From Bill Austin, Blackburn. As we look into the future The day will soon be here When petrol will be rather scarce And what's left is very dear. Car engines must be modified To run on waste I'm sure Some to work on chicken muck And all grades
TRIBUTES have been paid to a Pendleside athlete who has died suddenly after competing in the tough Barley fell race a few days earlier. And today the widow of runner Derek Grimes revealed the death had come just a week after her father died. Pam Grimes
PEOPLE are being urged to get on their bikes and take part in a special event taking in some of Pendle's best countryside. As part of the Pendle Cycle Fest, the council and cycling club Blazing Saddles are staging a special off-road mountain bike tour
A BURNLEY woman has died just weeks after being struck with severe stomach aches. And today the family of 38-year-old Kathleen Doherty paid tribute to a loving mother, wife and sister. Mrs Doherty, of Wellesley Street, Lowerhouse, died on June 13 of
RESIDENTS who called for an eyesore block of flats to be demolished are now complaining about plans to build houses in their place. Proposals have been submitted by A&J Todd Construction Ltd from Cliviger to build six three-storey houses, each including
An event is being held in Trawden to celebrate the summer solstice. The third Pendle Witch Camp will see a variety of activities held in the village between noon on Friday and noon on Monday. Events include talks, workshops, fireside acoustic music
POLICE are set to hold a meeting with the organisers of Colne Gala to make next year's event even better. About 6,000 people turned out for the annual show at Holt House playing fields on Saturday. And now police said they would like to meet organisers
COUNCILLORS in Nelson have won their fight to keep one of the town's main roads open under plans to build a new flagship interchange. As part of plans to build the new £5million bus and rail interchange Lancashire County Council (LCC) proposed to close
THE Salvation Army and Pendle Council have held crisis talks after the authority ordered the charity to leave its Nelson home of more than 40 years. Bosses at the charity have said the move could mean the end of the charity's presence in the town after
DREAMS of creating a giant extreme sports and leisure centre in Rossendale are in the hands of the lottery. The multi-million pound Adrenaline Centre project has been chosen by Lancashire County Council as its official nomination for the People's Millions
PAUL Mullin insists he will be ready for the start of the new season, despite being scheduled to have a hernia operation early next month. The Accrington Stanley striker thought he had suffered a groin strain towards the end of last term but battled
THE World Cup starts here for England now that we are through to the knockout stages. But I cannot be the only person in the country that feels we must play much, much better if we are to reach the latter stages. It would have been devastating to crash
RISING Burnley star Kyle Lafferty should not be burdened with too much expectation, admits Clarets manager Steve Cotterill. The 18-year-old Northern Ireland striker is tipped for a bright future at Turf Moor following a remarkable 2005/06 breakthrough
A 19-year-old Longridge man attacked his mum because she hadn't done the housework, a court was told. Blackburn magistrates heard that David McMaster punched her about the head and face and only stopped when she said she was going to go and wash the
Two members of Manchester Indie legends The Smiths have become the first artists to release a CD under Blackburn College students' own music label. As we revealed in March, the college's media centre is now doubling as a professional recording studio
BLACKBURN businesses are leading the way in a county-wide ambassador programme to help bridge the gap between the world of work and school for children. Blackburn Council and Capita and are the first organisations to sign up to Lancashire Education Business
CATHOLIC singer-songwriter and poet Gerry Coates is hitting the road in aid of Catholic Charities with a series of free concerts. And one of his stops will be in Blackburn on June 21. Described as a "foot tapping musical mission", Gerry leads the audience
Football fans are being called on to play in a human table football competition in Clayton-le-Moors to raise money for charity. The event at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, on Sunday, July 16 has been organised by Foresters, a financial and charitable organisation
Councillors in Blackburn with Darwen today warned that "lessons must be learned" from the case of a children's nursery which opened next to a bail hostel housing paedophiles. The warning came the day after around 12 paedophiles were removed from Haworth
A 34-year-old woman died as a result of taking two different sorts of pain killers for her backache, an inquest heard. The hearing was told that Maria Melia was found dead in bed on her birthday by her teenage son. Witnesses said the night before she
A Blackburn man has been jailed for six years for a sex attack after the victim's ordeal was recorded when she dialled 999 on her mobile. During the 22-minute call, the woman named her attacker as 34-year-old David Eastwood. Preston Crown Court was
I AM thoroughly disgusted at the way the WRVS is being treated by Queens Park Hospital, Blackburn (LET June 15). These volunteers have given great service and comfort for many years, and as their profits go straight back to the hospital, why ask them
RECENTLY, on receiving an account from British Gas, I decided to compare it to the one for the same quarter in 2005. Much to my horror I discovered that even though it was for 48 fewer units, the overall bill came to £46 more. I also noticed that the
I WRITE in response to the news that Camelot theme park will be closing in the near future. The theme park is the only one in the North West to offer a secure area for children and is a true family park. It is also the only true theme park in the country
AS a well-known wag is prone to saying "you couldn't make it up." Royal Mail has put stickers on the post box on Livesey Branch Road, Blackburn, telling us they are proud to announce that in the interests of improving quality of service it provides (
HOW kind of S Allen to write (LET, June 10) from his home in Patersdorf, Germany in support of one of our newly-elected Councillors Mark Cotterill and at the same time chastise Councillor Cotterill's critics "who sniped at him." Isn't it just the case
A GANG of raiders armed with shotguns, who held up a German lorry driver, could be from Pendle. Detectives hunting the six robbers who stole a lorry containing 1,000 mobile phones today revealed they were investigating whether the gang could be from
MORE than £50,000 is to be spent on a 32ft sculpture, likened to a Star Wars light sabre, as part of Blackburn's regeneration. The Braid, as the light feature is called, is to form the centrepiece of the £1.2million Sudell Cross revamp. Today the plan
St Augustine's RC High School in Billington is holding a heath and fitness week with a four-day programme of events starting on July 3. The scheme aimed at encouraging healthy lifestyles will see a mobile climbing wall, a mobile ice rink, cricket coaching
THE number of car registration plates stolen in Lancashire increased by 15.7 per cent last year, according to police figures. In the year 2004/05 there were 623 reports of stolen plates in the county but in the following year the number had risen to
A NEW £3million building project at an Accrington school has been officially opened. The technology and sports facilities at St Christopher's CE High School in Queen's Road West were unveiled by schools minister Jim Knight. Headteacher Alasdair
technology firm Millbrook Scientific Instruments is looking forward to a successful year after it saw sales increase by a third over the past 12 months. The firm, based on Challenge Way, Blackburn, designs and builds scientific instruments for working
TRADING standards chiefs are warning punters to be on the ball and avoid counterfeit World Cup memorabilia which is being flogged in Lancashire. With World Cup fever gripping the county, an array of goods ranging from flags to football strips emblazoned
MORE than a third of 14-year-olds in Ribble Valley get regularly drunk, a shock survey has revealed. And almost twice as many girls as boys were under-age boozers, according to the survey of almost 400 students at three Ribble Valley high Schools. The
A man who set himself on fire on the hard shoulder of the M65 died in hospital yesterday. The 32-year-old man, who has not been named, was taken to Wythenshawe Hospital after he stopped on the westbound motorway, between junction 3 at Hoghton and junction
TRANSPORT police are hunting this pervert after he committed an act outraging public decency' on a Nelson woman as she travelled by train. The victim, a woman in her twenties, got on the 3.50pm Leeds to Blackpool train on Friday, May 26, at York. When
TOWNELEY High School has seen more than its fair share of incidents since it opened almost 65 years ago terrorist threats, student strikes and flooded roofs to name just a few. And just as the final chapter is about to be written in the history of the
PRINCE Bradman Ediriweera has one of the greatest names in cricket. Incorporating royalty and the surname of the man considered to be the king of cricketers, it seems inevitable that the Sri Lankan all-rounder was destined to pull on the whites. But
BLACKBURN Rovers striker Craig Bellamy will cut short his Mediterranean holiday and sign for Liverpool in the next 24 hours. The Welsh international has been given permission to speak to the Reds after Rafa Benitez triggered the £6.5 million release
IN case you hadn't noticed, there's a World Cup going on at the moment. Certainly the TV channels are having a field day with their blanket coverage. Even when they are not showing matches live they are constantly showing trailers for the forthcoming
A man who collapsed in front of his wife while he was eating an apple died as a result of a heart problem caused by a genetic illness, an inquest heard. The inquest was told that initially it was thought Bryan Orrell had choked on a piece of apple
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after thieves used a ladder to climb up and attack an alarm system before breaking into a house in Edgworth. A safe, containing personal documents, was stolen in the break-in which happened overnight on Sunday at the
THE STATE of our roads is a boring issue there's no getting around it. There's nothing sexy about potholes, craters and trenches pock-marking our streets. And because of this fact nothing is going to be done about it. Zero, zilch, zip. Earlier this
WHY is it that people with pushchairs think that the disabled bays on buses (a sign denotes this) are there for the parking of their prams? The bays are for people in wheelchairs and anyone who is severely disabled, not prams. I once saw someone in
THE man described as the grandfather' figure in the £45million redevelopment of Blackburn Cathedral has died after an accident on a building site. David Humphries, a surveyor who was project manager for the development, died after falling 20ft while
A HEAVILY pregnant Chinese takeaway worker was attacked by a man who forced his way behind the counter. Zhou Wang Yun, 26, was serving at the Sea Breeze fish bar, Moscow Mill Street, Oswaldtwistle, which she runs with her husband, Hin Soi Kay, 44, when
A 69-YEAR-OLD woman took some of her late husband's ashes from an urn at their home hours before her body was found in the canal, an inquest was told. The hearing was told that Marion Riding had suffered from depression for a number of years and had
MUSLIM leaders have appealed for a man suspected of murdering his estranged wife to turn himself in. The Lancashire Council of Mosques appealed for Zameer Ahmed to contact police after he was named as their prime suspect in the murder of Nazia Ahmed.
A Blackburn schoolgirl rubbed shoulders with her footballing heroes last night when she flew the flag for England at the World Cup match against Sweden. Nadiyah Jogee, 15, of Moss Gate, Blackburn, was one of four children who marched out with the George
FIFTEEN Accrington Post Office workers have been told to apply for their own jobs under proposals to hand the operation to a private company. The Abbey Street branch is currently owned and managed by Post Office Ltd, but it announced its intention to
A LOLLIPOP man has blamed parents for rising classroom violence after revealing that he suffers regular abuse from adults on the school run. Chris Allen claims he has been sworn at and intimidated by parents parking illegally by the school gates and
ARE you a hoarder? Do you move boxes of stuff from one house to the next just in case? Moving house is, in fact, the ideal time to reorganise your belongings and get rid of the clutter in your home. There are a number of tips to help start life in
STUCK for inspiration to decorate your home? Fed up with boring colour charts? Well, here's an alternative - get down to your favourite florist and buy a bouquet. Forget stressful trips to the DIY centre pouring over endless shade charts. Pour
A DELAY of several months looks likely on the "dry run" tests promised in selected areas of England and Wales to test new Home Information Packs which become a compulsory part of the home buying process in exactly a year's time. Although Housing Minister
WHEN it comes to designing the interior of a modern day home, builders consider who will live there, how they spend their days and their likely needs. Designers and planners are continually striving to offer purchasers a property portfolio that ticks
HOMEOWNERS just love a spot of DIY, new research reveals. According to Halifax, around half of us have carried out a DIY project during the past 12 months alone. Figures suggest that, on the whole, big home improvement projects are taking a back
Burnley have been handed a home tie against League Two side Hartlepool in today's Carling Cup round one draw. The Clarets had been named as one of 18 top seeds, which meant they would be kept apart from other Championship sides in the first round.
Accrington Stanley have been handed a plum tie in today's Carling Cup round one draw. The Reds will play former European champions Nottingham Forest in what will be their first appearance in the competition for over 44 years. Stanley have appeared
Many drivers feel uncomfortable with certain roundabouts regarding them as high risk'. The single most common mistake at a roundabout is only looking to your right as you approach, because that is where you expect traffic to come from. But what about
