WOMEN are to be asked for their views on radical alterations to traffic routes proposed by Blackburn with Darwen Council. The authority plans to use existing roads to create an orbital route around the town centre for motorists who want to travel from
ASIAN women who have battled against the odds to get to the top are being sought for the first ever Asian Women of Achievement Awards. From doctors and musicians to care workers and barristers East Lancashire's Asian women who have overcome adversity
DIAMOND couple Percy and Gladys Mott are celebrating 60 happy years of marriage today with some precious advice for newly weds - use a bit of sense! And at a special anniversary celebration at Bacup Leisure Hall, Percy's former band Besses O' Th' Barn
I DID offer to help Alex with his new book. I even suggested a new title but the publishers did not care much for my version of his autobiography 'Managing To Devalue My Life'. Perhaps this particular extract was ignored because it did not heap enough
POLICE want help in tracing two mid-teenage girls who stole a purse from an 83-year-old woman in a Colne charity shop. The woman was in the Oxfam shop in Market Street at about 12.20pm on Wednesday, August 4 when the two girls offered to help pack her
MELLON: Burnley's man-of-the-match for his first-half performance when he caused City problems as an attacking midfield man...7 DAVIS: Showed his strength on occasions but overall Burnley's back four was overpowered...5 THOMAS: Struggled to contain the
BABY Benjamin Saul Robinson came into the world at the very moment of the solar eclipse - and three months after a tarot card reader told her mum she would have a cosmic birth! And there was amazement at Burnley General Hospital when nurses spotted Benjamin
FOLLOWING a Burnley supporters' coach towards Maine Road, two young fans suggested out of the back window that the scoreline would be 5-0. I grimaced. Surely not. The Clarets have improved, but not that much, so even to the most optimistic fan a five-goal
WHAT a spectacle, despite all the clouds! And what a variety of ways people found to look at the last total eclipse of the sun until 2090. Some used carboard pin-hole contraptions, some used special filters, some peered at the reflection in buckets of
BLACKBURN Rovers today gave a firm hands off warning to any clubs eyeing their precocious young striker Matt Jansen. And the player himself stressed he was "still happy" at Ewood. There was more speculation in this morning's national press that Manchester
"Ready Teddy Go" - craft workshop for children aged five and over, Darwen Children's Library, 2pm-3pm. Sky Watch, Planet Earth Centre, Bacup Road, Todmorden, 10pm-2am. Craftsmen "At Work": Embroidery and Collectable Cloth Dolls; Wood Turning, Samlesbury
Valerie Cowan Surfs The Net IT sounds too good to be true - you can "donate" free food to the world's poorest people just by clicking a single button on a website. You need not register, you need not provide any money, all you have to do is click once
A RECORD number of 44 awards were presented to members of Blackburn Road Runners when they held their biannual presentation at the Butlers Arms, Pleasington. Commemorative certificates were won by 24 members who beat target times for distances between
ACCRINGTON Stanley boss John Coleman has made a triple swoop ahead of Saturday's opening UniBond League fixture at Lincoln United. Former Morecambe striker Mark Ceraolo has signed from Coleman's former club Ashton United along with utility man Brett Baxter
IN OTHER events across the country a number of first-class performances have been recorded by East Lancashire riders over the past weekend. Joanne Kembery who comes from Blackburn, but now lives in Cheltenham, pulled off a brilliant ride in the 48-mile
I AM researching a dissertation for my history degree on whether the Second World War allowed women to enjoy a more liberating lifestyle. I would be grateful if women working as Land Girls, in factories or in the armed forces would allow me to interview
BLACKBURN people will surely hang their heads in shame that in their midst there are people who harbour the very same blind bigotry against people who are different to them as the people of Kosovo suffered so dreadfully from the Serbs. For we learn from
THE Old Gordonians Association is holding a get-together for anyone who attended Gordon's School, formerly known as the Gordon Boys' Home and later The Gordon Boys' School, West End, Woking, Surrey, at the Alexandra Hotel, Sideals Road, Derby, on Saturday
AMID concern today over the delay in the public and hospitals being alerted to the disappearance of bogus doctor Paul Bint from a Blackburn bail hostel just a month after coming out of jail, whether or not this has posed any real danger, there is another
CAN I thank the people of Blackburn, once again, for their very valued support at our annual gala held at Witton Park on July 31 and August 1? It takes 12 months of very hard work by the members of Blackburn Lions to organise the gala. To see the people
BURNLEY's multiplex cinema complex took more money on the first week of screening Star Wars than for the first three weeks of mega movie Titanic. Between July 15 and August 10, 30,000 people have visited Apollo Leisure's complex at Hollywood Park to view
A REWARD is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two men who carried out a sneak-in burglary at the Old Stables Cafe, Towneley Park, Burnley. The thieves walked in through the back door at about 2pm on Tuesday, August
A DROP in employment advice centre is to open in Padiham. The pilot scheme starts on Friday, August 20, from 11am to 1pm and continues each Friday until September 10 in the town centre coffee bar at Padiham Methodist Church, Ribble Street. Employment
WORKERS from a Burnley factory were today facing redundancy after a last ditch management buy out bid failed to secure the 171-year-old company's future. Thomas Ashworth Diecasting is one of four companies in the Presbar Group which were put into administrative
HAWORTH Art Gallery curator Jennifer Rennie was proud to accept a memento of one of Accrington's famous sons. The bronze bust of Joseph Briggs, who worked for the Tiffany glass company, will be displayed at the Accrington gallery. Joseph Briggs left Lancashire
BRIAN Wood has been made a director of Lixall Products. Brian, of Priairie Crescent, Burnley, has worked for the Formby-based firm for the past 15 years. Lixall specialises in cleaning and hygiene products. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000
AN ACCIDENT in Holland that killed a 28-year-old Accrington man will remain a mystery. Andrew Nicholas Jones, whose parents live in Cobham Road, Accrington, died instantly when the fork lift truck he was driving tipped over on him. He had started work
THE Darwen Tower Gala Race sponsored by Wolstenholme International Ltd is on Saturday, August 21 at 1.45pm. The race will start near Bold Venture Park gates with the 4.5 mile senior race climbing the moor to the Jubilee Tower. The fun run for under 14s
PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice has been won over by Lancashire's police helicopter service after seeing it in action first hand. The MP questioned the use of the force whirlybird after complaining it woke up half of his home town Barnoldswick early one morning
HOUSEHOLDERS involved in a pioneering recycling scheme in Pendle will be given more information about the project during events in their areas over the coming fortnight. Waste management staff will be on hand to answer questions about the REAP (Recycling
THE three-man team of Ian Stott, Chris Lee and Shaun Pearson from the Blackburn and District CTC put on an excellent show in the three-stage Ribble Valley Cycling Club Road Race over the weekend. In the first 50-mile stage at Longridge on Saturday morning
WILPSHIRE have opened up a massive gap in the race for the inaugural John Wallwork Volvo North West Seniors League title. The East Lancashire club look odds-on favourites for the crown after rattling up two emphatic victories over their home course in
ASHLEY Siddle is on course to follow in his dad's footsteps after becoming the ELGA Junior Champion. Siddle, who plays at Rossendale, won the crown with a best gross of 72 in East Lancashire's most prestigious junior event staged at Great Harwood GC.
THE classic Lancashire Road Club 12-hour time trial which has been held every year excepting war year since 1924, will be held again this Sunday. Unfortunately, less and less modern day riders are prepared to commit themselves to such a long period of
THE future of a plot of land currently occupied by a car dealership in Montague Street, Blackburn, is surrounded by mystery. Sanderson Bramall are planning to move from the site to a new £3million development in Whitebirk. Thirty years of car sales will
TRAVEL giant Airtours has revealed that the bidding battle for its smaller rival First Choice Holidays had wiped £2.8million off its profits. Airtours, which employs more than 1,200 at its Helmshore and Accrington sites, launched a hostile £950million
A WOMAN was seriously injured when she was trapped for 30 minutes in a Reliant Robin after a road accident in Rossendale. The busy Burnley Road through Weir village, between Bacup and Burnley, was closed for more than three hours while emergency services
ELECTRICITY prices look set to tumble next year for East Lancashire householders, it was announced today. The news comes on the back of proposals to cut water bills and major gas price cuts for local residents. Plans announced by the electricity industry's
YOUNG jobless people in Pendle are being given the chance to learn new skills, gain qualifications and help the environment at the same time. A new jobs scheme, which has just been launched, offers young people aged between 16 and 24 the chance to learn
MISSING bogus doctor Paul Bint was arrested last night by detectives in the Barrowford area. Bint, 37, was re-captured after disappearing from his Blackburn bail hostel on Sunday. He was arrested just hours after police and the Probation Service finally
MANCHESTER City manager Joe Royle revealed it took a half-time rollicking to spark off his side's Worthington Cup rout of Burnley last night. Royle admitted that the Clarets could have been ahead until his interval 'team-talk' sparked the First Division
THE new chairman of a Blackburn race watchdog left reeling by the resignation of a founder member today promised impartiality over investigations into the organisation's activities. Junaid Quereshi, recently elected chairman of the Blackburn with Darwen
DEFIANT Burnley boss Stan Ternent is backing his players to bounce back from last night's mauling at Manchester City and get their season-up-and-running at Turf Moor on Saturday. The Clarets turned in a woeful second-half performance at Maine Road to
A SEVEN-year-old boy who drowned in the canal at Whitebirk had only minutes earlier told his five-year-old playmate to walk on the inside because he was too young to walk near the water. And an inquest was told that the younger of the two boys, neither
SOMETHING fishy is going on at a popular pub in a Ribble Valley village. The Black Bull, Ribchester, has become a hotbed of rivalry - over the lowly cod. Landlord Bruce Honeyman has been serving fish and chips at the pub as a Friday special since acquiring
ELDERLY and infirm patients were evacuated from a hospital ward to escape a "blow torch" fire which gushed from an oxygen supply. A confused patient was believed to have started the blaze, which smoke-logged a surgical ward at Blackburn Infirmary. And
A THOUSAND residents of six high-rise tower blocks were warned: Stay away from your balcony ... it could be deadly! Corrosion had weakened the safety railings, and the cost of the repairs could have rocketed to £6 million. A letter from Blackburn Council
KEN Taylor's victory in the M50 division at the Crow Hill Fell Race at Mytholmroyd has kept him on course to win his age group in the South Pennine Grand Prix. Ken - pictured above - finished 18th overall in the race, completing the five miles in 34.10
LISA Richardson from Blackburn was the winning under 16 girl at Sunday's English Championship fell race at Latrigg. It was Chorley AC's first victory of the season in the fifth race of the series. Two East Lancashire athletes have been included in the
MUTTIAH Muralitharan has one last target before leaving Lancashire for Sri Lanka next week - taking them to the top of the CGU National League. Murali finally translated his brilliant Championship form to the one-day stage at Old Trafford on Tuesday,
PROFESSIONAL Paul Dwyer was set to make his European Tour debut when the West of Ireland Classic got under way at Galway today. Dwyer, who plays out of Clitheroe, qualified for the event after a fine performance in the Beazer Homes Challenge Tour Championship
BLACKBURN golfer Simon Townend smashed the course record with a sizzling six under par 65 in the first round of the De Vere Hotels PGA North Region Championship Heron's Reach yesterday. But his hopes of taking the overnight lead in the £18,000 event he
MARY Robinson, the United Nations' Commissioner for Human Rights, has said that atrocities committed in the past year in Sierra Leone are worse than those in Kosovo. Thousands of innocent civilians have had limbs brutally chopped off with machetes in
MARK Brown won two bronze medals in the World Games for disabled athletes in Barce- lona, then came home to run a marathon. Following his performances, the popular East Lancashire athlete, who is a member of both Clayton Harriers and Blackburn Harriers
AGE Concern is currently researching older people's experiences of the NHS, to back up our campaign to reduce age discrimination which occurs in service provision. Frank Dobson, Secretary of State for Health, has made a statement confirming the Government's
PRESIDENT'S prize for ladies: 1 Mrs H Simmons (86-17-68), 2 Mrs L Kent (89-21-68). DICK Burton Gross Trophy: 1 Chris Williams (Accrington) 68, 2 Ian Owens (Towneley) 69, 3 Colin Ramsbottom (Darwen) 71, 4 Gary Phillipson (Darwen) 71. John Burton Gross
FOR the past four years, the Conservatives on Blackburn with Darwen housing committee have said the only way forward for council tenants is transferring their homes to a local housing company, as, due to its mismanagement and following political dogma
SURELY a 'sport' is a pastime from which one can derive pleasure. Therefore, regarding Mr R Holden's remarks (Letters, July 28), I must say I find it extremely sad that supposedly civilised, highly advanced creatures such as humans can still gain enjoyment
OLD boys and girls from Burnley's Casterton Primary school are being asked to help make 25th anniversary celebrations a success. Head teacher Judith Williams is calling on former pupils and staff to supply photographs and other memorabilia for a birthday
MY garden, which is the biggest on our row though it can only be described as a pocket handkerchief, is getting too much for me to maintain. So, in a flash of inspiration, came the idea to have a make-over. Simple - ring a landscape gardener, a few hundred
THOUSANDS turned out to watch as the first solar eclipse for 72 years put everything else in shade. Schools, stores and workshops came to a halt as people took to the streets to view the spectacle, with special glasses, through pinhole cameras and even
WOMEN of all shapes and sizes who have dreamed of being a model are being given the chance to basque in the glory of a fashion shoot. Swimwear, nightwear and underwear shop Aphrodite, Oswaldtwistle, is seeking volunteers to star in publicity photos. As
A LAW firm has given itself a new look. Birchall Blackburn held a special opening event at its Cannon Street, Accrington offices after an extensive refurbishment programme over the past 12 months. And the firm has recently recruited Frances Murphy, who
A FREE seminar to help manufacturing and engineering firms is being staged by Northern Technologies. The event is being held in conjunction with Manchester Business School and Performa Consultants at the Nelson site, on August 18. It is aimed at helping
Food News with Ray Peake of Callums Bistro, Accrington I HAVE in a previous recipe shown you how to make the delicious appetiser aromatic crispy duck leg. We can now move on to the remaining part of the bird, namely the breast, which is more suited to
A FAST expanding new technology firm is set to widen its web! Commercial Net Works has grown to employ more than 25 people since it was set up with one telephone and one PC six months ago. It specialises in establishing names for companies on the internet
A BLACKBURN accountant claims the weakness of the Euro is causing problems for many East Lancashire manufacturing firms and posing a double-edged threat to their competitivenes. While a relatively strong pound makes exports more expensive, the low level
PR MAN John Knight got the chance to write his own press release by winning through to the finals of a prestigious golf tournament in Spain. Knight, a Blackburn-based public relations consultant, came second in the regional heats of the One2One Business
THE North West Track Championships covering cycling clubs in the Lancashire/Manchester and Liverpool areas have been held over several Wednesday evenings at the Kirkby Open Air Stadium and on the final session Dave Ebbrell of the Blackburn and District
BLACKBURN Harriers are supporting CGU Startrack, a grassroots athletic programme aimed at youngsters between eight and 12 years. The three-day course at Blackburn at Witton Park from Tuesday, August 17 to Thursday, August 19, from 10am to 3pm. Children
A COUNCIL is being called on to sharpen up its grass-cutting policy - and put an end to fly-tipping on a patch of public land. Brian Atkinson claims that since Blackburn with Darwen Council has stopped cutting the grass on the site between Ulverston Close
A MAN fascinated by the supernatural died after falling down stairs and crashing his head through a stained glass window at the bottom. An inquest heard that Dean Francis, 36, was more than four and a half times the legal drink drive limit at the time
