A LIBRARY is set to be one of the first in the world to go on-line with a new media information service. The reference section of Blackburn Library believes it will be one of just 25 libraries worldwide to start hiring out 300 CD-Rom discs, containing
RAY Harford has spoken out against Blackburn Rovers' exhausting schedule which has taken a heavy toll on his squad of players. And it may take more swoops into the transfer market in order to sort it out. Rovers have been ravaged this season by a crippling
PLANS for a £7.4 million facelift on East Lancashire railways are steaming ahead. The scheme for track and station improvements scored second highest among plans submitted for a slice of the Government's Regional Challenge Programme. Bids totalling £97
A COMMUNITY leader is calling for action to improve a notorious killer road. Akhtar Hussain wants to see new safety measures introduced on the A666, which runs from Darwen to Bolton. The road has been the scene of several fatal accidents and many serious
RAPE squad detectives today told how they raced to the Scottish Highlands to interview a witness who could help nail a sex beast. The key man is believed to have come face-to-face with the Billinge Wood rapist just minutes before he carried out a brutal
A DOG owner was horrified when her pet limped home after two days absence with an open wound from an air rifle pellet. Duke, an 18-month-old border collie cross, escaped from his owner Mrs Netta Thompson, 37, when the binmen collected on her street. He
I HAD to make a rather difficult decision this week. It was whether to sacrifice the rest of the tomato crop or whether to leave them another week or two and take a chance that the late chrysanthemums don't get ruined by the weather. I've decided to play
A FIRE chief today claimed that a derelict engineering works filled with inflammable liquids and gasses is a disaster waiting to happen. Station officer John Hinton slammed the former owners of the arson hit building for leaving behind dangerous chemicals
A DAMNING District Auditor's report on massive losses in Burnley Council's highways maintenance department puts the blame on management failure, it was revealed today. At one stage they were charging £10 an hour for work won against competition when the
NORTH West Water shareholders have overwhelmingly approved its takeover bid for the electricity company Norweb at an extraordinary general meeting. Now the proposal will go to a postal ballot to give full approval for the move. The matter may still be
A WELL-known former director of Blackburn family firm Mercer and Sons has died in Cyprus after a long illness. He was 75. Max Mercer became a familiar face to staff and customers at the hardware and gardening business up until his retirement in 1981.
BLOOD tests have proved that a young girl did not have her drink laced with LSD before being taken to hospital from a teenage disco. The sample from 11-year-old Emma Leggatt, of Hythe Close, Blackburn, was analysed and found to contain no trace of the
CLITHEROE-KID Nathan Peel was due to hit the comeback trail today. Peel was pencilled in to return to action in Burnley's A team fixture against Morecambe Reserves at Gawthorpe this morning. The striker has been sidelined for a fortnight with a troublesome
WILDLIFE fan Chris Martin is devastated after poachers killed a rare gorilla that he befriended in Africa. Chris received a letter saying that Marcel, one of only 650 silverback gorillas in the world, had been shot dead. The beast lived in Zaire's Virunga
