CAMPAIGNERS fighting against a plan to build homes in a popular wood are calling on all villagers to have a say before it is too late Leaflets have been circulated in Hoddlesden alerting residents to a new application by Vernon-Carus, who want full planning
Soccer referees are about as popular as executioners or tax officials. BRIAN DOOGAN met Nelson and Colne College assistant principal MIKE RILEY to try to discover his reasons for taking on such a thankless task... WHEN I went to interview Premiership
AN ambitious project to create a country park in Accrington is in the running for a £750,000 cash bonanza. Woodnook Vale Country Park has been selected by Groundwork East Lancashire as their preferred scheme in the Groundwork Foundation's national Millennium
MASTER blaster Kurt Nogan will wait until the summer before he decides his Turf Moor future. I can reveal that it is unlikely Nogan will sign a new Burnley contract before the end of the Second Division campaign. The Clarets have had fresh talks with
GUIDELINES to shape the development of a huge housing estate in Clayton-le-Moors has been approved by councillors. The controversial allocation of land at Sefton Farm for around 400 houses sparked an outcry from local residents. Parents protested there
OUT of luck Burnley saw double-Dutch as penalty king David Eyres missed his half-time cue. And it cost the Clarets a precious Division Two point at freezing London Road. Hot-shot Eyres, usually so deadly with his left peg from 12 yards, saw his kick brilliantly
AS a highly-assessed council tax payer in an outer urban area with no community centre, children's playground, all-weather pitch or traffic-calming schemes, I am appalled that once again the same "deprived areas" of Burnley get a further £3 million grant
SANTA delivered an early Christmas present to 250 homeless and needy people - thanks to Blackburn Rovers' cancelled match against Middlesbrough. The catering arrangements were thrown into turmoil when the game was unexpectedly cancelled yesterday afternoon
PULSE - music and more, with Simon Donohue SOME OF the leading lights of the East Lancashire music scene appear on stage on Boxing Day to help the campaign to free student hostage Paul Wells. Money raised will be presented to the Hostages In Kashmir Campaign
REGARDING the change to unitary status for Blackburn Council and the Chief Executive having to reapply for his position (LET, December 12), will all the top jobs at the town hall need to be reapplied for as well. For, with the amount of unemployed talent
A MEMORIAL for unborn children has been set up in the Ribble Valley. Local mums and representatives of different women's organisations were among those who were at a service in Clitheroe Cemetery. The site features a wild cherry tree and bench and is
IT looks very much like we are on course for a single currency in the European Community. So is not the next logical aim a single world currency? This would be of great benefit to world trade. Of course, we shall hear from the men of small vision who
ELDERLY people at a residential centre had to be evacuated to another part of the building after a fire broke out in a litter bin, filling a room with dense smoke. The blaze was spotted last night at Walverdene home for the elderly in Nelson town centre
JIM Pennycook reckons Blackburn Hawks have a lot on their pre-Christmas plate. After handing out a "stuffing" to both Dumfries and Murrayfield last weekend to end a barren run, the Hawks player-coach doesn't expect any gift-wrapped points over the next
A CHIEF Constable's drive to put more bobbies on the beat will see more than 200 extra officers carrying out local police duties by next spring. Pauline Clare promised Lancashire people she would provide a bigger uniformed presence on the streets in a
BLACKBURN Rovers chairman Robert Coar revealed today that the cost of yesterday's postponement fiasco could be as high as £40,000 to the Ewood club. Full financial compensation is just one of the matters Rovers will expect the Premier League to sort out
