KIM Rostron could gain selection for England for the match against Spain next week. The 21-year-old Clitheroe player has broken onto the national scene with a series of excellent performances this season. A place on the Spanish trip would prove the icing
AS the Labour Party conference got down to discussing law and order issues under the quaint heading of "democratic renewal" the reaction of an East Lancashire crime victim spoke volumes. A Blackburn shopkeeper, who had all his grocery stock ruined by
ROVERS have been handed a tricky trip to Watford as reward for their aggregate 5-2 win over Swindon. And delighted Watford manager Glenn Roeder said the draw was a dream tie for the First Division club. "It is a brilliant draw and one with so many ingredients
ADAM Reed is finding it hard to entice any of his Blackburn Rovers' team-mates to stake a wager on their golf battles, BRIAN DOOGAN reports. Despite repeated declarations that his swing resembles the arc of a square wheel and that a calculator is required
RIOTS, Acid House parties, New Age travellers and the country's most famous motorway protest would be more than enough for any police officer to deal with in their whole career. For Chief Superintendent Tony Ellwood it has been just part of his nine years
YOU start to wonder if opposition teams return to the Ewood dressing rooms to find a visiting card. Commiserations, you've just been Shearer-ed! The man who so often lifts an everyday game onto a higher level through the sheer quality of his finishing
ALMOST 500 would-be tenants flocked to Blackburn Council when applications were invited for "low demand" estates - but no-one wanted to go to Roman Road, Blackburn. There were 474 replies to the council's newspaper advertisements, leading to 147 formal
A FURIOUS publican claimed his business was ruined when workers dug up the road outside his premises, sealing off the customer car park. Mr Glen Reid, licensee at the Park Gate Inn, Copster Green, was astonished as work to build speed ramps began on the
LARS Bohinen was set to complete his cut-price £700,000 move from Nottingham Forest to Blackburn Rovers today - and believes he is joining a club still capable of retaining the championship! The Norwegian midfield ace, who would be worth three or four
"IF WE had found cancer in just one woman, that would still have been brilliant." As it is, deadly tumours were found in 156 East Lancashire women during the first three years of the Breast Cancer Screening Programme. Without the service, aimed at detecting
A TOP-LEVEL investigation has been launched into why one in eight patients fail to turn up for their hospital appointments. More than 13 per cent of patients in the North West fail to keep their appointments, the second worst record in the country. And
THIRD Division Bury are tracking Turf Moor fans' favourite Adrian Heath. I understand the Gigg Lane outfit have approached Burnley in a bid to lure Heath away with the firm offer of a player/coach post. New Bury manager Stan Ternent is an admirer of the
