Chorley Lynx 12 - Swinton Lions 30 SUNDAY's opener at Victory Park saw no less than 18 players making their debuts for the two teams. Chorley won that one10-8, but it was the Lions who inflicted a 25th successive defeat on Chorley's new side. A fourth
North West Counties League Divison One Ramsbottom United 4 Mossley 1 STRIKER Chris Willcock made a dream debut against his old club to spark Ramsbottom United's first league win in four weeks. Willcock scored twice and had a hand in another to give the
YOUNG students at an East Lancashire school who helped pensioners to learn about modern technology have been presented with a shield by Age Concern to mark their efforts. Pupils at Walton-le-Dale High School helped senior citizens learn languages and
ARE you an East Lancastrian living in exile? Then we want to hear from you about what you are doing this Christmas. The Lancashire Evening Telegraph are keen to hear from online readers from across the world to see how they mark the festive season. Maybe
WE have recently returned from holiday, having flown half way across the world. In Las Vegas we went to watch the clowns and trapeze artists at the circus inside our hotel. When we returned to our room, I switched on the television and there on the screen
HOW the times of refuse collection have changed. Today, we have containers on wheels which should be placed in a convenient position for collection by council staff, taken to the vehicle and returned to their starting point. The containers should have
IT would seem that the Blackburn with Darwen environmental officer was determined that Mrs Mary Stanton should lose her capuchin monkey (LET, November 30). One wonders why it is only this Monkey World place that we have heard about and why its particular
A FORMER miner is stepping up the pressure to get a quicker compensation deal for former pit workers. Bolton councillor Dennis Barlow is one of hundreds of ex-miners whose health was damaged working for years at the coal face. Cllr Barlow now suffers
ONE-DAY kings they may be, but aren't Lancashire over-egging the pudding a bit by restricting Ian Austin to limited-overs duty next season ? I can't believe that Haslingden's finest hasn't a role to play in Lancashire's county championship team, even
BROADCASTING minister Janet Anderson today called for TV companies to tighten up vetting procedures after a Burnley contestant on Channel 4's Fifteen-to-One quiz was exposed as a convicted sex offender. TV company bosses were today still deciding whether
BLACKBURN MP and Home Secretary Jack Straw today declared war on crooks and revealed how his experiences in East Lancashire had helped the Government draw up national battle plans. Mr Straw spoke exclusively to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph as the
A FULL investigation is underway at Rugby League headquarters into the circumstances surrounding Mick Higham's transfer from Leigh Centurions. But it will be the middle of next week before a decision is reached on whether Higham is a Halifax or St Helens
DAMIEN Johnson is rated as touch and go for Saturday's clash with Queens Park Rangers at Ewood. Johnson has missed Rovers' last two games because of a back injury.
LANCASHIRE Evening Telegraph's NIE co-ordinator, Rita Shaw, gave the young newshounds -- or rather news pups -- at St James' CE Primary School, in Clitheroe, an insight into regional newspapers as part of a project they are working on in the curriculum
A FORMER Victorian railway hotel transformed in a £1.1 million project is set to re-open its doors next week. The Station Hotel pub, Nelson, has undergone a massive refurbishment after being bought by pub chain J D Wetherspoon earlier this year. The pub
THE SD34 Motor Sport Group has published its 2000 Road Rally Championship roll of honour with Ecurie Royal Oak's Dave Jones finishing first overall, ten points ahead of Pendle DMC's Neil Bye. So far, only two drivers have won the title more than once,
A MOTHER-of-two who was almost three times the limit in a second drink-drive offence has kept her freedom. Julie Anne Elizabeth Humphrey, 33, sobbed as Burnley Magistrates heard how she had been devastated and gone out drinking heavily after her ex-husband
A YOUNG mother who killed her husband with a single stab wound to the chest walked free from court into the arms of her tearful family. Ann Guilfoyle, 30, was given a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years after admitting the manslaughter of
ENVIRONMENTAL volunteers have received a boost to their work to spring clean a piece of woodland near Whalley. The Friends of Spring Wood received almost £5,000 in grants from the Millennium Festival Awards. The money will be used to buy new equipment
RIBBLE Valley MP Nigel Evans has called for a ban on the import of French beef after evidence of rising levels of Mad Cow Disease across the Channel. East Lancashire's lone Tory MP told students during a speech to the Big Issues sixth form debate group
THE spectacular backdrop of an illuminated Clitheroe Castle will provide a unique setting for a special nativity performance to mark the millennium. The nativity will feature local amateur actors in elaborate costumes, real horses, donkeys and sheep,
CLARETS boss Ternent is hopeful of having a full hand to select from for the televised Sunday showdown against Rovers a week on Sunday. His squad will be more stretched for Saturday's visit to Deepdale with injury victims Briscoe (gashed knee) and Glen
WHETHER or not the new name of the Slaughtered Lamb for the former Bull and Butcher pub in Burnley is "repulsive", as local historian Ken Spencer complains, there is another aspect to this tinkering with the traditional titles of the nation's inns. Mercifully
BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent has hit back at suggestions that his side is the dirtiest in Division One. The latest copy of the Nationwide Fair Play League for the First Division has Burnley propping up the table. Before last weekend's fixtures the Clarets
BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness has recommended to the Rovers board not to push ahead with a deal for Henning Berg. Ewood chief Souness told the club's directors that a move for the Norwegian international was 'too risky' at a board meeting yesterday. And
SALES tills are ringing in the run-up to the busiest time of the year, according to bosses at the Trafford Centre. Average retail turnover at the centre, which attracts hundreds of shoppers a week from East Lancashire, was up 14 per cent in the latest
AN EAST Lancashire employment agency found itself "going Dutch" after a call for help from a Netherlands electronics firm. VHE Techniek, based in Eindhoven, called on Power Jobs, of Rawtenstall, to find 10 circuit board assemblers to work in Holland.
SATURDAY'S 4-1 defeat at Bristol City wasn't allowed to spoil a superb night when Bury FC held their 16th Grand Gala Dinner Dance at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Manchester An amazing £15,000, a record for the annual event, was raised on the night with 380
A MAJOR police blitz on car crime in Darwen has slashed vehicle related incidents by almost half in a month. Operation Tenor has involved plain clothed and uniformed officers targeting car crime 'hot spots' and known offenders throughout Darwen. In October
AN historic East Lancashire chapel will echo to the sound of Christmas music again this year -- thanks to major restoration work by English Heritage. The annual tradition of carols at Goodshaw Chapel, Rossendale, was stopped when the 18th century building
BROADCASTING minister Janet Anderson today called for TV companies to tighten up vetting procedures after a Burnley contestant on Channel 4's Fifteen-to-One quiz was exposed as a convicted sex offender. TV company bosses were today still deciding whether
A FORMER brewery worker claimed housing and council tax benefit despite the fact that he was receiving state and occupational pensions, a court heard. Blackburn magistrates were told that Thomas Ashurst claimed £6,471 to which he was not entitled because
MUGGING victim Eileen Richardson faced new heartache today after learning that her beloved four-legged friend has died. Eileen, 90, and staff at Thwaites' brewery stables have been devastated by the death of seven-year-old shire horse Regal. Eileen, who
THE key hourly express rail service connecting East Lancashire with West Yorkshire will be retained and improved, according to the plans of one of the bidders aiming to run the service. Nigel Patterson (pictured on Blackburn station), managing director
SUPERBIKES: Burnley's Neil Hodgson and his GSE Racing team walked away with a clutch of trophies at the first MB4U.com British Superbike awards held in London. Although Hodgson was pipped for the Rider of the Year award by Chris Walker, he had the satisfaction
Maine Rd 0 Ramsbottom Utd 3 FREE SCORING Ramsbottom took their goal tally to 12 goals in three games -- and sealed their second successive win in the NWCL Division One. Manager Ken Bridge said he expected his side to get something out of this one after
SHOKAT Ali has moved up to number 41 in the provisional world snooker rankings. And the Accrington ace is on course to achieve his aim of making the top 32 this season. The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) changed the rules
Accrington Stanley 4 Trafford 3 TWO goals each for strikers Mark Ceraolo and Paddi Wilson gave the Reds a winning start to their UniBond League Challenge Cup campaign against First Division Trafford. Ceraolo gave the Reds an 11th minute lead when he latched
DISGRACED cricketer Ajay Sharma will not return as Padiham's professional next season after Indian cricket chiefs imposed a life ban for match fixing. Sharma, and former India team-mate Mohammed Azharuddin, was banned by the Board of Control for Cricket
Lancashire Fire and Rescue Carol Service, Blackburn Cathedral, 7.30pm. Christmas Fair, St Mary's CE School, Haslingden Old Road, Rawtenstall, 6.30pm. "Light Up A Life" -- fundraising event, Rossendale Hospice, Rawtenstall, 7pm. Hyndburn Local History
AMID a spate of appalling attacks on old people in East Lancashire, there is bound to be a welcome for the crackdown on crime and disorder pledged today by Blackburn's MP, Home Secretary Jack Straw, as the Queen's Speech showed the government giving top
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy A few years ago in early December one of our readers wrote to ask what was the best time of the year to begin to study plants and why we had lost interest in the uses made of plants. She asked these questions in January
The 20-year-old Sheffield United striker is on loan to the Shakers for a month with a view to staying all season. However, his first taste of Second Division action was Bury's 4-1 defeat at Bristol City - hardly the best start to his Gigg Lane career.
FA UMBRO TROPHY ROUND TWO RADCLIFFE BORO 0 - ACCRINGTON STANLEY...3 A RADCLIFFE Boro side looking jaded after their recent cup exploits had no answer to Lancashire rivals Stanley. Kevin Glendon's men made a bright start, but failed to carve out any clear
CHRISTMAS is again upon us and lots of cards will be sent through the post, so may I ask readers to save any used postage stamps they receive? These will help the East Lancs Hospice raise valuable money for their appeal and can be sent to me, as I will
IS Carl Fogarty (who is he?) really being serious when he says he has never heard of Barbara Castle (LET, November 30)? This lady didn't look for acclaim or ask for it, but since before Carl was born has spent her whole lifetime tirelessly seeking justice
I AM writing to let you know the result of your Animal Aid feature which highlighted Fido, the dog waiting more than a year at the RSPCA shelter at Altham for someone to give him a new home (LET, September 30). He now has a family that loves him. I wanted
WE read the continuing saga of Carl Fogarty with astonishment -- that he did not know who Baroness Barbara Castle is, even though she was our Member of Parliament for more than 30 years (LET, November 28). Mr Fogarty has obviously been affected in some
I CONFESS that I have little knowledge of the so-called 'gay' scene, but I strongly suspect that none of the clergy featured in your article on their attack on the lowering of the age of homosexual consent (LET, December 1) has, either. They give the
FOLLOWING the decision of Blackburn magistrates to deny Mary Stanton's appeal to renew her licence to keep wild animals (LET, November 30), I would like to congratulate the environmental health officers concerned for taking a difficult decision in the
WOMEN'S football might not get the coverage it deserves but the national Press made room in its sports pages on Monday for a brief mention of Charlton's win over Tranmere in the Women's Premier League National Division. Sadly it was to report on a brawl
BEST wishes go to Celtic's former Bolton defender Alan Stubbs who, it appears, is yet to win his battle against cancer. Credit also to Celtic for immediately giving the 29-year-old a further year's contract. Stubbs has apparently reacted positively to
WILL England's loss be Middlesbrough's gain ? One thing's for sure, the Premiership has certainly got lucky, in my humble view. Terry Venables is back and coming to a ground near you, unless you happen to support all but 20 of the country's 92 League
ROVERS boss Graeme Souness has quashed talk of a move for Kilmarnock midfielder Gary Holt. The 27-year-old Scot has been linked with a £500,000 move to a host of English clubs, including Wolves, Bradford, West Brom and Rovers. But, though the player has
ROVERS goalkeeper Alan Kelly has turned down the chance of a loan move to Wolves. Wanderers boss Colin Lee had contacted Rovers about taking Kelly as cover for his first choice keeper Michael Oakes. But Kelly knocked back the chance. "Wolves wanted Alan
BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness has recommended to the Rovers board not to push ahead with a deal for Henning Berg. Ewood chief Souness told the club's directors that a move for the Norwegian international was 'too risky' at a board meeting yesterday. And
A HOMELESS man looking for somewhere to stay the night ended up being arrested after he turned up at a vicarage. Burnley Magistrates heard that Aaron Johnson, 26, banged on the door of St Mary's Presbytery, in Yorkshire Street, Burnley. The occupants
A HOUSEHOLDER was stunned when a door window panel was smashed in the early hours -- and the culprit then apologised and handed over £40 towards the damage. Burnley Magistrates heard how Michael Raymond Furlong, 30, then damaged a quarter light on somebody
THE group representing aerospace companies in East Lancashire has enjoyed its most successful year yet, according to its chairman. Sky-high success at the Farnborough Air Show topped 12 months of highlights, said Dennis Mendoros, chairman of the Nelson-based
SIMON Daly has been voted club member of the year by his colleagues at Clitheroe DMC. Daly, a familiar sight on north west road rallies in his Fiesta XR2, is also the organiser of the Hall Trophy and a member of the results team for the Grizedale Stages
BRITISH Junior ice skating champion Dannielle Guppy is playing the waiting game to find out whether she is in the Great Britain squad for the Junior World Championships. Dannielle, who trains at Blackburn ice Arena, won her first major skating title at
THE Gibsons of Brock Rally, due to be held at Park Hall, Charnock Richard on December 30, has a new look for 2000. Organisers Bolton-le-Moors Car Club have joined forces with Bury AC and returned to their original format of a one-day event with scrutineering
Hyndburn Soccer Task Force -- a group that represents the interests of football for the Borough, successfully obtained an award from the lottery fund to run a series of coaching courses in the borough for volunteers, parents, coaches and prospective coaches
A COMPANY in Clitheroe halved its workforce in a pre-Christmas redundancy shock. Ninety-five employees of Trutex were set to lose their jobs in the New Year when the manufacturing unit closes on January 5, with only five of the workers offered alternative
A HUSBAND suffered a smashed jaw and spent two days in hospital after he was allegedly attacked with his own wheel brace in an early-hours street brawl. Burnley Crown Court heard how frightened Daniel Thornton "rather foolishly" went to his car and took
WORK on a £10 million revamp of a Ribble Valley water treatment plant, the largest of its type in Europe, is due for completion early next year. The Hodder plant, near Slaidburn, supplies tens of thousands of homes from the Ribble Valley and Blackburn
BURNLEY have around 1,000 tickets left for the derby clash with Blackburn on Sunday week, which are now on sale to supporters with two ticket stubs from home games. Other postal applications for tickets will also be considered on merit by the club.
BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent has hit back at suggestions that his side is the dirtiest in Division One. The latest copy of the Nationwide Fair Play League for the First Division has Burnley propping up the table. Before last weekend's fixtures the Clarets
WHAT makes Blackburn with Darwen Council imagine that vandals are exclusively car owners? Surely, that is the supposition behind their refusal to lock the gates of the routinely-wrecked old Blackburn Cemetery off Whalley New Road. A council spokesman
IF, as Lancashire's Chief Constable Pauline Clare explains, the £8 million extra her force is getting from taxpayers will not put any more bobbies on the beat -- because it is being soaked up through the funding of police pay rises and pensions -- is
WORK in arts and culture has won an East Lancashire business manager a national award. George Perrin, head of property services at computer giant Time Group, of Simonstone, near Burnley and another North West businessman shared the Arthur Andersen Award
A FIRM has wrapped up a national award, thanks to its cutting edge technology. Specialist carton manufacturer Boxes GH, of Great Harwood, won the Supplier of the Year award from Baco Consumer Products, which makes Bacofoil aluminium foil. Boxes GH, of
THE culprit gave himself up at the police station while police were still at the scene of a vandal attack on a car . Blackburn magistrates heard that after smashing the rear windscreen in temper, Stephen James Gibbons had gone home, thought about what
A MONKEY expert today blasted the move to send a capuchin monkey at the centre of a court battle into hiding. American Jim Cronin is the owner of Monkey World in Dorset, where the animal - Joe - was due to be sent after Mary Stanton lost her £3,000 legal
MUGGING victim Eileen Richardson faced new heartache today after learning that her beloved four-legged friend has died. Eileen, 90, and staff at Thwaites' brewery stables have been devastated by the death of seven-year-old shire horse Regal. Eileen, who
PLUCKY Mick Baines today sat up in his hospital bed just five days after a life-saving bone marrow transplant and said: "Today is the first day of the rest of my life." Mick, 41, had waited more than three years for the operation since he was first diagnosed
A SCHOOLBOY who contracted meningitis a day before his sixth birthday has arrived home from hospital -- and celebrated with a belated party. David Merry, of Bolton Road, Abbey Village, was released from Manchester's Booth Hall Hospital on Monday afternoon
THE key hourly express rail service connecting East Lancashire with West Yorkshire will be retained and improved, according to the plans of one of the bidders aiming to run the service. Nigel Patterson (pictured on Blackburn station), managing director
BLACKBURN MP and Home Secretary Jack Straw today declared war on crooks and revealed how his experiences in East Lancashire had helped the Government draw up national battle plans. Mr Straw spoke exclusively to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph as the
MINI man Steve Johnson snatched success from the jaws of defeat in his final autotest appearance of the year. The Accrington driver joined 20 north west regulars for Bury Automobile Club's competition at Spring Street car park for the last major autotest
PROMOTED jointly by Clitheroe and Furness motor clubs, the Grizedale Stages has an enviable reputation as one of the best-organised club events on the British calendar. The attraction of 43 competitive miles in Grizedale lured a full-house entry of over
IAN Austin could still be on his way to Haslingden as their new professional. The 34-year-old, who was born in the town, has revealed that the club have approached him regarding the 2001 season. But 'Oscar', who this week signed a new contract with Lancs
JOHN Thompson's bid for a record-breaking hat-trick on the Grizedale Stages ended in disappointment after he was pipped at the finishing post -- by just four seconds. Winner in 1998 and 1999, the Slaidburn farmer had to concede victory to Carnforth forestry
IAN Austin makes a 'proper' cup of tea. He throws the tea leaves in, adds the water and milk and gives it a good stir. It tastes great, until you get to bottom -- and get a mouthful of tea leaves. "And then you hear him chuckling away in the corner because
