BREWERY workers are setting off for a marathon pub crawl around Lancashire to raise cash for elderly East Lancashire people Keen walker Christine Feldwicke has organised the 50-mile, two-day trek, to be started at Daniel Thwaites brewery, Blackburn, by
A TEENAGER from Blackburn is treading the boards of the Library Theatre, Manchester. Faye Roberts, of Park Farm Road, Feniscowles, has been playing a part in the Manchester Youth Theatre's production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Faye, 17, a former
A ROW has blown up over a hike in fares on a bus service which covers one of the remotest routes in East Lancashire. Passengers who use the service, which links Rawtenstall and Blackburn, have drawn up a petition over the increases. The route, which goes
AS their eyes met across Blackpool's Tower Ballroom, Clifford and Esther Cook didn't realise it was the start of a partnership that would last 60 years. Esther lived in Oswaldtwistle and met Blackpool lad Clifford on a trip to the world famous ballroom
STORE bosses could send in bailiffs to shoplifters' homes to get back some of the money it costs to catch them. Winfields, one of East Lancashire's biggest retailers, is to write to people convicted of stealing from its Haslingden store to ask for a payment
ANIMAL lovers Sheila and Colin Brennan are making sure their four-legged friends don't miss out on their ruby wedding anniversary celebrations. Because the big-hearted couple are asking friends and relatives to make donations to the Only Foals and Horses
SHARES in a cake maker rocketed after the firm revealed a sharp rise in profits. At the Blackburn firm's annual general meeting chairman Jeremy Hamer said profits in the first quarter of the year were up by 67 per cent and sales up by 15 per cent on the
A NEW system for estimating police sick leave in Lancashire has been introduced after concerns were raised over the accuracy of figures. Police chiefs have long been concerned about the rising levels of sick leave in the Lancashire force. The problem
A SKATE park aimed at steering youngsters away from the dangers of drugs has been opened in the grounds of Clitheroe Castle. The £30,000 park is the brainchild of the Activate Project at the Trinity Youth and Community Centre, Clitheroe. Activate has
A TEENAGER was today fighting for his life after suffering a heart attack while apparently inhaling lighter fuel. Clarke Clayton, 14, from Clitheroe, was discovered unconscious in the garden of a house in Weaver's Croft, Billington, at 11.15am on Saturday
Eric Leaver on a pioneer aviator's flights of fancy IT'S unlikely that many visitors to the new office suites built at Blackburn's Shadsworth Business Park will stop to wonder why they are called Cobham House. But older readers twig the connection as
NELSON surged to the top of the First North Western Trains League Second Division with this well-deserved win over East Lancashire rivals Bacup Borough. On a sweltering afternoon at Victoria Park there was no hiding place for the faint-hearted as John
STANLEY progressed into the next round of the FA Cup despite another indifferent performance - but with better finishing from the home side it could have been a different story. The Reds now face UniBond Premier Division outfit Whitby Town in a second
TINY terrors barely old enough to go to school plagued a railway line in the Fishmoor area for months with a spate of vandalism attacks, police revealed. The four boys, aged five and six, haunted the Blackburn to Manchester line for months, throwing objects
I FULLY support your stance on random breath-testing (LET, August 27). I would very much like to know what would happen if I refused to take such a test, on the grounds that I had not been drinking and had committed no traffic offence. KEITH ELLEL, Westwood
OVER the last five years, the bills for council tax and water services for my home have both increased by more than one third, while the prices of gas and electricity have fallen. It seems that there is to be a reduction in water charges and further cuts
THERE are 3.76 miles of racing track and a few corners of a Dutch field that will be forever England. "There must have been 80,000 here. It's incredible. There aren't that many people go to watch England play abroad at football," said an overwhelmed Carl
A PASSENGER was injured when children armed with catapults fired at a train in Burnley. A window in the train was smashed and the passenger suffered with minor injuries but the train was able to continue its journey to Leeds. The Blackpool to Leeds train
A TAXI driver was left stranded on the moors above Burnley in the middle of the night after a thief stole his takings and cab. The driver's ordeal began at 12.15am today when he picked up a fare outside Planet Pizza in Croft Street opposite Burnley bus
RISING star Trevor Benjamin is not on Rovers' shopping list. The Cambridge United striker has been watched by a posse of scouts after notching 20 goals last season as Cambridge won promotion from Division Three. The 20-year-old has added two more to his
ANDY Cooke and John Mullin are heading back from injury to further boost Burnley's flying start to the season. Cooke is aiming to resume light training this week as he recovers from a hamstring injury. And that spells good news for the Clarets, who are
AS a man begins a 15-month jail sentence for assault with a pool cue, police are continuing to investigate an alleged second assault on Harold Johnson around the time of his death in Walmsley Close, Church. Burnley Crown Court heard that head injuries
SPEEDO swimwear-to-Kickers shoes company Pentland is set to go private after directors approved a multi-million pound buyout plan by the company's family shareholder. Independent directors at Pentland - which has a major distribution centre in Blackburn
A YOUNG girl was in a "poorly but stable" condition in hospital today with serious head injuries after she was knocked down by a car. Police said seven-year-old Sarah O'Brien, of Carleton Street, Nelson, was hidden by parked cars when she ran into the
FIREFIGHTERS and college staff were today mourning the death of a colleague who drowned in a heroic attempt to rescue a teenager from a lake. And tragic Paul Metcalf's twin brother Michel called into question why the fire brigade acted as they did despite
FIREFIGHTERS and college staff were today mourning the death of a colleague who drowned in a heroic attempt to rescue a teenager from a lake. And tragic Paul Metcalf's twin brother Michel called into question why the fire brigade acted as they did despite
A CENTRE of excellence for information technology training in Blackburn was officially opened by Home Secretary Jack Straw. The Blackburn MP then toured the Saturn Centre, which is one of 40 government-funded centres nationwide, with other guests on Friday
ANDY Cooke and John Mullin are heading back from injury to further boost Burnley's flying start to the season. Cooke is aiming to resume light training this week as he recovers from a hamstring injury. And that spells good news for the Clarets, who are
BLACKBURN with Darwen has only an outside chance of being granted city status before the millennium, according to bookmakers, who have started taking bets on which town will be named Britain's new city. Bookies William Hill have placed Blackburn's bid
RISING star Trevor Benjamin is not on Rovers' shopping list. The Cambridge United striker has been watched by a posse of scouts after notching 20 goals last season as Cambridge won promotion from Division Three. The 20-year-old has added two more to his
A RIBBLE Valley man has been charged with murder after the body of a Lancashire man was found at a farm in Kent. Keith Walmsley, 38, a farm worker, of Longridge, is charged with murdering Peter Metcalfe, 43, who is also a farm labourer from Lancashire
A FORMER choirboy turned stripper made clear that he was unrepentant about peeling off a Salvation Army uniform during a stage set. By day, Anthony Broughton, 21, was a window cleaner, but at night he donned his Salvation Army uniform in a raunchy stage
CHRIS Schofield had reason to celebrate in tonight's CGU National League game against Hampshire Hawks under the Old Trafford floodlights. The 20-year-old Littleborough leg-spinner was selected for a place in the England A squad to tour Bangladesh and
UNITED gave their unbeaten opponents a two-goal lead before a stirring fight-back had Fleetwood on the ropes, but the home side failed to find the vital knockout blows. Ramsbottom's dream of a second successive FA Cup run started brightly when Brendan
CARL Fogarty has signed a new contract with Italian manufacturers Ducati. The three times World Superbike Champion, who is on the verge of a fourth title after a magnificent double at Assen yesterday, has agreed a new one-year deal. Ducati are currently
DARWEN tasted league defeat for the first time this season at St Annes and with it lost top spot in the table for the first time with one match remaining. St Annes now only need to win their final game to clinch the title. After losing the toss and being
NELSON'S second successive Lancashire League title is theirs for the taking after another scintillating display from Roger Harper blew East Lancs' championship challenge to smithereens. The West Indian spin-king was simply awesome as the home side wrapped
ITS remoteness does not diminish the horror unleashed in East Timor, where hundreds have been killed and hundreds of thousands are herded as refugees in schools, churches and public buildings while anti-independence militias go on the rampage with the
PADIHAM clinched the Jennings Ribblesdale League championship in a cliffhanger final day. They picked up five points after beating Barnoldswick by six wickets, but were left hanging on the telephone as they waited to hear how Great Harwood's match at
BURNLEY pace bowler James Anderson celebrated his call-up to the England under-17 side for two one-day internationals this week with three wickets as Burnley beat Haslingden by 43 runs. Anderson has taken 38 wickets in his first full season in the EW
WITH reference to your article on Second World War evacuees (LET, August 17), I remember as a child of five or six living in a cottage in Altrincham and my mother giving my elder sister, Brenda, 16, and brother Jeff, 12, instructions to collect a girl
I REFER to the article by Amy Binns (August 10) in which she quoted Mr Kevin Lasbury, director, network and customer services (North) on the extension of the M65 motorway into Yorkshire. It is clear that there has been a fundamental misunderstanding about
OVER the last couple of months, there have been numerous letters published from members of Great Harwood Labour Party, which can only be described as black propaganda. Letters from former Councillors George Slynn and David Forshaw and Labour Party Secretary
A MAN who died when he was struck by a train near Accrington has been named by police. Nigel Summergill, 39, of Exchange Street, Accrington, was struck by a Preston-bound train at Church railway station at 11.20pm on Friday. Mr Summergill, a former pupil
FAMILIES were evacuated from their homes as a blaze tore through an empty workshop in Accrington early today. Fire crews from Accrington, Oswaldtwistle and Blackburn tackled the flames at the empty unit in Leyland Street which started around 2.30am. The
TWO East Lancashire firms are doing battle for a top industry award. Potterton Myson, based in Burnley, is in the finals of the Manufacturing Industry Achievement Award for its work in developing a new information technology system. And Cobble Blackburn
AN ELECTRONIC version of the old school blackboard has won an award for being one of Britain's brightest ideas. The interactive whiteboard developed by Blackburn-based Promethean has been named in the latest batch of Millennium Products - an initiative
