MATTHEW Brown's share price rocketed as speculation surrounding the Scottish and Newcastle takeover bid reached fever pitch. After weeks of stock market dithering, with limited movements in the shares of both companies, the Matthew Brown price spurted
AFTER watching the TV programme "Watchdog" where Barratt had built on land which has been used for tipping, I would like to know how the company obtained permission from the council to build these houses where there is the danger of methane gas. Converted
MORE than1,000 people were stopped and interviewed in one of the biggest ever murder inquiry police reconstructions last night. Locals and people passing through Hebden Bridge were questioned by 150 uniformed officers, special constabulary officers and
IN A CLIMATE of equal opportunities, where often both parents hold down jobs, nannies have never been more popular. The demand is increasing every year. But the problem for parents is not desiding to employ a helper but finding the right one. Joyful Maria
UNION officials were due to meet bosses at a doomed textile mill today. Officers from the GMB and other unions were holding talks with Bairdtex managing director Michael Boyes about the firm's decision to close the Trawden factory with the loss of 130
WE ARE approaching the centenary of Darwen's Victoria Tower, the beacon the boys and girls looked for coming home from the wars. Higher than the Eiffel Tower and Blackpool Tower put together, on a clear day it is possible to see from it as far as the
CLITHEROE's unbeaten home run in the league was broken last night by a determined Burscough side. But it was the Blues who got the early breakthrough when a long ball from Andy Taylor found Jon Riley. He rounded the keeper, his crossing finding Dean Stone
GRAHAM Fenton breathed a sigh of relief and admitted: "Thank goodness it's all over and I can get on with the football." Blackburn Rovers' latest major signing had seen his £1,450,000 transfer from Aston Villa drag on for days. But it was finally signed
WILDLIFE in an area the size of Blackburn will be damaged by road building programmes in the North West, conservation groups claimed today. Lancashire Wildlife Trust has joined forces with trusts in Cumbria and Cheshire to produce the "Head on Collision
A YOUNG father who squeezed his seven-week-old baby son to death when he would not stop crying has been jailed for five years. Andrew Parry, 23, placed both his hands around the abdomen of young Andrew Mottershaw and squeezed so hard for a number of seconds
RAY Harford enjoys a day's racing from time to time. And if the Blackburn Rovers boss believes in horses for courses, he must be giving serious consideration to reforming the SAS at Newcastle tomorrow night. It has been a continuing quandary for the manager
JOHN Blunt, in his diatribe (LET, October 25), thinks the middle classes will be bribed in the next budget by a scheme "for old people living in private residential homes to have their nursing fees paid by the state." He complains that this will avoid
A ROW erupted over plans to use Asian street names in a new £2 million housing development. Bradford and Northern Housing Association decided to introduce the idea at its rented housing scheme in the Ormerod Street area of Accrington. Some of the 48 homes
RIBBLE Valley MP Nigel Evans was under fire today for voting against the disclosure of MPs outside earnings. The Tory backbencher voted with the government line and against making the figures public as a rebellion by 23 of his colleagues humiliated Prime
THE government's decision not to accept the Nolan report recommendation for MPs to disclose their earnings will be a matter of great disappointment to many Conservative voters. I think that it is worth reminding all MPs of the old saying "Ask not what
IN response to C Bakewell's accolade to Labour-controlled Blackburn Council's Operations Department (Letters, October 30), its "creditable" results may not be what they purport to be. First, one should take into account that one is commencing with a given
IF EVER there prizes for an unlikely alliance, Labour's Gordon Prentice and Tory Nigel Evans would certainly be in the running for a mention. The MPs for Pendle and Ribble Valley for once agree on something - that Britain is reaping a bitter harvest from
THE GOVERNMENT'S defeat last night over the vital and highly sensitive issue of sleaze was a victory for commonsense. Prime Minister John Major and his Tory top men failed to quell a rebellion of 20 backbenchers who saw the light and agreed that anything
SCOTT Sellars could be poised for a dramatic comeback for Newcastle United, against his old club Blackburn Rovers on Tyneside tomorrow night. And Billy McKinlay might celebrate another Scotland call-up by being handed his first senior start in a Rovers
SHELLSHOCKED Burnley could ring the changes for tonight's Auto Windscreens Shield tie against Chester City at Turf Moor. With the Clarets requiring a draw to reach the second round of the competition, manager Jimmy Mullen was considering the option of
