RAY Ingleby planned to float Burnley FC on the stock market had he gained control at Turf Moor. Ingleby was attracted by the Clarets' potential when he decided to try and buy a football club in the North-West. And he revealed that had his £3million takeover
A CAR was dramatically set alight to promote the launch of two major anti-arson initiatives in Lancashire. Emergency services and local authorities teamed up for the launch of Wheels on Fire and the Crimestoppers Arson Hotline at the Lancashire Fire and
TEN societies from East Lancashire have been awarded more than £36,000 by the Millennium Experience Company. Rossendale has been the luckiest area with five groups benefiting from the Millennium Festival Award scheme. Amateur musicians will be offered
RAY Ingleby's love affair with Burnley Football Club started out strictly platonic - based purely on business sense. Ingleby had recently sold some shares in his American company, Caribiner, and was looking to invest in a public listed company. With football
THOUSANDS of pounds worth of damage was caused by two fires started deliberately in Blackburn last night. A town centre shoe shop was destroyed and several surrounding properties badly damaged after a blaze in the early hours. And several families were
BLACKBURN Rovers officials will draw up a short list at a special meeting early next week as the race to find Brian Kidd's successor starts to gather pace. The club are happy with the way things are beginning to take shape and they are now ready to draw
RAY Ingleby hasn't done badly for someone who couldn't read and write until the age of nine, scraped through school and was asked to leave his first job. He bounced back to become a millionaire at the age of 21 and having spent more than £1million on
CALLUM Davidson could be ruled out of Scotland's big Euro 2000 play-off clash with England at Hampden on Saturday. The Blackburn Rovers defender is struggling to shake off a niggling hamstring strain and faces a race against time to be fit for the Battle
Janet Anderson MP, Sudellside Community Centre, Darwen, 5.30pm-6.30pm. The Halle in Concert, King George's Hall, Blackburn, 7.30pm. Pendle Jazzmen, Holden Arms, Grane Road, Haslingden, 9pm. Eddie Taylor. Accrington Camera Club meet Primetime Centre, Rishton
WORKMATES found the body of man apparently hanged at a factory unit in Clitheroe yesterday. Charles Sandford, 45, of Castlegate, Clitheroe, was found dead at 8.05am at the unit in Eshton Terrace. Shocked workmates alerted the emergency services and the
GUY Green, quality manager at Smurfit Paper & Board Mills (Burnley) will be jetting off to Barbados on November 29 to run in the Barbados Marathon (December 5). Guy won this two-week break and entry into the marathon by collecting the most sponsorship
BLACKBURN Hawks boss Bobby Haig has been hit with a flu epidemic ahead of this weekend's Border League clash with Kingston. Four of Haig's first team stars were sent home from training this week with the illness and look doubtful for Sunday's clash at
ELDERLY people were urged to carry out simple checks on their homes - or run the risk of expensive repair bills during the winter. A free leaflet had been produced by Hyndburn Age Concern, and if people followed the checklist then they could avoid burst
EURO-MP Michael Hindley was set to become one of the first protesters in Hyndburn to be fined for not registering for the poll tax. But the East Lancashire Labour MEP claimed protests against the community charge had forced recent Government "climbdowns
WHALLEY LEOPARDS U-9s 1 TURTON TIGERS 2 WHALLEY Leopards should have won this game but missed chances cost them dearly. They scored a great goal through Ashley Walker though. IVY ROVERS 0 WHALLEY PANTHERS U-10s 2 THE Panthers were in complete control
I WOULD like to thank everybody who helped us settle into our new house, especially my parents, Gerry and Geraldine Keenan, for turning our house into a home. With working long hours, Paul and I did not have much time, but my mum and dad blitzed the place
LOWERHOUSE Cricket Club are set to leave their Liverpool Road home and may have to share grounds with another club to fulfil their Lancashire League fixtures next season. The lease on their Burnley venue expires at the end of next April and there's no
CAN readers help Marie Curie Cancer Care? We have been granted permission to collect throughout the week of November 15-21 at Morrison's in Blackburn and are very short of collectors. Please, can anyone with an hour or two to spare during that time collect
IF pensioners in this country think the government is being benevolent to them by giving each household with pensioners a one-off payment of £100 towards this winter's fuel bills, then think again. It is much cheaper for government to do this than give
IN response to your call for opinions about change for local government (LET, Soapbox, November 3), I would like to say that the Local Government (Organisation and Standards) Bill was published in March 1999 and, among other changes, looks to impose new
WHEN a group of Burnley girls became "soccer widows" they decided to fight back. They formed the Black Cats netball team and, instead of curling up in front of the fire on match days, went out to play games of their own. Now the nine-strong squad of former
BURNLEY Football Club has joined forces with Burnley College to offer 1,000 free places on a "Sport for Life" course. In only the fourth such link-up between a football club and local college, the Clarets are following in the footsteps of Leeds United
SHOPPERS in Great Harwood look likely to get a new town centre supermarket after more than 4,000 residents cast their votes in Lancashire's first-ever referendum. The result of the vote to decide whether the Co-op can build a new store in Queen Street
CALLUM Davidson could be ruled out of Scotland's big Euro 2000 play-off clash with England at Hampden on Saturday. The Blackburn Rovers defender is struggling to shake off a niggling hamstring strain and faces a race against time to be fit for the Battle
WORRIED parents living in the shadow of a bail hostel which has housed sex offenders will discuss concerns for their children's safety at a meeting with probation, council and police chiefs. Bosses at Highfield House bail hostel, Lydia Street, Accrington
PENDLE Council has stepped up its campaign to win back millions of pounds of vital Euro cash with a mercy mission to Brussels. A delegation of senior councillors and the authority's chief executive was at the European Commission HQ today arguing Pendle's
CELTIC fought back from 2-0 down and Jamie Shiels scored a great solo effort. On half time, James Blackburn fed Tom McDonough who found the net. Ryan Metcalfe and Adam Gibson instrumental in getting the ball into danger areas. Mark Bennett blasted another
IVY Rovers made it their fourth win in a row with a 5-2 victory over Blackburn Dynamos Under-13s. Debut boy Adam Lovick played a blinder for Ivy. Defenders McFee, Davis, Harrison and Perkins held strong. Midfielders Holden, Harding, Lucas, Haslam battled
RAY Ingleby planned to float Burnley FC on the stock market had he gained control at Turf Moor. Ingleby was attracted by the Clarets' potential when he decided to try and buy a football club in the North-West. And he revealed that had his £3million takeover
TWO new memorial walls have been created in a Pendle cemetery to allow the bereaved to pay their respects. The new walls at Wheatlands Cemetery, Earby, were dedicated by Baptist Minister The Rev Tony Taylor and officially opened by the Mayor of Pendle
LONDON bobby Peter McLynn celebrated 22 years with the police by travelling 200 miles north to Blackburn Rovers' Ewood Park to meet Jack Walker. Sergeant McLynn was presented with his long service award by the Ewood owner after putting in a special request
COLNE's thriving clothes to glassware Boundary Mill stores announced further expansion today - by taking over a pub! The major retailer has secured the lease on the adjoining Golden Ball Inn, a Tetley house and the second oldest pub in town. A company
MISERLY Burnley will be bidding to keep goals off Blackpool's Sunday lunchtime menu to serve up a derby victory for the Turf Moor fans this weekend. The Clarets' run of four successive clean sheets was ended by a 2-1 defeat at Luton Town last Saturday
A RETIRING police chief today criticised local councillors for failing to recognise they had an equal responsibility for community safety issues. Chief Supt Mike Griffin said he was bitter that it was always the police and young people who incurred the
AN East Lancashire dairy famed for its yoghurt is a regional winner in the annual farming 'Oscars'. Little Town Dairy, Longridge, is the North West winner in the Food from the Countryside section of the National Farmers' Union's President's Awards. The
Val Cowan's Web World RAWTENSTALL Fire Station has gone global with its own pages on the world wide web. Nick Clough, a sub-officer on the station's Green Watch, has set up an unofficial site about the station using his own personal web space. He is hoping
FOULRIDGE Foxes boys and girls teams shared the action last weekend. The girls under 11 team played a friendly against Earby Girls, narrowly losing 3-2. Goals came from Rebecca Silvers and Olivia Frank, who also won woman of the match award. The under
RAMSBOTTOM United secretary John Maher has been cleared of a misconduct charge by the Manchester FA after being accused of telling a female official to 'get back in the kitchen'. Female referee's assistant Leanna Oliver had alleged Maher had made the
THE Blackburn Northern Hockey Club's Ladies team regained their winning ways as they thrashed Ben Rhydding 4-0 at Witton Park. The scoring started only seven minutes from the opening whistle as Janet Jackson finally ended her scoring drought by slipping
HAT-TRICK hero Jonny Andrews was the star of the show as Great Harwood Rovers Under-16s triumphed 7-1 in the Great Harwood derby with Town. Once Jonathan Williams opened the scoring, things picked up for Rovers, who led 3-0 at half time. Further goals
THE government has been well and truly backed into a no-win position over the French beef row. Prime Minister Tony Blair was confident that, after his half time chat with his French counterpart Lionel Jospin during Saturday's Rugby World Cup final, the
HONOURS were shared between the Chorley clubs at Sunday's Asics Through the Villages Road Race. Chorley Harriers won the team prize thanks to Keith Johnston (third), Alan Alty (ninth) and Mark Schooling (11th), but Chorley Athletic Club fielded the first
OVER 3,000 competitors travelled by road and ferry to the Ardintinny Outdoor Centre, 13 miles north of Dunoon for the 1999 Karrimor International Mountain Marathon. Sponsored by the Accrington endurance clothing specialists, the event comprised a weekend
I DISAPPROVE of bonfires being held on any other date but November 5. As animal owners are advised to keep pets in on Bonfire Night, can someone please tell me what is the correct date for Bonfire Night? I am aware of bonfires being held on the 6th. This
DURING the evening of Hallowe'en, Pendle Hill suffered from the usual influx of witch watchers and ghoulie gawpers. As a result of so many people being up on the hill, most of whom just sat in their cars, the debris left behind was a sight to behold.
PLANS to bring new business to Burnley have been announced by the country's largest disabled employer, the Remploy Packaging Group. The company's satellite unit in Ashton Road, Oldham, which deals with heavy duty corrugated case making, will move to the
AUDITORS investigating allegations of malpractice by Hyndburn Council are to launch a formal inquiry into the handling of a major planning application during the run-up to the borough elections. The claims of malpractice relate to supermarket giant Safeway's
A NURSE aged 24 today blasted bosses of an East Lancashire bus company after she said she was hit in the face by a bus and then told it was her own fault. Joanne Farmer claims a Pilkington's bus struck her while she was standing on the pavement by a pelican
Food News, with Amanda Killelea THIS month's winners of our popular Menu Master Mike competition are Jack and Helen Ainsworth. Their traditional version of beef goulash is an ideal winter warming dish for when those cold, dark nights draw in. It is a
CO-OPERATIVES and community run businesses in East Lancashire are booming. The number of ventures has doubled in the county in the past four years to 110. And they now support more than 1,100 jobs. The Lancashire Co-operative Development Agency said more
WORK is set to begin on a £4.3million business park in the Ribble Valley. The Ribble Valley Enterprise Park is being developed at the former Barrow printworks site near Clitheroe. The new park will be aimed at small and medium sized businesses, particularly
FORMER East Lancashire professional Billy Stelling has signed for Leicestershire on a two-year contract. South African-born Stelling, who holds a Dutch passport, has represented Western Province and Boland, and played for Holland in the NatWest Trophy
