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Stories for 15 January 1999

Accrington News

`More police' plea

A CALL for a higher police presence in an area troubled by car crime and neighbourhood nuisance has been made by a councillor who lives there.  more...

Blackburn Business

Advice is: get smart on euro

LESS than 15 per cent of local small firms have sought advice over the new euro currency, a report out today reveals.  more...

Bookie profits at the gallop

PROFITS at bookmakers Stanley, which owns two betting shops in Rossendale, have galloped away.  more...

Jon puts firm on line on time

BUSINESSWOMAN Lorraine Mullins reckons web page designer Jon Thompson went beyond the call of duty to help her firm. Jon, who works for the East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, was due to help Blackburn telemarketing company Connex go on the Internet recently, after the firm won his services at a recent charity auction.  more...

CSL buck the trend

AN East Lancashire furniture firm is bucking the gloomy high street trend with a bumper rise in sales.  more...

Blackburn Leisure

FIVE YEARS AGO: Conmen strike

CONMEN were thought to have netted thousands of pounds by collecting money in the street and claiming it was going to the Les Dawson Scanner Appeal.  more...

TEN YEARS AGO: Gipsy camp protest

RESIDENTS in Towneley, Burnley, planned a mass protest over controversial plans to turn a former brickworks site into a gipsy camp.  more...

Events in East Lancashire tomorrow (Saturday, January 16th)

Beauty and the Beast pantomime, Main Hall, Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn, 2.15pm and 7.30pm.  more...

Blackburn News

Snow joke - why winter has put the skids under me

Wright On! Shelley Wright takes a wry look at life  more...

Pencil museum is a great draw

Drive and Stroll, with Ron Freethy - today visiting Keswick  more...

Questions of traffic calming

AT the full Hyndburn Council meeting on January 5, I took advantage of the innovation of members of the public being able to speak and ask questions. I found it very worthwhile and would earnestly encourage other citizens to do the same.  more...

Save our school

WE are devastated at the thought of the primary section at Crosshill Special School in Blackburn being closed (LET, January 9).  more...

Super singer, Ossy born and bred

THOSE of us in Oswaldtwistle and surrounding areas old enough to remember the Tomlinson family of Rhyddings Street, had a treat last Sunday night watching the South Bank Show, which featured now world-famous classical operatic baritone, the youngest of the Tomlinson family, John, born in 1946.  more...

Criticism simplistic

JOHN Porter's criticism of the Greens (Letters, January 11) was simplistic. There are a few utopian eco-sects who dream about living in the equivalent of a subsistence peasant economy, but this is not the aim of mainstream Greens.  more...

Giant's grave story

I READ with interest the information (Letters, December 31) about the giant's grave in Blackburn Cemetery.  more...

Success is a feather in our cap

IF East Lancashire got a feather in its cap when the government picked schools in Blackburn and Darwen to be pioneers of its innovative Education Action Zone scheme to raise standards, then it got a even bigger one today for their success.  more...

We're delivering what really matters, says Tony Blair

The Prime Minister writes exclusively for the Lancashire Evening Telegraph on the day of his visit to East Lancashire  more...

Top marks from Blair: PM praises schools 'leading the country'

PRIME Minister Tony Blair visited Blackburn today and praised schools which he said had "led the way for the whole country".  more...

Funding rapped by head

A LEADING headmaster today launched a stinging attack on the Labour government on the day Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Blackburn to talk about Education Action Zones.  more...

Blackburn Sport

Clarets set to reject Ingleby's new offer

RAY Ingleby's latest offer to buy into the Clarets is set to be rejected by the Burnley board.  more...

Rovers skipper's fury over sacking outburst

TIM Sherwood was seething today over ex-Blackburn Rovers manager Roy Hodgson's outburst on Sky TV, when he blamed the Ewood skipper for his sacking.  more...

ICE HOCKEY: Stars 'betrayed' by Hawks

FURIOUS ice hockey stars hit out today claiming they had been "unceremoniously dumped" by Blackburn Hawks.  more...

Sherwood fury over sacking outburst

TIM Sherwood was seething today over ex-Blackburn Rovers manager Roy Hodgson's outburst on Sky TV, when he blamed the Ewood skipper for his sacking.  more...

Burnley set to reject Ingleby's new offer

RAY Ingleby's latest offer to buy into the Clarets is set to be rejected by the Burnley board.  more...

Jonathan's in the Hunt

Derby County v Blackburn Rovers - Peter White's big match preview  more...

I'm not bitter, says Blatherwick

Burnley v Chesterfield - Pete Oliver's big match preview  more...

Bolton Business

Worry over NW jobs

A REPORT out today says people in the North-west are increasingly worried about job prospects this year.  more...

Investors in People - at the double

HORWICH-based Craftprint has gained the prestigious Investors in People Award for the second time.  more...

Bolton Leisure

The Cotton Kier, Watersmeeting Road, Astley Bridge.

WITH so much competition in the crowded eating out market place nowadays any newcomer has to work hard to make a good impression. And the staff at the new Tom Cobleigh family pub/restaurant The Cotton Kier certainly made us feel welcome. On the weekday evening we visited a bright friendly smile from the waitress who genuinely seemed pleased to be serving us put everything on the right footing.  more...

What's on in and around Bolton, Saturday, 16.1.99

BOLTON Strings Together Ensemble, junior strings together approximate grades 1-3, 9.30am-10.45am and advanced ensemble, approximate grades 4-7, 11am-12.15pm, Somerset Road United Reformed Church, off Chorley New Road.  more...

Live around town

TONIGHT: Bottom Bull, Bury Road, Bolton (The Lion Tamers). Oscars, Victoria Square, Bolton (Mad Racket). Gypsy's Tent, Spa Road, Bolton (TBC). Roadhouse, Manchester (SJM Concerts present). Witchwood, Ashton-u-Lyne (Breathe).  more...

Bolton News

A case for the Ombudsman?

CAN someone please advise me on present day planning law? When planning applications are allowed subject to certain conditions, for how long do those conditions apply? Is it 40 years, 40 months or 40 minutes?  more...

Half the woman I was!

By Irma Heger SUPER slimmer Zoe Cairns is only half the person she used to be.  more...

From the BEN files

25 YEARS AGO  more...

Make cash help your business

Louise Tansey looks at life in the 3Ds area - Deane, Derby and Daubhill TIME is running out for businesses in Deane, Derby and Daubhill to get a handy cash boost for improvements to premises.  more...

No decision on nursing home plans

A PLANNING decision has been deferred on a huge extension at a Bolton nursing home which has been put in the hands of the receivers.  more...

Low cost first aid

Louise Tansey looks at life in the 3Ds area - Deane, Derby and Daubill: A NEW course, which offers a prestigious qualification in first aid at a fraction of the usual cost, has been launched in Bolton. Run by the Community Education Service and subsidised by the local authority, this is regarded as a useful and sometimes essential qualification for people who want to take on a first aid role at work. The course is 12 weeks long and costs £16 plus £3.50 enrolment. The exam and qualification fee is £20 and includes a free first aid manual. For more information on the course on Wednesday nights at Clarence Street Centre from 7 to 9pm, go along on the night or call 525500.  more...

Counting the coins

LAST year I appealed to your readers to take any leftover foreign coins into their local Cancer Research Campaign shop or Boots the Chemist.  more...

OPINION: Cash injection that's really vital

IN places like America, many people almost have to fight to get medical care. In Britain we have accepted it almost as our right. But in recent weeks the pressures put on the British health service have made us all realise how weak and fragile this "patient" seems to be.  more...

OPINION: Wards under siege

FURTHER symptoms of the ailing NHS can easily be diagnosed by the plea for more cash to build extra wards at the revamped Royal Bolton Hospital. But this time it seems to be a case of the agonies at one hospital under intense pressure being made worse by the planned closure of another.  more...

Houses not needed here

WESTHOUGHTON is the fastest growing town in the district, but I believe the building should now stop before all the grassland in the area disappears forever.  more...

Four take bus to success

Louise Tansey looks at life in the 3Ds area - Deane, Derby and Daubhill FOUR women who climbed on board the Bolton Opportunities Bus for a computer course have successfully completed their course and got off at the next stop.  more...

`More wards needed at hospital'

HOSPITAL bosses want more cash to build extra wards at the recently revamped Royal Bolton Hospital.  more...

Toleration for smokers

THE DAWN of a new year provides an opportunity to bring forward ways in which smokers can be accommodated, and the discrimination against one-in-three of our fellow citizens ended.  more...

Manifesto for the Millennium

VOTERS in Bolton could soon get a new choice on their ballot papers - thanks to the vision of one man. John Stuart Maindorge is spreading the word in Bolton and other North West towns with the radical manifesto of The People's Democratic Party. Mr Maindorge, aged 61, has already placed a series of newspaper adverts detailing his political vision, which includes the unemployed being paid £300 per week to sort piles of rubbish and single parents being given £400 per week to stay at home and care for their children.  more...

It's a job well done

IN the past I have read the comments of Messrs Derbyshire, Schmitt, Howarth and Makara plus a few more. Personally, I think they are doing a good job regarding running the country from their armchairs.  more...

MP's disk `rip-off' fears

MP Lindsay Hoyle is calling on the Government to look into the sale of new Digital Video Disks - also known as Digital Versatile Disks.  more...

The patients who lead 999 crews a dance

HARD faced patients are waltzing out of hospital and taking a quick step to their ballroom dancing sessions - by ambulance. Now, in an effort to clamp down on patients abusing the overstretched ambulance service, Salford hospital bosses have introduced a new system where all non urgent requests are questioned. Under the new system, only patients whose health would suffer if they travelled by private car or public transport will have their request for transport granted.  more...

Hospital wins bed cash fight

BOLTON hospital bosses have been given the green light to open an intensive care bed which has had to lie empty because of a lack of cash.  more...

Police swoop as prison officers act out gun drama

POLICE raced to a Bolton industrial estate after a passer-by reported a shooting, to find they had interrupted a prison officers' training exercise.  more...

Cash in with energy scheme

RESIDENTS in Bolton are being urged to help the environment - and slash their fuel bills by up to a third.  more...

Everything old folk need to know . . .

A ONE-STOP shop to help pensioners is to be set up in Bolton.  more...

Doctors will practise what John teaches!

A BOLTON consultant is to take a lead role in the education and training of the region's newly qualified doctors.  more...

Puzzling support

NOT for the first time in your columns, does Anthony Makara speak out in support of the authoritarian regime in Malaysia led by the Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir (BEN, January 4).  more...

Tide is high for Blondie

SIXTEEN years ago the curtain fell on one of the most important, influential, seminal and greatest groups in popular music. Or so they thought. They were wrong.  more...

Daily poem

My body slept so peacefully today; after going 10 rounds with the Flu!  more...

Strangeways, here I am

IAN Brown has cancelled his forthcoming UK tour due to prior commitments. All ticket holders are advised to seek refunds from their point of purchase. To clarify the situation, Ian Brown - before his recent release from jail - sent his fans the following message: "Due to the fact that I'm being detained here at Strangeways Hotel (bed, breakfast and evening meal not recommended), the November/December UK tour was rescheduled without my knowledge. "I don't wish to disappoint anybody, but upon release I intend to start working on my next album - at this stage tentatively titled, From the Inside. I hope that the release in February of the song, Be There, on Mo Wax with DJ Shadow and James Lavelle can be of some consolation and I look forward to playing in the UK as soon as humanly possible.  more...

Civic the centre of attention

BOLTON-based indie rock band Civic have been selected to play heat one of the Guinness sponsored Manchester Irish Festival YGG Battle of Bands competition. The festival is now the biggest Irish festival in the UK. Last year it was headlined by the chart-topping Irish supergroup The Corrs.  more...

It's a total subsidy

YOUR article 'Octagon's till jingles to tune of £290,000' (January 13) suggests that the theatre will receive a substantial increase in its subsidy from the North West Arts Board in the New Year.  more...

Bolton Sport

SOCCER: RMI take heart from cup game

SOUTHAMPTON'S defeat at Craven Cottage in Wednesday's FA Cup third round replay will be the basis of Steve Waywell's team talk as Leigh RMI bid for a Wembley day out via another route.  more...

Todd form guide

FORM rather than favouritism will determine whether Colin Todd will play wantaway striker Arnar Gunnlaugsson at Sheffield United tomorrow.  more...

Todd form guide

FORM rather than favouritism will determine whether Colin Todd will play wantaway striker Arnar Gunnlaugsson at Sheffield United tomorrow.  more...

Darwen News

Discovery helps bridge the ages

LOCAL historians and amateur researchers have helped solve the riddle of who put the 'bridge' into Bridge Street.  more...

Nelson News

`Speak now on housing'

PEOPLE in Pendle need to say now where new housing should be built over the next eight years before it is too late, according to a council leader.  more...

Attack on pensioner leaves her housebound

AN elderly woman was mugged in a vicious attack that left her housebound and unable to walk.  more...

Carry on...buy your own convenience!

BARGAIN hunters are being given the chance to buy a public toilet - after a council decided to privatise a privy.  more...

Meet over `unfit' row

WORRIED residents living in an 'unfit' row of terraces in Nelson will meet councillors and senior officials to find a solution to their problems.  more...

Rawtenstall News

Celebrity cancer charity tribute to ex-Claret's wife

CARMELINA Robertson died last year after a heartbreaking four and a half year battle against breast cancer - but her sister Maria Stansfield is determined that her death will not have been in vain.  more...

  
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