TOURISM bosses in Lancashire hope people from all over the country will be attracted to the county by a guide launched today. The 32-page full colour brochure is available free at tourist information centres throughout the UK, and at county information
A GRANDFATHER has sent out a thank you to three youngsters who have made his severely disabled grandson's wishes come true in time for his birthday. Peter Bush was hoping to find a talking Tilly doll for his grandson Jack. "Tom, Tilly and Tiny" is five-year-old
A FATHER who drove his children home from a bonfire while nearly five times the legal drink driving limit will spend Christmas in prison. Wayne Anthony Greenwood was sentenced to 22 weeks in jail after stipendiary magistrate Jonathon Finestein said it
A FATHER-OF-TWO who broke a Royal Marine's jaw during a night out has started a six-month jail term. John Ray Edmondson, 33, punched Mark Howells, the best friend of his brother Mark, after the three had been on a night out with friends in Burnley, Burnley
PEOPLE in Blackburn and Darwen think their council is doing a fair job -- but the "remote town hall" image still persists. Council leaders have been presented with the initial findings of a MORI survey conducted among more than 1,000 people in the autumn
HOSPITAL "wait watchers" found Burnley wanting when it came to seeing out-patients for the first time. New national performance tables reveal Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale health trust was joint bottom of the North West league this year with just 70
St Gabriel's Over 55s meet in the Church Hall, Brownhill, Blackburn, 2-3.45pm. Party at The Club. "Zigger Zagger," by Peter Tierson, Burnley College, 7.30pm. Lancashire Fire Brigade Carol Concert Blackburn Cathedral, 7.30pm. Christmas Old-Tyme Music Hall
HOUSEHOLDERS were helping pour more than three quarters of a million pounds into North West Water's coffers every day. The water group's pre-tax profits were announced at £138.2 million for six months, up by 5.7 per cent and the equivalent of £5.3 million
THANK you for all the support and publicity you have given the Salvation Army over the past 26 years that I have been the Home League Secretary. Now, due to ill health, I have to retire, but have enjoyed every minute of my service to our members. MARGARET
GOVERNMENT plans to prevent Britain becoming strangled by traffic have received a mixed reception. It faces the task of relieving our cities, towns and villages of paralysis by traffic and at the same time keeping the motorist happy. It is probably the
I WOULD like to thank the people who came to my aid after I fell badly in Saunders Road, Blackburn. Thanks, too, to the young man who heard my cry for help and the couple who rang on their mobile phone for the ambulance and went to inform my husband.
TRAFFIC-calming measures are great and I am all for them, but I do feel they have gone over the top in St Paul's Avenue, Blackburn. It is closed to traffic, but is an access to the motor vehicle workshops of Blackburn College and to a handful of parking
I HAVE just suffered the biggest rip-off I've known. My wife and I were in Blackburn town centre on November 30 and, as it was dinner time, my wife fancied a pie. We went into a cafe in the precinct and ordered tea for two, a meat and potato pie with
SHOKAT Ali pulled off the biggest victory of his life to make history and take gold in the Asian Games last night. The Accrington snooker star became the first Cue Sports competitor to win gold after defeating Malaysian number one Sam Chong in an epic
I WITNESSED three aggressive so-called beggars in Blackburn town centre one lunchtime -- all in different places and all young men under 25. To my horror, an old aged pensioner took pity on one of the men -- stationed at the top of the market rotunda
REGARDING 'Must Do Better!' (LET, December 1), this headline would be better applied to your newspaper's reporting of the recent examination results, rather than the actual results themselves. You missed a real opportunity to report some genuinely good
FAMILIES in Burnley are wanted to look after foreign students taking part in an international cultural exchange programme. The Foundation for Foreign Study arrange for students from all over the world to spend an academic year in the UK. This year two
EIGHT brothers and sisters are making a desperate plea for their long lost brother to get in touch after their mother died. Roy Thompson, originally from Bolton, is thought to be living in the Burnley area. His mum Alice Latchford died last week and her
STAR striker Andy Cooke has hit the Clarets' with another unwanted injury scare ahead of Saturday's big game at Fulham. Cooke was caught by a bad tackle from Preston defender Michael Jackson as Burnley were beaten 1-0 in their Auto Windscreens Shield
A TEENAGER who spent two weeks out in Africa at a village orphanage has promised a return visit to aid needy children. Tracie Leonard, 17, was part of a group of Oswaldtwistle and Knuzden teenagers who travelled to Mwanza, Tanzania, to help out at the
IS IT not typical of this nanny government's attitude that, as part of the new war on smoking that it was heralding in a White Paper this week, it proposes to dish out nicotine patches and chewing gum on the NHS to people on low incomes? What is the reasoning
WITH new school league tables last week showing two-thirds of East Lancashire schools had GCSE results worse than the county average, this newspaper's "Must Do Better!" headline was, surely, nothing but fair comment. Not so, said a couple of complaining
A CONSULTANT is to pound the sands in Hawaii to raise cash for stroke victims and their families. Dr Keatley Adams, consultant physician in the medical and elderly directorate, is running in Sunday's Honolulu marathon to raise cash for the stroke unit
MP JANET ANDERSON and her husband Vince today spoke for the first time of the break-up of their 26 year marriage. Lawyer Mr Anderson said the whole family was "in turmoil" and that 17-year-old daughter Katy was "distraught." Mrs Anderson -- now Minister
BUNGLING burglar James Cruise crawled backwards out of a shop door dragging a 28-inch TV and bumped into a waiting police officer. Cruise, 29, of Fielding Crescent, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to burglary and theft at a shop in Whalley Banks, Blackburn,
BUSINESSES in Blackburn oppose John Prescott's plans to slap extra charges on town centre driving and staff car park spaces. The Deputy Prime Minister has emphasised that all proceeds would go to local councils, which will have to spend the extra cash
EAST Lancashire's "death road" will get some form of traffic calming measures, but no final decisions will be made until highways bosses know how much money they have got for the job. Residents of Grane Road and Belthorn met with Rossendale council officers
FINANCE experts have predicted £4.6 million will have to be cut from services and council tax bills will rise by 4.6 per cent in Blackburn and Darwen. The government announced recently how much money it would be giving councils, with the remainder of
AXED Blackburn Rovers boss Roy Hodgson today backed his replacement Brian Kidd. And Hodgson, sacked after Rovers slumped into the Premiership relegation zone, revealed his departure from Ewood Park was a bolt out of the blue. "I didn't see it coming because
A FORMER publican with a history of depression hanged himself after the triple blows of losing his job, his girlfriend and being declared bankrupt. An inquest was held into the death of Liam Scott, former licensee of the Bonny Inn, Salesbury. An ex-wife
STAR striker Andy Cooke has hit the Clarets' with another unwanted injury scare ahead of Saturday's big game at Fulham. Cooke was caught by a bad tackle from Preston defender Michael Jackson as Burnley were beaten 1-0 in their Auto Windscreens Shield
A CUP allergy rather than cup fever has engulfed the Clarets this season as Stan Ternent's injury-ravaged side completed an unwanted hat-trick of first round exits at a sparsely populated Turf Moor. Rather than a helter-skelter ride along the rocky road
EAST Lancashire Councils were counting the cost of massive cuts in public spending on housing, announced in Parliament by Rossendale and Darwen Tory MP David Trippier. All East Lancs boroughs were hit by the cuts and received less than last year, some
SPREAD throughout the Pendle area are numerous open spaces owned by either Pendle Council or the county council. For generations, people have enjoyed these 'lungs' of open space, either just for the views they afford, or for recreation, such as walking
THE annual Christmas concert by the East Lancs Youth Orchestra will be held at St John the Baptist Church, Ivy Street, Burnley on Sunday, December 20 at 8pm. Guests will be one of the region's top chamber choirs, the Linden Singers of Colne under conductor
AXED Blackburn Rovers boss Roy Hodgson today backed his replacement Brian Kidd. And Hodgson, sacked after Rovers slumped into the Premiership relegation zone, revealed his departure from Ewood Park was a bolt out of the blue. "I didn't see it coming because
COUNCIL chiefs have urged residents to get in touch with them with criticisms and compliments about the way Hyndburn is run. A new complaints, compliments and suggestions scheme in the borough will give people the chance to have their say about local
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy OVER the winter months I will be taking a close look at the wildfowl in our county. I will be paying regular visits to our local reservoirs and to bird reserves, especially Martin Mere, near Southport. There are a number
HAVING come to power promising to ban fox hunting and then panicked at the sight of hordes of blood sports swains manipulated by the toffs tramping on the Countryside March, the government now proposes local referendums on whether it should be outlawed
FREEMASONS from the red and white rose counties dug deep into their pockets to sponsor a Darwen worker who walked 127 miles for charity. Peter Fielding, who works at Rowles Butchers in Darwen walked the full length of the Leeds and Liverpool canal during
The opinions expressed by John Blunt are not necessarily those of this newspaper WHENEVER farmers wail about poverty, they ought to be shown the bill for mad cow disease that their poisonous, greed-driven turning of cattle into cannibals lumbered the
BUS service levels in East Lancashire have been announced for the Christmas period. Lancashire County Council has consulted with bus operators throughout the county to draw up the festive timetable. Buses will run as follows: Thursday, December 24, normal
