BUSINESSMAN Barry Joyce came back home after living in Australia with a new business idea. And the globetrotting entrepreneur has now set up on his own producing ornamental ironwork. "I used to be a toolmaker and ironmongery was one of my hobbies," explained
BLACKBURN Rovers recorded a day-to-day trading profit last year - but continued big spending in the transfer market brought an overall loss of nearly £4 million on the championship season. The new Ewood Park and Brockhall training ground are now listed
IS TELEVISION an influence or just a mirror of the way we are? Over the past few years, in different documentaries, three graphic images of war have appeared on our screens. And though they have only lasted a few seconds, each has been enough to shock
RESIDENTS are being warned to be 'extra vigilant' following a spate of carbon-copy burglaries. Eight homes have been targeted in the Avondale and Earnsdale area of Darwen and each time the thieves have removed the entire window to gain access and ransack
EAST Lancashire was set to shiver in a February freeze-up and drivers were warned today to watch out for icy conditions. Temperatures were expected to plunge as low as minus five Centigrade. Chief Insp David Winnard, of Lancashire police, appealed to
IF WE had more men of Jack Walker's ilk and less of the mealy-mouthed variety, East Lancashire would be a better place. Perhaps Coun Marcus Johnstone (LET, January 25) has copies of Jack Walker's tax returns over the years. If not, I suggest he keeps
CHURCH Cricket Club have signed talented Queenslander Matthew Mott as their professional this summer. The 21-year-old left-handed batsman, who bowls right-arm medium, has developed through the classic Australian route, the Australian Institute of Sport
LABOUR stalwart Frank Clifford has been selected as the next Mayor of Pendle. The Brierfield councillor is set to take over from Councillor Gill Gilhespy in May. Deputy Mayor will be Councillor Jo Belbin. Coun Clifford, 59, who has had a long and colourful
POLICE who broke into the home of a 75-year-old Rossendale man found his body in conditions of abject squalor, an inquest heard. Wilfred Carr, of Goodshaw Avenue, Loveclough, who lived alone, had wedged planks of wood behind his front and back doors so
A KOREAN War veteran is looking for other soldiers who fought in the campaign to help him with a nationwide survey. Ashley Cunningham-Boothe, from Warwickshire, says he is greatly concerned about the health of fellow veterans who fought in both Korea
A YOUNG entertainer who works at one of the country's largest holiday camps is to be featured in a national television programme next month. Jon-Lee Horan, 23, will be seen keeping thousands of holiday makers happy in a Channel Four documentary called
PUB regulars gave a charity bottle boost to Burnley Boys' Club's Mini van appeal. Club supporters from the Reedley Hallows pub also held two raffles to take their fund-raising total to £243. The club received a further boost from Matthew Brown's brewery
A FEW weeks ago I followed up Mrs Joan Briggs' idea of seeking out some of Lancashire's old post boxes, writes RON FREETHY. I asked readers if they knew the whereabouts of boxes from the reigns of Victoria and Edward VII and there was a good response.
LIKE the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, we enjoyed the irony of the police having three of their own mountain bikes stolen from right under their noses in their own police station (LET, January 20). As they have been kind enough to let cyclists from the
DAVID Batty has NOT been named in Blackburn Rovers' squad as they bid to extend their magnificent Ewood Premiership record against Bolton Wanderers tomorrow. Manager Ray Harford revealed today that Tim Sherwood, who has had a niggling back problem, and
DYNAMISM, a word familiar to followers of Colne football, will be needed by the ladleful if the town is to re-create its glory days of the recent past. A committed group of Colne individuals are anxious to prove they have sufficient quantities of the
AN exhibition is being staged to help Lancashire firms 'weigh up' the latest products on the market. Precision Weighing Systems of Burnley is staging the day to display its own industrial and retail scales, along with those of other manufacturers. The
LANCASHIRE exporters are being urged to speak up about their achievements. The DTI's Languages for Export Awards aims to reward firms who use language strategies to communicate with overseas customers. Entry forms from Mike Collins on 01606 737009. Converted
CRIMINALS in Burnley are heading for the border as new town centre security puts them on the run, says police chief, Superintendent Mike Griffin. But neighbouring forces disagree with his claim that Burnley is now exporting crime to other towns as shoplifters
HOSPITAL chiefs have been forced to make generous overtime payments to nurses in a bid to maintain adequate staffing levels. Senior managers at Calderstones NHS Trust are paying existing employees extra cash after failing to recruit enough nursing staff
A TEENAGER armed with a machete-type knife was arrested after police were called to an incident at an Accrington high school. The 15-year-old, believed to be from Burnley, was due to appear before Hyndburn magistrates today charged with making threats
A TOUCH of university life came to Blackburn last night when over 500 students in caps and gowns paraded through the town centre. The Blackburn College students received degrees and diplomas in a variety of subjects during the ceremony in King George's
A WOMAN will hold the purse strings in Burnley as the council's top team of officers takes final shape. Norfolk-based Pamela Williams has been appointed Burnley's £40,000-a-year chief financial officer, taking over from retired borough treasurer, Norman
HOSPITAL staff leaders snubbed the chance to join the team steering Burnley district health services to self-government. But the Community Health Council, which this week agreed to take part, were to become the official patient services watchdog if the
TURF Moor supporters can book their seats for Wayne's World Part 2 as Burnley's Second Division rollercoaster hits the final bend. Because the goalkeeper who has waited patiently for his big opportunity in the Burnley first team is ready to fight for
WITH all the fuss being made about the lack of ability in mathematics at junior level, should this not be extended to include the experts who calculated the year 2000 AD as "the Millennium Year?" There having been no 0 AD, surely, it is the year 2001
IN REPLY to J S Kent, (Letters, January 24), in the past eight weeks I have written four times to Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans and have had a reply each time. He has helped me with my problems, even forwarding one on to the Minister of Health and that
"BURNLEY Bulldog" Warren Stowe is unlikely to fight later this month after the sudden death of his trainer, Peter McEllhiney. Stowe was due to meet Greg Scott Briggs of Swaziland in Shaw on February 18. The bout is still on but Stowe has no appetite to
AFTER reading about the £1.8 million they are going to spend on Blackburn Boulevard, I am sick to the back teeth with the council. They spend money like water on things in Blackburn, but we in Darwen get a pittance. Our town centre is the only place where
IAM delighted that Mr Tariq Ahmed (Letters, January 24) approves of our plans to decentralise some of the borough's key services to Darwen. We are indeed very aware, and proud, that there are two major towns in the borough and these proposals form part
I WOULD remind Dorothy Ormesher (Letters, January 26) that, through the foreign aid programme, Britain already helps Third World countries. The £30 million being added from National Lottery proceeds is on top of existing aid. Call me selfish and uncaring
ARTHUR Scargill's breakaway Socialist Labour Party came fourth in the Hemsworth by-election as official Labour strolled home. But the miners' leader claimed this was a success, though his party just managed to hang on to its deposit. Sifting the results
UNIVERSITY chiefs meet today to consider charging a £300 entrance fee to new students. But the question is not whether such a sum would really deter any from seeking higher education, but whether this heralds the end of free university tuition. In short
THE boy from Belgrade really has 'done good'. Sensational Serb Sasa Curcic could well prove the biggest threat to Blackburn Rovers' hopes of maintaining a magnificent Premiership record at their Ewood citadel tomorrow. Bolton Wanderers, battling bravely
A STARTLED landlord watched in disbelief as a police van arrived at his pub . . . carrying a white goat. Phil Mulcock, of the Traders Arms, Mellor, was contacted by a woman who said she had found the animal in her back garden, and asked whether it was
SPEAKERS from Burnley scored a hat-trick when they scooped all the trophies in East Lancashire speaking competitions. Nine clubs in the North Pennine Area were eligible to compete for the speech, evaluation and topics competitions held in Blackburn and
MPS are calling for government compensation for pensioners who lost out in the Bellings Pension Fund swindle. Burnley MP Peter Pike and Gordon Prentice, of Pendle, are also calling for the Department of Trade to launch a full inquiry into the events surrounding
BIG-HEARTED bosses are helping ex-employees keep warm during the cold spell. Wolstenholme Rink has sent retired workers £40 each to help pay for extra heating costs - almost four times the Government's cold weather payment. "We felt that a gesture such
UNDER-FIRE Jimmy Mullen has received the valued support of Blackpool boss Sam Allardyce as the Burnley chief begins the most crucial month of his Turf Moor managerial career at lowly Brentford tomorrow. Allardyce witnessed the fierce abuse levelled at
A LORRY which had just collected a delivery from a paint company was stranded for more than an hour when the driver became stuck between vehicles parked by the company's staff. The lorry had just picked up a delivery from Akzo Nobel in Hollins Road, Darwen
