A TELEPHONE scheme to cut the cost of calls to four Asian countries could benefit thousands of East Lancashire people. Nynex CableComms is offering discounted calls to people phoning India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka on a regular basis. The discount
HOUSING bosses have been talking to developers in a bid to get rid of Mill Hill's unpopular high rise flats. Blackburn Council was dealt a severe blow last year when the Government refused to fund a £3.4 million plan to demolish the borough's 12 tower
CLITHEROE CC are unlikely to accept an invitation to join the new Super League - even if an offer is made at the end of the month. The only Ribblesdale League outfit among the 29 clubs seeking 12 spots, Clitheroe have expressed no further desire to become
JIM Pennycook is not in the mood for half measures this weekend. "We want maximum points - nothing less will do," boomed the Blackburn Hawks player-coach ahead of matches at Castlereagh Knights (Saturday) and home to Dumfries Vikings (Sunday). Not that
WITH reference to your article (LET, January 17), I would suggest that before we tackle the problem of pigeon droppings in Blackburn, we call attention to the droppings by human beings of chocolate papers, plastic cartons, beer cans, cigarette packets
HAVING read about the confusion on the Boulevard, Blackburn, and shopkeepers not being pleased about bus passengers standing outside their shops, though I don't blame them, I can assure them that the people who travel on the No 40 Higher Croft service
DESPITE government statements that the deep recession, which began in 1989, is over, last year nearly 20,000 people went bankrupt, the same as the year before. A similar number are expected to go bankrupt during 1997 - nearly 10 times the number a decade
INSPECTORS found Burnley's St Stephen's School provided pupils with 'good quality' education experience, but provision for most special education needs children was unsatisfactory. An OFSTED team of inspectors looked at 50 lessons or parts of lessons
TONY Parkes' attacking options have been rocked by another devastating injury blow, with striker Graham Fenton suffering knee ligament damage. And it underlines the urgent need to bring in attacking re-inforcements. Fenton, who has been used as a substitute
TEENAGER James Beattie has signed a new two and a half year contract with Blackburn Rovers. The 18-year-old striker, who made his Premiership debut earlier this season has joined a number of senior players who have signed new deals. Beattie, who has a
BURNLEY are gunning for a £10,000 jackpot - thanks largely to the goalscoring feats of Paul Barnes and Kurt Nogan The bumper payout will come from the FA Fair Play Awards initiative and Adrian Heath's team are pressing strongly for the cash prize which
EAST Lancashire's screen wars took a new twist today as it was revealed that Darwen has been picked by a company hoping to build a multi-screen cinema in the area. Plans for a multiplex cinema in Earcroft are the fourth such bid to be unveiled in the
THERE'S a new theory around Ewood Park about the day Tim Flowers was struck by the Colly bobbles, writes Brian Doogan. Remember, the daisy-cutter from Liverpool's Stan Collymore that all of a sudden adopted an orbit of its own as it approached the Blackburn
TONY Blair's New Labour have promised to bring in a national minimum wage to satisfy their friends in the unions. However, they refuse to specify the rate at which this wage would be introduced, in an attempt to minimise opposition from employers. This
REDUNDANT college lecturer Pat Walsh has pledged to stick by his former students up to their A-Level exams. The senior history teacher has been helping Accrington and Rossendale College students this week by running tutorials for them at the TGWU offices
THIEVES broke into a student's carlocked it up and posted the driving documents back to the stunned owner! Angela Creasey, of Harlech Drive, Oswaldtwistle, was amazed to receive the documents in the post and her car manual - with the pages on theft prevention
CALL him the Minister for Music and he would probably accuse you of overstepping the mark. But Ribble Valley Member of Parliament Nigel Evans is happy to be known as the hippest guy in the house. The House of Commons that is. Nigel, possibly the only
A HOSPITAL clinic is offering new hope to diabetics faced with the danger of amputation. The Blackburn Foot Clinic has redesigned a boot which cures foot ulcers in diabetic patients. And the success of the Scotch cast boot has aroused so much interest
