AUTHORESS Beryl Rushton was the victim of a horrific ordeal at the hands of a crazed knifeman during the course of her research for a new book. A man held a bread knife to her throat outside his home when Beryl volunteered to sell double glazing in Moss
A FORMER leading Lancashire League cricketer figured in a cheque presentation which marked the culmination of a brave fightback from serious illness. Peter Wood raised £1,000 for the charity Childline by running the London marathon, only 10 months after
IN REPLY to a letter published in Sports Letters (LET, August 4), I agree that Colin Hendry was a good player for the club over the last 10 years or so, but he has left Blackburn now. I find there are more worthy people who are still connected to Rovers
POLICE have stepped up a campaign to clamp down on motorbike safety and cut the number of fatal accidents on a notorious East Lancashire road. A team based at Gisburn launched spot checks on the speed and safety of machines along the A59. A total of 78
RESIDENTS and allotment owners claim a new footbridge set to span a river will bring a catalogue of problems. Residents and owners of allotments on Bolton Road, Ewood, are furious after claiming councillors ignored two petitions they sent opposing the
Sunderland Reserves 4 Blackburn Rovers Reserves 1 AN eventful night saw Rovers open their Pontin's League Premier Division programme with a heavy defeat and they missed two penalties into the bargain! Although they had two debutants in Martin Taylor and
SENTIMENT goes out of the window tonight as Stan Ternent returns to Bury bidding to set up a cup exit for his former club. Ternent and his assistant Sam Ellis left the Shakers to take over at Burnley in the summer. But after only one game of their Turf
SHOOTERS in East Lancashire are preparing themselves for a disastrous start to the grouse season tomorrow. Grouse numbers have been badly affected by the miserable weather, shooters' chiefs have revealed, and two moors in the Ribble Valley are scheduled
MORE than 100 mobile home owners united to protest against moves which could see them evicted from their caravan site. A total of 132 from Beacon Fell View Caravan Site in Longridge turned out for the emergency protest meeting and unanimously agreed to
I HOPE readers can help me trace a relative of mine. She is Jean Young (nee Heath) who was born around 1932 in Darwen. Her parents, Frank and Doris Heath, lived at 83 St Alban's Road. I believe Jean married Frank Young in 1954-55 and moved into a house
WHEN "green" activists express alarm that toxic waste dumps pose health hazards, people can be pardoned for suspecting exaggeration. But when an eminent and venerable medical journal like The Lancet says so, we must take notice. The report that women
DESPITE the obvious cruelty of bullfighting in France and Spain, many tourists still visit bullrings out of curiosity. But money from every curious visitor enables bullfighting to continue. This barbaric spectacle should be banned. It is, after all, the
YET another food scare - this time, over milk. For, even in pasteurised milk, alarming levels have been found of the bacteria linked to the chronic bowel illness, Crohn's disease. The government has launched an investigation and announced it - though
MY granddaughter, Diane, aged eight, came up with a good one last week. The insurance man, on his monthly call, was writing us some details about investments. He quickly wrote about a dozen lines which were more instructive than neat. Diane, sitting next
DAVID Pearson has retired from club cricket, having played his last East Lancs game for the seconds in Sunday's Junior Cup final defeat at Haslingden. The prolific runscorer and former wicketkeeper was picked for the second team, rather than East Lancs
AT 16 a boy can get married, smoke life-threatening drugs, join the Army, ride a motor cycle, leave home and start a family, none of which require a mature judgment or experience. If anyone has found a way of coercing a teenage boy into doing something
AN on-street booze ban will be discussed by Burnley councillors this week. Areas put forward by councillors for consideration for a by-law banning drinking include the town centre. Other problem areas are identified as the corner of Manchester Road and
THIS letter is addressed to the parents of the school children who are currently stealing from washing lines throughout Darwen. These sneak thieves struck again in the Avondale area over the weekend, taking clothes that ordinary working class people have
A £1.1m all-weather running track, football pitch and community hall is due to open in Burnley this weekend. The facility at Barden playing fields results from a partnership formed by Barden Sports and Community Association, Burnley Boys' Club, Burnley
A 'VULNERABLE group' of people will lose a vital service when Padiham Job Centre closes, Burnley's economic and property committee will be told. Chairman Tony Harrison will tonight ask fellow councillors' to approve a letter he sent to Joan Lee, the district
A RELATIVE of one of the victims lost on the sunken trawler Gaul today said it appeared to have gone down as a result of an accident rather than espionage. Ken Collier, whose father Stan died on the vessel, is on the government survey ship Mansal 18 with
MANY a mum shed a tear today as their babies headed off for their first day at school - but for one Burnley mother the tears were in triplicate! Thomas, Jessica and Bethany Horne were born on February 3 1994. Today in their matching school uniforms, the
TENANTS in Hyndburn have been given assurances by town hall bosses that their homes are in safe hands. Councillors voted last week to scrap a planned sell-off of the borough's 3,900 properties, which would have seen the houses transferred to a new company
A MOTHER told spoke of her teenage son's fight for life after he suffered serious internal injuries after becoming trapped in conveyor belt machinery at a Rishton factory. Steven Donald, 17, who is on a ventilator, was today said to be 'very poorly' today
Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter DO you wake in the morning feeling like death warmed-up? For most people, early morning, glad-to-be-alive vitality is the stuff of pure fantasy and cereal advertisements. The last thing many people feel like doing
THE strong pound has been blamed for falling profits at medical giant Smith & Nephew. The firm employs more than 600 people in East Lancashire, where it weaves gauze and makes cotton wool. It saw profits fall by 11 per cent in the six months to June
LIFELONG Burnley soccer fan Mark Fielden scored his biggest ever win when he bought a lucky dip National Lottery ticket and scooped more than one and a quarter million pounds. Mark and his wife Jean, who keep hens and geese on a smallholding in the hills
TO SAY I was shocked about Colin Hendry leaving would be putting it mildly. There is not much difference to the Alan Shearer affair. I feel very sorry for manager Roy Hodgson, left in the lurch. I know Colin Hendry was a good and loyal player for Blackburn
A LICENSEE today spoke of his terror after he was beaten in the back yard of his pub by two masked raiders who made off with £1,300 in cash. John Hickey, tenant at Cemetery Hotel, Whalley New Road, Blackburn, was leaving the pub with the weekend's takings
Worthington Cup 1st round: Bury v Burnley - Pete Oliver's big match preview MICHAEL Williams takes his next step on the road back from the wilderness tonight with the job of anchoring the Burnley midfield at Gigg Lane. Williams' career looked to be coming
THE letters and tributes from Rovers fans to Colin Hendry as he prepares for a new career with Glasgow Rangers have been complimentary and heartfelt. Well deserved as these tributes are, what a pity that the same courtesy was not offered to Alan Shearer
I WANT the directors of Blackburn Rovers to provide some European nights to remember this season - with the atmosphere of a full and noisy stadium. To achieve this, they will need to adopt some generous and medium-term plans in terms of prices. I can
FEARS that women living near toxic waste dumps are more likely to have babies with birth defects have caused local councillors to call for more information. A study published in the highly-respected Lancet medical journal shows that women living within
CHRIS Sutton has shaken off the knock he picked up against PSV Eindhoven. So it should be full steam ahead for last season's leading scorer when Blackburn Rovers kick off their Premiership campaign against Derby at Ewood on Saturday. The £5 million striker
THE recognition bestowed by the Football League upon Jimmy McIlroy as one of the top 100 all-time greats of the English game should be a suitable catalyst for the powers-that-be at Turf Moor to dedicate one of the club's new stands to this most distinguished
Lunches in the Cathedral Crypt, Blackburn, 12noon-2pm. In aid of the Lantern Fund. Summer playschemes in Blackburn and Darwen: Sudellside Community Centre and the Community Centre, Knott Street, Darwen; Bennington Street community base and Shadsworth
A BURGLARY suspect whose home was raided by police wasn't there - he was already in prison! Landlord Roy McIntyre was furious when he saw the damage caused by police, who kicked in the door of the house in Kings Road, Blackburn, as part of a burglary
WHEN will someone in authority take notice of what we keep telling them about the heavy traffic cutting up Silsa Road on the Shadsworth estate in Blackburn and put 'sleeping policemen' down to help protect the children who live there. One child had a
MAIL deliveries in the Blackburn area were badly hit after postmen staged a lightning walkout in support of a suspended colleague. The flashpoint came when a driver was told to drive to strike-hit Manchester and cross picket lines. When his van returned
LAST Friday morning, shopping in Blackburn town centre, it was raining, as it has done for the past 10 weeks or so. Two men using a Blackburn with Darwen Council truck and a water bowser, were watering the plants in the outdoor hanging baskets. How ridiculous
CARL Fogarty's hopes of signing a one-year extension to his current deal with Ducati have had to be put on hold because staff at the Italian bike giants are currently on holiday. The Blackburn ace, who finished second and fourth in the British leg of
I THINK the Blackburn with Darwen Council could have given more consideration to the classic car owners entering the Lions Gala on Sunday at Witton Park. The state of the entrance to the park from Tower Road was in a really deplorable condition - a sheer
WASIM Akram was ruled out of Lancashire's NatWest semi-final against Hampshire in dramatic circumstances at Southampton today. The Pakistan ace stormed off the square in disgust after failing a late brief fitness test on the toe problem which has been
YOUR point (Footnote, Letters July 24) about paying a TV licence fee and not receiving a service is taken. But, as you correctly state, the law requires us to have a licence. There are very hefty fines for licence evasion and to give such prominence to
HARDLY has the rubble of the recently demolished Alexandra Hall, Blackburn's first picture theatre, been levelled out, than demolition is poised to begin of yet another relic of the town's heritage. I refer to the old Hopwood's Charity School for Girls
ARMED police investigating claims a man was threatened with a gun arrested a couple at a house in Burnley early today. The alert began at 9pm yesterday when a man was allegedly threatened by a man armed with a handgun near to Yatefield Social Club, Cog
LIFELONG Burnley soccer fan Mark Fielden scored his biggest ever win when he bought a lucky dip National Lottery ticket and scooped more than one and a quarter million pounds. Mark and his wife Jean, who keep hens and geese on a smallholding in the hills
CHRIS Sutton has shaken off the knock he picked up against PSV Eindhoven, writes PETER WHITE. So it should be full steam ahead for last season's leading scorer when Blackburn Rovers kick off their Premiership campaign against Derby at Ewood on Saturday
SHARES in computer firm Skillsgroup have had a vote of confidence from a stockbroker. The firm, formerly P&P Computers, is rated as a 'hold or buy' by Henry Cooke Lumsden. The brokers said trading at its AQ and Acuma training and consultancy arms,
A NEWLY revamped membership scheme to help local employers get better access to training and development services has been launched. A range of new discounts has been unveiled as part of the free membership package at East Lancashire's Training and Enterprise
THE newsroom was buzzing with activity as around 30 young "journalists" plus teachers and helpers pulled out all the stops to meet their deadline. Youngsters taking part in the summer literacy project at Pleckgate High School, Blackburn, were challenged
LOTTERY cash to help an ethnic minority welfare group provide training to get people back into work has been handed over during its annual dinner. The Mayor of Pendle, Councillor Colin Waite, presented a £137,000 cheque to members of the Pendle Pakistan
