WINIFRED Ferrier, the sister of the great singer Kathleen Ferrier, has died aged 92. Members of the Blackburn-based Kathleen Ferrier Society will travel to London on Friday to attend Miss Ferrier's funeral at Golders Green. Only 18 months ago, Miss Ferrier
WACKY Radio One DJ Chris Evans holds the key to Burnley's Auto Windscreens Shield destiny. Confused? Well, while you are chewing your cornflakes, slurping that last drop of coffee and chomping a final mouthful of toast, the ginger-nutted charmer will
IWAS saddened to read LET (November 3), the comments of Burnley MP Peter Pike regarding proposed unitary status for Blackburn. His so-called objections appear to smack of little more than sour grapes that an independent body has recognised the validity
PROFITS of more than a quarter of a million pounds will be ploughed back into local services provided by Blackburn Council. The council's operations department, which provides services such as bin emptying, street lighting and road repairs, finished the
A BRAVE teenager led her young brothers to safety after a chip pan fire filled their Nelson home with smoke. Zuniara Hussain, 16, threw wet towels over the flaming pan before grabbing four-year-old Mughis and Ahmar, seven, and leading them away from danger
A SUNDAY opening scramble was developing in Hyndburn in open defiance of the Sunday trading laws. The new do-it-yourself superstore at Whitebirk was to stay open for business on Sunday along with the Pennywise DIY store in Church Streeet, Accrington,
NORTH West Water is aiming to install pre-payment meters in homes with bad payment records (LET, October 24) and, no doubt, will be charging them with the cost of the meter and its installation. The meters will automatically shut off the supply when credit
THERE is more serious flak for the Government with the news that they are planning to cut social security by another £1billion a year . Yet another leaked letter, this time from social security secretary Peter Lilley to William Waldegrave, Treasury chief
THE Court of Appeal has overturned the convictions of four men involved in supplying arms to Iraq. The court decided they had been denied a fair trial because vital documents were witheld by the Government. Is there no depths to which this administration
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RADIO listeners have inundated station managers with letters of protest after announcing that a long-running show is to be ditched. BBC Radio Lancashire's late night show, hosted by Bob Roberts, is to be axed due to 'disappointing audiences'. Roberts
THE former chairman of the Local Government Commission, Sir John Banham, has said that whatever happens, changes like the the one suggested for Blackburn will inevitably cost more money. The Audit Commission has said that the cost for the change will
MILLIONS of television viewers will tonight see an intrepid East Lancashire couple defy staggering odds by cycling across Europe. Wolfram and Valerie Thome shrugged off mind-numbing pain and disability to cycle 600 miles across Britain and Europe. Their
PUNTERS in lottery-lucky East Lancashire can now pick their numbers over a pint. Scottish & Newcastle is testing the sale of lottery tickets and scratch cards in six of its pubs in England and Scotland. And of only four pilot pubs in England, TWO
DISAPPOINTED Alan Shearer fans have bought a video boasting his greatest goals ever - which he says doesn't include any of them! The striker called in advertising watchdogs after a plug for the Shear Magic video appeared in a soccer magazine with the
THE BOSSES of a dairy were left cheesed off when thieves stole eight tons of Lancashire and Cheshire cheeses worth £20,000. The break-in took place at Wolfen Mill Dairy, Goose Lane, Chipping, after an alarm failed to go off. More than £7,500 worth of
IT'S suicide time again! Would cyclists and joggers please bear in mind that, reflective strips and tiny red lights aside, they are still very difficult to see against a foreground of oncoming headlight and illuminated shop windows. I have no desire to
IAM writing in reply to A Culverhouse's criticism of my letter (Letters, November 3). He appears to think butterflies are a deserving cause but they could be helped by cessation of spraying with toxic chemicals. More deserving causes are cancer relief
LABOUR leaders in Burnley have put the brakes on get-together talks with private companies hoping to snap up a local bus company. The group say they are not prepared to meet any potential bidder for Burnley and Pendle Transport company, jointly owned
A MAN was cut free from the wreckage of his car after a horrific head-on road crash today. Firemen, helped by ambulance staff, used cutting equipment to free the man, who was trapped by his legs after his Ford Fiesta collided with an Audi. The smash,
HE'S as much at home strutting his stuff on a Paris cat-walk, as he is turning on the style at St James's Park. And half the population of Tyneside - the female part - swooned when David Ginola paraded in the famous black and white shirt for the first
IT will take some time for life in and around our rivers to recover from the summer drought. This week it rained in Yorkshire and I went to Aysgarth to look at the waterfalls. Local naturalists told me that last summer there was not only less water but
BURNLEY march in to the Auto Windscreens Shield round two draw - but at a heavy price. Because midfielder Gerry Harrison is rated very doubtful for Friday's big FA Cup first round tie against Walsall after injuring his back last night. Burnley were held
TIM Flowers is hoping for a triple celebration when he faces the Premiership's hot-shot table-toppers Newcastle United at St James's Park tonight. The Blackburn Rovers keeper has already been cheered by his recall to the England squad. And he is about
