IN the letters column (LET, September 13), I was rather perturbed by a response from Councillor Nigel Nuttall regarding as he quotes "checking out very detailed records of a person who had not actually voted." Whatever M/s Oldfield (the person Councillor
ON Wednesday, my home was left without electricity, I would like to thank the people whose actions kept me without power for 13 hours. I would like to thank them for attacking the engineers who were working nearby, so that they couldn't do their jobs.
CRAIG Bellamy scored his first goals in a Blackburn shirt last night and then vowed: 'There's plenty more to come from me yet!' The Welsh international capped a man-of-the-match performance with two goals in Rovers' 3-1 Carling Cup win against Huddersfield
DESKS at a new Burnley information centre have sparked a row after council bosses were accused of installing them at the wrong height. Opposition leaders and unions have claimed workers are having to stand up or crouch down all day - and that one man
PENDLE Council is poised to join a national campaign against Government plans for ID cards. It will be the first Lancashire council to add its voice to the No2ID campaign which brings together mainstream and radical groups including the Church of the
A DISTRAUGHT wife died of a broken heart less than two weeks after her husband of 59 years passed away, their daughter has said. When Frank Catlow died after a stroke his wife Margaret went into a rest home. Just 13 days later she also died when she could
LANCASHIRE will attempt to rescue another fluctuating season by clinching the Division Two title at Old Trafford today and give their older players another chance to challenge for domestic cricket's main prize. They will resume the second day against
RALLY navigator Phil Peak added another first to his list of achievements when he guided Steve Simpson to victory on the Hall Trophy Stages Rally. Peak, from Oswaldtwistle, teamed up with the Bury driver for a debut run in Simpson's Hyundai Accent WRC
A MAN faces eviction from his home for refusing to allow his landlord to carry out vital gas repairs -- in the first case of its kind in the country. The move comes just a month after Twin Valley Homes, the area's largest social landlord, threatened to
SHELLY Woods won a fantastic victory in the women's wheelchair race at the Great North Run on Sunday. The nineteen-year-old from Blackpool defeated the three time London Marathon winner Francesca Porcellato and shattered Tanni Grey-Thompson's course record
IT was in the mid 1960s that a TV drama entitled 'Cathy Come Home' woke up people throughout the nation to the extent and effects of homelessness. The play showed what happened to a young couple who became homeless and is said to have led to the foundation
RE: No Knowledge of Asbestos (LET, September 13). Can we really believe it? Is this not the most potentially expensive mistake that has ever been visited on the good citizens of Blackburn and Darwen? Here we have our 'Council of the Year' with a special
DESKS at a new Burnley information centre have sparked a row after council bosses were accused of installing them at the wrong height. Opposition leaders and unions have claimed workers are having to stand up or crouch down all day - and that one man
STAFF fear that jobs and routes face the axe after council bosses began considering the complete sell-off of Blackburn Transport bus company. The move towards off-loading the operation came as internal council documents revealed that the company relies
COULD this be the shape of things to come for Blackburn Rovers? Mark Hughes ditched his 4-5-1 formation for a more adventurous 4-4-2 and the goals duly flowed as a Craig Bellamy-inspired Rovers comfortably brushed Huddersfield aside to sweep into the
PREPARATIONS are being made to appoint staff to the new schools in the multi-million pound Building Schools For The Future project in Burnley and Pendle. Lists of proposed positions have been drawn up by heads and approved by temporary governing bodies
A GROUP of iron-stomached bobbies are to get their running shoes on to beef up the coffers of an East Lancashire charity. However, preparations for the 14-mile run may not consist of pounding the streets to put miles in the legs, rather more likely is
PENDLE Council is poised to join a national campaign against Government plans for ID cards. It will be the first Lancashire council to add its voice to the No2ID campaign which brings together mainstream and radical groups including the Church of the
A GROUP of iron-stomached bobbies are to get their running shoes on to beef up the coffers of an East Lancashire charity. However, preparations for the 14-mile run may not consist of pounding the streets to put miles in the legs, rather more likely is
DANNY Karbassiyoon has handed Burnley a huge boost by coming through a reserve team game unscathed to end his injury hell. The former Arsenal defender has endured a frustrating start to life at Turf Moor following a mysterious pelvic injury, which wrecked
DANNY Karbassiyoon has handed Burnley a huge boost by coming through a reserve team game unscathed to end his injury hell. The former Arsenal defender has endured a frustrating start to life at Turf Moor following a mysterious pelvic injury, which wrecked
CRAIG Bellamy scored his first goals in a Blackburn shirt last night and then vowed: 'There's plenty more to come from me yet!' The Welsh international capped a man-of-the-match performance with two goals in Rovers' 3-1 Carling Cup win against Huddersfield
PETROL thieves in Darwen are leaving motorists high and dry. Fuel has been syphoned from cars in the Sough Road, Chapels and Bolton Road areas of the town in recent weeks, each time using a drill or screwdriver to puncture the petrol tanks. Police do
A COMPANY is spearheading the fight to protect children from internet pornography with the launch of new software. PurePages, based at Eanam Business Centre, Blackburn, has developed a programme called the PureiBlocker, which it claims is the first of
STAFF fear that jobs and routes face the axe after council bosses began considering the complete sell-off of Blackburn Transport bus company. The move towards off-loading the operation came as internal council documents revealed that the company relies
THE stands are emptying at an alarming rate. TV sports channel subscriptions are down. Terrified managers are strangling the game with negative tactics. The Grim Reaper is already starting to sharpen his scythe. That's all we've heard this week as pundits
