NURSERY schools have rejected a plan to give daily fluoride tablets to children in a bid to fight tooth decay. The Burnley Health Trust scheme fell down when the schools said they simply weren't prepared to hand out the tablets to their youngsters, health
OBJECTORS could force a public inquiry into plans to demolish Burnley's St James' church spire - and delay plans for a £12 million town centre development for months. News of the move came as more than 100 people today staged a public protest at the 150
A PUB manager was left counting the cost of a violent clash between rival football fans before the last game of the season kicked-off at Ewood Park. Trevor Hannon, who runs the town centre Adelphi Beer Emporium, could only watch on in horror as about
A BRAVE dad flung himself in front of a runaway car to stop it ploughing into his children and their pals. Keith Ashby, of Blackburn, managed to stop the Toyota Corolla which had slipped its handbrake and was rolling down a steep hill in Infirmary Street
PRIME Minister Margaret Thatcher was accused of turning into a dictator after saying she wanted to rule until the turn of the century. Tory party insiders claimed she was inviting rejection at the forthcoming General Election from voters reluctant to
ANGRY villagers took a 60-car motorcade into Burnley to drive home objections against a home for problem boys. Around 100 Clowbridge residents sounded horns and waved banners against the bid to convert the former Moorland View Nursing Home into a residential
BARBECUE manufacturer, Rectella International Ltd, has bought Burnley's former Belling factory - and raised hopes of a major new jobs boost for the town. The Clitheroe-based company, which sets sausages sizzling from Scandanavia to Singapore with its
HAVING joined the Pendle and Hyndburn UFO group, I am very interested in UFO abduction cases. If any readers have had experiences of abductions or any views or interest in them, I would be very glad to hear from them. B L WALSH, 26 Gorse Road, Blackburn
RESIDENTS organised a high-speed protest after hearing that plans for a gas bottling plant near their homes had been approved by a council. Householders in the Lydgate and Horning Crescent area of Burnley say they had no idea that Acewell Bottled Gas
REGARDING the reader's queries (Letters, May 5), concerning the slaughter of animals during the Eid Festival, I would like to present your readers with passages from the Holy Bible concerning sacrifices. Then, they may understand that we also are commanded
SOCCER nut Bill Toland is a man who can drum up the support of thousands of Blackburn Rovers fans. The 36-year-old season ticket holder has been adopted as Ewood Park's official drummer! Bill has been entertaining home crowds in the stadium's Blackburn
MUSIC lovers have hit the lottery jackpot after being promised a cash handout to perform a concert. Blackburn Music Society can now hire an orchestra to perform at William Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast" following a pledge of up to £5,000 from North-West
FRENCH striker Christophe Dugarry is not at the top of Blackburn Rovers' shopping list, despite a Sunday newspaper report claiming Roy Hodgson had targeted the AC Milan star, writes PETER WHITE. Dugarry was on previous Rovers boss Ray Harford's hit list
THE Government faces a clash with the House of Lords over Jack Straw's plans to ban all handguns. Peers are threatening to torpedo legislation to outlaw all pistols which is to be unveiled in the Queen's Speech on Wednesday. Home Secretary and Blackburn
AT the General Election of 1906 a Liberal government was elected with a massive Parliamentary majority. It included two young rising politicians, David Lloyd-George and Winston Churchill, who played key roles in a great reforming administration which
LANCASHIRE went into their final Benson and Hedges Cup qualifying game at Old Trafford today hoping for a miracle, but with Neil Fairbrother admitting: "We don't deserve to be in the quarter finals." Both Lancashire and opponents Worcestershire have four
ENFIELD professional Shane Lee produced a one-man blitz of the Ramsbottom attack at Dill Hall Lane on Saturday, but it counted for nothing. The appalling weather meant that not one of the EW Cartons Lancashire League games produced a result and the programme
WHEN a strapping skinhead with a couple of tattoos emerges from the Bacup dressing room chewing on a whopping cheese butty, grips your hand like a steel vice and tells you he is James Peterson you begin to smell a rat, writes TONY DEWHURST. Wait a minute
THERE is little doubt that there are people in India who know the fate of Paul Wells and his three fellow hostages. Once again we appeal to them to them to pass on that knowledge to the authorities. They owe it to the families of the hostages and the
AT long last we are hearing reasonable noises coming from high places about illnesses suffered by Gulf War veterans. The new government is to invite veterans to put their case for compensation directly to Mr John Reid, the Armed Forces Minister. There
A SCHOOL in East Lancashire is forging links with youngsters in Estonia. Pupils at Griffin Park School, Blackburn, are writing to children at a school in the Elva region as part of the Central Bureaux for Education Exchanges programme. Head Craig Ward
A SHOTGUN and starting pistol were found in a van when it was stopped by police officers after an early morning high-speed chase. The guns were discovered by Lancashire traffic officers after they stopped the Ford Escort van in School Lane, Earby. The
A MYSTERY driver was being hunted today after the car he was driving smashed into three shops. The Blue G-registered Ford Sierra rammed into the row of properties at Hollins Grove, Darwen, just after midnight demolishing one shop front and badly damaging
ADRIAN Heath moved a step closer to his first summer signing today after secret talks with a mystery Premiership international this weekend, writes TONY DEWHURST. But the Clarets chief has denied his number one target is Republic of Ireland defender Paul
EMILE Heskey was determined to reign on Tony Parkes' parade. But not even the heaviest defeat of the season could totally dampen the spirits as Ewood paid tribute to its own top man, writes PETER WHITE. If there had been anything crucial at stake from
