A LOOK at events, from amateur theatre to rambles through our beautiful countryside. Neil Hodgson book signing, W H Smith, Market Square, Burnley, 1pm-2pm. Probus Club, St Silas' Church, Preston New Road, Blackburn, 10.30am. Speaker: Cliff Astin "River
I WOULD like to thank the Darren Crafters ladies for their invaluable assistance in helping me to stage my recent exhibition at the Darwen Craft and Heritage Centre, which was a success and the first of its kind at the venue. And being a "Darrener" born
I WAS feeling relaxed and comfortable after watching a nice evening of TV, but promised myself an early night. Foolishly, I thought I would just view the news headlines before retiring. Bad move! I'm now so furious with what I saw and heard that I doubt
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with Martin Sainsbury (Letters, October 19). Since the recent terrible atrocity in America, I have displayed both the Union Flag and the Stars and Stripes. I often visit the small town of Gargrave and have always been touched by
WINNING belts and creating champions is just the tip of the iceberg for Craig McMillan and his Shin-Gi-Tai Kickboxing club. For the hugely experienced chief instructor takes equal pleasure in seeing one his fighters crowned champion as he does helping
PUBLIC transport professionals from all over the world will gather in Manchester today (Tues Nov 6) to celebrate 10 years of Metrolink. The annual light rail conference, organised by Transport Science Ltd, will be held today, Wednesday and Thursday under
FAIRFIELD Hospital has maintained an acceptable level of cleanliness in the latest round of Government spot-checks. And North Manchester General Hospital has cleaned up its act to achieve an excellent standard of cleanliness. Hospitals are awarded red
A LOCAL man arrested in connection with death threats to Bury FC staff has been released without charge. The 34-year-old was detained on Friday (Nov 2) and interviewed by detectives. His home was also searched by officers. His arrest took place just days
TWO nurses could face criminal charges following the death of an 18-month-old boy from Blackburn at Alder Hey Hospital. An inquest, opened and adjourned yesterday by Liverpool Coroner Andre Rebello, was told that police have spoken to the pair since the
A SCHOOL warned its pupils to be vigilant today after an attack on a youngster who was squirted in the face with detergent. Children at St Theodore's RC High School, Burnley, have been told not to go alone into the town centre at lunchtime following the
SUN power is the theme for the next meeting of Bury Environmental Forum's resource issues group. A talk, entitled "The opportunities of solar energy", will be given by Gordon Snape when the group meets next Tuesday (Nov 13) at 6pm in Bury Town Hall. David
WEST HAM defender Hayden Foxe today said he was gutted at hearing Lucas Neill will miss Australia's World Cup play-off games later this month. Neill has been forced to pull out of the Aussie's squad for their friendly against France at the weekend after
STOCKPORT striker Shefki Kuqi has admitted he would jump at the chance of a move to Blackburn. As we revealed yesterday, the 24-year-old hotshot is currently being targeted by Ewood chief Graeme Souness. And a source close to the Albanian-born forward
THE work of the child health team at Burnley Health Care NHS Trust has been highlighted as a national "beacon" of good practice. The team responsible for caring for young patients from Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale, has achieved a national first by becoming
HEAVY autumn rain and squelching mud did not stop people having a night to remember at Burnley's annual bonfire. Hundreds enjoyed Burnley's official bonfire on the Fulledge recreation ground as they were treated to rockets, bangers and Catherine wheels
HEAVY autumn rain and squelching mud did not stop people having a night to remember at Burnley's annual bonfire. Hundreds enjoyed Burnley's official bonfire on the Fulledge recreation ground as they were treated to rockets, bangers and Catherine wheels
A POLICE chief has called for a ban on the sale of fireworks to the public in a bid to halt the annual drain on officers' time in the run up to Bonfire Night. Chief Superintendent John Thompson, the divisional commander for Eastern Division, has called
COUNCILLORS are being asked to turn down a planning application for a McDonalds restaurant sign. The restaurant chain have asked for permission for an eight-metre high standard illuminated McDonalds M sign at Hollin Bank, Brierfield, at the junction with
TWELVE Remembrance Day wreath-laying services will be held in Pendle on Sunday. Councillors will join members of the Royal British Legion and local representatives at services in Barnoldswick, Barrowford, Brierfield, Blacko, Colne, Earby, Fence, Foulridge
A PLANNING application to extend an abattoir has caused a stink. Woodhead Bros have applied for planning permission have applied for permission to extend their abattoir in Junction Street, Colne, resulting in objections from the nearby Asda supermarket
THERE are times when you find yourself forced to question the logic and sensitivities of those who have custody over the game we love. Take the events of the last couple of weeks. The Football League and ITV Sport in their continuous crusade to remove
AN impromptu Blackburn bonfire night spectacular took firefighters two hours to bring under control. Tons of plastic components went up in smoke when children threw a 'banger' into the yard of Warwick and Bailey, Hall Street.
HOSPITAL chiefs unveiled plans for a £5million mental health unit to inject much-needed life into local services. Health Trust bosses proposed a new adult acute unit at Queens Park Hospital, Blackburn, to provide 72 inpatient beds and a 20-place adult
NOT bad at all. Probably the worst performance under Souness was followed by undoubtedly the worst away performance of the season. Yet we emerged sheepisly from St Mary's with maximum points on away soil for the first time this season and a very respectable
MORE than £5,000 of illegal drugs were found by police when they searched a house in Accrington. Six 9oz bars of cannabis valued at £4,500, 95 pieces of herbal cannabis with a street value of £1,000 and £6,300 in cash was found at the house together with
A YOUTH who repeatedly stabbed a "peacemaker" with a broken bottle in what a judge slammed "an appalling episode of violence" is behind bars for four years. John Holland's victim Philip Stafford had been left needing plastic surgery after the "frenzied
CHURCH members are getting ready to show off their new building after five years of fundraising and DIY work in an ambitious refurbishment programme. Church secretary Brian Heys, of New Lane, Oswaldtwistle, said members of Earnest Street Baptists, Church
MARTIAL arts expert Christopher Pate karate chopped his way through a record-breaking 50 wooden boards in a bid to give a disabled youngster a very happy Christmas. Christopher, 30, used his hands, feet, elbows and even head in his attempt to smash through
REAL ale drinkers flocked to Blackburn's Postal Order for a line-up of 20 beers from around Britain. Among the tipples which went on sale from Hallowe'en were Oakhill Black Magic Stout, Coach House Wizards Wonder, Exmoor Beast and Tomintoul Nessies Monster
DRINKERS at Moist, in Northgate, Blackburn, had a WKD time at the first in a series of special nights when Hallowe'en brought fancy dress. Wicked Wednesdays include free sampling from a special promotions team and free giveaways. Promotions are every
YE Olde Sparrowhawk in Wheatley Lane Road has a new landlady perfectly qualified to keep up its fine traditions of British innkeeping. Angela Butler, who was at the Cow and Calf, Ilkley, said: "I've got some ideas on keeping an interesting menu and ensuring
LICENSEES Stephen and Laura Forster celebrated their first anniversary in charge by topping up their tans after winning Daniel Thwaites' annual Sunshine Bonanza. The hosts at The Fleece Hotel, Penny Street, Blackburn took an all-expenses-paid trip to
BURY'S amazing Amy Hulmes, whose life spanned three centuries, has died just weeks after celebrating her 114th birthday. Earlier this year, she was recognised as the oldest person in the UK and Europe and the third oldest in the world. When asked about
STOCKPORT striker Shefki Kuqi has admitted he would jump at the chance of a move to Blackburn. As we revealed yesterday, the 24-year-old hotshot is currently being targeted by Ewood chief Graeme Souness. And a source close to the Albanian-born forward
THERE was a time when Sunday morning didn't exist. At least to me it didn't. Saturday nights were there to be enjoyed, right through until the early hours. Rarely did I, or any of my friends, surface from under the duvet before noon. And, before our children
PADDY Kenny has shrugged off the death threats made against him and revealed he has only one thing on his mind - to help Bury get three points against Cardiff tomorrow. The keeper has been the subject of some vicious hate mail since revealing in an interview
A TALK on the daredevil exploits of a former stunt pilot is to be given in Haslingden. George Aird will outline his 42-year career -- which included a spell with the Black Arrows flying a Hawker Hunter plane -- to the Rossendale Aviation Society. The
CONCERNED Haslingden residents are being invited to have their say and take part in a crime-busting community survey. The special study is being carried out by the newly-formed Haslingden Community Action Group to help draw up an action plan to improve
FIRE crews reported a busy bonfire night across the county with 245 call-outs to incidents during the night. Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said most of the calls had been to bonfires which had got out of control -- but said there were no serious
MOURNERS turned out in force to say farewell to popular pub landlord and charity champion Ken Pilling. Ken spent 32 years in the pub trade before he retired in 1998 after running pubs at a number of sites in Blackburn town centre, including Mincing Lane
IT IS time something was said about the football players in Blackburn's Witton Park. First, the language is atrocious. They can't hit a ball without using a swear word. How are children to learn any better when they hear adults using bad language while
TWO men and a youth have been jailed for a total of 11 years after a man was repeatedly stabbed in the head, neck and chest outside Blackburn Royal Infirmary in an unprovoked attack. A doctor at the hospital was also hit over the head with a saucepan
AFTER reading Derek Power's seven reasons for having a laugh at Burnley (Sport Letters, October 30) I would like to show Blackburn fans what the Clarets find humorous. 1) Spending over £100 million and still managing to get relegated. 2) Watching Le Saux
ACCRINGTON Stanley striker Lutel James has been named in an 18-man UniBond League squad who will face an FA XI at Altrincham on Monday November 19. James is the only Red selected to face a side which will comprise almost entirely of Conference players
BLACKBURN Hawks' hopes of qualifying for the next round of the Premier Cup were burnt out this weekend, after a 6-0 defeat by the Birmingham Rockets. The Hawks had expected to return to top form following a 6-3 loss to the Billingham Eagles last week,
JIM McCluskie could be forced to come out of retirement to help ease Rossendale's injury crisis. The former Morecambe and Accrington striker is ready to dust off his boots for tonight's FA Umbro Trophy first round replay at Bedworth United. He last played
WHATEVER difficulties may arise, tighter legislation on the sale of fireworks -- perhaps even to the extent of corner shops being banned from selling them altogether, as Blackburn police supremo Chief Superintendent John Thompson urges tonight -- is plainly
BURNLEY Garrick Club will be staging a famous five starting later this month. That Goodnight, by N J Crisp, will be directed by Dorothy Spencer from November 21 to 24. John Chapman's comedy Kindly Leave The Stage will take to the stage from January 23
BLACKBURN Drama Club will exit stage left from a familiar setting when its latest production ends on Saturday. It will be the last act for the club on its Blackburn College stage, where it has presented 130 plays and 520 performances over the past 37
MAY I as chairman of the Blackburn Auxiliary of the RSPCA's Lancashire East branch express my thanks to all our collectors for their unstinting efforts and especially to the people of Blackburn for their generosity on our annual flag day on October 16
MAY I congratulate Mrs S Love (Letters, October 26) on her outstanding remarks regarding the current attack on free speech in this country. I agree with her that the proposed Bill on the incitement of religious hatred is fundamentally flawed and is an
I WAS appalled at the judgment of Preston Crown Court Recorder Terence Rigby (LET, October 30). How many more thugs will walk free from our courts on the excuse they were too drunk to remember what happened? What would have happened if PC Wayne Curness
I SEETHE when I see able bodied people cockily walking off after parking on disabled spaces in car parks. You'll hear them say to their partners: "Well, we'll only be a few minutes --pointless looking any further." If you say anything, "What's it to do
Borrowdale United 0 Readstone United 5 BORROWDALE: Aidan Holgate, Stuart Sharples, James Mason, Richard Cunningham, Nathan McMullen, Shane Hudson, Robert Ingham, Nicholas Gaughan, James Wilde, Josh Whitehead and Thomas Green READSTONE: Rhys Woodworth,
Borrowdale United 0 Readstone United 5 BORROWDALE: Aidan Holgate, Stuart Sharples, James Mason, Richard Cunningham, Nathan McMullen, Shane Hudson, Robert Ingham, Nicholas Gaughan, James Wilde, Josh Whitehead and Thomas Green READSTONE: Rhys Woodworth,
Old Toll Bar 1 Kings Inn 0 Lee Greenacre (keeper) Vital last minute save capped off fine display...8 Roy Gardner (right back) Rolled his sleeves up and got stuck in. Joined attacking moves after the break...7 Gary Walsh (left back) A few errors on the
METROLINK services between Bury and Altrincham were halted yesterday (Mon Nov 5) because of an overhead power failure. Bosses were forced to provide a replacement bus service running from St Peter's Square, Manchester, through to Altrincham. This meant
PUPILS at St Peter's Primary School in Bury went football crazy when they received some top soccer tips from the experts. A team from Manchester United's Football in the Community spent the day with the youngsters, putting them through their paces. And
PROLIFIC black pudding eaters from Bury are needed to represent the town in a gut-buster guzzling contest. The Black Pudding Championships 2001 will be held in Oldham on Sunday, November 25. Seven Bury entrants are needed to take part in the contest,
ACADEMY chief Bobby Downes has called for a crackdown on discipline in the wake of Saturday's games against Manchester United. Downes read the riot act after Ciaran Donnelly and Ian Black each saw red as both the Under 19s and Under 17s crashed to disappointing
THE first full council meeting without Harry Brooks began with Coun Rafique Malik wishing him well in the future and saying that he had served the council and his constituents to the best of his ability. Harry has stepped down as independent leader of
THREE plays in an evening is the order of the day at Todmorden Hippodrome Theatre on both Friday and Saturday this week. It is the third year of running Studio Productions have taken over the Hippodrome Foyer, Halifax Road, Todmorden. Andrew Rawlinson
THE work of the child health team at Burnley Health Care NHS Trust has been highlighted as a national "beacon" of good practice. The team responsible for caring for young patients from Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale, has achieved a national first by becoming
A SCHOOL warned its pupils to be vigilant today after an attack on a youngster who was squirted in the face with detergent. Children at St Theodore's RC High School, Burnley, have been told not to go alone into the town centre at lunchtime following the
MEMBERS of a House of Commons Select Committee saw first hand the extent of Burnley's housing problem during a tour of the town's poorest areas. They were on a fact finding mission, touring some of England's worst affected areas, for a report to be submitted
POLICE called to a house found a sobbing and dishevelled woman who claimed her boyfriend had turned the bedroom upside down. Burnley Magistrates heard how Peter James William Moulding, 24, said he would not go with officers because he was working the
A TEENAGER has been cautioned for possession of cannabis after a group of grammar school pupils were caught experimenting with the drug. The teenager is one of a group of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School students, all believed to be girls, suspended after
CLARETS' youth team will take on Manchester City at Maine Road in the AXA FA Youth Cup and manager Terry Pashley admitted: "It is a great draw for us. "We will be coming up against a club with an academy and we have not played City for a couple of years
AFTER another disappointing attendance at Turf Moor at the weekend, Clarets chairman Barry Kilby is urging fans to get back into the football habit and help the club's promotion push. Just over 13,000 watched the 2-0 defeat of Sheffield United and that
DRINKERS will have a jolly good time at The Wharf, Eanam, Blackburn, when the pub launches a brand new comedy club. The first event is on Thursday with special guest Chris Lynam, who was the first presenter to appear on television for comic relief, and
REGULARS of a Blackburn pub are asked to help search for an absent friend before the licensees move out. Alison Yates and Dave Haworth, of the Printers Arms, are anxious for the return of their pet cat Jasper who went walkabout last Monday. The eight-year-old
LIMEFIELD resident Jim Metcalf was setting off to Japan this week as a member of a delegation from UK Local Government. Jim, former borough planning officer who is now working in Halifax for Calderdale Council, will be among a party of ten guests invited
DETECTIVES ruled out foul play after a former jeweller was found dead on the kitchen floor of his Bury home with facial bruises and a bloody nose. Bachelor Stuart Hamilton Renwick (55), of Bamford Close, was discovered by his brother John on August 7,
AFTER another disappointing attendance at Turf Moor at the weekend, Clarets chairman Barry Kilby is urging fans to get back into the football habit and help the club's promotion push. Just over 13,000 watched the 2-0 defeat of Sheffield United and that
I WOULD like to send my deepest sympathy to Burnley FC's assistant manager Sam Ellis, and his family after the tragic death of their son, Tim. I'm a life-long Blackburn fan, but when a horrific accident like this happens, football and rivalry become obsolete
A SCHEME to improve the health of people living in Blackburn has been awarded a grant of £1m. The Healthy Living in Blackburn North scheme has been given the cash from the National Lottery's New Opportunities Fund. The cash, announced today, will be used
I AM the club statistician for Workington RUFC and currently I am obtaining past league results of the club since their league debut in 1985-86 in the old Girobank League. However, one result has so far escaped me -- that of the "Zebras" 1986-87 home
TWO nurses could face criminal charges following the death of an 18-month-old boy from Blackburn at Alder Hey Hospital. An inquest, opened and adjourned yesterday by Liverpool Coroner Andre Rebello, was told that police have spoken to the pair since the
FURTHER to the most recent bleatings of Stephen Cummings (LET, October 30), I would like to point out that if he were to find himself stuck in a lift with a supporter of Blackburn Rovers, he would at least be in the company of somebody with recent experience
VANDALS struck at a church just yards from where plain-clothed police patrolled a vandal-hit park. Police hailed the crackdown in Corporation Park, Blackburn, a success with only one incident of "suspicious activity," but a vicar at a nearby church was
RAMSBOTTOM UNITED are furious that they will lose top scorer Russell Brierley for the next four games. Brierley received a week's ban for accumulating five yellow cards and another week's ban for a sending off for two bookable offences. The club objected
A 19-YEAR-OLD Blackpool woman was seriously sexually assaulted at knifepoint in a town centre alleyway on Friday (November 2). The young woman was attacked near East Topping Street car park at around 2.45am after a night out at a promenade nightclub.
FORTY thousand pounds worth of computer software has been grabbed during an armed raid at a Bury company. Now the bosses of A1 Computers are offering a £10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the four strong gang who beat
