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• Snub doesn't spoil big day

  CELEBRATIONS to mark the election of Pendle's first Asian Mayor were marred last night when only a quarter of the Liberal Democrat councillors took their seats for the ceremony.

• Bridging Gulf in language

  A SOLDIER from Bamber Bridge is preparing for a stint in Iraq by learning Arabic.

• Ilness forces mayor elect to step down

  SOUTH Ribble's mayor elect, Councillor Jeff Knowles, will not be standing as mayor for the forthcoming year due to ill health.

• Armed bank robbery arrests

  DETECTIVES investigating a string of armed bank robberies committed since December 2002 in the Midlands and North West have arrested two men.

• Duff can be a great

  ENGLAND legend Tom Finney today said Damien Duff has the potential to become one of the game's all-time greats.

• Chief's appeal to the fans

  BLACKBURN Rovers chief executive John Williams today urged fans to get to Ewood on Sunday to show their support for Simon Garner -- and Graeme Souness's UEFA Cup-bound heroes.

• Hula Hula gala nets £5,500

  BURY Grammar School for Girls hosted a successful May Gala Day organised by the school's Guild of Parents and Friends.

• Music makers

  TALENTED pupils took to the stage to compete in the fifth Young Musician of the Year awards, hosted by the Rotary Club of Tottington and Bury West.

• Arrests at BNP protest

  NINE people were arrested after violence erupted outside Burnley Town Hall as the British National Party's new councillors attended their first meeting.

• Life for rejected wife

  A BURNLEY woman who burst into a beauty salon and shot her love rival dead has been found guilty of murder.

• 'Tough guy' with a soft heart

  'A TOUGH man in the ring, but soft on the inside,' -- those are a son's moving words about his former boxing champion father who died this week at his Preston home.

• I'll fight back says victim

  PEOPLE living in a leafy Preston suburb have armed themselves with baseball bats after a spate of attacks by gangs of young thugs.

• Rosegrove Bulletin

  MEMBERS of Rosegrove Action group in Rosegrove Lane have issued a heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped make the annual carnival a huge success.

• Probe looks to housing future

  TEN thousand Pendle residents are to be quizzed about housing needs, to help council officers boost funding bids.

• 'Come on and back our show'

  PENDLE traders are being asked to get involved in this year's Barrowford Agricultural Show to help make the event bigger and better.

• Arrests at BNP protest

  NINE people were arrested after violence erupted outside Burnley Town Hall as the British National Party's new councillors attended their first meeting.

• Minister's top team study schools crisis

  EDUCATION Secretary Charles Clarke has revealed a team of officials are working with Lancashire County Council and Burnley Borough Coucil in a bid to sort out the school places crisis in the town.

• Moors murderers are jailed for life

  TWO men who brutally bludgeoned a witchcraft enthusiast to death on a Todmorden hillside have been jailed for life.

• 'Chilling' killing by spurned wife

  SPURNED wife Rena Salmon accomplished her mission to kill her rival in love with chilling deliberation, the Old Bailey heard.

• Driver seen 'to stumble' banned

  A 61-YEAR-OLD man caught almost twice the limit was stumbling and struggling to lock his car door, a court was told.

• Terror of man, 88, with a burglar in room

  A PENSIONER today spoke of the terrifying moment he woke in the middle of the night to find a burglar in the room.

• Daniel: Family has not given up hope

  POLICE are continuing the search for former Burnley youngster Daniel Entwistle who disappeared almost two weeks ago.

• £3m boost for drugs budget

  BURY'S health bosses have promised a £3 million boost for the town's patients.

• Daredevil Derek does it for the Rascals

  MEMBERS of Ramsbottom Swimming Club completed a daring sponsored abseil to raise funds.

• A date with local history

  AN exhibition, which was the culmination of a local history project in Ramsbottom, attracted hundreds of people.

• Margo has my backing

  REGARDING Margo Grimshaw's article (LET, May 6) I couldn't agree with her more about Church Street, in Blackburn.

• For and against at the same time

  ONE of the claims of the British National Party is that they are not like the other 'old style' parties.

• Caught green handed

  STEVEN Stuart Charnock did a quick about turn when he turned a corner and saw police officers dealing with another matter.

• Pub's non-stop fun raises cash for hospital

  STAFF and regulars at a Blackburn pub toasted fundraising success after raising £265 to send to the Christie Hospital in Manchester.

• Jack signs up for lottery at hospice

  BLACKBURN MP and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was visiting East Lancashire Hospice today to sign up to its in-house lottery.

• Lady sings the blues

  IT was a car crash that, surprisingly, gave Dawn Hope a new lease of life.

• Raquel's-ex out to make his Mark

  THREE men in a butcher's shop surrounded by knives and mincers.

• He's a jolly good Fellows!

  GRAHAM Fellows' newest character is a nouveau riche concreter called Dave Tordoff.

• Homes for young are needed now

  THE housing problem facing young home hunters in the Ribble Valley is neither a new one nor one that is unique to the district.

• Safety efforts are undermined

  IN reply to your Comment and Blackburn with Darwen Mayor's outburst (LET, May 7) about teaching road safety to children, my efforts to teach my child road safety are undermined by the attitude of others.

• Grant shouldn't have boundaries

  REGARDING the report published in your paper about the distribution of grants being the possible cause of the Burnley riots.

• Vote has inflicted self-damage

  THOSE who voted for the BNP on May 1 have done considerable damage to the image and economic prospects of Burnley and damaged their own interests in the process.

• Carol is a top 'Mancunian'

  TEACHER Carol Cain has been rewarded for her dedication to the community.

• Students hand over special window

  STUDENTS of Bury College have worked on special stained glass windows to commemorate 50 years of St Bernadette's Church in Whitefield.

• Death of Muslim leader, 65

  BURY'S Muslim community is mourning the loss of one of its most prominent figures.

• Take the plunge

  IF YOU'VE always fancied trying your hand at sailing, now's the time to take the plunge.

• Best and Parky cheque it out

  SOCCER legend George Best helped TV's Michael Parkinson receive a cheque for £5000 on behalf of the Foundation for Liver Research during a charity dinner at the Grant Arms Hotel, Ramsbottom.

• Collecting

  for ME

• Sixth week of NUJ strike

  JOURNALISTS at the Bury Times Group are now into the sixth week of their strike action in support of a seven per cent pay claim.

• Mystery body

  POLICE have launched an appeal to identify a man who was found dead at the Trafford Park centre in Manchester.

• War, bigger divider than debate

  WHAT sort of hypocrite is Coun Bill Taylor? (Letters, May 1)? He speaks glibly of peace and harmony and of those who would divide through race and culture, all the while ignoring the fact that our troops occupy a foreign land by force of arms under the…

• EVENTS taking place in East Lancashire on Saturday, May 17, 2003

  A LOOK at events, from amateur theatre to rambles through our beautiful countryside.

• Do area's traders feel safer?

  MAYBE now the shopkeepers of Harle Syke who had second thoughts after they nominated the BNP candidate for their area (LET, April 29) will feel a lot better in the safe knowledge that the majority of Sykers agree with their initial decision.

• Man is killed in steam train crossing accident

  A RETIRED council worker has described how he fought desperately to save a motorist's life after an horrific collision between a train and a Land Rover on the East Lancashire railway line.

• Councillors eye rise of 3.5 per cent

  COUNCILLORS in Blackburn and Darwen are set to award themselves a 3.5 per cent increase in allowances, just 12 months after they rocketed 10 per cent.

• Lady sings the blues

  IT was a car crash that, surprisingly, gave Dawn Hope a new lease of life.

• Raquel's-ex out to make his Mark

  THREE men in a butcher's shop surrounded by knives and mincers.

• He's a jolly good Fellows!

  GRAHAM Fellows' newest character is a nouveau riche concreter called Dave Tordoff.

• Local lads have a date with five live

  THEY'RE equally at home singing The Beatles or Britney Spears.

• Blues day sets scene for festival

  FOR the first time blues fans are being treated to a Bank Holiday taster of one of the country's biggest blues festivals.

• RSPCA inspector is calling it a day

  LONG-SERVING and respected RSPCA inspector Brian Oxley has retired -- bringing an extraordinary 150 year family connection with the Society to an end.

• Facelift for park on the cards

  A FACELIFT for a popular children's park and play area is on the cards, thanks to a group of volunteers in Stacksteads.

• Banned driver's town centre mayhem

  A 22-YEAR-OLD banned driver sped his car through Darwen at over 60mph before crashing out of control and ending up on the pavement, a court heard.

• Mayor says thanks to Mystic Meg

  A DARWEN councillor has taken over as Mayor of the borough but not before his predecessor thanked Mystic Meg and TV's Pop Idol contestant Sarah Whatmore for making his year in office so memorable.

• Benefits fiddle of house claim

  A WOMAN pretended she was a tenant in a house she owned to claim £5,775 in benefits.

• Jury to retire in detective murder bid trial

  THE jury in the trial of a former Blackburn detective accused of trying to kill his wife after discovering she was having an affair must be convinced he intended to do it if they were to convict him of attempted murder, a judge told a court.

• Brown issues warning to players

  IT might be all quiet on the pitch, but Preston boss Craig Brown faces a busy summer behind the scenes as he plots a promotion pushing new season.

• Shabba's season shines!

  HIS team mates back at Deepdale might have cleared off to sunnier climes, but Mark Rankine is still in the thick of footballing things.

• Fogarty looking for improvement

  CARL Fogarty and his Foggy Petronas Racing team continue the fast-track development of the FP1 when the World Superbike championship returns to Europe for round four at the historic circuit of Monza, in Italy this weekend.

• Squaddies return to heroes' welcome

  FAMILIES across East Lancashire were celebrating today as the first troops began to arrive home from duty in Iraq.

• Slip road driver's strange behaviour

  THE wife of a man who drove the wrong way up a motorway slip road told an inquest he had been behaving strangely in the days leading up to his death.

• Waste left in street 'a danger'

  A TEENAGE mother today demanded to know why rubbish labelled as clinical waste was left in a residential street for more than a week.

• Police to run new surgeries for public

  BEAT bobbies are to stage appointment-based surgeries in a bid to prevent problems being lost through a call-centre system.

• Neighbours rescue man from flat blaze

  NEIGHBOURS rescued a man from a blazing flat as firefighters tackled two electrical fires in a building earlier today.

• Plea for anti-social order on girl rejected

  MAGISTRATES have rejected a bid to have a teenage prostitute banned from Blackburn's red light district under the terms of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order.

• Expert biker's battle for life after crash

  A MOTORCYCLE instructor suffered serious injuries when his bike was hit by another rider on a remote moorland road.

• BNP 'won't win a seat'

  A LIB-DEM councillor today issued a stark reply to potential BNP candidates in Darwen.

• Local lads have a date with five live

  THEY'RE equally at home singing The Beatles or Britney Spears.

• Shop sale rap for council's leader

  THE new leader of Hyndburn Council has been criticised for selling a clothes store to a national off-licence chain.

• Mecca crook on the run

  A CROOKED businessman who stole £150,000 saved by Muslims for pilgrimages to Mecca was on the run today.

• I'll sue over green belt land dispute

  A BUSINESSMAN says he will sue the council over a row about whether his premises are on green belt land.

• U-turn over mayor choice

  HYNDBURN'S Labour group has done a massive U-turn in the row over who will be the borough's next mayor, accepting the ruling Conservative group's nomination.

• Syd's set to face Tarrant

  AN ACCRINGTON man will appear on television's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire tomorrow on his way to winning thousands of pounds.

• Council on red alert for Stanley party

  HYNDBURN Council wants Accrington to grind to a halt next week when Stanley's football heroes are guests of honour at a ceremony to mark their promotion.

• Five years ago

  FACE-PAINTING and biscuit-making were all part of the fun as a Blackburn nursery celebrated its seventh birthday.

• Ten years ago

  BAD weather put a damper on Pendle croquet club's open demonstration for National Croquet Day.

• Lib Dems opt out of top committee

  COUNCILLORS in Pendle's Liberal Democrat group refused to place any councillors on the borough's executive committee -- despite 44 per cent of voters supporting the group at the recent elections.

• A welcome on the mat in Accrington

  ACCRINGTON'S bid to attract tourists has received a massive boost after securing £77,000 of European cash.

• Valley of the price crisis kids

  YOUNG people are quitting cash-rich Ribble Valley because they can no longer afford to live there.

• Life for rejected wife

  A BURNLEY woman who burst into a beauty salon and shot her love rival dead has been found guilty of murder.

• Blues day sets scene for festival

  FOR the first time blues fans are being treated to a Bank Holiday taster of one of the country's biggest blues festivals.

• Chief's appeal to the fans

  BLACKBURN Rovers chief executive John Williams today urged fans to get to Ewood on Sunday to show their support for Simon Garner -- and Graeme Souness's UEFA Cup-bound heroes.

• Ternent to wheel and deal

  STAN Ternent is gearing up for a summer of wheeling and dealing as he tries to rebuild his depleted squad.

• Student choked on drug

  THE death of a talented young Bury man dedicated to helping others was a message to others of the risks of dabbling in drugs to any degree, a coroner said.

• Gangland 'Mr Big' is jailed for eight years

  AN underworld "Mr Big" is being linked to two unsolved gangland murders as he begins an eight-year jail term for extortion.

• Harris gets house in order

  AUSTRALIAN import Ryan Harris has finally found the form he hopes will lift Lowerhouse up the Lancashire League.

• Wary f Whalley return

  TERRY Braithwaite is hoping his Ribblesdale Wanderers team can bounce straight back up from the knock-out blows Russell Whalley delivered to them last Saturday.

• Accrington in surprise mode again

  THE pretenders to the throne take on the side that has made the Lancashire League crown their own for the past three years tomorrow.

• Ternent to wheel and deal

  STAN Ternent is gearing up for a summer of wheeling and dealing as he tries to rebuild his depleted squad.

• CD reviews

  A LOOK at the new releases on the music scene.

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