EAST Lancashire's coal mining past has not generally left a positive legacy. Scarred landscapes, poor housing and industrial diseases which cut short the lives of ex-miners are just some of the things that remained when the pits closed and the former
LATEST tables Premier Division P W D L F A Pts GD Royton Town... 13 9 2 2 37 23 29 14 Wilmslow Albion... 15 8 4 3 23 21 28 2 Prestwich Heys... 13 8 2 3 23 16 26 7 Irlam MS... 16 8 1 7 49 33 25 16 Leigh Athletic... 13 6 5 2 31 19 23 12 East Manchester.
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REGARDING the letter 'Isn't taxi issue discriminatory?' (LET November 13). You have to read it to believe it actually could be sent by someone who wasn't trying to create tension. The language spoken among the indigenous people of our land in English.
I AM looking for help in finding any relatives/friends of a Sgt Leonard Whalley, RAF who was a member of 31 Sqdn SAAF, based at Foggia, Italy, in 1944. Sgt Whalley was killed when his 31 SAAF Liberator Bomber with eight crew crashed in the Italian Alps
A 35-year-old motorcyclist died instantly when a deer jumped out in front of him on a remote country lane. An inquest heard that Jeffrey Barsby, who had been riding bikes since he was six years old, had no chance of avoiding the animal and suffered a
A SOLDIER was "snarling with rage" when he swung a pick-axe into the head of his lance corporal during an army training exercise, a court heard. It struck Konrad Bisping, 26, with such force that the point pierced his skull and travelled an inch-and-a-half
BLACKBURN Rovers' two Academy teams went goal crazy at the weekend as both sides hit the opposition for six. Rob Kelly's Under 19s thumped Sheffield Wednesday 6-2 to make it three wins out of three while Ian Miller's Under 17s thrashed Manchester City
BLACKBURN Rovers fans are calling for goals -- and after Saturday, they're calling for Gallagher! Seeing young Scot Paul look so confident and assured against Manchester United when he came on at half-time took me back to when I was starting out as a
A 34-YEAR-OLD man has been robbed at knife-point in Burnley. The victim was walking along Parliament Street at 10.30pm, on Friday, November 21, when he was approached by a man who asked him for the time. He told him he did not know the time and was then
TOWNELEY Hall is filled with festive flowers thanks to college students. The students from Myerscough College, near Preston, attending floristry courses at Towneley Hall have completed a project to design and produce festive floral displays for the hall
AN MP is urging competition watchdogs to help safeguard 800 jobs at a Burnley call centre. Peter Pike's call comes after the takeover of GUS Home Shopping by Littlewood's which has a knock-on effect for the company's Reality Home Shopping Call Centre
STEEP council tax rises could be on the cards in Burnley next year after local authority finances were thrown into turmoil by government grant shortfalls. Burnley Council bosses had been expecting around £9.7million from the Treasury, but were told they
PADIHAM residents have been assured that no decision had yet been made about the future of the town's leisure centre. Burnley Council's head of leisure Mick Cartledge told a meeting at Padiham Town Hall that several options about the future of sports
TEENAGERS are being urged to have the MMR vaccination after an outbreak of mumps among college students. In the last month there have been six confirmed cases of the disease in East Lancashire, whereas there are usually none or only one a year. Five of
A PETITION objecting to the expansion of a mosque in Nelson has been received by Pendle Council. Plans for Brunswick Street Mosque include a ground floor extension to the north and west, a first floor extension to the south, a dome on the entrance and
A 35-year-old motorcyclist died instantly when a deer jumped out in front of him on a remote country lane. An inquest heard that Jeffrey Barsby, who had been riding bikes since he was six years old, had no chance of avoiding the animal and suffered a
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a 12-year-old boy was robbed and assaulted in Colne. The boy was with a friend and had a micro-scooter with him when a group of youths began calling him names and accusing him of having someone else's scooter.
THREE "ice cool" raiders tied up a Haslingden garage worker and stole the weekend takings of £1,300. The raid took place at the Globe Garage in Accrington Road. A new attempt was made to re-open the Colne-Skipton rail link. Nelson and Colne MP Doug Hoyle
AFTER hanging for more than an hour by his right arm from the top of a coal yard gate Clifford Rudun was found unconscious by the fire brigade. Mr Rudun was on tip-toe fixing the gate when a heavy bar dropped and pinned his arm. The new Roman Catholic
KEN Dodd is coming to Leigh next Thursday to turn on the town's Christmas lights. The comedian, who has switched on the lights in the past and is a frequent visitor to the town, will be making the crowds laugh. He will be joined by Leigh Centurions' director
POLICE have revealed that a man who plunged from a motorway bridge on Saturday had a significant scar on his left arm. And the man, who died after jumping from the Stanhill Lane bridge, Oswaldtwistle, on to the M65, is aged between 16 and 25 years. When
POLICE have launched an investigation after an 11-year-old St Wilfrid's CE High School pupil suffered serious head injuries when he was knocked down by a car as he waited for a school bus. Pupils watched in horror as Samuel Frederick Howard Riding, of
A SOLDIER was "snarling with rage" when he swung a pick-axe into the head of his lance corporal during an army training exercise, a court heard. It struck Konrad Bisping, 26, with such force that the point pierced his skull and travelled an inch-and-a-half
THE key moments and player ratings from the game against Reading. BURNLEY RATINGS (4-4-2) BRIAN JENSEN: Never a dull moment for the Dane, who pulled off a superb early stop, then almost dropped the rick of the season 7 DEAN WEST: Visibly gained in confidence
STAN Ternent hailed the three points against Reading as a "big win" for Burnley. The Clarets chief celebrated his 250th League game in charge with a badly needed victory courtesy of goals from Robbie Blake, Richard Chaplow and Luke Chadwick. And Ternent
IT is now obligatory to expose rippling muscles, do an Olympic standard triple somersault, high fives and silly walks just for a simple five yard tap-in. Scoring the opening goal in the 1960 Championship winning game was greeted slightly differently -
NEVER mind the quality - feel the relief! Eighteenth place, eight games, six weeks - however you crunched the numbers, you didn't need to be a mathematician to calculate the Clarets were in dire need of three points. But the feel-good factor has suddenly
NAVIGATOR Daniel Barritt is looking for a new seat in 2004 following Mitsubishi's shock decision to pull out of North American rallying. Barritt, 23, from Hapton won the US Championship with driver David Higgins after dominating with series in their factory-backed
STAN Ternent hailed the three points against Reading as a "big win" for Burnley. The Clarets chief celebrated his 250th League game in charge with a badly needed victory courtesy of goals from Robbie Blake, Richard Chaplow and Luke Chadwick. And Ternent
A NORMANDY veteran is once again drawing up battle lines over plans to rent land near a memorial ground in Rossendale. An anonymous applicant has applied to Rossendale Council to rent the land at the back of Trickett's War Memorial near garages in Thistlemount
POLICE were today trying to identify a woman found hanging from a tree in Witton Park, Blackburn. The discovery was made b y a member of staff at the park. Police found the body near the main entrance about 9.15am yesterday. Firefighters helped to recover
THE boss of hundreds of call centre workers today scotched rumours that jobs are to be shifted to India -- and revealed hundreds of jobs are going to be created in East Lancashire. Terry Boynes, divisional director of Capita's regional business centres
LANCASHIRE could be the first place outside London to get a hi-tech cancer scanner. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs hospitals in Chorley and Preston, is planning a £6m bid for a PET scanner which will provide cancer, cardiac and neuroscience
AN East Lancashire Euro MP today called for disused coal mines across the North West to be brought back into use -- generating electricity and helping in the fight against global warming. Old coal mines in the East Lancashire area, such as Hoddlesden,
WINTER can prove to be a real weather woe for the region's motorists as they battle the elements to get from A to B. Chief Reporter MICHELLE FIDDLER looks at the measures being taken in East Lancashire to make sure they don't grind to a halt this winter
WHEN will common sense prevail in football? No sooner had Rory Prendergast had the chance to celebrate getting Accrington Stanley back on level terms with Chester City than he was shown a yellow card for celebrating in front of the delirious Reds fans
LATEST tables Premier Division P W D L F A Pts GD Royton Town... 13 9 2 2 37 23 29 14 Wilmslow Albion... 15 8 4 3 23 21 28 2 Prestwich Heys... 13 8 2 3 23 16 26 7 Irlam MS... 16 8 1 7 49 33 25 16 Leigh Athletic... 13 6 5 2 31 19 23 12 East Manchester.
LATEST details Premier Division P W D L F A PTS Kirkham/Wesham... 15 11 4 0 44 12 37 Fulwood Ams... 16 10 2 4 37 30 32 Dalton Utd... 15 9 1 5 35 23 28 Coppull Utd... 14 7 6 1 34 16 27 Fleetwood Hesk... 15 7 2 6 32 26 23 Eagley... 14 6 3 5 32 19 21 BAE
IT'S a wildlife spectacle as starlings head off to roost. It's a breath-taking sight - thousands of starlings filling the winter skies, preparing to roost at the end of each day. Starlings are familiar to everyone. So familiar, in fact, that we may not
I READ with absolute disgust the article concerning the proposed planning application to site two 308ft wind turbines on part of Uglow Farm (LET November 20). The article quotes National Wind Power (NWP) as stating that "each wind turbine would make a
A 39-YEAR-OLD man was grabbed from behind by three men who asked him for a light as he walked along Hinds Lane, Bury. Police say the robbers then searched his pockets and stole property in the attack at 10am on Monday. He was left shaken but unhurt. All
Burton Albion 3 Leigh RMI 2 by Martyn Hindley: PHIL Starbuck fell prey to a cruel twist of fate at Eton Park as his former club, Burton Albion, stole all the points with a deflected goal in the dying minutes. RMI had dominated proceedings early on but
JONATHAN Douglas produced an inspired performance as Rovers reserves cruised to a comprehensive away victory in Yorkshire last night. Douglas struck twice inside the opening 20 minutes and then Gary Harkins added a third shortly after half-time to wrap
BLACKBURN Rovers today played down reports linking Dwight Yorke with a shock move to Russia. The former Manchester United striker is thought to be a target for Russian outfit Krylia Sovetov, who finished ninth in the Premier Liga last season. However,
I'VE never been entirely convinced by the arguments supporting the case for video evidence in football before now. I tend to believe in the old maxim 'if it ain't broke then don't fix it'. Football has survived perfectly well for over 100 years without
A NELSON mum has had her purse snatched from her hand in the street. The 25-year-old victim was walking down a side street near Westmoreland Street, Nelson, when she was approached by an Asian male who snatched the purse she was carrying, containing £20
A FURNITURE recycling project in Colne has been awarded one of the top 10 prizes in the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) Awards. The Open Door project, which recycles unwanted furniture and domestic appliances to people who cannot afford
A TROUBLED Accrington club where a teenager was fatally assaulted has finally closed. Churchills, in Cannon Street, ended its teen nights after it was hit by dwindling numbers and vandalism. The club started the weekly under-18s night in March after adult
A LORRY driver had to be cut free from his truck after it overturned on a roundabout in Clitheroe. Christopher Simpson, 38, of Victoria Street, Clitheroe, was driving the 40-tonne truck, which belonged to AJA Smith Transport Ltd of Clitheroe, when it
THREE East Lancashire crews finished with honours in one of the final road rallies of 2003. Kirkby Lonsdale's Harry and Ivy Rally - named after the club founders -attracted thirty entries for their popular end-of-season 'half night'event. Top local seeds
BLACKBURN Rovers today played down reports linking Dwight Yorke with a shock move to Russia. The former Manchester United striker is thought to be a target for Russian outfit Krylia Sovetov, who finished ninth in the Premier Liga last season. However,
A HOTEL tipped to become "the jewel in the crown" in the local hospitality industry has picked up a civic award for its architecture. Beeston Manor country hotel, Samlesbury has been praised by Preston and South Ribble Civic Trust for its unique construction
ROSSENDALE went into the next round of the Chairman's Cup following defeat in the League Challenge Cup at Vauxhall last night. But more worrying for the Dark Lane side was the loss of both Brian Welch and Simon Burton through injury in the first half,
AFTER the hard-fought 2-2 draw at Fleetwood, the Rams returned to the Riverside for the FA Vase replay hoping to go against all the odds and progress to the next round. Not only did the Rams do this to secure a third round tie at Gelding Town but they
WHERE they stand Premier Division P W D L F A Pt Gregorians... 13 9 4 0 35 9 31 Rossendale Amateurs... 13 9 3 1 27 15 30 Radcliffe Amateurs... 11 7 2 2 36 13 23 Bolton Lads Club... 13 6 5 2 27 11 23 Little Lever SC... 14 7 0 7 26 30 21 Chaddertonians.
REGARDING the comments of Mrs A Baker on Darwen not having the shops or goods she wants. Well, I think that Darwen has a good variety of shops and market stalls and if you look hard enough, you can usually find what you want (or get a good alternative
SO Donald Mitchell thinks hunting people are decent people does he (Letters, November 19)? Are these the same people who are signing a declaration that says they will break the law if hunting is banned? Are these the same people who say they are going
IT'S TAKEN 30 years of supporting Burnley Football Club to start turning my hair grey. Stan Ternent has managed it in five, which, more clearly than anything shows the contrasting stress levels in our two differing jobs! Watching this great club is all
BLACKBURN Rovers have won the race to sign Great Harwood hot-shot Matt Derbyshire. The 17-year-old striker, who has attracted interest from a number of Premiership clubs during the last few weeks, signed a contract with Rovers yesterday which will tie
A NEW Neighbourhood Watch Scheme has been launched in Burnley. Wardens will patrol the Standen Hall Drive, Grassington Drive, Malham and Lothersdale Drives, Ellerbeck and Burnsall Close areas the town. The scheme, which has been set up by police community
WORSTHORNE rock musician, Gregg Holland, drummer for the punk rock band The Runs, will be performing tomorrow night with his band at The Mayor of Burnley's Charity Rock Nite which takes place at 8pm at Rosegrove Unity, Accrington Road, Burnley. The line
POLICE chiefs in Burnley have welcomed the opening of three new night spots. The clubs are set to be launched in Burnley before Christmas in a bid to give funseekers a safe place to go out during the festive season. A former chapel in Hammerton Street
A CONMAN who tricked his way into the homes of two women in Radcliffe and stole cash is being hunted by police. Police have issued a warning to local residents to check the identification of any caller before letting them in. They are linking the incidents
PLANS to transform the area between Blackburn markets and the shopping centre were unveiled. The new look shopping zone would turn the town into a showpiece, Coun Gail Barton said. Burnley-born former Lancashire bowler Ian Folley died after being hit
THE saucy charity calendar that Lancashire County Council did not want you to see has sold out in its first day on sale. A thousand copies of the calendar - featuring men from SITA recycling and waste depots in Barnoldswick, Burnley, Padiham and Great
HYNDBURN has been named in a top 10 list of the best places to live in Britain. The borough was placed at number six in the list of the best places to buy a house when comparing house prices to crime statistics. Hyndburn's average house price is £56,284
THE mum of rugby World Cup hero Will Greenwood said today: "It doesn't get much better than this." Susan Greenwood, a maths teacher at St Mary's Hall, Stonyhurst, returned to the school yesterday after spending three weeks in Australia with husband Dick
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