OVER quite a long period, I have been moved by hairdresser Jeff Stone's concern regarding the decimation of trade in Blackburn by the unpleasant never-ending roadworks -- views shared by many of his commercial colleagues and most residents of the town
IHAVE been told that when the new fire station is built in Hyndburn Road, Accrington, the one in Oswaldtwistle will close. The proposals, which come into effect as early as January, 2003, is that Oswaldtwistle's fire appliance will move to Hyndburn Road
POLICE were today trying to discover what killed a man man found dead in a popular park after his identity remained a mystery for 24 hours. The partner of Sean Russell, 32, of Gisburn Road, Barnoldswick, formally identified him today after a widespread
RAIL user groups have branded the £6million redevelopment of Blackburn Station 'a farce' after yet another delay put the scheme 14 months behind schedule. And today Blackburn MP and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the confusion and problems over the
Halton Simms Cross 12 Leigh Centurions 36 by Mike Hulme: NORTHERN Ford Premiership title contenders Leigh made their expected progress into round four of the Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Challenge Cup but they were given a rough ride by NW Counties minnows Simms
Northwich Victoria 0, Leigh RMI 3 by Martyn Hindley: LEIGH RMI continued their formidable resurgence of late with a commanding second-half show to see off the challenge of Northwich Victoria. There may well be a case for saying that the 5-0 hammering
IT'S make or break week for Rovers striker Ciccio Grabbi. The Italian transfer window closes on Thursday and if Grabbi is to head back to his native land, then events will have to move quickly. Grabbi has only scored one league goal since his £6.5m move
BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness today insisted Rovers have the necessary strength in depth to cope with a potential fixture pile-up after cruising into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the weekend. Andy Cole's fourth goal in six games secured a 1-0 win
ROVERS manager Graeme Souness tonight told his players to prove their mental strength as they enter the final three months of the season still competing on three fronts. Rovers squeaked into the fifth round of the FA Cup thanks to Andy Cole's 86th-minute
IT'S been an eventful old week in the life of Ewood goal-ace Andrew Cole. First, the England international helped to clip the wings of the Owls with a star performance in last Tuesday's Worthington Cup triumph over Sheffield Wednesday at Ewood. Then at
THE family tree of an East Lancashire man has grown new branches after an appeal for a long-lost relative appeared in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. Jack Stuttard, a former headteacher from Briercliffe Road, Briercliffe, Burnley, has spent much of
A BATHROOM showroom to be opened in Burnley next month will create 17 jobs as part of a £250,000 investment in the town. And the businessman behind the venture has already revealed that more jobs could be on the cards if the venture is a success. Paul
POLICE in Nelson are appealing for witnesses after vandals caused £300 worth of damage to three separate sections of Marsden Golf Club. DC Ray Entwistle of Colne CID said someone had put around 100 divots in the ground and had used an instrument to dig
THE future of Kashmir should be decided by the people of that country through a fair and open referendum, says Pendle councillor Mohammed Iqbal. He is asking for support from fellow councillors to call on the international community to put pressure on
A CASE of mistaken identity accompanied the tale of long-gone Blackburn rag and bone man "Owd Chipper" who was pictured here recently entertaining a clutch of youngsters with his portable peep show. For it was said that one of the onlookers was the father
LOOKING Back's archives came to the rescue of 73-year-old East Lancashire exile Bob Pearson (bottom-right) in Australia with this 1927 view of Blackburn's Boulevard (main picture) busy with old-time trams and buses, wire-wheeled taxi cabs and open-top
THE Bosom Friends cancer charity in Barnoldswick boosted their funds with a musical extravaganza at the Conservative Club yesterday. Many local people took the stage to sing for the charity along with a number of professional entertainers including an
PENSIONER Edith Sheldrick does not speak German, French or Spanish but when she travels abroad she can converse easily. Mrs Sheldrick, 72, of Denton Street, Barnoldswick, speaks Esperanto, the world language, and attends conferences in Europe. She has
FORMER club president Michael Crocker came close to snapping up all the prizes in Accrington Camera Club's December competition. His entries were first, second and third in the small and large print sections but Rita Parker denied him a clean sweep by
A 22-year-old man has been cleared of attacking another man who had two of his teeth knocked out. Alan Green, of Hygiene, Clayton-le-Moors, was found not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm after a two-day trial at Burnley Crown Court. The defendant
POLICE are following up new leads in the hunt for a vicious rapist after questioning hundreds of people close to the scene of the attack. A road block was put in place exactly a week after an 18-year-old woman was attacked at her home in Blackburn Road
TWO men involved in sex acts with two tipsy schoolgirls have been put on the sex offenders' register. Father-of-two Nadeem Arif, 23, took part in a sex act with a 14-year-old in the back of his pizza delivery car at the same time as co-defendant Michael
A 15-YEAR-OLD boy was rescued by Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue team after falling in the Trough of Bowland yesterday lunchtime. The boy, who was part of a group of eight people, fell while walking over Saddle Fell and broke his arm. Other members of
Cheltenham boss Steve Cotterill "THIS is a very proud day, it is fantastic. Just to get into this round was an unbelievable achievement. "We started well and went 2-0 up but to be honest I though we should have been ahead before then, a couple of chances
STAN TERNENT'S determination to strengthen his squad will have increased after yesterday's FA Cup surrender at Cheltenham Town with a goalkeeper the new top priority. The injury to Nik Michopoulos early in the first half was a key moment in the tie as
THIRD division Cheltenham Town made first division Burnley look decidedly second best as they dumped them out of the FA Cup yesterday afternoon. This was no freak result, it was a fully deserved victory against a Burnley side that has lost confidence,
BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness today insisted Rovers have the necessary strength in depth to cope with a potential fixture pile-up after cruising into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the weekend. Andy Cole's fourth goal in six games secured a 1-0 win
IT isn't often North End can boast being in a tournament longer than Manchester United, and for the first 45 minutes at Deepdale, it looked as though the Lilywhites were going to throw this chance away too. Despite working hard and battling for everything
A MAN accused of swindling his brother and sister out of their £81,000 inheritance has been sent to prison. James Astley, 60, of Bury Fold Road, Darwen, claimed he took the cash in a suitcase when he went on holiday to Thailand. He even said he sat on
A 37-YEAR-OLD Darwen man subjected his estranged wife to a ferocious beating after finding a photograph of another man on her bedside cabinet. Blackburn magistrates heard that Deborah Bentley lost count of the number of blows as she was punched repeatedly
STAFFING shortages have prevented work being carried out on a comprehensive review of conditions of licences issued by Rossendale Council. A working group was established at a meeting of the council's licensing sub-committee in November. Chief Executive
TWO "shunt" accidents at the same time on the same stretch of road caused traffic chaos. The collisions happened on the A56 Edenfield bypass, Edenfield, during heavy rain shortly before 4.30pm on Friday and both involved three vehicles. The first involved
TRADERS in King Street, Bacup, are objecting to plans for a taxi stand in the street. Eight letters of objection from businesses in the street will be considered when the proposal is discussed by Rossendale Council's licensing committee on Wednesday.
POLICE were today waiting to speak to two men with stab wounds as part of an investigation into a fight. A man who was stabbed near the Blackamoor pub at the junction of Stopes Brow and Roman Road in Lower Darwen on Friday evening is in a stable condition
A charity "Evening with Simon Garner" is being held at Ewood Park on February 21. The former Rovers star, pictured, will be reminiscing about his time at the club and taking questions from the floor, while Graham Liver will be compere for the evening.
ROSSENDALE...0 BELPER...0 BELPER made their first ever visit to Dark Lane and can count themselves fortunate not to claim all three points as Dale once again had keeper Mark Andrews to thank for rescuing a UniBond First Division point. The Home side started
NICK FALDO cannot wait to play what he calls 'one of the great courses of the world' this week, but the former world number one is disappointed that Shaw Hill's Nick Dougherty will not be at Royal Melbourne with him. Dougherty and Faldo, eighth and 10th
SCHOOL MESSAGE: Shadsworth Junior School is a warm and welcoming school with a caring and dedicated staff. We want every child to attend regularly, to be happy and to be a credit to themselves and their families. We place great emphasis on children developing
JENNY Woodward is a farmer's daughter and a teacher - and perfectly placed to help the children of East Lancashire's rural communities who suffered deep emotional trauma during the foot and mouth crisis. She works with Northern Rural Partnership which
SHAKERS chairman Terry Robinson resigned today ahead of the impending takeover of the struggling Second Division club. A Manchester-based consortium and the solicitors acting for the plaintiffs of the majority shareholder Hugh Eaves said they have reached
EVENTS taking place in East Lancashire on Tuesday, Date: January 29: "Call My Bluff" event, Parochial Hall, Ribchester, 7.30pm. Blackburn Local History Society, Hornby Lecture Theatre, Blackburn Central Library, 7.15pm. BARSA Better Driving Course, Blackburn
REDEVELOPMENT of Blackburn station is indeed a farce that sums up the plight of the whole railway network. The announcement today of yet another month's delay (putting the project 14 months behind schedule) is almost not a surprise. It is merely one more
REGARDING the story by Ms C Smith (Letters,. January 18) what a laugh it was. But don't drivers these days know about hand signals? When I started to drive in 1961, on the driving test you had to first use indicators then go on to use hand signals. For
IAGREE entirely with M Hibbert (Letters, January 17) regarding poor TV programmes, especially over the Christmas period. I think that television is the worst form of present-day entertainment. With monotonous regularity we have soaps, sit-coms and dramas
A 26-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a mother of two was dragged under a car for a quarter of a mile. Kerry Adamson, aged 25, was enjoying a night out with her husband at the Royal Hotel in Castle Hill Road, Hindley, near Wigan
A ROUND-UP of the key moments and facts from Rovers win over Millwall in the FA Cup. BRAD FRIEDEL: Only called on to make one real save of note but otherwise instilled confidence in the men in front of him...7 LUCAS NEILL: Clearly fired up to show what
HOT-SHOT striker Andy Cole today called on his team-mates to share the burden in the quest for goals as Rovers go in search of a vital Premiership victory against Charlton tomorrow. Graeme Souness's new club record signing has been charged with the task
A SCHOOL collected a staggering 15,000 Christmas cards in two weeks for recycling -- and six pupils counted them all! Towneley High School, Burnley, blasted a target of 7,000 by the end of the first week to gather the cards for Papermark. Geography teacher
IMPROVED access for pedestrians at Todmorden railway station is to be made by Calderdale Council. Details of the proposals were given to the council's environment committee by senior engineer Steve Wood. He said: "Pedestrian facilities at the entrance
POLICE are hunting a gunman who shot a grandmother with an air weapon as she returned home from looking after her grandson. Dorothy Munro, 61, was left bleeding after the incident in Padiham. Dorothy, a retired police station domestic worker, of St John's
POLICE in Pendle are calling on the public to play their part in helping to cut car crime. The appeal follows a recent increase in the number of thefts from vehicles in various parts of the town, many of which had either been left unlocked or with valuables
JACK Frost may have brought a bitter start to January, 2002 but his recent week-long visit was extremely brief compared to that during the notorious winter of 1962-63 when, as this picture shows, braziers had to be burned for weeks on end at Blackburn's
MORE than 500 people took part in a national protest march and rally for redundant college lecturer Pat Walsh. Banner weaving protesters took to the streets of Accrington calling for the reinstatement of the senior history teacher.
ZAK the terrier was found alive and well after spending four freezing days and nights under a huge pile of boulders. His rescue drama had Blackburn dog lovers on the edge of their seats throughout the operation. Zak had chased a fox into a hole under
POLICE are hunting a youngster after a five-year-old boy had his bike stolen. The boy was cycling along Wordsworth Road, Accrington, when he was approached by an older boy aged between 10 and 13. The boy pushed the child from his cycle and took his red
LANCASHIRE's top fireman has pledged that a new fire station being built to serve Hyndburn will cut response times and save lives. And chief fire officer Peter Holland says the station, due for completion early next year, is long overdue. The new station
CHAMBER of Trade chiefs today told shoppers who are set to face disruptive roadworks for up to a year -- use your shops or lose them. The honorary president of Hyndburn Chamber of Trade said it was essential people continue to use shops or they could
PHOTOGRAPHS of an Accrington mill owner's daughter-in-law who became the inspiration for the Alice in Wonderland stories have been banned from leaving the country. For 18 years before her wedding to Jonathan Hargreaves' son Reginald, young Alice Liddell
A TAXI driver was hit in the face and £600 worth of damage was done to his car when he insisted on being paid his £2 fare, a court was told. Blackburn magistrates heard that Simon Paul Bates kicked the vehicle which had taken him and a friend to a party
A LOOK at the key stats and figures from the game against Cheltenham Town. NIK MICHOPOULOS: Hobbled off in the first half in the key moment in the match having had relatively little to do...6 DEAN WEST: He was given a hard time by Cheltenham wide man
COO, fancy that! Pigeon fanciers from all over Britain flocked together in Blackpool at the weekend for the British Homing World Show. And the generous birdmen and women donated thousands of pounds to local charities. The show, in its 26th year, took
COUNCILLORS are heading to Westminster in the wake of a public outcry claiming that Ramsbottom faces a policing crisis. Councillors Dorothy Gunther, Barry Theckston, and Sheila Magnall will travel to London to meet with shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin
STAN TERNENT'S determination to strengthen his squad will have increased after yesterday's FA Cup surrender at Cheltenham Town with a goalkeeper the new top priority. The injury to Nik Michopoulos early in the first half was a key moment in the tie as
BLACKPOOL 0 BURY 1:A FEW more battling performances like this and Bury's relegation worries will be a thing of the past. The Shakers fully deserved their three point haul as they adapted to atrocious playing conditions much better than the Steve McMahon's
TRADERS in King Street, Bacup, are objecting to plans for a taxi stand in the street. Eight letters of objection from businesses in the street will be considered when the proposal is discussed by Rossendale Council's licensing committee on Wednesday.
A GREAT Harwood couple who got the surprise of their life -- and garden of their dreams -- last summer will be reliving the experience through their TV set tonight. Carol Bennett and Bernard O'Brien went to Clitheroe for a caravan break last summer and
WANDERING Walter, the duck who captured the hearts of villagers, has died in a road accident. And the heartbroken motorist who run him over has promised to buy Belthorn a pair of new ducks in the spring as an apology. Walter emerged from behind a parked
SUPER slimmer Amanda Barnes has found the perfect way to show off her new thinner tum - she's taken up bellydancing! Mum-of-four Amanda, 39, of Whalley New Road in Wilpshire, near Blackburn, started the classes to help tone up her stomach. At the same
SOME health services in East Lancashire will have to be sacrificed next year to pay off a £3million debt blamed on the cost of prescribed drugs, bosses have admitted. East Lancashire Health Authority, which will be disbanded in April, is facing a forecast
SOCCER: The non-League programme was more or less wiped out on Saturday because of the weather. While Accrington Stanley and Rossendale played, Chorley's Chairman's Cup quarter-final at Droylsden fell victim to a water-logged pitch at 10am on Saturday
CHORLEY LYNX...10 REDHILL...2 WHEN you are regarded as giant-killing fodder trepidation is understandable. Chorley Lynx went into this Challenge Cup third round clash with Castleford amateurs Redhill knowing that those looking for a shock would be casting
ACCRINGTON STANLEY...1 EMLEY...0 RUSSELL Payne scored the goal in extra-time to take Stanley through to the semi-final of the UniBond League Cup - but it was goalkeeper Jamie Speare who was the hero. The Reds goalie pulled off a number of fantastic saves
The glitz and the glamour of the FA Cup has arrived - for North End at least! As the only non-Premiership Lancashire club left in the trophy competition, It will be up to the Lilywhites to fly the flag on the weekend of February 16. They have been drawn
PRESTON North End boss David Moyes has launched an astonishing attack on the fans, urging them to put up or shut up. Moyes devoted most of his programme notes on Saturday to naming and shaming two fans who had dared to criticise last week's match at home
SHEFFIELD United manager Neil Warnock was critical of referee Tony Bates after his controversial penalty decision allowed Preston to clinch a 2-1 win in the FA Cup fourth round clash at Deepdale. The Stoke official ruled that Robert Page had deliberately
AS sixth-form students get to grips with mock A-levels and dream of university life many parents will already be asking: Will it all be worth it? New figures from the Higher Education Careers Unit suggest it is. Salaries paid to graduates in the North
Former Blackpool transfer target John Newby came back to haunt the Seasiders as Bury took home the points in this six pointer at Bloomfield Road. Newby was subject of a rejected £100,000 bid from Pool, and he showed what Blackpool had missed out on by
