A HIGH performance car which crashed killing the driver and a passenger was being hunted by police following a house burglary. The driver, believed to be from Clayton-le-Moors, and a rear seat passenger thought to be from Preston, died when the four-by-four
BATTLE proper starts at Moss Rose tomorrow at 3pm - but the war of words is already well underway. And with two experienced campaigners like Sammy McIlroy and Dave Sutton swapping the verbal punches, it makes for quite a dust-up. There is, of course,
AN OPEN letter appealing for the people of Jammu-Kashmir to help free hostage Paul Wells was being distributed throughout the region today. Thirty thousand copies of the Urdu-translated plea, signed by the families of the four Western captives, was being
DAVID Eyres should be back in circulation as Burnley take on Peterborough United at Turf Moor tomorrow in what manager Adrian Heath admits is a crunch Second Division clash. Suffering from a "bug", the winger has been under orders to keep clear of the
MADNESS! So you thought we lived in a democracy? How could a life-saving reform supported by the overwheling majority of MPs be 'mugged' by Transport Minister Steve Norris? In a three hour debate, seven MPs (including three Conservatives) argued passionately
IT'S less than six months since Burnley and Peterborough United crossed swords at London Road, but it must seem more like a lifetime to those closely connected to Turf Moor. And they could hardly have envisaged just how vital tomorrow's return clash would
THREE teenagers burgled a 90-year-old widow's home while she slept in the sunshine in her garden - then returned the next day and set the house on fire, a court was told. The "vulnerable" woman was made homeless when she returned from a day centre for
FORGET roast beef. The Mad Cow scare is threatening an even greater Lancashire delicacy - the world famous black pudding! It's not that people are shunning the mouth-watering mixture of blood, herbs and fat - demand is as great as ever. It is simply that
RAY Harford takes Blackburn Rovers to Nottingham Forest tomorrow knowing that sixth place in the Premiership might yet be good enough to clinch a UEFA Cup spot for next season. The Premier League have appealed against the loss of a European place, one
ON a recent visit to East Lancashire, I decided, against the advice of friends, to shop in Blackburn, and I visited the 'famous' Tommy Ball's. The unfortunate outcome was a £60 clamping charge. I expect nothing from the operators, for I have learned of
CURIOUS Jamie Maxwell thought he was playing on an arcade machine in a card shop - but he ended up costing his mum £2.50 when he mistakenly printed out a greeting. Jamie, 11, was meddling with the Create-a-Card machine when it started to print his handiwork
THE defeat of the proposed Bill to ban bull bars is a victory of common sense over sensational scaremongering. The reality is that there is not a single proven pedestrian fatality due to bull bars and the figures that continue to be bandied about are
A POOL team has been stunned by a brewery's decision not to sponsor them in a prestigious final - even though they play under their name. Blackburn Thwaites is one of four teams from East Lancashire who have potted their way to the national county pool
RAIL travellers in East Lancashire faced a new round of massive price increases when British Rail introduced a new fares structure later in the month. British Rail announced the changes this morning, a day after the Transport Users Committee announced
A RAY of hope was gleaming for the campaign to save Hartley Hospital in Colne. Regional health chairman Sir John Page, hinted to Burnley MP Peter Pike that the hospital might possibly be kept on for a while in a geriatric role. But at a meeting with the
OH, no! - the nightmare on the M6 comes back. For after ages of enduring cone chaos during mammoth £37.5 million improvements to the congested seven-mile Bamber Bridge-Broughton stretch, drivers face another six months of misery this summer - as the road
UNLIKE all the other by-election setbacks they have suffered since last winning one in February, 1989, that of last night's thrashing of the Tories at Staffordshire South East - in which they were hit by a 22 per cent swing to Labour - cannot be dismissed
MOTORWAY contractors and the Highways Agency have defended plans for more roadworks which are likely to cause delays and a summer of misery for thousands of motorists. The new works on the recently-widened M6 come just nine months after the main scheme
A SCHOOLBOY needed hospital surgery after being shot by an airgun sniper as he was riding his bike. The pellet ripped through Neil Haworth's jeans and lodged in his upper thigh. Neil, 15, of St Hubert's Road, Great Harwood, was detained overnight in hospital
MARK Crossley's record since rivalry was renewed between Blackburn Rovers and Nottingham Forest might tempt those who remain cynical of standards north of the border that he is ideal material to become a Scottish goalkeeper. And that's exactly what the
THE world's aerospace giants are preparing to do battle for a £2 billion contract on which hundreds of East Lancashire defence jobs could depend. The Ministry of Defence is soon to decide on a replacement for the famous Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft
STUDENTS from Ivy Bank High School, Burnley, spent a day being coached by Sgt Kelly Holmes, the British Olympic gold medal hope for 800 and 1500m. Along with five other School Challenger groups, the Ivy Bank pupils were given special tips at the Army
YOU HAVE to be well into middle age to remember the wicked winter of 1947. Even now, it's still the snowiest on record but at the time it was made worse by a chronic coal shortage. But turn up the thermostat - the big chill of nearly half a century ago
IN response to Bill Elliott (Letters, March 27), I would point out that this country does not have the much-vaunted, and distorted 'Right to Bear Arms' claimed by gun owners in the USA. Here, the Firearm Certificates required to legally own rifles and
PHIL POWER: Forward. Former Chorley favourite and amateur international. Left Victory Park with a serious injury, but became Macclesfield's leading scorer in their championship season after spells at Barrow and Stalybridge. May be suspended for second
CHORLEY boss Dave Sutton will sweat on a last minute Dean Emerson fitness test before naming the side he hopes can complete the final few steps on the road to Wembley. The Magpies travel to GM Vauxhall Conference high-flyers and champions Macclesfield
