ENTREPRENEUR Philip Whitehead is treading a similar path to software mega-millionaire Bill Gates. The Burnley businessman has been running his P3 Computer Services venture for just over two years but already has a million pound-plus turnover and a staff
ENTREPRENEUR Philip Whitehead is treading a similar path to software mega-millionaire Bill Gates. The Burnley businessman has been running his P3 Computer Services venture for just over two years but already has a million pound-plus turnover and a staff
MAJOR East Lancashire road schemes were being shelved because of Government cash cuts. The cuts meant the start of work on the £3,628,000 Blackburn Eastern Radial Route and the £1,136,000 Accrington town centre relief road were certain to be put back
PARISHIONERS have been told they can keep their church out of financial trouble - for less than the price of a packet of cigarettes. All Saints Church, Habergham, Burnley, had to arrange a short-term loan from the diocese in November when it was realised
A ROW has erupted after householders claimed a developer had not finished their estate properly, leaving them with useless gardens. Crowther Homes built Chestnut Rise, Burnley, around three years ago but some householders say there have been long-standing
MORE depressed and lonely people than ever called the Samaritans in East Lancashire over the Christmas and New Year period. Stress and drinking adding to people's problems. Calls to Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Samaritans rose by 20 per cent over the
POLICE are hunting the driver of a mystery car involved in a hit-and-run accident which left a pensioner fighting for his life. Robert Holden, 68, of Royds Street, Accrington, was today in the intensive care unit at Blackburn Royal Infirmary with serious
THE cabbies' real problem is costs soaring out of control and a council that refuses to listen. The cost of testing and licensing a private hire vehicle in 1994 was £135. Now, it is £261. I agree that vehicle safety is of the greatest importance, but
I AM the wife of a private hire driver. As always, my husband had virtually no time to celebrate Christmas due to working each night until 3 or 4am. He loves his job and enjoys meeting the whole gamut of humanity. As an owner driver, he spends a lot of
ON goes the farce over the Cabinet Minister "who cannot be named" - the one whose son was arrested for alleged drugs dealing. His named is splashed in the foreign media. It is available for anyone to see on the Internet. And it is revealed by the press
THE meeting of the Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale NHS Trust on December 17, revealed officially what most informed people have known for some time - that in order to present a more politically balanced board, certain long-serving members have been 'persuaded
Friday Folk PLAYING 'William Tell' with a vodka glass and a loaded revolver is not the smartest thing to do at the best of times. But for cult author and heroin addict William Burroughs it probably seemed like a good idea at the time. "Burroughs and his
RESIDENTS in a picturesque village claim the long-awaited opening of the M65 has failed to solve chronic traffic problems. People in Brindle believe the lack of decent road signs in the area is the cause of most of the congestion. The Highways Agency
BACUP Borough manager Brent Peters has slammed the inequality of the disciplinary system used in the non-League pyramid system as a "complete and utter shambles." And the outspoken boss is calling on clubs to get together and try to change a system he
CHRIS Waddle could well name an unchanged side at Gillingham tomorrow, when Burnley desperately need to find the winning formula. The player-manager, reflecting on the club's rock-bottom position and only one victory in the previous 10 games, admitted
ROY Hodgson will line up all his available big guns against Wigan Athletic in tomorrow's FA Cup third round tie at Ewood. And the Blackburn Rovers boss warned the Second Division side - "We won't be taking any chances." Rovers will give Wigan the full
YOUNG entrepreneurs will be presenting their interim results later this month. Students taking part in the Young Enterprise competition in Pendle will give their half-yearly reports at Gawthorpe Hall on January 15. The event will give youngsters the chance
HARRY Healless was not the best player ever to turn out for Blackburn Rovers - but he was the last one to lift the FA Cup as captain. That was back in 1928 and it was the proudest moment of his football career. Now a blue plaque is to be placed on the
POLICE cells across East Lancashire were completely filled after New Year's Eve revellers caused chaos in town centres. The ambulance service was also stretched to breaking point as emergency calls flooded in to headquarters. More than 80 people were
NEW Year job prospects in the North West were brighter, according to a new report. A survey of employers in the region showed that confidence in the local economy was on the upturn. Job increases were forecast by 22 per cent of employers, compared to
VITAL aid was delivered to a cold and hungry community living in almost Arctic conditions. Fund-raising Great Harwood businessman John Boast had just returned from a mercy mission to Romania. Mr Boast and helpers Tony Robinson and Gillian Hindle distributed
THE family of student captive Paul Wells is to meet relatives of his fellow captive Keith Mangan to discuss the future of the hostages campaign. Paul's father Bob Wells, of Bracken Close, Feniscowles, Blackburn, today said that the immediate plans of
JACK Walker's remarkable commitment to Blackburn Rovers was underlined 12 million times in the previous financial year. The club's annual financial statements showed that Mr Walker, who owned more than 99 per cent of the Ewood shares, pumped in an incredible
FOREIGN Governments and politicians are being flooded with copies of a controversial postcard depicting Clitheroe's belching chimneys. Civic chiefs are furious about the latest move by clean air campaigners battling against Castle Cement's use of Cemfuel
AN East Lancs woman is looking forward to a New Year reunion with her long lost brother - thanks to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph and a chance in a million Internet greeting. Marilyn Helliwell, 46, knew she had a half-brother but had no idea he was
LITTLE Lucy Green was possibly Britain's first baby of 1998...coming into the world just after the 12th stroke of midnight. Proud mum Simone Green, 18, of Burnley, welcomed in the New Year after giving birth to 6lb 11oz Lucy Kate, her first child, at
WHO is your correspondent who wrote so critically of East Lancs Club (LET, December 18)? Certainly not a member of the club or someone at the recent AGM. If he had been, he would know that last year's accounts were inflated by generous legacies and there
WITH habitual and cowardly anonymity your leader writer (LET, December 30) offers me advice to leave the Labour Party because it has 'changed.' Well, that says more for his constancy and principles than mine. The Lancashire Evening Telegraph has always
TONY Blair and schools minister Stephen Byers were said to be absolutely staggered by studies showing how much truancy contributed to crime. And well they might be when it is revealed that youngsters who should be at school commit 40 per cent of all street
TWO hundred visitors from all over the country flocked to Ramsbottom for the Holcome Old English Game Fowl Club's annual New Year's Day show. Twenty-eight exhibitors showed 104 birds at the club's 155th show, held at the Old Dun Horse Hotel. Officials
TRAVELLING criminals using a new motorway extension have been targeting a village and making use of quicker escape routes, it has been claimed. Residents in Brindle near Blackburn say the M65 extension has created a criminals' paradise. Joan Croasdale
AMATEUR film-makers are going to make you an offer you can't refuse. Accrington Video and Cine Society are putting the finishing touches to their new feature film called "The Godfather". The 15-minute video, a spoof on the blockbuster mafia movie, stars
CLARETS director Clive Holt expects tycoon Ray Ingleby to be in control of Burnley Football Club within weeks. Mr Holt revealed that the Turf Moor board have already arranged to hold further talks with New York-based bidder Ingleby in the "very near future
THE long fall and sudden rapid rise again of Gillingham is one of the fascinating features of the Second Division which helps Chris Waddle to believe that there is still more than a mere chink of hope for his relegation-fighting Burnley side. Waddle takes
HE is just 23 years old, has already starred in the World Cup and European Championship finals and is the main reason why the name Henning Berg is no longer on the lips of any Ewood Park regular. His name, of course, is Stephane Henchoz. And, even though
