AN amazing 79ft 7in was the distance thrown by champion clog cobber Paul Tattersall, of Waterfoot. Paul was one of many people who joined in the fun at the Roebuck, Scoutbottom, when new landlord Earle Law carried on the tradition of clog throwing at
A BRAVE Muslim elder is joining forces with Christian churches to make a mercy mission to Albania to help Kosovan refugees. Musa Haldarvi is a war zone veteran after making 12 trips to Bosnia during the crisis there six years ago. Now he and friends from
FRIENDLY giant Fred Kempster's biographer is appealing to relatives of a late Blackburn mill manager for information that could solve a 40-year mystery. Coun William 'Billy' Thompson was Fred's agent and travelled to inns and music halls with the 8ft
A fan's-eye view from Ewood Park, with Phil Lloyd THERE are those who would have us believe that football is under threat. It is in danger of being usurped by a pernicious and dangerous group - women! Now I'm only partially qualified to speak on this
A SEVERELY brain damaged five-year-old boy has said his first word after travelling to America to swim with dolphins. Luke Hill, five, asked to join the dolphins after therapists encouraged him to swim with the creatures in Florida. But his jubilant family
Brian Wood reports IT has been a wild and wonderful ride on this year's blues 'Big One' and there was still much to anticipate and enjoy at the final night. The Big Town Playboys, one of Britain's premier R'n'B outfits, kept the audience swinging into
AMBULANCE boss Bob Waters got a nasty shock when he was booked by a policewoman while on an errand of mercy. Bob, running a private ambulance firm from Darwen, was on stand-by in a no-waiting zone at an all-night dance party in Birmingham. A warning was
REGARDING your article on the car sales company being fined £5,000 (LET, March 29). How can people be so cheeky? Buying cheap clearance cars and then complaining to trading standards! Mr Devlin says the car he bought had so much rust the driver's door
ENFIELD'S new professional Dave Saker will miss the first three games of the Lancashire League cricket season. And Lancashire all-rounder Mike Watkinson is favourite to fill the gap. The Victorian, signed as a late replacement for World Cup choice Shane
AS THE BRUTAL uprooting by the Serbs of almost a million Kosovars from their homes creates Europe's greatest humanitarian disaster since the Second World War, the tragedy of these people looks in danger of being worsened by indecision over what to do
WHAT is the world coming to? No, I am not a pensioner looking back on the good old days, I am a 32-year-old mother. As I was coming out of Darwen Leisure Centre at 5.30pm with my two daughters aged six and eight, my youngest daughter wanted to run down
Bamber Bridge 1 Accrington Stanley 1 AN injury-time equaliser from Bridge defender Mark Jones cruelly robbed Stanley of two vital points in their desperate fight for UniBond Premier League survival. Peter Borrowdale had tested stand-in Stanley goalkeeper
Nelson 3 Bacup Borough 3 BOROUGH discovered their shooting boots in this action-packed local derby, but Nelson battled hard to score twice in the last five minutes to share the NWTL Division Two spoils at Victoria Park. Bacup gave the Blues a first-half
Widnes 40pts Lancashire Lynx 4 LANCASHIRE Lynx's miserable Easter was completed when they went down to a 40-4 defeat at the Auto Question Stadium. The scoreline does little justice for the effort that Lynx put in throughout the 80 minutes despite being
AS a member of Brierfield Town Council, I must reply on behalf of the council to your article on the council shop (March 23). Councillor Karim says people don't know what we are proposing for Brierfield. That is why there is so much opposition to Liberal
DRINKERS at Burnley's Hapton Inn got a shock when their pool balls started to glow in the dark. There's no radiation leak though, it's just the latest craze to hit East Lancashire - ultraviolet pool. Since the Accrington Road pub was refurbished, licensees
TODMORDEN'S luxury hotel Scaitcliffe Hall should have a leisure centre, banqueting hall and 16 extra bedrooms in time for the millennium. The hotel's new owners Roger Sharma and his family will be completing an extension which had been started before
ANIMAL sanctuary Only Foals and Horses held a fund-raising weekend. Visitors met the animals and adopted pets and a bric-a-brac sale was held. The sanctuary is trying to raise more than £80,000 by next February after the owners of the rented site in Oswaldtwistle
A TIRED tot sparked a police air and land search after she was reported missing - only to be found curled up asleep on a pub chair 90 minutes after the alarm was raised. The police helicopter was called to look for a local five-year-old who was thought
COCK-A-HOOP Clarets boss Stan Ternent has made a move to keep Paul Cook at Turf Moor to the end of the season at least to see Burnley's escape bid through to its conclusion. Cook has one game left in his first month's loan from Stockport County but Ternent
A SHELTER for the homeless looks set to get permission to refurbish its premises and create seven new flats for needy young people. Hyndburn Christian Stable, in Russia Street, Accrington, is set to get rid of two large dormitories on its ground floor
SHANE Williams, from Blackburn, has been appointed general manager at a new hotel. Shane, who used to work as hotel manger at Northcote Manor, Langho, heads the team at the Devonshire Fell Hotel in Burnsall, North Yorkshire. Converted for the new archive
An Earby star tricks his way on to our screens! WHETHER he's baring his behind on the freezing Blackpool promenade, or divining the bra sizes of passing girls in Glasgow, Paul Zenon, above, performs the kind of tricks that are hard to ignore. Filmed on
BED and furniture giant Silentnight Holdings is expected to report a slight dip in pre-tax profits this week, according to city experts. The Salterforth-based firm is expected to announce reduced profits for the full year of around £16 million, down by
SCHOOLS using our Super Story Search literacy project are given a selection of books to keep and review. The pupils featured here give their own views on some of the books they received: Explorers Series - Night Sky, by Carol Stott, published by Dorling
A 42-year-old woman playing bingo at the Palace Club, in Leeds Road, Nelson, has scooped £29,000. The mother-of-three from Nelson, who has asked not to be named, has been playing bingo since she was 18. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some
A MAN in custody ran away as he was being led from a police van into Blackburn police station. But Anthony Braysford's bid for freedom was short-lived as he was captured on the multi-storey car park 20 minutes later. Braysford, 22, of Rowan Avenue, Oswaldtwistle
BRIAN Kidd, facing up to more tortuous twists and turns in the relegation scrap, promised today: "I won't go under." The Blackburn Rovers boss takes his team to his old ground Highbury to take on double-chasing Arsenal tonight, aware that it is now two
THE father of a young man left brain damaged after a childhood accident has thanked the Lancashire Evening Telegraph for helping his family find a new home. Leslie Swain, of Granville Street, West Hull, was looking for a three-bedroom house in Ribble
CONGRATULATIONS to the following pupils in year 6 at Crawshawbooth County Primary School who all achieved their targets in our Super Story Search literacy project. Names of other achievers from this school will be published next week. Adam Ashley, Jessica
LITERACY and numeracy skills have been given a boost in a Colne high school, thanks to our Newspapers in Education project. A group of students in year 10 at Primet High School worked through our Super Story Search literacy scheme and used our Maths Motivation
MANAGING director Ian Aitcheson has set the trend for his staff! Ian, boss of Blackburn-based Riva Fabrics and sister firm Denise Fabrics, took a high level National Vocational Qualification and now members of his 48-strong workforce followed suit. Lynda
CRICHTON: Little to do for the Clarets keeper who dealt comfortably with a handful of crosses after one early scare...6 PICKERING: Another top-class performance from Pickering who suits a wing-back role and passed the ball beautifully...9 COWAN: Also
Tourism chiefs from all over the country descended on East Lancashire for a guided tour showing them what the area has to offer. The Lancashire Tourism Partnership, which is made up of more than 30 public, private and voluntary organisations in the county
A fan's-eye view from Turf Moor, with Stephen Cummings SAY it quietly. Say it very quietly - but I think we might just be all right, you know. Admittedly, being five points clear of the drop zone with seven games remaining is far from ideal and holds
EAST Lancashire holiday giant Airtours has conducted an urgent investigation after a 220-passenger jet scraped the ground and was damaged in an incident during which the pilot's glasses fell off as the crew tried to land the plane. And the company, which
EAST Lancashire toddlers have taken a giant step towards enjoying an early education after the government handed over £1 million to help secure a nursery place for every three-year-old by the year 2002. Lancashire County Council's education department
CLARETS goal machine Andy Payton has set his sights on a career-best tally after his match-winning brace yesterday gave him 20 for the season. More importantly Payton's two late strikes earned Burnley a 3-1 win over Colchester which took them five points
Premier League: Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers - Peter White's big match preview LEE Carsley could be asked to produce another classic man-marking job on Dutch master Dennis Bergkamp at Highbury tonight. Rovers boss Brian Kidd looks set to unleash the £3.375
COCK-A-HOOP Clarets boss Stan Ternent has made a move to keep Paul Cook at Turf Moor to the end of the season at least to see Burnley's escape bid through to its conclusion. Cook has one game left in his first month's loan from Stockport County but Ternent
Division Two: Burnley 3 Colchester United 1 - Pete Oliver's big match verdict IN the marathon that is the 46-game Second Division programme, Burnley have recovered from hitting the wall and are kicking on towards a sprint finish that could yet see them
BRIAN Kidd, facing up to more tortuous twists and turns in the relegation scrap, promised today: "I won't go under." The Blackburn Rovers boss takes his team to his old ground Highbury to take on double-chasing Arsenal tonight, aware that it is now two
A NEW 100ft chimney - described by protesters as a monstrosity - would be good for the environment, Hyndburn development committee decided. They gave the go-ahead for the stack at John Wood Steel Drums, in Victoria Street, Oswaldtwistle. The firm was
NEIL Hodgson lies fourth overall in the British Superbike Championship after the Easter Monday 'double header' meeting at Thruxton. The Burnley rider crashed out in the opening race, and was well-placed to win the second before developing tyre problems
THE extradition of the two Libyan suspects for the Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people aboard a Pan Am jumbo jet more than 10 years ago is a culmination of a long and painful process which has seen Libya succumb to international diplomatic and economic
REGARDING Mr Whiteoak's letter 'Motoring free for disabled' (Letters, March 26), disabled drivers do not "get free cars every three years," they hire them. Motability cars are leased on the Motability contract hire scheme and paid for by the disabled
MANY readers will be aware of the growing humanitarian crisis in Kosovo. An estimated 210,000 people have become displaced in the region, and growing numbers of civilians have been left without shelter, heating and food. Among the hardest hit are children
IN response to the remarks of Mrs Linda Green (Letters, February 4 and March 9), regarding animal charities, Pets in Need is a small local charity, run solely by unpaid volunteers. Unlike the RSPCA, we do not have kennels in which we house animals until
IT was said after the last great war that never again would the people of Europe allow the politicians to drag them into war. Yet this government has done just that. Serbia is a sovereign state and Kosovo is an historical part of Serbia. Whatever the
