LONG-awaited major road improvement schemes for Burnley and Pendle have gone back to the drawing board following Government policy changes. Council bosses were hoping for an early start to multi-million pound plans for the Colne-Kelbrook by-pass and Burnley's
GORDON Armstrong spoiled some Reading celebrations last season and will be out to do the same again tonight, writes PETE OLIVER. Armstrong scored the equaliser which stopped the Royals winning their first game of the campaign at Bury last August. That
HOME Secretary Jack Straw today paid tribute to the Mothers' Union in the Blackburn Diocese for its tireless work in providing holiday breaks for needy families. His praise came at a general meeting of the Mothers' Union in the Central Hall at Westminster
LUCKLESS Paul Weller is set for an extended stay on the sidelines as Stan Ternent's squad is again stretched to the limits for tonight's trip to big-spending Reading, writes PETE OLIVER. Weller has been hit by a recurrence of the stomach problems that
A LONG-AWAITED £25 million scheme that will see 1,000 new jobs created at a former printworks in the Ribble Valley looks set to get the go-ahead. Enterprise Properties, of Ribblesdale Place, Preston, want to build a two-storey technology management centre
IF recent air crashes have made you feel nervous about flying you can find out what the Civil Aviation Authority is doing about safety in Britain's airspace at their new website. The CAA is the aviation's industry safety watchdog and is responsible for
LANCASHIRE'S striking postmen gave massive backing to a call not to return to work on management terms. And a mass meeting at Preston North End soccer ground gave its support to a call for intense picketing to keep out "scab" contractors. East Lancashire
IT IS only a month ago that we gave the slow handclap to the official foot-dragging that left Darwen's Library Theatre shut for almost a year, despite it being showered long before that with improvement grants worth nearly £700,000 from the lottery and
0N Saturday evening, my wife and I saw the Lancashire Student Symphony Orchestra at King George's Hall, Blackburn, it was a first-class evening and I pay tribute to all the young people involved and also the sponsors, British Telecom. It was a pity so
MIKE Atherton is set to miss Lancashire's last AXA League game of the season under the Trent Bridge lights tonight, writes ANDY WILSON. The England star's back problem needs further rest if he is to get fit for the last lap of the championship race which
JUST days after its insulting apology for the Omagh bombing that claimed 29 lives, renegade republican terror group the Real IRA declares a total ceasefire. While this is undoubtedly welcome and a further stimulus for the Ulster peace process to advance
ON October 4, 1958, aviation history was made when two British-designed and built de Havilland Comet 4 airliners made the first scheduled jet passenger service flights across the North Atlantic. One Comet flew from New York to London and one in the opposite
THE FOOTBALL League is compiling a list of Local Heroes from each club to mark its centenary season - and Lancashire Evening Telegraph readers can help choose the Burnley nomination. The League recently published a list of 100 'League Legends,' which
SHOCK statistics have revealed Burnley and Pendle have among the highest suicide rates in the country. In the 15-44 age group, Burnley ranks eighth in the country for suicides among women, while Pendle ranks ninth in the men's table. According to figures
LONG-awaited major road improvement schemes for Burnley and Pendle have gone back to the drawing board following Government policy changes. Council bosses were hoping for an early start to multi-million pound plans for the Colne-Kelbrook by-pass and Burnley's
A DAUGHTER has made an emotional plea to be re-united with her long lost mother. Mrs Sharon Barber, 29, who was fostered when she was only three-years-old, believes her mother may be living in the Accrington area. Mrs Barber, who lives in Carleton, near
TIM Sherwood today responded furiously to Blackburn Rovers boss Roy Hodgson's decision to axe him from tonight's game at Tottenham, writes PETER WHITE. The Rovers skipper is gutted at being dropped, ironically against the club which wants to sign him
HYNDBURN looks set to be at the forefront of an ambitious project to reduce poverty and regenerate communities in Lancashire. Lancashire County Council wants to target deprived areas of the county as part of its 'social inclusion' strategy. And Hyndburn
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy AT last the weather relented a little and on a very sunny but autumn-like morning I set off to explore the moors of East Lancashire above Burnley. The fact that one of the moors is still called Deerplay indicates that this
A GROWING order book has led fabric firm Gaskell Textiles to appoint David Randell. David, 37, joins the Clayton-le-Moors based firm as business executive in its automotive division which supplies non-woven fabric. He previously worked for R-Tek, a supplier
A Lancashire Evening Telegraph Insight BOOTLEGGERS trading in illicit alcohol and tobacco in East Lancashire are undermining legitimate local traders and costing the economy millions of pounds every year. And although members of the local Customs and
A BLACKBURN firm has just taken delivery of one of the biggest ovens in the North West - and there isn't a pastry case in sight! B&M Longworth has installed the oven at its Glenfield Park site on Philips Road. The 3.6 metre high and two metre wide
A MAJOR new award aimed at attracting Lancashire's brightest young engineers into the aerospace industry was unveiled today. The Sir Frank Whittle Award - named after the famous jet engine developer - has been launched by the Nelson-based consortium of
A MAJOR Environment Agency scheme to prevent flooding along a stretch of Pendle Water has been agreed by councillors. The agency plans to carry out a range of flood protection works along the river from Barrowford to Lomeshaye Industrial Estate, Nelson
THE cost of a seven camera CCTV security system for Nelson town centre will be revealed by Labour councillors in the next fortnight. It follows consultations between the local Labour group, which supports the introduction of security cameras and council
A RADICAL shake-up of the way police forces are inspected has been urged by Pendle MP Gordon Prentice following the damning report on Lancashire Constabulary. He announced the move after meeting county Chief Constable Pauline Clare and Lancashire Police
WHERE on earth is the fairness in a woman who was gang-raped by eight youths, thrown into a freezing canal and left to die being given just £10,000 compensation while a transsexual former RAF pilot is awarded £77,000 - including £14,000 for "hurt feelings
A HANDBAG manufacturer whose premises was burned out by fire has reopened, thanks to landlord B & E Boys, of Waterfoot. Michael Boys, director of the development company B & E Boys, which owns Albion Mill in Burnley Road East, Waterfoot, said:
LES Ferdinand's aim is to hear cheers of a different kind and be off the 'boos' for good, starting against Blackburn Rovers at White Hart Lane tonight. The England striker has had enough of the jeers which haunted Tottenham Hotspur's opening home match
A HOSPITAL boss today welcomed plans to employ "super nurses" on hospital wards. The Government has unveiled proposals for new consultant nurses who will work at the leading edge of their profession. They will be paid more than their colleagues and may
TIM Sherwood today responded furiously to Blackburn Rovers boss Roy Hodgson's decision to axe him from tonight's game at Tottenham, writes PETER WHITE. The Rovers skipper is gutted at being dropped, ironically against the club which wants to sign him
Blackburn Artists Society meet St Gabriel's Church Hall, Brownhill, 7pm. Live models - juniors. Livesey WI meet Livesey Parish Community Hall, York Terrace, Feniscowles, Blackburn, 7.30pm. The Story of the Brontes. Blackburn Rambling Association meet
ANGRY villagers are calling for plans to build 22 executive homes in Salesbury to be "rejected out of hand." Gleeson Homes wants to build the four and five-bedroomed properties at land off Ribchester Road in the village. But Salesbury and Clayton-le-Dale
Kids' health at risk CHILDREN'S health could be put at risk by increased use of computers, experts warned this week. Health workers believe repetitive strain injury could spread to the classroom and bedroom as more and more youngsters go on-line. RSI
PLANS to use private eyes to gain evidence against thugs terrorising council estates were discussed by Burnley councillors. The council's housing committee discussed the option after they were told how thugs on the Stoops and Hargher Clough estates tried
ALBERT Morris (Letters, September 2) believes that hell does not exist. Believing that you will go to hell if you do something wrong is not such a bad idea. Often, it is believing the opposite that is creating so much evil in the world. There has to be
CARL Fogarty could be set to quit Ducati to ride a Suzuki. The Blackburn ace, chasing his third World Superbike Championship on a Ducati, has been approached by the Belgium-based Alstare Corona team, who are set to announce a deal with Suzuki. He said
THOUGH the Department of Health may deny a link between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism, they have admitted that 11 per cent of children inoculated with MMR will get arthritis (Radio 4's File on Four, December 9) - a fact which they
KEVIN Tamati is 'absolutely ecstatic' that his gamble to manage the Lancashire Lynx has paid off with promotion to Rugby League's First Division and an end-of-season trip to France, writes ANDY NEILD. The Lynx finally clinched the Second Division title
MY sole visit to Blackburn was in the mid-seventies - to a school where I performed my one-man show on the Bard of the Yukon, 'A Taste of Robert Service,' who, by the way, was born in Preston. Recently, I discovered there is at least one more connection
SHAHID Nawaz is still hoping to celebrate a double success after writing his name into the Ribblesdale League record books as the league's most prolific run-scorer. The Ribblesdale Wanderers batsman surpassed Ian Wrigglesworth's record aggregate of 1,360
OH, how I sympathise with Mrs Kath Boardman (Letters, September 4) with her thief. Nearly two years ago, I bought a folding umbrella for £10 and put it away until a few weeks ago, when I went on coach trip. It turned out that the coach was on hire to
HUMANITARIAN disasters seem never to be far from our TV screens or newspapers. Recently we witnessed the terrible suffering endured by the people in southern Sudan. Oxfam's operation in the Sudan - providing clean water at feeding stations, supplying
IT is often claimed that animals are only used in experiments when there are no alternatives. Recently, the Home Office announced that as from January 1, 1999, no new licences will be issued for the production of monoclonial antibodies (used in cancer
MOTORISTS were today warned to be on their guard today after a woman taxi driver was robbed at knifepoint. The raid took place during the rush hour in Trafalgar Street, Burnley, yesterday when a long-haired man demanded cash and pushed a knife towards
CARING regulars at a social club have raised money to send two more children to a specialist centre for autism. Already staff and customers at Ighten Leigh Social Club, Burnley, have raised money and sent Gina Sutcliffe and her son Declan to the London
POLICE are hunting 'cruising' thugs who robbed a 72-year-old pensioner as she walked home from the post office in Clayton-le-Moors. Two robbers in a white car stopped in the middle of the road as the victim was walking along Devonshire Drive at 10.30am
A WOMAN 'smacked' her friend a few times in the face then told police she regretted it, Burnley magistrates heard. Jane Patricia Leonard Louglin, 35, left Sheila Sutcliffe with two black eyes, cut, scratched and feeling dizzy after the assault at the
THE casting vote of a committee chairman approved a plan to turn a town centre shop into a hot food takeaway after his council colleagues had cast their votes equally for and against. The application to convert the former Betta Windows shop in Market
THE girlfriend of a taxi driver said to have stabbed a man told the jury he acted in self-defence. Janet Murray, 20, then working with Saeed Afsar at Escort Taxis in Colne, said he was attacked first. She told Burnley Crown Court Afsar's face had been
DID not one point stand out glaringly in the damning report which this week spoke of a "national disaster" in education standards - that of the harm done by scrapping the old 11-plus examination? The report by former government adviser Dr John Marks,
I WONDER if, like me, those of us waiting for Home Secretary Jack Straw's Crime Reduction Strategy to kick in - and are, incidentally, still waiting for his now-whiskery pledge to sort out the winos to apply to the ones in his own Blackburn constituency
A RUNDOWN theatre, which has been standing idle for almost a year after a long-awaited refurbishment plan ran into trouble, could be reopened on the eve of the Millennium. Blackburn with Darwen Council has drawn up a rescue package for the major facelift
A MURDER hunt was launched today after the bodies of a woman and her two children - a little boy and a baby -were discovered at a house in Egerton. The investigation was sparked after police forced their way into the house in Blackburn Road at 8.30am.
