THE battle to make people safe on our roads is one which has to be fought on a number of levels. But today it appears that the Government has taken its eye off the ball when it comes to the fatal habit of drink-driving - especially when it comes to young
I WAS interested to read the two letters on pavement parking (LET, September 24). I have been a councillor since June of last year and parking on pavements is one thing I hoped to be able to stop. I have raised this problem at meetings with the local
FOR any persons who may be interested, St James Church, St James Road, Hole-in-the-Wall, Blackburn is beginning a 12-week Alpha course in the vicarage behind the church, starting on Wednesday at 7.30pm, for approximately two hours. The Alpha course is
AS long as I am leader of Hyndburn Borough Council and as long as the Conservative group remains in control -- council car parks will be free of charge. We have abolished the disc scheme because it has created problems over the years, not least for people
JUST thought I'd write following the article 'We'll Be Jewel of East Lancs" (LET, Monday, September 26) and the words of our Councillor of Regeneration Andy Kay! He said: "Preserving our heritage is very important to us. When we laid down the criteria
Ambitious plans for a new golf course and fishing complex have been approved by planning chiefs. Members of Chorley Borough Council's development control committee met at the Town Hall to discuss a Withnell resident's proposals to build a nine-hole golf
A crackdown on anti-social behaviour has been launched by police in Chorley in a bid to ensure a trouble-free winter. Operation Winter Nights, launched this week, will run through the winter months and aims to reduce anti-social behaviour on the town's
A singing doctor from Euxton, described as a Bengali Frank Sinatra, has cut a CD and is helping to raise cash for a clinic. Consultant paediatrician Dr Pijush Das, aged 49, is the vocalist on the new release which features a string of modern Bengali songs
Rugby player Jen Connor is celebrating after being picked to tour New Zealand with the national squad in October. Jen, 21, from Euxton was selected to play for the England women's touch rugby squad between October 18 and 31. While she is there she will
A slimmer has lost more than nine stone on a healthy eating diet - and gained £500 for it! Paul Freeman, 52, of Sheephill Lane, Clayton-le-Woods, shed nine stone, four pounds in 18 months, dropping from 23 stone, seven pounds in November 2003 to 13 stone
A notorious accident blackspot -- dubbed one of the most dangerous in the borough -- is to be the subject of a major road safety survey. The county's accident investigation and prevention team have started an in-depth study into the Blackburn Road and
IT was The Beatles who once famously sung about 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. Perhaps that should now become 4,002 after Shefki Kuqi's amazing 'swallow dive' celebrations caused the earth to tremor here at Ewood Park. The flying Finn scored his
The fells around the Scottish border will be teeming with rabbits next month - but not the kind you might expect. For five white rabbit-suited walkers are doing a charity trek along Hadrian's Wall. The group, all churchgoers from St Stephen's in Broadgate
A singing doctor, described as a Bengali Frank Sinatra, has cut a CD and is helping to raise cash for a Leyland clinic. Consultant paediatrician, Dr Pijush Das, 49, is the vocalist on the new release which features a string of modern Bengali songs. Money
Preston's University of Central Lancashire's Students' Union club has been crowned the best in the UK. The 53 Degrees club fought off tough competition to clinch first place at the prestigious Smirnoff British Entertainment and Discotheque Association
Patients in Preston and South Ribble needing hip or knee replacements could be offered treatment in Cumbria and Greater Manchester, under NHS reforms. The revelation comes as the regional health authority announced plans to carry out 4,000 orthopaedic
Preston could get a dental school at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), the Citizen can reveal. The centre, which could be open by next September, would offer 32 dental training places, one third of the additional places being made available
BURGLARS got into a Burnley book-maker's after going into an empty flat above the shop and dropping through the ceiling. They stole a cast iron safe safe and £2,700. Police said the break-in happened between midnight on Saturday and 6am yesterday. They
MORE young men than ever are putting lives at risk by drink-driving on East Lancashire's roads. Alarmed police said males between 17-25 were the worse drink-drive offenders in the region - surpassing the over 50s - and the numbers caught is set to treble
PEOPLE from across the globe queued to find out whether their collectibles were worthless bits of junk or the answer to their prayers as the Antiques Roadshow rolled into Lancaster. As the lights shone and the cameras rolled, hundreds of people packed
A LANCASTER consultant plastic surgeon at a world-renowned hospital was the victim of a race-hate campaign, a tribunal has been told. Dr Fayez El-Deeb claims he was ignored by his secretary and treated differently from white colleagues while he worked
STUDENT protestors caused 'chaos' by bursting into a high-profile university conference shouting, blowing whistles and intimidating staff, a court has heard. The so-called George Fox Six stood trial this week charged with aggravated trespass following
A NELSON club which hosted some of the top music acts in the world "spawned Beatlemania" a new book claims. Historian Steve Chapples has documented the history of the Imperial Ballroom and brought the popular club to life in a book which goes on sale
I HAVE enjoyed reading the correspondence on the letters pages between Comrade Metcalfe and Robert Segal, the one a walking, talking social and political museum piece and Mr Segal talking straightforward common sense rather than defending a discredited
PADDY Shannon and N Bliss follow Stephen Metcalfe in attacking capitalism and espousing socialism. I make the following points. First, the countries with the highest living standards are capitalist - with the exception of Scandinavia. Second, what brought
THE Citizen is to be congratulated on exclusively covering the campaign Against the Aqua Park to replace the paddling pool in Happy Mount Park. As the Cabinet Member responsible for this project I welcome the fullest debate on the issues involved. But
Hyde United 2, Lancaster City 1 LANCASTER CITY'S hopes and dreams of FA Cup glory turned into a nightmare as they crashed out at Hyde United. It was almost Jekyll and Hyde as the Dolly Blues, oozing class this season, blew it against their Conference
Morecambe 4 Stevenage Borough 1 THIS was the day when it all came right for Jim Harvey's Morecambe - and promotion rivals Stevenage were simply blown away. The Shrimps dominated midfield and played a brand of incisive attacking football that was a joy
TALK of building a 12 mile long bridge across Morecambe Bay is a waste of everybody's time. The proposed link from Heysham to Barrow in Furness has no chance of going ahead. That's the view of Green Party county councillor Chris Coates - and he reckons
Heysham gained their first points of the season to move to joint sixth in the table. Liam Hall was star of the show with a hat trick of tries, whilst the returning Russell Birkett also crossed the whitewash. Surprisingly though, against the run of play
FRANK Sinclair reeckons Burnley have set the standards for the rest of the season following their thrilling victory at Wolves. A first Molineux win in nearly 30 years sent Burnley into the two-week international break in a much healthier 15th place in
ARMY Cadets from Lancaster are the pick of the bunch locally - and have certificates and medals to prove it. The youngsters from the city's Lunesdale detachment came out on top in the annual cadet military skills competition sponsored by Lancaster Military
A YOUNGSTER has fallen to his death after plunging through the roof of a building on Lancaster's Lansil industrial estate. Paul Swales, 17, fell through the roof and died at 3.20am last Friday while with a group of other young people. Police say four
FRANK Sinclair reeckons Burnley have set the standards for the rest of the season following their thrilling victory at Wolves. A first Molineux win in nearly 30 years sent Burnley into the two-week international break in a much healthier 15th place in
EVERY part of East Lancashire now has access to dedicated local radio pro-gramming following the launch of a new commercial station. The Bee, on 107fm, was launched on Saturday at Ewood Park, Blackburn, during the half-time break in Blackburn Rovers'
MORE young men than ever are putting lives at risk by drink-driving on East Lancashire's roads. Alarmed police said males between 17-25 were the worse drink-drive offenders in the region - surpassing the over 50s - and the numbers caught is set to treble
Chorley's British welterweight champion Michael Jennings is used to hunting down opponents in the ring and lives up to his nickname of the Lurcher. Jennings now finds himself the hunted after Welsh dangerman Bradley Pryce promised to stalk the unbeaten
A pensioner has received 40 hours community punishment after a tip-off led to his prosecution for falsely claiming more than £7,000 in benefits he was not entitled to. Brian James Swift, 66, of Gloucester Road, Chorley, claimed the extra money in housing
A former Chorley academic is believed to be the youngest university professor in the country. Carsten Maple, 33, is a departmental head at the University of Luton, which is now claiming him as the nation's youngest professor. The ex-pupil of Highfield
BLACKBURN Rovers striker Craig Bellamy will find out the full extent of his knee problem when he undergoes a scan tomorrow. Mark Hughes' £4 million signing lasted just 13 minutes of Saturday's 2-0 victory over West Brom before limping off with an injury
ALMOST a third of the workforce at Clitheroe's Castle Cement will go as the firm struggles to come to terms with its "most intense competition for many years." Around 48 production staff at its Ribblesdale Works will be axed in the next few weeks, taking
I HAVE always been opposed to road building as a solution to traffic congestion and so have always been against the western Heysham Port relief road. In today's climate I am also against the Northern route. Another option is, however, beginning to emerge
CENTURIANS Lancaster City face a cash crisis - with the Conference North club being forced to cut costs to ensure there is a future at Giant Axe. The Dolly Blues, 100 years old this season, crashed out of the lucrative FA Cup at the second qualifying
LOCAL RIDER Ben Greenwood wrapped up the overall win in the National Under-23 Road Race Series on Sunday by winning the final round in Dorset. The 21-year-old from Lancaster has now completed a clean sweep of all under-23 road competitions this year,
STEVE Martin achieved Foggy PETRONAS Racing's best result of the season when he finished fifth in the first race at Imola yesterday. But the Australian was denied the chance of a repeat performance when the second race of the penultimate round of the
A MEAN chef who forged a £700 cheque from an elderly woman he befriended has had his sentence upheld by London's Appeal Court. Paul Dayus, of Bare Lane, Morecambe, was jailed for eight months at Preston Crown Court in July after pleading guilty to offences
DOZENS of youngsters from across Rossendale were treated to a trip to Blackpool to mark the sixth annual Rossendale Children's Day at the weekend, thanks to the big hearts of two Russians. Alexei Kislitsyn and Natalia Pestova have lived in Rossendale
RE the story on a planning application for a multi-faith woodland burial ground on Northcote Road in Langho (LET, September 23). I have strongly objected to this application on several grounds: 1. Increased volume of traffic in the immediate and surrounding
Police have issued descriptions of two door-to-door compost-selling conmen who stole cash from a pensioner. The crooks, wearing green trousers and green t-shirts and caps with a yellow logo, entered the man's house in Rothwell Road, Anderton, at about
A decision to ban Magpies fans from the team coach has been described as 'taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut'. But the red card, imposed after a few drunken fans' 'disruptive behaviour', looks set to be revoked by the time the next bus outing on October
MORE young men than ever are putting lives at risk by drink-driving on East Lancashire's roads. Alarmed police said males between 17-25 were the worse drink-drive offenders in the region - surpassing the over 50s - and the numbers caught is set to treble
TWO-GOAL hero Shefki Kuqi hopes his Premiership career is about to take off following his matchwinning exploits against West Brom at the weekend. The Finnish international scored his first ever goals in the top flight as Rovers beat Albion 2-0 to record
Plans for a £75million waste management scheme in Lancashire have moved a step closer after the county council approved a firm as the preferred bidder. At a special meeting of Lancashire County Council's cabinet council leaders voted through plans for
Pensioners are fighting cost cutting measures to scrap the on-site wardens who live among them. A 700 signature petition has been gathered in just one week, after residents in New Progress Housing Association homes were told of plans to replace their
A couple who met just 42 days ago tied the knot this week. It was love at first sight when Victor Steeden met Carol Mason at a singles night in Preston on August 16 and he proposed the very next day. They had a register office wedding on Monday and are
Preston's new community radio station launches this weekend broadcasting on 87.9FM. Preston FM will go out live to homes across the city as well as Penwortham, Bamber Bridge, and Walton-le-Dale from noon on Sunday. The station, which aims to focus on
TWO dedicated charity workers who dropped Western life to help build a community school in Nigeria are asking locals for more help. Gary Foxcroft and his partner Naomi Chapple, both from Lancaster, upped sticks and headed for the Niger Delta region to
AN INSPIRATIONAL fund-raiser from Lancaster who died of cancer this year is to be remembered in a special event. The Lancaster 'All Walk Tog-ether event' is a 6km sponsored walk being hosted by Cancer Research UK. It will be dedicated to the life of courageous
MORE than £4 million has been earmarked for developments at St Martin's College. A new student centre is to be built on the Lancaster campus, designed to provide a one-stop shop for all student services. The college has won £2.8 million from the Higher
A TRACTOR company boss said by a Judge to have put the public at risk when he supplied unauthorised animal drugs to farmers has been jailed for six months. Preston Crown Court was told that public health could have been put in danger via the food chain
LOCAL fishermen warned a group of Chinese cockle pickers not to go out onto the sands of Morecambe Bay on the night when at least 21 people perished, a court has heard. The jury at Preston Crown Court was told by a fisherman with 20 years experience on
A return to international duty for North End full-back Callum Davidson is on the cards after he got his first call-up in three years. Davidson will join fellow Scot Graham Alexander in the squad for crucial World Cup qualifiers against Belarus and Slovenia
Chorley play host to UniBond new boys Goole AFC on Saturday in the first league match against the Northern Counties East League champions after their formation eight years ago. The old Goole Town, who like the Magpies were original members of the Northern
IT WAS a pleasure to see an invitation for me to visit the Freeholders Pub in your letters pages last week. By the time the letter appeared I had already done so and talked to the landlady and to the regulars. This was a pleasant experience and I was
AS INTENDED, the ravings of R Segal have been exposed in the public domain and some genuine democratic alternatives to the malicious captalist society given a deserved airing. This is why the 'ultra-left' as represented by N Bliss (anarchist) and Paddy
VALE of Lune registered their second North Two West win of the season and their third success on the trot as they beat Tyldesley - but they had to overcome a fierce pounding at the death in order to seal their points. But during that battering of their
GARY Cahill is gearing up for a double dream date this month. The Aston Villa defender, who spent last season on loan with Burnley, will grace Turf Moor again this Sunday when England's U20 side host Holland in an international friendly. And on October
Morecambe 3 Accrington Stanley 2 MORECAMBE finally overcame their Accrington Stanley hoodoo with a 3-2 victory on a night of high drama at Christie Park. Stanley were reduced to 10 men as early as the fourth minute when last defender Chris Butler was
MORE than 100 people took part in Lancaster's first 'Diversity Dialogue' evening to hear five speakers promote better community spirit. Songs promoting racial harmony and a visit to the Fenton Street mosque opened the event run by local charity NCBI Lancashire
BLACKBURN Rovers striker Craig Bellamy will find out the full extent of his knee problem when he undergoes a scan tomorrow. Mark Hughes' £4 million signing lasted just 13 minutes of Saturday's 2-0 victory over West Brom before limping off with an injury
A MOTHER today praised her 13-year-old daughter after she helped save her baby brother from a fire at their home. Sahiqa Khan, 35, of St Thomas Street, Blackburn returned from picking up two of her children from school to find her house on fire and her
