PRAISING the Thatcher era, Walt Meadows (Letters, September 14) emphasises that Tories aren't hypocrites. None of them? He either has a memory problem or his devotion to the Baroness blinds him from the truth. Go back, Mr Meadows, a few months only, to
NEL Construction is celebrating a £73,500 contract. The Nelson company is building an extension to the factory of Northampton-based UPVC window firm Plastmo Profiles, after completing a previous one to its warehouse. NEL uses the Astron building system
A DISTRAUGHT 88-year-old woman has been left in a state of shock after thieves sneaked into her house and stole the £5,000 life savings which she had hidden in her bedroom. The theft, by three men posing as electricity workers, has prompted police to
MILLIONS of TV viewers are about to see the skills of a soccer ace from Blackburn - and he isn't even a Rover! Football-crazy dog Sox is to be featured on Jeremy Beadle's You've Been Framed after he was captured on camcorder heading a football. But it
EIGHTY years ago a sinister black shape moved silently into the skies about East Lancashire, carrying a deadly load. The area was the target for huge Zeppelins - the pride of the Imperial German Naval Airship Service - which were to drop their bombs on
ASIAN men living in central Accrington are three times more likely to be unemployed than their white neighbours. Of those in full time work, the majority are in shops and semi-skilled or manual factory jobs. One third of the Asian jobless are under the
AN AMBULANCE crew took on the role of midwives when they answered a call from Jean Sugden of Ontario Close, Blackburn. Instead of taking the expectant mother to hospital, Ambulancemen Mick Grimshaw and Peter Barratt delivered her healthy 7Ib 5oz son Luke
IT WAS announced that the Duchess of York was to pay her first visit to East Lancashire. She was scheduled to spend an hour with staff and residents of Richardson House in Blackburn - a special rehabilitation centre for deaf and handicapped people. A
KART racer Duncan Lomax has clinched the British Grand Prix title-just months after breaking both his hands in an horrific road crash. The 35-year-old car dealer from Blackburn took the 250cc category at Britain's biggest karting event of the year, held
LANCASHIRE star Nick Speak is a target for Warwickshire. The 29 year old batsman has the chance to leave Old Trafford, although there is a year of his contract left, and he can now consider offers from other counties. Warwickshire have moved quickly and
A CRIME prevention conference being held in Blackburn today was being told that three quarters of the people living in Blackburn have been victims of crime in the last five years. These shocking figures are produced by a survey which also says half of
The area of Back Thwaites Road in Oswaldtwistle is being used as a rat run, and the people who live round there are sick and fed up with it, because even though the Council come and re-erect the bollards, it does not take long before some mindless yobs
A HEADMASTER has outlined his plans for the future after spending his first year at a leading independent school. Dr David Hempsall, head of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, summed up his first year in the best traditions of school reports
REGARDING your article (LET, September 7) on the report to the County Council's Welfare Rights and Anti-Poverty Sub-Committee on Family Credit and the very high number of claimants in the county, I would like to point out that Family Credit is a benefit
RIVALRY has flared again among opposing factions in Burnley's Daneshouse and Stoneyholme district - with one group withdrawing candidates from elections to decide who controls the area's new community centre. The latest power struggle centres on allegations
Ian McLellan, Tony Briffa and Stuart Anderson are all on the Crown Ground list. Manager Tony Greenwood explained: "The cup result was a great disappointment and I've got to bring some new blood to the club. "I spent four hours on the telephone last night
IN reply to Mr John Dell, Trust operations manager, regarding hospital parking (LET, September 6), we residents fought hard and long to secure residents' parking in the Infirmary district of Blackburn. We have had to put up with inconvenience and selfishness
CAN I ask readers to rack their brains and come up with the words of a poem which has the repeated lines: "I thowt a bit, an' I thowt a bit, an' I sed: 'Aye!..." I have been asked by a friend, John Threlfall, to see if I could help. When he was a child
IN my working life, I have worked on both private and council projects - on all of which there was a clerk of works. His job was to check out all completed work as well as analysing all mixings such as concrete, plaster, tarmacadam, etc. If any job did
THE governors of two schools in Padiham are refusing to send pupils to swimming lessons following a staggering decision by Lancashire County Council education chiefs. Children at Padiham County and St John the Baptist RC primary schools used to travel
THE frustrated and frightened mother of a "problem" youth refused to collect him from a hospital stay so that Lancashire Social Services would be forced to listen to her plight. Lynn Dickinson asked for "emergency" help with her 14-year-old son on August
BUSINESSES have been warned to beware of cash demands from 'do-gooders' claiming to be using calendars and bookmarks to raise money for under-privileged children. A number of organisations have begun contacting Lancashire companies in a bid to persuade
BRYAN Robson plotted the downfall of Everton last Saturday - in particular, the damage-limitation exercise against the Goodison "air force" in the shape of striker Duncan Fergsuon And what worked for the Middlesbrough manager might also benefit Blackburn
A HIGH-FLYING executive, currently based in Germany, has been appointed to boost Lancashire's aerospace industry. Michael Clifford, currently deputy managing director of Panavia in Munich, has been appointed chief executive officer of the Consortium of
BEHIND every successful man is a woman, so the saying goes, and in Christopher Kennedy's case it's his mum Anne. She recognised his artistic talents as a youngster and pushed him to develop them. The result was that Christopher spent two years in his
A FEW weeks ago I wrote a series of articles about the Lancashire Wakes resorts. I mentioned that during the 1990s many resorts were getting their act together and were now looking very smart indeed. Mark Preston lives on the Wirral but saw a copy of
DENIS Underwood emerged from the cramped Shawbridge dressing room and glowered towards the referee's door. "I'm going to get into trouble one of these days. I'm always having words with them. "I can't think for a minute what that first goal was disallowed
BURNLEY were rocked by a fresh injury blow today. Star midfielder Steve Thompson could be out of action for a month after he underwent keyhole surgery on his left knee. Now Burnley are anxiously awaiting the consultant's report to see how long the Turf
ENGLAND and Chelsea legend Alan Hudson has tipped Adrian Heath to bring the glory days back to Turf Moor. The seventies midfield maestro says his former Stoke City team-mate is a sure fire bet for managerial success. And Hudson - who recently launched
