Beauty and the Beast pantomime, Main Hall, Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn, 2.15pm and 7.30pm. Service of Thanksgiving, Hollin Bank Mission Kirby Road, Blackburn, 6.30pm. Speaker: Rev Eric Lacey. Accrington and Blackburn CHA - Mitton "C/B" grade ramble
CONMEN were thought to have netted thousands of pounds by collecting money in the street and claiming it was going to the Les Dawson Scanner Appeal. They were selling phoney scratchcards for £1 in King William Street, Blackburn, and police said they were
IF East Lancashire got a feather in its cap when the government picked schools in Blackburn and Darwen to be pioneers of its innovative Education Action Zone scheme to raise standards, then it got a even bigger one today for their success. For the 22
I READ with interest the information (Letters, December 31) about the giant's grave in Blackburn Cemetery. My late mother lived in Blackburn many years ago and told us tales of the giant, Fred Kempster and how he used to push a penny through his ring
THOSE of us in Oswaldtwistle and surrounding areas old enough to remember the Tomlinson family of Rhyddings Street, had a treat last Sunday night watching the South Bank Show, which featured now world-famous classical operatic baritone, the youngest of
WE are devastated at the thought of the primary section at Crosshill Special School in Blackburn being closed (LET, January 9). My son, Ryan, has been at the school since he was five and I am proud of the way the whole school is run and am pleased that
AT the full Hyndburn Council meeting on January 5, I took advantage of the innovation of members of the public being able to speak and ask questions. I found it very worthwhile and would earnestly encourage other citizens to do the same. To see how the
RAY Ingleby's latest offer to buy into the Clarets is set to be rejected by the Burnley board. But the door hasn't been closed on Ingleby's prospects of securing a seat in the Turf Moor boardroom with further discussions due to take place with the America-based
A CALL for a higher police presence in an area troubled by car crime and neighbourhood nuisance has been made by a councillor who lives there. Coun Jack Grime told Hyndburn Police and Community Forum: "I am rather concerned with Church and especially
Drive and Stroll, with Ron Freethy - today visiting Keswick KESWICK is a lovely old town set snugly between the lakes of Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite, overlooked by the mighty bulk of Skiddow mountain. This is splendid walking country but it gets very
BUSINESSWOMAN Lorraine Mullins reckons web page designer Jon Thompson went beyond the call of duty to help her firm. Jon, who works for the East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, was due to help Blackburn telemarketing company Connex go on the Internet
Wright On! Shelley Wright takes a wry look at life IT'S been a funny old week, as they say, and although I've not been tempted to laugh out loud myself, I'm sure my friends have had a good giggle at my expense. Now, maybe in time I will too, but at the
AN elderly woman was mugged in a vicious attack that left her housebound and unable to walk. June Dinsdale, 68, needed eight stitches to a head wound after a thief grabbed her bag and pushed her into the road as she made her way back from a chip shop
PEOPLE in Pendle need to say now where new housing should be built over the next eight years before it is too late, according to a council leader. The Government and the county council have told Pendle Council to find enough land for another 1,000 new
CARMELINA Robertson died last year after a heartbreaking four and a half year battle against breast cancer - but her sister Maria Stansfield is determined that her death will not have been in vain. She has launched a campaign to raise money to help find
A LEADING headmaster today launched a stinging attack on the Labour government on the day Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Blackburn to talk about Education Action Zones. Alisdair Coates, secretary of the Lancashire Association of Secondary School Headteachers
Burnley v Chesterfield - Pete Oliver's big match preview STEVE Blatherwick heads back to Turf Moor tomorrow insisting he feels no bitterness over his departure from Burnley. Blatherwick was one of the quartet of players transfer-listed by Clarets' boss
PRIME Minister Tony Blair visited Blackburn today and praised schools which he said had "led the way for the whole country". And the Premier saluted the town's own premier achievers when he said: "I hope education action zones will do for schools in Blackburn
Derby County v Blackburn Rovers - Peter White's big match preview THERE'S no chance of Derby County boss Jim Smith going grey, as he ponders his choices to replace the suspended Costa Rican ace Paulo Wanchope against Blackburn Rovers at Pride Park tomorrow
RAY Ingleby's latest offer to buy into the Clarets is set to be rejected by the Burnley board. But the door hasn't been closed on Ingleby's prospects of securing a seat in the Turf Moor boardroom with further discussions due to take place with the America-based
The Prime Minister writes exclusively for the Lancashire Evening Telegraph on the day of his visit to East Lancashire I AM delighted to be in Blackburn today and to have this chance, through the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, to speak to you. I'm here
TIM Sherwood was seething today over ex-Blackburn Rovers manager Roy Hodgson's outburst on Sky TV, when he blamed the Ewood skipper for his sacking. Sherwood, who has not yet accepted a new contract despite ongoing talks, was even preparing to check the
RESIDENTS in Towneley, Burnley, planned a mass protest over controversial plans to turn a former brickworks site into a gipsy camp. Householders bitterly opposed the plans to build a new £500,000 official site for gipsies and claimed the town's Labour
JOHN Porter's criticism of the Greens (Letters, January 11) was simplistic. There are a few utopian eco-sects who dream about living in the equivalent of a subsistence peasant economy, but this is not the aim of mainstream Greens. Where the Greens err
FURIOUS ice hockey stars hit out today claiming they had been "unceremoniously dumped" by Blackburn Hawks. It was revealed today that defenceman Kevin Doherty was also axed along with Chad Brandimore, Simon Mills, Colin Downie and Tim Dempsey. And the
TIM Sherwood was seething today over ex-Blackburn Rovers manager Roy Hodgson's outburst on Sky TV, when he blamed the Ewood skipper for his sacking. Sherwood, who has not yet accepted a new contract despite ongoing talks, was even preparing to check the
AN East Lancashire furniture firm is bucking the gloomy high street trend with a bumper rise in sales. CSL, which has its manufacturing base in Oswaldtwistle and has a store in Blackburn, saw turnover increase by 35 per cent during its sale period between
PROFITS at bookmakers Stanley, which owns two betting shops in Rossendale, have galloped away. Pre-tax profits surged ahead for the betting group, increasing by 43 per cent to £14.5 million in the half year to November 1, 1998, compared with £10.1 million
LESS than 15 per cent of local small firms have sought advice over the new euro currency, a report out today reveals. Although most small and medium-sized companies are aware that trading has started in the currency, few have acted to make sure their
WORRIED residents living in an 'unfit' row of terraces in Nelson will meet councillors and senior officials to find a solution to their problems. A Pendle Council report said the 110-year-old row in Every Street was unfit for human habitation, with penetrating
BARGAIN hunters are being given the chance to buy a public toilet - after a council decided to privatise a privy. The rooms with a loo in Gisburn Road, just below Higherford Bridge at Barrowford, were put on the open market after Pendle Council declared
LOCAL historians and amateur researchers have helped solve the riddle of who put the 'bridge' into Bridge Street. But mystery still surrounded the origins of the old arch, which was uncovered by builders earlier this week during renovations at an empty
