JASON Heavey's excellent article on the cost of funerals (LET, April 3) reminded me of my own experience. Having lost all my family over the last 25 years and arranged several of the funerals (mainly in south Manchester), I found it astonishing how money
IT beggars belief that anyone can even imagine that the grotesque rise of 17 per cent in Blackburn's council tax is down to the Government. One has only to look at the surrounding Labour-controlled authorities whose increases average six to seven per
I REFER to your report of a court case - 'Teenager wields knife at school' (LET, March 13) - in which a 15-year-old was said to have chased pupils with a machete-type knife and admitted other offences, including threatening to kill a social worker. The
SO the war between the banks and building societies intensifies and, in the wake of the Chancellor's cut in interest rates last month, mortgages plunge to their lowest level for 31 years - down to the 6.74 per cent now charged by lenders Nationwide and
THE axe has fallen on 11 staff at Ribble Valley Borough Council. The 11 staff across all departments have received their redundancy notices as cash-strapped Ribble Valley Council struggles to make thousands of pounds worth of budget savings. The first
BLACKBURN Conservatives' vice-chairman David Pearson (Letters, March 28), knows as well as I do that the goalposts have changed on the grant councils receive from central government and if, as he claims, Blackburn is more highly taxed than surrounding
WATER BOSSES today spelled out a stark warning of the most parched summer ever for East Lancashire with chronic water shortages and hosepipe bans. The situation in East Lancs is the region's worst with Hyndburn reservoir about 22 per cent full and Blackburn
THE BOMB hoaxer who brought Accrington town centre to a standstill was today attacked by a police chief. Detective inspector Jim Oldcorn said: "Whoever did this did not just act on the spur of the moment but carried out an elaborate and deliberate hoax
ADRIAN Heath was fuming after he left the Goldstone Ground empty-handed last night feeling his side had been robbed of a share of the points. The Clarets had a Paul Mahorn goal ruled out for offside, a penalty appeal turned down when Kurt Nogan was caught
BATTLING residents have spent a staggering £40,000 of their own money in the fight to stop a block of mock Tudor flats being built near their homes. Protesters have hired a barrister, town planner, a geologist and a tree expert to gather facts and figures
A MASKED robber sprayed an irritant into the face of Burnley newsagent Steve Howarth early today. Mr Howarth, 32, was making himself a cup of tea at about 6.30am when he heard someone enter the Briercliffe Road shop. When he went into the front he was
BRIGHTON's loan rangers left Burnley firing blanks in the Second Division's relegation gunfight. Two Brighton deadline-day signings helped extend Adrian Heath's dismal managerial record and leave the Clarets just one point above the drop zone. While central
A MASSIVE mill shop extension is set to open next week providing a welcome jobs boost to Pendle. The home furnishings, glass and china department of Boundary Mill in Colne will create up to 100 new full and part-time jobs and allow other departments to
VILLAGERS were evacuated in their nightclothes as fire ripped through a four-storey mill in a spectacular blaze. One hundred and thirty firefighters tackled the inferno at Brindle Mill, which was stacked with timber, in Gregson Lane, Hoghton. Dozens of
STOCKS of Italian olive oil were removed from supermarket shelves in East Lancashire after a nationwide poisoning alert. Asda cleared the Fillipo Berio Extra Virgin Oil from all its stores after a Lancashire woman complained of a burning sensation when
PROBATION officers are already resisting proposals by Home Secretary Michael Howard to link their pay to whether or not offenders on their books commit more crimes. However, the ordinary person's reaction to the plan may well be: Why not? It may be that
A HOAXER brought chaos to a busy town centre when he planted an elaborate fake bomb in a supermarket. Police sealed off roads leading to Accrington town centre and an army bomb disposal squad was called in when a mystery package was discovered in the
GARRY Flitcroft, who is set to start a three-match suspension, could yet face double trouble under the Football Association disciplinary process, following his booking against Newcastle United on Monday night. The Blackburn Rovers midfielder may well
EAST Lancashire's new 'Mister Clean' says he aims to make quality improvements to land, water and air which will last into future generations. Ian Handyside, is general manager of the Environmental Agency - charged with making the region a better place
AS MARCH gave way to April and the clocks sprang forward, I made my way alongside the M65 between Burnley and Nelson and followed the course of Pendle Water. This pleasant little stream has a weir which once accelerated the current to provide power for
I FIND myself at variance with Lord Taylor (Letters, March 28) regarding the proposed new site for St Wilfrid's High School, Blackburn. Is he trying to make the targeted Feniscliffe playing fields a monument to himself or trying to score a political point
FORMER Great Harwood Town favourite Martin Eatough has been named as new boss at the Showground, writes TOBY CHAPMAN. Eatough helped mastermind Lancaster City's promotion from the UniBond First Division this season as skipper and is a major coup for Great
CLITHEROE'S Wembley heroes will be feted by Premiership champions Blackburn Rovers at next Wednesday's Ewood game against Wimbledon. Rovers chairman Robert Coar has sent a special invitation to his Clitheroe counterpart Steve Rush and the Shawbridge squad
