WHAT has been a disastrous UEFA Champions' League campaign for Blackburn Rovers in terms of results, last night turned into a disgrace. I'm sorry but there is no other word for it. In just a little over the time it took great sportsmen like Seb Coe to
READY-furnished homes to help homeless and low income people are under consideration by Blackburn Council Changes to social security regulations now make it difficult for people receiving income support to get social fund or community care grants to provide
MORE than 70 babies will have trees planted in their honour to help celebrate National Tree Week. Each tree represents one of the 77 babies born during Blackburn Council's Greenweek Festival in May. All the babies and their proud mums and dads are invited
GAY sex on holiday has probably given some East Lancashire sun-seekers the virus that can lead to Aids. Health chiefs have urged holidaymakers to practise safer sex, after figures revealed that many HIV sufferers in East Lancashire may have contracted
THE NEW Dr Barnardo's shop was back in business today after being plunged into darkness just hours after its opening day in Blackburn's market hall. Business was booming with £200 taken in the first hour-and-a-half, until the power failed after a fault
THE fairy-tale marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales is now an emotional drama. Charles claims he was pushed into a marriage by his parents. Diana, despite faults on both sides, would still honour the vow "for better, for worse". With her support
I READ about North British Housing Association being congratulated on their home building achievements in Blackburn (LET, November 14). In Brookhouse (where else?), they built 23 homes subsidised by Blackburn City Challenge to the tune of £32,000 per
THIS newspaper is a champion of press freedom and will support any cause to resist impositions on that freedom. But it is not blinkered into believing the press is above the law. Recent cases have highlighted the problems courts are faced with when certain
IT is only to be expected that Coun Roger Frost, of Burnley (Letters, November 15) should spring to the defence of the Challenge Fund Committee, of which he is chairman, regarding the distribution of urban development funds. Perhaps it is also worth noting
WATER bosses came under fire today after revealing its profits have leapt to almost £1 million a day - as one of the worst droughts on record drags on. North West Water saw its profits rise by 22 per cent to £167 million in the six months to September
MORE than 15,000 East Lancashire patients may be forced to travel to Preston if they need a doctor at night. Patients registered with Longridge family doctors will have to travel to a new primary care resource centre in Preston if they need a GP between
GRAEME Le Saux and David Batty could well face severe financial punishment - at the very least - from Blackburn Rovers following their incredible bust-up in Moscow last night. The two Ewood and England team-mates clashed angrily in the opening minutes
FAULTY gas installations in a block of flats, occupied mainly by elderly people, twice escaped the notice of Blackburn Council staff, it is alleged. All 90 gas central heating units in Darwen Mayfield Flats are being replaced after Corgi - Council for
HYNDBURN Council has pledged to do all it can to protect almost 70 jobs at an Accrington firm which is "financially bleeding to death". The assurance has come from council leader George Slynn as the local authority searches for a way out of a planning
A NEW humiliation has been heaped on Blackburn MP Jack Straw over his Commons disaster over the prison service debate. Shadow Home Secretary Mr Straw was condemned for letting Labour down when he allowed Home Secretary Michael Howard to get off the hook
THE management team of Reed Regional Newspapers, publishers of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, backed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co have won the race to buy their company from Reed Elsevier. The 129 titles, made up of evening newspapers, paid-for
THE father of student hostage Paul Wells today said he feared claims that the Western captives were ill would soon become "self-fulfilling prophecies". Speaking after the Indian Government rejected a renewed offer to exhange the captives, he said he was
HUNDREDS of women who claimed their lives were ruined by high dosage cancer treatment could have their cases investigated. The Government has announced it is considering a top-level probe into how experimental cervical cancer treatment at Christie Hospital
BURNLEY Youth Theatre was today celebrating a £20,000 National Lottery cash award which could be the springboard to a £1 million plus new theatre for the town. The Arts Council backing, announced today, will allow the renowned 300-member group to launch
EAST Lancashire MP and deputy Tory Party chairman David Trippier announced he would be backing Michael Heseltine for the Tory leadership in the wake of Margaret Thatcher's resignation. "I am extremely sad that Mrs Thatcher has decided to stand down as
PRINCESS Diana was superb in her TV interview on Monday night. I think she has been very brave to have "gone it alone" but she seems very sure of what she believes. Her love for her children shows very plain and whatever the cost, she is a fighter. All
ONLY a man who despised his teachers could repeatedly attack us all with such venom at every opportunity (John Blunt - LET November 15). How can he fail to understand teachers' stress when he daily witnesses the young becoming more disruptive and ungovernable
TAX cuts are once again being promised as a sweetener to a disillusioned populace by a beleaguered Government. They will have little sway, however, if the issues which concern every one of us are not addressed. Today parents at a primary school announced
ONCE again in the run-up to a general election, we are hearing some of the old chestnuts. You know the ones - we need a successful, market-driven economy, we are a partner for business and industry, the friend of the high earner, the promoter of free
BARELY half a year ago, Blackburn Rovers were the toast of the nation. The team, marshalled by Kenny Dalglish's guile and financed by Jack Walker's millions had achieved the stuff of dreams. A footballing fairy tale was completed with the lifting of the
A HEAD teacher told of his concern about the effect larger class sizes and a reduction in the number of teachers would have on the pupils at his school. And Mr Richard Bridges, headteacher at Darwen Moorland High School, also spoke of how the budget cuts
LANCASHIRE's favourite plumber James Hargreaves has been carrying on a family trade that is 148 years old. Mr Hargreaves, 60, of Burnley Road, Crawshawbooth, was nominated for the title of Lancashire's favourite by his cust- omers. And he is one of six
ACTRESS Mina Anwar, from East Lancashire, has hit the TV big time in the Rowan Atkinson police comedy "The Thin Blue Line." Mina, 26, plays no-nonsense young WPC Maggie Habib in the comedy written by Ben Elton and set in a small town police station. Mina
FORMER Blackburn Rovers manager Don Mackay has switched shirts and is now running a pub in Burnley! Don has reluctantly been forced to turn his back on his career of 37 years after he was given the boot from Blackburn in 1991 and lost his job with Fulham
COMPLEMENTARY treatments for cancer sufferers in Rossendale will be on offer thanks to the National Lottery. The hospice in Rossendale applied for the money from the charities board after the East Lancashire Health Authority declined to submit the bid
ROVING Zambian Roland Ndambo set off along the road to a new life in South Africa - via Blackburn! The dedicated father brought his family to England in 1990 so he could learn how to be a motor mechanic. Now, five years and almost £15,000 in tuition fees
FUNDRAISING Lions have donated £1,000 to the Samaritans. President of Blackburn Lions Mr Norman Johnson handed over a cheque to volunteers at the Blackburn branch of the charity. The donation has been welcomed by the organisation that needs £15,000 a
THIS month a committee of trade officials from all countries in the EU voted 14 to one for a postponement of the Europe-wide ban on fur from animals caught in cruel leghold traps, due to start on January 1, 1996. Of all the EU countries, only Britain
THE Anchor men put in one of their worst performances of the season and, in the words of Ian McGarry, "got what they deserved". A John Griffiths goal, conceded after only 20 seconds, prompted too many heads to drop and Prescot stormed away in this North
