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  • Teamwork dividend

    A TEAM of workers is celebrating after a transatlantic pat on the back. American giant Boeing presented a quality award to employees at British Aerospace's Samlesbury site involved in the T45 Goshawk contract for the US Navy. The award came after the

  • Girls springing to jobs success

    'GIRL power' has arrived in East Lancashire! Local women are being invited to take part in the 'Springboard' programme, designed to help women become more confident in their jobs and move up the career ladder. A total of 40 places are available on the

  • Clean-up call over rat-ridden town centre 'health hazard'

    URGENT action is being demanded over a town centre grot spot where rats have been seen and a vagrant has been living in a skip. Burnley Council's public protection committee chairman Councillor Philip Walsh inspected the Burnley car park off Hall Street

  • FIVE YEARS AGO: Children start mill blaze

    YOUNG firebugs started a blaze which caused £10,000 damage at a Darwen paper mill. Fifty tons of paper was destroyed at Chapman Industries Group's Goosehouse depot in Lower Eccleshill Road. Fire brigade sub-officer Paul Yates said: "The fire was started

  • Street secrets revealed in £300,000 restoration

    THE Victorian secrets of a town centre street will be revealed this week as council workmen uncover its old stone setts. Bank Street, Rawtenstall's main shopping street, was closed to traffic yesterday as workmen stripped away the tarmac to reveal the

  • 25-car ice pile-up blocks main road

    MOTORISTS escaped from a 25-car pile-up as a treacherous stretch of ice caused chaos in wintry conditions today. The multi-vehicle crash blocked the A666 near Darwen during the morning rush hour and traffic police from across Lancashire and Greater Manchester

  • Ex-Burnley woman's teddy bear goes on sale worldwide

    A UNIQUE African teddy bear designed by a former Burnley woman has gone on sale worldwide, backed by professional marketing and advertising in specialist overseas magazines. The bear, Sipho, (it means "Gift"), was designed by Janet Changfoot, of Vincent

  • Young lives in danger from selfish bus operators

    REGARDING faulty school buses (LET, April 7), it is only six months or so ago that you ran an article about defective school buses. What is it with these operators? They are playing Russian Roulette with our children's lives. The time has come for the

  • SUPERBIKES: Foggy blasts back to claim podium spot

    CARL FOGARTY gave his fans a late power blast to show what might have been. The twice World Superbike champion had expected to set the pace in the British round of the series at his favourite Donington Park circuit, but only a big slice of luck put him

  • Safety fear in permits wrangle

    IT amazes me that when the council states it is trying to improve Blackburn, they never give a thought to personal safety of people who work in the town. I recently took up the issue of parking on Strawberry Bank and Lower Wellington Street St John's,

  • England's day of pride

    AS an organisation responsible for the sustained promotion of England, the English Tourist Board would like to reassure the English people that we have no intention, and indeed no right, to 'rebrand' St George. After all, we could hardly improve on Shakespeare's

  • Writer wide of the mark over council cash

    AS we approach the height of the 'silly season' when political hacks, knockers, and self-appointed spin doctors emerge to try and sway opinion in the run up to the local elections, I would like to congratulate Mr P Congdon (Letters, April 8) for a fine

  • Butch Cassidy had East Lancashire roots

    Special report BUTCH Cassidy, the notorious Wild West outlaw and folk hero whose roots lie in East Lancashire, is set to be remembered for ever. That is if the man who played him in the classic film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid gets his way. Veteran

  • OBITUARY: Lifetime devoted to the news

    RESPECTED East Lancashire journalist Ken Nixon has died in Burnley General Hospital, aged 70. The former Lancashire Evening Telegraph chief sub-editor and features editor was re-admitted to the hospital on Saturday, where he had recently spent three weeks

  • CLARETS: We got what we deserved, says Hoyland

    CLARETS stalwart Jamie Hoyland today admitted some of Chris Waddle's men had thrown in the towel as Burnley were routed 5-1 at Wigan. And their late collapse could prove fatal if Burnley - marooned in the bottom three - do not bounce back with a win over

  • ROVERS: Euro sceptic Hodgson's ready for fight to finish

    PROBLEMS are piling up for Roy Hodgson and the Blackburn Rovers boss expressed his first real doubts about the club making Europe after last night's Ewood battering by champions-elect Arsenal. Injuries which ruled out Chris Sutton and Damien Duff were

  • CLARETS: It's surrender as Wigan peers run riot

    Wigan Athletic 5 Burnley 1 - Pete Oliver's big match verdict SUICIDAL Burnley made Jeckyll and Hyde look positively one dimensional with this abject performance which had relegation written all over it. Two days after beating table toppers Bristol City

  • ROVERS: Euro dismay as Arsenal make Blackburn look goofy

    Blackburn Rovers 1 Arsenal 4 - Peter White's big match verdict ARSENE Wenger, clearly a master of understatement, used the phrase "It wasn't so bad" about his team's sensational first-half display. Roy Hodgson preferred the word "slaughtered". That was

  • Firm wraps up award

    A PLASTICS factory has won a top national award. RPC Containers, of Guide, has been voted Supplier of the Year in the Packaging Industry awards. "We are delighted to have won the award for the second year running," said factory general manager Reg Bamber

  • Labour members call for action against the mayor

    LABOUR party members are calling for disciplinary action to be taken against Blackburn mayor Coun Peter Greenwood. The move comes after controversial comments made by the Blackburn with Darwen councillor claiming town hall decisions were being taken by

  • Clergy call for protection

    VULNERABLE clergymen should be given protection so they can do their work without putting themselves and their families at risk, claims a Burnley vicar. The Rev Chris Rogers, who is in charge of the parish of West Burnley, has been threatened with violence

  • TEN YEARS AGO: Mother Teresa backs MP

    MOTHER Teresa gave her personal backing to Hyndburn MP Ken Hargreaves in his battle to curb the number of abortions in Britain. The Nobel Prize winner met Mr Hargreaves and Liverpool Liberal David Alton in the House of Commons, before visiting Margaret

  • MP in drink-drive laws storm

    EAST Lancashire MP Gordon Prentice has expressed doubts about plans to strengthen the drink-drive limit. He spoke out as a row erupted over a big brewer's attempt to organise its publicans into a lobby of parliamentarians. Pendle's Labour MP is concerned

  • Cathedral gets eyes in the sky

    A SPATE of car crime has forced clergy at Blackburn Cathedral to instal security cameras in a bid to crack down on vandals. Four closed circuit cameras will be installed around the building after the revelation that worried parishioners have been popping

  • Father's quick action saves home

    A DAD is being hailed a hero after averting disaster during an Easter Monday fire drama at his home. A smoke alarm alerted Paul Corbett and he pounced on bedroom curtains which were engulfed in flames. And his family have thrown their weight behind the

  • RUGBY LEAGUE: Lucky Lynx escape with a draw

    Lancashire Lynx 20 Barrow Border Raiders 20 AFTER Good Friday's postponement at Oldham, Lynx got their season under way with a hard-earned draw against Barrow at Deepdale. Overall Lynx can count themselves fortunate to earn a point against a very well

  • Homes bar shock on Asians

    SOME housing staff in Burnley deliberately withheld offers of council houses to Asian families, it has been revealed. They did so, says an official report, to protect Asian applicants at the top of the housing list from racial harassment. But the practice

  • Parking fees and the council's hypocrisy

    REGARDING the 31.5 per cent increase in long-stay parking charges by Blackburn with Darwen Council, I have been informed that the cost of my quarterly pass for the car park behind Blackburn College has increased from £38 to £50. I complained to a member

  • Joe is alive and well!

    IT SEEMS that Blackburn's mayor, Coun Peter Greenwood, may have to suffer more than snubs to the Mayor's Ball after he complained in this newspaper that power in the Labour-run town hall was in too few hands. For now moves are afoot in the party to have

  • Time travellers dress for the occasion!

    A TRIP back in time was experienced by pupils in year 5 and 6 at Brunshaw County Primary School when they went on an educational visit to Wigan Pier. To get us in the mood for time travelling, we dressed up in Victorian costume, then went into Trencherfield

  • Allocation of houses must be seen to be fair

    THE CAN of worms opened at Burnley town hall over alleged queue-jumping in the waiting list for council houses turns out to be deeper than it seemed at first. For though two councillors have been censured and suspended for telling staff to give preference

  • Put it in writing...

    AS schools throughout the country are preparing for government initiatives to encourage literacy in young people, many local schools have already started their own schemes which address the subject. Brunshaw County Primary School in Burnley, is one school

  • Learning to love books

    By SUE BOLTON and SUSAN MAXWELL (Brunshaw CP School teachers) TWO major initiatives aimed at improving standards of literacy and promoting parental involvement in raising pupil achievement in literacy have been launched at Brunshaw County Primary School

  • Clog chuckers crack it for Daniel

    GIRLS proved themselves better than the boys when it came to chucking clogs around at a Rossendale pub's fund-raiser. Young Carrie-Anne Preston threw her clog 45ft, four feet further than the best boys' entry from Daniel Barnes. But the real winner from

  • Teaming up to tackle cancer

    CHRISTIE Hospital chiefs outlined the "massive team effort" going into keeping the North West at the forefront of progress in cancer cures on a visit to East Lancashire. Hospital chairman John Lee and a team of the hospital's internationally-respected

  • Health Trusts plug cash gaps

    HEALTH chiefs have admitted that a lack of money will restrict the number of new developments over the next 12 months. The revelation follows a series of crisis talks which have managed to plug financial shortfalls at the three main NHS trusts in East

  • Teenager dies in crash

    A DISTRAUGHT teenage driver today spoke of his heartbreak after his best friend was killed in a horrific smash. Former Crosshill Special School pupil Zafir Ahmed, 19, of Whitendale Crescent, Blackburn, died after a Toyota Carina spun out of control and

  • CLARETS: Turf Moor bankers check out Shackleton deal

    THE Burnley bankers were today checking Peter Shackleton's takeover credentials. As the Lancashire Evening Telegraph revealed yesterday, Shackleton's £12 million package has been accepted in principle by the Clarets board. And, if the bank is satisfied

  • CLARETS: Time running out for Waddle's men

    Cummings and Goings - a fan's eye view of the season, with Stephen Cummings I AM writing this article only moments after the final whistle on Easter Monday. The Clarets have just gone down by five goals to one against Wigan Athletic and, although the