Monday July 13 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels Chemist, 4 & 6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street; To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road; G Pendlebury, 3 New Park House, Preston New Road; To 7pm
LANCASHIRE Evening Telegraph van driver Jason Ashton is set to concentrate on driving of another sort at Hesketh tomorrow. Jason, who is a member at Blackburn Golf Club, will be pitting his wits against some of the world's top golfers in a final qualifier
Tuesday July 14 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 & 6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy. 95 Accrington Road; T G Pendlebury, 3 New Park House, Preston New Road. To 7pm: The
A TRAILBLAZING scheme to link schools in Blackburn and Darwen together via the Internet could be up and running by next spring. And already plans are being put in place to make sure children do not gain access to "undesirable" sites. Council chiefs won
TWO former Blackburn Rovers players are currently flourishing in professional football in America. Defender Jon Pickup and winger Peter Baah both play for the Indiana Blast - the state's only professional soccer club. And American president Bill Clinton
THE North West's aerospace industry - vital to East Lancashire - is taking its case to Westminster next week. Blackburn MP and Home Secretary Jack Straw will open an exhibition in the House of Commons on Monday highlighting the significance of the £4billion
SOME of Blackburn Rovers' younger players are set to get a chance to impress on the club's pre-season tour of Sweden - with six first team regulars missing the trip. Billy McKinlay, Jason Wilcox and Damien Duff have all undergone groin surgery and Tim
A MISSING £25,000 racehorse has been found in his owner's fields in Cheshire four days after being snatched from an East Lancashire farm. But prize-winning steeplechaser Woodbridge will not be returning to East Lancashire where he was leased by Lionel
BURNLEY MP Peter Pike has called on the Government to restructure the NHS dental service after telling how he was switched between four dentists in a few weeks. And he warned that the need for action was urgent in his constituency, which had the worst
WYCOMBE Wanderers are leading the chase to land Burnley's out-of-contract defender Chris Vinnicombe, writes PETER WHITE. The left back, who did not accept a new deal offered to him by the previous management regime at Turf Moor, has been doing his pre-season
TWO East Lancashire guitarists who form the core of a promising pop rock band are hoping that a trip to the Big Apple will help them find fame and fortune. Six-piece pop rockers Pablo, whose debut single Mister Twister EP will be released in the coming
A COURT ordered a man to pay £50 compensation to a woman hit in the face by flying glass when he smashed a door panel at her home. Paul Warren Clifford, 26, of Fir Court, Huncoat, was also ordered to pay £20 compensation for the broken glass and £40 costs
PHOEBE ONE: Once In A Lifetime (Mecca) - Phoebe One adds a wicked new dance to this old Talking Heads favourite. And with extra mixes by Full Crew, Cevin Fisher and Shy FX, there's plenty of opportunity for student types to practise that crazy David Byrne
CONTROVERSIAL plans for a flood alleviation scheme to protect homes and business have been submitted to Pendle Council by the Environment Agency. Campaigners opposing the project along a 750 metre stretch of Pendle Water in Nelson fear the work could
GOLDEN wedding couple Bill and Maureen Sumner returned to the church where they married to celebrate their milestone anniversary yesterday . But this time the priest saying the mass was their son Philip, who has a parish in Hulme and Moss Side, Manchester
Sunday July 12 Click here to see a complete list of chemists on duty in the East Lancashire area. Blackburn:12noon-1pm: Shadsworth Pharmacy, 221 Shadsworth Road; 11am-2pm: Aston Dispensing Chemists, 95 Accrington Road; 11am-1pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-
TRADING standards chiefs today issued a major warning against "home working" schemes after a smooth-talking swindler was jailed for conning more than 100 people. Paul Rydings, 37, of Wycoller Avenue, Burnley, was today starting a nine-month jail term
Thursday July 16 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 Railway Road. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road; To 6.30pm: E Collins, 53 Fishmoor Drive; Healthbook Ltd, Audley Shopping Centre, Audley Range;
Wednesday July 15 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 & 6 Railway Road; The Surgery (Chiropody), 132 Lammack Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road; T G Pendlebury, 3
A TEENAGER hopes to join supermodels Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer on the books of a leading agency after clinching a place in the British final of the world's largest model search competition. Amy Bunting, 17, of Waterfoot, an A-level student at
Friday July 17 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 & 6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: T G Pendlebury, 3 New Park House, Preston New Road; Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: Arthur
HOLIDAY giant Airtours is shopping locally and providing a major boost for East Lancashire workers with its latest multi-million pound acquisition. The firm will buy two A330-200 Airbus aircraft powered by Rolls-Royce Trent Engines. The aircraft will
HUNDREDS of shoppers who used a free bus service to get into town to do their shopping will be left stranded after a supermarket chain scraps its transport policy. Rossendale Transport has operated the free Kwik Save buses for about five years since the
FORENSIC scientists and police today launched an investigation after a large pool of human blood was found in a factory unit in Blackburn. Detectives said there was no sign of a break-in children's clothing manufacturer Global Denim, Randal Street, when
COUNCIL bosses have drawn up a 'grit list' of streets which will not be treated during icy weather. A total of 31 stretches of road in Rossendale, which have usually been gritted, are unlikely to be treated because of cuts of £180,000 in the county council's
A CONSTRUCTION firm has cut the number of homes proposed on a site in Pendle in a bid to overcome objections by neighbours and councillors. Bellway Homes NW has also made changes to the style and increased the size of the planned houses on land off Eskdale
HEALTH chiefs have turned to Scandinavia in their bid to solve the chronic shortage of East Lancashire dentists, it was revealed today. Advertisements have been placed in dental journals in Sweden and Norway by East Lancashire Health Authority in a bid
WYCOMBE Wanderers are leading the chase to land Burnley's out-of-contract defender Chris Vinnicombe. The left back, who did not accept a new deal offered to him by the previous management regime at Turf Moor, has been doing his pre-season training with
POLICE chiefs have refused to say how long it will take to sort out the future of an inspector convicted of making malicious and indecent phone calls. Stephen Lawman was found guilty when he appeared before Preston magistrates this week but the officer
The Saturday Interview meets DARREN PEACOCK THERE'S likely to be the odd hairy moment in Blackburn Rovers defence next season. With the likes of Michael Owen, Dennis Bergkamp, Pierluigi Casiraghi and possibly Patrick Kluivert set to run riot, defenders
GOVERNMENT funding will help build a new hospital and health complex for the Ribble Valley in Longridge. The North West Regional Office of the NHS Executive has agreed to pay for the project, which has now joined the queue for NHS regional funding. The
TONIGHT, Saturday, July 11 Band On The Wall, Manchester: SNOWBOY AND THE LATIN SECTION, Cuban jazz percussionist Jazzy Kex, Blackburn: SPLIT DECISION, funk fused mixture of R'n'B, soul and reggae Utopia Discotheque, Blackburn: PASSION, 9pm to 3am Club
BLACKBURN Arena is preparing to become home to a new sport in the North West - women's ice hockey. The rink, which is already home to the Hawks, Phoenix, Kestrels et all, has set up its own all female team, and they certainly mean business. Women's ice
ALEX Twist is set to compete for Open Championship glory alongside one of the stars of the Standard Life Open Invitational held at Loch Lomond. The former Burnley assistant professional is due to tee off with Sweden's Dennis Edlund at Hillside tomorrow
BRAD Young has just three more games to try to take East Lancs into pole position before quitting the EW Cartons Lancashire League for an Australian A tour. And, after just three months in English league cricket, the South Australia all-rounder reckons
FURIOUS residents confronted council officers and bus company bosses in a "bring back our buses'' plea. About 30 people from the Daneshouse area of Burnley clashed with Burnley Council's Engineering and Highways Services manager Ian Parker and Stagecoach
OH BROTHER! Keen-eyed reader Peter Kenyon gave me a ticking-off this week not reading this newspaper closely enough. Carefully scanning last Saturday's wedding's page, I now note that we carried a report of a certain Matthew Nelson's marriage to journalist
POLICE responding to a burglar alarm in the early hours ended up arresting the occupier for possession of cannabis resin. Martin James Simms, 27, of Barnes Street, Accrington, admitted possession of a class B controlled drug and was fined £90 with £50
GIRL power has struck again - only this time it's without a single Spice Girl in sight. JAMES SCANLON found himself back at school - an all-girls' school - talking to teenage sensation Billie Piper as she hit the top of the charts. THE sudden transformation
POLICE are hunting a group of conmen who drove their terrified victim to a bank three times in five days before persuading him to hand over more than £4,000. Officers today appealed for witnesses into the incidents which they described as a "despicable
