A 37-YEAR-OLD man was being quizzed by police today following an alleged arson attack on three flats. Lighted material was pushed through the letterboxes of the three homes at Westwood Road, Blackburn, early today. And police and fire officers today said
RAY Harford will spread his scouting network far and wide again this weekend in the continuing search for the two major signings that could turn Blackburn Rovers back into a title-challenging force again next season. The Rovers boss has already made a
LENA Holding has had four children and is 70 this weekend, but that's where her similarity with the Queen ends... For as the Queen wakes up at Sandringham tomorrow to take a birthday cup of Lapsang Souchong tea from a silver tray delivered by a maid,
YOUR regular correspondent, David Pearson, is courageous and almost alone in continuing to defend the record of the current Conservative Government. Over recent years he has also been a regular candidate in the local government elections and yet, this
IN reply to Blackburn Council's Conservative group leader Coun Don Heatlie-Jackson's remarks about his party's emphasis being on the quality of candidates rather than quantity, in a democracy we count hands not heads. A more honest answer over why the
CHRIS Robinson and Tracey Lobo were determined to have a wedding with a difference. And tonight millions of viewers will see the pair tie the knot on television after winning the wackiest game show on air. Chris and Tracey applied to the Shane Richie
LABOUR MP Janet Anderson bitterly attacked the Government for torpedoing her bill to compile a national computerised register of child sex perverts. Mrs Anderson is appalled that a Tory Whip prevented her plan making further progress in the Commons yesterday
HAVE you or your family ever had connections with the Unitarian movement? Did you attend a Unitarian chapel as a child or for a special service? If so, you are warmly invited to a special service at Nazareth Unitarian Chapel, Knight Hill, Padiham, tomorrow
AS spring flowers begin to show, please be careful that you don't accidentally 'clear up' a hedgehog with your garden fork. A hedgehog's nest is in a sheltered spot, often under a hedge or deep in the wood pile. It is made of dried leaves and assorted
POLICE Inspector David Burrows is retiring after 30 years with the Lancashire force. In three decades of operational police work he has patrolled the streets across East Lancashire. And the 49-year-old Accrington inspector says he has never had a single
A NEW play area has been officially unveiled to provide much-needed facilities for local youngsters on a housing estate. Coun Margaret Bell opened the playground on Avon Drive, Barnoldswick, then invited youngsters from Coates estate to "test drive" the
ADRIAN Heath has an eye on the future and a stark message for the Turf Moor playing staff: "Show me what you're made of!" The Burnley boss is a man in a hurry - to put enough points in the bag to assure Second Division safety, so that he can start to
REGARDING your editorial (LET, April 15) on perceptions of 'new' Labour and whether the party has changed, don't you think that most of the alarm is not only foolish, but also blown out of all proportion? Take Rodney Bickerstaffe and Roy Hattersley, supposedly
ARMED police laid siege to a terraced house after reports of shots being fired. The two-hour drama was sparked after a neighbour raised the alarm after hearing shots from the house in Rupert Street, Nelson, just before 7pm last night. Armed response vehicles
MP Gordon Prentice met voters of the future when he visited a nursery school to discuss the implications of the Government's new nursery voucher scheme. The high-level politics went over the heads of youngsters at Woodfield Nursery in Sefton Street, Brierfield
