IGET fed up year after year reading about council tax being put up by high-spending Blackburn Council. I am a widow and my pension does not go up as much as council tax. So how are we supposed to pay? You cannot get water from a dried well. It's not the
A LETTER from America has praised the effectiveness of a crime-busting scheme designed to make Accrington town centre a safer place for shoppers. Anne Grime sent a letter of thanks from her home in Hamilton, Ohio, after community safety wardens caught
Friday Folk JUST over a year ago, Friday Folk told how a Blackburn church was trying to keep alive the names of those who died in two wars. The Vicar and congregation at St Gabriel's Church, felt that, with the passing of the years, the people mentioned
THE conditions and conduct of the courts in Northgate, Blackburn, are worthy of utmost contempt. People surely are deserving of being treated with human dignity - people are after all human. At the Blackburn Courts, the analogy would be with a cattle
PLANS are taking shape for a £300,000 lottery bid to showcase the jewel in Hyndburn's cultural crown. The ambitious bid is being put together for major improvements to the layout and facilities at Accrington's Haworth Art Gallery, home to the world-famous
LABOUR councillors who voted to name a town centre street after Nelson Mandela were asked to foot the bill for the ill-fated scheme. They were asked to hand over £16 each - the rate for attending a four-hour council meeting - to help meet the cost of
Accrington Stanley boss Tony Greenwood looks to the future TONY Greenwood says it is business as usual at the Crown Ground despite the sudden departure of director of football Brent Peters - and the threat of further changes in personnel. The Accrington
AFTER decades of the advance of women into all walks of life and sections of society, there remains an impregnable men-only bastion in East Lancashire - down at Whalley Conservative Club. No matter that women can be astronauts, jockeys and take Holy Orders
SUDDENLY, the struggling Northern Ireland peace process is rocked by key player John Major. He flatly declares that the IRA would have to cease all paramilitary activity before any new cessation of violence was seen as sincere and genuine enough for Sinn
PUB landlord James Talbot was celebrating today after winning a fight to keep his licence - thanks to a bishop, MP and a TV comedian. Police had applied to have the licence revoked after Mr Talbot, 54, was caught serving after hours. But character witnesses
Blackburn Rovers v Southampton - Peter White assessing the changing times at The Dell BUILT like a brick outhouse, he has clocked 10.4 for the 100 metres and, with a name like Ulrich Van Gobbel, sounds perfect material to be cast as the bad guy in the
Ron Freethy's England: Barrowford LAST week I visited Barrowford's Pendle Heritage Centre in the company of its Graphic Designer, John Westwell. John suggested that if I wanted to know more about East Lancashire's industrial history I should visit Colne
IN A society that is rapidly losing all its moral values, with live-in girl or boy relationships, multiple divorce, children who find it difficult to know who is their mum and dad, the leading Christian church celebrating the lesbian and gay Christian
HEALTH bosses in East Lancashire have joined in the great debate about the future of specialist children's services in Manchester. East Lancashire Health Authority has revealed its anger and disappointment at being excluded from the exhaustive consultation
Plymouth Argyle v Burnley - Tony Dewhurst's big match preview RECORD signing Paul Barnes faces a race against time to be fit for tomorrow's Division Two clash at Plymouth Argyle. Barnes, an ever-present since a £350,000 transfer from Birmingham in September
Political Focus, with Bill Jacobs KENNETH Clarke was in enthusiastic mood when he announced his Budget this week. He told us he was neither Santa nor Scrooge. He gave us a penny off income tax and 26p off a bottle of scotch. But the perceived wisdom at
HAVING closely monitored the recent Press coverage regarding the provision of fire cover in the Pendle area, I feel compelled to clarify several points. The current controversy centres on a number of 'options for change' arising out of my recently published
GEORGE Donis has been given the green light to rejoin Blackburn Rovers' squad for another relegation "six-pointer" against Southampton at Ewood tomorrow. The Greek winger has been out of action for a month, first with a hamstring strain, then a groin
MOST householders in Burnley face a near £1-a-week rise in council tax demands next year, town hall chiefs have warned. Finance bosses were left counting the cost of the Government freeze on council spending and its decision to again slash cash support
GHOSTBUSTER Peter Swan returns to Plymouth Argyle tomorrow determined to bury the memory of his Home Park house of horrors. Burnley's Incredible hulk is still haunted by his 11 month stay at Home Park and a stage in his career which he describes "as a
TWO days after being discharged from hospital, depressed Michael Horner throttled his wife, Hazel, by wrapping a coat belt around her neck. Then after telephoning the hospital to tell staff what he had done, he hanged himself. Details of the double tragedy
MARTIN Eatough has Paul Whalley and Shaun Bursnall available again after suspension, as GREAT HARWOOD TOWN take on Flixton at The Showground tomorrow. "It's a big game as far as we are concerned, because a win would put us within reach of several teams
THE NATION'S tastiest black puddings will be on the menu for 120 writers at their annual dinner next week. The British Guild of Beer Writers will sample the delicacy made by Accrington butchers Arthur and Celia Wild. The couple's secret recipe won them
STORES throughout the area were playing follow my leader in a bid to get their share of Sunday shoppers. A number of shops opening and considering opening on Sundays snowballed since Tesco, Safeway and Asda announced that they would be opening every Sunday
A SEVERE winter of snow and ice could put the bite on next year's budget to repair roads in Hyndburn, councillors have been warned. The borough council has received an £182,500 allocation from the county council for its salting and gritting operations
TEENAGE heroes who saved the life of a friend have been rewarded for their prompt action. Paul Hooper of Tysley Grove, and twins Michael and Steven Plummer of Salterforth Road, all aged 15 and from Earby, received the Dennis Bamber Youth Award. They saved
THE HEAD of a Pendle high school stepped back more than 100 years to show that debates on falling educational standards are nothing new. Will Montgomery, head of West Craven High School, Barnoldswick, quoted from an 1888 report from Kelbrook School which
