A 'PEACEMAKER' ended up being attacked when he went to help a man in a two-to-one scuffle, Burnley Crown Court heard. Dafyd Roberts was allegedly kicked and kneed in the face by Charlton Pearson and suffered several injuries, including damaged teeth,
A BLACKBURN builder has been accused in Manchester of being involved in smuggling drugs worth up to £15m from France earlier this month. Andrew Donnelly, 32, of Henry Whalley Street, who was arrested last week, had an application for bail refused by the
RESIDENTS in Blackamoor Road, Blackburn, say plans to build industrial units on land behind their homes amount to a "monstrous intrusion" into their neighbourhood. But planning chiefs from Blackburn with Darwen Council say they would like to see the scheme
A fan's-eye view from Ewood Park, with Phil Lloyd APPARENTLY David Jones, the Southampton manager, is a good mate of Brian Kidd. With friends like that, who needs enemies? His team basically mugged us on Saturday, by playing Wimbledon-style tactics better
REGARDING ex-Rover Duncan McKenzie's comments on the club's relegation fight, surely, he was one of Rovers' worst signings. I can just see him now, strutting around Ewood doing practically nothing. And, let's face it, 12 goals in 42 games in a promotion-seeking
TIM Sherwood today promised Blackburn Rovers fans he would be doing his bit to boost the Ewood survival battle. The former Rovers skipper plays for Tottenham at Charlton tonight, well aware of the importance of the game to his old club. He speaks regularly
BURNLEY won't kick a ball, but tonight's crucial Second Division programme could still have a major bearing on their relegation run-in. Four of the clubs below the Clarets are in action, as well as two of the sides within two points of Burnley in the
REGARDING Andy Neild's report on the ATS Trophy final in which Morecambe beat Darwen 4-2 on penalties after extra time (LET, April 14), I would add some comments concerning Lancashire Football Association's organisation. First, for a long period people
Peter White puts the spotlight on MIKE FERGUSON RYAN Giggs didn't score the "greatest goal ever seen" at Villa Park last week. Mike Ferguson did - in September 1964! Believe it or not - and I do, because I was on the Holte End - Fergie beat six defenders
TORY MP Nigel Evans has urged Lancashire education director Chris Trinnick to find extra school places in the Clitheroe area. The Ribble Valley member met Mr Trinnick and told him it was unacceptable to bus youngsters many miles outside the area for their
FAMILY loyalty has never been one of Colin Todd's criteria for team selection - but it's odds on he'll re-introduce on-form son Andy for Wanderers trip to Norwich tonight. Todd Junior served a one-match suspension against Ipswich at the weekend, but is
LEE Cartwright is rated as touch and go for Preston's automatic promotion battle with second placed Walsall tonight. The Rossendale-born winger returned to action at Wigan last week, but suffered a recurrence of the knee injury that saw him miss Preston's
IT MAY be that the shocking rise in animal cruelty cases reported today by the RSPCA in the North West is down to people being more willing to report abuse rather than an actual rise in neglect. Nevertheless, it remains appalling that cruelty is so rife
CAUSEWAY Carpets are going great guns and have reached the third round without conceding a single goal. Results (Monday, April 19) - Second round: Hollins (DS Smith) 0, Farleys Solicitors 1; ELCB B 0, Pentland DC 1; Shaws of Darwen 2, Blackburn Direct
Emley 1 Chorley 0 CHORLEY'S last flickering hope of automatic safety from relegation was snuffed out last night when Emley won a tight contest with a classic goal. It came on 50 minutes from a smart build up down the right and when Ian Banks slipped the
THOUGH many may dismiss his questioning of Clitheroe's need for another supermarket as the pious parish-magazine ponderings of a cleric - and, no doubt, the hard-nosed decision makers behind the town's new Sainsbury's store will - Ribble Valley vicar,
IT COULDN'T be closer! Borough and Cemetery are neck and neck with just tonight's matches to finish the Darwen Hotels League season. Borough appear to have the tougher task with a match on the Punch who are in third place; Cemetery are at home to fourth-placed
LANCASHIRE welcomed back their England World Cup trio at Lord's today - but that meant bad news for the young guns. Neil Fairbrother, Andy Flintoff and Ian Austin were all included in the team for the Championship game against Middlesex at the request
DESPITE losing the first game of a double header against lowly Fox & Hounds 2-1 - Steve Dunne and Dave Denton both netting for the Foxes, and Gary Fowles hitting Swan's reply - a return to form in their second game enabled Swan to reach the finishing
BLACKBURN Rugby Club face an agonising wait before finding out if they have clinched promotion to the Thwaites Division North One. The Ramsgreave Drive outfit were docked two points by the league earlier in the season after calling off their game against
THE Blackburn Combination has reached the stage of the season that at one time looked impossible. That they have reached the final week of the season with just a handful of games to play must be regarded as some sort of miracle following the most horrendous
SNOOKER ace Ian McCulloch was aiming to put the skids under Welshman Mark Williams as their first round match in the Embassy World Championships was set to start at the Crucible today. Title contender Williams likes his cars the way he plays his snooker
ISN'T it ironic that Mr N Heatlie Jackson (Letters, April 6) who accuses me of not getting my facts right about the Motability scheme, providing cars for the disabled, distorts the true facts. A lot of these people are very naive. Fact 1: If the car is
HAVING just received the Liberal Democrat "Sudell Focus Election Special" leaflet, I must draw several points to your attention. In 1994, I was involved with the Darwen Against Demolition Campaign, entailing organising a petition which 7,000 Darreners
FREEMASONS opened the doors of their masonic hall to the public to dispel the rumours and myths surrounding the organisation. Burnley Masonic Hall allowed visitors to look around its rooms and learn more about the movement during its second open day in
BURNLEY MP Peter Pike has spent £1,000 of his own money buying shares in his beloved Clarets. A fan for 50 years, he revealed his investment to the House of Commons as he backed a bill to crack down on football hooligans. Mr Pike said he had bought five
A "PERFECT" husband who smashed his wife in the eye has started an eight-month jail term. Drunken Stuart Little, 39, punched victim Carole Little twice after she came in from a works Christmas "do." But she told police he had been a "perfect new husband
BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent is not looking to cash in on Glen Little this summer to finance a promotion push next season. Ternent has stressed again that Little is not for sale. However, he admits that approaches for the mercurial winger are inevitable
TIM Sherwood today promised Blackburn Rovers fans he would be doing his bit to boost the Ewood survival battle. The former Rovers skipper plays for Tottenham at Charlton tonight, well aware of the importance of the game to his old club. He speaks regularly
RSPCA inspectors fighting a rising tide of animal cruelty in Lancashire are being forced to cut back on other services. The charity investigated more than 3,100 complaints of cruelty to animals and prosecuted 35 people in Lancashire last year, according
"I READ the news today, oh boy - four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire!" Well we certainly inspired the Beatles to wax lyrical, but will our news persuade all you budding young poets to put pen to paper? That is our latest challenge issued to youngsters
SCHOOLS using our Super Story Search literacy resource receive free books for review. Those featured this week are written by pupils in year eight at Pleckgate High School, Blackburn. Eyewitness Guides "Car" by Richard Sutton ( Dorling Kindersley, £9.99
FAMILY bakers went back to the old days when a power cut hit them for a day. Buxton's bakery and coffee shop in Bridge Street, Darwen, was plunged into darkness when the fault occurred in an underground cable on Sunday evening. Bosses and staff had to
ANTI-abortion campaigners will hold silent vigils in Darwen and Rawtenstall to commemorate 31 years of legalised abortion. Protesters, holding pictures of foetuses and banners saying "Abortion hurts women and kills children" will form chains at Cravens
CONSERVATIVES in Blackburn with Darwen are hoping to challenge Labour dominance in the borough at local elections on May 6. The party is fielding candidates in all 20 of the seats up for grabs in the area - and they hope to have their first-ever Asian
Stoke City Reserves 1 Blackburn Rovers Reserves 0 THERE were no complaints from the Rovers camp as they sent out a very young side and slipped to a disappointing defeat against Stoke City Reserves at non-League Newcastle Town's ground last night. The
A fan's-eye view from Turf Moor, with Stephen Cummings FOUR more games to go. Four more purgatories to endure. Four more nerve-jangling, stomach-knotting, nail-biting sets of 90 minutes to get through. I don't know about you, but all this flirting with
BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent is not looking to cash in on Glen Little this summer to finance a promotion push next season. Ternent has stressed again that Little is not for sale. However, he admits that approaches for the mercurial winger are inevitable
VIDEO evidence which led to the downfall of the family behind Britain's most lucrative 'fraud factory' will be shown on television tonight. The case of the Sharif family, who tried to rake in £3 million over six years, will be the focus of a documentary
THOUSANDS of town hall workers in Blackburn have been warned they could be given 90 days notice unless they agree to end a dispute with bosses over working conditions. And workers have been told they may be hit even harder in the pocket if an agreement
THE face of football has changed over the years - not for the better in many cases. As in most sports, money is God. There are stars in the present game, but also thousands of quite mediocre players picking up ultra-large wages. It's now all about squads
Entertainment Evening in aid of the Hospice Day Care Appeal, St Stephen's Church, Little Harwood, 7.30pm. Coffee Morning and Bring and Buy, in aid of the Kosovo refugees, Community Centre, York Terrace, Feniscowles, 10.30am-12.30pm. Organ Recital, Blackburn
A VICAR has hit out at the "glut of food" in Britain, while elsewhere in the world people starve. The Rev Rodney Nicholson, vicar of St Paul's, Low Moor, Clitheroe, spoke out in his parish magazine against the opening of the town's new Sainsbury's. He
PROTESTERS said a huge "no" to plans to close a much loved old folk's home. Campaigners collected more than 2,000 names in a bid to stop the shutdown of Andrew Smith House on Marsden Hall Road, Nelson. And Lancashire county councillors were condemned
FAST-IMPROVING Rossendale United face a long trek to high-flying Workington tonight in the North Western Trains League First Division. And Ramsbottom United will be aiming to end their miserable run at mid-table Maine Road. In the NWTL Second Division
THE manager of Great Harwood Town FC claimed that Accrington Stanley players went "verbally berserk" during a derby match defeat that saw eight of them booked. The Stanley bookings included the manager, his assistant and two players who were sent off,
GARRY Wilkinson stepped off the plane and straight back into training for this weekend's Three Peaks Race- just seven days after finishing third in one of the toughest races on earth. The 34-year-old marathon man from Great Harwood couldn't walk for three
I FULLY agree with your editorial (LET, April 9) regarding the general state of educational provision in Blackburn since it became a unitary authority. The whole thing is developing into a farce. First, they want to shut special schools against the wishes
REGARDING your coverage (LET, April 12) of the tragic drowning accident on Saturday, April 10, when little Joe Hutcheon died, I was there when Joe went missing and was the first on scene to give him resuscitation. I believe that it is wrong of you to
HOW terrible that nurses have been told that they will have to wait for their pay rises (LET, April 10), in spite of Health Secretary Frank Dobson's promise that they would get them this month. Has this government got a death wish or something? It is
HIGH school students are brushing up their radio technique for a day on the air waves next month. The team from Ivy Bank, Burnley has been allocated a frequency by the Radio Authority - 107fm. The voice of Radio IBFM will broadcast from 8am to 7pm on
BURNLEY'S most outstanding landmark - the former Keirby Hotel - could be demolished to make way for a new bus station. Council officers presented proposals for the bus station site which included building a new hotel, several new shops, pedestrianising
CHANGES in the rules for counting offences have made it difficult to judge whether crime in Hyndburn has risen, according one of East Lancashire's leading policemen. Superintendent Eddie Walsh, commander of Eastern division, told Hyndburn Police and Community
AND they're off! Two Pendle schools are first off the mark in using our NIE Sport Extra project in the classroom to support reading, writing, maths and geography. Pupils at Wheatley Lane Methodist School, Fence, and Primet High School in Colne, are racing
PARENTS in Ribble Valley villages are threatening to boycott their children's education in a row over school places. They want their youngsters to attend Clitheroe secondary schools, which are bursting at the seams, but have instead been offered places
