A TROUBLED primary school is set to be given the thumbs-down as it bids to throw up a ring of steel to improve security before the new term starts. Hyndburn planning bosses will discuss plans to erect a new fence at St Mary's RC Primary School, Clayton-le-Moors
TWO holidaymakers said they would rather have stayed at home after claiming they spent two weeks in a flea-infested hotel in Benidorm. John Westwell, 23, and David Keryk, 20, spent £290 each on a Club 18-30 package holiday, but are now demanding a full
A SALVATION Army centre for the homeless in Blackburn is out of debt for the first time in several years. The Heaton Street centre's annual report has revealed that "careful control of expenditure" has brought about the upturn in fortunes. And it is hoped
THE GREAT grandfather who thought of tragic Dillon Hull as the apple of his eye has died without seeing the boy's killer brought to justice. Victor Procter suffered a heart attack and died in January, aged 81. Dillon would often pop in to see Victor and
LORRY drivers fear attacks from desperate stowaways as East Lancashire transport firms today called for urgent action to tackle the refugee problem in Europe. In the last fortnight at least 80 stowaways have been found hidden in trailers operated by East
A BLACKBURN grandmother is launching a campaign to improve the toilet facilities in local parks. Christine Rostron was disgusted when she visited Corporation Park with some of her grandchildren to find the toilets nearest the children's play area locked
KEVIN Davies is set for his home debut for Blackburn Rovers on Friday night with Ewood boss Roy Hodgson claiming the best has yet to come from the £7.25 million new boy. And it could be a few more weeks before the former Chesterfield and Southampton striker
PAUL Weller insists he has no desire to leave Turf Moor despite playing for a contract with Premiership outfit West Ham. Weller has turned down a new three-year deal at Burnley and is currently training with the Hammers. But the 23-year-old says only
A SPECIAL service was held at Trinity Methodist Church, Clitheroe, to mark the departure of the Rev Michael Fielding. Mr Fielding and his wife, Pauline, have spent the last five years at the Parson Lane church but have now moved to Blackpool. Mr Fielding
AUDITORS were called in to investigate "major problems" behind the axing of an East Lancashire factory and 200 jobs. Blackburn MP Jack Straw demanded an explanation of a holding company's "disgraceful" closure of Premier Building Systems at Whitebirk.
A DOCTOR won a reprieve in his battle to keep his community surgery open. Dr Gullam Bhatt faced notice to quit his terraced premises in Ryddings Street, Oswaldtwistle, after complaints from neighbours about parking problems in the busy cul-de-sac. But
READING the complaints about Blackburn with Darwen Council services (Letters, July 30) made me wonder what happens at the next council or general elections? Will these same people happily go out and vote Labour, or will they still believe in fairies?
FORMER Blackburn Harrier Jason Lobo will have one last chance to achieve the qualifying time to make the squad for the European Championships in Budapest later this month. Lobo, who now runs for Belgrave Harriers, has had his place confirmed in the 800
AFTER years of prevarication over homosexuality, the Church of England was today heading for a crunch on the controversy as bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion were poised to vote on it. In effect, they will be declaring whether homosexual practices
FORMER Stonyhurst College pupil Iain Balshaw is to take another giant step on the road to full international rugby union status after selection for the Commonwealth Games. He travels to Kuala Lumpur in September as a member of the England squad to play
WITH the football season nearly upon us, can anyone tell me why, on Sundays, the congregations of St Andrew's Church, Livesey, and St Bartholomew's, Ewood, are allowed to park their cars outside. These cause an obstruction, but fans of Blackburn Rovers
REGARDING the demise of Royal Ordnance at Blackburn (LET, July 27), three events are responsible for this. First is the greed of one man placing orders abroad illegally, with them never to return. Secondly, a socialist government is always committed to
JIM McCluskie bagged his first goal since quitting Accrington Stanley in Chorley's comfortable friendly victory at Skelmersdale United. First half strikes from new boys McCluskie and Simon Whittle and a header from Colin Potts gave the Magpies a 3-2 interval
I WAS disgusted to read (LET, July 29) about the Euro ban on young milk round helpers, as my 15-year-old son works on one. The money he earns goes on clothes that he buys for himself as I cannot always afford to buy all the clothes and things that teenagers
IN reply to Alec Leaver (Letters, July 31) concerning legalising cannabis, a 'perfectly harmless drug' it may be - as I know, having tried it myself - but can you imagine this product being released on prescription to the public at large? Such a move
A WOMAN was filmed trying to steal a dress and cheat a store. Susan Atherton, 42, of Whalley Road, Padiham, pleaded guilty to stealing a dress worth £50 from Marks and Spencer, Bolton, and trying to obtain a refund by deception. Mr Andrew Gowar, prosecuting
TESTS are being carried out in an effort to find out what killed 21-year-old John Bradley. Mr Bradley died in hospital on Friday, five days after being found collapsed in the house in Chipping Grove, Burnley, which he shared with his grandmother. He never
PAUL Weller insists he has no desire to leave Turf Moor despite playing for a contract with Premiership outfit West Ham. Weller has turned down a new three-year deal at Burnley and is currently training with the Hammers. But the 23-year-old says only
KIDS will be going bananas at a holiday club run by a Sunday school in Accrington next week. Antley Methodist Church, Blackburn Road, is the venue for the children's activity group which starts on Tuesday, August 11, and runs until Friday, August 14.
FAST food shops are spreading faster in an East Lancashire town than their customers' waistlines, according to a worried councillor. Tony Leo said Nelson was 'overflowing' with takeaways as another plan to change a shop into a fast food outlet was put
LAND Rover enthusiasts are being given the chance to show off their favourite four-wheel-drives in a once-in-a-lifetime competition. Hillendale Land Rover, Lomeshaye Business Park, Nelson, is hosting the local heat of a nationwide scheme aimed at tracking
IN THE grip of the anti-car obsession that Jaguar-driving John Prescott is flogging as an environmentally-friendly policy, the government axes more than 100 road improvement schemes and slashes the budget for them by £4.6billion. The simplistic rationale
gheTODAY we launch the Lancashire Evening Telegraph's annual Grimewatch competition - now in its 10th trailblazing year. The competition is the highlight of our wider campaign make East Lancashire a better place to live by encouraging people to look after
The opinions expressed by John Blunt are not necessarily those of this newspaper IS THERE no end to the Church of England's death-wish desire to be trendy? For now, we hear, bishops are to go clubbing in an attempt to persuade young people to go to church
A RETIRED councillor who campaigned for a bench to be installed at a popular meeting place has blasted vandals who have caused hundreds-of-pounds worth of damage to it. Bill Birch, who served on Darwen Council for more than 20 years, is furious that the
AN ambitious scheme to convert the empty office block of an old bleach works into a conference centre with bedrooms and a caretaker's flat have failed to win planners' backing. The project would involve large-scale development of part of the former Holden
IT was a case of life imitating art on the path of true romance for Rawtenstall-born actress Anna-Jane Casey today. Anna-Jane and her co-star Graham Macduff had to kiss passionately on stage every night playing lovebirds Anita and Bernardo in the touring
GOLDEN girls Christine Dempsey and Lauren Leach are celebrating after picking up five gold medals and two bronze between them at the transplant games. It was the first games for Christine, 16, of Whalley Drive, Rawtenstall, who had a liver transplant
POLICE officers responding to late night incidents are not receiving the back-up they need, according to Lancashire Police Federation. Authority chiefs are set to hold emergency talks with federation members to discuss the alleged problems. The talks
FAST food giant McDonald's has pulled out of its battle with Pendle Council to get permission to build a controversial drive-through restaurant. The international company was due to take on the council during a two-day planning inquiry next month after
LORRY drivers fear attacks from desperate stowaways as East Lancashire transport firms today called for urgent action to tackle the refugee problem in Europe. In the last fortnight alone at least 80 stowaways have been found hidden in trailers operated
JIMMY McIlroy , one of only two former Burnley players named among the 100 League legends, today welcomed the honour saying: "It's nice to be remembered." But McIlroy - long since a legend at Turf Moor - admits he was surprised at some of the players
FOR the past two years Frances Goetzee has been unable to walk more than a yard without a crippling pain in her legs, but doctors have so-far been unable to diagnose the reason. They suspected the pensioner, 78, had pains in her calves and knees because
DILLON Hull will be remembered as the five-year-old whose bright, young life was tragically cut short by a gun. Those who knew him remembered him as a loveable little boy who was a ray of light in the community where he grew up. He had lived in Walsh
As Rovers' towering defender signs for Glasgow Rangers, PETER WHITE gives his personal tribute. ON a cold March night at Ewood in 1987, Blackburn Rovers fans were given a glimpse of the future - and they liked what they saw. A big, bold, buccaneering
Summer Playschemes, Daisyfield Community Centre; Mill Hill Community Centre, both Blackburn, 1.30-4pm. Summer Playscheme, Sudellside Community Centre, Darwen, 1.30-4pm. Sailing/canoeing at Rivington Lake, age 11 plus, meet Ivy Street Community Centre,
CLITHEROE Town Council's clerk has retired after more than 25 years in local government. Peter Roberts, who is in his 60s, had been the clerk at Clitheroe for five years and handed in his resignation at the council's finance meeting on Monday. He worked
Valerie Cowan Surfs the Net IF you have ever wondered where the science ends and the fiction begins in Star Trek, David Allen Batchelor might have the answer. The American physicist has a web page outlining just how realistic some of the concepts in the
MAY I thank whoever dumped two sacks of rubbish in the back street between Francis Street and St George's Avenue in Mill Hill, Blackburn? If it wasn't for people like them there would be more money to spend on essentials, rather than on cleaning up after
CLEARLY, the government's bid to deliver on its already-tarnished pledge to cut NHS waiting lists by bringing in thousands more trained nurses and training places suffered a severe setback today - as recruitment to the profession was revealed to be plunging
CORRIE Jordaan has agreed terms to return for a second season as Rishton professional next summer. The South African spinner has taken 60 wickets so far in a rain-ruined season, following his 100-wicket haul for Lowerhouse last year. Rishton chairman
IT clearly shows the stupidity of the last government that they allocated an additional £35 million to Blackburn for improvements - a town that has returned a Labour MP for over 50 years and with a massive Labour majority on the council, while Blackpool
NEIL Fairbrother will play for the rest of the season with a cracked ankle to help treble-chasing Lancashire. Fairbrother returned to the Championship team against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford today after missing the last two games with an ankle ligament
REGARDING the remarks of Ian Davies (Letters, July 31), he is obviously not aware of the true facts about Blackburn Town Hall's housing department. They do not evict decent tenants. In fact, it takes them all their time to evict the bad ones. So why his
BLACK Cat has proved lucky again for Moorhouse Brewery which has scooped another top award for their mild. CAMRA awarded Black Cat beer third prize in the Champion Beer of Britain 1998 competition and first prize in the mild beer section at their annual
A MAN was shot in the face by an armed robber as he chased him away from the scene of a hold-up. The fleeing man had just tried to rob a building society agency and insurance office at Ightenhill, Burnley, and was being chased along a nearby street when
A COMPANY director told today how he was shot in the face when he confronted a gunman after an attempted armed raid. Barry Putson, 51, chased the robber after he ran out of Carole Parker's Insurance offices in Padiham Road, Burnley, yesterday teatime.
KEVIN Davies is set for his home debut for Blackburn Rovers on Friday night with Ewood boss Roy Hodgson claiming the best has yet to come from the £7.25 million new boy. And it could be a few more weeks before the former Chesterfield and Southampton striker
A THIEF who pushed a car along an Accrington street fled when the owner confronted him. The Asian thief tried to force a lock on the car in Garbett Street before smashing a window at about 12.30am on Monday. The man, who ran off towards Higher Antley
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy I HAVE to smile sometimes when I read reports written by people who always look on the dark side of life. Some are now suggesting that our rivers are becoming too clean and that, because of too little manure in the water
AN event to help East Lancashire firms get to grips with technology is in the pipeline. The Lancashire Information Technology Support Centre is staging a free business seminar next month. The event will look at areas including e-mail and the Millennium
A CLUTCH of new contracts has been won after a £750,000 factory expansion. Caswell Engineering of Haslingden recently increased manufacturing capacity by 70 per cent by building a new factory unit at its Knowsley Road Industrial Estate. The firm has recently
CLEARLY, sacked Welfare Reform minister Frank Field was highly regarded by Tony Blair to begin with, in that, within hours of winning the election, he handed him responsibility for a flagship New Labour policy and still wanted him in the government team
HELP is at hand for anyone interested in entering Grimewatch. Our new Grimewatch co-ordinator Lynn Schofield is just a phone call away for anyone with a problem or query. She takes over from last year's co-ordinator Jennie Kernot, who has returned to
LABOUR Party members have backed Lancashire Central Euro MP Mark Hendrick to stand in next year's historic European Parliament elections. June's elections will be the first national poll in Britain under proportional representation and 93 per cent of
LORRY drivers fear attacks from desperate stowaways as East Lancashire transport firms today called for urgent action to tackle the refugee problem in Europe. In the last fortnight alone at least 80 stowaways have been found hidden in trailers operated
