"Magic" -- Queen tribute band, Colne Municipal Hall, 7.45pm for 8.30pm. St Theresa's Church Charity Shop, Lord Street West, Blackburn, 10am-4pm. Mercury and the Crescent Moon, Planet Earth Centre, Todmorden, 9.30pm-midnight. American Line Dancing, The
PUTTING aside the row that it has generated among election candidates anxious to score points, the real concern about the police force sending mounted officers into crime hot spots in East Lancashire to tackle offending and disorder is whether it will
THE lights on the new crossing on Buncer Lane, Blackburn, are at last operational, allowing pupils of Witton School to cross the road safely. So why are they not using it? Trying to drive along Buncer Lane, I found hundreds of pupils in the middle of
JEFF Stone's suggestion that the market should be moved to Lord Square in Blackburn (Letters, May 9) deserves consideration. The market, as it is, is going downhill fast because, like the rest of the town, it is not drawing in people spending money. Lord
WITH regard to the affair of the Prescott punch, you asserted in your editorial (LET, May 17) that he was subjected to a "cowardly and provocative attack." Oh, come on! For heaven's sake it was an egg thrown -- not a bullet from a gun! Daily, in this
WE wondered when Blackburn council would get their greedy hands on our car parks in Darwen. Where does the idea come from, that market traders and most of the public want to pay for this small concession. We signed a petition from the market traders,
REGARDING the full-page advertisement on regenerating Blackburn town centre (LET, May 17), it is admirable that the council is keeping the public informed of the latest and intended stages of development, good or bad, but it appears they still haven't
LOCAL scorecards, fixtures and results. Al-Badr...195-7 Rossendale Valley 114 ao Asif 71no, Babar 58 Lomeshaye 74-1 General Gordon 71ao C Summerscales 35 Wattan...2256ao Byerden House...133-4 Asif 69 A Catterall 25, 3-36 Stoneyholme...167ao Ronnies Taxis
IN my Last article I said it would be great if amateur finals were played on league grounds again and I am pleased to say the Birtwistle Cup in the Blackburn Combination is back on Ewood again after so long. I played in the final for Griffin Celtic back
MAXIM Winterbottom-Hawke was the pick of the runners at the annual Rossendale Schools Cross County championships after winning all four races. The Haslingden Primary School pupil was rightly named the overall boys winner -- and Jennifer Davies of Rawtenstall
THE East Lancashire Midweek Summer Seven-a-Side League has got under way. And last season's Division One champions Rightway Cash and Carry have already dropped their first points of the campaign after being held 0-0 against BI Group. However, Rightway
RESULTS from the area's cricket scene. DIVISION ONE Brinscall 94-4 Walton-le-Dale 96-9 S Critchley 37no M Huddart 3-27 Darwen 61 all out Whittle-le-Woods 62-0 A Rigby 34, S Barnish 5-34, S Croft 3-26 K Fazackerley 34no Feniscowles 100 all out White Coppice
THE Lancashire Youth Games has been saved from the scrap heap thanks to Lottery funding. Organisers of the event have secured £20,000 for the Games which this year is 'going back to basics'. The popular annual event was in danger of folding after a number
Shaws of Darwen 2 British Telecom 0 Ratings Shaws of Darwen Shaw fire winners SHAWS player/manager Michael Leaf admitted his cup winners were wracked by nerves before kick off but they still managed to conjure up two excellent goals not out of place at
GERRY Luczka set his sights on management today after leaving Nationwide Conference surprise guys Leigh RMI. The Hilton Park club's first team coach has quit after three years with the Railwaymen, who finished an incredible fifth in their first season
THE garden at Dyneley Hall, Cliviger, will be open to the public on Sunday. The public are being invited to see the one-and-a-half acres of garden by Sir Simon Towneley in support of the British Red Cross, of which his late wife, Lady Mary, was a long-time
DESPITE many events having been cancelled in Pendle because of the foot and mouth crisis, the South Pennines 'Making Tracks' programme was launched this week. The cycle rides to discover Pendle's quiet country lanes are still due to go ahead as planned
A MAJOR international forgery ring was smashed after two men tried to smuggle £1 million of goods from Blackburn to China. The goods, which bore names such as Calvin Klein and Armani, were seized at Manchester Airport and a further £275,000 of fake jeans
PENSIONERS at a residential home in East Lancashire face an uncertain future after the unveiling of plans to turn it into a leisure centre for a nearby hotel. Owners of The Wickets Hotel, Blackburn Road, Rishton, have applied for planning permission to
ANOTHER foot and mouth outbreak was today confirmed in East Lancashire within the so called Settle Rectangle. MAFF confirmed the outbreak at Dockbur Farm, in Sawley, near Clitheroe -- the 17th case in Lancashire. It comes in the same week as an outbreak
HERE is a site dedicated to the terminally dull, you can scroll through exciting facts on airport carousels. Did you know that Turkey's Istanbul airport's luggage carousel travels in a clockwise direction, while neighbouring Izmir airport boasts a anticlockwise
BURNLEY are considering asking their fans to 'lend' the club £100 to raise a total of £750,000 for the redevelopment of their Gawthorpe training ground. The Clarets are keen to upgrade their training facilities but don't have the spare cash to fund the
A 34-YEAR-old woman and a 15-year-old girl were sent to Preston Crown Court for trial when they appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged with wounding Marie Woods with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Susan Wells, of Hindle Street, Darwen, is
A HEADTEACHER has been suspended after an audit discovered alleged irregularities in the way his school was managed. Frank Jeffs, of St Peter's CE Primary School, in Turncroft Road, Darwen, is believed to have been sent home at the end of last week after
A POLICE crack-down on cross-border crooks has already led to the arrest of a man from Rochdale. Extra border patrols have been introduced on the routes into Manchester and Rochdale and criminals are being warned by Rossendale West Inspector Ewan Cameron
future is red hot future! A MULTI-MILLION pound revamp will turn Leigh's state-of-the-art fire station into a regional flagship. Plans are at an advanced stage for a major scheme to develop the station, providing new driving school facilities, vehicle
A WOMAN who found a bottle containing an 'unknown substance' is fuming at council advice of how to get rid of it. Susan Toner found the bottle of liquid next in an alleyway next to her home in Shadsworth Road, Blackburn, at the weekend and thinks it could
A HIGH-FLYING commercial marketing manager swapped her high-heel shoes and briefcase for an overall and pumps to become a sewing machinist for a day. And the sewing machinist took on the manager's role as part of the job-swap scheme at Cavalier Carpets
A PIONEERING rehabilitation scheme is reversing the trend of elderly people going into residential care. LET reporter David Higgerson met some of the people who have benefited. Lilian Robinson doesn't mince her words when she talks about the benefits
COLNE finished second in the Lancashire Ladies Golf Association Inter-Club Competition at Fulwood golf club in Preston. The team of Anne Bradbury, Anne Preston, Irene Lonsdale and Betty Taylor won through to the final after winning the East Lancashire
THE RSPB is holding a charity Pro-Am tournament on the Cheshire Course, Carden Park, near Chester on Friday July 6. Money raised will help maintain and improve habitats for birds and other wildlife. Entries are invited from teams of three amateur golfers
PADIHAM hot-shot Lee Chambers failed in his mission to grab the NWCL Division Two Golden Boot off Darwen's Paul Baker -- but still got on the scoresheet twice at West View. Chambers faced an uphill task, needing to score six in the final match of the
GED FUREY is setting his sights on qualification for the British Open this summer. The Pleasington professional, who qualified for 'the biggest tournament in the world' back in 1998, names playing in the Open as one his top priorities for 2001. "Obviously
LEE Cartwright's mates from the Rossendale Valley are ready to help him keep his feet on the ground. The right winger, Preston's longest serving player with 12 years behind him, has been with North End in their move up from the old Division Four -- and
A RADCLIFFE engineering firm which is one of the town's biggest employers looks set to close with the loss of all 98 jobs. Workers at Strebor Diecasting on Hutchinson Way were told yesterday that the future of the 70-year-old firm looks bleak. An escalation
AGE Concern urges older people to make full use of the new arrangements for postal and proxy voting. Voters can now get a postal vote for the General Election on demand at any time up to 5pm on Tuesday, May 29 -- by asking at the Elections Office at their
A MASKED gang escaped with the day's takings after threatening supermarket staff with a heavy spanner. Three balaclava-clad thugs burst into Kwik Save in Atherton Road, Hindley Green at 8.10pm last night. The gang grabbed the cash before escaping in a
A LOOK at local youth team cricket. UNDER 15 Whalley...23-7 Edenfield...99-4 K Chadwick 3-3 B Franlioli 32no Cherry Tree...74-7 Baxenden...40 T Undre 3-8 Read...80-2 Blackburn Northern 74-5 D Lord 30no Ribblesdale Wdrs...136-6 Whalley 32-6 R Gladwyn 31no
Borrowdale 4 Brierfield Celtic 1 A BORROWDALE goal blitz in a blistering 10-minute spell sunk Celtic before they knew what had happened. Dale scored three quick-fire goals to put them in charge with winger Phil Hayton hitting a double while Lee Uttley
BLACKBURN Harriers topped 200 points when winning convincingly their second match of this year's McDonalds Young Athletes League. The win puts them in contention for promotion to the Premier Division -- but with three matches left there is still plenty
A DISTRAUGHT grandad today told how his 10-month -old baby grandson narrowly escaped serious injury when a concrete block was hurled through the window of their home. What happened next on a Colne estate led to four members of the baby's family being
A SCHEME which saw a posse of police horses riding onto an estate in a bid to tackle crime has been branded a useless gimmick. The move, defended by force bosses and Home Secretary Jack Straw, is aimed at tackling crime hotspots and was launched by 13
BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness will make his second signing of the summer in the next 48 hours with Alan Mahon due to put pen to paper on a permanent deal with Rovers. Ewood chief executive John Williams met the player's advisers yesterday to thrash out
THE traditional Mayoress at Home event has been brought up to date in Burnley -- and now the Mayors can attend too! The traditionally 'women-only' event has been changed this year by newly installed Mayor Coun Jack Alston. Mayor's secretary Marilyn Kershaw
SIXTY smoke detectors have been handed out by firefighters in Padiham as part of a major fire safety campaign. The initiative comes on the second anniversary a house blaze in Victoria Road in which a young woman lost her life. An inquest later heard the
A ROW over the storage of gas bottles could blow up again as plans to store propane and butane at Heasandford, Burnley, look likely to get the go-ahead. Alta Gas stores 90 tonnes of gas at on the industrial estate and now wants to increase it to 140 tonnes
BURNLEY is looking to Londoners to move up North and fill the empty former council houses now run by Burnley and Padiham community housing. London boroughs, including Westminster and Haringey, are taking part in the initiative. Community housing manager
HIDDEN in the depths of Nelson, a world away from the nearby busy main road, is a colourful, picturesque garden -- and for the first time it is being opened up to the public. Sheila and Fred Horrocks, of Barkerhouse Road, have spent 15 years working on
A COLNE primary school was expected to close at lunchtime today for the funeral of its headteacher. Tony Stevenson, who has been head of Christ Church Primary School for eight years, died on Friday evening after a long battle with cancer. Members of staff
A DISTRAUGHT grandad today told how his 10-month -old baby grandson narrowly escaped serious injury when a concrete block was hurled through the window of their home. What happened next on a Colne estate led to four members of the baby's family being
THE owner of audio equipment manufacturers and fitters Blackburn In Car was left counting the cost of an overnight raid in which £10,000 of equipment was stolen. It was the second burglary at the centre in six months and owner Munir Ilyas put up a reward
A MOTORCYCLIST needed hospital treatment after a collision with a car. The 18-year-old youth, whose name has not yet been released by police, was driving along Accrington Road, between Whalley and Great Harwood, when the accident happened near Portfield
POLICE are warning people in Great Harwood to be on their guard after bogus salesmen stole more than £100 from a man in the street. The man was standing on the pavement in Heywood Road when three men pulled up in a light blue car and offered to sell him
THE Mayor and Mayoress of Hyndburn bowed out last night -- and paid poignant tribute to Lancashire Evening Telegraph photographer Jack Barry. Coun Doug Hayes handed over the mayoral chains to Huncoat councillor Dave Parkins at the annual meeting of the
DRUNKEN violence in and around Accrington pubs is to be combated with the launch of a Radio Pub Link Scheme. Eight town centre pubs will go "live" tomorrow and the new scheme provides registered door supervisors with a hand-held radio that they can use
AN EAST Lancashire hypnotist's act was "highly likely" to have caused a mother-of-seven to relive the suppressed trauma of childhood sexual abuse, an expert told the High Court in London yesterday. On the third day of the trial, in which Mrs Lynn Howarth
CHILDREN out walking with their dad in the Trough of Bowland discovered the body of a 57-year-old nurse who had died as a result of drinking anti-freeze, an inquest heard. The hearing was told that Maureen Elizabeth Johnston was lying beside her overturned
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A NEW football website has scored with fans. www.footymad.net is the biggest network of individual football club web sites in Europe. The site is based in Lancashire and covers a whole range of clubs, from Conference level right up to the Premier League
BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness will make his second signing of the summer in the next 48 hours with Alan Mahon due to put pen to paper on a permanent deal with Rovers. Ewood chief executive John Williams met the player's advisers yesterday to thrash out
BURNLEY are considering asking their fans to 'lend' the club £100 to raise a total of £750,000 for the redevelopment of their Gawthorpe training ground. The Clarets are keen to upgrade their training facilities but don't have the spare cash to fund the
BRIERFIELD-based Power Jet Systems is taking part in the largest British trade mission to hit Europe this year. The company is one of 24 North West businesses taking part in Industria 2001 at the Budapest Fair Centre in Hungary. The trade mission has
CHEESE and wine is not usually on the menu on training programmes run at the Clayton Park conference and learning centre. But staff made an exception at an Open Day at the Clayton-le-Moors centre when visitors were treated to refreshments while they discussed
EAST LANCASHIRE businesses are being offered a unique insight into the trick of hanging on to customers at a top-level seminar next month. The event focuses on the business maxim that it costs five times as much to attract a new customer than it does
GOAL of the season winner Adrian Littlejohn is the latest casualty of Bury's cost-cutting exercise after being handed a shock free transfer. Lutel James is also on his way out, as well as Ryan Souter, Lee Buggie and Warren Peyton. With Paul Barnes and
RUMOURS that fireworks will light up the night sky in Darwen on Bank Holiday Monday have been confirmed. The spectacle will start at 10.30pm as part of Darwen Music Life celebrations. Organisers have promised that the display will be clearly seen across
TWINS Liam and Rob Barton couldn't afford to be educated in the UK so they went for a transatlantic option. Because the boys would be going to university at the same time their parents would have had to pay for £1,000 tuition fees twice, as well as all
PHOTOGRAPHER Jack Barry died just moments after complaining of what he thought was indigestion, an inquest was told. The popular and highly respected freelance, who worked for the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, had not been to see a doctor in 43 years
A MAN who had his skull fractured in a late night street robbery in Blackburn today condemned his attackers as 'animals'. Stewart Timperley, 52, was walking across the car park at Ivy Street Community Centre at about midnight on Friday night when he was
A PLUMBING boss is determined his business will not fold after he lost his premises in an explosion. Devastated Paul Robinson spoke about the future of contractors Joshua Grimshaw Ltd as police continued to question three men arrested after the incident
A GROUP of vets is advising farmers not to move any livestock near the area hit by the new outbreak of foot and mouth. The Craven Veterinary Association, which includes two vets' practices in Clitheroe and one in Colne as well as Settle and Skipton, has
ARGUING couple Leonard and Angela Vernon ended up in court after he blurted out their £5,000 insurance secret to police during a tiff. Ex-Special Constable Angela Vernon, 36, and her now estranged businessman husband had received the pay-out from Eagle
A SCHEME which saw a posse of police horses riding onto an estate in a bid to tackle crime has been branded a useless gimmick. The move, defended by force bosses and Home Secretary Jack Straw, is aimed at tackling crime hotspots and was launched by 13
A GOLFER who only took up the game five years ago is through to the regional finals of the Lombard Trophy, Europe's biggest Pro-Am competition. Amateur Lloyd Lewis and Burnley professional Paul McEvoy won the club qualifying round with a nett score of
ACCRINGTON Stanley striker Gary Williams has gone to America in a bid to get fit for the new UniBond Premier Division season. The Reds record signing, who returned to the Crown Ground last season after they had sold him to Doncaster, is preparing to jet
MIKE Kelly has been appointed as Ramsbottom manager on a permanent basis after guiding the club to third place in the NWCL First Division. Kelly took control of team affairs, along with Mike Feeney, following the sudden death of boss Ken Bridge at the
BOLTON boss Sam Allardyce has called for an overhaul of the play-offs as Wanderers prepare to meet Lancashire rivals Preston in Monday's final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Wanderers finished nine points clear of everyone else in the play-offs
NELSON missed out on promotion to the NWCL Division One in agonising fashion last night when Atherton LR won a rematch which pipped them to the second promotion spot. Atherton had lost their original match -- their final game of the season -- against
