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  • Shake up justice system, says retiring 'tec

    RADICAL changes need to be made to the judicial system to help in the fight against crime, says a retiring top detective. Detective Inspector Jim Oldcorn has left Lancashire police after 34 years of tackling crooks. And he has stressed the need for changes

  • Accident waiting to happen

    I AM dismayed by the recent road alterations in Montague Street, Blackburn. I realise that a pedestrian crossing was a necessity and that a cycle lane is also of use, but what thought has been given to the motorist? Driving up the street you are faced

  • Double death probe

    AN independent investigation has been set up to examine the case of a mentally ill man who killed his wife and then himself two days after being discharged from hospital. One of the main tasks of the East Lancashire Health Authority led inquiry will be

  • 5 YEARS AGO: PM boosts morale in the North West

    PRIME MINISTER John Major flew in on a morale-boosting visit to Tory marginals in the North West. Mr Major was meeting people on the Fylde and visiting Tory MPs in East Lancashire later in the day. The visit included trips to Hyndburn and Darwen. Converted

  • 10 YEARS AGO: Teachers' strike historic

    LANCASHIRE was crippled by its biggest-ever teachers' strike. East Lancashire schools were plunged into chaos as thousands of children were sent home when teachers walked out at lunchtime. The joint half-day strike by the National Union of Teachers and

  • SOCCER: Eatough quits Great Harwood

    MARTIN Eatough has quit as manager of Great Harwood Town, blaming "a total lack of organisation" at the Unibond League First Division club. Eatough's assistant Dave Sergeant has also left The Showground just about a year after they took over and totally

  • CRICKET: Darwen could be Premier League's 12th man

    DARWEN are set to play a major role in the final make-up of the controversial new Premier League, writes NEIL BRAMWELL. I understand a provisional line-up has almost been decided by the Lancashire Cricket Board. They have chosen 11 clubs, with one other

  • ICE HOCKEY: Abel stokes the Arena passions

    Blackburn Hawks 5 Whitley Warriors 10 THE gloom continued for Hawks last night despite the return to arms of super kids Tom Burridge and Billy Price. It was one of the old guard, ex-player-coach Mark Stokes, who emerged triumphant...although he left with

  • RUGBY UNION: Simon's first-quarter hat-trick

    Blackburn 39pts Kirkby Lonsdale 29 BLACKBURN RUFC played host to long-standing Cumbrian rivals Kirkby Lonsdale at this traditional friendly encounter at Ramsgreave. Considering the appalling climatic conditions of strong driving rain and wind, both sides

  • Nightmare of Disney dream-trip

    A FAMILY have accused a holiday company of turning their dream trip to Disneyland into a nightmare. Andrew Mead and his girlfriend Alison Brown sent a 13-point complaint letter to Rossendale-based Airtours' chairman David Crossland after the £2,200 trip

  • Governors resign but refuse to give reason

    PARENTS at a Ribble Valley school were due to be told later today of the shock resignation of eight governors. The governors at Whalley CE Primary School handed in their notices at a meeting last week but are refusing to give any reasons for their decision

  • Cool Kath saves the day in council uproar

    BATTLING Burnley council boss Kath Reade saved the day as a public meeting threatened to explode into violence. She pushed through angry residents to call for calm after an egg was thrown and angry residents sprang to their feet shouting at a housing

  • CLARETS: Burnley hold prices for next season

    BURNLEY'S devoted fans will pay the same Turf Moor admission prices next season - even if the Clarets are locking horns with the likes of Manchester City in Division One, writes TONY DEWHURST. We can exclusively reveal tonight that the board of directors

  • Search on for a party?

    JOHN Farrer (Letters, March 7) castigates J P Vernon over secondary matters such as the Labour Party not addressing envelopes properly. As for his local Conservative Association members receiving requests from Labour for donations, it might be best for

  • Shopping the ref

    THAT television can "show" us the referee is "wrong" is meaningless. Only the ref's view is valid - from the angle he sees it. Is there to be a High Court trial after every incident? The whole issue is nonsense. If a "wrong" costs a club a few million

  • Grow up, Blackpool

    THE Commercial Director of Blackpool FC, Mr Geoff Warburton (Sports Letters, March 11), says he received complaints from Blackpool fans about the content of Tony Dewhurst's match report. Do I detect a case of sour grapes? The Lancashire Evening Telegraph

  • Oyez Oyez - make my day!

    OYEZ! OYEZ! Fire officer Peter Gill is set to become Rossendale's first official town cryer. His three-year dream of shouting the news through the Valley took a step nearer last night when councillors officially backed his application. Now he is racing

  • Hands off Hickson!

    DO YOU not feel you may have taken offence a little too easily at Mr Hickson's tongue in cheek remarks? I refer, of course, to the Radio Ga Ga article published on Thursday, March 6, and felt, quite frankly, that there was an element of "my dad's bigger

  • SOCCER: Mark's sale to the Riverside

    Middlesbrough v Blackburn Rovers - Peter White eyes another successful Teesside import IT'S not easy to be noticed when you are a relatively-unknown Australian goalkeeper treading the same turf as some of the biggest names in the game. Unless that is

  • Flight from flames drama

    A HUSBAND and wife were taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation after a blaze broke out at their Oswaldtwistle flat at 4am today. Catherine and Stewart Harris were asleep and owe their lives to a smoke detector, which woke up Mr Harris alerting

  • CSA must cope

    THE controversial Child Support Agency may have climbed out of the administrative chaos that blighted its birth in 1993 but it still needs to improve its act. For, even now, it has a big backlog of cases. A Commons select committee reports today that,

  • Road to rail is the right track to follow

    AMERICAN rail mogul Ed Burkhardt, an international Mr Big of goods trains and boss of Britain's biggest rail freight company, believes East Lancashire is on track for a rail revival that could bring a huge environmental boost to our region. For he sees

  • Gordon tops pay league

    FOOTBALLERS' champion Gordon Taylor is Britain's highest paid trade union boss, a survey today revealed. The former Blackburn Rovers player received a package worth £283,928 in his chief executive's role with the Professional Footballers Association -

  • ROVERS: Pedersen facing Danish rival Beck

    PER Pedersen shares the Premiership stage with one of his chief international rivals, Middlesbrough's Mikkel Beck, tonight - boosted by a double vote of confidence. Blackburn Rovers' caretaker-manager Tony Parkes has already expressed his faith in the

  • Jet engine team land top award

    A TOP award has been won by staff at Rolls-Royce in Barnoldswick. The aero engine team collected the prestigious Manufacturing Excellence award for its work with a computer-based design and manufacturing system and a special fan blade produced at the

  • Farmers have a lot to learn

    YOUR report (LET, February 12) about farmers complaining about rabbits damaging crops shows they do not always understand the countryside as much as they sometimes pretend. Rabbits are one of the main food items of foxes. So if landowners encouraged foxes

  • Rail boss's visit boosts freight line hopes

    THE "Mr Big" of the rail freight world could be set to open up the Ribble Valley line to more trains. Ed Burkhardt, the American boss of Britain's biggest rail freight company, has suggested possibly expanding his company's involvement in the line by

  • I may stay, says shamed ex-mayor

    SHAMED ex-mayor Peter Swainston is under no pressure from his Labour colleagues on Burnley Council to resign as a councillor. A special group meeting decided that any question of resignation was a matter for him alone. Coun Swainston resigned as mayor

  • Red alert! TV trek to help threatened squirrels

    Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy PEOPLE in East Lancashire are being asked for their urgent help in tracking down red squirrels - creatures which conservationists believe are fast becoming an endangered species in this country. A nationwide hunt to pinpoint

  • No Labour complaints over 'Scottish rule'

    COULD I bring some facts to the attention of your readers? A majority of English constituencies has not voted for a Labour government for more than 50 years. Scotland and Wales have far more MPs than they should have. At three of the last four elections

  • Worker hurt as roof falls in

    A WORKMAN was injured when part of a mill roof collapsed on him after the fork-lift truck he was driving struck an internal pillar. The force of the impact made the pillar collapse, bringing down a section of the roof at William Reed's Spring Bank Mills