MAY I appeal to the owners of cats and dogs to have them neutered? Not only will their pets have happier lives, but it will help to reduce the excess of unwanted kittens and puppies. Pets are not 'wanting to go out' and be locked out of their homes. Driven
FIREWORKS will be going off when Kelly Isherwood from Rossendale starts her job as an au pair in the USA. The 18-year-old will be joining her new family in Melrose, Massachusetts, just in time for Independence Day celebrations. Kelly, who lives in with
IS the Lancashire League crown heading back to Blackburn Road? Not if gifted Queenslander Shawn Flegler has anything to do with it. While the bookies appear to have written Lowerhouse off, installing Rishton as the white-hot title favourites, Lowerhouse
HARP music hit a historical note as tourism promoters launched the new Pendle Witch Trail. The trail between Pendle Heritage Centre, Barrowford, and Lancaster Castle follows the last footsteps of the area's most notorious historical figures. It is aimed
COUNCIL chiefs have defended their decision to axe a meals on wheels service to make a saving of around £25,000 a year. Members of Hyndburn's Housing Committee voted to stop the service from September . The 240 elderly people living in the borough who
FOOTBALL fanatics from across East Lancashire are bracing themselves for a soccer explosion when England and Spain light the blue touch paper on the Euro 96 fireworks at 3pm today. But hundreds of local holidaymakers have turned their backs on England
RENEWED calls have been made for closed-circuit TV cameras in Clayton-le-Moors. Old folk living in the Willow Close, Lower Barnes Street and Alexandra Close areas were too frightened to report crime, Hyndburn police and community forum was told. Children
WHILE out walking in the Feniscowles area on the afternoon of Monday, June 17, a most disturbing incident took place. On approaching the back street of Fielden Place and Eclipse Road, on foot, a small boy appeared riding a tricycle and was apparently
GREAT Harwood are on course for another Ramsbottom Cup party. But the defending 1995 cup holders will have to subdue the muscle and firepower of Barnoldswick's big hitting Aussie James Peterson to secure a cup final place on July 28. Peterson wrote his
BLACKBURN Hawks look set to compete in the newly formed British ice hockey Northern Premier League. And manager Mike Cockayne still hopes that "at least six or seven" of last season's Division One runners-up stars will be back at the Arena in August.
THERE'S plenty of encouragement for anglers of all persuasions this week, with decent catches reported from most venues as the decent weather continues. The first week of the new season on the Ribble has not proved the disappointment some may have expected
KILL your speed before your kill a child,' is the latest TV reminder to drivers, showing three children who died in separate incidents. The campaign should also run in tandem with a reminder to parents and their responsibilities when young offspring cause
A PENSIONER has labelled a scheme to install central heating in run-down council flats in Huncoat as ludicrous. Evelyn Ashworth claims she has been waiting a year for Hyndburn council to carry out much needed repairs to her home in Oakhurst Avenue. And
ARSONISTS left a deadly 'gas bomb' trap for firefighters after setting light to a derelict house. Intruders entered the property in Barnes Street, Clayton-le-Moors, ignited separate fires in the kitchen and on the stairs, and then opened the valve on
I WROTE on April 22 about the unfairness of London and Norfolk being chosen as a trial for £1,100 free nursery vouchers. These were for state or private nursery schools, and would have benefited single mothers in the North West. The House of Lords has
SO 'politicians are pawns' are they? or at least in the closed and nightmarish opinion of Mrs Sylvia Noble they are (Letters, June 18). In her display of verbal tantrums she bluntly states in her numbered points the biggest load of old codswallop it's
SCHOOL governors in East Lancashire are being urged not to break the law by refusing to submit test results for primary school league tables. The Lancashire Association of School Governing Bodies is advising members not to respond to some head teachers
