BURY'S problematical striker situation shows no sign of improvement this weekend and that could spell a first full start for loan-signing Tony Battersby. The 21-year-old Notts County forward, on a month's loan from Meadow Lane, looks certain to start
Stockport Co 2 - Bury 1 A VIRUS deprived Stockport of the services of 18-goal leading scorer Brett Angell on Saturday but it was a sadly all-too-familiar strain of travel sickness that laid the Shakers low in this Edgeley Park showdown. A brace of goals
TWO toddlers have been refused a place at a nursery school - because they are NOT from a one-parent family, it has been claimed. Now their furious mum has launched a campaign to get them into the nursery of her choice after being told priority was given
THE Conservatives have announced their six candidates aiming to break Labour's hold on the county council seats in Hyndburn. They are fielding candidates in all six Hyndburn seats in the county elections on May 1, the same day as the General Election.
Middlesbrough 2 Blackburn Rovers 1 - Peter White's big match verdict JUNINHO emerged from the bowels of the Riverside Stadium, in the lengthy shadow of Middlesbrough assistant manager Viv Anderson, looking for all the world like a little lad searching
A GYM owner from Bury shot and killed a man in front of playing children. But 33-year-old Paul Sears told a Crown Court jury: If I had not fired I think I would have died. Darren Clements was killed by a bullet through the head after he allegedly opened
THE top North West dance DJ who promoted Burnley's Club XPO has been replaced by the "Baroness" of Blackburn's club scene. DJ Paul Taylor and partner Steve Farkas, whose dream led to the opening of the venue, have quit following "differences of opinion
ORGANISERS of a left-wing public meeting today said Euro MP Michael Hindley was not told he would be sharing the platform with a hard-line union representative and politician. The Lancashire South MEP is among speakers at the Lancashire Socialist News
A BURY man whose son killed himself after being charged with rape is backing a campaign to allow courts to give anonymity to men charged with such an offence. And on Tuesday (March 11), Mr Dennis Proudfoot put his views to Home Secretary Michael Howard
A PUB owner lost £26,000 in jewellery, clothes, cash and household goods after raiders forced their way through the front door. Christine Flynn, 52, of the Green Field Inn, Darwen, who was not to be in the house at the time of the raid, was today trying
RED Rose Fortnight is just over a month away, but organisers at Bury Hospice are ready to turn the town into a blaze of red. Tickets are now on sale for the fourth Bury Hospice Red Rose Ball. As part of the Red Rose Fortnight, the hospice's main fund-raising
EXCLUSIVE A RESEARCHER has claimed he may know where the infamous Moors Murderers hid one of their victims more than 30 years ago. Tony Ainsworth, 52, has spent three years studying the atrocities committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who buried their
ADRIAN Heath has called on Burnley's travelling army to turn up their thundering wall of sound at Walsall on Saturday. Burnley go to the Bescot Stadium with at least 3,000 fans expected to follow the Clarets to the Black Country for another key promotion
THE Northern League clubs not committed to cricket's Premiership have made a pact to boycott the controversial new league. The move was made at an informal meeting of clubs at Chorley last night. As we revealed, the Lancashire Cricket Board plan to invite
YOU ain't nothin' but a Hand dog! That's 16 month-old champion Chow Chow, Sadie, who brought honour at the weekend to her owner, Bury businessman Keith Hand. Sadie gained a second place in the special yearling section for her breed at Crufts. It was the
A CAREERS and business advice centre for women has been heralded a success after helping more than 80 people into jobs, training or their own businesses. The Every Opportunity offices in Nelson are run by women for women. They provide advice and help
RESTORATION work on Bury's ancient monuments could be in for a major cash boost. A bid has been made to the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out work on the hidden remains of Bury's 15th century castle, and the restoration of Castle Square. If the £537,000
A THIEF who stole £3,000 from a car when its owner was changing a wheel is being hunted by police. The man struck at the weekend outside the Ring of Roses florist's shop in Higher Ainsworth Road, Radcliffe. The theft happened as a 28-year-old female florist
A CLASS act - that's Whitefield teenager Zoe Walsh whose hopes for TV stardom have taken a dramatic step forward. The 13 year-old, a pupil at Castlebrook High School, Bury, has collected two top honours in her London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
My nightmare with the postal service started one Tuesday afternoon when I arrived home from work. There was a card behind my door saying they had tried to deliver a package for me. In brackets it said: 'flowers and perishable.' The card said the sorting
BLACKBURN Rovers are to head-hunt a highly-paid executive for a new post of commercial director. The club have secured the services of a Cheshire company, Robinson Keane, to find them the right person to maximise revenue from the ever-expanding commercial
A CALL for clearer powers to deal with outbreaks of food poisoning has been made by the author of a report into the East Lancashire E.Coli scare. Dr Andrew Clark told the East Lancashire Health Authority that the food safety measures providing powers
ACCRINGTON Stanley today sold prize asset Brett Ormerod to Blackpool for £50,000 - smashing the club's outgoing transfer record. And Stanley will receive 20 per cent of any future transfer fee. The 21-year-old striker, a former Blackburn Rovers trainee
MECHANIC Paul Bleasdale is well on the road to a bright career after scooping a top award. Paul, who works at Primrose Garage in Clitheroe, received the overall Apprentice of the Year award at a Training 2000 awards evening held at Mytton Fold Farm Hotel
PLAYERS and supporters of Ramsbottom Cricket Club will have to wait until next week to know the identity of the new Acre Bottom chairman. A general meeting scheduled for Monday night had to be postponed when it was discovered that six of the thirteen
I SEE that Blackburn (LET, February 7) was described as 'a grimy town.' I never thought of it like that. I came to apply for a job at the Grammar School (as we called it then) in 1932. I walked out of the station, through the cathedral and up to the school
PEOPLE hit by Bury Council's controversial cuts package are being invited to a special meeting next week. And they could play a key role in the ongoing campaign against the massive £12.4 million council budget reductions. The meeting is being called by
EXCESSIVE verbiage, obfuscation, technical jargon, gobbledygook and impenetrable prose. None of this will be found in Bury Council's annual report, which has just been awarded the Plain English Campaign's coveted "Crystal Mark" award. The award has been
PEOPLE living on Wash Lane are experiencing a bad case of the "wash day blues." For every time washing is hung outside it gets pinched. Mrs Margaret Kelly who lives on the Bury estate says she has had hundreds of pounds worth of washing stolen from her
REGARDING your report (LET, March 12) about Asian homes in Blackburn being overcrowded, it seems that the hundreds of thousands of pounds in improvement grants that is ploughed into the areas in which they choose to live are inadequate for their family
WORKERS fighting the threat of 80 redundancies at Bury's Bibby and Baron factory are to be balloted on industrial action. And ex-employees have been invited to join present staff this weekend in a protest march and rally to force management to abandon
GREENMOUNT'S Holly Mount RC Primary School is celebrating a top 20 place in national league tables. Bury schools were the best in the North West in the primary school performance tables published on Tuesday. Holly Mount was the best in the borough, and
EDUCATION secretary Gillian Shephard said it would "shine a light into every classroom in the country". That is debatable: what the figures actually show is how many eleven-year-olds reached a certain standard in tests in English, maths and science at
OUR little miracle - that's a brave baby boy who went home for the first time this week after a successful six-months battle for survival. And it was a poignant moment for proud parents Carol and Andrew Finnigan, who since October had been forced to travel
PENSIONERS were living in fear of a knock on the door after a woman, 72, was conned out of her life savings of nearly £1,000. She answered the door to two men who told her their car had collided with her back wall. While one escorted her to the back of
THE scheme being drawn up in Blackburn for the vetting and registration of door staff at nightclubs and pubs is one that needs copying elsewhere - but ought, perhaps, to be beefed up in the form of legislation. For while this essentially voluntary scheme
NURSERY education is acknowledged as giving those who receive it a better start on the learning ladder and there is evidence that they do better later in life. But despite the government's scheme designed to allow parents of all four-year-olds to "buy
RESIDENTS in Church were warned to stay indoors today after a gas cloud believed to be hydrochloric acid vapour hovered overhead following a leak from a chemical works. The alarm was raised at 10.40am when the fire brigade received reports of the leak
BAKER Chris Fawcett has been rewarded with plenty of dough for using his loaf! The young Blackburn entrepreneur, who launched his bakery and shop on Johnston Street last year, specialising in vegetarian bread and pies, won £500 in the East Lancashire
IN reply to Gladys Robinson (Letters, March 13), yes, I do get annoyed about the additional work the Post Office has taken on. True, the electricity showroom has closed down in Blackburn town centre, but what of the service they provided? Why have we
THEATRE worker Maureen Parker lost her job when the IRA blew up her workplace. The Bury woman and three colleagues from the Royal Exchange settled "out of court" during an industrial tribunal hearing in Manchester . The women, all employed by the Exchange's
A POSTMASTER was injured as he tackled two masked raiders. The 56-year-old confronted the would-be robbers after they broke into the living quarters at the Outwood post office in Outwood Road, Radclciffe, at 9.45pm on Sunday, March 9. He was hit over
MR David Morris, head at Bury's bottom-placed priomary, Brandlesholme CP, said he would not give "any credibility to either league tables or tests". "Out of the 21 pupils who took the tests seven have statements of special educational need, and have no
WHITEFIELD's Higher Lane Junior School was celebrating a remarkable double this week. Higher Lane pupils Natalie Woolley and James Lomax, who both live in Whitefield, were named as this year's winners of Bury Grammar Schools' Kay Scholarships at the start
A CHARITY headed by Prince Charles has unwittingly bought a new set of musical instruments for a band who torched their old ones in an on-stage stunt. The Prince's Trust stumped up £800 for equipment for Susan's Attic, unaware that the band were real-life
TAXI traveller Lesley Owen didn't think the amount he was being charged to get home was fair. So, according to the 34-year-old, he ordered his driver to take him to the local police station to sort it out, magistrates at Bury heard. However, instead of
Food News, with Deborah Yewdall EASTER means EGGS. The shops are crammed with eggs of every size made from every type of chocolate - and at all prices. So what kind of eggs will East Lancashire youngsters be spending their hard-earned pocket money on?
A TOP consultant has written to all East Lancashire GPs warning that a new service for drug addicts is doomed to failure. Drug expert Dr John Merrill says the scheme, due to start in two weeks' time, is "totally unworkable" and will lead to substantially
