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Lancashire | Archive | 1999 | January

Stories for 26 January 1999

Accrington News

Heart swap dad's death shock

A GRANDFATHER and football fan who was one of the first people in East Lancashire to undergo a heart swap operation has died. more...

Rescuer tells of `man in flames' horror

A RESCUER has told of his horror as he tried to help a 23-year-old dad engulfed in flames in the street outside his home. more...

Blackburn Business

Company spearheads big expansion

A TEAM of East Lancashire number crunchers have joined the Lancashire office of business advisers KPMG. more...

Travel king's tribute to staff

AIRTOURS founder David Crossland is returning to his East Lancashire roots to honour staff who have helped him build his travel empire. more...

Promotion is fitting reward

TWO long serving East Lancashire staff members have been made associates at their firm. more...

BRITAIN'S biggest venture capital company, 3i, which owns stakes in East Lancashire firms including Ultraframe has confirmed it was in talks to take over its main rival Electra Investment Trust. more...

Blackburn Leisure

FIVE YEARS AGO: Council rents leap

COUNCIL tenants in Blackburn and Darwen faced rent rises three times the rate of inflation after Blackburn housing committee agreed to recommend a 6.7 per cent increase. more...

TEN YEARS AGO: Debt club to close

A CASH-STARVED working men's club in Blackburn was set to close and be sold to pay off debts of around £160,000. more...

We'll have a gay old time...again

Ernie Wallace reviews La Cage Aux Folles, byChINA theatre group,Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre until Saturday. more...

Events in East Lancs tomorrow (Wednesday, January 27th)

Organ Recital, student ensemble from the RNCM, Blackburn Cathedral, 1pm-1.30pm. more...

Blackburn News

Film scheme could make them 'screen stars'

FOLLOWING the recent occasion when celebrities flocked to a glittering national premiere of the film Shakespeare in Love, pupils in local schools have been invited to a premiere of the film in Burnley. more...

Pupils inspired

A VILLAGE school is keeping up to date with the news and improving reading and writing skills through our Super Story Search literacy project. more...

No switch in housing policy

YOUR article 'Cash cut for run down estates' (LET, January 19) was wrong. It caused a lot of unnecessary worry among the people it misinformed. more...

Piazza style not for us

HEAVEN forbid that Robin Whalley (Letters, January 21) and the Blackburn Civic Society should be upset by my protest concerning the traffic proposals for the town centre. Their consciences will be troubled enough when their disproportionate influence on policy-making in Blackburn creates an economic wasteland. more...

Make junction a safer place

AS part of my journey to school in Lammack, Blackburn, I have to cross the road at Four Lane Ends, but because traffic lights there allow pedestrians so little time, I find myself having to run across as soon as the traffic comes to a halt. more...

Beeb take the biscuit

THERE has been many a debate on television licensing and the arrival of alternative viewing media. It is high time the debate should continue. more...

Lottery's a healthy option

NO wonder the National Health Service is falling apart at the seams as it's been under-funded for too long, with too many hospitals being closed, not enough nurses or doctors, and patients left on trolleys. more...

Compassion from council

I WAS so pleased to read (LET, January 18) about Lancashire County Council reversing its policy on the closure of old folk's homes. more...

Axing public services may be cut too far

IF, as Tony Blair says, we are all middle class now, the Middle England that New Labour has pandered to with tax promises may, in Lancashire at least, begin to think it has got a poor trade for such progress if being better off means being worse off in terms of vital public services. more...

Superb sum

NORTHERN Friends of Action and Research for Multiple Sclerosis would like to thank the generous people of Blackburn for donating £367.34 to our collection outside Blackburn Rovers football ground on Saturday, January 9. more...

One small step - one giant achievement!

A FORMER taxi driver who was left fighting for his life following a double brain haemorrhage has walked again for the first time in more than three years. more...

Head welcomes new rules on unruly pupils

A LEADING East Lancashire head teacher has welcomed new advice on using reasonable force to restrain pupils in the wake of national guidelines issued by the Department for Education and Employment. more...

Girl aged three is 19th meningitis victim

A GIRL of three has become the latest child in East Lancashire to be struck down with suspected meningitis. more...

Police to find £14m cuts

LANCASHIRE police are heading towards a multi-million pound budget crisis, according to financial experts. more...

£20,000 reward to net armed robber

DETECTIVES investigating a string of armed robberies have revealed more details about the mystery man they are hunting. more...

Night club drug alert

POLICE have issued a stern warning about the dangers of designer drugs after a 21-year-old woman was left unconscious and lucky to be alive. more...

Blackburn Sport

Ingleby set for Clarets cheque delivery

RAY Ingleby was set to deliver a cheque - believed to be worth around £600,000 - to Burnley chairman Barry Kilby today as the Clarets prepared to receive a cash injection of almost £4 million. more...

Cummings and Goings

A fan's-eye view from Turf Moor, with Stephen Cummings more...

NON LEAGUE SOCCER: UniBond rivals clash in cup

RIVALS Accrington Stanley and Chorley take a welcome break from their relegation tussle in the UniBond Challenge Cup at Victory Park tonight. more...

CRICKET: Players under fire at AGM

A LACK of commitment by the players was the greatest concern expressed at Rishton CC's annual meeting. more...

Rovers eye York ace Garratt

YORK City's teenage starlet Martin Garratt is being tracked by Blackburn Rovers who could well have switched their attentions from Crewe's Seth Johnson. more...

Ingleby set for cheque delivery

Down By the Riverside

A fan's-eye view from Ewood Park, with Phil Lloyd more...

Where are they now: Brian Pilkington

BRIAN Pilkington has enjoyed a 50-year love affair with football that shows no sign of ending. more...

Bolton Business

School's seal of approval

BOLTON Business School's innovative Master of Business Administration Course for small businesses has received official Government approval. more...

Quality software

WESTHOUGHTON-based RIVA Group Ltd has achieved ISO 9001 certification for its point of sale software systems - three years after obtaining ISO 9002. more...

Bolton Leisure

What's on in and around Bolton,Wednesday 27.1.99

THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE AMBASSADORS Girls' Morris Dancing Troupe, practice night for ages 5 to 15, St Andrew's Methodist Church, Tonge Moor Road, Bolton, 6.30pm-9.30pm. Tel: 01942 255484. more...

Palace Theatre, Manchester:Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty;

Moscow City Ballet. TCHAIKOVSKY'S ballet, Sleeping Beauty, is a timely post-Christmas offering - just the right tonic to blow away those January blues. more...

Bolton News

New clue to Danny killer

DETECTIVES hope the tattered remains of a leather wallet will help track down a vicious killer who battered unconscious a Bolton pensioner before burning him alive. They hope the badly burned wallet - discovered alongside the body of Daniel McFadden - will provide them with the vital clues needed in the hunt for the killer. The BEN can today exclusively reveal that the wallet was discovered by forensic experts as they searched through the remains of the 65-year-old bachelor's flat in Mere Gardens, Halliwell. more...

Help needed

THE BRITISH and International Sailors' Society thank everyone who gave their time and donations during our house to house collections in the Manchester area during 1998. The total raised was £6896. more...

From the BEN files

THE Rev Thomas Edmundson allowed himself a few moments of anger when thieves stole lead flashing from the church schoolroom roof. But Mr Edmundson, vicar of St Paul's Church, Halliwell Road, Bolton, soon remembered his responsibility for preaching the Christian message. After paying a local printer 90p, he shinned up a pair of step-ladders and pasted a 'challenging' message to the thieves on the notice board outside the schoolroom. 'To those who stripped this roof . . .', the poster begins, 'The Bible says: "Though Shalt Not Steal". May God forgive you.' more...

Town's own Crimewatch

IF you live in Adlington and have strong feelings about crime in your area, Chorley Council is inviting you to a public meeting. A consultation document called "making our communities even safer" has been circulated outlining the possible priorities to be tackled over the next three years. more...

Young people take on big business

YOUNG people from Bolton and Leigh are among a group of youngsters challenging big business. They are among 150 people aged 10 to 25 who took part in the Manchester Young Persons Forum in Granada's Starlight Theatre yesterday. more...

Dear Mr Till:

In this open letter to Lawrence Till, Artistic Director of the Octagon Theatre, a reader sums up the views of a number of people who have contacted the BEN. more...

HEALTH MATTERS: Future looks bright for Jack

BETTER: Jack Wright FROM being just four months old Jack Wright was plagued by an eye condition which caused him great pain and his mother anxiety. more...

STAGE: Carry on with the good work!

EASTENDERS' star Barbara Windsor has sent a good-luck message to Nohow Productions who present the musical Sing a Rude Song next month. more...

OPINION: Time to change this decision

BOLTON Education Department may have followed all the correct procedures in deciding which school partially sighted Daniel Paxford should attend, but they have still arrived at the wrong decision. more...

Quartet pizzicatos its way north to Bolton

THE Bridge String Quartet, right,^Zfrom London visits Bolton again this Sunday when they will be in concert at the Bolton School Arts Centre. more...

Daily poem

In no way elusive more...

Disgust at development

I AM writing again about my disgust on the proposed development of Lee Hall in Westhoughton. more...

Top marks all round

THE county's ambulance service, Royal Bolton Hospital's eye unit, Bolton Tax Office and a Bolton Social Services catering unit have all been given top awards for public service. more...

New clue to Danny killer

Driver delivers urgent message

THE devastating effects of speeding were shown today when a local man told his story at the launch of a new "Kill Your Speed" safety campaign. more...

Horse rider: My lucky escape

A BOLTON woman who plunged into a freezing canal with her horse spoke today of her ordeal. more...

Boy off school in safety row

PARTIALLY-SIGHTED Daniel Paxford has missed classes for the past five months because of a row over which school he goes to. more...

It's a twin bolt from the blue

A STRIKING new landmark is to be unveiled at the entrance to an Atherton attraction. more...

Ofsted team heap praise on primary school

By BEN Reporter SCHOOL inspectors have praised standards at a Radcliffe primary school. An Ofsted team reported that Radcliffe Hall Church of England and Methodist Primary School provides "a safe, secure and caring environment, promotes positive attitudes to work and commitment to high standards, has clear leadership and direction, provides a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum". Reporting Inspector Eileen Watson, in her findings, said that at both Key Stage one and two pupils' attainment in the core subjects of English, Mathematics and Science are all in line with those expected for youngsters of that age. more...

Alison's 100 mile wall walk

GYMNASTICS coach Alison Smith is set to perform a balancing act with a difference. more...

Top stage star Jim dies aged 82

A LITTLE Lever ventriloquist who once got star billing above Morecambe and Wise has died aged 82. more...

Lewis still shopping for improved area

BURY South MP Ivan Lewis is keeping up the pressure for regeneration of the rundown Elms Shopping Centre in Whitefield. more...

Self-indulgent?

THE HEADLINES in last Tuesday's BEN that the Octagon Theatre is in financial trouble came as no surprise to me or I'm sure the many thousands of its patrons throughout the North-west. Most of us have been saying for the last few years that though the quality of acting has always been good, on many occasions, superb, an increasing number of the plays is not the type of material which appeals to the majority of theatregoers. more...

Leave us alone now

OH what a lovely childhood we had growing up in Westhoughton walking and playing in the beautiful green fields of wild flowers, rabbits, hares, all kinds of birds and wildlife in abundance. more...

Bolton Sport

RUGBY: Fans dig deep to buy their own player

FANS of Leigh Centurions have put their hands in their pockets and bought their own player! The Leigh Independent Supporters Association (LISA) have raised enough money for coach Ian Millward to land exciting Aussie backrower Jamie Kennedy on a one-year contract. more...

Darwen News

Firm plans 100 jobs

A £6.7 MILLION investment bringing more than 100 new jobs was being unveiled today. more...

Nelson News

Drug smuggled in sweets pack for prisoner

A MOTHER-of-two tried to smuggle a drug to her prisoner boyfriend in a packet of sweets. more...

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