CHILDREN composed a song to tell their school site supervisor how much he would be missed. Frank Manning retired as caretaker at St Joseph's RC School, Stacksteads, after working there for 10 years. Head teacher Mrs Margaret Donnelly said: "All of the
SO, Chris Sutton wants to leave Rovers - what a surprise. We carry him for almost an entire season and he believes he does not 'owe' us one season in the First Division to assist in our swift return to the Premiership. As the old has-been Alan Shearer
WORKERS at British Aerospace are to get a say on how much their bosses are paid. A new initiative at the defence company, which employs 12,000 in Lancashire, will see staff polled on the popularity of managers. Results will be directly linked to directors
MARK Robertson looks set to continue his burgeoning career at Turf Moor. The midfielder returned home to Australia for the summer and got married on Saturday. He is now on honeymoon in Fiji but will return to Burnley by the end of the month. And it appears
T N TAYLOR (Sports Letters, June 8) berates Blackburn Rovers board for charging season ticket holders the same price for the coming season as they paid last season in the Premier League. In my opinion, the Board have been very reasonable with their price
FORMER Coronation Street star Lynne Perrie was a surprise dinner at an East Lancashire bistro. And passing fans serenaded 'Poison' Ivy Brennan with the theme tune of the TV soap as she left with her host, businessman Kevin Horkin, from Oswaldtwistle.
THE government has set itself a tall order in seeking to halve the number of under-18 teenage pregnancies by the end of the next decade - not least because of the immensity of the problem, but also because of its complexity. Yet there is no denying that
LANCASHIRE Under 13s began their season with an emphatic 117 run victory against Cumbria at Bolton Indians CC. Lancashire made a steady start with Jonathan Clare (Burnley) and Nick Wood (Bolton) putting on 37 before Clare was bowled for 12. Wood (41)
ANDY White will roll back the years tonight when he takes part in the last four of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph-sponsored Harold Ryden Trophy. The Pleasington member, who turned 36 on Sunday, last made it through to the semi-finals of East Lancashire's
WHAT A GOOD start to my Royal Ascot week when my horse Lady Iona came second at 50-1 in the 8.45pm at Pontefract last night, just as I have finalised plans to move house to North Yorkshire later this month. Ribble Assembly is running at Nottingham with
WE are being plagued by boys on motor bikes riding at speed up and down the field which is known as Bailey's Field in Darwen. I have seen them tearing up the paths which are regularly used by many people walking with children and dogs and expecting all
IT is interesting that Councillor Simon Danczuk has confessed (LET, June 10) to being one of the art experts who chose the naked stone man on behalf of the rest of us in Blackburn with Darwen. His comments about local schools being consulted was classic
WE are the family of one of the children from Salesbury School who needed to appeal against the decision by Lancashire education authority to send our child to school in Accrington. For the past 25 years, children from Salesbury have gone on to Ribblesdale
A "REBEL" bid for a £25 million cash package for Burnley could cause immeasurable damage to the town's standing in the eyes of the Government, a council chief claimed today. Deputy council leader Rafique Malik said the proposal by the Daneshouse Community
Burnley MP Peter Pike has backed the government drive to cut teenage pregnancies despite the fact that it involves offering contraceptives and advice on sexual matters to under 16s. But he has expressed concern that under-18 mums are to be refused council
A COUNCILLOR who was the victim of violence in Padiham town centre has revealed that furious residents and shopkeepers are planning to march through the town to protest over lack of policing. And Burnley council leader Stuart Caddy has responded to the
MARK Robertson looks set to continue his burgeoning career at Turf Moor. The midfielder returned home to Australia for the summer and got married on Saturday. He is now on honeymoon in Fiji but will return to Burnley by the end of the month. And it appears
BLACKBURN Rovers have not tabled a bid for Crystal Palace's highly-rated defender Hayden Mullins as the vultures circle around Selhurst Park. Rovers were reported to have offered £2.5 million for the 20-year-old, who burst on to the Nationwide League
TRANSPORT giant Stagecoach, which carries thousands of East Lancashire bus passengers every day, is set to take over North America's largest bus company. Stagecoach, which is based in Perth in Scotland, said it would make an offer of 42 US dollars a share
THREE visits to our head office and printing plant will extend classroom work on our literacy project for a Blackburn school. More than 40 pupils in Year Six at Griffin Park County Primary School are currently using our Super Story Search material to
WALLCOVERINGS firm Graham & Brown is on a roll. The Blackburn based firm, one of East Lancashire's largest private owned companies, has been awarded the Investors in People staff training and development standard. The firm, which employs more than
IT'S always nice to meet schools who are taking part in our NIE project when they make trips to our head office and printing plant, and even better when they write to say how much they have enjoyed the visit. More than 50 pupils from Crawshawbooth County
TWO developers have put in bids for Pendle Council-owned land off York Street, Nelson. The site, which runs down the back of houses in neighbouring Bath Street, has been earmarked for housing. Last October Maunders Westbury offered to buy the 6.25 acre
ONE of Darwen's biggest employers could be sold within the next two or three weeks. Negotiations are under way between Chapman Industries and an unnamed firm for the purchase of the Chapman Envelopes business. Managing director John Townend said he could
A PRIMARY school headteacher has resigned after allegations into the way national tests on pupils were carried out. Philip McDermott, 50, resigned by letter as head of St Paul's CE School, Hoddlesden, a month after he was suspended by governors amid allegations
IN REFERENCE to R Prescot (Sports Letters, June 8). Are we STILL going on about this? It's about time that Clarets and Rovers fans stopped trying to intellectualise their rivalry with these verbal salvoes conducted through the local media and kept them
A CLOTHING store boss has vowed not to be beaten after ram raiders targeted his business for the second time in a week. Mario Bellusci, of Darwen, has been running his Rawtenstall designer clothing business Bellusci Uomo for just 10 weeks. He said business
ALTHOUGH I have not always agreed with Neil Bramwell, his column (LET, June 10) on the Bulgaria fiasco, hit two nails on the head - namely, Shearer's and Keegan's heads. Only last week, we were celebrating Shearer's 50 international games. How many of
A TEAM of detectives investigating a brutal sex attack on a schoolboy are searching through hours of security camera tapes for clues about the crime. The 13-year-old boy was raped in the town centre multi-storey car park after he was befriended by a pervert
FORTY years ago, I refereed a lot of local football matches. Watching soccer on TV nowadays prompts me to ask present-day refs to explain why goalies are never penalised for carrying, why no foul throws are ever given, why at the kick off the receiver
I WONDER if the English cricket followers and observers of the game realise what a jewel in the crown we have unearthed in Andrew Flintoff. Surely as he matures, this young man will dominate not only the English county scene, but, with the luck every
MORE young men abuse drugs in East Lancashire than anywhere else in the North West, latest figures have revealed. The 1998 East Lancashire Public Health report showed more than one per cent of all men in their 20s used drugs, the highest number in the
THE mother of the five-year-old boy who ran for help when seven-year-old Shaun Smith fell into the Leeds and Liverpool Canal has spoken for the first time about her young son's ordeal. The 24-year-old mother-of-three opened her heart on the day Shaun,
BLACKBURN Rovers have not tabled a bid for Crystal Palace's highly-rated defender Hayden Mullins as the vultures circle around Selhurst Park. Rovers were reported to have offered £2.5 million for the 20-year-old, who burst on to the Nationwide League
FOLLOWING my concern (Sports Letters, January 12) that the FA Cup was losing its appeal and magic, one of the newspapers recently had an article on the very same subject. The writer was worried that the FA Cup - probably the greatest knockout competition
Lunchtime Recital by organist Brady Johnson, Blackburn Cathedral, 1pm. Rossendale Aviation Society meet Haslingden Cricket Club, 8pm. 'East European Air Shows and Museums' - a slide show by Doug Revell. Blackburn Rambling Association meet Oddfellows Hall
A CEMENT firm is planning to burn 100 tonnes a week of demolition waste in its kilns, the Environment Agency has confirmed. The government pollution watchdog is holding two open surgeries to discuss the controversial plans by Castle Cement to "recycle
RELICS of the Second World War's Home Guard came to light in a Blackburn attic. Army experts were called in by the police after workmen renovating offices at Wellington Street St Johns came across the items. They took away mustard gas stimulants used
MARTIN Meadows has been rewarded for his impressive drive on the Scottish Rally with a seat in the factory Proton team. Although the Clitheroe driver was forced to retire from the event with a broken wheel, his performance on the stages was enough to
LANCASHIRE Evening Telegraph tipster Harry Barlow will call last orders on his eight-year reign at The Swan at Whalley at the end of the month. But it won't signal the end of his weekly 'Stable Whispers' column or his involvement in the two racing syndicates
KEN Wright has made a shock return to Victory Park as the new manager of Chorley. The 52-year-old is back at the UniBond League First Division club for a second spell in the manager's hot-seat, nearly 10 years after resigning from the post at the end
LANCASHIRE's Dav Whatmore was due at Lord's today to try to convince England chiefs that he is the right man to take over from David Lloyd. Whatmore is one of three coaches being interviewed by a six man panel - the others are Duncan Fletcher and Jack
THE establishment of the statue of a naked man close to a junction of the M65 has rightly caused disgust (LET, May 29). The tastes of the councillors who approved of it have reached rock bottom! D BULLEN (Mr), Albany Road, Blackburn. Converted for the
WHY on earth does Mrs H Hamer (Letters, June 9) assume that councillors "throw money about as if it is going out of fashion" in regard to the sculpture near the M65 at Lower Eccleshill? If Mrs Hamer had done one ounce of research, she would find out that
THE semi-finals of the Open Knockout Cup will feature Burnley v Feniscowles and Blackburn Northern v Parkwood. In Saturday's quarter-finals Northern had an easy 9-0 victory against Whalley, while holders Feniscowles disposed of Accrington 7-1. Burnley
A TAXI driver suffered a fractured cheekbone when he confronted two men who stood in the road in St James Street making obscene gestures and then banged on his vehicle. The driver tried to prevent the men leaving the scene but was again punched about
DEALS worth more than £226 million have been clinched by aero engine giant Rolls-Royce. The engine orders announced by the firm, which employs more than 1,200 in Barnoldswick, got the Paris Air Show off to a flying start for East Lancashire's aerospace
A BUSINESSMAN involved in a £2,000 customs fraud, has walked free from court. Burnley Crown Court heard how Paul Lorriman, boss of a pallet firm, had almost 10,000 cigarettes and 124 litres of spirits at one of his addresses but he said they were "Christmas
DIRECTORS of Seton Scholl Healthcare, owners of the Cupal site in Blackburn, shared bonuses of £301,000 last year. Marketing boss Dienop George enjoyed the biggest bonus of £88,000 taking his total pay package in the last financial year to £340,000, up
A MAJOR deal has been struck by East Lancashire's building society. The Nelson-based Marsden has secured an agreement with life and pensions company CGU LIfe. Under the arrangement the Marsden will not offer investment advice to customers but will introduce
HOW well do you know the history of our area? How much more would you like to know? Ron Freethy, our very own writer on all things Lancastrian, has delved into our past to produce material for a special supplement packed with fascinating facts about local
A REWARD is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a cash bag snatcher. A man parked his car in Back Albert Street, Nelson, at about 10.30am on Wednesday, June 2 and walked from it carrying a cash bag. He was approached from behind
POLICE hunting an attacker who subjected an 18-year-old student to a terrifying ordeal at knifepoint have spoken to a witness who saw a man fitting the attacker's description shortly before the incident. Detectives have appealed to anyone in the Gib Hill
A PRIMARY school headteacher has resigned after allegations into the way national tests on pupils were carried out. Philip McDermott, 50, resigned by letter as head of St Paul's CE School, Hoddlesden, a month after he was suspended by governors amid allegations
A COUNCILLOR who was the victim of violence in Padiham town centre has revealed that furious residents and shopkeepers are planning to march through the town to protest over lack of policing. And Burnley council leader Stuart Caddy has responded to the
