BURNLEY'S battle against crime got a massive £200,000 boost today as the government backed closed circuit TV schemes in the town centre and a school. The town centre is to get £193,000 to help pay for a comprehensive camera system that police and the
ADRIAN HEATH is closing his Euro-transfer net on a SECOND target from Portugal. The Clarets chief has revealed he has started negotiations with another Portuguese attacker four days after flying his first target over to England for transfer talks. Heath
MORE than 60 jobs had been lost and four managers had left in a shake-up at a Padiham factory. The Thorn-EMI plant at Padiham was bought by the Myson Group in a £42 million deal and the new owners had carried out what they called a 'restructuring.' It
AN AMERICAN skater has jetted in to Lancashire to gain his "qualifications" for this year's British championships in November. Andres Lopez, who has been training in Seattle with British skater Kerry Jones, has been sent from the States by former five-times
THE BARMY politically-correct are at it again. Hacking into our kids' childhoods in a bid to drag them into the adult world before they're barely past puberty. Youth workers at Stacksteads Junior Youth Club want to cut the amount of time kids spend playing
FEMALES still suffer in many areas of our national and social life, says our own chief constable Pauline Clare - and without a doubt she knows what she is talking about. As the first woman in Britain to head a police force, Mrs Clare worked her way up
THREE East Lancashire schools and a town centre are to get closed circuit TV systems to crack crime, it was announced today. Our Lady and St John School, Blackburn, and Peel Park County Primary School, Accrington, are to be among the first in the country
JONATHAN Fielding is ready for a four-day test of cricketing stamina. Tomorrow the Clitheroe professional takes his side to Barnoldswick for the Vaux Ribblesdale League match of the day. Then, 48-hours later it is down to the tricky business of a Nat
MORE than 100 workers in Blackburn are celebrating their share of a £2 million 'thank-you' from bosses, after helping to put their company back in profit. About 120 employees of bearings firm NSK RHP, on Roman Road, are among 4,500 staff throughout Europe
BLACKBURN Rovers rock Colin Hendry predicts England can go all the way to Euro 96 glory - with Alan Shearer leading an unstoppable charge to the final. The Scotland kingpin saw a quarter final place cruelly snatched away after Patrick Kluivert's late
DO you know of anyone who deserves recognition for building a new life after stroke? Perhaps you know of a family or couple who, following a stroke, have worked together to overcome adversity? Or a carer who has helped a friend or relative overcome the
LANCASHIRE Chief Constable Pauline Clare has hit out at the raw deal she claims females still suffer in many areas of national and local life. Mrs Clare, Britain's first woman police chief, was speaking at Fair Play North West's Agenda for Action conference
I WAS more than a little amused by the pretentious sentiments of Trisha Buzzard in the article 'Tory blasts Blair ego trip' (LET, June 12), particularly in the light of events over Europe which are occurring in the party she owes allegiance to. If personalities
LONG-SUFFERING neighbours have been successful in getting a couple evicted from their council home after claiming they caused continual disturbance. And today Blackburn Borough Council thanked the residents for coming forward and giving evidence against
THERE was hardly a dry eye in the club when cancer victim Chrissie Rey went on stage at a benefit concert at Guy Fold Cabaret Club, Padiham. Chrissie, 34, has terminal cancer and brain tumours - and the concert could be her swan-song. During her singing
ARMED raiders threatened to shoot a cook in a £45,000 smash-and-grab raid on a town centre shop. Astonished restaurant workers and diners watched as two masked gunmen, carrying hand guns burst into Pelle Menswear in Blackburn and made their getaway with
ENGINEER Malcolm Beck, of Burnley, is one of 11 finalists in the 1996 Environment Award for Engineers organised by the Engineering Council. He was nominated for his work on a waste minimisation programme for Walkers Snack Foods. Walkers had been attempting
A SPARKLING third round score of 69 has put Pleasington's Ged Furey in the frame for the Glenmuir Club Professionals' Championship at County Lough Golf club in Ireland. Furey's 69 handed the Pleasington professional a total of 212 and seven under for
I AGREE with your Opinion Column (June 5) about Gwen Mayor, the Dunblane schoolteacher who died along with her class of children. I wholeheartedly agree with your comments, and I only hope John Blunt read it too. His pet hobby at the moment seems to be
MUM Veronica Hammett was horrified when she saw what her tiny daughters had uncovered in the garden of her new home. What she found was the maggot-covered remains of a badly decomposed Alsatian-type dog. And her horror turned to anger when the evil smelling
A NEW £100,000 centre believed to be the first of its kind in the country has opened its doors. Industry representatives from across the country attended the official opening of the Laundry Technology Centre in Oswaldtwistle. Textile firm Hilden Manufacturing
READERS may have seen the BBC documentary 'Di-Di's Story,' shown over the Easter weekend, about an orang-utan pet which was returned to the forest in Borneo. Sadly, however, not all rescued orang-utans at the Wanariset Reintroduction Centre in Borneo
A SOCCER mad England supporter and her Spanish senor are set for an "olM-N" love match as England and Spain do battle at Wembley tomorrow. But the East Lancashire love birds have not let the Euro 96 football clash foul up their wedding plans. Janet Marie
WE need help from rheumatoid arthritis sufferers who are also pregnant. Researchers at the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council's Epidemiology Research Unit need help for urgent research into this illness. Doctors want to monitor symptoms in the latter stages
A LAST-DITCH Labour move to save the "Mayor's fiver" Christmas payment to Pendle's over-80s was defeated last night despite support from Tory councillors. Councillors voted 26-20 to throw out an amendment to save the £5 gift and to ask officers to look
EXPORTS champion Harry Twells OBE brought his overseas trade message to East Lancashire. Mr Twells, chairman of the National Exports Clubs Advisory Committee, was guest speaker at the annual luncheon of East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce and Industry
