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Stories for 23 November 1998
Accrington News
Bike pair died after van crash
A 62-YEAR-OLD Great Harwood motorcyclist and his wife died after their motorbike collided with a van on the A59 near Gisburn. more...
Blackburn Business
£40m input pays off
A NEW product has been launched following a £40 million investment at a paper mill. more...
A new lifeline to help the disabled
A SCHEME to help disabled people start their own business is to expand in East Lancashire. more...
Export drive on
A NEW initiative to help firms win business has got underway. more...
New role at law firm
SOLICITOR Elizabeth Daultrey has joined law firm Cunningham Turner's expanding family department. more...
Blackburn Leisure
Ten years ago: Dance drug probe
A NIGHTCLUB scrapped acid house nights after a Lancashire Evening Telegraph investigation revealed amphetamines were being taken on the premises. more...
Five years ago: Lost hand penalty
A FIRM was fined after admitting responsibility for a woman losing a hand. more...
Local events for Tuesday, November 24
Friends in Bereavement meet Pendle Hospital, Leeds Road, Nelson, 7pm. AGM followed by "Castle in Austria" -- talk by Mrs Jean Birkett. more...
Blackburn News
Teenager saves girl's life in house blaze
TEENAGER David Parkinson fought through flames and thick smoke to save a seven-year-old trapped in a bedroom by a suspected arson attack. more...
I'll get it right, says Jack Walker
JACK Walker today promised "whatever it takes" to get the right man to succeed Roy Hodgson and keep Blackburn Rovers in the Premiership. more...
Historian sheds light on past taped for posterity
THE PROSPECT of trams making a comeback on a network linking towns across East Lancashire -- now part of a £70,000 study by experts examining ways of improving our public transport -- has conjured up visions of the region having a Metrolink-style system like the hugely successful one spanning Greater Manchester. more...
Wind farms preferred
RECENT correspondents have extolled the virtues of wind farms and condemned the 'unholy alliance' of East Lancashire MPs Janet Anderson, Gordon Prentice, Peter Pike and Nigel Evans against them, with Robin Field (Letters, November 11) deploring their blinkered vision with respect to more environmentally damaging sources of power. more...
Taken over by yobs
I AGREE with your correspondent's remarks (Letters, November 13), regarding the Remembrance Sunday service in Corporation Park, Blackburn, and the lapse in decorum and standards of respectful behaviour on this solemn occasion. more...
Chance to pay tribute
RECENTLY, we have seen tremendous press coverage -- and deservedly so -- relating to the 80th anniversary of the Armistice. more...
Give us back our airport
A FEW days ago, at Blackpool Airport, I bought the local evening paper in which was a letter about the airport and the holiday trade situation. The writer played hell about aircraft taking 200 people out of Blackpool. more...
Trams will be welcome
HOW pleased I am at the prospect of trams in North East Lancashire (LET, November 9). more...
Writing up history
I HAVE been commissioned to write the official history of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service and wonder if any of your readers have a story to tell. more...
Labour can't keep lid on Europe forever
IT IS indicative of government policy on European monetary union that, just as 100 bosses of Britain's top companies were today urging the UK's early membership of the single currency, Chancellor Gordon Brown should be cool towards the notion of the EU taking charge of our taxes. more...
Legal aid system needs shake-up
THERE IS no doubt that the legal aid system has grown into a fat cash cow that lawyers are happy to milk, nor that taxpayers feeding it the money deserve a better deal. more...
Give us pride and passion! Rovers fans speak out
THE sudden departure of Blackburn Rovers manager Roy Hodgson has left fans wondering what will happen now that the club have hit rock-bottom. more...
I'll get it right, says Jack Walker
JACK Walker today promised "whatever it takes" to get the right man to succeed Roy Hodgson and keep Blackburn Rovers in the Premiership. more...
Slimmer Lynne didn't feed her road rage fear
A SUPER slimmer refused to let a road rage incident destroy her ambition to reach her goal weight before her silver wedding anniversary. more...
Beware - clampers on patrol
ROAD tax dodgers throughout East Lancashire have been warned -- 'Your time is up!' more...
Hijacked collector tells of knife terror
A MONEY collector hijacked at knifepoint has spoken of his terror as he was forced to drive his attacker through a Blackburn housing estate before being robbed of £560. more...
Blackburn Sport
ICE HOCKEY: SOLIHULL 7 BLACKBURN HAWKS 8
BLACKBURN HAWKS 10 SOLIHULL 8 ICE HOCKEY: Hawks extinguished the threat of last season's ED1 Champions Solihull Blaze with a double blast this weekend to stay at the top of the English Premier League. more...
Hendry ready for the Ewood hot-seat
COLIN Hendry is ready to consider an offer from Blackburn Rovers to make a sensational return to Ewood Park in the wake of Roy Hodgson's dismissal. more...
Bournemouth 5 Burnley 0
JUST when you think it can't get any worse, it does. more...
ROVERS 0 SOUTHAMPTON 2
THE end was clearly nigh a few minutes from the final whistle when those who had not already voted with their feet on the Blackburn End struck up a sarcastic chant of . . . "Hodgson for England". more...
Ternent reveals £250,000 fighting fund
STAN Ternent revealed today that he was handed a £250,000 fighting fund to transform Burnley's fortunes. more...
Bolton Business
Keith's drive to make golf game a success
BUSINESSMAN Keith Lee is hoping to make some money by helping golfers develop the art of putting. more...
Top post for Robert
BOLTON Brady Repair & Service Ltd of Stoneclough has appointed Robert Grace as regional director for the north of England. more...
Red tape fear over Minimum Wage
LEADERS of the Engineering Employers' Federation are concerned about red tape associated with implementation of the National Minimum Wage. more...
Bolton Info
Chemists on duty in the Bolton area:
Wed Nov 25: Heatons, 228 Chorley New Road, Horwich (5,30pm to 6.30pm). Sun Nov 29: Nash, 15 Devon Street (9am to 10pm); Landmark, 12 Chorley New Road (9am - 1pm and 2pm - 11pm); Cohens, 576 Blackburn Road (9am to 10pm); Sykes, 328 St Helens Road (11am to 1pm); Hunt and Marsden, Asda, Brackley Street, Farnworth (noon to 1pm); Dysons, 51 Lee Lane, Horwich (noon to 1pm); Cohens, 1 Market Street, Little Lever (11am to 1pm); McCallister, 44 Market Street, Westhoughton (noon to 1pm). more...
Bolton Leisure
Pulp success is no fiction
Pulp, Manchester Labatts Apollo, Sunday FIRST there was one Jarvis Cocker, then there were two. more...
Symphony halted by disco inferno
Bolton Symphony Orchestra, The British Muse III, Albert Hall, Bolton PAUL Payton, conductor of the Bolton Symphony Orchestra, left the podium on Saturday during the Vaughan Williams' Symphony No 5 in D Major because disco music could be heard from the Festival Hall below. To applause and calls of approval, he said: "I am not prepared to go into the slow movement of this beautiful symphony with that going on." He returned to conduct when the disco music had been turned down. more...
Bolton News
Dream time?
A FEW months ago, another co-op opened its doors in Westhoughton. A certain councillor said it was a "dream come true", how mistaken he was. more...
Beating the bug
APATHETIC local businesses could go bust if they fail to tackle the Millennium Bug issue, it is claimed. Bolton and Bury Chamber leaders are seriously concerned and believe that time is running out for many of their members. A major new campaign -- in line with Government policy -- is aimed at hammering home the message that complacent managements need to act NOW if they are to avoid serious damage when the year 2000 arrives in just over a year's time. Many business computer systems and other electronic devices will fail to recognise the date change from 1999 to 2000. more...
From the files of the Bolton Evening News...
25 YEARS AGO more...
Safety bollards
MAY I, as a resident of Foster Lane for the past 23 years, reply to the article written by Beverley Greenberg regarding the erection of safety bollards on Foster Lane. In the 23 years I have lived here, I have never known there to be an accident on exit to Red Lane. On a simple equation of 23 homes making one exit only per day equals approx 190,000 exits. This figure can easily be doubled considering that a lot of residents use a vehicle more than once a day, also visitors to residents' houses, constant visitors to Marylawns Rest Home, also workmen. Surely these figures speak for themselves? Mrs Bleasedale states that she defies anyone to travel at speed on the part of Foster Lane unadopted. In other words, a dirt track. On reading this statement, I ask myself, if speeding is not possible, why, in several instances, have cars lost control, ending their trip down Foster Lane in the hedgerow or upside down facing our homes? May I also state that the number of residents of both Marlow Close and Foster Lane using the exit on to Dovedale Road daily I could easily count on less fingers than I possess on one hand. On the statement made that residents of Marlow Close are feeling prisoners in their own homes, the word "poppycock" or similar comes to mind. more...
Pride in youth scheme success
THERE will always be critics of new ideas to deal with disruptive youngsters, largely because there is no simple solution to this age-old problem. more...
Daily poem
Melt down Atoms dancing above a table in a blue room. more...
Investigation call
We welcome the call for an investigation into the management of the £1 million scheme to revamp Bolton's Victoria Square. more...
Written objection
I WRITE in reply to the Hunger Hill Community Centre Committee and Mrs M A Willis's comments on my letter October 30. more...
Get this eyesore out of our sight!
RESIDENTS and traders have banded together to make sure a businessman carries out a court order to flatten run down buildings blighting a main route into Bolton. more...
Sleeping families in gas evacuation
FAMILIES were woken from their beds and evacuated in the middle of the night after a gas leak near their Walkden homes. Transco engineers were called to Tynesbank, off Manchester Road East, at 11.30pm after residents reported a strong smell of fumes spilling into their homes from the street. more...
How deep is your love?
A BOLTON husband donned a sub-aqua wetsuit and plunged into freezing water -- to rescue his wife's rings. more...
It's not all good
I refer to Hall Lee Bank Park in Westhoughton. From Park Road to the centre of the Park, all the paths are tarmac'd. There are 10 park benches to sit on, also 10 rubbish bins all along the route. There are steps built to assist climbing. In fact, it is quite a good half. But the rest of the park is a slum -- all mud and pot holes on walkways, no benches, no rubbish bins, no steps to assist up incliners. The entrance at Daisy Hill station is obscure to anyone not knowing it was there. I think all of us in Daisy Hill pay our rates, just the same as our neighbours in Westhoughton. more...
Symphony halted by wedding disco
A CONDUCTOR halted a symphony concert in the Albert Halls because the orchestra was being drowned by disco music. more...
House for sale - only 1,500 miles away
A HOUSE in Farnworth has been put up for sale -- in sunny MALTA. more...
Andrew's exam joy after illness fight
A BOLTON teenager is celebrating passing his exams despite missing more than a year's school as he battled against illness. more...
Housing gets the go-ahead subject to asbestos probe
A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build houses on a site occupied by a builders' yard in Westhoughton has been given the go-ahead by a Government planning inspector. more...
Dance raises £5,000 for sick children
REVELLERS danced their way into the early hours at a charity dinner dance to raise money for sick children. more...
The law is an ass
I write in reply to the letter from J M McNeil regarding a Mukesh Patel. more...
A lethal mixture
A significant number of local residents who have the deepest concerns and gravest reservations regarding the Kearsley Roundabout area, are just ignored. Why? more...
System's subverted
WITH reference to your story about Mr Patel. The injustice that Mr Patel was subjected to illustrates the lack of commonsense in the British judicial system. more...
Bolton Sport
Hot shot hero praises new look defence
HOT shot hero Bob Taylor paid tribute today to his battling Bolton team-mates who have shown they are prepared to "die for the cause". The striker's injury-time goal secured Wanderers their second away win of the season at Ipswich on Saturday and silenced the critics who had questioned their promotion credentials. more...
Burnley News
Teenager saves girl's life in house blaze
TEENAGER David Parkinson fought through flames and thick smoke to save a seven-year-old trapped in a bedroom by a suspected arson attack. more...
Monster 'Frankenstein food' protest outside store
A FRANKENSTEIN monster appeared outside Burnley's Sainsbury store in a demonstration protesting against genetically-engineered foods. more...
Musical Oliver banned at school
OLIVER won't be asking for more at Cliviger Holme C of E School in Burnley -- because the owners of the copyright won't let him! more...
Firms celebrate £12m contract
MORE than 1,000 workers at four East Lancashire firms were celebrating today after they scooped a huge £12 million aerospace contract in a pioneering deal. more...
School is making progress
A JUNIOR school has been praised by inspectors for overcoming most of the weaknesses identified in its last inspection. more...
David runs to raise funds
ARMY Warrant Officer David Rhodes completed a gruelling marathon across Snowdonia to raise money for the hospice where his 24-year-old nephew died. more...
Clitheroe News
Spy cameras move to protect council offices
COUNCILLORS will be asked to agree the installation of a £6,000 closed circuit television scheme aimed at combating crime outside council offices. more...
Lifeboat branch in peril of sinking
A FUND-RAISING group may be forced to fold because of lack of members. more...
Participation is a success
PUBLIC participation at council meetings has been a resounding success, councillors are to be told. more...
Colne News
£4,000 fair sum for school
MORE than £4,000 was raised at Colne Fisher More High School's annual Christmas Fair. more...
Darwen News
Homes end in sight to homes sage
THE saga of a proposed housing development off Milking Lane, Lower Darwen, finally looks about to come to an end. more...
Cash prayers are answered
PARISHIONERS at a historic church were rejoicing today after their prayers for a cash boost were answered. more...
Nelson News
Market gets the hard-sell
MARKET shopping in Nelson has received a £76,000 boost which has created a bright, modern look to the renamed Admiral's Market Place. more...
Club stabbing: Man in court
A MAN aged 20 was due to appear before Burnley magistrates today charged with attempted murder. more...
Rawtenstall News
Problem marquee will have to go
A HOTEL in Rossendale where civil marriages are conducted looks set to get permission to build a single-storey function room. more...
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