BEN the budgie is looking for a new home -- with his other feathered friend. The cute cobalt blue bird is currently at the RSPCA animal shelter in Altham. But they will only rehome him with his friend Rosie, a mature green-and-yellow budgerigar. If you
SOMETIMES my job gets to me. Today, William lay in his coffin and nobody cried. As I pressed the button to close the crematorium curtains, there were just three care home staff and me. We tried our best, but it was so sad. Driving home, there came to
HAVING bought a new system from Time Computers I found a slight fault in the speakers and phoned them. I took the base unit on the Monday to their factory and collected it, repaired, on the Wednesday morning. This is excellent service. Well done Time!
MANY readers are probably unaware of the distressing fact that millions of animals killed every year have their throats cut in slaughterhouses while fully conscious -- and it is legal. Animals killed for Muslim halal and Jewish kosher meat are exempt
A CROOKED businessman who helped himself to £150,000 saved by Muslims for once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimages to Mecca was today starting a three-year jail term. Convicted conman Mohammed Adris, 31, cheated more than 200 people, many from Blackburn, Burnley
LEIGH ground out a result in this Lancashire Cup tie but too many silly penalties could cost them against top opposition. Middleton-Adams scored twice in the first half after forceful runs, Rushworth converting one. In the second half Middleton-Adams
HARPAL Singh's dislocated shoulder will keep him out of Bury's line-up for the next three months. The on-loan Leeds winger will enter hospital next week for shoulder reconstruction surgery. The news is a sickener for the Bradford-born winger and for Shakers
AN EQUINE celebrity rode into Brierfield last night to switch on the town's Christmas lights. Excalibur, Lancashire Police's longest-serving police horse, received a hero's welcome on his return to the town, after being injured there on duty earlier this
A COLNE mum said she is scared to send her son to school after he was assaulted twice in less than 18 months. Pam Catlow was called up to Park County High School, Colne, on Thursday afternoon by a teacher who said her 12-year-old son Jack Wilson had been
A HEADTEACHER has asked the community to dig deep as her school faces a race against time to raise £50,000 for a specialist college bid. And her pleas have been echoed by the leader of Hyndburn's business community. Denise Parkinson, headteacher at Norden
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 BLACKBURN: 10am-1pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road; 10.30am-4.30pm: Superdrug Pharmacy, 5 Stonybutts; noon-1pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road. DARWEN: noon-1pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 11 Church Street. ACCRINGTON: 11am-1pm: Lloyds
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohens Chemist, 63 Whalley Range; To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 6.30pm: Donald Wood Ltd, 53 Fishmoor Drive
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: Moss Pharmacy, 314 Bolton Road; The Pharmacy, Oakenhurst
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; The Surgery (Chiropody), 132 Lammack Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: The
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: Moss Pharmacy, 314 Bolton Road; The Pharmacy, Oakenhurst
A CENTRE of excellence for performing arts has been opened in the Ribble Valley. The Schiller Academy of Performing Arts will offer the principal disciplines of singing, drama and dance along with a comprehensive education of what goes in the performing
LEIGH MP Andy Burnham's Saturday (November 15) surgeries are at Hindley Leisure Centre, Mornington Road, from 9.30am to 10.45am. Alos at the Leigh Advice Centre, Market Street, from 12noon to 1pm.
GOLBORNE Brass Band will lead the singing at Lowton, Golborne and Ashton Mencap Society community carol concert being held from 7.30pm on Wednesday, December 10 at Lowton Civic Hall. Pipes and drums of the Manchester Branch of the Scots Guards Association
BEDFORD High School students have come to the rescue of a fund-raising cancer group. They have stepped in to host a Christmas concert on December 15 to boost the Wigan and Leigh branch of Christies Against Cancer's fund-raising efforts after the event
Waterhead16 Golborne Parkside U18s 20: GOLBORNE reached the semi finals of the BARLA Lancashire Cup with a tough win over Oldham side Waterhead. They went 6 - 0 down in the early stages but a try from Chris Renolds and a touchline conversion from Stuart
GOLBORNE gained sweet revenge for their only defeat so far this season with a 13-4 win over Thatto Heath. The St Helens team contained several first team National League players but Golborne reached the last 16 of the NWC Bowl after a cracking game which
Eccleston UGB 18 Golborne Parkside A 19: GOLBORNE pulled of one of the biggest shocks of the round when they joined their first team in the last 16 of the NWC Bowl with an incredible team performance against a team two divisions higher. The win was even
MP ANDY Burnham said it was a "huge honour" to become the new chairman of Leigh Centurions -- but stressed to fans he would have no involvement in the day to day decisions of the club. The Leigh MP was unveiled to fans at Hilton Park last Sunday as the
WORKING men's clubs in Rossendale are being warned to be on their guard against a conman claiming to be a plumber. The man has targeted two clubs in the valley in the past week, fleecing one out of £150 for work which was never carried out. He approached
MORE than 60 former pupils of a Rawtenstall School returned for a special prizegiving. The students, who all left All Saints Catholic Language College in the summer after taking their GCSEs, collected their exam certificates and some took home special
IT should have been the trip of a lifetime for 170 devout Muslims. They put their trust in Mohammed Adris to book them on a pilgrimage to Mecca for the Hajj festival through his company, Umrah Visa Agency, which was based in Charter Street, Accrington
A DISABLED pensioner has called for additional security at a Blackburn supermarket after her purse was stolen from her shopping bag. Teresa Marie Smith, 67, who is diabetic and has undergone a triple heart by-pass, had her purse containing £300 in cash
POLICE officers investigating the discovery of a mystery woman's body in woodland in Middlesex have been contacted by concerned callers in the North West. The remains of the woman - who may have lived in Blackburn or Chorley in the past few years - were
POLICE have urged housing bosses to move a mother-of-four into a new home after she was targeted by burglars and yobs. The woman, too terrified to reveal her identity, has pleaded for Twin Valley Homes to take her away from the Galligreaves area of Blackburn
A SCHOOL where pupils have been taught in temporary accommodation since the 1980s has been given a £300,000 makeover. Pupils and staff at Constable Lee St Paul's CofE Primary School have been working in portable cabins for the past 20 years. Funding from
A CROOKED businessman who helped himself to £150,000 saved by Muslims for once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimages to Mecca was today starting a three-year jail term. Convicted conman Mohammed Adris, 31, cheated more than 200 people, many from Blackburn, Burnley
City of love torn apart by terror I FIRST heard of the bombs in Istanbul through the television news, showing scenes of terrible destruction and carnage. Beautiful areas of the ancient city have been reduced to rubble, barely any distance at all from
A TEENAGER facing execution if he is convicted of smuggling drugs to Thailand is due to appear in court again on Monday. Michael Connell, of Kestrel Drive, Bury, has indicated he will admit the offence, even though he continues to protest his innocence
A LOOK at events, from amateur theatre to rambles through our beautiful countryside. SUNDAY Craft Fair, Pendle Hippodrome Theatre, Colne, 10am-5pm. Antiques Fair, organised by Inner Wheel Club of Ribblesdale, Village Hall, West Bradford, 10am-4pm. Proceeds
THE Newsletter of Little Harwood Labour Party dropped through my door and I smiled to myself as I read it. It said our local Labour councillors were dealing with many problems in our area. We have had these problems for many years and have asked our Labour
THE visit of George Bush provides the best argument I know for early adoption of the draft European constitution. Caring not a jot for international agreements, whether about arms control, trade or global warming, Bush has made it very clear that he wants
I READ with incredulity your 'comment' (LET October 22), regarding detection rates for Lancashire Police. Is it any wonder 58 per cent of our citizens are dissatisfied with our constabulary? We were told speed cameras would free-up manpower, only to find
A DECISION to save a town centre tree from the chop has been met with anger by shopping centre bosses. The 40ft-tall Turkish hazel in the middle of the Charter Walk Shopping Centre was due to be felled in August after shopping centre managers claimed
BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness is planning to raid the January sales in a bid to beef up his injury-hit squad in preparation for the second half of the season. Souness has seen his resources decimated by injuries to Lorenzo Amoruso, David Thompson and
TEACHERS at Burnley's Barden school re-lived their youth by dressing up as schoolboys in aid of the Children in Need Appeal. The event was just one of dozens which took place on a frantic day of fundraising by enthusiastic volunteers throughout Burnley
A DECISION to save a town centre tree from the chop has been met with anger by shopping centre bosses. The 40ft-tall Turkish hazel in the middle of the Charter Walk Shopping Centre was due to be felled in August after shopping centre managers claimed
CHILDREN at a Nelson school became enthralled by the spoken word when Rossendale poet Ian Bland dropped in during book week. Ian ran workshops at the school for children aged four to 11 with the aim of helping them understand and write their own poetry
DOG wardens and parking attendants in Pendle could be among those given new powers as part of a bid to combat crime and disorder. Pendle Council has been chosen by Lancashire Police to pilot the new Community Safety Accreditation scheme. The Police Reform
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: The Pharmacy, Oakenhurst Road; Geloo Bros, Cleaver
A MOTORIST who drove to Hurst Green to visit friends crashed into a tree on his way back to Sabden, a court was told. Blackburn magistrates heard that Simon John Tipton,21, was found in a nearby field and a subsequent breathalyser test showed he was more
BIRDMAN Gordon Yates will give a talk on Sea Bird Summer and Birds of the Pennine Forest to Leigh Literary Society on Monday, December 1, at 7.30pm in the Derby Room, Leigh Library. Non-members £1.50.
AROUND 40 children from the reception class of St Edward's RC Primary School in Darwen have been given an insight into the medical world. The youngsters discovered what it would be like to become a nurse or a dental nurse when they left school, during
A BREWSTERS family restaurant and a 43-bedroom Travel Inn is to be opened just off the M65, creating 70 full and part-time jobs. Whitbread Group plc, the leisure business, plans to open the £3million development at Oakenhurst Farm, Blackburn, next April
DENTAL experts have been called to a debate on water fluoridation which is due to broadcast over the internet. Lancashire County Council is holding the debate at County Hall on Monday and residents can tune in to watch it live. The Strategic Health Authority
CIVIC dignitaries tearing around Blackburn Cathedral grounds was just one of the many events East Lancashire people held to help raise money for Children in Need. All the mayors from boroughs across the area took part in a sponsored egg and spoon around
