EAST Lancashire's train operator will have to pay a £95,000 penalty after a string of complaints about late services in the county. Figures from the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising show services run by North Western Trains over Greater Manchester
Oldham Athletic Youth 2 Burnley Youth 0 BURNLEY'S youngsters paid the price for a lack of firepower as they crashed out of the Times FA Youth Cup to two second-half goals at Boundary Park last night. The Clarets looked by far the better of the two teams
NEWLYWED golf star Kim Rostron's chances of competing in the World Championship could be quashed by General Pinochet supporters in Chile. Kim, 24, is due to fly to Chile on Friday for the tournament where Pinochet supporters have attacked British people
MARK Ford steps up his comeback bid in Burnley's reserves at Middlesbrough tonight with his sights set on a possible FA Cup return The Clarets' midfielder has been sidelined since breaking a bone in his ankle against Bristol Rovers on the opening day
Blackburn Artists' Society meet St Gabriel's Church Hall, Brownhill, 7pm. Age Concern Advice Surgery, Accrington Road Community Centre, Blackburn, 2-3pm. Public meeting of Cloverhill Residents' Action Group at St Bede's Church Hall, Railway Street, Nelson
A FATHER has spoken of his amazement that his son wasn't killed in a road accident after seeing his wrecked vehicle. Dorian Michael Tulloch, 20, of Chester Avenue, Clitheroe, was involved in a collision outside the Park Gate Inn, Longsight Road, Copster
IF, as cultures have recognised worldwide and throughout history, the family is a unit that forms the keystone of society, then the government can only be acting responsibly as it outlines proposals aimed at stemming the rising tide of family breakdowns
FOLLOWING your recent article on bullying at Darwen Vale High School, I was angered to read the response of the school, saying that bullying goes on in every school, but not particularly a problem there. I go to a school in the Ribble Valley area, and
IT is being said that Labour will do to the farmers what the Tories did to the miners, and it is beginning to look like that. This is what we did to our friends in New Zealand and Australia when we joined the EEC. It has taken them many years to find
Accrington Stanley 2 Great Harwood Town 0 IT IS hard not to feel a tinge of sympathy for Ian McGarry at the moment. Six points adrift at the foot of the Unibond League First Division and his club in danger of folding, things could not get much worse for
IT is now 25 years since Britain joined the Common Market and we are rapidly approaching the acceptance of a single currency by our politicians. This is making more people aware and rightly nervous of the unprecedented threat to our right of self-government
I READ John Blunt's column concerning the duties and pay of nurses. I thought the tone was rather over the top, but did not pay particular attention to it at that time. However, recent events have made me put pen to paper. My 15-year-old disabled son,
CHRIS Sutton hopes to bow out in style against Coventry City on Saturday before a four-match suspension that, the Blackburn Rovers striker admits, is not entirely without compensation especially from an injury point of view. On the one hand, Sutton's
SALES of sarsaparilla sweets and drinks are swelling -- amid reports that it is an ideal substitute for Viagra. The pink, sweet and sour toffees look set to be cleaned off the shelves after reports claimed they have the same effect as the impotence wonder
MILLIONS of working days are lost through stress-related illnesses, which cost UK industry dearly each year. Today is National Stress Awareness Day, highlighting the pressures which have reached "worldwide epidemic" proportions according to the World
DEDICATED workers from Burnley's Hurel-Dubois UK who have completed 123 years of joint service have hit the headlines. In the summer of 1957, nine years before England lifted the World Cup in the famous 1966 victory, Peter Buckel, Ken Pickles and Alan
BAILIFFS are using expensive night-sight equipment to combat poachers targeting a private fishing lake. Problems with poachers stealing trout from Coldwell Water in the moors above Nelson have become so bad bailiffs protecting the lake have invested £1,500
DETECTIVES have pieced together the movements of a sex attack victim in the minutes before she was assaulted by a teenager armed with a knife. They believe the 54-year-old woman may have been followed by the youth before the assault and are hopeful he
FIRST it was the neighbours from hell, then the weddings from hell and now the holidays from hell. Have the television producers lost their imaginations? Most of the stories we see on these excuses for a documentary are ones which have already been splashed
THE killjoys are out in force again with cries to ban Hallowe'en, Guy Fawkes Night and everything else that makes the dark nights bearable. After a long summer fretting about skin cancer and mosquitoes, the autumn is their chance to get their teeth into
MOTORISTS were warned to take care on East Lancashire's roads as the first snow of the winter arrived today. Police warned commuters as snow fell on the high ground in East Lancashire and created dangerous conditions on routes like the Grane Road and
TRIPLE world champion Carl Fogarty was the toast of the town last night. Hundreds of fans packed into King George's Hall, Blackburn, for a tribute evening following his his breathtaking win in the World Superbike Championships at Sugo, Japan in October
COUNCIL tax payers across Lancashire look set to face a 6.5 per cent increase in bills next year. Early predictions from finance experts at County Hall show an extra £54 million will have to be found for next year's budget. It is likely to come either
A CHILLING letter believed to be from a savage sex attacker has been sent to police three years after he committed a brutal rape at a Blackburn beauty spot. And detectives leading the hunt for the Billinge Wood rapist have revealed he may have been poised
CHRIS Sutton hopes to bow out in style against Coventry City on Saturday before a four-match suspension that, the Blackburn Rovers striker admits, is not entirely without compensation especially from an injury point of view. On the one hand, Sutton's
TWO tankers collided head-on near Woodtop Garage on Longsight Road, Clayton-le-Dale. One driver, in a tanker carrying bitumen, was trapped for nearly an hour with a broken shin bone while three fire crews battled to cut him free from the mangled cab.
BUS companies were accused of rigging fares and fixing timetables to carve up the local passenger market by the Office of Fair Trading. But bus firms, including Ribble, North Western, Blackburn, Burnley and Pendle and Rossendale said they were surprised
IT was mentioned to me that someone wanted a video copy of the Billy Fury profile televised on BBC1 Omnibus on Monday, October 12. I have a video recording and if they 'phone me on 01254 54745 I will make arrangements for them to view. Has anyone a record
AMID Chancellor Gordon Brown's gloom-defying Budget preview comes a plan for smaller, cleaner cars to be liable for less road tax. Fair enough. On grounds of affordability and environment the generally better-off users of cars that consume more energy
I AM a Lancashire Lass, hailing from Accrington originally, but have spent much of my married life travelling because of my husband's job. I have recently been linked up to the Internet and found your web pages, keeping me up to date with all the news
I READ with interest your article on rail users in East Lancashire being hit by more delays (LET, October 30). Unfortunately, earlier that day I attempted to catch the 8.05am from Langho on my way to Blackpool. It did not appear. A fellow potential customer
THE recent news of a seven-year-old boy in Scotland taking his mother's heroin to school to prevent her taking it is, for me, the last straw in recognising that we as a society have become weak and cowardly when it comes to protecting our citizens, and
BURNLEY will bid again for a multi-million National Lottery grant to improve and re-launch the town's Thompson Recreation Centre. The Regional Sports Council has urged the council to re-submit an application for help, just months after its first bid for
HARDWARE company George Wilkinson has pulled out of an expansion deal which would have brought 150 new jobs to Burnley -- because of opposition from residents. The Elm Street-based company had successfully bid £205,000 for the nearby council-owned Livingstone
MARK Ford steps up his comeback bid in Burnley's reserves at Middlesbrough tonight with his sights set on a possible FA Cup return The Clarets' midfielder has been sidelined since breaking a bone in his ankle against Bristol Rovers on the opening day
A MAN was fighting for his life today after being rescued from a burning flat. John Wright, 48, is in a critical condition in Blackburn Infirmary after suffering the effects of breathing smoke in the blaze at a hostel in Foxhill Bank Brow, Oswaldtwistle
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy THE first frost of autumn was melting as the sun's warmth started to lift the temperature. Days like this are perfect for walking in the countryside. I strolled along the riverside from the heritage centre car park at Barrowford
Heart to heart with a kidney... TALES of romance over the Internet are becoming more and more common. But this one is just a bit unusual. Ian Fleming, 28, from Manchester, married his 36-year-old wife Teresa in September after a 12-month romance which
A GLOOMY picture of the local economy has been painted by the latest Chambers of Commerce survey. The quarterly report, which East Lancashire firm contribute to, found that the effects of the strong were continuing to hit manufacturers. Although the service
A UNIQUE memorial to local scouts who gave their lives during the Great War was unveiled in the heart of Nelson by the Mayor of Pendle. Councillor Colin Waite said 105 Scouts left the town and never returned and it was fitting that the memorial, understood
I'M sure I was not the only one left shrugging my shoulders with indifference this week when a group of American doctors published a so-called "shock report" linking designer rave-drug Ecstasy to depression, anxiety, psychiatric problems and even brain
I HAVE finally realised why British politics is the home of the witch hunt. It started with the terror campaigns launched against poor rural dwellers in the 17th century by House of Commons cronies like Oliver Cromwell. Let's face it, if notorious Witchfinder
