POLICE investigating a series of arson attacks in Stacksteads have appealed for eye-witnesses to come forward. Two cars and a mill were set on fire in the early hours of Sunday. The first fire was in a Ford Mondeo car, registration number R433 HDG, parked
A fan's-eye view from Turf Moor, with Stephen Cummings WITH Newcastle United, the obsession has always been with powerful centre forwards. Liverpool, on the other hand, are passionate about their flamboyant midfielders. And the Highbury crowds' chants
A GRIEVING grandmother who was attacked by muggers wept today as she told how the robbers had deprived her of her final days with her dying father. Pensioner Alice Sumner was mugged on her way home from visiting her sick dad Robert Wilding in Queen's
STAN Ternent today shrugged off speculation linking Glen Little with a move to Sunderland and stressed that the Turf Moor star was a key part of his future plans. The Burnley boss confirmed there had not been a bid for Little from Sunderland, managed
OLD soldier Brin Joynson, who was decorated for bravery during the Second World War and gained a reputation as a champion of ex-servicemen and women, has died. Mr Joynson, 77, of Whitewell Drive, Clitheroe, will be buried on Friday with full Royal British
The Magic of Sinatra, with Andy Prior, at King George's Hall, Blackburn AT a time when every artist seems to have a tribute band doing a 'Stars in Their Eyes' salute, Andy Prior's 'The Magic of Sinatra' was a far more fitting celebration of a legendary
A WORKS syndicate scooped £222,380 on the pools, more than £44,000 each for the five-strong team from AF Preston Farmers, Gisburn. It was the second time the lucky depot staff had won with the same numbers. They picked up £737 two years earlier. Converted
REMEMBER John Major's desperate drive to put "clear blue water" between his party and New Labour, so voters would know who the real Tories were? No wonder it turned out to be a task like that of King Canute trying to stop the tide -- when Labour itself
EVEN though education chiefs in East Lancashire are only at the stage of putting an investigative toe in the water on the question of appointing highly-paid "super teachers" to raise standards in schools, the dinosaur knee-jerk reaction of the teaching
THANK you for printing my letter (Letters October 26) and for clarifying my second paragraph about the radio programme. I would be grateful if you could print a correction of the one small error that crept in. In the quotation from E Cornalls' the word
READING the letter from Miss S J Millington (Letters, October 21) prompted me to write about 'disc parking' in Pendle. When in Pendle, a Pendle Council disc must be displayed. What difference does it make whose council disc is on show? After all, it is
I COULD hardly believe my ears when I heard Jack Straw state that the electorate were too ignorant to be trusted to complete a simple ballot paper in a proportional representation poll. Apparently if presented with a multiple choice we are so thick that
I REFER to the article (LET October 21) regarding the Mental Health Services failing vulnerable children. I have a six-year-old son who has severe behavioural problems. We saw a psychiatrist who assessed him for 10-15 minutes and then told me what he
A TEENAGER was knocked to the ground, robbed and sexually assaulted as she walked along a subway in Burnley. The girl, aged 18, suffered facial injuries when she was attacked by three men in the underpass at Gannow Top between 3.05pm and 3.15pm yesterday
ENTREPRENEUR Angelo DiVito has set up a new venture to help customers find their way through the IT maze. The Burnley businessman has launched IT Search to act as a broker between computer equipment suppliers and the public. "There are so many firms around
INSIGHT: Probing the controversy surrounding stage hypnotism HYPNOTIST Paul McKenna has never been far from controversy in the last year. The entertainer won a high-profile court case brought by a man who claimed he had been left psychologically damaged
A TOP team are the toast of their workmates. Six employees from Whitbread's Shadsworth Distribution Centre received awards under the firm's recognition scheme. The scheme encourages employees to nominate colleagues for achievements at work and a judging
NEW jobs are set to be created with a £400,000 warehouse investment. Holchem Laboratories plan to move into a new building next to their existing Grane Road, Haslingden plant early next year. The firm manufactures specialist detergents and disinfectants
SUDELL County Primary School, Darwen, were first to finish the Treasure Island Trail in our Maths Motivation supplement. Last week we published the first half of their list of pupils who achieved this; the second half appears today. Michael Avanzi, Lauren
ANOTHER East Lancashire bright idea has been named as one of Britain's best. A chemical microscope developed by Blackburn-based Millbroook Instruments has been included in the latest round of Millennium Products. The initiative was set up by the Government
A TEENAGE attacker armed with a knife carried out a vicious sex assault on a 54-year-old woman as she walked along an unlit track in Nelson. The victim, a local woman, was on a path leading to Swinden Hall playing fields at around 5pm yesterday when she
A HARD-hitting school presentation night speech by the acting head of a troubled Brierfield high school demanded "Justice for Mansfield." Trouble-shooter Ms Glynne Ward was brought into Mansfield High School amid senior management suspensions and investigations
TWO campaigners from East Lancashire are working to save an area of rain forest in southern Thailand for a tribe of hunter-gatherers. Jane Lang and Richard Rainsford, through an organisation called Friends of Peoples Close to Nature, hope to buy 17.5
UNION chiefs will tonight hold a mass meeting of members after fears that a newspaper giant is planning to axe 350 jobs. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said details were contained in a leaked memo from Regional Independent Media (RIM) chief executive
A MOTHER of two re-lived her "terror" after she was allegedly raped and punched in the face after being dragged into a back street in the early hours. The woman told how she struggled and screamed as she was attacked by Michael Mountain, a "complete stranger
A VIRTUAL youth club, on-line safe sex advice and drug education messages are among the hi-tech initiatives being planned to help push services for young people into the new Millennium. Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council is launching a series of computer-related
A VIRTUAL youth club, on-line safe sex advice and drug education messages are among the hi-tech initiatives being planned to help push services for young people into the new millennium. Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council is launching a series of computer-related
A fan's-eye view from Ewood Park, with Phil Lloyd NATHAN Blake had better look out. He made a promising start on Saturday in the paddy field masquerading as Selhurst Park, heading straight at the keeper and putting another chance unluckily wide. But if
A MOVE to bring 'superteachers' into local classrooms has sparked angry union calls for a boycott. Education chiefs have written to headteachers throughout Blackburn and Darwen asking if they want Advanced Skills Teachers -- created by the Government
DAMIEN Johnson, on the verge of a full international cap for Northern Ireland, will have to wait for his big international chance after being tipped for an immediate senior call-up. But the 19-year-old midfielder's disappointment will spell good news
Blackburn Rambling Association meet at the Oddfellows Hall (Mind Centre entrance), Regent Street, 8pm. Former Yugoslavia slides. Firework Display and Fairground, Marl Pits, Rawtenstall, 6.30-9pm. Scandinavian Highlights, Woodlands United Reformed Church
BANNER-waving midwives met members of the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Authority when they met at the Queen's Park Hospital. Health bosses were criticised for pay regrading and hospital cutbacks at the stormy meeting packed with health
WHAT happened to Gridlock Friday? I started out in the morning with extra sandwiches, a large flask and spare CDs for on-board sustenance and entertainment, should I get gridlocked, as was widely forecast. Was it a case of the experts getting it wrong
RECENT correspondents, who have expressed concern and criticisms regarding Blackburn with Darwen Council and its representatives for the Wensley Fold and former Bank Top Ward, should note the following facts and sequence of events. A Lancashire County
YOUNG members of the West End Athletic Club are calling for an all-weather pitch for South West Burnley. Burnley Council parks services manager Vincent Gradwell agrees that the Cherryfold fields they currently use are poorly maintained by Lancashire County
DEVELOPERS have pledged to help pay for a new rail station and improved links with Burnley town centre if they get the go-ahead to redevelop the former Prestige site. But advisers have claimed town centre shops could have the life squeezed out of them
DAMIEN Johnson, on the verge of a full international cap for Northern Ireland, will have to wait for his big international chance after being tipped for an immediate senior call-up. But the 19-year-old midfielder's disappointment will spell good news
STAN Ternent today shrugged off speculation linking Glen Little with a move to Sunderland and stressed that the Turf Moor star was a key part of his future plans. The Burnley boss confirmed there had not been a bid for Little from Sunderland, managed
SNOOKER firm Riley is sending 22 tables to Thailand. The Hapton-based firm is official supplier for the Asian Games which are taking placing in the Far East in December. "It is a huge honour for Riley to be appointed as official suppliers of snooker tables
A DIVORCEE died after a ferocious attack launched by her ex-boyfriend from Church, a court heard. Ann Walls, 55, was found lying in a pool of blood at her home in Ainsworth Avenue, Horwich, last December. Manchester Crown Court heard that the blows to
Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter WITHIN hours of clambering aboard the wooden ship, Donna Scholes thought it was doomed to sink. Thunder crashed, lightning streaked across the sky and the 190 foot vessel lurched from side to side as huge waves crashed
AND the maths fun goes on -- in many classrooms around East Lancs, pupils and teachers are discovering how maths is used in real life jobs in the newspaper industry and finding out how to do some of the maths tasks themselves. Our Maths Motivation material
A REQUEST for taxi ranks in Nelson specially for disabled passengers looks set to get the red light from councillors. The owner of a taxi business which uses cars designed for use by disabled people asked Pendle Council to look into providing ranks in
LOU-LOU the St Bernard let somebody else do the rescuing for a change after a stray firework sent her charging into a wrought iron gate. The family pet got stuck after she was startled by a banger which was thrown near the garden at her home in Anchor
IRATE residents are calling on a mobile telephone company to stop turning their green belt landscape Orange. They plan to take action after five wooden electricity poles were erected on moorland close to their homes in Kelvin Street, Darwen, to feed a
