MORE THAN a quarter of British limited companies are making a loss, according to new research by business information service ICC. To make matters worse, ICC estimates that two thirds of these companies are "high risk" debtors who are potentially unable
THE Internet is going to be one of the most important business tools of the future and a new business magazine has just been launched to take advantage of it. The Biz, launched by multi-media specialists Easy i, is believed to be the largest UK-based
A VIOLENT husband who shook his alcoholic wife to death during a drunken row has been jailed for two years. Mark Bebbington killed his wife Christine, 43, at their home in Hodder Grove, Darwen, after both had been on a drinking binge, Preston Crown Court
ROSENBORG keeper Ola By Rise didn't have to wait until last September in Trondheim to discover that Alan Shearer is a world-class striker. He had known it for six years - ever since the keeper, who holds Rosenborg's appearances record, had a "successful
NEW sport and leisure chief Rachel Rootes aims to take Ribble Valley's attractions into the 21st century. Rachel, 32, has come from the Wyre Forest District Council in the West Midlands to be the borough sports and leisure manager, and already she has
THE festive lights on the keep of Clitheroe Castle were smashed up - only two days after being lit. Ribble Valley Council officer Mr Paul MacNeall said: "It is disgusting. What these vandals do not realise is that if it happens again, we may not be able
THE TUC is launching a new campaign to expose the North West's worst bosses. There are over 155,000 temporary workers in this region alone - many of them employed in dead-end jobs for the Christmas season. Everyone knows that scrooge employers are exploiting
I MOST heartily agree with Kevin Durkin's comment on the annual £10 Christmas bonus awarded to pensioners, and its lack of cost of living linkage (LET, November 29). Perhaps I would have been more pleased if he had informed the large number of people
WAR is declared by health supremo Stephen Dorrell on the NHS's army of bureaucrats - as he promises to axe up to 5,000 administrative jobs over the next 12 months. "More white coats and fewer grey suits" is his catchy slogan for purge on the pen-pushers
A COMPANY in Clitheroe has halved its workforce in a pre-Christmas redundancy shock. Ninety-five employees of Trutex will lose their jobs in the New Year when the manufacturing unit at Henthorn shuts on January 5. Only five of the workers will be offered
MASSIVE cuts in the Government's special schools budget for Asian youngsters will have serious implications for education in Lancashire, says a comunity leader. Rafique Malik says the Government has slashed £4 million in three years from its county council
RAY Harford admitted on the eve of Rovers' final game in the UEFA Champions' League that their bitterly disappointing showing had hurt him personally. But the Ewood boss, who praised the players' efforts, also made a plea for help to give all English
ROSENBORG coach Nils Arne Eggen expects few selection problems for tonight's Champions' League conclusion at Ewood and is set to name a familiar line-up with top scorer Harald Brattbakk employed as a lone striker. Eggen, who has led Rosenborg to another
JAHN Ivar Jakobsen has a warning for Rovers tonight - Beware Harald Brattbakk. Pocket dynamo Jakobsen, nicknamed "Mini" for obvious reasons, will be a key man himself for Rosenborg, as he leads their counter-attacking thrust in a bid to maintain a marvellous
BOOZY motorists have put Lancashire in the country's drink drive top ten. But police have insisted the high number of convictions in the county could be down to the increased number of breath tests being carried out. Home Office figures have revealed
THE government has refused to redraw the geographical boundaries of Lancashire to reflect the historic county. Tory MP Peter Thurnham asked for the old county boundary including Bolton, Wigan, Warrington and the Furness peninsular to be put back on the
BURNLEY'S golden boot Kurt Nogan today outlined his burning football ambition - a crack at the Premiership. Million-pound-rated King Kurt's goals have set Turf Moor alight this season and his double against Carlisle United cemented fourth place for the
ANWAR Solicitors, the first and only Asian firm of solicitors in Blackburn, has been given the Mayoral seal of approval. Mayor Coun Maureen Bateson and Mayoress Margery Caville officially opened the practice's new offices in Strawberry Bank. Partner Bushra
WOLSTENHOLME Rink is £10,000 better off after scooping the second prize in a top business competition. The Darwen company, which supplies a range of products to the international printing and paper industry, won the cash in the Business of the Year Awards
COUNCIL bosses declared war on poverty in Burnley after hearing the town had sunk to the depression days of the 1920s. They were told high levels of poverty were encouraging crime and jobs black markets. And Coun Alice Thornber declared: "If my kids were
THE views of Mrs Olive Coverdale on animal research (Letters, November 14) would find very little support from mainstream medicine and science. A recent British Medical Association survey showed that 19 out of 20 doctors agree that animal research is
A DIGGER has been brought in during a major operation to rescue a dog that has been trapped underground for two nights. Brock, a six-year-old Lakeland terrier, has been stuck down a rabbit hole in fields off the Barrowford by-pass for almost 48 hours.
GOVERNMENT schemes to put private finance into hospitals has been blamed for holding up a major development at Burnley General Hospital. Burnley MP Peter Pike has pointed the finger at of the government's new Private Finance Initiative (PFI) system which
VIOLENCE erupted outside the ring at a sportsman's dinner charity boxing tournament causing police to race to the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors, to halt an ugly incident in the early hours. Pendle Tory MP and former Minister John Lee voted with
SHOCKING evidence that the Dickensian days of exploited child labour are thriving in 1995 comes in a new report today. Worse, our region is one of the country's blackspots. It involves very young children working very long hours for scandalously low wages
AN ANGRY dad today slammed the Child Support Agency after a demand arrived out of the blue - for £7,300. Shaun Middleton was stunned by the massive bill, which he has been given until December 15 to pay, because he thought the controversial agency had
RAY Harford will hand several men a golden chance to emerge from the shadows at Ewood tonight, as the curtain comes down on Blackburn Rovers' disappointing UEFA Champions' League campaign. And the Rovers boss, who looks like being reduced against Norwegians
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A PENSIONER died after she was knocked down by a car near her home in Withnell. Elizabeth Kerr, 81, of East View Terrace, Withnell, was pronounced dead on arrival at Chorley hospital. The accident happened at 5.30pm yesterday on the A675 Bolton Road.
ALTHOUGH we are now into December, winter is only just with us. This week I explored the area around the Leeds to Liverpool Canal and the fields nearby. Light rain was falling and a number of great grey slugs were active and feeding. They had obviously
A TAXI driver has lost his fight for life less than two weeks after a horrific road accident. Mohammed Salim, 37, collided with an M65 construction vehicle at Stanhill Road, Knuzden. Fire crews battled for more than an hour to release Mr Salim, of Palmer
AN inquest on a Ribble Valley man who died after an alleged knife attack in Scotland could be held in East Lancashire. John Clough, 32, died after an incident at his home in Peffermill Road, Edinburgh. It is believed Mr Clough's parents, who live in Gisburn
PEOPLE took the plunge and pounded the pavements to raise hundreds of pounds for vital medical machinery. They backed the Lancashire Evening Telegraph Scanner Appeal with a muscle-straining effort combining swimming and running. The bi-athlon, organised
ONE feels sympathy for Mathew Hartley who wished to play his cornet and collect for Children in Need in Colne centre and was prevented from doing so by a police officer (LET, November 30). Many may feel that there were more heinous crimes to which the
BURNLEY old boy Graham Lancashire came back to haunt the Clarets last night - scoring twice as the reserve team went down 3-0 at home to Preston. The Clarets had the best of the opening half, but the closest they came to breaking the deadlock was on five
