I SEE from your report, "Debt chasers face stricter rules' (LET, November 28) that, following recent changes in the law, Blackburn Council is planning to bring in the new rules for collectors who recover business rates debts and that bailiffs are to be
Auto Windscreens Shield (Northern): Hartlepool v Burnley - Brian Doogan's big match preview GLEN Little has given a resounding thumbs up to the Auto Windscreens Shield. The former Crystal Palace apprentice, whom Burnley signed for £100,000 from Smirnoff
THE recent Westminster debate on the single currency, confirmed that British people have more than enough with one government, without a second foreign-dominated government in Brussels, consisting of unelected, unaccountable commissioners. Unfortunately
A PUB company has promised to look again at the name of a new pub after local councillors raised concerns. The Devonshire Pub Company was planning to call the new hostelry, which is to be built alongside its offices in Nelson in the New Year, the Drunken
KIND-HEARTED staff at a Pendle store have been praised by hospital scientists and doctors after raising £56,000. The money raised by Boundary Mill Stores, Colne, will help specialists at Christie Hospital, Manchester, decide more precisely the best treatment
FOOTBALL fans were planning to pay tribute to Blackburn Rovers' chairman William Fox. It was decided that a minutes silence would be held before all league games in memory of Mr Fox, who was president of the Football League, and every player would also
EAST Lancashire tour operators Air Tours were selling off their chain of 21 Pendle Travel agencies to leading travel company Hogg Robinson. The boss of Hogg Robinson promised no job losses. Three new stores were planned for Blackburn's Greenbank Business
FORMER Indian Test all-rounder Chetan Sharma has agreed terms with Blackburn Northern. The deal is a major coup for the Vaux Ribblesdale League side. Sharma has played for Scholes in the Huddersfield League for three seasons, almost reaching a 1,000 runs
AMID the tragedy and anger over the E. coli food poisoning outbreak in Scotland, which has now claimed 10 lives, there is bound to be alarm over the discovery of the infection in East Lancashire. But though the Lanarkshire outbreak is still the subject
A ROMANIAN judge was today considering whether to allow volunteer aid worker John Boast home for Christmas. The former Great Harwood businessman, who faces child smuggling charges in Romania, appeared before the judge in a last-ditch effort to return
GANGS of youths who are making old people's lives a misery in a Ribble Valley community are to be invited to a meeting to try to solve problems. For some months, groups of up to 30 or 40 teenage girls and boys have been congregating around the Henthorn
BILLY McKinlay is sweating on referee Mike Riley's report from Saturday's game against Leicester, when the Blackburn Rovers midfield man was cautioned for the sixth time this season. The combative Scottish international went into the Filbert Street clash
NEW import duties on foreign cloth could have devastating effects on the region's textile industry, trade groups have warned. Trade associations have told the European Commission that the duty on untreated "grey cloth" imports could lead to the closure
DANIEL Thwaites has given more than 1,000 licensees and free trade customers a pre-Christmas bonus. The Blackburn-based firm passed on the 26p budget duty reduction on spirits. The company is absorbing the extra costs from existing stocks to give immediate
DOCTORS in East Lancashire are taking full advantage of the computer age. An exciting link-up is enabling specialists in Blackburn to view the results of X-rays within minutes of them being taken 12 miles away at Clitheroe Hospital. The hi-tech digital
Christine Rutter's Tuesday Topic MARJORIE Whitaker gave up her home and her job to care for 42 elderly residents in a sheltered accommodation complex. At an age when many people are looking forward to their retirement, Marjorie left her job as a sales
MR J Parker (Letters, November 10) made some disparaging remarks about the first Labour Cabinet of 1924, saying that it needed the Liberal members due to the lack of ability of the working-class Labour members. Now, (Letters, November 26) in answer to
MOTHER of two Lynne Woodford complained of feeling unwell minutes before taking her fatal journey to work, an inquest heard. Mrs Woodford, 30, a senior buyer at Prestige, Burnley, had taken the previous Friday off to receive her degree diploma. She didn't
CROOKS are having a lean time in Blackburn town centre in the Christmas rush. An intensive police swoop, Operation Mistletoe, has been hailed a success after just one week. Since it began on December 1, officers have arrested 32 people and recovered property
BURNLEY are in line for a juicy third round tie against FA Cup favourites Liverpool at Anfield. That is the Clarets' potential reward if they overcome Walsall in the second round replay a week today. Burnley were paired with Liverpool for the second time
A UNIVERSITY report on plans for a massive retail centre in Colne has supported local traders' arguments that it could kill off the town centre. The report on proposals to build superstores on the site of the former Smith & Nephew Stonebridge Mill
ONE of the best known figures of the amateur musical theatre in the region, Mr Robin Bridge, of Preston New Road, Blackburn, has died during a motoring trip to Yorkshire. He was 71. During a long career, the former Blackburn Cathedral chorister produced
TWO road safety schemes designed to save children lives are set to go ahead after winning Government funding. A transport minister has announced Lancashire County Council will get £120,000 towards projects in the Higher Croft Roman Road estate in Blackburn
A CARING Burnley grandmother was so moved when she read about a little boy with a disfiguring facial birthmark that she set about raising money for him. Shane Prescott is just two years old but has already been to America twice for specialist laser treatment
THE EVIDENCE that violence on television encourages violence in real life may be largely anecdotal. But it is strong enough to warrant National Heritage Secretary Virginia Bottomley's new drive against it. For the fact that ours is a more violent society
ON TOP of its threatened one-off "windfall" tax on the privatised utility companies, Labour now plans to force them to share their profits with customers - in the form of price cuts - if they rise above "normal" levels. Driven perhaps by instinctive antipathy
A DECISION to force a man to get rid of his 'noisy' pet cockerels after a complaint by his next-door neighbour has been upheld by Blackburn Magistrates. The long-running case against David Innes, of Glencarron Close, Hoddlesden, was re-tried after he
I'M Sure most readers are pleased that the Government has abolished most handguns from their use in sport. However, they may not be aware that there is one 'sport' which has been exempted from the legislation. Foxhunters are still going to be allowed
DOG owner Harry Dewhurst needed surgery - after mistakenly stepping on his faithful pooch's head. The 67-year-old secretary of the Memorial Sunday Football League and Ribblesdale League umpire was tip-toeing to the bathroom during the early hours when
A GREAT-GRANNY is set to have a full house of Christmas cheer after scooping a bingo win of £57,000. But Irene Duggan says when she has shared the cash between her four daughters, and treated her nine grandchildren and great-grandchild, there won't be
ALMOND Villas, a Blackburn-based registered care home and housing scheme, has become the latest organisation to be awarded Investors In People status. Staff and management worked with ELTEC to achieve the award which recognises commitment to staff training
