IT is now reported that the cost of building the Millennium Dome will be £1 billion instead of £758 million. And it appears that the Dome will not be completed until a year after the Millennium. In my opinion, the project should be scrapped and the money
THREE men who say they suffered a catalogue of abuse at the hands of military officers are relaunching their racial discrimination claim against the Army. New regulations introduced this month will allow soldiers who suffer alleged racial abuse to take
A £25 MILLION project to create 1,000 new jobs at a former printworks in the Ribble Valley was unveiled today. The Ribble Valley Business Park is a joint ventue between Pilot Properties and Enterprise plc at the former Barrow printworks near Clitheroe
Plymouth Argyle v Burnley - Peter White's big match preview CHRIS Waddle will be glad to have men like Gerry Harrison around him in the eerie surroundings of Home Park tonight when Burnley take on crisis club Plymouth Argyle in a Second Division basement
A SHADOW is still hanging over 400 jobs linked to specialist education for pupils from ethnic minorities in Lancashire. The Government announced earlier this month that £42 million worth of funding for education for Asian pupils is to be extended for
UNION bosses at Blackburn brewery Matthew Brown feared jobs could be lost whoever won the bitter takeover battle with Scottish and Newcastle. Alex Turner, chairman of the shop stewards committee, said: "We've got to maintain an interest in jobs, whether
MIKE WATKINSON has quit as captain of Lancashire. He informed the club's Cricket Committee of his decision and Pakistan all-rounder Wasim Akram is already favourite to take over. Watkinson, 36, said: "I feel the time is right for a change and it will
I AM an education volunteer for Blackpool Zoo and am writing a book on its history. I would be grateful if readers can help with my request for stories, anecdotes, photographs and old brochures connected with the zoo. PETER BANKS, 19 Devonshire Drive,
THE REPORT into Britain's biggest cervical cancer smear test scare, in which more than 91,000 women had to be recalled for screening and 1,800 were discovered to have been wrongly given the all-clear, could hardly be more damning. It found that the service
HI, I'm Stacey Brandwood, a year 8 pupil at Pleckgate High School, Blackburn. My hobbies are swimming, reading and art and design. I have always enjoyed drawing and colouring from an early age, and love to enter art competitions, including those in the
POLICE and fire officers believe an arsonist could have started a blaze which forced a mother and child to flee their Darwen home last night. Janet Page, 33, and her 10-year-old son Lee James Jackson escaped from their home in Meadow Gate after the fire
EVER fancied piloting a sledge down an ice track at speeds of more than 80 mph? Aerospace bosses in East Lancashire are looking for a brave soul to join a trip of a lifetime and win the chance to compete for Britain. Last year, Eifion Salisbury from Blackburn
A FILTER firm's latest contract is to protect the Knights of the Round Table. Interfilta of Burnley is supplying air filters to the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds to help protect exhibits. Previous news story Converted for the new archive on 14 July
WE are appalled that Pendle Council may charge or fine people who continually leave rubbish in back streets. If you leave your rubbish in the yard, it will not be collected by the bin men. You have to leave your rubbish bags in the back street on the
ROY Hodgson is grooming his young pups to help Blackburn Rovers re-establish themselves among the Premiership's top dogs. The Rovers boss, still looking to strengthen his squad, stressed that the emergence of young home-grown players such as Damien Duff
AN angry second-hand car salesman is appealing for help to identify the vandal who caused more than £1,000 worth of damage. Paul McKenna caught the culprit on camera on his wrecking spree at Alliance Car Sales, Manchester Road, Baxenden. Wing mirrors
FIRMS in East Lancashire must get ready to use to the 'euro' even if Britain doesn't join the Single Currency for several years, a Euro MP has warned. And Mark Hendrick, member for Lancashire Central, said that the long term effects of the single currency
OVER the past few months, you have published numerous letters concerning traffic calming in Hyndburn and the part Coun George Slynn has played in these measures. Well, I believe the long-suffering travelling public of Hyndburn could be in for a rest from
THE rush for Madonna's latest outburst of sleaze seemed to have gone almost unnoticed in Blackburn. National news bulletins showed snaking queues outside respectable bookshops in anticipation of her volume, Sex. But in Blackburn there was more interest
SHENA Brigg has taken over from her boss! Shena, a legal executive with Blackburn law firm Walker Hargreaves, is now teaching legal students at Preston College. She was asked to take on the lecturing post when partner at her firm, Damian Baron, gave up
OF ALL the untold anguish that has been endured by the families of the Kashmir hostages, there now comes the worry of having to beg. For as Bob Wells, the father of Blackburn student Paul Wells, who was taken captive in July, 1995, prepares to travel
TOWN hall services are facing cuts of £7 million during the first year of independence for Blackburn with Darwen Council. Leaders at Blackburn town hall are warning they will have to make savings if they are to balance their budgets in the first year
CHRIS Waddle called on his Burnley players to toughen up as they prepare for tonight's game against Plymouth Argyle at Home Park. The clarets know that victory will lift them off the bottom of the Second Division table for the first time this season.
A CEMENTING of links between schools and the construction industry has brought a top award to East Lancashire. A project organised by the Construction Curriculum Centre at East Lancashire Education Business Partnerships saw three schools win certificates
ENOUGH is enough! I refer to the second parking survey for Brookhouse which Blackburn with Darwen Council say was inconclusive. Well, to me, if only a quarter of the residents bothered to reply to the thousand questionnaires that seems to be conclusive
Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter ROSEMARY Davies' life could well have been saved by a Government programme. A hidden enemy working secretly to bring her down was discovered when she was called for a cancer-spotting screening at a local clinic. When
PRISONERS are human beings too and as much in God's image as anyone else, says the Bishop of Burnley, the Rt Rev Martyn Jarrett. Justice, he adds, is not the same as revenge and those justly sent to prison do so as a punishment, not to be further punished
