GARY Croft acknowledged the size of the challenge he faces as he breezed into Ewood Park for the first time this afternoon. He knows it's a massive step up from Division One standards to joining the cream of the crop in the Premiership. But Blackburn
EAST Lancashire's 'Mr Scouting', Harold Burrows, has died aged 91. Mr Burrows, president of the East Lancashire County Scout Council, was also known throughout the area for his involvement in community organisations. Mr Burrows, a bachelor, was found
A FORMER East Lancashire market trader has made history by becoming the country's first Asian assistant chief constable Tarique Ghaffur worked on his family's clothing stall at Accrington market when he was 16. Two years later he joined the police force
SECOND Division Burnley are chasing Clitheroe's FA Vase hero Carlo Nash. The Clarets have checked out the 6ft 4ins Shawbridge goalkeeper and will monitor his North West Counties' League progress until the end of the season. Nash, who arrived at Shawbridge
IT WAS both a hair-raising and fund-raising experience when volunteer ghost hunters spent the night among the spooks. The employees from the National Rivers Authority raised the money for Blackburn's Friends of Chernobyl's Children when they bedded down
PLACES all over Burnley and Padiham have been inspected for the prestigious Mayor's excellence award. A party left the town hall and visited nine locations to judge which should win the award. They visited the new Inland Revenue offices in Kingsway, Queen
MORE than 5,000 young athletes will descend on Blackburn this summer with dreams of sporting success. The Lancashire Youth Games takes place on June 15 and 16 and competitors aged nine to 16 will meet in 25 different sports at venues including Witton
Old-fashioned pruningSPRING is certainly late this year. Growth is four or five weeks behind what it was at this time last year but now we're seeing signs that it's on the way. Several plants are producing new shoots, particularly the roses, so this week
YOUNGSTERS have been playing their part in raising cash for the Dunblane tragedy fund. Pupils at Meadowhead Primary School, Blackburn, held various activities including a non-uniform day to collect money for the appeal set up after 16 pupils and their
POLICE have issued an appeal for anyone who saw a robber running away from a building society in the Rosegrove area to come forward. The man, who said he had a gun, held up the Marsden office and was seen running in the Metcalfe Street area at about 9.30am
AN aid worker facing child smuggling allegations spoke today of his frustration that there is no end to his ordeal in Romania in sight. Proceedings against former Great Harwood businessman John Boast were adjourned until April 26 after he pleaded not
BATTLING residents claim a new apartment block would cause massive geological problems in the Meins Road area of Blackburn. Meins Road Area Residents' Association is fighting plans by Crowther Homes Ltd for a two and three-storey mock Tudor structure
DEVASTATED pub regulars who were reduced to tears by news of the Dunblane tragedy have raised money to send some sunshine to the surviving schoolchildren. Locals at The Highfield Inn, Grimshaw Park, Blackburn, were so upset by news of the gun massacre
A MEAT firm has made 70 workers redundant and put more than 200 others on short-time working as the beef scare takes a growing toll on jobs and businesses in East Lancashire. The move by Woodhead Brothers confirmed the worst fears of its workers at its
LANCASHIRE'S chief constable Pauline Clare, has outlined her plans for the force's future. It includes more bobbies on the beat, better protection for officers and decentralisation. Mrs Clare told an open meeting of the Lancashire Police Federation she
A TREE battle has erupted after a businessman cleared away trees in his three-acre grounds. Kevin Taylor, 63, and his wife Beryl, bought the £380,000 house at Alden Lea, Helmshore, with part of his £1 million compensation award from the police he had
A "MONEY for nothing" scheme which has been taking thousands of pounds off savers in Lancashire has been condemned in the House of Commons. Labour's consumer spokesman Nigel Griffiths warned everyone to steer clear of German-based Titan Marketing, accusing
LANCASHIRE refused to press the panic button today after the massive blow of losing coach David Lloyd to England. The Old Trafford club will be without their chief motivator this summer while he attempts to lead England out of the Test doldrums. And Test
BUDDING entrepreneurs carried off six awards in Pendle's annual Young Enterprise competition. Students at Fisher-More High School, Colne, with their firm Yeba, clinched six trophies including the overall prize for the second year running, and £300 in
IF only Hambo the hamster could talk she would surely be thanking pet-loving Clitheroe fireman Ronnie Eatough. For not only did Ronnie run back into the Chatburn flat where Hambo had become overcome by smoke, but he gave her the kiss of life when she
