A CATERING firm has cooked up success in a national scheme. The Catering Centre on Copy Nook, Blackburn, has become the first in its field to achieve the Investors in People standard. The firm, which designs commercial kitchens and sells and services
HERITAGE groups fired in strong objections after a new nightclub built an unauthorised fire escape on the side of a protected building. But Club XPO in Red Lion Street, Burnley, looks set to escape a caning from the council, even though the Civic Trust
A SCHOOL is just a few hundred pounds away from reaching a target figure for a new mini-bus. Dozens of sponsored events has meant Dame Evelyn Fox special school in Blackburn raising nearly £14,000. The Variety Club is donating a further £12,000 for the
HOLIDAYMAKERS looking for bargain breaks were today warned to be on the alert once again for a travel company offering 'cut price' luxury Caribbean cruises. Florida-based Travel House have posted leaflets to many householders in East Lancashire, congratulating
AN EAST Lancashire couple were arrested in Dover after a massive drugs seizure. A routine search by Customs officers at the South Coast port uncovered kilos of cannabis resin in a car. A man and a woman from Nelson who had crossed the Channel from Calais
THERE HAS been a happy ending to the sad predicament of five-year-old nut allergy boy, Aaron Slater, of Burnley, who was denied a place in school because of his condition. As we pointed out last month, when his mother's struggle over being denied a year's
ONE of Lancashire's oldest cinemas will be celebrating the centenary of the movies in "grand" style this weekend. Clitheroe's Grand cinema in York Street will be presenting a special show on Friday and Saturday as part of the national Cinema 100 festivities
SOME of Britain's finest young singers competed in a contest held in memory of famed Blackburn contralto Kathleen Ferrier. A group of 16 first-year undergraduate music students from Britain's top colleges, gathered at King George's Hall for the first
DEFENDANTS and witnesses at Hyndburn courts will soon be able to watch television while waiting to appear before magistrates. Two colour sets are being installed at the Manchester Road courthouse in an effort to make people feel more relaxed. The move
RAY Harford is likely to face stiff competition from both home and abroad if he decides to go all the way with his interest in 24-year-old French striker Christophe Dugarry this week. The £4 million-rated Bordeaux star is expected to make a decision on
FOR many years, it has been known that sheep are infected with scrapie yet we eat lamb and mutton with impunity. Why then is scrapie thought to be responsible for BSE? Surely, if this is so, humans could, in theory, be infected from eating lamb? Could
LOUISE Calcutt's life has been shattered by 25 years of epilepsy. But finally there is a silver lining emerging from the dark clouds. Eight weeks ago surgeons at Liverpool's Walton Hospital performed pioneering keyhole surgery to try and cure her illness
POLICE have dramatically halted their hunt for a brutal rapist after discovering that the alleged attack on a 40-year-old woman never took place. Detectives in Blackburn are now seeking the advice of the Crown Prosecution Service about possible action
MAY I thank the electorate of Ewood for giving me the privilege of representing them on Blackburn Council? I can assure those who voted for me and my colleague Coun Florence Oldfield, that with the other member of our team, Coun Maureen Bateson, we will
A THREE-year-old girl was hurt and five youngsters in a school minibus were treated for shock after an accident at an unmarked crossroads. The smash at the junction between Grey Street and Cameron Street, Burnley, involved a Ford Escort and a minibus
EX-MINER Jack Nadin had to dig deep into a mountain of library books to research the history of Lancashire's coal mines. Now his hard work and patience has paid off in another way. Mr Nadin, a local historian and member of Burnley Central Library, has
ADRIAN Heath, pictured right, is making moves to strengthen his Turf Moor backroom staff - and former Goodison Park team-mate Andy King is one of the men expected to be in the frame. The Burnley boss is facing a busy summer as he searches at home and
A SEMINAR to help manufacturers find out how to cut tooling costs will be staged next month. The event, organised by the Materials Information Service, is aimed at producers of moulded parts who need to make tooling on short lead times and at low costs
MPs today demanded urgent action be taken after it was revealed just FOUR people were refused renewal of a gun certificate from a staggering 4,590 applicants in Lancashire. And police admitted it was impossible to check every single application in person
A NEW state-of-the-art water ride is under construction at Waves Waterfun Centre in Blackburn. The giant spiralling ride, the only one of its kind in Lancashire, has been dubbed 'The Alien Experience' and comes complete with music, flashing lights, closed-circuit
BLACKBURN Rovers season-ticket sales are going steadily but a club spokesman today appealed to fans not to leave it until the last minute to renew their seats. There were close to 20,000 season-ticket holders last season and, with only a couple of weeks
CAN you canoe down the canal? Four friends will be doing so, in a race to raise money for charity at the weekend. Chris Stanley, his nephew Scott, Judith Barlow and her brother David, will be paddling their Canadian canoe the full length of the Leeds
IF we thought we could relax once the Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill became law, we were sadly mistaken. The cruel killing of two little hedgehogs, burned alive in Yorkshire recently, horrified many people and showed that it takes more than legislation
CAMPAIGNERS believe the wall of prejudice which has been built around epilepsy is finally beginning to crumble. About one in 130 people have some form of the condition and their risk of premature death is three times that of the general public. But successful
NUT allergy boy Aaron Slater has been accepted at a Burnley school and will start next month thanks to information passed on by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. Aaron is five, but has not spent a day at school because of his severe allergic reaction
FANATICAL Clarets supporter and Burnley MP Peter Pike was casting aside his parliamentary cares today as he rushed up North for a more important engagement - Turf Moor's play-off clash with Torquay. A combination of hired cars were to whisk him to and
PETER MARTIN returns to The Oval, scene of his stunning England debut, tomorrow admitting: "It's going to be tough." Not that it was easy when he was given a shock call-up for the second Texaco Trophy game against the West Indies this time last year and
I HEARTILY concur with D Pearson (Letters, May 8) concerning the European Union scam. There is ever-increasing anger in this country concerning our subordination to Brussel's unelected bureaucrats. Joining a single European currency would mean abolishing
THE COUNTRY'S slack system of gun control is revealed today in figures which show that police virtually rubber-stamp permit applications and renewals. That is shocking enough in itself but, after the Dunblane massacre, it is an outrage. Look at the facts
THE risk from dangerous levels of radioactive radon gas building up in homes across Pendle is slight according to Government statistics. Studies have shown only 4,900 houses in the borough - around one in seven homes - had just a one to three per cent
A MAJOR conference aimed at Asian businesses will be staged in Blackburn next month. Organisers believe that, despite the huge success of Asian entrepreneurs, many firms are not taking full advantage of help and advice available to new and existing ventures
CHRISTMAS letters from East Lancashire children will be personally delivered to Santa at his home in Lapland by team members of a fund-raising endurance drive across Europe. The North West team for The 1996 Cape to Cape Super Challenge, a 65 hours non-stop
HEAR YE lads and lasses of East Lancashire - get ready to take part in the biggest charity event in the region. This was the rallying cry of Joe Baron as he walked the streets of Blackburn at the weekend. He was heralding of the 1996 Scanner Day - a fund-raising
A FIRE-RAVAGED social club will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes for a grand re-opening in mid-June. Ronnie Pugh, owner of Yatefield Social Club in Burnley, was devastated by the fire which ripped through the club's concert room, function room, lounge
A JOBS scheme aims to link college leavers with bosses searching for new staff. The Direct Help into Jobs project, run by Nelson and Colne College, aims to place 200 students into jobs, and provide them with free training and an evening or day release
SCAPA Filtration Europe has awarded a six -figure distribution deal. The Haslingden based firm, part of Scapa plc, choose the Manchester branch of Expeditors International to handle its worldwide freight services. The contract was won in the face of fierce
