will remain near the top of Stan Ternent's summer shopping list - despite a change of management at Stockport County. Cook finished last season at Turf Moor on loan from First Division County and was a major factor behind Burnley's escape from
A DEAL for Benfica's former Liverpool defender Steve Harkness has not been set up by Blackburn Rovers, despite speculation to that effect in a Sunday newspaper. It was claimed that Rovers had agreed a £750,000 transfer to bring Harkness back to English
Eric Leaver ponders the significance of a name which appears again and again? ANY Anyons out there? And can you help Darwen reader Barbara Nightingale crack the peculiar puzzle she came across while tracing her family tree? Why, like some of her Duxbury
A PROPERTY company was planning to invest £10 million in a massive development in the Rossendale Valley. The Wolverhampton-based Wightwick Properties hoped to build 230 houses, shops and leisure clubs on a 20-acre site in Bacup. Wightwick had already
DARWEN'S top of the table clash with St Annes lived up to expectations as fortunes ebbed and flowed throughout the day and so nearly resulted in a sensational victory for the Birch Hall side. St Annes batting first, started slowly in the face of fine
MIKE Atherton is out of Lancashire's Championship game against Essex starting at Old Trafford tomorrow - throwing up new fears about his cricketing future. Atherton pulled out of Lancashire's one-day games last week after suffering some stiffness in his
HAVING lost out time and again to bids from other areas for Lottery cash to improve East Lancashire's sports facilities, leisure bosses from the region's six councils got together to show the fund's chief executive how much we are missing out. It's a
THE English are not a dying race, but, to the worry of the Chancellor, are longer living - or so the English thought. The Government has seen to it that this is not so and have decided to make the English extinct, being replaced by oddballs named Brit-Euros
I REPORTED a driver for having no road tax in November last year and they are still driving around in the same car without a road fund licence. I have reported this a total of six times and still nothing has been done. When I recently reported it I was
RACE ONE FOGARTY had a poor start and dropped to fifth entering the first corner. But he soon picked off Colin Edwards, Noriyuki Haga and Akira Yanagawa to trail Troy Corser by lap four. And Fogarty needed just three more laps to pass Corser on the breaks
HAVING heard that there was a garden centre on Branch Road, Lower Darwen, I decided to make my way there, with the intention of purchasing a few plants. As I don't have private transport, I took a bus to the bottom of Cravens Brow at the corner of Branch
I RECENTLY wrote regarding police apathy towards car tax dodgers. Tonight, I actually thought Accrington police had had a rethink and had decided to act upon information received regarding a car displaying an expired tax disc (now six weeks out of date
RAMSBOTTOM breathed new life into their season with a record-breaking win at Todmorden, who posted 301-3 but still lost by three wickets. Ramsbottom defied all the odds to secure only their fourth win of the summer with the highest ever second-innings
A WOMAN who started her career writing for a local newspaper has had her first book published. Diana Appleyard, 37, who was born in Burnley, has based her novel, 'Homing Instinct.' on the role of a Millennium mother. It tells the story of Carrie Adams
A DEAL for Benfica's former Liverpool defender Steve Harkness has not been set up by Blackburn Rovers, despite speculation to that effect in a Sunday newspaper. It was claimed that Rovers had agreed a £750,000 transfer to bring Harkness back to English
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a 21-year-old man was injured in a drive-by shooting at Accrington. The incident happened as the victim walked along Countess Street at 4.30pm on Friday. He was walking on the pavement when a car went past and
PAUL Cook will remain near the top of Stan Ternent's summer shopping list - despite a change of management at Stockport County. Cook finished last season at Turf Moor on loan from First Division County and was a major factor behind Burnley's escape from
RESIDENTS who wanted to block a bid to build 34 new houses close to their own homes because of fears about juvenile nuisance look set to have their hopes dashed. People in the Barnfield Street area of Accrington objected to a plan by developers Maunders
A £500,000 move to new premises is expected to create dozens of jobs. Bridge Computer Systems was launched six years ago in Burnley and has now moved on to the Network 65 business park with a view to further expansion. The firm employs 22 people and expects
FINANCE chiefs at Burnley Health Trust have ordered department heads to control their spending and claw back a six-figure overspend, it was revealed today. The managers of individual directorates have been told to draw up urgent plans after budgets were
EDUCATION bosses at Blackburn with Darwen Council are hoping to take power at a troubled primary school after four members of the governing body resigned. The local education authority has applied to the government for permission to take full control
