STAFF at law firm Cunningham Turner are celebrating after being awarded a stamp of approval. The Blackburn firm is the latest in East Lancashire to be granted a legal aid franchise by the Legal Aid Board. Previous news story Converted for the new archive
BUSINESSES are invited to a free seminar to help find their way through the European funding maze. The event, being held at Alston Hall, Longridge, on March 9, is aimed at helping small and medium sized companies apply for grants from the European Commission
ANOTHER milestone has been reached in the multi-million investment at British Aerospace's Samlesbury factory to gear it up for Eurofighter production. A 14 tonne, 11.5 metre high column has been installed ready to support a new £7.5 million drilling machine
BULLDOZERS moved in on Blackburn Rovers' Darwen End stand to make way for the new super stadium at Ewood Park. The roof was removed and demolition men started on the steel frame of the old stand. But fans from Sheffield United were angry that the demolition
EAST LANCASHIRE MPs are backing a campaign to get public toilets in Jobcentres after staff told a woman with a bladder problem to use conveniences in a nearby bus station or supermarket. Rossendale and Darwen's Janet Anderson and Pendle's Gordon Prentice
COMMUNITY savings and loans groups in East Lancashire have launched a major challenge to high street banks. A week-long campaign by credit unions aims to make people aware of the benefits of the self-supporting local organisations and attract thousands
HOUSING bosses will face angry residents from the Lowerhouse area of Burnley at a clear-the-air public meeting this week. Council housing chairman Rafique Malik denied claims that town hall officers tried to duck out of attending the meeting in the Ighten
DAIRY workers in East Lancashire have poured scorn on Government proposals to ban unpasteurised milk. They claim Agriculture Secretary Jack Cunningham should ban cigarettes if he wants to protect the nation's health. And rural Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans
A MASSIVE extension is on the cards for one of East Lancashire's biggest factory shops. Rossendale councillors will meet on Wednesday to discuss proposals by entrepreneur Dale Winfield to extend the Hazel Mill part of his shopping complex at Acre by 61
TRADERS in Clitheroe are upset over the town's streets being messed up with gobbets of discarded chewing gum. But it is a blight on towns everywhere. And it is one that is getting worse, according to councils who have the task of trying to clean it up
ALL laws legislate somebody's morality. It is impossible to find a law, whether it concerns murder, theft, speeding, or even jay-walking, that doesn't prove this statement to be true. Even the absence of laws is a reflection of somebody's morality. All
THE comments of Blackburn Labour Party secretary Phil Riley (Letters, February 4) are typically trivial. Does he not know only 28 per cent of the electorate bothered to vote Labour and many of that paltry number are beginning to regret it? Labour should
POLICE are warning residents to lock up their bikes after the theft of thousands of pounds worth of cycles. Thieves have stolen 19 top-of-the-range mountain bikes worth an average of £300 each from the Henthorn area of Clitheroe over the last week. The
A WEEKEND clampdown on late-night violence and anti-social behaviour in Accrington town centre has been hailed as a major success by police. Eleven people were arrested for public order offences, damage and assault during Operation Valentine on Friday
ANDY Cooke claimed Burnley's last-ditch effort at Wycombe to stay on course for a club goal-scoring record. Cooke was credited with the goal in Saturday's 2-1 defeat after Mark Winstanley's header had come down off the crossbar and landed on the line.
BLACKBURN Rovers today launched an appeal against Kevin Gallacher's dismissal in a red-card rumpus during Saturday's FA Cup draw against West Ham. The Scottish striker was sent off during the first half of a dramatic tie, leaving 10-men Rovers to battle
FA Cup 5th round: West Ham United 2 Blackburn Rovers 2 - Peter White's big match bverdict WHEN you feel you have been stitched up there's one golden rule - don't get mad, get even. It took Blackburn Rovers a little time to remember the wisdom of those
EMPLOYERS are being warned about the implications of a recent sexual harassment case. High street retailers Burtons paid £17,500 to two female staff at one of its store to settle an industrial tribunal claim that they had been harassed by a male employee
TOWN centre traders have slammed shoppers who are littering the streets with chewing gum. Concerned Clitheroe newsagent David Cowgill said he can count dozens of pieces outside his Market Place shop each day. And council chiefs have warned that the chewing
GOVERNMENT inspectors have called for urgent action to be taken at a school after a highly critical report described a third of teaching unsatisfactory. Spring Hill Primary School, Exchange Street, Accrington, has launched a special plan to raise levels
THE 10th Burnley Blues Festival - the longest running blues festival of its type in the country - now boasts an extra attraction. It may not be Cannes or Hollywood but Burnley is to host a film festival devoted to the blues to run alongside the main music
YOUNGSTERS are being warned of the dangers of in-line skating after one person died and others were injured in skating accidents in Lancashire. A skater was killed and 20 people were injured in the county in the last two years - and experts believe the
COUNCILLORS decided their East Lancashire borough should have nothing to do with the dumping of nuclear waste. Members of Rossendale council's health committee agreed to refuse to talk to a new company set up by the Government to deal with the matter.
A LABOUR Party stalwart who gave much of his life to politics has died aged 79. Former county councillor Stuart Mercer died from a heart attack at his home at Chequers, Clayton-le-Moors. Mr Mercer began his work with the Labour Party just after the Second
Fife Flyers 11 Lancashire Hawks 5 ; Lancashire Hawks 4 Fife Flyers 10 IGNORE the scorelines, gallant Lancashire Hawks battled against all odds before finally bowing to former skipper John Haig. Successive defeats to Fife Flyers in ice hockey's Northern
DOES the Government honestly believe that an employer is going to give a sick or disabled person a job? An employer has to make a living and needs a healthy workforce. Jobs are thin on the ground and there is a huge workforce available to pick and choose
WHILE we're all saving up for our own holidays, it's nice to know we're all putting away a few pennies every week to help others. I'm thinking not so much of the disadvantaged but of those who are flying across the world at taxpayers' expense - and with
DISRUPTIVE and sometimes violent pupils are a curse that teachers increasingly face. The spiralling numbers of expulsions - 12,500 from secondary schools alone last year - are testimony to that, as are the growing number of instances in which teachers
Looking Back, with Eric Leaver THEY used to call it Little Moscow because of its voters' socialist tendencies. But, curiously, this same town was once described as the "America of Lancashire" - for being young, rumbustious and having hardly any past.
ANGRY anti-hunt protesters besieged the Holcombe Hunt's annual ball at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors. Police were out in force, with mounted officers, foot patrols and two riot vans at the hotel, which hosted the hunt's annual ball along with
DESERT winds thought to be from the Sahara coated cars and buildings in East Lancashire over the weekend. Readers from the Ribble Valley called the Lancashire Evening Telegraph blaming Castle Cement works in Clitheroe for the layer of dust. But a spokesman
Wycombe Wanderers 2 Burnley 1 - Pete Oliver's big match verdict ALL GOOD things come to an end and Burnley's run of five straight wins duly ground to a halt at one of their least favourite venues. But rather than another dose of the away-day blues that
