THE hunt is on for handy people in the Hyndburn area. The borough has been selected as one of 10 pilot areas for a new project being launched by Age Concern and British Gas to help elderly and disabled people. They are searching for volunteers to carry
UNLIKE Mrs M Duckworth (Letters, January 29), I found Michael Gagin's view on hanging (Letters, January 19) to be a sensible one and not confusing at all. While Mrs Duckworth is right to say that it is unclear whether most people are for bringing back
A HELMSHORE church is looking forward to the dedication of a new pipe organ on Sunday. It will be dedicated during Evensong at St Thomas's Church, Musbury, by the Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev Alan Chesters, who will be joined by the choir of Blackburn
MORE than 50 out-patients cancelled hospital appointments in the first hour of work today as the wintry blitz made it impossible for them to reach Burnley and Rossendale hospitals. But Health Trust carers battled in to work and all 20 hospital clinics
REGARDING your report "Labour leftist Norman quits in anger (LET, January 31), it was with some disdain that I read the remarks attributed to Norman Gregson. One thing which I find extremely puzzling is, if Mr Gregson is so superior to the rest of us
GWRENN (Letters, January 23) gives well-deserved praise to the staff at Blackburn Infirmary. But, just before and during the last war, I worked as a nurse and when on night duty there was never more than one nurse on a sick ward with 16 or 17 bed-ridden
BRITISH GAS is to part company with its controversial chief executive Cedric Brown as part of a top-level restructuring. Mr Brown was at the centre of a huge row last year over a 75 per cent pay increase and his departure will give a little solace to
THE standards in primary school education are even worse than we thought. We now learn from the annual report of Mr Chris Woodhead, chief inspector for schools, that standards need to be raised in half the 20,000 primary schools in England and two-fifths
BUDDING "gladiators" can save pounds as they pile on the muscles with special money-off tickets on offer from Blackburn Council. Customers can now buy a book of 12 tickets for weight training rooms at Shadsworth, Darwen and Audley Sports Centre for the
A CONTROVERSIAL plan for housing development on the site of a former farm in Clitheroe has been submitted to the borough council again. When the project for land at Hawthorne Farm, Hawthorne Place, was first put forward in 1993 it caused a storm of protest
GOING to the dentist is not something most people relish - but receptionist Emma Pickup has always got a big smile for her patients. Emma, who works at the Lynton dental practice in Accrington, has been chosen as the regional winner of the Denplan Care
TRADING standards officers from East Lancashire have been swapping secrets of their success with colleagues from the Far East. Colonel Peeropham Premooti, head of commercial fraud in Bangkok, met trading standards officers from Lancashire to discuss counterfeiting
ORGANISERS of the £1 million SuperScan appeal are desperate to be sold a dummy! The fund-raising team is seeking a life-size dummy - male or female - to be used during an open day at Blackburn Infirmary's radiology and X-ray department. The dummy will
BOYS at St Theodore's high school, Burnley, will be making a change for the better this week as they learn about healthy living. Each pupil will be asked to accept the challenge of making a healthy change like eating less sweets or taking more exercise
A MAJOR campaign to give Lancashire's part-time workers a better deal was being launched today. The TUC and Citizens' Advice Bureaux have joined forces to organise the campaign to highlight what they claim is the raw deal the 137,000 part-timers in the
ANGRY office workers in Accrington are calling on a council to drop moves to introduce parking restrictions to the town. Town hall chiefs are planning to alter the current regulations in a bid to bring more shoppers into Accrington. And if the new rules
THERE are only 13 games remaining but who would bet against Alan Shearer eclipsing the one Ewood goalscoring record that seemed out of reach even to his extraordinary talents? Probably not Ladbrokes, whose odds on Shearer scoring the first goal in each
YOUNGSTERS were given the thumbs-up for sledging today as schools across East Lancashire closed because of the weather. All areas were affected with many schools in Blackburn, Hyndburn, Burnley, Rossendale, Pendle and the Ribble Valley shut as conditions
CANCER victims were being forced to find their own transport home from hospital despite being sick after treatment. Today a vicar hit out at the system which deepened the anguish of cancer patients. The Rev Brian Morgan, of Immanuel and All Saints, Oswaldtwistle
STACKS of hospital uniforms were ruined in a £50,000 "pigeon dropping" shock at Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn. Store rooms were turned into a huge pigeon loft after the health authority cut back on maintenance. Uniforms and medical equipment were left
WE THINK it is absolutely disgusting that £13,000 is to be spent in Blackburn on those horrible "themed" posts that are supposed to be art (LET, January 26). When one thinks of the needs of local causes such as the scanner appeal, Macmillan nurses, the
NEARLY 300 MPs are calling for an increase of 80 per cent to bring their present wage, excluding perks, to £64,000 a year. Are they worth it? No! The largest portion of the public, who pay their wages, never gets any consideration from them. They are
ONCE again the desire of the coward who hides behind the pseudonym "John Blunt" to be clever has run ahead of his ability to be clever. He calls me an "apparatchik" (LET, January 31). If he reveals himself, I promise him a signed copy of a dictionary
THE Trustee Savings Bank Lancashire Schools' Cross Country Championships were held at Witton Park, Blackburn in excellent conditions. All our East Lancashire teams showed well with Hyndburn producing our only champion team, in the final race of the day
WHAT a wonderful gesture it was for Blackburn West Rotary Club to give their support to the Stroke Unit of Park Lee Hospital. My husband, who is 88, fell and broke his hip last month. He also suffers from Parkinson's Disease. But the care and help he
ANGRY cycling enthusiasts gathered to fight what they say are crazy traffic calming measures installed on an East Lancashire road. Members of CyCEL - the Cycle Concern for East Lancashire, met on the A674 at Bank Top, near Redlam, Blackburn, to show their
PARENTS who went back to primary school have come top of the class. Seven mothers of youngsters at Audley Infants School in Blackburn decided to get involved by helping to teach their children during normal lessons. They took part in the Parents As Educators
INNOVATIVE Lancashire firms can now apply for a slice of a multi million grants cake. The DTI's SMART Competition for 1996 is open to companies with 50 employees or less and offers awards of up to £45,000 to fund commercial feasibility studies into innovative
A NEW executive director has been appointed to the board of Hyndburn Transport Limited. He is the company accountant Robert Morpeth, former finance director for Lancaster City Transport. Mr Morpeth will officially join the board later this month on the
LABOUR'S policies on a minimum wage and the social chapter would destroy tens of thousands of jobs in the North West, Tory party vice-chairman Charles Hendry told Pendle business leaders. Mr Hendry was speaking at a dinner organised by Earby Conservatives
MINISTERS have been urged to speed up measures to slash the red tape strangling business. Ribble Valley Tory MP Nigel Evans made the plea after Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Roger Freeman, said that last year more than 500 unnecessary regulations
THE three young ladies who took a lump hammer to the warplanes under construction at British Aerospace's Warton plant have my full support and admiration. It would appear that this company is happy to do business with any despicable right wing regime
THE Burnley board of directors have handed Jimmy Mullen precious extra time to halt Burnley's Second Division slide. I can reveal that chairman Frank Teasdale has told the Turf Moor chief his job is safe. But the board have demanded an IMMEDIATE improvement
AN out-of-control car ran across a footpath and demolished a school wall just an hour before the area would have been packed with youngsters. The Nissan Micra wrecked an iron gate only feet from the entrance to St Peter's primary school, Burnley, packed
DAVID Eyres believes the next 25 days will make or break Burnley's Division Two promotion ambitions. Eyres had been scheduled to return to his former club Blackpool tonight for the first of an exhausting seven-game fixture programme before the Seasiders
MIKE Newell is facing a likely two-match suspension following his latest yellow card in Saturday's Ewood derby against Bolton, writes PETER WHITE. The Blackburn Rovers striker went into the game on the brink of a ban, with 18 disciplinary points against
