Bramwell Speaks Out BIG Ron Atkinson will be missed by English football like a leper misses his big toe. My only worry is that his retirement from management will signal more hours in front of the microphone as the most predictable pundit in a decidedly
A CARAVAN site boss attacked an "eco warrior" neighbour with a spade in a row over a roaming stray dog, a court heard. Michael Fairless, 40, left Timothy Spencer with a broken wrist and chased and threatened him, after Mr Spencer had taken in the lost
CAMPAIGNERS are furious after being told that D-day in their fight against a huge development on their doorsteps may be in the middle of Blackburn holidays. A month ago they celebrated when a decision was taken to hold a public planning inquiry into the
A COMMUNITY leader today urged Asian people across East Lancashire not to panic over threats of a neo-Nazi terror campaign. Rafique Malik, secretary of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, said ethnic minority groups had been sickened by the two London
Nottingham Forest Reserves 1 Blackburn Rovers Reserves 0 WHAT was virtually a Forest first team struggled to contain a brave second-half fightback by the Rovers youngsters in last night's Pontin's League game at the City Ground. Faced by the likes of
BLACKBURN has been given a jobs and entertainment boost with news that two household name companies are coming to town as part of a retail park set to create 120 jobs. And Argos, Staples, PC World, Pets at Home and Boots the Chemist are believed to be
Oswaldtwistle Players present "Lucky Sods," Civic Theatre, Union Road, Oswaldtwistle, 7.30pm. Blackburn Music Society's Charity Shop, Lord Street West, Blackburn, 10am-4.30pm. "Take 21" - a celebration of music, song and dance, Studio Theatre, Haslingden
A CLITHEROE man who blew up a telephone box on Bonfire night with a home-made 'bomb' has been given 100 hours community service after a court heard it was a prank that went wrong. Trevor Smith boasted to friends that he had made the device and asked if
TWO hundred harmless looking key-rings that transformed into deadly, razor sharp knives were feared to be circulating. The small white key-ring, about three inches long, opened up into a scalpel-type knife capable of mutilating a person. Hyndburn councillor
PEOPLE had to dodge a hail of slates which were hurled from the roof of a terrace in Cedar Street, Accrington. Police had to seal off the area around to protect the public. A builder working nearby had spotted a group of people acting suspiciously, and
BRIAN Welch and Darren Norman are back in the Clitheroe squad for tonight's North Western Trains League First Division clash with Rossendale United at Dark Lane. Both players missed the Blues 3-1 defeat at home to Nantwich Town on Monday night. But Dave
RICHARD Green stepped into the breach for Lancashire with an impressive four-wicket performance against champions Leicestershire at Grace Road yesterday. And it could have been even better. Green, who was making his first appearance of the season after
THE Travelwise Tour of Lancashire which is second only to the newly-established Pru Tour in stature, is due to start in Morecambe this evening at 6pm when the massive field of 120 riders contest individually over a three-mile course on the promenade.
RESIDENTS at Guide, near Blackburn, have fought long and hard to save their village and fields from a big development scheme and have won a public inquiry that would take their case directly to the government. Yet now they are told it is likely to take
GREAT Harwood Town chairman Bill Holden admitted today that the crisis club were considering a move away from The Showground to 'ground-share' elsewhere as a possible solution to their problems. But that option is not as straightforward as it seems and
CARL Fogarty only knows one way to fight adversity - and that's to meet it head-on. The Blackburn Bullet's dreams of a fourth World Superbike crown may come under serious threat if series bosses decide to change the rules midway through the season. But
HAVING been encouraged by Burnley's excellent win at Stoke - keep it up - I went to see the Gilbert and Sullivan Society performance of the Vagabond King. Once again, I had a most enjoyable evening at the Mechanics. On Sunday evening, again at the Mechanics
SHOCKWAVES rippled through A Division of Hyndburn Woolwich Junior League as Hotshots dropped a point for the second time in three weeks. But in B Division, the A Team took a step nearer to winning the title race by demolishing Double H. Nick Hallsworth
IN view of the unusual amount of pre-election muck being spread around, I thought it would be useful to clarify a few issues. Firstly, the proposed Safeway supermarket development for Great Harwood is clearly an important issue for the town. With this
I READ with great interest the article by Steve Tinniswood (LET, April 21) regarding the plans affecting the field at Sunny Bower, Blackburn. John Forshaw, the man responsible for the application, described as the principal and Community Leisure Officer
FORTY detectives are now working on the case of a Burnley teenager who was dragged off the street into an alley and raped. The 18-year-old victim was returning home from a night out in Burnley town centre when she was attacked in Middlesex Avenue. She
AN investigation has been launched by two East Lancashire MPs into claims that local employers are flouting the national minimum wage - less than a month after it was introduced. Burnley's Peter Pike said a number of problems have already been reported
PLUCKY youngster Rebecca Baxter could soon be a step closer to her dream trip to Australia, thanks to caring bikers. Three kind-hearted friends from Accrington are gearing up for a 130-mile round trip from Church to Leeds, to raise money for the eight-year-old
Peake Practice: Food news with Ray Peake THE best shepherd's pie I have ever eaten was in New York, where the service is so efficient and fast you can get a pizza to your doorstep faster than you can call an ambulance. The second best was last week when
AN ARTIST'S impression of how a proposed new church in Pendle will look has been unveiled. The new St John's Church would be built on the site of the former church and adjacent school in Barkerhouse Road, Nelson. A planning application for the worship
YOUNGSTERS at a Pendle nursery school have their very own adventure garden. Staff, parents and children at Woodfield Nursery School, Sefton Street, Brierfield, have been working since 1990 on the development of the garden in the school grounds. Before
HOLIDAY giant Airtours today sparked a takeover battle in the city by launching a £852million bid for rivals First Choice. If successful the bid would see Airtours become the biggest tour operator in the country - just 21 years after former Burnley travel
ROLLS Royce boss John Rose has told Pendle MP Gordon Prentice that he cannot guarantee there will be no compulsory redundancies at the firm's Barnoldswick plant. The firm have announced that up to 90 jobs could go at the specialist aero engine fan factory
FORMER Burnley favourite John Mullin could be one of the players on Stan Ternent's summer shopping list. The Clarets boss will make moves to improve his squad in the close season as he looks to continue the development of a side that is promising to end
BRIAN Kidd could well be set to ring the changes for Saturday's massive game against relegation rivals Charlton Athletic at The Valley. For, depending on several fitness tests, the Blackburn Rovers boss might have more options open to him than for some
VILLAGERS fear Whalley could be thrown into chaos if a brewery slaps a ban on shoppers parking on a pub car park. Shoppers and visitors to the doctors, dentist, village hall and adult centre all use the 50-space car park at the Whalley Arms pub. But Whitbread
JASPER the friendly boxer dog has been reunited with his family after his owner staged a protest outside council offices. Jasper went missing and was picked up by a council dog warden, and hard-up owner Ray Balch was asked to stump up £50 to get him back
Tony Bennett, at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester THIS concert was a sell-out months ago - not bad when you have been in the business for 50 years! But then the 90s have been particularly kind to Tony Bennett. Every album he has recorded has won a Grammy
THOUGH wrecking the Yugoslav economy and bringing hardship - and even death - to its people, NATO's bombs and missiles have been aimed politically at Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic to make him back down in Kosovo. But five weeks of air strikes have
CAPTAIN's first qual - Division One: J P Kelly (73-9-64). Division Two: M Beckton (75-17-58). Division Three: A Leeming (80-18-62). RESULTS: Karl Tighe (83-19-64), 2 Declan Wade (77-12-65), 3 Greg Rush (81-16-67). WINTER League - Saturday morning: 1 H
MARK Horrocks' usual positive approach almost paid off in the Three Peaks Fell Race, as he finished second to former British and English Champion Mark Croasdale in the 24-mile classic. Gary Wilkinson was fourth less than a fortnight after running the
THE last time Roger Harper played against Kenya was in Poona in 1996. It was a game that shook the cricketing world and produced the greatest upset in the World Cup's short history. The mighty West Indians had been defeated by cricket's equivalent of
COUNCILLOR George Slynn, leader of Hyndburn Council and as a county councillor, chairman of Lancashire's planning, industrial development and tourism committee, wants us to judge him on his council's successes on crime, housing and environment. I have
AN inquest will be held tomorrow into the death of baby Jack Andrew Shackleton. The 16-month-old was found to be dead on arrival at Burnley General Hospital in the early hours of Saturday, April 17, after an ambulance was called to a house in Bar Street
HEALTH chiefs at Burnley General Hospital met Government waiting list targets thanks to a late push to bring down numbers. A report to Burnley Health Care NHS Trust said 4,894 people were on the list at the end of last month. The Government said there
A COUPLE forced their way into their son's bedroom and found him dead with a belt tied around his arm and a syringe in his arm, an inquest heard. And at the opening of an inquest, East Lancashire Coroner David Smith said police inquiries were being carried
THE first phase of a multi-million pound town centre redevelopment has been unveiled with the opening of Burnley's new Millennium Car Park by the Mayor, Coun Eric Selby. Plans to knock down St James spire and peace garden to make way for the £12.5million
FORMER Burnley favourite John Mullin could be one of the players on Stan Ternent's summer shopping list. The Clarets boss will make moves to improve his squad in the close season as he looks to continue the development of a side that is promising to end
BRIAN Kidd could well be set to ring the changes for Saturday's massive game against relegation rivals Charlton Athletic at The Valley. For, depending on several fitness tests, the Blackburn Rovers boss might have more options open to him than for some
A NEW travel guide which branded East Lancashire as 'depressing' and advised people not to travel there has come under more fire. Coun George Slynn, leader of Hyndburn Council and the chairman of the council's planning, industrial development and tourism
PLAIN-clothes police will patrol a Hyndburn park with video cameras, in a bid to catch drunken vandals who are ruining an historic building. Officers have already arrested and charged two youths with criminal damage in their bid to stamp out vandalism
BUSINESS failures in the region fell by almost half last month, according to figures out today. A total of 15 receivership and administration appointments were made in the North West in March, down from the 28 recorded in January. The local figures reflect
DEFENCE secretary George Robertson got the low-down on progress of the Eurofighter Typhoon in a 900mph flight. He became one of the first people ever to fly in the aircraft as a passenger when he took to the skies over Lancashire this week. "Eurofighter
A SECURITY firm has tied up a £1 million investment. Church-based Security Closures has secured the funding through Nat West to help it with an ambitious expansion programme. The firm provides shutter protection for empty properties, with major customers
BLACKBURN has been given a jobs and entertainment boost with news that two household name companies are coming to town as part of a retail park set to create 120 jobs. And Argos, Staples, PC World, Pets at Home and Boots the Chemist are believed to be
