A PET food firm is set to launch a major sales campaign to coincide with the launch of two new products. Pets Choice Ltd, of Gladstone Street, Blackburn, one of the UK's leading non-canned pet food suppliers, has introduced new cat and fish food brands
A FAST growing telecommunications firm has just completed a £20,000 contract. Abbey Telecom of Blackburn won the order for a telephone system for Warrington-based City Link . The firm, established three years ago by managing director Tony Raynor, has
REGARDING the slaughter at Dunblane, the "thing" who did this awful crime is not worthy of having his name appear in print. Furthermore, the law is a complete ass, for if that mad man had lived, we would have provided him with three meals a day and accommodation
"OF COURSE I eat beef." Brian Holgate looked a little insulted. In fact, it was probably a foolish question to a man whose family has happily carved a living out of a farming career spanning seven decades. But it is the question on everybody's lips, and
TRIUMPHANT Clitheroe Football Club have been invited to lunch at the House of Commons on the Friday before their FA Vase appearance at Wembley. Their delighted MP Nigel Evans wants to congratulate the team on getting to the final of the top amateur football
WHEELER dealer Adrian Heath (pictured) could sacrifice one of his Turf Moor big guns to fund a Burnley rebuilding programme. And that could mean selling either 24-goal leading scorer Kurt Nogan or £1 million-pound rated goalkeeper Marlon Beresford before
WHEN Frank Bruno fought Mike Tyson he represented Britain on the world stage, with millions of British people behind him. Black people are proud to represent Britain in many sporting events - boxing, athletics, football,etc. Yet today, Britain is being
A PLAQUE has been unveiled in recognition of two pioneers of the modern cinema - from Blackburn. Sagar J Mitchell and partner James Kenyon, were filming in Blackburn and the surrounding area at the turn of the century. Their material was mainly newsreel
THE Duke of Westminster - one of the country's richest men - is to visit one of Blackburn's most deprived wards. He aims to see how companies in the Bank Top area are joining with local people to help regenerate it. The Duke will meet community and civic
THANK you for your Opinion (LET, March 20) regarding the cutbacks at Blackburn Museum. I am very concerned about the council's marginalising of Blackburn's cultural heritage and support your view that the council's priorities and the reason for these
REGARDING the prospect of regional government, presented by Labour leader Tony Blair (LET, March 11), although he says this proposal "will not impose another layer of bureaucracy," I find this hard to believe. But then I have no faith in politicians.
A KEY prosecution witness in a murder trial was accused in court of killing the victim himself then inventing a web of lies to pin the blame on someone else. Lee Maher repeatedly answered "No" as defence counsel Richard Henriques tried to get him to admit
UNLIKE Birmingham Bags or ra-ra skirts, the tie is one of the few fashion items which have stood the test of time. It has evolved into one of the most crucial accessories in the male wardrobe - an item which is probably noticed first, is the subject of
COUN Jack Tarbuck's saloon bar politics (Letters, March 11) shows the desperation and low morale of the evaporating Tory group on Blackburn Council. His letter contains some glaring omissions on the Education debate at the council meeting on February
DARWEN have snapped up Australian Peter Skuse as professional for the 1996 Vaux Northern League campaign. The 25-year-old Queenslander will arrive at Birch Hall in time to make his Darwen debut against Blackpool on the opening day of the campaign on April
GREAT Harwood Town were dumped out of the UniFilla First Division Cup by Lancaster City at the Showground last night, but put up a brave fight. Town went into last night's clash trailing 4-1 from the first leg and knew they faced an uphill battle to turn
UP TO 200 people could be employed on a proposed major retail and industrial park if plans to transform a landmark textile mill get the green light. National car dealership group Sanderson Bramall wants to demolish the former Smith & Nephew Stonebridge
A MEDICAL firm has made it 10 in a row for safety. Medex Medical of Haslingden won the award from the British Safety Council for its accident record in 1995. The firm, which manufactures disposable medical products for hospitals and the healthcare industry
WORKERS at a crisp factory were to lose their jobs, two years after the firm was taken over and revived. The bombshell announcement came on the same day as the parent company announced a dramatic £1 million-plus turnaround in profits. All but 10 of the
BRITISH Aerospace and Rolls Royce workers from Lancashire joined a major rally in London today to protest against the closure of plants and a total of 14,000 redundancies. A march was to be followed by a lobby of Parliament and a rally in Westminster.
CUTBACK plans aimed at slashing £200million from the Benefits Agency's spending are revealed today in a leaked government document, but we fear that the poor may suffer. While concern exists over the growth of the so-called "benefits culture" and the
THE government may call it toughing it out. But in doing virtually no more than it has done for years now in the face of the Mad Cow disease scare - that is, once more declaring beef is safe - it is, we think, putting its head back in the sand. For while
THE Mad Cow Disease crisis deepened across East Lancashire today as the battered beef industry continued to grind to a halt. More than 40 staff at Rose County Foods' abattoirs in Gisburn Road, Sawley, have lost their jobs, it was revealed today. And auction
SOME toddled, some walked and some jogged, but all of the children taking part in the sponsored run had the same goal - to raise money for the victims of Dunblane. Caring youngsters aged from two to 14, from the Mill Hill area of Blackburn, made three
WINGERS Stuart Ripley and Jason Wilcox look certain to figure in Blackburn Rovers manager Ray Harford's plans for Saturday's Premiership clash with Everton, after coming through 90 minutes with the reserve team last night. Skipper Tim Sherwood also enjoyed
THREE East Lancashire firms are joining Britain's largest-ever trade mission to Japan next month. Aero & Industrial Technology of Burnley, Weston Electrical Units of Foulridge, and Precision Polymer Engineering of Blackburn, are part of a five strong
DEPRESSED farmers may kill themselves as the mad cow disease scare ruins their industry, their union has warned. The National Farmers' Union is bracing itself for an increase in suicides as the beef business faces an uncertain future. Cattle prices have
BEEF from Botswana and steak from Argentina have headed off the Mad Cow Disease crisis in hospitals. Patients in the Burnley area will be able to continue to bite into beef without fear of BSE problems - because it's all imported! The good news for red
AN East Lancashire MP has branded new eyesight tests for lorry and bus drivers as "an absurdity." Pendle's Gordon Prentice has received a large number of letters from worried professional drivers who fear the new European Union inspired tests could mean
BURNLEY'S council repairs team has won the town's £2million house maintenance contract...but they still face a wait. The Government will decide whether the 50-man unit will get the work. The in-house team is under watch by the Department of the Environment
JAMES Beattie isn't used to playing in such exalted company but the hat-trick hero of an emphatic Pontin's League victory at Ewood last night didn't look one little bit out of place. The teenage Rovers striker was part of a front six that boasted international
RESIDENTS fighting plans for a multi-million pound school are taking their campaign to Downing Street. People living near the proposed site for St Wilfrid's new high school at Feniscliffe, Blackburn, are to write to John Major urging him to intervene.
