REGARDING the letters about getting into Blackburn town centre, I never use my own vehicle because the cost of parking is ridiculously high. The number of people who travel on their tod is ridiculous when you see the same folk having a meal together -
BURNLEY man Peter Cavaney is asking Home Secretary Jack Straw to untangle red tape so that he can be reunited with his wife and the baby daughter he has not yet seen. Last month, Peter, 69, was overjoyed to hear that his Filipino bride Maria Teresa, 33
Plymouth Argyle 2 Burnley 2 - Tony Dewhurst's big match verdict WELCOME to another Chris Waddle master class from Burnley's magnificent seven. The Turf Moor player-manager turned in a vintage Claret performance in the teeth of a furious Devon gale to
HOW right your Opinion (LET, October 16) was when you urged Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to "call in" Castle Cement's Bellman Quarry application. If our county councillors were daunted by having to make such a momentous decision, who can blame
POLLUTED water was pouring from taps in Ribble Valley homes, Shadow Environment Minister Allan Roberts claimed. The contamination, with traces of "potentially toxic" aluminium, was sufficiently severe for the North West Water Authority to have had to
Morpeth 24pts Blackburn 33 BLACKBURN notched their second victory of the season with an entertaining show in which they always held the advantage. Man of the man Adam Smith was again the hard tackling link between forwards and backs and as pack leader
IT'S boom time in East Lancashire's golden gulch - the Ribble Valley. For a £25 million project to create 1,000 new high-technology jobs there comes on top of startling success by firms like soaraway Time Computers and Ultraframe. But it is not just business
HERE come the clampers and car crushers - waging war from next month on the 37,000 road tax dodgers in Lancashire. The prospect of people losing their cars and being hit with fines of up to £1,000 for lack of a £145 tax disc may seem grim and harsh. Yet
A SCATHING letter has been sent to Wrexham Football Club by a Burnley supporter who says fans are "owed an apology". As reported in Monday's Lancashire Evening Telegraph, angry Clarets fans claimed they were crammed into an over-crowded part of the Wrexham's
ACCOUNTANTS PM&M have proved they practise what they preach! The firm, which recently held a seminar looking at the Millennium computer time bomb problem, has thrown out a number of its older computers. Industry experts forecast chaos at the turn
I AM sorry that my remarks (Letters, October 10) gave offence to Mr E Turner (Letters, October 14) and assure him none was intended. I assumed that the fence was obstructing the footpath from Buncer Lane, Blackburn, and merely sought to point out that
CHRIS Waddle unveiled Burnley's new mean machine and declared: "We are getting stronger every match." Waddle saw Burnley extend their unbeaten Division Two sequence to four matches after last night's battling 2-2 draw at Plymouth Argyle. Burnley's precious
ROAD tax cheats in East Lancashire risk having their cars clamped, towed away and turned into cubes of crushed metal. That is the hard-hitting message from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency which is clamping down, literally, on an estimated 37,000
Accrington Stanley 0 Barrow FC 1 TOP-OF-THE-TABLE Barrow snatched a UniBond Premier win they didn't really deserve against a Stanley side who performed heroically and ended the game with just 10 men at the Crown Ground last night. Both sides started this
SCHOOLCHILDREN are swapping letters with a convicted killer on Death Row. Virgil Brownlee, who has been sentenced to die in the electric chair, is writing from his cell in Alabama to 13-year-old pupils at The Hollins County High School, Accrington. The
Mark Templeton Surfs the Net PEOPLE travelling the information highway can get the upper hand on regular commuters thanks to a great new Internet service. Lancashire County Council is developing a Journey Planner, offering net users the chance to get
BUSINESS chiefs have dubbed the Ribble Valley "boom borough" after the local economy received its third major boost in a week. A £25 million project to create 1,000 new jobs at a former printworks in the area was unveiled yesterday, just days after Time
DETAILS of a £5.7 million Lottery bid to take the Thompson Recreation Centre at Burnley into the next millennium have been unveiled. The scheme is more than £2 million more than the original estimate, partly due to major maintenance work which would,
A HEALTH watchdog leader has called for elderly people to be kept out of hospital in a bid to improve care for old folk. Nigel Robinson, chief officer of Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Community Health Council, said more resources should be ploughed
FRAUDSTERS had conned £63 million out of North West business bosses and investors, putting the region third in a nationwide league of shame. The number of large scale frauds had doubled over the previous five years in Britain. The crooks who fleeced fortunes
I AM trying to contact my old friend, Jim Taylor. He was a National Service person between 1956-1958 with the Royal Engineers, and spent most of his service with a TA unit in Norwich. I know he came from the Blackburn area. If anybody knows of him, could
DESPERATE to avoid another winter crisis, the government has injected nearly £300million extra into the NHS for more hospital beds. But the real problem is not a need for extra beds. Rather it is that of getting rid of the elderly "bed blockers" who are
HEALTH chiefs in East Lancashire have given air quality in Clitheroe a second clean bill of health. Director of public health Dr Steve Morton has told the Environment Agency that in his opinion air quality in the town is typical of East Lancashire. The
WOMEN at high risk of breast cancer in East Lancashire have been urged to join in Britain's only clinical trial aimed at preventing the killer disease. Experts today admitted that the international study to investigate whether the drug tamoxifen can prevent
COLIN Hendry believes the key to this season's championship chase will rest on the battles between the big guns who are setting the pace. And Blackburn Rovers face one of the contenders at St James's Park on Saturday, with manager Roy Hodgson making the
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy ALL naturalists will be pleased that four men found guilty of killing a badger were convicted with the help of DNA testing. This has opened up a new opportunity to stamp out the activity of badger baiting. First a badger
A NATIONAL sportswear chain is to open a new store in Accrington creating seven new jobs. Allsports, an independent retailer of sportswear and equipment, will be opening their doors in the Arndale shopping centre on Wednesday, October 29. Staff have already
A FORMER professional footballer and amateur boxer from Darwen has died, aged 77. Walter Marvin, originally from Derby, played amateur football for Newport County before signing as a professional with Accrington Stanley in 1946. The centre-forward had
A DEVASTATED horse owner is offering a reward after her animals were mutilated for the third time. Mrs Carol Pearson was horrified when she discovered that two Shetland ponies belonging to her children and another horse belonging to a friend had had their
A BID for £12 million worth of investment to tackle youth unemployment has got past its first hurdle. The application by Pendle will now be polished up and re-submitted to the Government for the second stage of the process. It was one of only three in
A POLICE crackdown on known criminals has brought down crime levels in Hyndburn. Crime is down by 16 per cent in the borough compared to a 10 per cent overall drop in the rest of the eastern division which covers Hyndburn, Blackburn, Darwen and Ribble
The John Blunt column AT LAST, someone has taken up my suggestion about stopping the rot in our education system at the hands of the increasingly-discredited GCSE and A-level examinations which ever-rising numbers of pupils pass each year. For I see that
READERS may remember your article (LET, April 3) about a row between Blackburn Council and Byrom Supplies. Taking into account these additional facts, they may decide that an injustice has been done to a respectable local trader. Byrom Supplies are a
SUCCESS past, present and future was celebrated by the head of a Pendle high school at its annual prize-giving last night. Peter Donnelly, head of Fisher-More RC High School, Colne, marked the achievements of pupils who left in the summer and looked forward
A CONVICTED murderer jailed for life for his part in the brutal killing of a young nightclubber has married his long-time girlfriend in prison. Tony Aspinall, 25, is one of three men behind bars for the savage slaying of 22-year-old Kevin Sudall. His
A FILTRATION firm switched on to success an energy award scheme. Scapa Filtration (Europe), based at Haslingden, reached the finals of this year's Norweb Business Energy Awards. The awards, organised through Norweb's EMTEC test and demonstration centre
