SMALL businesses are being offered the chance to invest in their safety thanks to a scholarship offered by The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and Esso. Legislation requires employers to appoint people to assist in carrying out health and
SKILLSGROUP plc, which last year sold Rossendale computer company P and P, has reported a big profits leap. Skillsgroup sold P and P UK, based on the Carr Industrial Estate, to GE Capital IT Solutions for £11.5 million, with an agreement to take on a
THE strike at Daniel Thwaites brewery in Blackburn ended after the company withdrew the management letter which sparked the dispute. Draymen and bulk tanker staff were set to return to work after the weekend, and both sides agreed to restart talks about
THE search is on for two teenagers from the Whalley area to take part in the "trip of a lifetime." Whalley's two masonic groups, the Abbey and Cloisters Lodges, want to sponsor two community-minded youngsters on a sailing expedition in July. They will
A QUIVERING club steward today told how he was almost forced to do a solo "Full Monty" to satisfy scores of wild women when a male stripper didn't turn up. In the end, terrified Bob Foster's wife Doreen saved the day by calming the angry crowd who had
IT'S do or die for the Lancashire Hawks this weekend - and they will be hoping to avoid an embarrassing "slip-up" tomorrow when they take on the Murrayfield Royals and bring their league season to a close. With both teams on the same points in the Northern
BRITAIN is to get its first beef-on-the-bone martyr - pub landlord Alan Coomber who served up two banned T-bone steaks to a couple of undercover environmental health officers. Now, he faces prosecution and a fine of up to £5,000 or two years in prison
IT is a sad commentary on our society that everywhere the doors of churches are locked except for services - when once they were open all day. They offered their communities and passers-by the opportunity of private prayer or quiet reflection. Yet, in
SINCE the new motorway came, life on my road has been hell. I never thought that at the age of only 16 I would be able to say: "I remember when all this used to be fields." All my life I have lived on our private little unmade road where everyone knows
Political Focus, with Bill Jacobs HOME Secretary Jack Straw has been involved in a furious turf war with the Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine. The Head of the Judiciary has made clear that he wishes to take control of the criminal justice system. The Blackburn
Friday Folk TEDDY bears designed and made by a former Burnley woman have taken off on the international market. Now Janet Changfoot - who lives in South Africa - has been commissioned to design a bear of Africa to be launched overseas in April. Janet,
ROY Hodgson will have to go ghost-busting at the Dell tomorrow if Blackburn Rovers are to maintain a strong Premiership title challenge. A good result is essential to prevent Manchester United going too far ahead at the top of the table but it is 60 long
Burnley v Brentford - Pete Oliver's big match preview IN THEIR bid to escape relegation, football managers never tend to give up hope "while our destiny is in our own hands." At this stage of the season the mathematics don't come into play with more than
MARK Winstanley's stock at Burnley is rising in tandem with the team and he could take a further step towards securing a longer term future at Turf Moor against Brentford tomorrow. Winstanley has been on a week-to-week deal since the start of the season
MORE THAN 50 senior industrialists and business people joined NIS Invotec Ltd to celebrate the opening of their new offices at Duxbury Park on the outskirts of Chorley. The offices in the Coach House, a grade-two listed building, also boast some of the
FAMILY kitchen firm Ainsworth and Dent Ltd has won a top prize in the National Kitchens and Bathrooms Industry Awards. Brothers Neil and Andrew Dent, accompanied by their wives Karen and Alison, attended the awards at the Birmingham NEC and were delighted
A BLACKBURN businesswoman is set to light up the fashion catwalk to raise cash for the SuperScan Appeal. Gaynor McCusker, who runs Dress Up and Go designer clothes shop, in Preston New Road, Blackburn, is spearheading a giant choreographed catwalk show
ANGRY Lowerhouse council tenants are set to form a campaign group after a showdown with town hall bosses last night. Around 100 residents voiced fury over the lack of investment on their estates over the last 30 years when they confronted housing chiefs
A DARWEN boy's residential place at a special school for children with severe language disorders was put under threat when council chiefs raised his fees by £37,000. James Franklin, 10, was bullied while at school in Darwen, and his parents said going
HOSPITALS used by East Lancashire patients for hip joint replacement operations have been given the all-clear. Up to 5,000 patients who underwent hip replacements using a 3M Health Care product between 1991 and 1997, are to be recalled for checks after
POPULAR Indie band Syndicate and Burnley FC are the latest signatories to the Burnley Declaration against Racism. Lead singer Damian Manville and drummer Chris Precious will be representing the band at the official signing ceremony. It marks the conclusion
PAPER-MAKING could be set for a major revival with one mill wanting to buy its shutdown neighbour. Sappi Specialties is proposing to redevelop the former Sun Paper mill site at Feniscowles, Blackburn. The paper giant, which employs more than 300 people
FARMERS and countryside enthusiasts from East Lancashire will join protesters campaigning for the future of the countryside at a huge rally in London on Sunday, March 1. The event, which has been organised by the British Field Sport Society, is expected
AFTER seeing the article (LET, February 16) about traders being furious about gum on the streets of Clitheroe, let me say that it is not the only town which has this problem. Having been to Singapore, I found that gum is prohibited there. It is not sold
THE Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley branch of the National Asthma Campaign thank everyone who provided stock or helped in any way with the Charity Shop in Lord Street West, Blackburn, at the end of January. We raised the wonderful amount of £763.41
THE recent fashion show in Paris by Givenchy was outrageous even by fashion world's standards - bird skulls perched on models' shoulders, foxes heads turned into hats and even one hat containing a live canary fluttering in a cage. Animals suffer unspeakable
Southampton v Blackburn Rovers - Peter White's big match preview WHEN the present Premiership campaign began some seven months ago, Paul Jones hardly seemed taylor-made for the role of number one goalkeeper at Southampton. Maik Taylor certainly was -
