A LOOK at events, from amateur theatre to rambles through our beautiful countryside. Over 50s Club, Queensgate Pentecostal Church, Burnley, noon. Children's Street Dance Class, Sanderson Dance and Fitness Centre, 10 Churchill Way, Lomeshaye Industrial
Blackie is a black and white cross Collie, approximately four to five years old. He was admitted to the Home on 30th October 2003 via the Oldham Dog Warden after he was found wandering in Coldhurst. Blackie was rehomed for a short while but was unfortunately
THE dedication of all those who work so hard to save lives for Lancashire Ambulance Service is beyond any doubt. Day in and day out skilled crews attend the sort of scenes that the rest of us thankfully are only likely to experience once in a lifetime
HOSPITAL chiefs in East Lancashire are appealing to patients to let them know if they are unable to attend appointments in a bid to cut waiting times. Currently around one in five patients do not attend outpatient appointments made at the East Lancashire
Blackburn Northern under 11s are the first winners of this year's borough indoor six-a-side cricket championships. Northern beat Darwen in the age group finals and will now take part in the Lancashire championships in May. The first grand final of the
Barnoldswick United have shelved plans to join the North West Counties League. The West Lancashire League club had hoped to figure in the end-of-season restructuring of the Non League scene but decided that time and money was against them. A NWCL ground
Goalkeeper Thomas Wallbank was the unlikely goal-scoring hero as St Joseph's clinched a dramatic shoot-out victory. For the Saints stopper held his nerve to thump home the fifth and final spot kick to beat Barrowford Celtic -- and that was after keeping
ST Thomas' Players present Treasure Island, a pantomime by Jim Sperinck at St Veronica's Centre, Helmshore. The production will run from Tuesday February 17 to Saturday February 21 with no performance on Wednesday. Tickets are £4.50, concessions £3.50
The cream of the county's secondary school runners met at Witton Park on Saturday morning for the Lancashire Schools' Cross Country Championships. By the time they appeared in the Blackburn event, everyone had earned selection for their town teams with
A FAT, plain, bespectacled girl makes for an unlikely heroine in Blackburn Arts Club's production of Wedding of the Year, to be staged at the Club Theatre, Gibraltar Street between March 2 and 6. Produced by Andrew F Bell, Wedding of the Year is a tale
SOME weeks ago, Stephen Capriati appealed for toys for the children of Bam who lost everything in the earthquake. We have now taken a vanload to Felixstowe and watched as they were loaded on to the ship. Stephen is a volunteer worker at the Blind Society
I AM replying to the letter about the black cabs on Penny Street (LET, February 2). Has J Cafferty given a thought for all the people using cabs who are elderly or in wheelchairs and mums struggling with young babies, prams and shopping bags? I wonder
A 35-YEAR-OLD Bury man was treated in hospital for smoke inhalation after a fire involving a toaster. A stuck piece of bread ignited, causing fire damage to a worktop, wall unit and curtains in the kitchen of the property in Connaught Street. The man
A RIDER was rescued from moorland above Bury after she was thrown from her horse. The 26-year-old woman was riding through Cheesden Brook, near to Ashworth Valley, on Saturday afternoon (Feb 7) when she fell and suffered suspected spinal injuries. Members
A TWO-day business awareness event at Bury's Holy Cross College enjoyed added fizz when a Coca Cola executive addressed the students. Alex Lund, marketing and sales expert for the soft drinks company, spoke about marketing and distribution. Students also
POLICE bosses fear their plans for 500 extra officers have been dashed after being told that a 28 per cent rise in council tax would be capped. The news has dealt a huge blow to Chief Constable Paul Stephenson's vision for the future of the Lancashire
AMBULANCE staff today warned of further tragedies after only one paramedic arrived to help the three sisters who died in an East Lancashire house fire. Louise Waddington, 11, and her sisters Hayley, 10, and Gemma, seven, died when fire swept through their
LANCASHIRE County Council is set to finalise its council tax proposals at a meeting this week. County Hall finance chiefs have already promised a rise of no more than five per cent after being given extra money by the Government. Lancashire was given
A HALF-time cigarette almost cost football fan Clint Shackley the right to watch his Clarets heroes. The Burnley fan took exception to a steward at Sunderland's FC's Stadium of Light who told him he couldn't smoke in the stands, Sunderland magistrates
FOLLOWING the meeting between Cliviger Parish Council and Leanne Sheradon from LCC Adult Education Department, it is proposed to run adult education classes in the parish. Initially, classes in Spanish and painting and IT skills are planned. Anyone who
BUDDING Britney Spears and Gareth Gates sound-a-likes have stepped up to the microphone to take part in a special Stars in Their Eyes-style talent competition. Talented youngsters in Burnley and Pendle are being invited to bid for a place in the final
DISTRAUGHT staff today spoke of their shock and upset at the death of fire victim Gemma Waddington - nearly two years after she was saved from drowning at their pool. Seven-year-old Gemma died together with her two sisters, 11 year-old Louise and Hayley
A TEENAGER who had three children by the time she was 17 has admitted killing her 19-month-old daughter. Preston Crown Court heard a post mortem examination of Sarah Jenneys last year, showed she had abrasions, bruises, a fractured rib, a head injury,
A CONTROVERSIAL stage at the Colne Rhythm and Blues festival could be scaled down after complaints about disorder and noise. Proposals to alter the Up4it stage arose from the first meeting of a working group to review the stage and the wider festival.
I THINK it was Pele who first coined the phrase "the beautiful game" to describe football. However, had the Brazilian superstar been at Turf Moor on Saturday to witness Burnley v Gillingham, he would almost certainly have been forced to revise his opinion
SEISMOLOGISTS appealed for readers to help them solve the mystery of the tremor that shook Lancashire that week. The country's leading experts were left baffled as they struggled to establish the cause of the mini-quake. Pubs in East Lancashire managed
BLACKBURN-born film star, Shirley Burniston, made her fourth film appearance in "You Know What Sailors Are." The romantic comedy, set in England, was the latest project for the actress whose career included work in both film and television. And heavy
BURNLEY have lodged an appeal with the FA after learning that Richard Chaplow could be forced to miss their FA Cup fifth round tie. The Clarets are furious at provisional plans to stage the game against either Telford or Millwall next Wednesday - just
FAMILY commitments meant I just couldn't make it to Turf Moor on Saturday. And despite missing out on being introduced to the fans again, it certainly sounds, like Stan, that I picked the right game to miss. I grabbed whatever snippets I could on the
MORE than 1,800 pints were downed at the Black Horse Winter Beer Festival -- but the fun was all for a good cause. As the festival, held last month at the Redearth Road pub, raised more than £750 for Derian House Children's Hospice in Chorley. The money
COLNE get back to the nitty gritty of the league after earning a place in the FA Vase quarter final. The third-placed Reds travel to mid-table Flixton tonight hoping to make some ground on the top two from their games in hand. James Webster serves a seven-day
ANDY Cole today issued a heartfelt thank-you to those Blackburn fans who have stood by him during one of the most frustrating spells of his career. Cole began the season in red-hot form but the goals have since dried up for the former England striker
RESIDENTS in the Cranberry Lane area of Darwen have set up an action group to fight plans for a large housing development behind their houses. People living near Kirkhams Farm and its surrounding fields are against an application for outline planning
A HEADTEACHER has praised pupils and teachers at a Rossendale primary school after it received a good Ofsted report. Headteacher of Crawshawbooth Primary School, Paul Gabriel, said everyone involved can feel very proud. Crawshawbooth was deemed 'an effective
PARKS and public spaces in Ramsbottom and Bury are to be redeveloped thanks to a £3million boost. Bury Council has secured the Government funding as part of a 'liveability' pilot scheme to improve parks, play areas and other public spaces. The Deputy
A FUND-raising initiative for East Lancashire's three hospices brought in £1,400 last week. Today organisers at the East Lancashire hospice in Blackburn said they were thrilled with the figure, which has taken the total for the Hospices Mini Raffle to
A LEADING Blackburn councillor is asking town hall finance bosses to pay for worn-out astroturf pitches to be replaced. Kate Hollern, Blackburn with Darwen's executive member for leisure and culture, has asked the council to provide the £310,000 needed
EXPERTS have been drafted in to tackle the school-run headache after revealing more and more Lancashire primary children are walking to class. Education chiefs at Lancashire County Council have spent £180,000 on five new school travel advisors who will
NORTH End's list of walking wounded has lengthened after doctors confirmed Dickson Etuhu and David Lucas would be out of action for up to six weeks. Etuhu was injured in the second minute of Preston's 3-0 victory over West Brom at the weekend as he tracked
EXPERTS have been drafted in to tackle the school-run headache after revealing more and more Lancashire primary children are walking to class. Education chiefs at Lancashire County Council have spent £180,000 on five new school travel advisors who will
IT was not so much a white wedding as a green one when a couple tied the knot at an allotment site in Bury East Bury resident Humera Mannan (37), wed Nelson-based businessman Shakeel Mirza (33) at the Walnut Avenue Allotments Training and Resource Centre
ROYTON Town resumed the leadership of the Premier Division with a 2-0 win over Dukinfield Town, wresting top spot from Prestwich Heys. Chris McKay and Danny Taylor scored the goals. There was a nine-goal thriller at Mount Road, where visiting Leigh Athletic
A LOOK at events, from amateur theatre to rambles through our beautiful countryside. Ian Hare Organ Recital, Blackburn Cathedral, 1pm. Afternoon Tea Dance, St Mary's Hall, Sabden, 3pm-5pm. Rossendale Organ and Keyboard Club, Rossendale Unied Football
Max is a black and tan cross breed, approximately four to five years old. He was admitted to the Manchester Dogs' Home on 7th November 2003 via the Oldham Dog Warden after he was found wandering in the Denshaw area of Oldham. Max has received some basic
DARWEN Moorland High School has been put into special measures by the Office for Standards in Education after being described as "unsatisfactory". The school is controlled by Blackburn with Darwen education authority -- singled out by the government for
Big Rick Wilson picked the right time to score his first goal in five years to boost Golden Cup's hopes of automatic promotion. Wilson lived up to his own billing as 'super sub' to scramble home a winner that virtually ended Darwen Catholic Club's own
When George Doutel says that everyone involved in sport is a winner then you sit up and take notice. For while it is a phrase that is often taken lightly, George is referring to those who have been given a second chance in life thanks to a transplant.
A MOP-haired orphan and her dog Sandy are paying a visit to Colne next month to star in one of the 20th century's most popular musicals. The Colne Operatic Society presents Annie with an all-star cast, including Sammy the Dog as Sandy. Producer Stephen
OSWALDTWISTLE Players' performances are typically spirited affairs. But the players' April production will prove a little more spirited than usual. The show, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, is an improbable farce that tells the story of Charles Condomine
REGARDING the shock news that we, in the North West are to have postal votes for everyone -- I cannot believe it! Our democracy has always been held up by the one person, one vote system. I know there are people who want to vote but for whom it is physically
DARRENERS can be justly pleased and proud of their town hall clock, having recently been renovated along with the tower within which it is placed. This modest and quaint historical edifice being on identifiable landmark of Darwen. We are often reminded
FOR those of us, who were, from the very start, against UK involvement in the attack on Iraq, the Hutton report can only be seen as a propaganda diversion and outrageously biased. It deflects us away from what the inquiry should have been about -- 'Why
THE head of one of Britain's best-known Indian food companies, which has a factory in Leigh, is being sued by his two sisters for a share of the multi-million pound business. Chitralekha Mehta and Anil Shastri are suing their brother, Bolton-based Kirit
BURY busker Nick Bold has missed out on a place in the grand final of ITV's popular Stars In Your Eyes. Nick appeared on the show at the weekend as George Harrison, performing My Sweet Lord. But he failed to take top spot. He lives in Tottington Road,
ACCIDENT victim Michelle Williams remains critically ill more than a week after she was struck by a car in Radcliffe. However, the condition of the 28-year-old mother-of-two has shown slight signs of improvement over the weekend and given her family hope
BLACKBURN striker Paul Gallagher believes Rovers' young guns have what it takes to fire the goals to banish the club's relegation fears once and for all. Graeme Souness paired Gallagher together with recent signing Jon Stead in a new-look strike-force
ANDY Cole today issued a heartfelt thank-you to those Blackburn fans who have stood by him during one of the most frustrating spells of his career. Cole began the season in red-hot form but the goals have since dried up for the former England striker
POLICE are warning youngsters and parents to be on their guard after a suspected pervert was spotted filming children in a Padiham park. The man has been spotted with a video camera at least twice since Christmas in Memorial Park and near the youth shelter
PRIME Minister Tony Blair has promised to look into problems caused when funding for crime-tackling neighbourhood wardens and community support officers runs out. The issue was raised with him by Burnley MP Peter Pike. Already Hyndburn Council has faced
AMBULANCE staff today warned of further tragedies after only one paramedic arrived to help the three sisters who died in an East Lancashire house fire. Louise Waddington, 11, and her sisters Hayley, 10, and Gemma, seven, died when fire swept through their
THE heartbroken family of the three sisters who died in a house fire have spoken about the tragedy for the first time. Grandparents John Waddington and his wife Mary told of the family's utter devastation and how parents Barry and Jayne were finding it
PENDLE is celebrating its contribution to Lancashire's victory in a national recycling awards scheme. The council was one of 15 which introduced a range of recycling initiatives and won an award from the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee. Coun
PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice is backing a campaign to stamp out uninvited doorstep trading. The Labour backbencher is supporting a ban after research showed more than 95 per cent of people did not want any doorstep salespeople to call at their homes. Research
THE Duke of Kent paid a visit to two of East Lancashire's most successful export companies in his capacity as vice chairman of the Overseas Trade Board. Philips Components of Blackburn, and meat producer, E Slinger and Sons, of Accrington were both highly
AS you probably know, my words in this column have not always been complimentary to the manager and players down at Ewood lately. I've questioned tactics, team selection and the desire and bottle of the players, with some justification in my opinion as
POLICE were today quizzing a 20-year-old man after an Accrington resident was tied up and robbed in his own home. The suspect was arrested by officers following the terrifying incident in Rutland Street last night. Detectives today confirmed a 20-year-old
POLICE are appealing for information after a 12-year-old schoolgirl went missing from home. Jade Fairbrother, of Barnes Street, in Clayton-le-Moors, left home for Hollins High School on Thursday, February 5. She has not been seen since. The schoolgirl
DRINKERS in Accrington may still be targeted by national pub chain Wetherspoons after the company revealed it was looking at a fourth venue in the town. Three previous attempts to bring the group to town have failed but the company says it is in discussions
POLICE seized 150 cannabis plants during a raid on an Accrington drugs factory. Ant today they warned they are stepping up their purge on drug dealers in the town and will be conducting regular raids acting on information from the community. The plants
FORMER Burnley striker Gareth Taylor admits he faces an uncertain future at Nottingham Forest. Taylor says he was shocked to hear about Paul Hart's sacking in the wake of last Saturday's 1-0 home defeat to Coventry. Hart was the man who lured Taylor from
BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent has finally struck gold to boost Burnley's survival hopes. Saturday's victory over Gillingham was the sixth game unbeaten since the turn of the year, with three wins and three draws signalling a welcome upturn in fortunes. Key
LANCASHIRE League champions East Lancs will be looking for a new professional for the summer after Northamptonshire signed South African all-rounder Johann Louw. Louw, professional at Alexandra Meadows last season, has been snapped up by Nothants as their
AN ambitious chef is hoping to bring 'haute cuisine' to Darwen. Mark Lord, 32, is the new chef at The Circus pub and has high hopes for his new post. Mark, who is originally from Burnley, has moved up to Darwen from Penzance to take up his new position
THE pub is winning out in the battle against the nightclubs in Blackburn, according to a latest poll. When it comes to a top night out nearly half of all people, 49 per cent, said their ideal night is a trip to the local as opposed to clubbing, going
BACUP goalkeeper David Felgate has picked up the North West Counties Division One 'Safe Hands' award for January. The former Bolton Wanderers stopper and Welsh international, who was snapped up by Bacup manager Brent Peters last month has helped the West
BURNLEY have lodged an appeal with the FA after learning that Richard Chaplow could be forced to miss their FA Cup fifth round tie. The Clarets are furious at provisional plans to stage the game against either Telford or Millwall next Wednesday - just
THE multi-millionaire boss of Leyland-based Enterprise plc has quit the company he helped build. Chief executive Sean Keogh -- named as one of the North West's top five earners in 2002 - will be replaced by Jack McGrory, the managing director of Mowlem
GRANDPARENTS can go back to school during a special open day at Turton and Edgworth Primary. The school often holds open days for parents but tomorrow will stage its first day for grandparents who can sit in classes and try out the new technology. Pat
DARWEN'S St John Ambulance Hall was taken over by colourful blooms during Darwen Civic Society's Darwen Schools Bulb Competition and Exhibition. All 11 of the town's primary schools got involved in the annual event in which they are given bulbs to grow
A SUCCESSFUL businessman and his friend have failed to get sentence cuts for their roles in smuggling four million cigarettes into the UK. The documents for the ship container said it had furniture from Indonesia inside it, rather than cigarettes on which
CROWDS of people made their way to Darwen Leisure Centre to hear a talk by two former punks who have become born-again Christians. Dave Shore and Glenn Fox, now both 41, attracted an audience of around 130 people to their event entitled "Was ther' life
YOUNGSTERS from a Ramsbottom primary school have been rewarded for completing their green mission to collect old Yellow Pages books and turn them into cash. Pupils at Summerseat Primary School did so well in their mission that they scooped £200 for winning
A WELL-known face from Blackburn Royal Infirmary and Queen's Park Hospital has graduated from Liverpool University with a master's degree in clinical nursing. Janet Carol Woods, 45, was employed at the hospitals for more than 20 years having progressed
THIEVES are on the prowl in the Redlam area of Blackburn -- and residents are being urged not to make life easy for them. There have been 17 incidents of items being stolen from cars this month on the stretch of road just outside the town centre. Sgt
EAST Lancashire people returning from the Hajj pilgrimage are being reminded to be aware of the symptoms of meningitis and septicaemia. The Meningitis Research Foundation revealed that during the last few years there have been cases of these illnesses
A COUNCIL is to consider compensation claims after a tree fell and smashed several headstones at a Blackburn cemetery during gale force winds. The tree caused thousands of pounds worth of damage when it keeled over in Roe Lee cemetery off Whalley New
A BLACKBURN mum has left the school kitchen and become a teacher. Mum-of-one Georgina Hughes, 38, of Mill Hill, who left school without qualifications, has spent the past nine years taking herself from school kitchen assistant and parent-helper to a graduate
A BLACKBURN woman has criticised a Lancashire hospital after her husband's treatment was cancelled following a six-hour wait. Linda Hargreaves says Kevin, 56, was due to have injections in his head to combat severe migraines which can lead to paralysis
POLICE bosses fear their plans for 500 extra officers have been dashed after being told that a 28 per cent rise in council tax would be capped. The news has dealt a huge blow to Chief Constable Paul Stephenson's vision for the future of the Lancashire
FURIOUS Accrington Stanley manager John Coleman believes his side has become a soft target for Nationwide Conference referees. Robbie Williams' late red card in the 3-2 defeat against Dagenham and Redbridge on Saturday took Stanley's dismissals to 11
SEAN Gregan insists he has many fond memories of Deepdale. Saturday's appearance as the skipper of the opposition won't be one of them. Making his first return to the field at Preston since his £2million switch to The Hawthornes nearly two years ago,
A TWO-day business awareness event at Bury's Holy Cross College enjoyed added fizz when a Coca Cola executive addressed the students. Alex Lund, marketing and sales expert for the soft drinks company, spoke about marketing and distribution. Students also
DARWEN Moorland High School has been put into special measures by the Office for Standards in Education after being described as "unsatisfactory". The school is controlled by Blackburn with Darwen education authority -- singled out by the government for
