Wednesday, June 23 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 & 6 Railway Road; The Surgery (Chiropody), 132 Lammack Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: Arthur Haworth
Monday, June 21, 1999 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels Chemist, 4 & 6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street; To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: Arthur Haworth, 314 Bolton Road; The Pharmacy
Friday, June 25 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 & 6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: Arthur Haworth, 314 Bolton Road; The Pharmacy, Oakenhurst
A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy who had been missing from home has been found safe and well by police officers. The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found in the Highercroft area of Blackburn and returned home yesterday afternoon. The boy went missing
ACCRINGTON, under the guidance of new captain Mas Ahmed, are hoping to stop Crompton taking a hat-trick of Lancashire League scalps when they meet in the quarter-finals of the Inter-League Challenge Trophy tomorrow. Central Lancashire League side Crompton
DAVE Holden looks set to be a contender for the British Motorcycle Club's sidecar title after a double victory at Brands Hatch. The Blackburn electrican trounced the opposition to win both eight-lap races at the Kent track on his Ireson Yamaha 700. Partnered
JOHN Batchelor is taking Blackburn Rovers into Europe - with his Ford Fiesta XR2i. The Blackburn racing driver is a leading contender in this year's Super Road Saloon Car Championship with his familar Ewood Park-sponsored machine. And the pair are heading
MARTIN Meadows has been rewarded for his impressive drive on the Scottish Rally with a seat in the factory Proton team. Although the Clitheroe driver was forced to retire from the event with a broken wheel, his debut performance in British Rally Championship
World Cup Final preview BIG Tom Moody is calling for calm from supporters ahead of tomorrow's World Cup final showdown between Australia and Pakistan at Lords. The East Lancs professional of 1988 has voiced his fears over the players safety following
HAVING undergone hospitalisation and surgery for a compound fracture of the radius, I am now able to express gratitude to the many kind people who offered help after my fall in the market hall in Burnley, on Saturday, May 29. Particular thanks go to first
REGARDING your article, "Radio ham caught without licence (LET, June 11), I do wish that newspapers would get it right - this person clearly was no such thing. In fact, he was a CB enthusiast, operating illegally, in that his aerial was certainly not
I WOULD like to make a point regarding the tragedy of the seven-year-old Blackburn boy who drowned in the Leeds-Liverpool canal (LET, June 9). How long will it be before the government recognises the need to put swimming lessons back in the school curriculum
ANGRY householders are to hold talks with police and local councillors in a bid to end the crime nightmare which is plaguing their area. The residents say they are living in fear after a spate of burglaries, car break-ins and washing line thefts. They
FORMER major-label punks The Stiffs are set to play their first gig together for 14 years when they headline a reunion show in East Lancashire next month. The band, from Blackburn and Clayton-le-Moors, signed to EMI in 1979 but did not release an album
A YOUNG mum and her baby fled from their burning flat early today. Lisa Yates woke up at 2.30am to find her bedroom well alight and full of smoke. She grabbed her baby girl and ran from the first-floor flat in Cross Barn Grove, Darwen, and shut the door
A BRAVE shopkeeper today spoke of how a teenage knife attacker tried to stab her in the stomach as she tried to stop him stealing cash from her till. Vahida Esscopri was on her own in her family's Top Shop Mini Market, St Hubert's Road, Great Harwood,
Thursday, June 24 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 Railway Road. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road; To 6.30pm: E Collins, 53 Fishmoor Drive; Healthbook Ltd, Audley Shopping Centre, Audley Range;
Tuesday, June 22, 1999 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 & 6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy. 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: The Pharmacy, Oakenhurst Road; Geloo Bros, Cleaver
A YOUNG mum who died after she was pinned against the window of a takeaway in Haslingden was the fifth member of her family to lose their life following "stressful" situations, an inquest heard. An open verdict was recorded into the death of mother-of-two
A LARGE housing estate looks likely to be built off Livesey Branch Road and Slater Street, Blackburn, despite the objections of residents and businesses in the area. Sixty six homes will be built, made up of 32 terrace, 26 semi detached and eight detached
A BRAVE shopkeeper today spoke of how a teenage knife attacker tried to stab her in the stomach as she tried to stop him stealing cash from her till. Vahida Esscopri was on her own in her family's Top Shop Mini Market, St Hubert's Road, Great Harwood,
BLACKBURN Rovers have been ruled out as the mystery English club rivalling Glasgow Rangers for the services of Scotland defender Paul Ritchie. Hearts today confirmed they had received a bid of £800,000 from Ibrox for their 23-year-old star. But that sum
Summer Fair, Our Lady and St John RC School, Blackburn, 1-4pm. Crowning of Rose Queen, St John's Church, Worsthorne, 11am. Parish picnic 3pm at the vicarage, 6pm Songs of Praise. Service at Pickup Bank Chapel, with Darwen and Blackburn Brass Band., 3.15pm
TONIGHT (Saturday, June 19th) Cafe De Ream, Blackburn: EASYRIDER Utopia Discotheque, Blackburn: SEDUCTION, chart and party tunes, 9pm to 3am Burnley Mechanics: VIN GARBUTT, folk, £6, 8pm Hawthorns Nightclub, Bolton: TWIST, female power pop rockers, £1
LANCASHIRE must stop relying on Muttiah Muralitharan to pull them out of relegation danger. That was the clear message from coach Dav Whatmore after they went down to their fourth defeat of the season against Surrey at the Oval yesterday, keeping them
By Gary Laycock, of Colne IT'S D-day on Monday when I'll finally hear the verdict on my appeal over the ban the Lancashire League have imposed on me following our game with Enfield earlier in the season. I don't want to say too much on the whole thing
HOPES of a top six finish on the Scottish Rally were dashed when Neil Simpson crashed out two stages from the end. The 27-year-old Colne driver - pictured right minutes before his rally was prematurely curtailed - had been in brilliant form throughout
AFTER last weekend's morale-boosting win at Doncaster, Lancashire Lynx will be hoping to complete their first double of the season when they travel to Headingley to take on Bramley. Last weekend's game was a must win game for Lynx as defeat would have
NORTHERN luck was not enough this year to carry away the spoils in the Embassy pairs final in Denmark. Despite some excellent representation from the North-west, including our intrepid pair from Chorley, the big money, in fact almost all the money, ended
WHALLEY return to the semi-final stage of the Ramsbottom Cup tomorrow determined to upset the form book and make amends for a crushing defeat 12 months ago. The Station Road outfit crumbled in their last-four tie a year ago to hand Earby a final place
THE low turn-out in the recent Euro elections has been blamed on apathy and disinterest. This is far from the truth. The penny has dropped for the electorate. The proposed elimination of our pound and foreign bureaucrats meddling in our affairs has affronted
A PERVERT who was filmed having sex with a 12-year-old boy was today starting a jail sentence. Paul Emsley, 32, "bought" his victim with money and cigarettes and was said to have threatened to kill him if he told anybody what had gone on, Burnley Crown
AN education in jazz from some highly-respected musicians is offered by a summer school in Burnley next month. The summer school, from July 26 to 30, is taught by established jazz musicians and tutors and supported by Burnley Council. The philosophy behind
ROSKO: Get Out (Roundabout) - There's no messing about where this Stockport-based band are concerned. They tell it to you straight - "Get out of my life." And they say it with a Cast-like chorus which isn't too bad. But the other two tracks suggest they're
A MOTORIST used a garden hose to save his luxury £56,000 Mercedes convertible from being destroyed by an arson attack early today. Shahzad Choudry, who only bought the T-reg CLK 320 "soft top" a few days ago, doused the flames until the fire brigade arrived
Sunday, June 20, 1999 Blackburn: 11am-2pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road; 12noon-1pm: Superdrugs Pharmacy, 3-7 Stonybutts; 11am-1pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. Darwen: 12noon-1pm: Geloo Brothers, 14 Union Street. Accrington: 11am-1pm
