DEPUTY Prime Minister John Prescott and a troupe of modern dancers are an unlikely combination - but they joined forces to give the new-look Church Street, Blackburn, a stylish launch. And news that the enterprising renovation of the Pavilions - for so
THE identity of the first tenants to move into Blackburn's newly refurbished Waterloo Pavilions was revealed on the day Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott came to officially open the buildings. Mr Prescott was in Blackburn to announce details of East
I WATCHED Police Protecting Children on TV and am revolted and sickened by these animals who use and abuse children. The paedophiles who use these websites are disgusting, depraved, sick people and should face the highest penalties. Children, scarred
WE must care for the welfare of all animals. Without organisations to protect them millions of innocent animals will be killed for their fur. Living creatures are mutilated and sprayed with toxic chemicals in commercial and government supported laboratories
ON a journey to work I was musing over how sad it was to watch young mums chatting to friends on mobile phones, whilst walking their offspring to school and pushing a pram at the same time. I used to use this precious time talking to my children, and
THIS government is to give housewives £20 a week travel money to find work and one of these areas to be piloted is in Blackburn. What a joke and a shameful waste of money. A lot of women in this town don't want to work. This is just one of the aims of
THE East Lancashire mother of one of the British cavers rescued from Mexico today said: "He's no spy." Joyce Mitchell spoke of her relief after her six-day ordeal ended when son Chris became the first of the men to be pulled to safety. She revealed that
ROVERS boss Graeme Souness has revealed the truth behind Dave Fevre's spat with Olof Mellberg during last week's game at Aston Villa. Fevre, the Rovers' first team physio, was trying to treat an injured player midway through the second half at Villa Park
BLACKBURN Rovers defender Michael Gray today insisted the well-publicised bust-up between Dwight Yorke and Graeme Souness has helped to galvanise spirit in the dressing room. Rovers found themselves at the centre of a storm last week after stories of
FORMER Ewood favourite Damien Duff might be distracted by thoughts of the Champions League and who's going to replace Claudio Ranieri at Chelsea. But the Republic of Ireland star still looks back fondly on his time with Blackburn Rovers and he's praying
THE former government spin master who has vowed to help Burnley Football Club survive financial difficulties tonight tells television viewers how Prime Minister Tony Blair has a very annoying habit. Lifelong Clarets fan Alastair Campbell, appearing on
ORGANISERS of a scheme aimed at cutting alcohol-related disorders in Burnley have appealed for new members. Culverts Against Alcohol Related Disorders (CAARD) was launched last year between pubs in the Yorkshire Street and Todmorden Road area. But some
POLICE found hauls from several crimes when they raided and an ex-convict's Hapton home, Burnley Crown Court heard. Drug addict Scott Simpson, 24, was taken to the police station where he admitted to 50 offences. Simpson, who has served several terms
TWO drug addicts went out on a crime spree to feed their habits but ended up before a judge. Burnley Crown Court heard ex-convict Mark McGraneghan, 30, raided homes while Rebecca Morton, 28, intended to share in some of the proceeds. McGraneghan was jailed
RESIDENTS in Pendle are being urged to help a local charity by signing up to a weekly lottery. Pendle Council has allowed Pendleside Hospice to put a leaflet about its weekly lottery in with council tax bills sent to around 38,000 homes in the borough
I HAVE never dabbled in the stock market so its rises and falls are of little interest, except at times like the present. Events have proved beyond doubt that financial institutions are particularly vulnerable to terrorism, indirectly that is. For example
A MOBILE phone company is considering whether to appeal against Pendle Council's decision to refuse permission for a mast in Trawden. Vodafone applied for planning permission for a 12metre mast and other equipment to be put in a fenced compound in a field
A CANNABIS smoker was cautioned by the police after neighbours' complaints led to a raid on his home. Police and a special support unit searched the 31-year-old unemployed man's home in Horn Street, Accrington, and found cannabis, weighing scales and
THURSDAY, APRIL 1 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohens Chemist, 63 Whalley Range; To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 6.30pm: Donald Wood Ltd, 53 Fishmoor Drive; Healthbook
FRIDAY, APRIL 2 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: Moss Pharmacy, 314 Bolton Road; The Pharmacy, Oakenhurst
MONDAY, MARCH 29 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: Moss Pharmacy, 314 Bolton Road; The Pharmacy, Oakenhurst
TUESDAY, MARCH 30 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: The Pharmacy, Oakenhurst Road; Geloo Bros, Cleaver
A NEW Year's Eve night out ended in blood and broken bones for a Longridge woman after she was attacked by her husband and thrown out of their house. Blackburn magistrates heard that Lynda Nuttall needed stitches to a wound in her head and suffered three
A MAN who tried to learn about his relatives in Darwen has thanked the Lancashire Evening Telegraph for helping him out. David Eccles, 60, from South Leverton, Nottinghamshire, was researching his family tree when he discovered that his great-grandfather
YOUNGSTERS in the Sudellside area of Darwen will be making the most of their Easter holidays by creating a historic town trail. Staff from Groundwork Blackburn will visit Sudellside Community Centre from Tuesday, April 13 to Thursday 15, to work with
A DARWEN boss has urged other businesses to ignore letters asking them to pay over the odds to register with the Data Protection Register. John Lawson, of Embroidery and Screenprint Services Ltd in Hannah Street, recently received such a letter asking
A ROSSENDALE black pudding maker has been short-listed for a top business award. Andrew Holt, owner of RS Ireland, Waterfoot, is one of six businessmen in the running for the Guardian Angel Network's coveted Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Since buying
A LAW student continued to claim benefits despite receiving a student grant and a student loan. Blackburn magistrates heard that mother of five Suzanne Croft received an overpayment of £6,782 during a six-month period, although defence solicitor Alfred
TWO teenage girls ran up a phone bill of over £700 in just nine days after "bashing" a stolen mobile phone sim card, a court has heard. Blackburn magistrates were told that one of the girls -- aged 14 -- had bought the sim card from someone at school
A HEROIN addict robbed an 86-year-old war veteran in his home with a "chilling absence of humanity" after hearing bad news about a drugs debt. Judge Christopher Cornwall made the comments yesterday at Preston Crown Court as he jailed Craig Southworth,
DETAILS of how and where East Lancashire's £103million housing windfall is to be spent have been revealed. In Blackburn housing in two areas, Bank Top in the north and Griffin in the south, will be targeted. Both of the areas are dominated by pre-1919
BLACKBURN Hawks are hoping to turn up the heat and beat the Freeze not once, but twice this weekend. After a two-week break, the ambitious Hawks resume play-off action with back-to-back matches against arch-rivals Flintshire Freeze, who finished top of
JAILED Thai drugs trafficker Michael Connell will have to serve at least eight years before any transfer to an English prison, his MP has been told. Connell, aged 19, was sentenced to 99 years in a Thailand jail this week after he pleaded guilty to smuggling
SUNDAY The Conchord Singers present "Mary Magdalene," Immanuel Church, Oswaldtwistle, 6pm. Steiner's "Crucifixion," by The Renaissance Singers, Whalley Methodist Church, 7.30pm. Antiques Fair and Collectables, West Bradford Village Hall, 10am-4pm. The
THIS column is delighted to world premiere the first-ever demo of interactive newsprint. Today, the nightmare is over. We 'paper word' producers are about to triumph over the all-encroaching screen word. Hell will soon be stacked high with redundant computer
Drive & Stroll, with RON FREETHY. . . THERE are two delightful strolls leading upstream and downstream of Grindleton Bridge. Over the river there was once a ford (called Grindleford) and although the stone bridge is not one of the most attractive
The subject matter is not for the squeamish -- but Clitheroe actor Alastair Parker has helped make a hit of Jerry Springer The Opera. He spoke to JENNY SCOTT. . . SEX With My Sister, I Married a Horse, Honey, I'm A Call Girl, I Refuse to Wear Clothes.
A MUM got a punch on the nose when she told a drunken man to leave her daughter alone, a court heard. Blackburn magistrates heard that Zan Lea and her daughter, Patsy, were out celebrating St Patrick's Day when they attracted the unwanted attentions of
I WAS intrigued to read on page two of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph of Friday, March 19 about the Panopticon Plan for Corporation Park. My new dictionary gives the definition of the word Panopticon as follows: "A circular prison with cells arranged
RE 'Back stroke ban' (LET, March 24). My first thoughts after reading about the ban on back stroke was 'oh no' because I love it. I go to Mercer Hall baths -- back stroke keeps the body fit. My method of keeping straight is to look at the rafters in the
A MAN who lodged a false insurance claim, saying a thief had crashed his car, has had his jail term halved. Andrew Waterworth, aged 30, of Stout Street, Leigh, was jailed for a year at Bolton Crown Court last month. He had pleaded guilty to doing an act
PLANS to hand out contraception with sex advice on a bus touring rural villages were slammed today as promoting under-aged sex. Lancashire County Council, the county's teenage pregnancy strategy co-ordinators and Blackburn-based Brook Advisory Centre
EAST Lancashire councils have joined together to prevent fluoride being put into water supplies. The North West Councils Against Fluoridation, which includes Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale, held its second meeting at Nelson Town Hall this week. Members
A BLITZ on crime and burglary in Burnley is being carried out by a team of Lancashire County Council officials and community safety partners in the town. The county council has closed 28 alleyways in Burnley so that gates can be erected to prevent local
A DRUNKEN businessman who broke into a mother of three's home and sexually assaulted her in a late-night terror attack, has kept his freedom. Burnley Crown Court heard how Andrew Carroll, 38, who bit his victim, also pushed a neighbour who came to her
THE East Lancashire mother of one of the British cavers rescued from Mexico today said: "He's no spy." Joyce Mitchell spoke of her relief after her six-day ordeal ended when son Chris became the first of the men to be pulled to safety. She revealed that
PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice is urging the government to do more to persuade Muslim women to go to work. The Pendle Labour back bencher told Government Minister Patricia Hewitt, who has responsibility for womens issues and equality, that too few had jobs
BATTLING East Lancashire Peer Tony Greaves is braced for a new confrontation with the government next week, over postal voting. On Thursday night he was one of the leaders of a House of Lords revolt which rejected for the fourth time plans to drop the
ACCRINGTON Stanley has recruited the skills of a blind trainee sports masseur to work with players and staff. Stephen Troy, 42, who has played international football for England, was enlisted on a week-long placement to work alongside the team's physiotherapist
SUNDAY, MARCH 28 BLACKBURN: 10am-1pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road; 10.30am-4.30pm: Superdrug Pharmacy, 5 Stonybutts; noon-1pm: Tims & Parker, Unit 4, Audley Shopping Centre. DARWEN: noon-1pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 11 Church Street. ACCRINGTON: 11am
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; The Surgery (Chiropody), 132 Lammack Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: The
A TV programme filmed on location in the Ribble Valley has been sold to channels across the globe, prompting hopes for a fresh tourist rush. BBC1's primetime Sunday evening drama, Born and Bred, is now being shown in America, Australia and New Zealand
A NEW site has been created to provide news and information for deaf people. In the words of the founder, the aim of www.deafok.com is 'to help alleviate the isolation and loneliness felt by many deaf people and their families'. There are details of meetings
LENNY Johnrose is ready and waiting to ride to Burnley's rescue. The midfielder was back on familiar territory yesterday after a whirlwind week brought him back to Turf Moor on non-contract terms after his contract with Swansea was terminated. And although
DELE Adebola is desperate to resurrect his reputation on loan at Burnley. The Coventry striker opens a new chapter in a stop-start career when the Clarets travel to relegation rivals Bradford this afternoon. Stan Ternent has made no secret of his admiration
BLACKBURN Rovers defender Michael Gray today insisted the well-publicised bust-up between Dwight Yorke and Graeme Souness has helped to galvanise spirit in the dressing room. Rovers found themselves at the centre of a storm last week after stories of
DELE Adebola is desperate to resurrect his reputation on loan at Burnley. The Coventry striker opens a new chapter in a stop-start career when the Clarets travel to relegation rivals Bradford this afternoon. Stan Ternent has made no secret of his admiration
A ROSSENDALE-based college is set to hold a fundraising event in aid of Rossendale Hospice in May. In conjunction with Adult Learners' Week, Accrington and Rossendale College will be offering holistic therapies to people throughout the Valley. Pupils
BACUP-born tenor Sean Ruane has been forced to cancel his Manchester solo concert after being struck down with illness. Ruane has been suffering with a heavy cold which has forced him to take the difficult decision of calling off the concert. It was due
AN animal sanctuary looking after 18 sick horses rescued from a Rossendale farm has revealed the animals are making a good recovery. And the three ponies forced to remain in Burnley because they were too weak to travel have been re-united with the rest
A KEEN collector is all fingers and thumbs after realising she needs only one more decorative thimble to complete her collection. Carole Almond's 20-year collection contains 365 of the ornaments and has every special edition thimble of the Royal family
AN Indian restaurant, managed by a Blackburn dad-of-three, had holes in the rear door which could have allowed rats, mice and crawling insects to get inside, a court has heard. Mohammed Ishtiaq, manager of the Shalimar Gardens, Talbot Road, Blackpool,
PUPILS from Blackburn with Darwen high schools were asked to weave their thoughts about belonging to the borough this week. SEMA (Support for Ethnic Minority Achievement) held their first Citizenship Conference at Jans Conference Centre. Blackburn-based
A 44 YEAR-old Blackburn man suffered an epileptic fit and died in front of his mother, an inquest heard. A hearing before Blackburn coroner Ian Singleton was told Doreen Naylor had never seen her son Peter in a seizure before and propped him up on the
FIREFIGHTERS have issued a stark warning to schoolchildren about the dangers of home-made bonfires after a nine year-old boy narrowly escaped blindness when an aerosol exploded in his face. Luke Clarke suffered serious facial injuries when the can - thrown
DEPUTY Prime Minister John Prescott challenged five East Lancashire councils to make the multi-million Elevate programme work when he visited Blackburn yesterday. Mr Prescott visited the town to officially unveil the newly renovated Waterloo Pavilions
LANCASHIRE's new High Sheriff faces an uphill task when she takes up her new post next week ... because she was born and bred in Yorkshire! Gail Simpson Stanley was born in a small village between Halifax and Leeds but moved to Lancashire at the age of
The Saturday Interview - this week, BILL BEAUMONT BILL Beaumont sits patiently under the bright studio lights, towering over his team-mates. The surroundings are familiar but the faces aren't -- there's no Mary Peters, no David Broom, not even Princess
