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Stories for 16 November 1999
Accrington News
Skating rink for town centre
VISITORS to Accrington town centre will be able to get their skates on - whatever the weather - when a portable ice rink is erected during the run-up to Christmas. more...
Baseball gang in attack terror
A GANG wielding baseball bats attacked a man as he walked through Accrington town centre, leaving him in hospital with head injuries. more...
Blackburn Business
Prospects look good
PROSPECTS at engineering group L Gardner, parent firm of Cleveland Guest, are "encouraging" after the firm announced a leap in profits. more...
Italy take off
WORKERS at British Aerospace are celebrating the Italian job! more...
Rolls in spotlight at Gulf air show
ROLLS-ROYCE is flying the flag for Britain in the Middle East this week. more...
The 21 Club!
GASKELL Carpets, of Rishton, held a dinner dance at the Stirk House, Gisburn, for employees with more than 21 years service with the firm. more...
Blackburn Leisure
FIVE YEARS AGO: £4.5 million store look
A £4.5 million new look was coming to the Blackburn branch of Marks and Spencer. more...
TEN YEARS AGO: Big lights switch-on
SANTA Claus and television star Jim Bowen were tripping the light fantastic in Blackburn for the Christmas illuminations. more...
Events in Lancashire on Wednesday, November 17th
Not the National Theatre present "Not About Heroes," King George's Hall, Blackburn, 7.30pm. more...
Blackburn News
Rape attack: Police quiz teenager
POLICE today revealed that a youth has been arrested and released on bail in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl while detectives await the results of forensic tests. more...
Day to remember for our winners
IT was a day to remember for young winners of our two NIE local history competitions when they collected their prizes from Lancashire Evening Telegraph editor Peter Butterfield. more...
Pupils in the hunt for news
STUDENTS in a Nelson high school are keeping up with the news, improving literacy skills and earning bonuses, thanks to our Super Story Search classroom resource. more...
Action plan in gear
I WAS aware of the situation on the Grane road, but recognise the very important role that the Lancashire Evening Telegraph and other media has in pressing for action on the Grane road. more...
Change is for the better
I REFER to a letter, 'Deprived of Church Hall,' (Letters, November 3). more...
No cash to spare for 'experts'
IN reply to Councillor Adrian Shurmer's letters in the LET, I would like to point out that the meeting with Lancashire County Council was a very constructive meeting. more...
Such a happy anniversary
TODAY it is five years since our son, Glenn, had a bone marrow transplant. more...
Lowest of the low
THIS is a letter to the person who broke into my car on Monday, November 8 and stole a small suitcase and carrier bag. more...
Why should we suffer for the fat-cat south?
THE cankerous influence of high inflation in the economy is an affliction that needs no spelling out to anyone who endured its effects a generation ago and suffered in the jobs holocaust that came with the "sound money" Thatcherite purge to get rid of it. more...
Does anyone think of the motorist
YET another nightmare appears on the A666 in Darwen where everlasting excavations make it a drivers' hell. This time, it is a mound of rubble blocking one half of this major commuter route. more...
Millions pledged to boost schools
EDUCATION in East Lancashire received a multi-million pound boost today as the government pledged to raise standards in schools and set up after-school clubs. more...
Welder in gas blast drama
A WELDER escaped serious injury when an explosion blew his welding equipment 30 feet into the air and through the roof. more...
Worry over disabled job cuts
UNION leaders have expressed serious concerns over job losses at a factory network which employs more than 150 disabled people in East Lancashire. more...
Armed police swoop on gun factory
PISTOLS, ammunition and weapon-making equipment were seized by police who raided a Blackburn flat after a man threatened youths with a gun. more...
Hospital security stepped up for New Year revels
EXTRA security guards will be drafted in to patrol Blackburn hospitals on Millennium Eve amid fears that casualty units could be swamped by violent, drink-fuelled patients. more...
Death-trap danger in derelict houses
A FIREFIGHTER has slammed vandals who broke into a derelict house and set fire to the staircase, warning they had put their lives at risk. more...
Dairy's a big cheese at farming 'Oscars'
AN East Lancashire dairy is the cream of the crop after becoming a regional winner in the annual farming "Oscars." more...
Man quizzed after stabbing
POLICE have questioned a man following a stabbing in Blackburn town centre in the early hours of Saturday. more...
Blackburn Sport
Burnley-Wigan swap talk blasted
BURNLEY'S leading scorer Andy Payton will not be heading for promotion rivals Wigan Athletic in a swap deal involving prolific Latics' striker Stuart Barlow. more...
Hunt for Ewood boss narrows to three
THE race to find the new manager of Blackburn Rovers is believed to have been whittled down to just three candidates today. more...
EQUESTRIANISM: North East Lancs Riding Club
RESULTS include- Best conditioned: 1 Christopher Brierley (Foxhills Candice), 1 Frances Perry (Ellarslea Brisas), 3 Amanda Edwards (Gandolpho's Dream Surprise), 4 B P Van Noortwrst (Winguard Jacobean); Shetland Pony: 1 Linda Craven (Creech Torch Dance); Welsh: 1 Katie Marsden (Ellerslea Romance), 2 Jim Edwards (Chesamea Rosco); Young Stock: 1 Simone Collinge (Matchpoint), 2 Amanda Edwards (Gandolpho's Dream Surprise), 3 Jim Edwards (Chesamea Rosco). more...
BOYS SOCCER: Hyndburn and District League
WHALLEY Juniors, top of the Under 14s Blue League, were beaten 1-0 in a closely fought battle with third placed Oswaldtwistle Juniors. more...
COUNTY CRICKET: A hectic campaign
LANCASHIRE face the longest and most hectic cricket season on record next year. more...
TABLE TENNIS: Hyndburn League
IN THE Allspeeds Cup this week there was an emphatic 9-0 away win for Whalley over Razor Blades in Group Seven, Des Graham and John Just were too good for the opposition. more...
HORSERACING: Duo have Gold Cup in focus!
THE national hunt season has really started with a bang, and with the tragic death of French Holly it is looking like only a two-horse race for next March's Gold Cup. more...
NON LEAGUE SOCCER: Home tie is the carrot for Rams
RAMSBOTTOM United have the incentive of a home tie against Consett awaiting them in the next round of the Carlsberg FA Vase providing they can overcome Tow Law Town tonight in a second round replay. more...
NON LEAGUE SOCCER: Great Harwood Town 3 Colne 1
GREAT Harwood cruised into the second round of the Lancashire Marsden Challenge Trophy with the minimum of fuss last night to make up for their disappointing FA Vase exit at the weekend. more...
SWIMMING: Barbara's costly Aussie trip
VETERAN swimmer Barbara Morton took a break from local competitions and headed off to Perth, Western Australia, for the 7th Pan Pacific Masters Championships. more...
SNOOKER: Jim is a Princely performer
JIMMY O'Donnell is making a habit of knocking over the stars of the Darwen Hotels Snooker League! more...
Our protest ban was so unfair
I AM writing to you to express my bitter disappointment about my treatment at Ewood Park a week last Saturday afternoon (v Ipswich Town). more...
Boss hunt narrows to three
THE race to find the new manager of Blackburn Rovers is believed to have been whittled down to just three candidates today. more...
Beeb once king, now Sky's limit
AFTER criticising the lack of "live sport covered by the once-unbeatable BBC, I was interested to learn that, yet again, ITV have managed to secure the "live game for the second leg of the Euro 2000 qualifier at Wembley. more...
Payton swap talk blasted
BURNLEY'S leading scorer Andy Payton will not be heading for promotion rivals Wigan Athletic in a swap deal involving prolific Latics' striker Stuart Barlow. more...
Down by the Riverside
A fan's-eye view from Ewood Park, with Phil Lloyd more...
I'd love to be proved wrong
THE performance of the England football team can be summed up as "adequate," or even "workmanlike." more...
Cummings and Goings
A fan's-eye view from Turf Moor, with Stephen Cummings more...
Davidson hoping for Wembley nod
BLACKBURN Rovers defender Callum Davidson is hoping to get the nod for the second leg of Scotland's Euro 2000 play off with England at Wembley tomorrow. more...
Kidd's sacking: Team to blame
I FEEL a lot of sympathy for Brian Kidd with his pride and passion for football. more...
Bolton Business
Dismissal appeals 'easier for workers'
A BOLTON solicitor believes a new Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling will make it easier for employees to win unfair dismissal cases. more...
Scots firm wins local Railtrack contract
RAILTRACK has announced that First Engineering has been chosen as the preferred bidder for its rail maintenance contract in the Manchester area. more...
Investors award for money team
BOLTON Council's Finance Department has been re-recognised as an Investors in People employer. more...
Info line puts firms on the right courses
A NEW Learning Information Line launched by Bolton and Bury Chamber is aimed at helping local businesses find courses on a wide range of skills. more...
Failed firms' bosses banned
DIRECTORS of two recruitment companies which failed with total debts of more than £457,000 have been disqualified from acting as directors. more...
Bolton Leisure
What's on in and around Bolton, Wednesday, 17.11.99
LEISURE, SPORT & KEEP FIT BOLTON Excel, Lower Bridgeman Street, tel: 334456: ladies only, 1.30pm-3pm; aerobics, 6pm-7pm; yoga, 7.30pm-9pm. more...
REVIEW: Snakes and Ladders. Victoria Hall, Bolton
AN uplifting mix of song and dance is the hallmark of this Roger Jones Christian musical. more...
Bolton News
We need a skating rink
0AS a follow-on to recent letters about the need for a skating rink in Bolton, please find enclosed a photograph of some local skaters doing well at the Annual Leicester Granby Artisitc Roller Skating Competition this year. more...
From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO more...
Counter attack on Christmas crime
BOLTON'S store chiefs and businessmen are being urged to help combat a seasonal increase in crime - and make it a miserly Christmas for the town's thieves. more...
Jordan trot for Cath and Karen
IMAGINE sitting on a horse for nine hours in the middle of a baking hot desert? more...
Battle stations for our war quiz
AS Bolton's schoolchildren are to be encouraged to attend Remembrance Day services next year, the BEN asks readers of all ages: "What do you know about our nation's wars this century?" more...
So what about the date?
FOR the past 12 months, and practically every day of that period, we have been constantly reminded of the Millennium with the numerous celebrations etc which the conmen are hoping the public will be brainwashed into taking part in. more...
THE DAILY POEM
I wonder if the people more...
How we helped trace a beloved Ford Capri
A WESTHOUGHTON bride-to-be and car fanatic will be able to enjoy her dream wedding, following a successful appeal in the Bolton Evening News. more...
Commonwealth Games badminton event for Middlebrook
BOLTON has been given the official go ahead to hold the Commonwealth Games badminton event in 2002. more...
Paul's a winning read for armchair climbers
BOLTON-born writer Paul Pritchard has scooped the world's top prize for mountain literature for the second time in two years - the only author ever to win it twice. more...
Cash appeal as church faces a grave problem
A "GRAVE" problem is facing Turton's parish church - the burial ground could soon be overflowing. The predicament has prompted church elders to issue an unusual plea for parishioners - to Get Stoned For The Millennium. The tongue-in-cheek name for the appeal is a request to help St Anne's Church to buy tons of stone to build a wall around the new graveyard. more...
House theft couple had toddlers in tow
AN evil couple broke into a Horwich woman's home accompanied by their two children. The man and woman were discovered in the middle-aged woman's home along with two small girls, thought to be their two daughters, aged two or three. The thieves ran out of the shocked woman's home in Beatrice Mews, Horwich, when she confronted them. more...
Bolton Remploy safe from the axe . . . for now
BOLTON'S Remploy factory for disabled people looks to have escaped the axe in a national pruning of the company. more...
Orang-utan date for Borneo Eddie
AN intrepid teenager is set to scale the heights in the jungles of Borneo during the trip of a lifetime. more...
Nuisance conifers could get the chop
A NEW "right to light" ruling could cut down to size the growing menace of leylandii trees. more...
Masked raid on pensioner
A PENSIONER woke in terror when he was confronted by two masked thieves - brandishing a knife - who smashed their way into his home. more...
Councillors get fireworks petition
THE BEN's petition to ban fireworks was being officially shown to councillors today. more...
Women join forces in bid to battle cancer scourge
A WOMAN intent on continuing the fundraising legacy of her sister-in-law, who died of cancer, teamed up with a widow who also lost her husband to the disease . . . more...
£114,000 debt firm goes bust
A BOLTON firm has gone bust with the loss of 10 more local manufacturing jobs. more...
'Gunman' scare at post office
POLICE who swooped on a "gunman" at Breightmet Post Office yesterday discovered he was actually brandishing a cigarette lighter. more...
It's time to listen to what the people want
REGARDLESS of people's wishes councillors spent over £1 million on improvements on Victoria Square and squandered £53,000 on two stainless steel statues (not wanted) etc. more...
`White Horse' programme record hope
A WORLD record for a Bolton Wanderers football programme could be set at Sotheby's in London next month. more...
Death of town's famous artist and composer
ONE of Bolton's most famous sons, composer and artist Thomas Baron Pitfield, has died aged 96. more...
Steel is cold and clinical
HAS Bolton Council got a love affair with stainless steel? more...
Peter's fortune will help children
BRIGHT youngsters from Bolton will be able to benefit from a top class private education thanks to a £25 million giveaway by a North West multi-millionaire. more...
Fountains worked abroad!
MY WIFE and I have returned from a holiday in Madeira. As we strolled in Funchal should we have been agreeably surprised to find that all the fountains - some with multiple action and some of considerable age were functioning efficiently? more...
Hospital in crisis
CRISIS-hit hospital bosses are to invite the Health Minister to Bolton, in a bid to highlight the mounting pressures which have forced them to cancel operations and close their doors to patients. more...
Next MP?
I write with regard to the article, printed on November 12 concerning myself under the headline: Bolton's next Tory MP it could only be me. more...
Drugs den torment of mums and children
A CONCERNED grandmother claims a back garden den, littered with hypodermic needles, threatens the safety of mothers and children on their way to school. more...
Fireman Ray's mercy mission
A BOLTON firefighter is among a team of experts rescuing Turkey's earthquake victims. more...
Armed pair grab cash
DETECTIVES are hunting armed raiders who struck at a Bury sub-post office yesterday. more...
Annie's home's a tramp-free zone!
AN 86-year-old woman who was terrorised for three years by a tramp living outside her home is finally able to relax. more...
Wanderers hero honoured by cricket club
FORMER Bolton Wanderers and England international full back Tommy Banks has been honoured by a local cricket club. more...
Thieves steal cash for families of war dead
THIEVES have sunk to new depths by stealing cash raised for the families of the war dead. A collecting tin containing money given for poppies was stolen from the main restaurant at the Royal Bolton Hospital - on Remembrance Day. more...
Fire station doesn't have staff to match
IN RESPONSE to the letter of November 3, by G H Almond, County Fire Officer and Chief Executive of GMC Fire Service, may we take the opportunity to answer a number of points. more...
It's not easy to get a badge
THOUGHT I would clarify three points to the writer who wrote "It's time to review the orange badge system," November 11, and other letters in your paper regarding the disabled. more...
Bolton Sport
ATHLETICS: Challenge for Harriers
FIVE Bolton Harriers, four of them with their coach, took part in the Ray Codling Memorial 5km at Littleborough. The event was held in memory of police inspector Ray Codling who was shot and killed at Birch Service Station on the M62. This was the second road race in three weeks that this group had done together. The race started and finished in the square at Littleborough. more...
SAILING: Andrew rules the waves
A fourteen year old from Ramsbottom has scooped a fantastic prize in the shape of 1999 Young Sailor of the Year Award for the North West region. Andrew Brooks, a pupil at St Gabriel's RC school in Bury, has been sailing since the age of nine and is a member at Elton Sailing Club, the Leigh and Lowton Sailing Club, as well as a member of the Topper British squad. more...
ROLLER HOCKEY: Storming start
TURTON Tornadoes have taken the Bury League by storm. more...
KARATE: A family affair
SELF-DEFENCE is a family affair for the martial arts loving Peacock trio. For mum Samantha Peacock and kids Karla and Lewis all train together in the art of Ryukyu Karate Jutsu Kai. more...
NON-LEAGUE SOCCER: Defeat sparks RMI re-think
LEIGH RMI manager Steve Waywell had planned to rest several of his players for tonight's First Round of the ATS Trophy at Nelson. more...
Todd 'vacancy' is priority for Sam
ANDY Todd's suspension by Bolton Wanderers has prompted Sam Allardyce to widen his search for new recruits. more...
Burnley News
I'll carry on fight for m-way training
ROAD safety campaigner Anne Ravenhill is determined to fight on despite a House of Commons transport sub-committee inquiry failing to take on board her calls for compulsory motorway tuition for new drivers. more...
Fireworks at town centre's Christmas cracker
THE switch-on of Burnley's Christmas lights on November 25 promises to be an explosive affair when it is accompanied by a firework display. more...
Winning ways with words
BURNLEY Writers Circle had their handiwork rewarded at the group's prizegiving at Sion Baptist Church. more...
Pool hall plan brings jobs hopes
UP to 15 new jobs will be created in Burnley town centre if planners give the green light to a proposed private members snooker and pool club. more...
Bible teacher's talk for women
NEARLY 150 women gathered at Burnley's Habergham High School for the annual East Lancashire Women's Day Conference. more...
Police probe club death
POLICE have launched a murder-style inquiry after the death of a 32-year-old man following an incident outside a Todmorden nightclub. more...
Noteworthy performances
THREE members of the trophy-winning Towneley High School brass band have been presented with merit awards, the school's highest honour. more...
Second fire attack on hotel
ARSONISTS have caused extensive damage to the former Waterloo Hotel in Trafalgar Street, Burnley, for the second night running. more...
MP Pike's mail goes missing
AN MP's missing mail is being investigated by Royal Mail. Burnley MP Peter Pike said he has had serious problems with post not arriving. more...
Colne News
'Babysitter' denies indecency
A SINGLE man allegedly sexually assaulted five little girls and got into bed with one of them, a court heard. more...
Safety clause earns school £100
STAFF at a Pendle primary school received a framed certificate and £100 after including a road safety clause in their home-school agreement with parents. more...
'Wheely' super prizes
YOUNGSTERS who won a schools road safety quiz collected a new bike each. more...
Darwen News
Labore of love that hit rock bottom!
A CONTROVERSIAL sculpture which features a bare bottom will be unveiled at a ceremony on Saturday. more...
Now it's rubble rage!
FRUSTRATED motorists have once more been left fuming in queues of traffic on the A666 - all because of a mound of rubble. more...
Santa pays an early visit
THERE was a chance to do some early Christmas shopping at Derwent Hall's Christmas fair in Darwen. more...
Nelson News
Rape attack: Police quiz teenager
POLICE today revealed that a youth has been arrested and released on bail in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl while detectives await the results of forensic tests. more...
Heroin addict struck her mother on face
A HEROIN addict attacked her mother in front of her children, threatening to put her in hospital. more...
Boy, 8, burned as fire-walk stunt goes wrong
A YOUNG boy suffered serious burns to his hands when a "fire walking" stunt went wrong. more...
Rawtenstall News
Villagers face new moor mine battle
RESIDENTS in the Rossendale locality of Weir say planned open-cast mining will destroy their village. more...
Village's identity set in stone
THE Rossendale village of Stacksteads now has an official stone to mark the millennium. more...
Children's home set for go-ahead
NEIGHBOURS' objections to controversial plans to turn a remote farmhouse into a home for traumatised children look set to be overruled. more...
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