HIGH school students hoping for top "marks" in a Young Enterprise scheme have forged close links with a High Street giant to get a taste of life in the workplace. Pupils from Primet High, Colne, have teamed up with Marks & Spencer to receive training
POLICE launched a major search after a 12-year-old boy went missing from his home in Blackburn. And the police and parents of Martin John Duguid are growing increasingly concerned for the safety of the youngster who has not been seen for two days. Martin
STEPHANE Henchoz has given Brian Kidd and Blackburn Rovers a major boost in the build-up to Saturday's relegation showdown with Nottingham Forest at Ewood. The Swiss defender's troublesome groin injury is at last showing signs of improvement and Henchoz
GRAHAM Branch has been added to Burnley's list of walking wounded and is a doubtful starter for Saturday's final game of the season at relegation-haunted Northampton Town. Branch hurt an ankle in the Clarets safety-clinching win over Fulham and missed
EAST Lancashire day trippers' plans for a day out by the sea were derailed after a series of disasters left them enduring a 17-hour nightmare. And the passengers had to abandon plans to hand over a donation in memory of murdered TV presenter Jill Dando
IT could all have been so different, with glasses raised around Ewood Park to toast a new home-grown striking hero. Instead, Blackburn lad James Beattie might well turn out to be the man who sends the team he worshipped as a boy spiralling down into the
Val Cowan Surfs the Net WE'VE had webcams set up on street corners, in nightclubs, on beaches and even in people's bedrooms. But now with Online Surgery (http://www. onlinesurgery.com) you can see into the operating theatre. The site offers webcasts of
BLACKBURN veteran road man Dave Hargreaves pulled off his best win to date over the May Day weekend by taking the overall winner's jersey after 120 tough racing miles in the three-day league of veteran racing cyclists tour of the Abberleys held near Stourbridge-on-Severn
TODAY is "Super Thursday" - an historic election day loaded with political portent like no other. And yet, strangely, one of the day's biggest tests will be of how many of the 30 million people entitled to vote actually do so. Overall, only a third may
Cheadle Town 2 Clitheroe 0 CLITHEROE'S dismal league form continued after a Steve Denny double consigned the Blues to another disappointing defeat. Once again Steve Parry's men enjoyed plenty of possession but lacked punch up front before they shot themselves
I FIND it puzzling that Blackburn with Darwen Council has refused the re-building by BP of the garage and filling station on Preston New Road, Blackburn. I am in my late seventies. A garage was on this site from my childhood and boyhood. It's hard to
BLACKBURN Boys gained revenge for their defeat at the hands of Barrowford in the Cup semi-final, with two first half strikes in the Hyndburn and District Boys' League Under-14s play-off semi-final. In the other semi-final, things were much closer with
LANCASHIRE will play a Championship match at Southport this summer after a U-turn by the local council. The future of county cricket at the Southport and Birkdale Sports Club, which has hosted Lancashire matches since the 1960s, was thrown into doubt
ST Leonard's School, Langho, and the School Friends Association, have arranged for the skip for waste paper and cardboard to be in the schoolyard from Saturday, May 8, until Sunday May 9, and ask people to put their paper in either bundles or bags to
THE victim of a house fire in Padiham has been named as 30-year-old Jane Nazurally. Formal identification was made through dental records. Police said that Miss Nazurally had been lodging at the house in Victoria Road for two weeks. The cause of the inferno
PLATES have been fitted into the shattered face of a 25-year-old who suffered a double fracture of the jaw in an unprovoked attack in Padiham. The victim and a friend who was also assaulted, were making their way home along Spa Street at 2am on Saturday
A 17-MONTH police investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement at one of the largest schools in East Lancashire has ended. A file will now be passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which will decide whether or not prosecutions will
A CANDIDATE in a Burnley ward plagued by proxy problems today claimed he had lost scores of votes because of incorrect advice from a council election officer. Liberal Democrat Mozaquir Ali said he was taking legal advice and would call for the election
A SECURITY guard is recovering as police investigate a stabbing at an Accrington caravan site which has been hit by three fires in the last fortnight. Christopher Campbell, 35, of Blackburn, needed treatment at Blackburn Royal Infirmary following the
Food News, with Amanda Killelea SLIMLINE Kath Whipp is laughing all the way to the dress shop after her amazing shrinking exploits. Kath has lost an incredible 6st 12lbs in just 12 months and it is all thanks to Blackburn's Slimming World Club. She had
THIS week is national Autism Awareness week. Armed with little more than images of Dustin Hoffman in the hit Hollywood film Rain Man, reporter ANDREA MULDOON attended a meeting of the East Lancashire support group Families of Autistic Children working
DIRECTORS in carpets and textiles group Gaskell shared bonuses of £46,000 last year. The bonuses of up to £13,000 each were an average of 13 per cent of the Altham-based firm's directors' salaries in 1998. Bonuses are paid to directors depending on factors
GARY Willard and his refereeing buddies want to be chauffeured to and from games for safety reasons. Why stop there? I think referees should have help crossing the road, with a choccy reward for their guide dogs when reaching the other side. There should
A SPECIAL school is taking to the waters in style - thanks to fund-raisers. They have raised £23,000 for a hoist for the special school swimming pool, which includes a £5,000 grant from the North West Lady Taverners. The project, at Dame Evelyn Fox Special
PHYSIO Alan Smith is to leave his part-time post with Blackburn Rovers at the end of the season. Smith, who doubles up as England physio, and also looks after his own practice, has worked part-time at Brockhall since November 1995. But Rovers believe
RESIDENTS in Guide battling to stop a huge retail development from swallowing up their village have been told they will have to arrange their holidays to avoid missing D-day. Campaigners in the area had been warned that the Government's North West office
North East Lancs Arthritis Group's Charity Shop, Lord Street West, Blackburn, 10am-4.30pm. Charity Fun Night, Come and Welcome, Clayton-le-Moors, 7.30pm. Disco and line dancing. 70s and 80s Night, Prince of Wales, 12 Newmarket Street, Chorley, 9pm. Blackburn
A MEMORIAL service is being considered for one of East Lancashire's finest cricketers, Cyril Washbrook, who died aged 84 after suffering a stroke. Mr Washbrook, who was born in the Ribble Valley, scored some 35,000 runs and 76 centuries in first-class
VOTERS in East Lancashire gave John Major a clear message: We don't want you or your party. They mirrored the national trend in the district council elections after a campaign fought largely on national issues like the economy and VAT on fuel. Labour
LANCASHIRE'S first Asian county councillor, Conservative Abdul Bhikha, was a paid-up Socialist until eight weeks before his shock victory, it was revealed. Mr Bhikha, 54, of Balaclava Street, Blackburn, was "poached" by the Conservative Party and persuaded
NICK Dougherty has six weeks to brush up on his Japanese after being picked to represent England in the Boys World Team Championship. The 16-year-old Shaw Hill starlet played a starring role when England won the annual event for the first time ever in
PENDLE AC sent a squad of 50 athletes, coaches and officials to the Isle of Man at the weekend to contest the first round of the Northern Women's League and they returned jubilant after achieving a thumping victory over nearest rivals Trafford B by 452
Rossendale United 1 Maine Road 1 DALE completed their North Western Trains League programme with a battling point against mid-table Maine Road. And the future looks bright for the Dark Lane club after manager Micky Graham fielded six teenagers in his
I READ with interest your comment 'Ageism claim must be investigated' (LET, April 19). I welcome your call for a thorough analysis of the services which the NHS provides for older people. Age Concern has long called for an investigation of this kind;
REFERRING to Kosovo on the BBC on April 19, Foreign Secretary Robin Cook asked who made these people refugees and who made them homeless? Then he accused Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic of being responsible, conveniently forgetting that it was he, Bill Clinton
STEPHANE Henchoz has given Brian Kidd and Blackburn Rovers a major boost in the build-up to Saturday's relegation showdown with Nottingham Forest at Ewood. The Swiss defender's troublesome groin injury is at last showing signs of improvement and Henchoz
GRAHAM Branch has been added to Burnley's list of walking wounded and is a doubtful starter for Saturday's final game of the season at relegation-haunted Northampton Town. Branch hurt an ankle in the Clarets safety-clinching win over Fulham and missed
A MAN who admits involvement in a teenager's death told a jury that he was swimming across a lodge when last seen. James Butler, 21, said 18-year-old Sajjad Mahmood was "about half way out" when he and two co-accused walked away from Hagg's Lodge at Accrington
Kantibhai Mistry and his wife Pushpaben were so impressed with a brand of tea given to them by friends visiting from India that they looked into importing it. "I spent six months negotiating with the suppliers in India," explained Kantibhai who runs a
A MAJOR investment has been completed at an engineering firm to complete a triple celebration. Langtec has installed a new CNC lathe at its Altham Business Park premises following an increase in demand from customers and the securing of new orders for
RESIDENTS in Nelson are appealing for help to catch vandals who are wrecking graves and headstones in their local cemetery. Neighbours of Nelson Cemetery are fed up of hooligans destroying the area and have turned to Marsden councillor and leader of Pendle
THERE'S still time to get involved in the great Grimewatch grot spot challenge! We want to hear from you if there is somewhere in Blackburn and Darwen that needs a good clean-up - be it an open patch of land used by flytippers or flower beds that are
