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  • Hotel complex appoints new PR

    A HOTEL complex has appointed a new firm to head up its marketing and public relations effort. The Mytton Fold Hotel and golf complex at Langho is employing Mellor-based Mike Crossley Associates. Previous news story Converted for the new archive on 14

  • Award for Rolls-Royce

    AERO engine firm Rolls-Royce has won a major marketing award. The firm, which employs more than 1,000 at its Barnoldswick site, won the accolade in the Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards for its marketing strategy for the Trent family of engines

  • Primary teacher in line for a leading union role

    A PRIMARY school teacher is hoping to become one of the first people in East Lancashire to be voted into a top union position. Simon Jones of St James School, Blackburn, wants to become National Executive Member for the National Union of Teachers in Blackburn

  • TEN YEARS AGO: Oil search set to begin

    THE search for oil buried beneath East Lancashire was set to begin, as a licence was granted to an oil and gas company. Sovereign Oil and Gas were awarded a six year licence by the Department of Energy to drill in an area bounded by Great Mitton, Barrowford

  • Gravestone tragedy highlights flaw in legal aid system

    A CLAIM for compensation following the tragic death of 11-year-old David Crossley will run into thousands of pounds. David died at the weekend 16 months after being crushed by a gravestone in Burnley Cemetery. His family's solicitor, Basil Dearing, said

  • Fears for historic hall as pub firm plans revamp

    A SCHEME to transform an historic hall and conservatory into a pub has worried residents and local councillors. Pendle Council is considering letting Marsden Hall, Nelson, for use as a pub or pub restaurant after several attempts to run it as a traditional

  • Trader Dave goes bananas at council threat to his display

    AN ANGRY trader is poised to do battle over displays of fruit and vegetables outside his town centre shop. David Brass, of Banana News, Clitheroe, has been told by highways bosses to move the small grocery display from the pavement outside his Castle

  • Brilliant bridgework

    CREDIT where credit is due. Some workmen have just completed a new bridge over the river near where I live. It is hidden away from the road just at the entrance to Towneley Hall, off Todmorden Road. The bridge was a mess before and now it's really sturdy

  • RUGBY: England call for Balshaw

    FORMER Stonyhurst College student, Iain Balshaw, has been called up to join the full England training squad due to assemble at Bisham Abbey today. And he should recognise some familiar faces when Clive Woodward's squad meets up because Stonyhurst old

  • Crash rescuers stopped village gas catastrophe

    GARAGE engineer Ian Whalley and gas engineer David Dean were thanked by a coroner for preventing a village catastrophe in Cliviger. The couple fought to turn off an underground gas supply tap after a car embedded itself into a garage gable wall, fracturing

  • No way to bring up children

    DO the parents of the child, who upset my son on January 31, at Waves Leisure Centre in Blackburn, not wonder where their child acquired his new Adidas buttoned pants? Have they not asked how he or she managed to go swimming and come back with a new pair

  • Not so easy, is it?

    DEEPER still goes the hospital waiting lists plight in East Lancashire as patients head for 18-month waits for operations and a funding crisis threatens cuts. Health bosses are not be envied the tough choices they face. But this is symptomatic of a growing

  • I see Pendle and I'm home

    VALERIE COWAN talks to former Coronation Street actor MALCOLM HEBDEN LIFE could have been very different for Malcolm Hebden. He started his working life as a window dresser in Burnley - a far cry from his career now as an actor and director. Malcolm -

  • Eye-in-the-sky county survey set for take-off

    PLANS for a £65,000 bird's eye photographic survey of the whole of Lancashire are ready for take-off. Lancashire County Council is proposing to carry out the aerial survey this summer and is asking each of the 14 districts in the county to chip in towards

  • Double tops!

    IDENTICAL twins Lynsey and Jaclyn Fisher are double tops! The 20-year-olds from Blackburn have both achieved their level four NVQ and HNC qualifications at the same time as their Duke of Edinburgh Gold Awards. The sisters, former pupils at Pleckgate High

  • Export orders put firm on crest of a wave

    EXPORT orders worth £100,000 have been won by a furnishing firm. Panaz Limited of Fence has secured contracts as part of the refurbishment of two cruise liners for P&O and one owned by Royal Olympic Cruises. Panaz specialises in producing flame retardant

  • Sunday shopping comes to town as traders take on rivals

    SUNDAY shopping is to come to Blackburn this April as the fight back against rival centres is stepped up. Bosses at Blackburn's shopping centre are determined to keep up with their closest neighbours in the battle to win customers. And they are also concerned

  • Factory plan to create 80 jobs

    UP to 80 new jobs could be created at a Hyndburn engineering firm if a proposed £500,000 factory extension gets the go-ahead. Raven Engineering (Pressings) Ltd is seeking planning permission to extend its factory in Metcalf Drive, on the Altham industrial

  • Nightclub 'insensitive' to epileptic girlfriend

    A NIGHTCLUB manager has defended the way his staff handled an incident when a woman had an epileptic fit. Catherine Rutter, 25, suffered a fit at Lar-de-Dars, Accrington, during a night out with her boyfriend Neil Hardicker, 23. Neil claims doormen were

  • FIVE YEARS AGO: Brewery exports to Brits!

    BARMY bureaucracy meant East Lancashire drinkers could buy beer cheaper on the continent than they could at the corner shop. Blackburn brewing giant Daniel Thwaites started exporting its beers to France - to sell back to British shoppers! Duty on a pint

  • Greens demand action after chlorine gas leak

    THE accidental mixing of two highly toxic chemicals caused a gas leak at a council leisure centre, investigations have revealed. And the North West Green Party has called for tougher safeguards on the storage and shipment of chemicals after the leak on

  • Who are they trying to fool?

    IF we accept the single currency (the Euro) will we still be 'cool' Britannia? More like fool Britannia! DAVID BULLEN, Albany Road, Blackburn. Previous news story Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been

  • Thanks for kindness

    MY husband took my disablement book to the post office in Preston New Road, Blackburn, and then unfortunately lost it. It was returned through the post, but I have no idea who sent it back. I would like to say a big thank-you to them as I am delighted

  • Folk music cash plea hits wrong note with council

    ANGRY organisers of a top folk festival have hit out after claiming they have been refused arts funding because the event does not feature "world music". But cash-strapped Lancashire County Council has said few funds are available for one-off events after

  • Licences not free for all

    I AGREE heartily with Mr Robert Stansfield, of Pensioners' Voice (LET, February 24) when he says pensioners would be among the hardest hit by the cost of TV licences going up. But he says that pensioners in sheltered accommodation get free licences, whereas

  • ICE HOCKEY: Fife Flyers 14 - Lancashire Hawks 7

    THE M People left Lancashire Hawks searching for a hero last night - but no one emerged. Hawks were crushed in Kirkcaldy as Fife's dynamic import duo of Mark Morrison and Frank Morris had a beano. So often Hawks' tormentors in the past, Morrison and Morris

  • Take the litterbugs to court

    I SYMPATHISE with Mr S Spence (Letters, February 18) about the state of his area, but feel he is a bit naive to expect local councillors to do anything about it. The last government, realising how ineffective councillors were, provided the means - through

  • Put people's needs first

    DISABLED council tenants in Hyndburn are having to wait unacceptable lengths of time for vital adaptations to their homes (LET, February 27). What makes the wait even harder to accept is that Hyndburn's Labour-controlled council has stashed in its bank

  • Is New Labour big enough for reform?

    IF THE Tories did not trust local government when they were in charge at Westminster, does the New Labour government love it any better as it stands - even though the party has such a grip on the town halls? Hardly - going off Tony Blair's radical proposals

  • No, not the Iron Lady

    GARTH Edwards, of Blackburn Civic Society, may be a very knowledgeable person, but if he believes the Mother and Child sculpture on Blackburn Boulevard is modelled on Mrs Thatcher (LET, February 25), he is clearly wrong. Here are several pieces of evidence

  • Soccer girls' goal

    A GIRLS' seven-a-side football competition was held at Hyndburn Sports Centre to celebrate International Women's Week. The under 12s tournament was won by Peel Park Primary School, Accrington, and the runners-up were Huncoat Primary School. They were

  • Blunder-land!

    The John Blunt column - The opinions expressed by John Blunt are not necessarily those of this newspaper GIVEN the amounts of debt they have written off in the past, I am all for Blackburn with Darwen Council showing fresh zeal in chasing council tax

  • Scheme will aid children at risk

    A FOSTER parents scheme will be set up in Blackburn and Darwen over the next few months. The aim is to have a system in place which will ensure the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the borough are properly protected. The move is part of the

  • Council gets its sums right over council tax

    FINANCE staff have been praised after a borough council kept to a minimum its share of the council tax increase. Ribble Valley Council leader Howel Jones praised finance director Marshall Scott and his team for their good work after the authority kept

  • CLARETS: Matthew hit by ban setback

    DAMIAN Matthew was more frustrated than most last night at the sight of a waterlogged Turf Moor pitch which has ruled him out of a return to action at Walsall on Saturday. The Burnley midfielder has missed the last two games with a calf strain which coincided

  • ROVERS: Hendry urges Hoddle rethink

    WORLD Cup certainty Colin Hendry believes Chris Sutton's performances and goals could yet force Glenn Hoddle to rethink his England plans. And the Blackburn Rovers defender finds it "beyond belief" that Ewood skipper Tim Sherwood has not yet figured in