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  • Down by the Riverside by Phil Lloyd

    I'VE never been very good at predicting the future. So, before Monday's match, I drafted this week's column on the basis that our interest in the FA Cup would by now have ended. The words 'concentrating on the League' may conceivably have appeared in

  • McKinlay bids to put injury nightmare behind him

    BILLY McKinlay could be back in training in the next couple of days as he attempts to return from his latest injury setback. But Jeff Kenna was today awaiting news of a scan on the Achilles' tendon injury he picked up against Liverpool on Monday night

  • £650 profit from torch procession

    CLITHEROE'S torchlight procession has made a profit of almost £650. Figures released by Clitheroe Town Council show that the festival's £12,000 income outweighed expenditure, leaving £646.99 for the Mayor's Welfare Fund, which supports various charities

  • Village anger at car park clampers

    CLAMPERS have entered a village car park war by charging visitors £70 to release their vehicles under a new pay-and-display system. Whalley councillor Joyce Holgate says she has been inundated with complaints from people who have been clamped in Whalley

  • Help keep count of our birdlife

    VOLUNTEERS are needed to help with a major survey of the birdlife found along the River Ribble. The survey has been organised by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust as part of a national pilot programme. Stephen Dunstan, from Blackpool, is co-ordinating the

  • TEN YEARS AGO: Council rents rocket

    COUNCIL house rents in Blackburn and Darwen were to rocket by up to £11.94 a week, it was revealed. Officers were recommending a 41.4% increase - an average of £9.90 - to raise the £9,661,000 for maintenance and repairs. Rent for a bedsit would rise from

  • JUNIOR SOCCER: Witton Winter League

    IN THE First Division, the two leading clubs returned to action with defeats - Acme Refrigeration lost out 2-3 to Rising Sun and West End went down to Welding Engineering 1-2. Welding's win moved them into joint second place. Crown Wallcovering recorded

  • JUNIOR SOCCER: Clarets have a mixed millennium

    FOUR wins, one draw and two defeats welcomed the Colne Clarets junior football teams into the new millenium The Under-Eights set the ball rolling with a 3-1 victory over Fulledge Colts with the goals coming from Christopher Whiteside and man-of-the-match

  • I find Him a comfort

    IN answer to L Lawes' remarks in 'time to give up religion,' may I speak up in defence of a higher authority? I personally find it comforting to believe in a superior, and supreme being with whom all things are possible, than to believe in a group of

  • CHORLEY 1 CLITHEROE 3

    CONFIDENT Clitheroe marched into the quarter final of the Marsden Lancashire Challenge Trophy after a determined and composed display laced with more than a dash of style. Taking their cue from Blackburn Rovers' performance at Anfield, they nullified

  • Nothing wrong with the message

    CHURCHMEN across the country will be looking for answers and praying for guidance over the problem of their vanishing flocks, as a survey today shows huge declines in worship during the past 20 years. But while they may question their own methods - and

  • Panto was an ice one

    REGARDING Mr H Hamer's remarks about Blackburn's panto on ice (Letters, January 6), I took my grandaughter to see it and it was wonderful. She kept saying how lovely it was. The costumes were magnificent. All the children joined in with Buttons, who was

  • ACCRINGTON STANLEY 4 RAMSBOTTOM UNITED 2

    STANLEY had to fight back from being two goals down inside 10 minutes against Ramsbottom to progress into the Lancashire FA Marsden Trophy quarter finals. In a breathtaking opening there were four goals in the first 24 minutes. Ramsbottom, who scored

  • Straw's hands are tied over sick Pinochet

    IT WILL, of course, stick in the craw of every believer in justice if, following Home Secretary Jack Straw's decision to release him, the former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, is not tried on charges of murder and torture during his 17-year

  • Stop this behaviour

    REGARDING the gays with twins, how selfish can two people get? All they are thinking about are their own selfish desires. What about the babies when they go out into the world, go to school, they come home and ask why they haven't got a mummy? What will

  • JUNIOR SOCCER:The Red Rose Assurance (Blackburn Youth) League

    THE action continued after the Christmas break when some top of the table clashes heralded the start of a New Year. In the Under 17s section, Worsthorne and Walton-le-Dale shared the points in a 1-1 draw at Bank Hall. Clitheroe drew with Rochdalians Youth

  • Trust takes the biscuit

    IT is rather laughable to hear that trustees of the Princess Diana fund are objecting to images of her appearing on souvenirs of dolls being sold in America without their permission. They say they may be cheap copies, not worthy of sale, but at least

  • JUNIOR SOCCER: Top four in showdown

    FOUR top sides played each other on a big day for the Hyndburn and District Boys' Football League Under 14s section. Oswaldtwistle Juniors and Huncoat Utd played out a goalless draw whilst Whalley Juniors beat top placed Gt Harwood Rovers by the odd goal

  • Have you a tune to tell?

    BUDDING songwriters throughout the region are being invited to take part in the North West Songwriting Competition 2000. Now in its fourth year, the competition, organised by The Buskers' Ball, has grown to become one of the most prestigious events of

  • JUNIOR SOCCER: VMI Acc & Dist Junior League

    DESPITE more less than inclement weather, the first round of games of the New Year saw all but one game in the Accrington and District Junior League take place. In the Under Nines, Blackburn Boys continued their unbeaten run in the Blue section, whilst

  • Run will benefit all

    THE introduction of the new Meningococcal Meningitis Group C Vaccine is very good news. Unfortunately, there is still another deadly form of the disease: Meningococcal Group B. There is still no vaccine to protect against this strain. The Spencer Dayman

  • Man is evil, not religion

    WHAT an interesting view L Lawes puts forward (Letters, January 4). First, he suggests that Christians have downgraded their God. This poses the question: is God Himself aware that He has been diminished? Secondly, to ponder as to whether, by the end

  • Objection no surprise

    MAY I comment on Castle Cement's decision to abandon its appeal against the Environment Agency's refusal to allow two 'Cemfuel' mixes on site during the trials of 'Cemfuel 2' in kiln 7 at its Clitheroe plant? Castle's January 4 news release cited "the

  • Woman robbed

    A WOMAN was grabbed around the neck from behind by a robber who snatched her bag. The 54-year-old victim had been to a bank and had returned to Padiham by bus seconds before the attack at 2.15pm yesterday. She was walking over the road bridge at the bottom

  • Appeal over street attack

    POLICE have issued descriptions of two men they want to speak to about an unprovoked street attack. A 42-year-old man was attacked with a cosh after being lured out of his house in Tarleton Street, Burnley, at 11.45pm on Tuesday, December 28, by two men

  • Mum hits lottery jackpot

    A MUM who had to quit her job after she suffered brain damage in a car accident has seen her money worries wiped out overnight by a £91,000 lottery jackpot. Jacqueline Whalley was forced to retire 10 years ago and her husband took a part-time job to care

  • Ternent won't take any risks

    STAN Ternent won't risk many of his senior players in Burnley's Pontin's League Cup at Lincoln City tonight as he looks for replacements for Steve Davis and Micky Mellon at Chesterfield on Saturday. Peter Swan is set to play as he builds up his match

  • Axe finally falls on part-time fire crew

    THE AXE has finally fallen on Accrington's part-time fire crew, despite a last ditch bid to save the jobs. Lancashire Fire Authority say the cuts were necessary to save money, but the delay in implementing the decision has cost them £120,000. Home Office

  • Brave Lynn's death at 29 after Rett Syndrome battle

    A WOMAN whose courage touched the hearts of Lancashire Evening Telegraph readers has died after a lifelong struggle with a rare disability. Lynn Doswell, 29, suffered from Rett Syndrome, a condition which only affects girls and causes both mental and

  • What about a burglary blitz?

    POLICE chiefs in Lancashire seem intent on regarding boozing motorists as a major social menace when they are not. In our county, as in the country at large, the number of drivers testing positive for alcohol during the Christmas and New Year campaign

  • Attacked man unable to talk

    Attack victim Joseph Michael Jones is still poorly in hospital after suffering appalling facial injuries. Mr Jones, 63, was found unconscious at his home in Hammerton grove, Bacup, at 5.20pm last Thursday. He had been hit by an implement from the house

  • Emma, 86, in United State of matrimony!

    EIGHTY-SIX-year-old bride Emma Smith wore a blue garter when she was married for the first time - to a former American golf professional she met at the Grand Canyon. But Emma and her bridegroom Jim Russell swopped Arizona for Accrington for the wedding

  • CUMMINGS AND GOINGS with STEPHEN CUMMINGS

    MAYBE it's tactics. Perhaps it's a cunning plan. Or there again it could be sheer stubborness on the part of Stan Ternent. Whatever, the continued deployment of Glen Little on the left flank is driving the Claret and Blue faithful to the point of distraction

  • Health group spells it out

    A HEALTHCARE group which has applied to become its own NHS trust has started to explain to the public how the change will work. A public meeting took place to spell out what will happen if Blackburn with Darwen Primary Care Group (PCG) receives trust

  • Ternent won't take any risks

    STAN Ternent won't risk many of his senior players in Burnley's Pontin's League Cup at Lincoln City tonight as he looks for replacements for Steve Davis and Micky Mellon at Chesterfield on Saturday. Peter Swan is set to play as he builds up his match

  • Ray of hope in poor church attendance

    FEWER people attend church than ever before in England, but East Lancashire people are more likely to be churchgoers than most, according to new figures released today. Across England, only 7.5 per cent of people go to church every Sunday, but in the

  • £200,000 pay off for five days' work

    A COMPANY boss who left his job just a week after he was made chief executive received a £200,000 payoff, it has been revealed. Ian Mills was appointed to the top job at Ultraframe in September but agreed to leave amid speculation that major city investors

  • BACUP BOROUGH 0 NELSON 3

    A JONATHAN IRVINE double helped take Nelson through to the FNWT Second Division Trophy semi-final against Warrington or Formby. In an end-to-end cup tie Irvine opened the scoring in the 31st minute when he hit a long ball from the edge of the box that

  • FIVE YEARS AGO: Cemfuel pollution tests

    POLLUTION experts were invited to meet with Ribble Valley Borough Council to discuss the results of Cemfuel tests. The environmental committee agreed to ask John Isherwood from HM Inspectorate of Pollution to join them to explain the results. Testing

  • House blaze killer gets life

    KILLER arsonist Christopher Holgate was today starting a life sentence for the murder of a man he branded a sex beast and not fit to live. Holgate, 35, was yesterday convicted of the murder of sex offender Ivan Parker following a six-day trial at Preston

  • Arm horror machine had 'inadequate safety guards'

    SAFETY watchdogs today said a factory machine which seriously injured a 13-year-old boy's arm did not have adequate safety guards. Health and Safety Executive accident investigators have slapped a ban on the use of the machine which injured 13-year-old

  • McKinlay bids to put injury nightmare behind him

    BILLY McKinlay could be back in training in the next couple of days as he attempts to return from his latest injury setback. But Jeff Kenna was today awaiting news of a scan on the Achilles' tendon injury he picked up against Liverpool on Monday night

  • Council 'not welcome' at action meeting

    A RESIDENT who wants action over empty council homes on a Hyndburn estate has called a meeting for local people - but has told councillors they will not be welcome. Hyndburn's housing business chairman is among those excluded from the meeting in Huncoat

  • Hazard advice to meet rules

    FIRMS are being offered help to meet health and safety rules. Northern Technologies is offering advice to companies to help them make sure that any hazardous substances produced at work are not harmful to employees' health. European funding is available

  • INSIGHT: The flu epidemic in East Lancs

    Why did so few get a jab? IN 1997, public health chiefs were lauded for their forward-thinking and pro-active stance against the ravages of flu. A campaign to encourage everybody aged 65 or more to have a flu jab was launched in East Lancashire. The health

  • Branch closure alarm over lending

    SMALL firms in Lancashire will find it harder to find funds to grow because of dwindling bank branches. The North West Society of Chartered Accountants warns that closures by banks of branches in small towns will hit relationships between entrepreneurs

  • Ultraframe score in profit stakes

    CONSERVATORY roofing firm Ultraframe is the second most profitable company in the North West. The firm's profit margin of 30.56 per cent beats almost every other major company in the region according to business magazine Insider's Top 300 list. The latest

  • Hotel plan is turned down

    A PUB company's plan to convert its offices into a hotel has been turned down by worried councillors. Pendle Council's Nelson area committee was recommended to give the green light to Devonshire Pub Company's scheme to create a 30-bedroom hotel with conference

  • New hope for poorest areas

    A BLUEPRINT to regenerate one of the poorest areas of Pendle has been drawn up following a major consultation with residents. A 10-year, multi-million pound strategy to rejuvenate Nelson West, which takes in Whitefield and Bradley wards, will be launched

  • Help in time of tragedy

    THE parents of a young girl killed in a road accident have set up a support group for others who have suffered similar tragedies. Michael and Sue Sainsbury, of Cooper Street, Nelson, lost their four-year-old daughter Jo-Anne when she was involved in an

  • House blaze killer gets life

    KILLER arsonist Christopher Holgate was today starting a life sentence for the murder of a man he branded a sex beast and not fit to live. Holgate, 35, was yesterday convicted of the murder of sex offender Ivan Parker following a six-day trial at Preston