BEING an interest group, English Heritage may be overstating its case when it talks of historic buildings in East Lancashire rotting away, with some in danger of being lost for good, This, after all, is suggested by it then adding that its "at risk" register
AS East Lancashire still suffers the shockwaves of more than 1,600 jobs going in just one week, the prospect of adversity being turned to advantage was being looked for in Hyndburn today where 550 workers are among those now facing the dole. For the announcement
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy PROVIDING care is taken to appreciate the obvious dangers associated with water, this part of our environment can be the most exciting. I don't think naturalists appreciate how much general information about wildlife anglers
MAY I offer thanks to Ron O'Keeffe for his letter (Letters, June 1) in which he castigated me personally and extolled the virtues of Jack Straw. His letter brought instant response from three former Labour supporters (one a supporter for 50 years) giving
TONY Blair returns from paternity leave and brings to the NHS Summit evidence of the birth of a happy healthy child. Important advantages in Leo's health are his parents' jobs, housing, education, support networks. To improve the health of all the population
COLLECTION envelopes from Barnardo's are being delivered between until June 18, as part of a campaign to raise £1.1million. As Alison Braithwaite in television's "At Home With The Braithwaites," choosing how to spend £38million gave me real difficulties
BLACKBURN'S cramped police HQ is to be put up for sale within the next two years as part of a £7.9million scheme to create a new heaquarters close to the M65. The listed Victorian building in Northgate, which formerly belonged to the GPO, has been used
BURNLEY Football Club have been congratulated by Sports Minister Kate Howey for introducing a children's cheap season ticket. She said its £35 pass is one of the innovative ways of attracting youngsters the government wants to encourage. The issue was
ROSSENDALE'S footwear heritage has been preserved in a new museum which is already attracting coach parties. Lambert Howarth has moved its museum and factory shop from Gaghills, Waterfoot, to the former manufacturing base at Greenbridge Mill, Rawtenstall
A PETROL bomb was thrown at the house of an 83-year-old pensioner living in a sheltered housing scheme in Burnley. John Dickinson was at a neighbour's flat in Belgrave Court at the time of the attack at about 9.30pm on Monday and another neighbour extinguished
A CAR fabrics firm has bucked East Lancashire's economic gloom with news that more than 130 jobs are to be reprieved. Two months ago Viktor Achter announced it was planning to shed 169 workers from its Billington Road site in Burnley because of the crisis
A FORMER church may have to be demolished after the fourth serious fire in the Stoneyholme and Daneshouse area of Burnley in the past few months. Fire destroyed the former St James's Church in March Street, Stoneyholme, and today an investigation was
NEW council house tenants in Burnley have been hit with a triple whammy -- pushing up rents on scores of lower priced properties by 200 per cent. Rents for around 160 mainly terrace houses costing £20 a week to existing tenants will soar to £60 when new
BURNLEY was branded as a suicide capital of Britain in a shock report produced on behalf of the Government. The town was found to be second only to London for the number of men taking their own lives. Depression was also taking its toll in Pendle and
A MAYORESS who is one of 550 workers made redundant at Leoni's Accrington plant has vowed to go to the top in a bid to save her colleagues' jobs. Coun Sandra Hayes, whose husband, Coun Douglas Hayes is this year's mayor, is among workers who now face
REGENERATION chiefs still reeling from the announcement of 550 job losses at the town's biggest employer believe the bombshell may ultimately help them in their bid to secure £13million of government money. Just a fortnight before Leoni Wiring announced
THIEVES stole 14 young bullocks from a farm in Startifants Lane, Chipping between 9pm on Sunday and 5.45am on Monday. All of the bullocks are between seven and 14 months old and have passports, so they cannot be sold without the ownership document. Anyone
THIEVES stole 14 young bullocks from a farm in Startifants Lane, Chipping between 9pm on Sunday and 5.45am on Monday. All of the bullocks are between seven and 14 months old and have passports, so they cannot be sold without the ownership document. They
BLACKBURN Rovers midfielder Per Frandsen could be handed an escape route out of Ewood Park. The former Bolton star, who has struggled to fit in at Rovers since his £1.75m move from the Reebok, is interesting a number of clubs both from England and on
A GAS fire firm is glowing! Legend Gas Fires, based on Glenfield Park, Blackburn, won nominations for the best on display for three of its ranges at a fireplace industry trade show in Harrogate.
ENGLAND star Dennis Wise has signed up for a Rawtenstall team! Dennis has agreed to endorse products made by sportswear products firm Gola, a part of D Jacobson & Sons. The deal comes as the firm reported that sales in the first quarter of the year
A MAN recovering from a cancer operation was among thousands of Darwen residents left without water when a mains burst cut off supplies. Jim Newton, 71, of Durham Road, Darwen, returned home just over a week ago after an operation at Victoria Hospital
SIXTY years of church singing was marked for chorister Joan Sharples with the surprise presentation of a framed certificate at St Mary's Church, Mellor. Joan, 71, of Brookfield, Mellor, joined St Luke's church choir, Blackburn, as a child then became
PASSENGERS travelling across East Lancashire can look forward to a better ride following the launch of the Quality Bus Route. The scheme, a partnership between Blackburn with Darwen Council, Lancashire County Council and Stagecoach Ribble, was launched
WORKERS today faced a mile-long crawl into Blackburn because of a gas leak in the town centre. Drivers approaching the town from Accrington and from the M65 junction at Whitebirk were faced with a queue which stretched from Thwaites Brewery back towards
A VOLUNTEER who has helped more than ten charities has been named a local hero in an Asda superstore award ceremony. Store manager Stuart Smart said Joe Wright, of Aintree Drive, Lower Darwen, stood out from the other ten contestants who were nominated
BLACKBURN'S cramped police HQ is to be put up for sale within the next two years as part of a £7.9million scheme to create a new heaquarters close to the M65. The listed Victorian building in Northgate, which formerly belonged to the GPO, has been used
NOT for the first time, thousands of women who have had breast implants are in a panic -- after warnings that those made from soya bean oil may cause cancer or harm unborn children. But apart from having given soya-loving veggies food for thought, no
AS a value-for-money exercise, the £350,000 proposal to fit alarms to protect hundreds of empty sink-estate council houses in Blackburn and Darwen takes some beating. Though it might amount to a surrender to the thieves, vandals and arsonists preying
Blackburn Artists' Society meet Stables, Osbaldeston. Darwen Tower Credit Union, Sudellside Community Centre, Darwen, 6.30pm-8pm. "Murder at the Vicarage," The Leisure Hall, Bacup, 7.30pm. Teacher Training, Hornby Lecture Theatre, Blackburn Library, 2pm
BLACKBURN Labour Party's agent says (Letters, May 29) Jack Straw is liked and respected as a constituency MP. That may be the case within the Labour quarter. Yet this did not shine through in the last election when his vote more or less remained static
REGARDING your article, "Higher expenses for councillors will cost £91,000 more" (LET, June 6), the facts are as follows: 1 The Independent Remuneration Panel was asked to re-allocate the existing budget in relation to the new political arrangements;
OVER the years, Lancashire County Council has done some illogical things, but its latest stunt in Oswaldtwistle really takes the biscuit. I was brought up in the Civic Theatre (Town Hall) area of Oswaldtwistle and for as long as I can remember, there
DID this year's London Marathon whet your appetite for a 26.2 mile challenge? Were you hooked on the enormous rush of adrenaline and achievement that crossing the finish line brings, or were you inspired by watching it on TV, spurring you to leave the
A CAR fabrics firm has bucked East Lancashire's economic gloom with news that more than 130 jobs are to be reprieved. Two months ago Viktor Achter announced it was planning to shed 169 workers from its Billington Road site in Burnley because of the crisis
BLACKBURN Rovers midfielder Per Frandsen could be handed an escape route out of Ewood Park. The former Bolton star, who has struggled to fit in at Rovers since his £1.75m move from the Reebok, is interesting a number of clubs both from England and on
FACTORY worker Steven Greenwood walked 127-miles alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to raise more than £1,500 for Hospice Care for Burnley and Pendle. Steven, of Harrison Street, Briercliffe, Burnley, completed the towpath walk in six days. He was
PENDLE will feature new boundary signs welcoming visitors to the borough, but only when local firms and groups come up with sponsorship to cover their cost. Councillors last night gave the green light for seven new signs costing around £5,000. But they
FIRST a fire devastated Nelson town centre -- then came the flood. A burst water main outside Lambert's Market in Cross Street, which has been closed since a massive blaze destroyed the neighbouring former Grand Cinema, left disaster-hit traders wondering
ONE of the most controversial proposed developments in Pendle in recent years will come before councillors again this week with them being urged to turn down the scheme. Developer Fairclough Homes wants to build 137 detached houses, 16 mews homes and
POLICE trying to trace missing wedding guest Keith Munton are examining a jacket found on playing fields in Nelson to see if it belonged to him. The jacket was found on Swinden playing fields, near to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, on Tuesday. Police
PLANS for improvements to a Pendle pizza restaurant have been submitted to the council. The owners want to build a first floor extension to Giorgio's Pizzeria, Albert Road, Colne, for new toilets and erect an external fire escape at the back of the building
A MULTI-million pound golf and leisure complex for East Lancashire looked set to rise from an old ruin. The abandoned stately home of Woodfold Hall, on the edge of Blackburn, was put up for sale along with 188 acres of land - with a £1.75million price
MANCHESTER City front man Gareth Taylor could emerge as a summer target for the Clarets. The 27-year-old would be allowed to leave Maine Road, where he is down the pecking order in the striking stakes, for a likely fee of around £300,000. And Burnley's
MANCHESTER City front man Gareth Taylor could emerge as a summer target for the Clarets. The 27-year-old would be allowed to leave Maine Road, where he is down the pecking order in the striking stakes, for a likely fee of around £300,000. And Burnley's
A NEW strategy has been drawn up to help businesses prosper after a major survey. A survey of businesses across the county was carried out by the county council to find out what firms think should be done to improve the local economy. "The results from
A CHURCH known locally as "The Cathedral of the Valley" looked "blooming lovely" during a flower festival held to mark the new millennium. The festival at St John the Evangelist Church, Crawshawbooth, entitled Flowers for all Seasons, was opened by the
WRITER Carole Solazzo is now a member of the prestigious writing team for the world's longest running soap -- Radio 4's The Archers. Her personal journey from Bacup to Ambridge began two years after making the decision to follow her childhood ambition
A YOUNGSTER who stays cheerful despite his handicaps hopes to walk unaided -- if his appeal fund hits a £12,000 target. Matthew Fidler suffers from cerebral palsy quadriplegia -- which means both arms and legs have restricted movement. Matthew, six, of
STONYHURST College staff and pupils returned to a heros' welcome after completing a 1,500-mile cycle pilgrimage. The ride, which was a celebration of the millennium and the school's foundation in Europe more than 400 years ago, was undertaken by 13 pupils
THE future of a path which runs through Charles Turner's Mill in Belmont will be decided by a public inquiry. Blackburn with Darwen Council has withdrawn an application to Blackburn magistrates for a stopping-up order. But campaigners who have battled
A SWIMMING group for asthmatics faces closure if price hikes for pool hire are enforced by council bosses. Members of Blackburn Asthma Support Group and Darwen Snorkelling Club were astonished to arrive for sessions at Bank Hey Special School, Blackburn
TODMORDEN'S Richard Baigent will captain the Transco Lancashire League team to take on the Central Lancashire League in their annual challenge match next week. The 40-overs-a-side game, which will be played over two nights next Tuesday and Wednesday,
DON'T tell John Crawley that Lancashire's match against New Zealand A is a waste of time. The Red Rose skipper seized the chance of some extra batting practice yesterday at Liverpool by putting his poor Championship form behind him with a determined 156
NEW signing Paul Burns believes Accrington Stanley can emulate the feats of his old club Morecambe as they prepare for an assault on the UniBond Premier Division next season. The 32-year-old midfielder last week turned down the advances of two Nationwide
BARNOLDSWICK'S carefully laid plans are starting to bear fruit as they recover from a wretched start to the season. The Victory Park club has put its house in order in recent weeks with three straight wins lifting them to mid-table in the Jennings Ribblesdale
LANCASHIRE League run-machine Keith Arthurton believes the return of Brian Lara can help the West Indies beat England this summer. Lara marks the end of his international exile when the first Test gets underway at Edgbaston tomorrow. And Arthurton, who
EVEN a hard-hearted sort like me, who believes that bending the immutable laws of economics with grants or subsidies to create jobs is ultimately a waste of time, raises his eyebrows at the preferential deal which -- in a week when more than 1,600 jobs
