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THE pained life of Billie Holiday is brought to the Library Theatre with a dash of style, dark humour and sparkling songs.
A LEADING international operatic soprano is to tell the truth about her life to a Lancaster audience next week.
POLICE are appealing for a quick response from witnesses as they hunt a flasher who hides behind joke-shop masks and balaclavas.
THE 2003 series of summer lunchtime concerts in St John's Church, Chapel Street, Lancaster gets under way next Thursday, June 5.
PENSIONERS were put on alert today after a woman dressed as a nurse conned her way into pensioners' homes and stole their cash.
ONE of the biggest issues of recent times - the proposed Heysham to M6 link road - tops a county council list of priorities for transport in the area.
TOWN hall bosses have rubber-stamped a new policy aimed at curing Burnley Council's sickness blues.
THE Mayor of Padiham, Councillor Bob Clark and the Mayoress Mrs Hazel Rushton are to attend the Mayor of Burnley's Civic Church Celebration at St Augustine's at 10.30am on Sunday, June 1.
PATIENTS awaiting hip or knee replacements operations are invited to volunteer for a £2million surgery blitz to slash waiting lists.
THERE'LL be Fuzzyluv at The Waterfront Bar in Morecambe tomorrow (Friday) with a night of drum 'n' bass as a warm up to June's 'Urban Disturbance' Skate Festival.
PLANS to expand a village school resulted in a head-on confron-tation between city planners and residents this week.
A LANCASTER antiques centre had one of its biggest customers over the Bank Holiday - when an escaped bull sought refuge among the aisles.
COMMUNITY groups throughout East Lancashire, which are the focus of our first Pride of East Lancashire Award, fulfil a wide range of criteria.
LIBERAL Democrat Councillor Alan Davies has agreed to take up his role as leader of Pendle Council after threatening to resign over the political make-up of the Executive committee two weeks ago.
OUTLINE plans to build a five-storey block of 21 apartments and two penthouses in Barrowford look likely to be refused next week by West Craven Committee.
HERE's how East Lancashire typically celebrated the Coronation 50 years ago -- with a street party.
THE recent blaze at the Leamington Road, Blackburn, factory/garage was a tragedy for everyone involved.
THE top of Clarence Street, in Darwen, next to A and B scrap yard takes some beating for fly tipping -- there are wardrobes, fridges, mattresses and building materials, to name only a few items.
PENDLE Council could take action to remove an advertisement sign which has been put up near the new Fountains development, off Harry Street, Barrowford, without permission.
ANGRY pensioners are ready to revolt over new home care charges - claiming they cannot afford the price hike.
A BURNLEY councillor is calling on dog walkers to clean up after a bridleway in his ward has become known as "dog dirt alley".
A HGV driver who repeatedly phoned his ex-girlfriend after being banned from contacting her, is awaiting sentence.
OBVIOUSLY, Mrs Hazel Hamer (Letters, May 22) has not got a clue about the successful community CCTV schemes already operating in Blackburn and Darwen.
BLACKBURN with Darwen's ruling Labour councillors have yet again allocated themselves an inflation-busting rise in allowances -- of 3.5 per cent (LET, May 20).
WHILE I would defend Roy Davies' (Letters, May 22) right to bemoan the lot of Darwen folk when it comes to getting their fair share of available resources, I feel compelled to put the record straight regarding the funding for the Fleming Square…
ON May 15, I had the misfortune to be in the "non-flow" of traffic between the traffic lights at Plantation Street/Manchester Road (Eastgate) and the junction of Eastgate and Whalley Road in Accrington.
TWELVE years ago when Blackburn Council's cleansing department was close to being privatised, the council won the day with promises that all streets in Darwen and Blackburn would be swept once a week and back streets once a month. (Dream on).
J PILKINGTON (Letters, May 25) wishes to know why the BNP's recent council seat gains have caused fuss and condemnation.
I READ Margo Grimshaw's column with interest every Tuesday, not just because we were brought up in the same street in Feniscowles many years ago, but because we seem to think in the same vein about Blackburn.
WHAT a nice gesture by the Liberal-Democrats on Blackburn with Darwen Council to give their increased allowance back to charity (LET, May 20).
IT seems the grass cutting department at Blackburn Town Hall is up to its usual tricks. The council promise to give 13 cuts per year between mid-March and October to each grassed area, but I don't know of any area in the Mill Hill district which has had…
REGARDING the ludicrous decision of the so-called Council of the Year to force a businessman to close down because he is providing a service rather than retail goods.
A MYSTERY 62-year-old Leigh woman hit the bank holiday bingo jackpot by winning £102,000.
A FATHER of three claiming benefits because he said he was incapable of working was earning cash as a plumber, a court was told.
AC Milan take the European Champions League crown after a tense penalty shoot-out with Juventus at Old Trafford... read the minute by minute action here.
BIRMINGHAM boss Steve Bruce is happy to play the waiting game in his quest to land David Dunn.
BLACKBURN Rovers have been given a massive boost ahead of next season as keeper Brad Friedel has pulled out of the USA squad.
RECORD-BREAKING full-back Neil Turley puts his injury nightmare behind him this weekend with a Hilton Park comeback game against Doncaster Dragons.
LIKE most 82 year olds, Sigrid Green appears to live a simple life at home in Darwen with her companion and dog, Barney, and is no longer in the best of health.
A BURY man accused of causing £10,000 worth of damage in the home of a former friend has been committed by Rochdale magistrates to stand trial at the Crown Court.
A LOOK at events, from amateur theatre to rambles through our beautiful countryside.
RADCLIFFE-born songwriter Martin Isherwood has hit back at critics after his Eurovision entry scored the dreaded nil points.
AFTER serving up countless portions of fish suppers, popular fryer Steve Ramsbottom has quite literally had his chips.
A PROLIFIC car criminal who looked set to become the first Rossendale adult to be given an Anti Social Behaviour Order has been jailed instead.
THREE walks organised as part of a scheme to improve fitness will be held in the first week in June.
THE Sure Start organisation in Bacup and Stacksteads have appointed a co-ordinator for training, employment and child-care.
CAMPAIGNERS living near Darwen's M65 service station could finally clinch victory in their crusade to get a footpath closed.
A MAN who caused "dreadful" facial injuries when he attacked someone with an ashtray has been jailed for 18 months.
BURNLEY chairman Barry Kilby is ready to dig deep again to boost Stan Ternent's fighting fund.
A MOTORCYCLIST on a whistle stop tour of all 160 hospices around Great Britain dropped into Blackburn.
TRAIN passengers using a scenic route will have the opportunity to raise funds for a children's hospice on Sunday.
THE former leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council has been appointed to the board of the area's primary care health trust.
BURY is among the country's elite when it comes to passing on money to the borough's schools.
ACCRINGTON Stanley have already sold a record number of season tickets, despite them only being on sale for less than four weeks.
HOURS after quake-ravaged Algeria was rocked by a strong aftershock, Lancashire dog handlers have called on quarantine restrictions to be changed so they can stay on red alert.
THE woman who wants to open East Lancashires first lap-dancing bar has revealed it will have male dancers, too.
A DERELICT Blackburn landmark gutted in an arson attack is to be saved, heritage experts have decided.
A LEADING psychiatrist behind a shocking new report which links the closure of care homes to the deaths of elderly people has been enlisted to advise Lancashire County Council.
A TORY councillor who was urged to quit by his party leader after he moved out of the area has clung on to his party membership.
BRUMMIES are being targeted in the latest drive to get more tourists into Lancashire.
SUMMER never seems long enough nowadays. No sooner have you parked yourself on a beach somewhere, than its time to come back and report for pre-season training.
CHRIS Davies MEP claims that 'changes are unlikely to be huge' as a result of the proposed European Convention (Citizen letters, May 22).
IT'S okay for us to be told by Dr Nigel Carter that we need to get regular treatment at our dentist (Citizen, last week) - but has he tried to get one in the area. They are all private and out of reach of many people.
WORKERS at a Great Harwood engineering plant have voted to go on strike to demand a pay rise.
THE British National Party are targeting key wards in Hyndburn in preparation for next year's local elections, it has been revealed.
THE leader of a borough council has denied rumours that he will be doing away with letting the public directly question the Cabinet.
RESIDENTS in Oswaldtwistle still have a chance to have their say on the local environment and how to improve it.
LOWTON families are being offered the chance to form a self-help group.
NORWEGIAN fans of Accrington Stanley received a flying visit from their heroes.
FOOTBALL mad Matthew Hanson wasthe envy of millions of other children when he took to the pitch at Old Trafford before the Champions League final last night.
REGARDING Charles Jardine's recent sentiments on the science surrounding fish and pain, he fails to note that there has been scientific work done in this field for 30 years and that pretty much all of it has supported the fact that fish feel pain.
RESIDENTS and businesses in Whalley have launched a campaign to get high speed internet access in their village.
LANCASTER'S newest rugby team is preparing to take on some of the game's toughest teams when the York Nines Tournament kicks off next month.
AM I about to lose my job to a German? After all, (a) there is a proposal for a European "Foreign Minister"; (b) some say that a German will get the position.
LANCASTER City's new boss Phil Wilson is confident he can bring the good old winning days back to the Giant Axe.
MORECAMBE boss Jim Harvey is warning ambitious Nationwide Conference rivals to stay away from his stars.
A FORMER Bowerham woman has been named as the Sussex 'Sportswoman of the Year'.
ANTI-EUROPEANS peddling myths and falsehoods about Europe in your letter pages is sadly to be expected, but their continual packaging of them in the Union flag has frankly become nauseating.
YOUR correspondent R Conway (Letters, May 22) obviously does not know much about taxis.
ROBBIE Williams sent fans wild at a concert in Blackburn's King George's Hall.
