TWO major shopping plans that could create hundreds of jobs in Colne will come before councillors this week. Asda and Boundary Mill Stores have submitted a joint plan to extend their Corporation Street stores, creating up to 180 new posts, while Pendle
A SECOND-hand dealer who had unlicensed guns and dead protected animals at his shop and house has been sent to jail for four months. Frank Holmes, 43, found the items in house clearances and a judge, sitting with two magistrates, accepted the weapons
A BLACKBURN man used false names to avoid prosecution on two occasions. Sean Fleming escaped detection for driving offences but the lies eventually caught up witn him and landed him with a six month jail sentence. Fleming, 22, of Ashville Terrace, Blackburn
POTENTIAL Burnley target Frank Petter Kval has cut short his season in Norway to bolster his chances of landing a dream move to Turf Moor. Kval was due to have flown into the country this morning and expected to link up again with Burnley after ruling
BLACKBURN Rovers have rejected a £3.5 million bid for skipper Tim Sherwood from Spurs. The crisis club made a formal request on Friday after Ewood boss Roy Hodgson had turned down a preliminary inquiry from Spurs supremo David Pleat. But chief executive
COUNTRY pubs should get satellite sports on the cheap so that rural drinkers can watch Premiership soccer, a landlord has said. Michael Taylor, of the Bayley Arms in Hurst Green, has enlisted the help of Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans in a campaign to get
Eric Leaver explores a monument to Victorian railway engineering THE breadth of vision of our Victorian ancestors is well-documented. But the sheer courage and enterprise that gave birth to the Sough railway tunnel under the bleak Cranberry Moors south
THE melt-down of money in Russia may in terms of numbers mean little when that country's economy is worth only one per cent of that of the world as a whole, but the political power struggle going on there against the background of its financial crisis
IF THERE is an ideal time politically for ditching proposals that have turned sour, then the long summer parliamentary recess must be it. Add this the torpor of a bank holiday - and, moreover, one on which the news is inevitably dominated by the first
IWONDER how readers would react if I said: 'What about pobbies?' These are a mixture of bread softened with hot water and drained and then beaten up with warm milk, sugar and a tiny knob of butter. Babies used to have them in their bottles, with a wide
YOUR 'Grime Watch' report (LET, August 22) on the state of the back street in Grove Street, Blackburn, once again gives the impression this is an unusual sight when, in fact, in many areas it's 'normal.' Last week, the filth at the back of Addison Street
WHAT's the price of life - when politicians shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted implement or propose draconian laws? I'm thinking not only of your surprising editorial (LET, August 25), which endorses this view in the aftermath of Omagh
A MAN was due to appear in court today charged with attempted murder after an incident in which a 33-year-old man received stab wounds to the chest. Arthur Bradley, 63, of Hinton Street, was arrested on Saturday and was due to appear before Burnley magistrates
A TEENAGE girl was subjected to a serious sexual assault as she walked in a ginnel near to her home. The 16-year-old was walking along the path between Wellfield Road and Harefield Rise, Ightenhill, Burnley, at 1.15 am on Friday when she was attacked.
A COUPLE involved in supplying heroin to undercover police are awaiting sentence. Judge David Pirie asked for transcripts of tape recordings after Burnley Crown Court heard mother-of-two Amanda Ryan, 23, who has no previous convictions, would not have
A FRANTIC family spent a sleepless night waiting for news of eight-year-old Karl Muir after he went missing for more than 18 hours. The youngster failed to return to his home in Brigg Field, Clayton-le-Moors, after collecting a drill and groceries from
A WORKER who started life as a junior typist in a lawyer's office has now passed exams which make her a senior residential conveyancer. Staff at Farleys, which has offices in Accrington, Burnley and Blackburn have congratulated Julie Alveston on her success
UNQUALIFIED driver Kim Walsh told a court she panicked and got behind the wheel of her husband's Ford Transit van after being told by police her husband, son and brother-in-law had been involved in a road accident. Walsh, 39, formerly of Clifton Street
A MAJOR East Lancashire lighting company has expanded into manufacturing in a £62,00 move to the Carrs Industrial Estate, Haslingden. Four new jobs have been created by Chantelle Manufacturing Ltd which has been set up as sole supplier of all orders from
R & B FestivalDAY three started with exciting young Barnoldswick band Twisted Wheel who churned out a series of quality covers, writes BRIAN WOOD. Electric and eccentric New Zealander Mike Brosnan brought us weird and wonderful renditions of new material
A COUNCIL has turned down the chance of making £1,000 a year from a business card dispenser. A firm which already has dispensers in registrars' offices approached Rossendale Council for permission to locate one in the council's planning offices at Stubbylee
R & B Festival DAY two provided us all with a development for the Colne R and B festival - a showcase for rising stars. And on the strength of this extraordinary showing, British blues is in its best state since the heady '60s. Kicking off early,
A DIRECTOR of a carpet manufacturing firm destroyed by fire said today it was too early to say how the blaze will affect the company's future. But Roger Stewart, one of the partners in National Carpet Group, said he was in contact with the 70-strong work
VOTERS could soon be asked how they want Blackburn with Darwen Council to serve them better. Councillors are to consider asking the polling organisation MORI to conduct the survey, which will consist of 1,000 interviews in residents' homes across a representative
EAST Lancashire schools will struggle to fill vacant teaching posts if measures are not taken to attract graduates into the profession, according to a union boss. Simon Jones, the NUT's spokesman in the area, says head teachers have told him applications
Division Two: Walsall 3 Burnley 1 - Pete Oliver's big match verdict THERE is definitely light at the end of the tunnel for Burnley, despite Darren Wrack flicking the switch on this performance with two goals inside the last three minutes. The hard facts
THE mystery publisher of a leaflet encouraging hospital staff to flout parking restrictions around Blackburn Infirmary has been slammed by angry residents. The leaflet says traffic wardens are seen only "once in a blue moon" in the area and the odds of
Premier League: Blackburn Rovers 1 Leicester City 0 - Peter White's big match verdict THE legend of the SAS has long since blended into Ewood history but Roy Hodgson is clearly a boss who still believes in the maxim 'Who dares, wins'. It takes a brave
Burnley Rambling Group: Plunge Valley with Jim Redmond. 1pm Manchester bus to Bank Street, Rawtenstall. Friendship Club meet Livesey Community Hall, York Terrace, Feniscowles, Blackburn, 2pm. Blackburn Breast Care Support Group meet Beardwood Hospital
THE camera never lies, they say, but the photographer who ran a shop in Sudell Cross, Blackburn, in the early years of this century was evidently more interested in making things seem what they weren't. It was a mission that cost him his business - but
NEARLY 100 workers at the giant engineering firm Platt Saco Lowell UK were set to lose their jobs. The shock news was delivered to the works committee at Accrington despite earlier assurances that jobs were safe. It was understood that 99 job losses were
GIPSY squatters who brought chaos and anger to a village left their illegal campsite just before a deadline for eviction ran out. About 70 gipsy families were woken at 7am to be told they had to move off the football field on Bolton Avenue, Huncoat, by
Lancashire Lynx 64 Workington Town 25 LANCASHIRE Lynx confirmed their promotion to rugby league's Division One with an 11 try rout over Workington at Deepdale. This victory should also confirm their position as champions although mathematically York could
MIKE Atherton and John Crawley are Lancashire's doubts as they continue to bid for the treble at Old Trafford tomorrow. They face Derbyshire in a championship match at Old Trafford which is much more than a dress rehearsal for Saturday's NatWest Trophy
THE Vaux Ribblesdale League Championship looks set to go all the way to the last match of the season with just six points between Padiham, Ribblesdale Wanderers and Clitheroe in third place. Padiham slipped up, falling to defeat by Barnoldswick despite
CARL Fogarty kept his hopes of a third World Superbikes championship alive with two podium finishes in Austria. But the Blackburn ace could have closed the gap even further had he not mis-read a pit-board on the penultimate lap of race two as Aaron Slight
NELSON fans must have felt well and truly browned off after Burnley extended the race for the Lancashire League title into another week. But, then, so were the majority of this bumper Bank Holiday crowd after Peter Brown and co. batted out the last 25
EAST Lancs' title hopes are still alive despite a dramatic last over defeat at the hands of Corrie Jordaan and Rishton at Blackburn Road. Chasing the home side's formidable 211-6, East Lancs needed eight runs off Jordaan's last over with two wickets in
PHILIP PUGH, of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (Letters, August 24), objects to the use of the word 'bred' with reference to the red grouse. He sees this as a mark of the ignorance of those outsiders who protest at the grouse's
AN eleventh-hour petition has provided a temporary reprieve for conker trees facing the chop in a Burnley street. The "Woodman - save that tree" call came from Windermere Avenue residents as councillors were poised to order the removal of 20 giant horse
BAXENDEN Chemicals have appointed Mark Garrett as their new product manager in the speciality chemicals division. Mr Garrett was previously a development chemist at Courtaulds Coatings after completing a degree in chemistry at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
POTENTIAL Burnley target Frank Petter Kval has cut short his season in Norway to bolster his chances of landing a dream move to Turf Moor. Kval was due to have flown into the country this morning and expected to link up again with Burnley after ruling
A FAMILY printing firm is sailing to success in more ways than one. John E Hacking (Printers) Ltd is a small family-owned and run colour and commercial printing company based at Church. The firm is now in its 101st year and managed by the fourth generation
BLACKBURN Rovers have rejected a £3.5 million bid for skipper Tim Sherwood from Spurs. The crisis club made a formal request on Friday after Ewood boss Roy Hodgson had turned down a preliminary inquiry from Spurs supremo David Pleat. But chief executive
LANCASHIRE'S aerospace industry will be promoted at the 50th Farnborough International Air Show from September 7 to 13. The Consortium of Lancashire Aerospace, including Lancashire County Council, has booked a stand to promote the industry, which supports
POLICE mingled with revellers in a friendly clampdown on possible Bank Holiday weekend trouble in Accrington. Mounted police, foot patrols and dog handlers were involved in the high-profile operation on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. It ended in
NATIONAL automotive business Quicks Group has announced a profits increase of nearly £2 million for the first half of the year. The group, which is based in Manchester, has interests in the sale of new and used cars and commercial vehicles, parts distribution
JEREMY RICHARDS looks at the phenomenally successful Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival in Colne ONCE a year a quiet East Lancashire town gets the blues . . . and tens of thousands of visitors love every minute of it. Each August Bank Holiday weekend
A MAJOR manufacturing contract is speeding along the runway to success to help secure jobs in Burnley. The first unit has rolled off the production line at Hurel-Dubois UK just a fortnight after the firm started work on air inlets for regional jets. Hurel-Dubois
THOUSANDS flocked to Barrowford's traditional agricultural show - and some visitors even found themselves being herded by a sheepdog in an unusual display in the main arena! Stuart Welton, from South Yorkshire, delighted the crowd with his geese herding
A NELSON company has cut down the amount of waste it sends to landfill by donating it to various organisations for use in arts and craft work. Waste produced by ribbon manufacturers Charles Clay and Sons of Spring Bank Mills, Every Street, Nelson, is
A CONMAN who has netted up to £100,000 in a national cheque fraud could have cost a Darwen family their dream home. Devastated John Buchan today warned others to be on their guard as he comes to terms with losing a £7,200 caravan. He has become the latest
