SHAREHOLDERS of First Choice Holidays are this week expected to reject a merger offer from Kuoni - boosting Rossendale-based Airtours' chances of becoming the biggest tour operator in the country. Significant numbers of First Choice's major investors
ARMY veterans from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment joined forces to honour those who died in the First World War's bloodiest battle. The veterans and members of the regiment paraded through Blackburn town centre to mark the Somme anniversary. Army Cadets
BLACKBURN Rovers have accepted an offer of around £10 million from Chelsea for unsettled Ewood striker Chris Sutton. The clubs agreed the deal over the weekend and it comes within range of what Rovers had insisted they would demand once Su1tton had triggered
Blackburn Breast Care Support Group meet Beardwood Hospital, Preston New Road, Blackburn, 7pm-9pm. Summer Party Night. BARSA Better Driving Courses, Blackburn Northern Sports Club, Pleckgate Road, Blackburn, 8pm. Week Five: Skidding - causes, presention
BLACKBURN Mayor Coun Bill Taylor urged people to get out and give Prince Charles a rousing Northern welcome on his route through Blackburn and Darwen. The Prince was on a whistle-stop tour of Lancashire and spent almost two hours in Blackburn and Darwen
DARWEN restored their 12-point lead at the top of the Northern League with a comfortable five wicket victory at Kendal as nearest challengers St Annes lost at Fleetwood. Batting first, Kendal lost half their side for only 44 as Darwen's bowlers totally
DAV Whatmore was to discover his future as Lancashire coach today. The committee were due to meet at Old Trafford late this afternoon to decide when to release Whatmore to return to Sri Lanka. Whatmore wants to stay for the rest of the season to help
I COULD hardly believe the story (LET, June 25) of the poor beggar locked up for two days. For want of a better pun, 'it beggars belief.' Let's face it, if we added up the cost of the magistrate, prosecutor, defender, arresting officers and two days'
DANNY Kegg's heroics limited the damage of Nelson's defeat to Haslingden but couldn't stop East Lancashire deposing them at the top of the EW Cartons Lancashire League. Nelson fell 13 runs short of their revised target of 148 as Michael Bromley took five
A STRUGGLING Burnley primary school has been put under special measures, after inspectors handed out a caning to governors and teaching chiefs. The Ofsted report found Coal Clough school's weaknesses outweighed its strengths, that it provided a poor ethos
PAUL COOK admitted it doesn't get better than this after confirming his place in Burnley's plans for the new season. Cook's protracted transfer from First Division Stockport County was finally completed in time for him to start pre-season training with
TWO new recruits have started term at a school partnership project. Beryl Martin and Jennifer Aspden have signed the register at the School Friends project run under the umbrella of Blackburn Partnership and sponsored by Wolstenholme International. Beryl
A STRATEGY to help take East Lancashire's economy into the new millennium has been launched. The North West Regional Development Agency has published its vision of the future for the whole region over the coming 20 years. And East Lancashire firms and
MASKED gunmen terrified three couples when they stormed into a popular Darwen club late on Saturday night. Five men wearing balaclavas and brandishing a sawn-off shotgun escaped with £800 after raiding Darwen's Subscription Bowling Club. Club steward
DETECTIVES today launched a murder style inquiry after a man died from savage head injuries. Police were called to a rented house in Higher Antley Street, Accrington, shortly after midnight and found the badly injured man lying unconscious inside. The
A 71-YEAR-OLD woman "skewered" her leg on an 18-inch metal spike in a horror accident as she her tried to step over a small garden fence to visit her neighbour. Norma Courtier, of Todmorden Road, Burnley, was walking over the two foot high plastic fence
ONE man was thrown out of a car and another cut free by firefighters after the vehicle hit a wall and overturned on a country road outside Earby. Driver Christopher Greenwood, 23, of Barnwood Road, Earby, was released from the Volkswagen Golf GTi which
POLICE are hunting a bogus charity collector who swindled a school out of more than £200 it had collected for Kosovar refugees. The conman took the money after approaching the Blackburn school, claiming to be from the charity Islamic Relief. The headteacher
A MAJOR expansion programme creating 500 new computer jobs in East Lancashire's 'Silicon Valley' has been unveiled. Granville Technology - the firm behind Time Computers - is looking to take on the new staff at its Simonstone headquarters by the end of
PAUL COOK admitted it doesn't get better than this after confirming his place in Burnley's plans for the new season. Cook's protracted transfer from First Division Stockport County was finally completed in time for him to start pre-season training with
THE father of Paul Wells, kidnapped in Kashmir four years ago, today made a plea for peace in the war-torn region. Bob Wells believes that until the political situation in Kashmir is resolved, he will not find out what happened to his son and his fellow
NEIL Simpson made British Rally Championship history by becoming the first driver to finish in the top ten with a diesel-engined car. Simpson, from Colne, and new co-driver Michael Gibson brought their Volkswagen Golf TDi home in ninth place on the Jim
THE first day of a controversial new system of car parking charges at Blackburn hospitals ended with claims of chaos. Visitors faced a 50p charge at Queen's Park Hospital and the Royal Infirmary and it was thought some senior doctors were simply refusing
OUTSTANDING individual performances with both bat and ball brought Chorley important successes in two of the three matches they contested over the weekend. Superb bowling by paceman Iqbal Patel, who took 8-51, set up a 12 points Northern League victory
PADIHAM swept Settle aside and raced to within one point of leaders Cherry Tree at the top of the Jennings Ribblesdale League. The Arbories club boasted a total of 213-8 and bowled Settle out for just 96. Leaders Cherry Tree had a frustrating day when
BIG-MATCH players need a big-match stage, they say. And the Old Trafford floodlights, which attracted a crowd of 8,003 for Saturday's CGU National League game against Essex Eagles, certainly brought the best out of Lancashire's World Cup trio. Ian Austin
ALL kinds of sacrifice and compromise - not least the freeing of terrorist killers from jail - have accompanied the Ulster peace process on the tortuous path to its cliffhanging juncture of today. But, though it may eventually only amount to a footnote
Dewsbury Rams 34pts, Lancashire Lynx 27 FOR the second week running Lancashire Lynx found themselves on the end of a narrow defeat in pulsating encounter at The Rams Stadium. Despite going 14 points down in the first 17 minutes, Lynx hit back to lead
SKIPPER Phil Mercer and professional Claude Henderson butchered the Enfield attack at Alexandra Meadows to lead holders East Lancs to a second successive Worsley Cup final appearance. And it will be a repeat of last summer's showdown against Colne. But
BEWARE - petrol pump meter readings are evidently not reliable. Previously, I took them for granted and did not watch constantly as the digits were spinning, but only at the approach of the amount required. Recently, this was to be £10-worth, but as I
FROM time to time, we read reports in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph as to what a well run local authority Blackburn is and how the controlling party should be praised for all of their efforts This is inevitably followed by a round of 'crowing' from
MAY I express my and other people's feelings on the article in the Accrington edition which described the drinking and drugs in Huncoat (LET, June 22)? We know about Huncoat being one of the crime hot spots, but you didn't write the facts - you just criticised
AS we approach the fourth anniversary of my son Paul's kidnap and subsequent murder, it fills me with great sadness to learn of the escalation of the violence in Kashmir. Paul was taken captive by militant separatists on July 4, 1995, and despite extensive
A 71-YEAR-OLD woman "skewered" her leg on an 18-inch metal spike in a horror accident as she her tried to step over a small garden fence to visit her neighbour. Norma Courtier, of Todmorden Road, Burnley, was walking over the two foot high plastic fence
BLACKBURN Rovers have accepted an offer of around £10 million from Chelsea for unsettled Ewood striker Chris Sutton. The clubs agreed the deal over the weekend and it comes within range of what Rovers had insisted they would demand once Su1tton had triggered
A NEW business directory hasn't got a "dark satanic mill" in sight! Company boss Simon Moyle helped launch the latest Hyndburn Business Directory and said it was a fitting tribute to the local business community. "It puts to rest the preconception of
A FORUM has been launched to set up a dialogue between businesses and councillors. The Lancashire Business Forum has been established by Lancashire County Council ahead of a major shake-up. "Local government is facing major changes which will have a dramatic
DETECTIVES today launched a murder style inquiry after a man died from savage head injuries. Police were called to a rented house in Higher Antley Street, Accrington, shortly after midnight and found the badly injured man lying unconscious inside. The
Eric Leaver on a humble refreshment point in Blackburn town centre SURROUNDED by scaffolding and demolition as the revamp of the town's 113-year-old railway station goes on, spared from being uprooted in the upheaval is the much-loved Blackburn institution
UNDERLAY manufacturer Duralay is working on new products which can be made from old car tyres -helping to make playgrounds and cowsheds safer! The Haslingden-based firm currently uses rubber crumb from three million used car tyres a year to produce underlay
