A PLAN to build a £148,000 sports centre at a popular Scout camp has been given a major boost by the Foundation for Sport and the Arts. The East Lancashire Scouts Council are hoping to build the new indoor centre and wet weather shelter at its flagship
A MAJOR international forgery ring has been smashed after two men tried to smuggle £1 million of goods from China into Blackburn. And Lancashire Trading Standards seized a further £275,000 of fake jeans as a result of breaking the worldwide scheme. Customs
A CONVOY of hippies claimed they had had a hostile reception from the villagers of Cliviger. A country lay-by on the road out to Todmorden had been the campsite for the convoy for about a fortnight - despite an order from the county council to move on
A CUSTOM-MADE filter refurbishment plant has been shipped out to Thailand from East Lancashire. The plant, ordered from B & M Longworth of Blackburn, is now being installed at a polyester film production factory near Pattaya. In the past 12 months
IT may be that I am over-sensitive in feeling that your review of the film 'Copycat' (LET, May 3) was inappropriate in view of recent occurrences in Dunblane and Tasmania. I am sorry, I cannot agree with the reviewer's assertion that "Face facts - we
LANCASHIRE want Raymond Illingworth to be disciplined by Lord's for his new book "One Man Committee." The book, currently being serialised in a national newspaper, has reopened a number of controversies including Illingworth's winter row with Devon Malcolm
I WISH to trace the families of my grand uncles who emigrated to Accrington, between 1870 and 1890 approximately, to work in the mills, from Gortermone, Co Sligo, Ireland. They were: Thomas Kennedy (born 1847), James Kennedy (1853), James Kennedy (1856
SETTLE skipper Tony "Tiger" Cokell is delighted with the turnaround in the Vaux Ribblesdale Cricket League club's fortunes so far this season. But he is the first to admit that their biggest tests still lie ahead, starting tomorrow with a visit to in-form
MAYBE the "feel good" the Tories yearn for to improve their election hopes is coming back after all. And perhaps it will be in time to rescue them in an autumn general election. For while the government has become almost blue in the face telling voters
SECURITY expert John Fox has blasted the Government for charging schools up to £12,000 to install surveillance cameras. Mr Fox, from Blackburn-based 21st Century, has accused the Government of scaremongering schools in the wake of the Dunblane massacre
FORMER Clarets favourite Ted McMinn is brushing up on different skills as he starts afresh in Australia - he's become a part-time painter! The soccer star, nicknamed the Tin Man, left Burnley without public explanation last month. The Lancashire Evening
STUDENTS at Burnley College will be fighting for survival in a bid to raise cash for the baby care unit at Burnley General Hospital. Fifty students plan to join the army at Fulwood Barracks for a sponsored survival day in which they will face the challenges
CABLE companies have been warned they need to improve their standard of roadworks in Lancashire or face legal action. The message was spelled out by county highways chairman Dennis Golden today after a report on the performance of public utilities operating
COMIC cartoonist Leo Cheney will be turning in his grave. The monocled dandy who has made Johnnie Walker whisky famous throughout the world since the turn of the century is literally losing face. Foreigners apparently think he is too snooty so the famous
ADRIAN Heath could well have been alerted by the fact that Burnley-born striker Andy Payton has yet to agree a new contract with First Division club Barnsley. And contacts close to Oakwell suggest that the 28-year-old would like nothing better than to
CHARITY worker John Boast is being quizzed about two more illegal adoptions of Romanian babies. The latest probe, based on information provided by British police through Interpol, comes on top of two cases in which he has already been charged. The Great
ADA Gibson (Letters, May 7) stirred memories of over 70 years ago when maypole dancing was a regular event. I remember, around the age of five, watching the maypole being erected with red white and blue, streamers already attached to its top with which
A YOUNG widow got a threatening letter from the Child Support Agency asking for her dead husband's details...a week after the CSA's chief promised the agency would stop pestering her. Rosemarie Phillips' husband Warren took a fatal overdose two years
THREE into one WILL go as far as Terry Venables is concerned at Euro 96. But, for Tim Flowers and Ian Walker, number two is what counts. Ewood star Flowers, who began against China yesterday, and Tottenham's Walker, who replaced him as a 64th minute sub
AFTER a long winter, I looked forward to summer's outdoor events and on May 19, visited my first of the season - the Ashton Park Festival in Darwen. What a disaster! It wasn't the lack of entertainment or the cold weather that ruined my day. It was when
RESIDENTS of the rundown Trafalgar flats are living a "Beirut nightmare", Burnley's council leader claimed last night. Councillor Kath Reade said the tenants had been through every kind of hell over the years and were now living in a war zone style nightmare
WORKERS ran for their lives when a fireball swept through the workshop and offices at a garage. The multi-thousand pound blaze was at the converted mill premises of Skipper of Burnley, in East Avenue. Two mechanics were working on a Vauxhall car when
BREWERS want the duty on beer cut by 26p a pint - as the UK drinks trade is floored by more than a million pints of cheap bootleg booze flooding in from France. They are right. In barrier-free European market, Britain's beer just cannot compete when the
MISSING town clerk Jerry Taylor carried off the most sophisticated and complicated fraud an auditor had seen in his 20 years in the job. Taylor, who was nicknamed Captain Pugwash by colleagues, is believed to have stolen more than £130,000 from the coffers
MANUFACTURERS are reaping the benefits of a major exhibition Firms from across the area are busy following up strong leads after taking part in SUBCON '96 on a stand managed by the East Lancashire Promotions Partnership. "This kind of exhibition gives
I SEE that the Labour Party's fortune teller Tim O'Kane, is at it again (Letters, April 13) - this time, trying to be an expert on something he appears to know little about. If he and his party knew all about the BSE danger so long ago, why did it take
A LITTLE girl cradles her beloved dolly. Another hugs a home-made toy animal. These three-year-olds lined up for their school photograph but all look a bit apprehensive. A youngster on the back row in the National Health-style spectacles looks terrified
KIND-HEARTED pub regulars are taking part in a fund-raising fun day to help a young cerebral palsy sufferer. Customers at The Derby Arms, Colne Road, Burnley, will be digging deep into their pockets at a series of special events on Bank Holiday Monday
WELCOME to the Socialist Republic of Hyndburn, but thanks to all the people who voted for our candidates on May 2. It is just a pity that so many people who said on the doorstep during our canvass that they would support us, sat on their backsides and
MOTHER-OF-THREE Kaye Ford is a boss in what was until recently almost entirely a man's world. Kaye, 33, of Lumb-in-Rossendale, has taken over the running of a Burnley waste disposal site and it's associated quarry at Ford Natural Stone Ltd in Bacup Road
FRENCH striker Christophe Dugarry looks as though he is on his way to Italy, to the disappointment of Blackburn Rovers. The Bordeaux star has been a target of Rovers boss Ray Harford for some time and has yet to make an official announcement about his
NEW members have been signed up as a business green group continues to grow. The Business Environment Association was originally set up in Blackburn to help businesses tackle environmental problems, reduce waste and energy consumption and keep within
