BLACKBURN Blackburn Home Organ and Keyboard Club, St Stephen's Conservative Club, Robinson Street, Little Harwood, 8pm. Social Evening. Blackburn Gramophone Society, Blackburn with Darwen Foyer, Prince's Street (between Feilden Street and King Street)
THERE are good reasons why authorities in the Lake District decided to impose a 10mph speed limit on Windermere. Speedboats, water skiers and users of jetskiis were disrupting the peace and tranquillity of the national park, posing a threat to wildlife
I WAS dismayed to read about Jack Straw's disregard for democracy (LET, May 16). The seats in our Parliament totally fail to reflect the number of votes cast. I for one do not want to be ruled by "strong government" elected by barely 20 per cent of the
A TOWN centre club was closed after a suspected race attack. Five men were arrested after youths armed with chair legs, iron bars and baseball bats surrounded Darwen Central Club. The club, formerly the Central Conservative Club, was closed on police
IT was the kind of thrilling climax to a football match that not even the creators of Roy of the Rovers would dare to dream up. Blackburn Rovers' youth team were trailing Coventry City 3-1 as their Academy final went into injury time at Ewood Park last
HOUSING bosses today warned problem families: "We'll kick you out if you cause trouble". Calico chiefs promised no let up in their quest to rid the borough's estates of anti-social behaviour after taking tenants - including a family of 10 - to court for
LIBERAL Democrats on Pendle Council want to bring opposition councillors in from the cold by including them in the political process. Labour and Conservatives are not allowed to serve on the council's cabinet-style decision making executive committee.
GRAHAM Branch has thrown the gauntlet down and challenged Burnley to follow Preston's lead next season. North End lie one game away from leaving their Lancashire rivals behind after reaching the Championship play-off final, which takes place next Monday
BURNLEY and Colne are joint leaders of the Musbury Fabrics Lancashire League after both managed to squeeze in victories on a rain-affected Saturday. At Turf Moor, Burnley showed how much they have improved from last year's bottom placed finish with their
ENFIELD and Todmorden resume their Worsley Cup clash at Dill Hall Lane tonight with Todmorden marginal favourites to be the first side through to the second-round following a near wash-out of the competition yesterday. The visitors require 129 more runs
DEFEATED Conservative wannabe MP Nigel Adams is quitting Rossendale just weeks after the General Election was held. The parlimentary candidate for Rossendale and Darwen said he moved to Waterfoot last year to concentrate on his election campaign. But
AN art gallery director has called for a lasting tribute to a former Darwen artist after discovering his old house is due to be demolished. Mary Gavagan, who organised the current James H Morton exhibition at Lancaster University, said there had be an
THREE people have been arrested after a police raid on a suspected brothel. The people were detained after 14 police officers, with a sniffer dog, went to Shady Ladies "massage parlour" in Pitville Street, Darwen, with a drugs warrant. Two women were
BLACKBURN'S bid to overhaul its secondary schools with a £150million cash injection has been approved. But the funding -- part of a drive to improve schools across the country -- will not be in place until at least 2008. The Department for Education and
A TOWN centre club was closed after a suspected race attack. Five men were arrested after youths armed with chair legs, iron bars and baseball bats surrounded Darwen Central Club. The club, formerly the Central Conservative Club, was closed on police
NOW Tony Blair has won a third term in office will he continue to ignore the wishes of his people as he has done in the past? Not just with the obvious example of the war in Iraq, but over other issues that people care about, such as animal experimentation
AS a mother and a patron of CLIC Sargent, I am writing to you to encourage people to support children with cancer. In the next 48 hours, 10 children will be diagnosed with cancer or leukaemia, CLIC Sargent, the UK's leading children's cancer charity,
HOUSING bosses today warned problem families: "We'll kick you out if you cause trouble". Calico chiefs promised no let up in their quest to rid the borough's estates of anti-social behaviour after taking tenants - including a family of 10 - to court for
DANNY Gabbidon has issued a 'come and get me' plea to his former boss Mark Hughes as he eyes a lucrative move to the Premier League. The Cardiff City defender, who has been strongly linked with a switch to Blackburn Rovers in the past, is desperate to
BONUS payments for family doctors in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale are set to rocket after GPs beat Government targets in delivering services to patients. General practitioners at the area's 45 surgeries voluntarily set themselves an 89 per cent target
LIBERAL Democrats on Pendle Council want to bring opposition councillors in from the cold by including them in the political process. Labour and Conservatives are not allowed to serve on the council's cabinet-style decision making executive committee.
A 21-YEAR-OLD man who took part in an unprovoked gang attack in Clitheroe town centre has been banned from the town for the next three years. And a district judge sitting at Blackburn magistrates said he hoped he hadn't just moved the problem to Longridge
AN AMATEUR historian today revealed the forgotten story of East Lancashire's first horse racing track -- 166 years after it hosted its last meeting. Ambitious plans to create a new, multi-million pound racecourse between Altham and Simonstone have left
DANNY Gabbidon has issued a 'come and get me' plea to his former boss Mark Hughes as he eyes a lucrative move to the Premier League. The Cardiff City defender, who has been strongly linked with a switch to Blackburn Rovers in the past, is desperate to
GRAHAM Branch has thrown the gauntlet down and challenged Burnley to follow Preston's lead next season. North End lie one game away from leaving their Lancashire rivals behind after reaching the Championship play-off final, which takes place next Monday
A TOWN centre club was closed after a suspected race attack. Five men were arrested after youths armed with chair legs, iron bars and baseball bats surrounded Darwen Central Club. The club, formerly the Central Conservative Club, was closed on police
DEFEATED Conservative wannabe MP Nigel Adams is quitting Rossendale just weeks after the General Election was held. The parlimentary candidate for Rossendale and Darwen said he moved to Waterfoot last year to concentrate on his election campaign. But
BUSINESS students have tasted harsh 'overseas' factory conditions in a pioneering project highlighting the importance of people as well as profit. From September it will be a statutory requirement for all secondary schools to provide 'enterprise education
