A LORRY caused traffic chaos after it careered through a large roundabout at the end of the M65 motorway in Colne at 1pm yesterday. The driver lost control of the articulated truck as it approached the roundabout from the Nelson direction. The truck went
EAST LANCS: Detectives are investigating whether an Asian woman whose body was found on the beach near Fleetwood is from East Lancashire. The body was found opposite Rossall school on Monday. A post-mortem examination revealed she drowned and police are
A LEADING Islamic cleric has died of a liver infection, aged 65. Mohammed Aslam, of St James Road, Blackburn, died on Monday at 11.30pm. Mr Aslam, known by the honorary title Khawaja Sufi, moved to England in 1963, and worked in factories as well as preaching
PAYTON: Scored one of the goals of the season to swing the game Burnley's way as he underlined his value to the side again...8 JOHNROSE: Didn't get into the game early on but proved his versatility when doing a decent job as a stand-in left-back after
A HELPING hand is being extended to groups who are looking to secure cash grants of up to £5,000 for millennium year projects. Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council and Blackburn with Darwen Council for Voluntary Services are to hold a joint briefing
BUOYANT Burnley boss Stan Ternent hailed "a touch of genius" from Andy Payton, whose wonder-goal took the Clarets within sight of safety at Blackpool last night. Payton claimed his 22nd and best goal of the season with an instinctive first-time volley
KEVIN Gallacher is wondering if there is a curse on Blackburn Rovers as he prepares for a possible return to first-team action in Saturday's six-pointer at Southampton. For, no sooner is Gallacher challenging for a recall than his partner-in-goals from
A ROW has erupted over plans to build four "massive" milking sheds next to a Ribble Valley hamlet. Residents of Withgill Fold, which has been converted to housing over the past few years, are protesting against the scheme and will hold an emergency meeting
REGARDING 'Keep our flag and be proud' (Letters, March 31), how many times have I written to this newspaper, saying we do not fly or display our flag often enough? I agree entirely with Mr A Fish - we have to take our heads out of the sand, wake up to
I DON'T know much about Kosovo or Yugoslavia but, for myself, I can't understand why NATO is not talking to the Serbs. The worst about slinging bombs at people is that if people are killed, it creates hatred and sometimes that never heals. I vote Labour
RIBBLE Valley farmer Barry Barnes's plans to combine two dairy units and set up a single modern milking unit are meeting with objections from residents of a newly-developed housing project nearby. Claiming cows will be cooped up with 'zero grazing' and
Wanderers, who finished second in the Ribblesdale League last season when Nawaz broke the league run record, have selected them in their side to face Whalley on Saturday but have been given no definite indication of when he will arrive. The club has been
DARWEN came within an ace of pulling off one of the biggest shocks in the history of the Lancashire ATS Challenge Trophy last night against Nationwide Conference outfit Morecambe at Victory Park. On a night of high drama, the North West Trains League
AT Dunkirk in 1940, 300,000 British soldiers were in the same predicament as the Kosovo Albanians and we managed to bring them home. Over the past two weeks £3-4 billion has been spent on bombs and missiles. Stop the bombing and concentrate on saving
THEY came expecting an execution, writes ANDY NEILD. But by the time Dave Gardner thumped home Morecambe's fifth and decisive spot kick shortly after 10pm last night, the hangman had long since left town. Steve Wilkes's magnificent Anchormen produced
LANCASHIRE were today facing the predictable prospect of a rain-ruined first home game of the season for the second year running. Last year, three of the four days of their match against Middlesex at Old Trafford were complete wash-outs, and yesterday's
OLDER readers may be interested to know that from last Monday, April 12, the basic income support for a single pensioner wasl increased from £70.45 to £75, and for couples from £109.35 to £116.60, and more pensioners will be entitled to it. Rates are
A YOUTH was attacked by a teenager who claimed he owed him cash, Burnley magistrates heard. The victim was punched and kicked in the ribs by Robert Tetlow, who also stamped on his head. He ended up with a bloody nose, cuts and bruising and reddening to
A NIGHTCLUB has become the first business to benefit from a new grant programme aimed at boosting Nelson town centre. Funding from Pendle Council and government Single Regeneration Budget cash will allow extensive improvement work to be carried out at
ROLLS-Royce workers are to march on Westminster to lobby MPs amid fears that 90 jobs are about to be axed from its Barnoldswick plant. Management have confirmed the possible job losses to Pendle MP Gordon Prentice, despite record order books and he is
ROLLS-Royce workers are to march on Westminster to lobby MPs amid fears that 90 jobs are about to be axed from its Barnoldswick plant. Management have confirmed the possible job losses to Pendle MP Gordon Prentice, despite record order books and he is
THE engineering group which last year bought out Colne-based Cleveland-Guest today announced a profits leap on the back of the booming aerospace market. L Gardner Group reported pre-tax profits up by 62 per cent to £4.1 million in the six months to March
A FORMER successful captain of Earby Cricket Club has lost his battle against cancer. Mike Wiseman, 52, played for several years and was captain when the side were Ribblesdale League champions and Ramsbottom Cup winners during a successful spell in the
A DRUG dealing granny who supplied her sons to pay off mammoth gas bills, has escaped jail. Margaret Jean Hunt, a 52-year-old with 12 grandchildren, had never used cannabis but her life had been "turned upside down" by a foolhardy dip into the drug scene
POLICE chiefs in Lancashire have been warned to increase the number of Asian officers in the county by Home Secretary Jack Straw. A series of draft figures for recruitment targets across the country was announced at a conference yesterday. The county's
DELIGHTED derby winner Stan Ternent celebrated a "really big win" as his Burnley side homed in on Second Division safety last night. Goals in each half from Andy Payton and Glen Little secured a 2-0 win over north-west rivals Blackpool which lifted the
BOSSES at the German firm about to buy Blackburn's Scapa-Scandia factory say it is too early to say what its future will be. But Voith has confirmed it will merge the Blackburn business with its existing paper machine clothing division once the £329 million
COLLECTORS' items from Andy Payton and Glen Little brought Burnley their third win in five games to suggest that the pair won't have to run the relegation gauntlet that almost snared them last season. Payton's goals, in tandem with Andy Cooke, and Little's
A CORONER has expressed concerns over safety precautions and supervision at the Blackburn canalside pub where a two-year-old boy drowned on Saturday. Opening an inquest into the tragic death of Joe Hutcheon, coroner Andre Rebello said he would eventually
DETECTIVES investigating the death of Ribble Valley man Anthony Leecy are appealing to the public for help. The 29-year-old from from Standen Road, Clitheroe, was caught on CCTV chatting to a mystery man in the town centre just minutes before his death
RIBBLE Valley Tory MP Nigel Evans raised the plight of local children being bussed miles to school in with Transport Minister John Reid in the Commons yesterday. Children from Gisburn and Clitheroe are being forced to go to Accrington, leaving angry parents
A MOTHER today told how her teenage daughter cheated death when she plunged 100ft down a Lake District hillside in treacherous conditions. Ann Rowntree was walking with some friends over Fleetwith Pike when she lost her footing and hurtled down the rough
I AM trying to find a friend with whom I have lost contact. Rita Mawdsley lived next door to me at 22 Masefield Avenue, Padiham, around 1969-70 then moved to the Blackburn area. If she is still there, I would like her to contact me on 01282 777848. JENNIFER
I WAS pleased to read your report (LET, April 6) that Lancashire MPs are among 170 back-benchers who deplore the secrecy of the animal experiment industry and have urged the Government to set up a Royal Commission. Most experiments have to be licensed
ANYONE who has had the problem of trying to get a same-day appointment with their busy family doctor will welcome Tony Blair's vision of an NHS which makes visiting doctors' surgeries as simple as calling in at the shops. For despite heavily-publicised
YOU carried a report recently regarding hospital waiting lists having fallen to the levels they were at on the General Election on May 1, 1997. In this report, Health Secretary Frank Dobson was claiming a great government achievement. However, he failed
AS readers may remember, Ladies Circle members in East Lancashire recently completed a 'Changing Room' project in Blackburn. We would like to thank all the companies and private individuals who kindly donated to the project. Musberry Fabrics, Hamilton
A BLACKBURN win, against their nearest rivals, has left the promotion destiny of the Ramsgreave Drive men in their own hands. A superb display of attacking rugby and impeccable tackling, despatched a much vaunted Driffield side who left the field a shattered
A WAR to end all wars - that was the slogan given to the nation following the Great War of 1914-18, the armistice for which we still observe even today. But how false that prediction has proved. Since then, we have seen the Second World War, the conflicts
REGARDING the interesting memories (Letters, March 24) recounting the trams, during the war I was 14 and working at the gasworks in Church. One of my jobs was to empty and fill large cast-iron containers filled with a green oxide peat that became compacted
THE OMBUDSMAN got it wrong when she rapped Burnley Council for using planning laws to close a footpath, a town hall chief has said. Local Government watchdog Patricia Thomas, said the council decision to treat the closure of a small path in Annarlay Fold
Nature Watch. with Ron Freethy THIS letter from reader J Jennings, of Burton Street, Rishton, set me off on a wonderful nature ramble: "SOME time ago in your column about country walks you printed a piece about Tommy or Jacky Moore's Monkey, a walk around
A LABOUR party worker went to hospital with chest pains after an incident when Liberal bosses tried to gain access to their rivals' election headquarters. Labour claim a row with Liberal Tony Greaves and Pendle council leader Alan Davies led to Mohammad
This time it is the evil, HIV-infected Lennie Smith, who, suspected of being responsible for the murder of up to five children, was jailed for 10 years in 1992 for a string of sex attacks on a six-year-old boy and is now being let loose. Why? We are told
THERE are times when New Labour's bossy urge to nanny folk reaches into the realm of Alice in Wonderland. For, now, the government is ordering councils to develop strategies for walking - or risk losing millions of pounds of state money for improving
CONFRONTED by Tony Blair's stratospheric 67 per cent approval rating that contrasts with the record low personal rating that he has achieved as Conservative leader, William Hague has got himself a new spin doctor with a plan to convince us he's a regular
