AN elderly woman was left "terrified" after being confronted by a masked man in the middle of the night. The 74-year-old woman, who lives off Rufford Drive, Whitefield, woke at 4.30am on Tuesday to find a man standing by her bed shining a torch in her
A CAMPAIGN is being launched to ensure carers in Lancashire do not lose out on benefits they are entitled to claim. Lancashire's welfare rights service has organised the initiative which starts on Wednesday, November 6. According to the latest estimates
A VICTORIA Cross awarded to a Bury soldier, one of the youngest recipients in the Great War, is to be auctioned next month. Private George Peachment was just 18 when he was killed in action while rescuing his company commander. He was awarded the Army's
SOME people will go to great lengths for a get together, and for two members of the 11th Battalion XX Lancashire Fusiliers, several thousand miles of land and sea is no excuse. Two former comrades travelled from different parts of Australia to spend time
BURY'S social services boss has hit out at the borough's Tory MPs over the department's cash crisis. Committee chairman Coun John Costello says Alistair Burt and David Sumberg should be fighting for more money for Bury rather than blaming social services
WATCHDOGS have criticised magistrates' courts in East Lancashire for being unclean, offering a poor service and having inadequate disabled facilities. Her Majesty's Magistrates' Courts Service Inspectorate also said there was confusion among staff about
Rossendale United 4 Chadderton 1 THIS convincing victory for the Dark Lane men lifted them away from the NWCL First Division bottom slot last night. "It was brilliant. To be honest, we played a bad side last night, but we have played a few similar ones
WE are here and we are here to stay . . . that was the message booming out of Gigg Lane on Saturday as the Shakers clashed head-on with one of their promotion rivals. Conclusive proof - if it was still needed - that Bury truly belong in the upper echelons
SENIOR supervisor Sheila Stephenson has called it a day after 45 years with Amalgamated Packaging in Burnley. Sheila began working with the firm, part of the Remploy Group, in 1951 on the glueing machines used to make boxes, before working her way up
COLIN Hendry's hopes of making an imminent return for both club and country were on the line today, as the big brave Scot battled to declare himself fit again, just 28 days after groin surgery. Blackburn Rovers' caretaker-boss Tony Parkes, who looks certain
BURY'S Birthdays king Ron Wood has sold out to big city investors in a £90 million deal. The boss of Ron Wood Greetings Cards is selling his controlling stake in the phenomenally successful firm. But he has promised staff that it will be "business as
SHOPPERS are invited to make the most of two months' free car parking in the new Union Arcade in Bury. The first two floors of the multi-storey park opened yesterday with 220 spaces. Opening at 9.30am, parking will be free until December 9 when the whole
DEMONSTRATORS took to the streets outside Bury Job Centre on Wednesday, angry after managers banned their posters. Volunteers from Bury Unemployed Workers Centre asked Job Centre to put up posters advertising free stress counselling for the jobless. Alec
A STAGGERING 300 residents have responded to a call to bring the M62 relief road scandal before the Parliamentary Ombudsman. Now, council leaders in Bury have to begin the task of sifting through the hundreds of complaints to find a number of test cases
A PRISON on the site of the former Agecroft Power Station will completely regenerate the area, a public inquiry has been told. Mr Christopher Lockhart-Mummery QC, for the Prison Service, was speaking at the opening o f the inquiry into plans for an 800
POLICE were called when youths hurled fireworks at a painter while he was up a ladder. The incident has prompted an angry tenants' leader to call for the sale of fireworks to be restricted to just two days before Bonfire Night. Beryl Callaghan, chairman
BOLTON Street traders want to turn the clock back in more ways than one this weekend. They are angry that council traffic bosses are closing down the free car park at Castlecroft tomorrow which they say could hit trade. Now members of Bolton Street Business
A COUNCIL-owned leisure centre is celebrating securing a second lottery jackpot to help pay for renovation work. The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced a grant of £86,300 towards a £95,905 rejuvenation scheme at Darwen Leisure Centre. The cash boost
TWO alsatian dogs were rescued by firemen from a fire which badly damaged the living room of a house in Helmshore. An Aids hotline to offer help to worried inquirers, thought to be the first such service in the country outside a city, was planned for
SOCIAL services bosses have sounded the death knell for Croich Hey old folk's home. As revealed two weeks ago in the Bury Times the Hawkshaw home will almost certainly bite the dust as officers battle a financial crisis. The news was greeted with anger
Blackburn Rovers Res 2 Tranmere Res 3 AN eventful game saw Rovers Reserves suffer their first defeat in four games against a very experienced Tranmere side. Trailing 1-0 to a Pat Nevin goal, after a first half when chances were few and far between, Rovers
HASLINGDEN'S prolific batsman Graham Knowles has been linked with Cheshire County League outfit Prestwich. Knowles, who is currently the target of two Bolton Association sides, spoke to Prestwich officials this week. "We are hoping that Graham will still
DEFIANT Rossendale Council today pledged to go it alone and keep its bus company despite being surrounded by former municipal companies now in private ownership. Last night three Burnley Labour councillors resigned in protest as the council voted to sell
MAIL bosses were forced to move a post box 200 metres down the road - after a series of unwanted deliveries from local dogs! The pillar box on Cut Lane, Rishton, had become a favourite stopping-off point for pets on their way to and from a nearby park
CAR thefts in Prestwich have been halved in one month thanks to new police initiatives. The huge reduction was reported by Chief Inspector David Morris, head of the Whitefield sub-division. He was speaking at the Bury South Police and Community Consultative
PREDICTED heavy financial losses for the next 12 months led to Burnley Council's U-turn over the sale of their share in Burnley and Pendle Transport, it has been revealed. Directors of Burnley and Pendle Transport, three from Burnley and three from private
THE public will be asked for their views on plans for the future of Bury town centre. Two exhibition days have been set up when residents can take a look at the proposals which form part of the Bury Town Centre Management Scheme. The aim is to encourage
A FORMER lecturer at Bury College died in the chopper crash which claimed the life of Chelsea vice-chairman Matthew Harding. John Bauldie (47) was one of five killed in the crash in Cheshire on Tuesday night. A graduate of Leeds University, Mr Bauldie
RESTAURATEUR Craig Bancroft has appeared on a top TV show to dispel some of the myths about wine. Craig, the wine expert and business brains behind the hugely successful Northcote Manor restaurant in Langho, appeared on This Morning With Richard and Judy
JPILKINGTON (Letters, October 11) is right. We are all suffering from Jewish Holocaust overkill. What about the 50 million murdered by Stalin in Russia this century? Also, the 15 million Germans expelled from their ethnic homelands by the Allies after
SCOUTS' delight turned to horror when 20 chickens donated to them by Lancashire Evening Telegraph readers just two weeks ago were stolen. This is the third tragedy facing the Cambridge Street group, in Accrington, after their first 20 hens were mutilated
TWO Bury netball players are on the trail of international glory. Tracey Neville, sister of Manchester United stars Gary and Philip, has been named in the full England squad to face Jamiaca in a test series, while Louise Crolla, the St Gabriel's teenager
FANS' favourite Phil Stant is set to make his first start of the season tomorrow, October 26. A disappointed onlooker for most of this campaign, Stant gets his chance to take out his frustration on Bristol Rovers because of David Johnson's one-match ban
THE WildCats produced one of the performances of the season when they overturned a 15-point final quarter deficit against a team destined for the Premiership. . There had been no signs of the drama to come as Bury and Bolton put behind them the loss of
JOHN Robb's business is now in full swing! The keen Barrowford golfer decided to set up his own business with partner Jim Scott, selling and repairing electric golf trolleys after a year of unemployment. "New golfing equipment is quite expensive to buy
THREE leading Burnley councillors have resigned in an emotion-charged protest at the sell-off of the local bus company to private operators Stagecoach. Last night's vote, believed to be 35 to 0, to sell Burnley's half share was taken in private at a meeting
FISH enthusiast Giles Barlow has vowed to appeal against a council's decision to shut his aquatics store, after he was told it was too far away from the town centre. He opened Barlow's Aquatic Trading, Scaitcliffe Street, Accrington, in September before
REGIONAL health chiefs have told local health authorities to fork out money to help cash-strapped trusts. But the chief executive of Bury and Rochdale Health Authority says practical and financial help has already been given. At a top level meeting of
SOME 90 years ago our order, which differs from regular Freemasonry in that we admit both men and women, was deeply involved in the crusade to end vivisection or experiments on animals, which is still a blot on our society. Today, many alternatives are
HOLY Cross college was brought to a standstill this week as teachers went out on strike after two members of staff were issued with redundancy notices. Some 50 members of the two main teaching unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, joined the picket lines. The
NURSES face an "impossible and unfair" workload and a senior nurse has warned the whole system is in danger of grinding to a halt as Bury's hospital bed crisis rumbles on. Nurses say they are dealing with too much work because they are looking after patients
A HOUSEWIFE escaped serious injury by seconds as a car careered into her garage after hitting two other cars and severing a gas main. Several houses had to be evacuated and a fire brigade spokesman said it was lucky the gas was not ignited and no one
AS THE general election race heads for the home straight, suddenly the remarkable catching-up job done by John Major is dashed by Tony Blair - who now leads by a distance. For the latest opinion poll today puts Labour on 56 per cent - double the Tories
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to make old folk aware of crime and security issues. Blackburn and District Age Concern has produced leaflets which give details on such issues as home security and dealing with callers. Talks are also being staged at pensioners
LARS Bohinen's World Cup prospects are in jeopardy after losing his place in the Blackburn Rovers starting line-up. And the Norwegian midfielder will be only one of a number of Ewood players anxiously awaiting the outcome of the club's search for a new
RIBBLE Valley MP Nigel Evans has stressed the vital importance of British orders for Lancashire's aerospace industry to the Government. And speaking in the Commons, Mr Evans urged the Ministry of Defence not only to look at price when placing major orders
REFERENDA have been in the news in recent weeks. This is the consultative system whereby Parliament asks the people if they are in favour of or against a proposal. Again in recent weeks, the Government gave the arms industry £2 million. Most of these
