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Lancashire | Archive | 1999 | January

Stories for 8 January 1999

Blackburn Business

Boom year ahead for software sales

THE UK's craze for computer games helped retailer Electronics Boutique - which has a store in Blackburn - hit a super score over Christmas. more...

Mail order warning to traders

A TRADE group has appealed for help to tackle what it believes may be a growing problem. more...

Valet pit-stop for car park

ENTREPRENEUR Mark Watts has swapped his paintbrush for a sponge for his new venture. more...

Modern ways aid elderly

STEPHANIE Entwistle is only 21 but is already an expert on old age! more...

Lack of sparkle

JEWELLERY giant Goldsmiths, which has a store in Blackburn, has reported disappointing trading over Christmas. more...

Blackburn Leisure

FIVE YEARS AGO: Factories shed jobs

SEVENTY jobs were lost in Darwen including 38 at envelope makers Chapman Inveresk and 32 at neighbouring factory New Waterside Paper Mill, Eccleshill. more...

TEN YEARS AGO: Euro cash pledge

THREE East Lancashire companies were promised Euro-cash expansion funds totalling nearly £250,000. more...

Events in East Lancashire tomorrow (Saturday, January 9th)

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

Blackburn News

Video pervert gets two years

"A VOYEURISTIC homosexual," who made and directed a sex film featuring a boy, is behind bars for two years. more...

A garden to make that day extra special

A GARDEN designed to make newlyweds' big day even more special is one of more than 130 projects in the running for a Lancashire Evening Telegraph Grimewatch award. more...

Lancs banks take account of euro

"A PINT of best mild and a packet of pork scratchings please." "Certainly sir - that'll be 2.57 euros." more...

Pleasant area that escaped the Industrial Revolution

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

Something to hide? Not Lancashire police

IN the Comment column (LET, January 6), your newspaper criticised Lancashire Constabulary for not providing all of the statistical information it wanted on the Christmas and New Year drink drive campaign. more...

Cemfuel - a reminder

MAY I remind readers that objections to Castle Cement's application to burn 'Cemfuel' in Kiln 7 at their Clitheroe plant must be with the Environment Agency by January 14. more...

Pain goes with glory

BEING, as he is, leader of the ruling-Labour group in Hyndburn, Councillor George Slynn hasn't any option but to accept any criticism or compliments made about his party. more...

Sound bungle a turn-off

TURNING on in readiness for the news, I only saw the tail end of 'Talent of Tomorrow,' an entertainment special on Granada TV on New Year's Eve, in which youngsters from the North-East competed in a talent contest. more...

Regulars turn up trumps

I WANT to express our thanks to the people of Blackburn, and in particular the regulars at the Griffin and Bee Hive pubs, in Redlam, who, with the efforts of Carole and David Taylor and David's mother Dorothy, have raised the magnificent sum of £3,600 for our charity. more...

A call for compassion

REGARDING your Insight report on homeless Michael Herrington (LET, January 4), what a sad, miserable plight this young man appears to be in. more...

Triumph or waste, debate is needed

OBLIGING us now with more detailed figures on its month-long Christmas and New Year blitz on drink-driving, Lancashire Constabulary discloses that out of more than 32,000 motorists stopped at roadside checkpoints, just five failed breath tests. more...

Support was superb

ST John Ambulance in Lancashire would like to say a big thank-you to your newspaper for the support we have received over the past year. more...

Reputation intact

I FOUND Mr D Crowley's comments (Letters, December 31) in respect of Ron Freethy's error over the Canada geese rather pompous. more...

B-test spot checks caught five out of 32,000

JUST five people were arrested for drink-driving out of 32,101 stopped by police spot checks during the Christmas clampdown. more...

Family speak out over shamed solicitor

THE shattered parents of a student who was stabbed to death today said they will never be able to forgive the solicitor whose actions led to the collapse of a murder trial. more...

Villagers play a `wild' card

CAMPAIGNERS in Guide are set to play a wild card in their bid to prevent a major commercial development on land near their homes. more...

Guilty sex-assault pensioner's cancer plight

A CANCER-stricken pensioner is facing jail after being convicted of sex assaults - but a judge is allowing him to have treatment first. more...

Blackburn Sport

Ward set for Rovers debut

BRIAN Kidd was today named as the Premiership's Carling manager of the month for December - just five weeks after taking charge of Blackburn Rovers. more...

Clarets boss Ternent signs Mellon

MICKY Mellon is the latest to join the Turf Moor revolution after Stan Ternent today splashed out to sign the Tranmere Rovers midfielder. more...

DARTS: George backs Baxter

BOBBY George, the greatest showman to have set foot on the Lakeside stage, is convinced that Ronnie Baxter is just three matches away from his own place in darts folklore. more...

CRICKET: Ribblesdale eye Premier feeder role

THE Ribblesdale League was one of five potential feeder leagues to the proposed Lancashire Premier League to meet with the Lancashire Cricket Board last night. more...

ICE HOCKEY: Hawks looking good for '99

BLACKBURN Hawks blast into 1999 at full pelt - and with a clean bill of health. more...

Ward set for debut

BRIAN Kidd was today named as the Premiership's Carling manager of the month for December - just five weeks after taking charge of Blackburn Rovers. more...

Ally looks to the play-offs

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

Woodgate repays faith of new boss

Blackburn Rovers v Leeds United - Peter White's big match preview more...

Ternent signs Mellon

MICKY Mellon is the latest to join the Turf Moor revolution after Stan Ternent today splashed out to sign the Tranmere Rovers midfielder. more...

Bolton Business

Shares start the year on a high

By Jon Hitchin, Hargreave Hale Stockbrokers, Bolton SHARES have surged to their highest levels for five months in the last few days, as the FTSE finished the year not too far off the six thousand level. The number of shares being bought and sold over the last week or so has been extremely low though, as most people have preferred to enjoy their turkeys and do their Christmas and sales shopping, rather than buy shares. The euro has also been blamed for the low volumes as some are concerned about the effects the currency may have. more...

Cheap rate hotline for job hunters

EMPLOYMENT minister Andrew Smith has launched a new national jobs hotline. more...

Bolton Info

Chemists open tomorrow

Nash, 15 Devon Street (9am to 10pm); Landmark, 12 Chorley New Road (9am to 1pm and 2pm to 11pm); Cohens, 576 Blackburn Road (9am to 10pm); Gordon, 193 Bolton Road, Kearsley (noon to 1pm); Hooton, 182 Lee Lane, Horwich (noon to 1pm); Cohens, 1 Market Street, Little Lever (11am to 1pm); Captain Lees Pharmacy, Captain Lees Road, Westhoughton (noon to 1pm). more...

Bolton Leisure

Khan Saab Indian Restaurant, Bury New Road, Whitefield.

TUCKING into a tasty meal in the former home of Britain's last official hangman might be enough to make most people lose their appetite. But after a major refurbishment, the stylish Khan Saab Indian Restaurant in Whitefield is a far cry from its days as the Junction Pub - once run by the country's chief public executioner, Mr Harry Allen. And since Harry's departure as landlord in 1962 (although he carried on his 'sideline' until a little later), the new owners have completely transformed the building into an up-market but affordable eating establishment. more...

TONIGHT: Gypsy's Tent, Spa Road, Bolton (Starski). Bulls Head, Bury Road, Bolton (Final Demand). Ban

SATURDAY: Hawthorns, Spa Road, Bolton (Tritonic). Bulls Head, Bury Road, Bolton (Muvva Luvvas). Witchwood, Ashton-u-Lyne (The Whistleblowers, JTM, Caiyelow). Roadhouse, Manchester (Cipher, Colour Blind). more...

Bolton News

My happy memories

EVEN 60 years since leaving Bolton, I still, after all these years, remember the wonderful times I had visiting the Palladium Picture House, The Rialto, at the corner of St George's Road, The Palais de Dance, the little butcher's shop across the road, Catholic schoolchildren marching along the roads. What wonderful sights. The "Mount" and the one corner of Waterloo Street, also the small temperance bar where we used to have pop before going in the pictures. Sometimes we received a comic when entering the pictures. more...

Playing the name game

By Paul Gradwell QUIZ buff Paul Gradwell is something of an expert when it comes to the real names of famous people. more...

From the BEN files

25 YEARS AGO more...

Police swoop on £1million cannabis farm

DRUGS with a street value of more than £1million were seized when police swooped on a cannabis farm in Bolton. more...

Year of achievement

COMPANIES in Deane, Derby and Daubhill celebrated their business achievements at presentation before Christmas. more...

Out of fashion?

I hope that the following might trigger someone's memory and conscience. more...

`Census abuse' fears are played down

FOR the first time since 1851, all British citizens will be asked to declare their religion in the next official census in 2001. more...

Unfair treatment

I WAS made redundant from my job of 12 years on November 30, 1998. The firm I worked for ceased to trade because of its financial position. The sole proprietor of the firm is currently trying to enter into a Creditors' Voluntary Arrangement which could take up to 12 months. more...

Get you Big Mac fix on Route 66

FAST food giant McDonalds is the first major-name tenant to take a space at Route 66 - the five-acre mixed leisure and commercial scheme at Pilsworth, Bury. McDonalds has taken a half acre site at the former Bass Brewery distribution facility, which is being redeveloped by Standard Commercial Properties Securities, part of Bass Developments. It is part of a major scheme to regenerate surplus Bass sites with the aim of bringing employment back to the area. more...

Could you pass the clean kitchen test?

BACTERIA, germs and bleach are back on the menu this month as Bolton's 16 Health Centres challenge you to test your wits on food hygiene. Bolton Council's Environmental Health Services Food Control Unit and Wigan and Bolton Health Authority's Education Section have teamed up to put together a "Food Safety in the Home" exhibition. Information will be available on food hygiene from leaflets at the exhibition and everyone entering the quiz will be tested on a range of topics such as food storage and bacteria safety. more...

CHEERS: Charity champs

TWO Bolton licensees have celebrated the start of 1999 with a boost to reward their mammoth charity efforts. more...

Daily poem

Nothing touches the heart like a love song, more...

Rachel's role at Octagon

RACHEL Bartholomew is the Octagon Theatre's new Press and Marketing Officer. After graduating from Warwick University in 1990, Rachel, who is from the North-west, toured the UK with a children's theatre group before settling in London for six years. more...

CHEERS: Winter Festival is now in full swing

THE winter beer festival season is now in full swing. more...

Pub's pride

Stout work DRINKERS at a well known pub on the Bolton/Bury border can sip their pints in confidence - after the pub's cellar won a top accolade. more...

Foster a pet

NOW that the New Year is here - the last in this Millennium - many of your readers will have made resolutions to change their lifestyles, take up new hobbies, join a club or do some charity work. more...

Historic market business in closure shock

ONE OF Bolton's oldest family businesses has been left reeling over fears that the council is set to double its Market Hall rents. more...

Army hopefuls on the front line for recruitment 1999!

EIGHT young men waved goodbye to Civvie Street when they became Bolton's first recruits of the year to enlist in the Army. more...

Holiday firm in table shock

A BOLTON holiday firm has come out at the bottom of a customer satisfaction table carried out by the Consumers' Association. more...

Hayley's the people's champion

PEOPLE power voted in the BEN's Child of the Year for 1998 . . . and the winner is as cute as a "button"! more...

Head calms fears over killer bug

A BURY headteacher has reassured parents against the possibility of an epidemic in his school after a young girl contracted meningitis. The 14-year-old girl, a Year 10 pupil at Bury CE High School, was diagnosed with the disease last Sunday and is understood to be in a stable condition at Booth Hall Children's Hospital. But Mr Phil Grady, who is in charge at the school, said that this was an isolated incident which left pupils unaffected on their return to Haslam Brow this week following the festive break. more...

Lesson punishment gets the green light

A SCHEME which will make careless drivers take lessons instead of getting penalty points on their licence has been given the go-ahead by councillors. more...

Otis is the man for the Millennium!

A NEW chairman of the 3Ds Business Development Forum has been appointed. more...

MPs back plans to reform `unjust' CSA

TWO Bolton MPs have welcomed plans to reform the controversial Child Support Agency. more...

MP's praise for town homes plan

BOLTON MP Brian Iddon has praised moves to bring housing into the town centre. more...

Residents win bollards fight

FOLLOWING complaints from residents, an order barring drivers from using the junction of Foster Lane and Dovedale Road in Breightmet has been overturned. more...

A superb

collection I THANK all the people in Bolton who gave so generously to the Snowman's collection run by Bolton Round Table before Christmas. After early rain, we had a superb collection and raised a grand total of £954 for local charities. more...

Doubts about the scheme

LIKE many others, I was also in Westhoughton Council chamber on December 11 for a meeting about plans for a new housing estate on one of the area's last green sites, and at their very glossy presentation on December 12. The developers put on a good show. But the shine soon wore off and doubts about their scheme crept in. more...

Dynamic duo going places

BOLTON's very own Radio 1 DJ Mark Radcliffe, along with his sidekick Marc 'Lard' Riley, have pulled off a comeback that is right up there in the premier league. Following the disaster of their move to the high-profile breakfast slot, where they were blamed for losing the best part of two million listeners in seven months, their highly-acclaimed residency of the early afternoon programme is simply stunning. more...

Jolly Robert!

HOW nice to see the face of our former Bolton West MP, Robert Redmond, in your columns after all these years (BEN January 4). And how appropriate that a former Tory MP should turn himself into an expert on pirates. more...

Residents at risk

I was very annoyed to read in the Bolton Evening News on December 31 that though the council is planning to place speed restricting ramps in the roads all over the place around Bolton and Farnworth, there was no mention of any sort of speed deterrents on Lightbounds Road on the Johnson Fold estate. Residents risk their lives every time they cross Lightbounds Road. There is a speed limit of 10mph, but no one takes any notice of it. more...

Bolton Sport

SOCCER: D'Jaffo blow sparks striker search

BURY hope to have a new face in their strikeforce tomorrow after losing top striker Laurent D'Jaffo. French hit man D'Jaffo is expected to be out for up to a month after having a leg put in plaster to cure an achilles injury. more...

SASA'S IN THE ARMY NOW

A COUNTRY call with a difference will keep Sasa Curcic out of the Crystal Palace side for Sunday's visit to the Reebok. more...

Sasa's in the army now

A COUNTRY call with a difference will keep Sasa Curcic out of the Crystal Palace side for Sunday's visit to the Reebok. more...

Burnley News

Video pervert gets two years

"A VOYEURISTIC homosexual," who made and directed a sex film featuring a boy, is behind bars for two years. more...

Poisoned by vodka

A SELF-confessed alcoholic who was drinking a bottle of vodka a day died from alcohol poisoning combined with the effects of a prescribed sleeping tablet, an inquest heard. more...

Clitheroe News

All change for charities

TWO ancient charities which have helped the "poor, aged, needy and impotent" of Longridge for 300 years have combined to serve the North West. more...

Colne News

A question of catering

FORGET A Question of Sport, when it comes to a real 'grilling,' Nelson and Colne College's A Question of Catering really puts the bite on experts. more...

Darwen News

Job rush as Sainsbury's fix opening date

SUPERMARKET giants Sainsbury's confirmed today that their new Darwen store will open on March 31. more...

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