A YOUNG family whose home was burgled as they slept upstairs were today reassured that a stolen passport would be replaced in time for their summer holiday - thanks to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. Home Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw has given
HISTORY and science will be brought alive in classrooms across East Lancashire if a county council bid for government cash is successful. The council has put in a £16,000 bid for a project to link the county's museum service with schools via the literacy
A PIONEERING project aimed at cutting hoax 999 calls to the fire service has been praised by firefighters. New figures show that the number of hoax calls made to the fire service in Blackburn has fallen by nearly a quarter over the last year. And the
A 23-YEAR-OLD engineer was arrested by police just moments before he was going to experiment with cocaine for the first time. Blackburn magistrates heard that Christopher Michael Pleet was now relieved by the police intervention, having learned that the
JACK Walker's unswerving commitment to Blackburn Rovers has persuaded an East Lancashire businessman to stay loyal to the Ewood cause. And now Philip Lamb, company secretary at Blackburn Chemicals, is urging other local businesses to follow his lead and
Peter White on the end of an era after Chris Sutton quits Ewood THE last lingering evidence of the SAS occupation of Ewood Park disappeared this week when Chris Sutton opted for the exit door three years after it had opened for his partner-in-goals Alan
FORMER Burnley and England midfielder Gordon Cowans believes the Clarets have pulled off a smart bit of business in snapping up young Aston Villa striker Alan Lee. Burnley boss Stan Ternent swiftly wrapped up a "six-figure" deal for the 20-year-old forward
"Lancashire and the Second Civil War" lecture, Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham, 7.30pm. Royal British Legion meet Catholic Club, Wellington Fold, Darwen, 7.30pm. "Run For Your Wife," Empire Theatre, Bacup, 7.30pm. Livesey WI meet Livesey Parish Community Hall
THE incoming president of the Rotary Club of Ribblesdale received his chain of office during a ceremony at the Moorcock Inn, Waddington. Norman Cowell said the aim of his presidency would be to continue raising money for local charities and worthy causes
A DEPUTY mayor stormed out of a meeting as councillors considered stripping him of office in a row over maintenance work. Coun John McGowan, Clitheroe mayor for two years until May, has now quit the town council's ruling Liberal Democrat group. Coun McGowan
GLEN Chapple was ruled out of Lancashire's NatWest Trophy fourth round tie against Hampshire at Southampton today. Chapple suffered a hand injury trying to stop a fierce drive from former team mate Ronnie Irani during Saturday's National League victory
JUON Ji Ju-Jitsu Club recently held their latest student gradings in which students from all Kuon Ji clubs in the area gathered at the Parish School, Great Harwood. There are three grading days held each year, and at this particular one there were over
THE GO-AHEAD for a single-site, super hospital at Queen's Park, Blackburn, is great news for the whole region - even though it signals the demise of the town's 133-year-old Royal Infirmary. For although, serving countless thousands over the generations
RESULTS - Division One: Brinscall 161-7 (S Critchley 59, L Winstanley 44, R Woodcock 5-43), Withnell 98-8 (R Woodcock 31, E Anderson 5-29); Chorley St James 204-2 dec (G Bhatt 108no, A Moor 37no), Hoghton 179-7 (J Brunt 44, Darren Eccles 34, N Greenwood
I AM happy to report that the residents in the Ribblesdale Place area are winning the battle to get our area improved after years of neglect. We received notice this week that the plans for four lovely houses had been passed for one piece of land and
ST Phillip's produced the surprise result of the weekend by handing B Division leaders Taverners B their first defeat of the season in one of only two matches played in Saturday's Accrington and District League programme. The early morning downpour had
FURTHER to my comments regarding the British Board of Film Censors, it is amusing to note that as an added precaution, to protect the vulnerable morals and nervous systems of Blackburnians, the town council introduced its own censorship via the deemed
MORE than 1,000 pairs of special protection spectacles are being shipped to Ivy Bank High School, Burnley, so that pupils can watch the eclipse of the sun on Wednesday, August 11. Aero Industrial Technology has helped foot the bill for the spectacles.
THE generation gap is no obstacle to Burnley schoolgirl Emma Jayne Lumsden and her grandad Alf Rackham - in fact they make the perfect team. Emma, 14, a pupil at Walshaw High School, Burnley, and Alf, 67, a retired engineer from Thursfield Road, Burnley
DEVOTED Clarets fan Phil Martin can't wait to get rid of his car after letting bitter football rivalry get the better of him. Phil has finally turned his back on his pride and joy Vauxhall Cavalier - because its registration ends in the letters 'PNE'.
DATE rape sex fiend Philip Tonks was today beginning an eight-year jail sentence after violently attacking a woman in her home after they had gone out for a meal. The 44-year-old road worker, of Spencer Street, Burnley, was convicted of three rapes and
A TOWN hall has been given seven days to come up with clean up plans for rubbish strewn gardens on a council estate - or face court action from one of its own councillors! Burnley Liberal Democrat leader Gordon Birtwistle says he will serve the council
COUNCIL house tenants who do not pay on time are continuing to cause problems for housing chiefs in Hyndburn, who are owed more than half a million pounds. Last year, Hyndburn Council was owed £247,288 by their current tenants, and the authority had aimed
TROUBLED Colin Hendry has hinted that he could be on his way out of Ibrox once he has recovered from summer surgery on a groin injury. But the former Blackburn Rovers stalwart, whose Rangers career has been plunged into limbo, will not find a solution
CONFIDENCE is still rising among the region's service companies with hopes of a strong rise in business this summer, according to the Confederation of British Industry's quarterly survey of service sector companies published today. Sudhir Junankar, the
A GROUP of Pendle dentists met Health Minister John Denham today to discuss imminent government proposals on the future of the profession and problems in the distribution of new cash for NHS practices. The delegation - which includes East Lancashire Health
The opinions of John Blunt are not necessarily those of this newspaper PUTTING aside, with a weary sigh, the fact that a couple might nowadays see no shame in getting married after the birth of their son, were not the nuptials at this cart-before-the-horse
PUBLIC art created by local residents and schoolchildren was opened in Victoria Park, Haslingden by Rossendale Mayor Coun Alan Neal. Mosaics and metal art pieces represent the past, present and future of the town's industrial backbone. The permanent exhibition
AN angry nurse who faces a bill of more than £100 after T-shirts were stolen from a hospital ward today urged bosses to tighten security. Staff nurse Kathleen Boardman, who works nights at Blackburn Royal Infirmary, is furious that two youths were able
BUSINESSES and residents were today counting the cost and preparing insurance claims after flash floods caused a Rossendale river to burst its banks. Yesterday,firefighters and workers from Rossendale Council spent the day helping residents clean up the
TONY BLAIR today personally gave the go ahead to a £60.5 million modernisation of East Lancashire's health services which will see the long-awaited centralisation of Blackburn's main hospitals on the Queen's Park site. The Prime Minister announced that
ASTON Villa boss John Gregory today played down reports that he was about to sell Riccardo Scimeca to Blackburn Rovers. Gregory insisted there had not been any approach for the 24-year-old defender. But Rovers boss Brian Kidd is known to have quite a
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to restore the traditional Lancashire fear the red rose county could be wiped from the map altogether in the new millennium. The Friends of Real Lancashire, fighting to return places like Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Southport and
A PANIC-STRICKEN bus driver has spoken of his terror as he watched a colleague being crushed to death on an official picket line. Alan Bednall broke down in tears as he told an inquest into the death of Frank Dean that the tragic driver was crushed against
Exclusive, by Prime Minister Tony Blair THIS new Labour government was elected to renew and modernise our National Health Service. And today, I am proud that we can demonstrate that is exactly what we are doing in Blackburn. I am delighted to give the
TROUBLED Colin Hendry has hinted that he could be on his way out of Ibrox once he has recovered from summer surgery on a groin injury. But the former Blackburn Rovers stalwart, whose Rangers career has been plunged into limbo, will not find a solution
HIGH school pupils in Blackburn's City Challenge area were to get extra help with their studies at new out of school homework centres. The innovative scheme, funded by City Challenge and Lancashire County Council, provided two centres for 11 to 16 year
THOUSANDS of homes were left without power and scores of roads flooded as a violent summer storm lashed East Lancashire. Torrential rain and lightning kept emergency services at full stretch as switchboards were jammed with calls from worried householders
THE Jennings Ribblesdale Cricket League take on Bolton Cricket League at Astley Bridge CC on Sunday in the Manchester Evening News Inter League Trophy. Team: Michael Scothern (Barnoldswick), Terry Little (Read), Gary Bolton (Cherry Tree), Ian Scothern
HAVING seen the EU carve Britain up into regions with the government's own plans for greater regional government, campaigners for the "real" Lancashire fear the Red Rose county could disappear from the map. They are afraid that Lancashire's sovereignty
A HEAVILY reinforced Attock team won through to the quarter finals of the Hyndburn Mayoral Challenge on Wednesday, beating host club Accrington A by 54 runs. Batting first, Accrington and District League leaders Attock hit 108-4 in their allotted 10 overs
WHAT a lot of fuss is being made of the sculpture of the naked figure being erected by the M65 near Blackburn. Whether we like it or not, presumably it is art. It will cause many to smile or snigger, others may take offence. What planet have they come
YOU see them here, you see them there, you see them nearly everywhere - the phonies. Strutting and fretting across the streets of our towns, making the thoroughfares a veritable stage, I'm sure that they are only talking to themselves on their mobiles
CLITHEROE skipper Phil Bishop believes his team have the potential to be in the Jennings Ribblesdale League shake-up come the end of the season. At the halfway stage, Clitheroe stand a relatively-modest sixth but they are only 11 points behind leaders
I WROTE to you on June 6 on the subject of gender dysphoria in an effort to bring to your readers' attention the many injustices that sufferers of this now widely recognised medical condition are routinely subjected to. Following an interview with one
THE headline in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph (June 16) was 'Police Calm Storm.' My reaction was one of joy, at last we can control the weather. But it was about some people who disagreed with the answer to a question they had asked and disrupted a
FORMER Burnley and England midfielder Gordon Cowans believes the Clarets have pulled off a smart bit of business in snapping up young Aston Villa striker Alan Lee. Burnley boss Stan Ternent swiftly wrapped up a "six-figure" deal for the 20-year-old forward
THERE'S nothing fishy about the new manager of an Accrington aquarium. Steve Wrightson, 46, has been hooked on pondlife since an early age and is now dishing out advice to customers at Barlow's Aquatic Trading, Scaitcliffe Street. Rawtenstall-based Steve
A TEENAGER pleaded guilty to stealing a car when he appeared before Hyndburn Magistrates. But the 15-year-old from Accrington is still awaiting his fate after the bench adjourned the case so they could have more information. The youth pleaded guilty to
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy THOSE of us who live the countryside have the occasional sighting that we remember for the rest of our lives. A friend of mine rang me just as it was getting dark and invited me to his private little woodland somewhere in
A NEW managing director has been appointed at Burnley-based Northern Textiles. Mark Richard was previously joint managing director of Clayton-le-Moors based Karrimor. He takes over the helm at the pillow and quilt manufacturer from founder Bill Gleave
INSIGHT THE dream of having a single site state-of-the-art hospital in Blackburn is today one step closer to reality after government ministers rubber-stamped the plans for a "super hospital" at Queen's Park. Health bosses have been talking about the
MORE than 60,000 company bosses in the North West have been involved with a failed company, according to a survey out today. And more than 19,000 have been part of more than one company collapse. Now there are calls for greater protection from dishonest
PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice has called for the government to introduce legislation to protect the countryside and wildlife. Mr Prentice today asked Environment Minister Michael Meacher to fulfil his promise to act on the issue. The MP, who led the campaign
FIRST-time parents Andy and Billiejo Hirst had their happy day marred when thieves stole their L-registered Vauxhall Corsa from outside the hospital. The couple, of Romney Street, Nelson, attended Burnley General Hospital so Billiejo could be induced
YOUNG children living on the breadline in Darwen are to benefit from a cash grant of up to £1million per year in a bid to give them a better start in life. Education Secretary David Blunkett has chosen Blackburn with Darwen Council's bid for cash for
