LANCASHIRE's championship nightmare came under fire at today's annual meeting at Old Trafford. Cricket committee chairman Geoff Ogden and former acting head coach John Stanworth blasted the team's plunge to 15th place in their reports to members. Stanworth
THERE'S a rare taste of midweek action at Ewood on Tuesday when Rovers take on Port Vale in the second round of the FA Youth Cup. Rovers defeated Blackpool in round one, while Vale conquered Preston North End. The Jack Walker Stand will be open for the
RULES on stage hypnotism are to be tightened up in Hyndburn to safeguard volunteers who take part in shows. Hypnotists already need official council permission for any demonstration of stage hypnosis in the borough. In future, however, there will be new
THIS afternoon's visit of Brentford to Turf Moor should provide the Clarets with their toughest test to date. Dave Webb's side have, by all accounts, been in excellent form this season. They currently top Division Two and in Karl Asaba they have a chart-topping
SERVING in the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, which has just finished a six month tour of Bosnia, I have recently been posted to the First Battalion the Green Howards for two years and am now back in Bosnia - at a place called Jajce - on a second tour.
FOR one man, every week is a roll-over week and he wins the jackpot every time, guaranteed. Who is he? Meet Jacques Santer! Every week, care of the British Government, Jacques Santer, president of the European Commission, takes £66 million of our money
WHO does Janet Anderson MP think that she is in attacking a private club with a 100-year-old men-only tradition (Letters, November 30). When Labour politicians start talking about discrimination you can, without fail, smell the unmistakable stench of
IWAS disgusted by your Opinion (LET, November 29), concerning the Prime Minister and the peace process in Northern Ireland. John Major has done more for peace in Ulster than any of his predecessors since the troubles began in 1968. He would not put party
A SPIRITED 82-year-old woman suffered a suspected broken shoulder as she tried to fight off a robber with her blind stick. The cowardly thug pounced on the partially-sighted pensioner in Swift Close in the Brookhouse area Blackburn, at about 5.30pm yesterday
COLIN Hendry today dismissed fears that the delay in naming a top boss such as Sven Goran Eriksson to take over at Ewood Park would have an adverse effect on Blackburn Rovers' players. Rovers have an open mind on Ray Harford's successor and caretaker-manager
A SENOR was stepping in as saviour to help an East Lancashire bride marry her Spanish sweetheart today. Bride Veronica Adams was left in the lurch after an interpreter dropped out at the last minute. Had been lined up to help translate during her wedding
PULSE - music and more, with Simon Donohue "LORD, these guns have caused too much pain, this town will never be the same. So for the bairns of Dunblane, we ask, please never again." These are the slightly altered lyrics to the old Bob Dylan classic, Knockin
A HEFTY increase in expenses could be on the cards for councillors when Blackburn borough goes it alone. Town Hall bosses believe that the pressure and extra responsibility of being accountable for services like education and social services should be
PENSIONERS will become drinks guinea pigs at their club's Christmas party - when they raise their glasses to tradition-busting Benedictine bevvies. Burnley Miners' Club boasts Britain's biggest sales of the famous French liqueur - building each year on
BLACKBURN Rovers star Graeme Le Saux today pledged his support for the campaign to highlight the plight of student hostage Paul Wells. His public comments came after it was reported that players from the Premiership side had snubbed the launch of a single
PAUL Allott coasted home in the annual ballot for Lancashire's committee at Old Trafford today. The ex-Lancashire and England pace man finished second in the poll with 1,709 votes. Allott, sacked by the club as a player in 1992, has since become one of
AN Accrington town centre nightclub has been refused permission to stay open until 3am after police objections. The knockback by Hyndburn licensing sub-committee could jeopardise a £200,000 building project at Afrika's and the creation of 25 jobs. Nightclub
The Saturday Interview: Brian Doogan meets hockey "Superstar" Val Robinson IT was the moment Val Robinson knew fame must have come her way. Slap bang in the middle of London, during rush hour, being interviewed by the BBC, need to be there in 15 minutes
A DISC urging people to "Spare A Thought" for student hostage Paul Wells is now on sale at a record store in his home town. Proceeds from the track, written by a family friend of Paul's fellow hostage Keith Mangan, will go to the Hostages In Kashmir Campaign
TRIALLIST Jesus Seba will not be staying at Turf Moor. The Spaniard has spent the last six weeks with Burnley after he was released from his contract with Third Division Wigan Athletic. Seba scored for the reserves against Wrexham in midweek but manager
