HEALTH chiefs drew up an AIDS charter to prevent the spread of the disease in East Lancashire. The new strategy was to be adopted throughout the North West. It was unveiled in Manchester by the regional health authority. Regional medical officer Dr Tony
A JEWELLED sword worth £15,000 was stolen from Burnley's Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum. The thief climbed up to a first floor window, smashed the glass, bent bars and forced shutters before using a large stone to shatter a glass display cabinet
KIWI superstar Chris Harris rocketed Ramsbottom back into Marsden BS Lancashire League contention with a magnificent four wickets in four balls against Enfield. It is the first time a league player has performed the feat since Haslingden's Alan Barnes
RAYMOND Illingworth and Lancashire continued their tense stand-off at Old Trafford today. Illy has slammed Lancashire chairman Bob Bennett for demanding action from the Test and County Cricket Board after comments about Mike Atherton in his book "One
THE DISCLOSURE today that Lancashire County Council is waging a war of silence with Blackburn as the town edges towards independence from county control is shameful. For all kinds of discussions and arrangements have to take place for Blackburn to take
MYSTERY surrounds the death of experienced Burnley diver, Stuart Summers, who drowned in a solo 50-metre dive in the Lake District. Stuart, 24, a strong swimmer with more than 40 solo dives experience, was recovered by police diving teams yesterday, 20
SHARRON Davies, the Olympic Golden Girl of swimming and TV's Gladiators, is searching for adults and children to join her in a fun pool show at the Westview Leisure Centre, Preston, on June 10. She wants 30 teams of four adults to take part in a fun Wobstacle
POLICE are appealing for help to catch two men who carried out a carefully planned burglary at an Altham-based firm. The burglars broke into Lupton Brother's furniture makers, Venture Court industrial estate, late on Friday evening and got away with office
SICKENING pornographic videos involving adults, animals and children are form part of a depressing but routine workload for undercover cops in Lancashire. The anonymous bobbies are at the cutting edge of the war against crime and deal with more sleaze
I WONDER why Blackburn Infirmary cannot be provided with another car park on stilts over the existing one. I sympathise with the nurses over their parking difficulties, as I do with disabled people who have been given only about eight spaces. G ASPIN
JASON Wilcox missed out when Terry Venables named his 22-man England squad for Euro 96 on arrival at Heathrow today. Newcastle's Robert Lee, Dennis Wise (Chelsea) and Ugo Ehiogu (Aston Villa) were the other members of the unlucky quartet who were cut
FOLLOWING the UK's customary demise in the Eurovision Song Contest, there has been an almighty hoo-ha about countries "ganging up" to ensure Blighty and her allies were starved of points - so that one of the most successful entries ever ended up a pitiful
A FAMILY has been devastated by the death of a young Blackburn teenager who collapsed after an asthma attack at school. Farzana Kausar, 14, of Edmundson Street, was taken ill at Witton Park High School on Friday and died in Blackburn Royal Infirmary on
MRS A Nuttall (Letters, May 4) appears to be somewhat late in her criticism regarding the Roman Road estate in Blackburn - it's a question of closing the gate after the horse has bolted. One is glad to see that she gets good service in her bin collection
CLOUDS kept the sun and big crowds away from the 130th annual Great Harwood Show. But there was a silver lining for competitors from across East Lancashire who picked up rosebowls and rosettes. And a bumper crop of entries in all sections of the agricultural
A CLOSING round of 72 at Wentworth's West Course left Ged Furey tied for 60th place in the Volvo PGA Championship, won by Italian Ryder Cup golfer Costantino Rocca. The Pleasington pro's level-par round gave him a total aggregate of 290, two-over-par,
NEW Zealand international Chris Harris bamboozled Colne with an eight wicket blast and 44 not out. But the unseasonal Spring Bank Holiday weekend rain wrecked any chance of a finish at the Horsfield in a game reduced to 38 overs per side. The Kiwi all-rounder
THIS year, over 40,000 people in the UK will be diagnosed with skin cancer and about 4,000 of them will have the most dangerous form of the disease - Malignant Melanoma. This is a subject I am particularly concerned with because, as some of you may have
THE disclosure of a four-fold increase since the beginning of the decade in the number of primary pupils expelled from school is alarming. And even when the total of almost 1,500 exclusions is measured against the two million children of primary school
I READ with interest your report (LET, April 4) on shopkeeper Mohammed Nawaz's claims that cable TV company Nynex kept him waiting on the telephone for ages on each of nearly a dozen attempts to get his broken service fixed. It reminded me of a reader's
BATTLING teenager Robert Daly has been given the gift of life in a dramatic eight-hour double-lung transplant early today. Cystic fibrosis sufferer Robert, above, who is 15 next week, has spent the last 10 years in and out of hospital fighting the effects
BLACKBURN Rovers are set to announce a multi-million pound new sponsorship deal at Ewood tomorrow, writes PETER WHITE. And they will also reveal their new blue and white halved playing kit for the first time. The name McEwan's Lager has been carried on
The ex-Glasgow Rangers full-back is out of contract next month and he explained: "I've spoken to the gaffer about my contract situation. I know that it went in the press that I was offered a one year contract, but I was not given a new deal as such. "
