A NEW Dog Watch scheme - possibly the first in the country - has been introduced in Clitheroe. Residents are being urged to "shop" irresponsible dog owners who let their pets foul the streets. The Dog Watch scheme is operating in part of the Henthorn
A TERRIFIED 33-year-old woman was punched in the face and subjected to a sickening indecent assault as she made her way to a friend's house just a few streets away. Police today issued an urgent appeal for information in an attempt to catch the attacker
Blackpool 1 Burnley 3 THREE minutes before the final whistle the ramshackle Bloomfield Road PA crackled into life. A hoarse Fylde Coast voice announced: "Man of the match, ladies and gentlemen, number nine, James Quinn." You could have heard the laughter
I WAS incensed to read (LET, February 6) that council tax is set to rise by 10 per cent for the coming year and could rise even higher when the police authority add theirs. How can the council justify this rise? People's wages and pensions have not gone
A COACH taking children to a Blackburn private school plunged 30 feet on to the M6 motorway near Leyland. Eleven people, including eight youngsters, were taken to hospital after the coach plunged through the railings of a bridge. The coach landed on its
I TOTALLY disagree with your article, 'Fresh air for the children' (LET, February 16). I agree with bringing the children of Chernobyl away from polluted air, but not into another area where the air is polluted with chemicals. I say to the 'Friends of
WILL the Waterloo Cup hare coursing festival now taking place at Altcar be the last? We ask this because, if Labour wins the election, there will be a free vote on banning hunting with hounds. Let us hope that this 161-year-old event is indeed the last
AS WITH the famous American hamburger commercial in which the lady asked: "Where's the beef?" potential Labour voters have been similarly looking for substance when it comes to the crucial policy of how a Blair government would handle the economy. And
INTER Milan coach Roy Hodgson has agreed to be the new manager of Blackburn Rovers. He will take up a three-year contract in July - or sooner if possible - after the club moved swiftly to fill the void left by Sven Goran Eriksson's about-turn. And, if
ON February 15 you printed an article whose main purpose was to ridicule English Heritage for 'dropping the clanger' of calling the abbey at Sawley, Salley. 'There is no such place', you state confidently - which would have come as a surprise to the generations
A POPULAR town centre bistro has shut down with debts of £20,000. Carrots owner Amanda Ashton did not re-open her cafe takeaway in Temple Court, Blackburn, after the weekend. And the closure coincided with a blaze at her home which left common-law husband
Nature Watch with Ron Freethy NOW that the plans have been passed to allow Manchester Airport to have its new runway, controversy is bound to raise its head. I therefore thought it was time to consider the relationship between wildlife and aviation, which
REGARDING the proposed amusement centre in Mill Hill, Blackburn (LET, February 15), as a Mill Hill teenager I would ask Darwen councillor Paul Browne, who criticised the Council's refusal of planning permission, if he has even been to the area at night
A POLICE officer was praised by firefighters after he tackled a blaze in a smoke-logged family home. Accrington-based PC Martin Kennedy tried to fight the fire with dry powder extinguishers at the house in Empress Street. Minutes earlier Maria Pervaiz
CHILDREN could suffer brain damage if fluoride is added to drinking water say campaigners who are fighting against it. Councillors from all over the North West were meeting in Blackburn today when the North West Councils Against Fluoridation (NWCAF) held
JUBILANT Burnley manager Adrian Heath piled rich praise on his team after an electrifying Paul Barnes hat-trick gave Burnley a dazzling 3-1 win at Blackpool. Heath saw Barnes take his goal tally to 19 for the season and seal Burnley's first league double
GOOD examination results have won Accrington and Rossendale College a place at the top of the North West league, according to a new report out this month. Staff are celebrating scoring highly in the first Measuring Achievement report, which has been produced
AN assault on two men who accidentally gatecrashed a Masonic function in Blackburn will tonight be raised with the order's chiefs as part of a high-powered House of Commons probe. A team of senior Freemasons led by Grand Secretary Michael Higham will
CAMPAIGNERS are celebrating after a council rejected plans for a new housing estate in Lower Darwen. Blackburn Council chiefs originally recommended approval of the Allen Homes' application for 98 homes at the top of Milking Lane. But in a dramatic U-turn
EDUCATION bosses have been left counting the cost following repeated arson attacks on Lancashire schools. In the last year more than £720,000 in damage was caused in over 70 separate incidents. Council chiefs claim the underlying picture shows the number
AN industrial estate has won a top security award. The Walker Industrial Park has become the first of its kind in Lancashire to win the 'Secured by Design' award from Lancashire Constabulary. The Blackburn development has been equipped with closed circuit
COUNCIL tax payers in the Ribble Valley are to face a 6.6 per cent increase in charges, bringing an average band D home up to £745.91. Councillors agreed the new table of council tax charges at a meeting of the full council last night. Each parish within
A NEW Dog Watch scheme - possibly the first in the country - has been introduced in Clitheroe. Residents are being urged to "shop" irresponsible dog owners who let their pets foul the streets. The Dog Watch scheme is operating in part of the Henthorn
THE new management team at Ewbank hopes to make a clean sweep of the future. The carpet cleaner firm, formerly a division of Burnley-based Prestige, figured in a management buyout led by Tony Turner, group finance manager for Prestige before it went into
DO I get you right Mr Billington, if we consign an offender to prison alienation sets in? Silly me, I always thought that happened when a criminal opted for a life of crime. So, if when caught we let them go, unpunished, they will do us the favour of
BEN Elton gives an audible "Oh, not again" sigh down the phone as I make the mistake of calling him a "political" comic, writes Mark Woodhouse. But who could forget his tirades against Mrs Thatcher, christened "Thatch" by Elton in his spangly-suited era
THE Mayor of Pendle is urging people to join him for what he promises will be the gala charity event of the year. Coun Frank Clifford has this year decided to ring the changes and is replacing the traditional civic ball with a Gala Charity Concert - with
THE owner of an Indian takeaway spoke out today to claim it is being made a scapegoat in the Paul Wells hostage crisis. A bitter row has erupted in Feniscowles where residents organised a campaign claiming the takeaway was causing traffic chaos in the
A GREEN Party candidate has blasted the state of Blackburn's town centre streets and traffic system. Science teacher Robin Field, 49, of Livingstone Road, Blackburn, plans to oppose Labour's Jack Straw in the General Election. Mr Field has blamed the
JUBILANT mum Roseann El-Ghussain was able to tell her children that their dad was coming home after being trapped in the Middle East for two years. Roseann, of Church, had fought to win a reunion with her Palestinian husband, Ehab, since he was stuck
BORN in London, the 50-year-old Hodgson had to wait until he became a coach to find footballing fame and fortune. As a player, he failed to make the grade with Crystal Palace but played non-League with Maidstone United, before "retiring" at the age of
FRUSTRATED patients are being forced to endure longer waits for specialist dental treatment, it was revealed today. Health chiefs are becoming concerned at the spiralling wait for orthodontic treatment in East Lancashire. New patients in Burnley, Pendle
TONY Parkes welcomed today's appointment of Roy Hodgson as Blackburn Rovers' new boss as "a quick and positive response by the club". The caretaker-boss, who is set to stay in charge until the end of the season - unless Hodgson is released early by Inter
PUB landlady May Whittle was not amused when she opened a tin of peas and found a big piece of plastic inside. May, of the Duke of Buccleuch pub in Bacup Road, Waterfoot, had bought the Hertford Processed Peas from the Co-op next door. She took the tin
