DOES Ken Butler (Letters, November 21) really know what he is on about when he says that the internal combustion engine can no longer be tolerated? Welcome to the 20th century. I would like to know what he uses for transport. He might use a bicycle, but
IT'S just two months since Nigel Worswick won the Cambrian Rally in a dramatic last-stage victory by one second. This week, however, the tables were cruelly turned on the Blackburn engineer, when he was pipped at the post for a top ten result on the Network
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LEGAL action has begun against health chiefs after a boy from East Lancashire died from a drip-feed bug at one of Britain's top children's hospitals. Nine-year-old Tim Davies, of Olive Lane, Darwen, was one of two youngsters who died after contracting
BURNLEY manager Adrian Heath has told Kurt Nogan: "Go out and score 30 goals before the end of the season." The Clarets striker leads the Turf Moor goal-scoring charts with 11 league and cup goals before today's Division Two head to head at Plymouth Argyle
STUDENTS turned out in force to pledge their support to lecturers who staged a one-day strike. Members of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Eduation - at Blackburn College and Nelson and Colne College took action over pay on Thursday
LOVE-STRUCK Mick Buckley used his initiative and proposed to his girlfriend - during an awards presentation for innovation! The British Aerospace worker, based at Samlesbury, asked for 30 seconds on the microphone during an event organised to encourage
GOVERNMENT leaders have been accused of attacking social services in Lancashire at the same time as handing out top awards to two centres. County council leader Louise Ellman has accused the Conservatives of a blatant attack on Lancashire social services
AN East Lancashire journalist has died after a short illness. Joan Wright, who wanted her age kept a secret, was living at the Glenroy residential home, Glenshiels Avenue, Hoddlesden, when she died. Mrs Wright began her newspaper career at the age of
PULSE - Music and more, with Mark Woodhouse THE BEAUTIFUL South have outgrown their bedsit land roots and can now boast that one in every seven households owns a copy of their greatest hits album, Carry On Up The Charts. Although you probably wouldn't
THE Government has been attacked for introducing legislation to crack down on noisy night-time neighbours without the cash to police the new powers. The new night noise offence is aimed at combating disturbance such as blaring music coming from houses
WOMEN have been allowed to break the "outrageous" men only rule at Whalley Conservative Club - providing they used the cellar door and sneaked up the back stairs. The lapse in the rules was revealed as the battle of the sexes was taken to Westminster
PROPOSALS to safeguard public health by closing a loophole on cosmetic body-piercing have won the backing of Hyndburn councillors. Because of a legal anomaly, cosmetic body-piercing can currently be practised without having to register with the local
TONY Parkes can't buy players to help dig Blackburn Rovers out of trouble - but he's happy with what he's got. The delay in appointing a new Ewood manager effectively means Rovers cannot go into the transfer market, certainly not in a major way. But Parkes
THE problem of violent, rowdy tenants and nuisance neighbours is the focus of a pioneering plan being drawn up by Blackburn housing chiefs. The scheme will be launched at a seminar where Shadow Home Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw will be guest
LEAVERS from Alder Grange High School, Rawtenstall, achieved the school's best-ever GCSE results. At prize evening, head teacher Jean McGrath said the number of pupils gaining five or more grade A to C passes at GCSE had increased by seven per cent on
DYLAN Carter enters the most important bout of his life tonight when he contests a world title eliminator against Tom Montgomery at Burnley's Thompson Centre, writes BRIAN DOOGAN. The 22-year-old kickboxer, who works part-time as a recreation assistant
JIM Pennycook is looking for a "change of tactics" to give struggling Blackburn Hawks a much-needed lift. The player-coach knows his under pressure players will need all their mental and physical resources this weekend as they try and stop the rot. Success
The Saturday Interview - Brian Doogan meets swimming's new national performance director AFTER the umpteenth leg of his nationwide tour, Deryk Snelling could be excused for having become a bit like Liam Gallagher - erratic, reclusive and abusive. Happily
A LABOUR Government would extend the role of patient watchdog groups, allowing them to monitor every aspect of health, says shadow health secretary Chris Smith. In a letter to Burnley Community Health Council he sharply contrasted Labour plans with those
THE Blackburn housing chiefs are slow in taking action regarding bad tenants. They are all talk and no action. It grieves me to see the measures that have to be taken to stop vandals. Ribble House, Blackburn, is now like a jail. The former caretaker's
THE CLEAN-UP operation after the IRA bombing in Manchester city centre could prevent tourism projects getting off the ground in East Lancashire. The county's Tourism Partnership has submitted a bid for cash from the Single Regeneration Budget to fund
LIKE many others in Darwen I have recently received a letter from Brian Mawhinney, the chairman of the Conservative Party. In it, he asked what really matters to me. I find Mr Mahwhinney's letter very worrying. If his party doesn't know what the people
AN eight-year-old girl was seriously injured when she was knocked down in a back street by a car which was being followed by the police. The car drove off, leaving the girl on the ground, before colliding with another vehicle close by. The girl, who has
