WE are not terrorists yet we are under virtual house arrest. The 'we' refers to pensioners, who have done nothing wrong but are penalised by a Labour government that 'says all and does nowt.' Council tax already takes up to one third of a married couple's
A Bury air trooper had no slip-ups when he contested the Army Air Corps Junior Skiing championships. For Stephen Johnson (19), a former pupil of St Gabriels High School, won the title at a recent ski meeting in Austria. Stephen took up the sport last
TWO Bury men have completed a mountainous task to raise £5,500 for the charity Scope. Toby Partington and Michael Fish have just returned from Tanzania where they climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, walking through rainforest, African savannah and barren moonscapes
PEOPLE convicted of domestic violence face losing their homes under a new get-tough policy drawn up by one of East Lancashire's largest landlords. Twin Valley Homes has told tenants in its 10,000 former council homes across Blackburn and Darwen that it
TAMWORTH 0 LEIGH RMI 1: RMI secured only their second victory of the season thanks to Mark Peers' stoppage time winner. Peers turned in Neil Gibson's left-wing cross to earn the Conference whipping boys their first win since September. RMI made a lightning-fast
A BURNLEY solicitor has been found guilty of breaking accounts rules after being connected to an immigration advisor jailed for a passport scandal. Munsif Mirza, 68, of Stafford Street, was fined £1,000 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. He did
PENDLE shoppers can enter into the spirit of fair trade next month by trying honey ale and white rum. Co-op stores in Earby and Brierfield are encouraging their customers to sample Fairtrade foods which guarantee producers in developing countries a minimum
FORWARD thinking Burnley boss Steve Cotterill wants to jump the queues and start his summer rebuilding in the springtime! Cotterill does not intend to hang around in spending some of the £4million raised from what he describes as a "remarkable season"
PROBLEMS posed by a larger neighbour were aired when Fishpool Residents Association held its first public meeting. Up to 60 people turned up at Fishpool Community Centre in Horne Street, where a range of topics were up for debate. Among the invited guests
THE following plans have been submitted to Bury Council: 67 Lord Street, Bury: Change of use of ground floor from Amusement Arcade to Class A3 sweet house and hot food provision; 26 Silver Street, Bury: Installation of seven air conditioning systems,
AMIR Khan has carried out a threat to pull out of his ABA Senior Championships bout on Saturday after a row over ticketing. Khan had been due to face Canvey's John Martin at the 800-capacity Ocean Rooms in Lowestoft, but was offered just 10 tickets by
A SCHOOLBOY given the kiss of life after being knocked down by a car is now recovering well at home. Karl Greenwood Morris, 10, sustained head and abdominal injuries when he was struck by a Nissan Sunny as he played outside his grandfather's home in Sumner
PLANNERS today admitted for the first time that a town centre coffee shop they spent a year trying to shut down has improved Blackburn. They claim in a new report that Puccino's, in King William Street, adds to the 'vitality' of Blackburn town centre
THE answer to the eternal question "who ate all the pies?" has finally been revealed. A survey by East Lancashire family bakers, Oddie's, to celebrate its centenary, aimed to find out how local tastes have changed over the last 100 years. And it has cooked
BURNLEY Burnley Ladies Speakers Club, Nelson House, Nelson Square, 7.30pm. Hot Yoga, The Keirby Park Hotel, 1pm-2pm. Social Afternoon, Winchester Club, Hapton, 12.30pm-4pm. Pension Service Advice Surgery, Padiham Town Hall, 10.30am-12.30pm. Third Thursday
TO those who, like myself, are angry at the government for the Iraq issue and are thinking of voting Lib-Dem as a protest vote. I urge you to check what exactly the Lib-Dems stand for, in particular care over policies on crime, immigration and Europe.
CHARITY began at home for a Co-op boss living in Bury. Bill Hoult, president of United Co-operatives, was at Oxfam's Union Street branch to find out more about sustainable aid and building a better future. The visit was arranged when his group made a
A WOMAN has been charged in connection with the alleged murder of her stepfather. Dawn Pinches, 37, has been charged with assisting an offender following the death of John Russell, who was allegedly stabbed to death at his Narvik Avenue home in Burnley
THE answer to the eternal question "who ate all the pies?" has finally been revealed. A survey by East Lancashire family bakers, Oddie's, to celebrate its centenary, aimed to find out how local tastes have changed over the last 100 years. And it has cooked
CHRIS Hindle marks his 16th birthday today -- by taking to the skies for his first solo flight. Chris, of Showley Road, Clayton-le-Dale, was due to undertake the light aircraft journey this morning. Then after dark he is due to make his first solo night
STEVE Cotterill plans to wave Gary Cahill back to Aston Villa in the summer with the message: Go and become a Premiership star. Rookie defender Cahill, 19, has been a revelation at Turf Moor since making his senior debut just three months ago. The loan
ROSSENDALE'S MP has vowed to take the plight of a local action group fighting the development of a waste reprocessing centre to Westminster. MP Janet Anderson and Rossendale's Labour group leader David Hancock have both pledged their support to Bacup's
I WAS shocked and disappointed to learn that the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London was open again. Who sanctioned the re-opening of this den of terror, after all the proof of terrorist activity found there. And why was the Muslim cleric Abu Abdullah
COUNCILLOR Dorothy Gunther referred in her recent letter to the level of government grant given to Bury. In the last year of the last Tory Government Bury's grant was cut by one per cent. Under Labour there have been annual increases of 8, 5, 4.5, 2.5
TWO separate and differing correspondents (Letters, February 4) directed attention to the gradual and insidious reduction of traditional British freedoms. Innocent until proven guilty no longer seems to apply and the Establishment is hell-bent on removing
THE recent announcement that the Labour Party is to hold its annual October conference in Manchester may be welcomed by many Labour Party activists in the city, but the news is likely to be bad for the long-suffering taxpayers of this and the other Greater
I WRITE in respect of HMS Protector, a former net-layer commissioned in 1938 and which saw wartime service in Norway and the Eastern Mediterranean in 1941. She was damaged by a torpedo and later used as a training ship. In 1954 she underwent a conversion
I THANK Ian Harrop for his reply (Letters, February 4) to my earlier comments about Bury FC's cash problems, but I was not carping about the present directors but the ones who we know were previously on the pay roll. Also, Mr Harrop omitted to say why
I AM in agreement with the nurse from Fairfield Hospital who expressed concerns regarding security on the car parks there (Letters, February 4). On January 26 I parked at Fairfield to collect a prescription for my husband. I was in the hospital only half
CENTURIONS coach Darren Abram was even more disappointed than he had been the previous week after his side crashed to their second Super League defeat of the season. "This game was there for the taking and we didn't accept it," he said of the 26-22 defeat
A BURY woman was the victim of a vicious sex attack after getting into a taxi at the end of a night out in Manchester city centre. The 31-year-old woman was driven to Trafford Park and subjected to an indecent assault by two men who had jumped into the
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IN an article in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph (Feb 15), it was stated that Lancashire had the worst record of speeding -- caught by cameras-- in the country. It would be interesting to see statistics as to how many cameras there are in all parts of
TONY Blair made six pledges that families will fare better if he is re-elected as our PM. Do I hear a seventh pledge for the pensioners of this country? They might as well be invisible as no one up to press has given them a mention. If nothing is in the
A night out ended in embarrassment for a Bury woman who had to call firefighters to free her from a pair of handcuffs. The reveller, in her 20s, had carried the cuffs with her during her Saturday night out with friends. But later, she clipped them around
TALKS on the future of waste collection and recycling in Burnley are set to start in a bid to solve the borough's waste problems, council bosses have revealed. Current firm Biffa's contract runs out in March 2007 and preparations to re-tender the service
RUSHDEN & DIAMONDS 3, SHAKERS 0: Three first-half goals condemned Shakers to defeat against relegation-threatened Rushden. Rushden scored their trio in a 14-minute period. On-loan Billy Sharp was on hand to knock home a loose ball following a goalmouth
PENDLE shoppers can enter into the spirit of fair trade next month by trying honey ale and white rum. Co-op stores in Earby and Brierfield are encouraging their customers to sample Fairtrade foods which guarantee producers in developing countries a minimum
POLICE in Colne today said they were "very fearful" for the safety a pensioner missing in the freezing cold conditions for two days. Rennie Grimshaw, 72, was last seen near his home in the Burnley Road area of Colne at 10am on Monday, February 21. Intensive
HYNDBURN Council looks set to increase its share of the council tax by 8.2 per cent. But its leader, Coun Peter Britcliffe, said services still had to be cut to keep the rise as low as possible. The authority will finalise its budget at a meeting of the
POLICE in the Ribble Valley have warned owners of expensive sports cars to hide their keys after a £55,000 Audi RS6 was stolen. Thieves took the car from the garage of a detached house in Downham Road, Chatburn, after getting in through an unlocked door
TWO Clitheroe teachers have set up the Ribble Valley's first running club solely for women. Designed to help women who are juggling careers and children to get in shape, the club holds its first meeting next month. Organisers hope the group will also
THREE men had to be taken to hospital after a three-car smash on the A59. The crash close to the turn-off for Sabden and Pendleton, which happened just before 4pm, caused hours of chaos on the roads around Clitheroe, with motorists diverted through the
THE Bolton and Bury and District Junior Football League are looking for more girls' teams to enter next years competition. The league runs competitions from under-10s to under-13s, and would be happy to fix individual players up with a team. All sides
BURY Under-15s lost ground in the Greater Manchester Schools' League when they went down 4-1 to Stockport at Hillcrest Playing Fields. The town team, who were hoping to record their third win in a row, went behind after 22 minutes when James Poole scored
BLACKBURN Rovers striker Paul Dickov is facing a race against time to be fit for next week's FA Cup replay with Burnley at Ewood. The Scotland international, who is Rovers' leading scorer this season with nine goals, aggravated a groin injury during Sunday's
AMIR Khan has threatened to pull out of his ABA Senior Championships bout on Saturday after a row over ticketing. Khan had been due to face Canvey's John Martin at the 800-capacity Ocean Rooms in Lowestoft, but was offered just 10 tickets by organisers
A NIGHT CLUB has received national recognition for its work to reduce alcohol-related incidents and provide a safe place for customers. Bosses at The Roxy, in Market Street, Darwen, have also listened to customers' wishes by reverting to its original
RADCLIFFE BORO 2, MARINE 2: Steve Foster's 26th goal of the season was enough to earn a deserved point for Radcliffe Borough. The Boro hitman struck in the 89th minute to give his side a share of the spoils, but for so long it looked like Lady Luck would
STRESSED and depressed binmen, gardeners and street cleaners are sending a council's sick-rate soaring. A rise in the number of staff within Blackburn with Darwen Council's direct services department going off on long-term sick leave is being blamed for
CHRIS Hindle marks his 16th birthday today -- by taking to the skies for his first solo flight. Chris, of Showley Road, Clayton-le-Dale, was due to undertake the light aircraft journey this morning. Then after dark he is due to make his first solo night
MPs today demanded that more information is given to parents in a bid to prevent another toddler dying while being cared for by a childminder. The call came as Joshua Massey-Hodgkinson's mother was told the Ofsted-registered childminder who admitted the
IT is certainly time that this Government clamped down on the thousands of scrounging benefit cheats and saved the hard-working taxpayer a lot of money. However, this should all have been sorted out long ago and it is funny that the Government is checking
I WAS extremely concerned to see that the Tory party is claiming, in an article on its website, that "the simple fact is that there is absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever that passive smoking has ever killed anyone". It is difficult to imagine
SO far this winter my daughter has had her sledge out for just a couple of hours. With global warming it will soon be staying in the shed all year round. The coming into force of the Kyoto Protocol is a very small step forward. The targets for cutting
BBC TV's Super League Show is starting a new item called "Rugby League Rant" each week. "Rugby League Rant" offers fans the opportunity to have their say by recording themselves talking about any issues in the game and then e-mailing the clips to the
