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Stories for 10 February 1999

Accrington News

Residents' lorry fury

RESIDENTS who have been driven round the bend by wagons rolling past their terraced houses have called on an MP to put the brakes on the problem.  more...

Deep freeze for cygnets

THREE swans were in a flap when they woke up to find themselves trapped in ice on a frozen canal.  more...

TV licence dodgers fined £6,500

A CRACKDOWN on TV licence dodgers netted a total of £6,500 in fines in just one day at a court.  more...

Ramblers to talk out their problems

PROBLEMS facing hikers including quarrying, wind farms and waste dumping will be discussed when North East Lancashire Ramblers' Association has its annual meeting at the Clayton-le-Moors civic centre on Sunday.  more...

Blackburn Business

Flying the flag Down Under

A TRADE group which represents more than 130 local aerospace firms is heading Down Under to fly the flag for East Lancashire.  more...

It's a mean machine!

A £3.5 million investment has started earning its keep!  more...

Stores to get a new look

DIY stores across East Lancashire are getting a new look.  more...

Stamp of approval

AN engineering firm has won a first class award!  more...

New role

KAY Thompson, above, has joined Accrington-based Gaskell Textiles to head up their credit control department.  more...

Blackburn Leisure

Eight wonders

AFTER enjoying a successful career at Habergham High School, during which time he won a place at Salford University and played football for Burnley Schoolboys, Aaron Hargreaves went back on Sunday and won their eight mile road race.  more...

Lambs do the slaughter

Whinney Hill Res 2, Lamb Inn 5 "HOPE you've brought plenty of note paper pal. There's going to be loads of incidents in this game," Whinney Hill's goalkeeper Shaun O'Brien warned me seconds before the start.  more...

Keeper Grooby goes on strike!

Netlon 3 Rishton 2 WE'VE all seen it before when, in one last act of desperation, the goalkeeper pushes forward in an attempt to salvage something out of a game.  more...

Rudra sings cricket's praises

RUDRA Singh believes he has come a long way since being appointed Lancashire cricket development officer more than two years ago.  more...

BLACKBURN AND DARWEN JUNIOR LEAGUE:

STASH under 10s 2 Rossendale United under 10s 0 THERE aren't many who can rival Manchester United when it comes to changing their team strip, but Rossendale's Joe Marcroft changed his three times in one match!  more...

Ref course initiative to kick out kickers

PUPILS are to be encouraged to take referees' courses at the age of 14 in a bid to smash schoolboy soccer violence, writes NEIL BRAMWELL.  more...

County competition

LANCASHIRE'S pool stars are hoping for a marriage made in heaven at the National Inter County Pool Championships next month.  more...

TEN YEARS AGO: Canalside sites hunt

LEISURE industry companies were looking for canalside sites for a major leisure complex after a marketing campaign for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Corridor. Trusthouse Forte was seeking sites in Blackburn and Burnley and developers were considering plans for a winter sports scheme at the former Huncoat Power Station.  more...

FIVE YEARS AGO: Lizard sent in post

AN East Lancashire pet shop owner admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a lizard he sent through the post.  more...

What's On in Lancs and the North West Feb 11

Lunchtime Recital, Burnley Mechanics, Manchester Road, Burnley, 12.45pm.  more...

Blackburn News

County turn on Blunkett over schools

COUNTY hall chiefs have hit back at Government claims they are not spending enough on the county's schools.  more...

Time for your round, Tone!

THERE are, I suppose, a thousand and one things more important for MPs to bother their head about.  more...

Foolishness of a holiday handout

MOST of us, I'm sure, would love to escape the misery of winter with a two-week holiday in the tropical sun.  more...

Don't gag a free Press

WHAT'S Blackburn's MP, Home Secretary Jack Straw playing at?  more...

Sizing up Europe

IT IS, of course, hugely ironic that Britain's pounds, inches and pints have only been spared from Napoleon's revenge of metrication at the dictate of the Eurocrats thanks to the Yanks.  more...

Early blooms

Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy  more...

Memories linger on

THE splendid old Accrington Grammar School has gone but the memories are imperishable. Mine, from my arrival in 1939 to leaving in 1946, include two remarkable headmasters - the illustrious Dr C W Edkins, who mysteriously 'glided' along corridors as though on castors; 'Ben' Johnson, a perfectionist musician who was habitually appalled at our imperfect performance of morning assembly hymns.  more...

Hoddle, media victim

YET another lamb has been led to the slaughter. I refer, of course, to the Glenn Hoddle saga. Whether you like or loathe him, surely, you must feel some remorse at the way he was duped by the Press.  more...

Great shot of schnauzer

SOME time ago, you printed a photograph of a gentleman and his dog, a German schnauzer, on the moorlands. It was a great shot.  more...

Walk will help Breakthrough

IN the UK, more than 300 women a week die from breast cancer - many of them mothers.  more...

Born too late for burning

I WAS under the impression that the citizens of this country were obliged to tolerate all other citizens regardless of their race, colour or creed, or face prosecution in the event of their failure to do so.  more...

Press as much to blame

IN the hounding of Glenn Hoddle, the media are as much to blame in setting back the cause of 'the disabled.'  more...

Councillors are there to deal with local issues

IT IS, perhaps, a measure of some of our East Lancashire councillors' misguided view of their influence or importance that we see them trying to force on to the agenda issues that really have nothing to do with them and none at all with the jobs they were elected to do - to serve the people of their towns.  more...

PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice's private member's Bill to give a statutory right to roam in open countrys

For the Government seems to be back-tracking from its manifesto pledge on greater access and is preparing its own proposals for voluntary agreements with landowners on a site-by-site basis that, even when not bogged down in numerous negotiations, might only produce a patchwork right to roam.  more...

Suck it and see

YOU know what it's like. You click on a link to a site you think sounds really interesting...but when it appears, you can't make head nor tail of it because it's so badly designed.  more...

Disabled blast Hoddle council debate

COUNCILLORS have been slammed for taking time out from considering the proposed closure of special schools and homes for the elderly - to debate the Glenn Hoddle saga.  more...

ME sufferers want help group restored

SUFFERERS of the chronic tiredness condition ME have stepped up their call to restore a specialist service in East Lancashire.  more...

Council tax likely to rise by 4.8%

COUNCIL tax payers in Blackburn look likely to be paying 4.8 per cent more on their council tax bills from April.  more...

Children shown the wise way to traveL

SCHOOLCHILDREN in Lancashire are to be targeted in the latest phase of a campaign to encourage people to use public transport instead of cars.  more...

Miners lodge claims over finger disease

MORE than 1,200 ex-miners living in the North West have submitted claims for a share of £500 million compensation for Vibration White Finger Disease.  more...

County turn on Blunkett over schools

COUNTY hall chiefs have hit back at Government claims they are not spending enough on the county's schools.  more...

Volunteers tell how they go for goals

BUSINESS leaders met Prince's Trust workers to learn more about the Blackburn team's work helping young people aged 16 to 25 rise to new challenges.  more...

Man shot by air gun boys

POLICE are hunting two boys who shot a man with an air rifle in Blackburn.  more...

Katrina's leap for Chernobyl victims

ACTION girl Katrina Morton raised £370 for the young victims of the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster.  more...

Blackburn Sport

No charity for Christian

AMERICAN golfer Christian Chernock thought he had holed a 35-foot putt from just off the third green in the final round of the Malaysian Open to take the lead.  more...

Holt! Who goes there?

THE whole business of international qualification for players is in danger of bringing the game into disrepute.  more...

Franz 1 Germany 0

FRANZ Beckenbauer has branded Germany as a "bunch of journeymen" after their 3-0 defeat by the United States.  more...

IT has been revealed that Nike's 10-year contract with the Brazil national team, worth £100 million

Ces Van Nieuwenhuizen, the company's sports marketing director in Brazil, said Nike wanted a "return" for paying £300,000 to organise and promote each friendly.  more...

GLANCING through Aston Villa's 'Claret and Blue' monthly magazine before Saturday's game with Rovers

The caption under the sequence showing a rare strike by Villa's captain began: "Making goalscoring look ridiculously easy is Gareth Southgate . . . "  more...

Quote of the week

"The silly woman said that she ensured that Wright hit the post instead of scoring in Italy to avoid trouble on the terraces. Well, if she's that good, why didn't she ensure that somebody put the ball in Sweden in the net instead of hitting the post and helping with qualifying" - Chelsea chairman Ken Bates on faith healer Eileen Drewery.  more...

CHELSEA player-manager Gianluca Vialli is a breath of fresh air alongside the likes of Stan Collymo

"I am under pressure but I'm the happiest man in the world as I'm doing the best job in the world. I'm a footballer, healthy and wealthy," said Vialli.  more...

SUPERBIKES

CARL Fogarty continued his blistering early season form with the second quickest time in testing in Australia today.  more...

Stanley tackling blast backlash

DARWEN boss Steve Wilkes has blasted Accrington Stanley chief Wayne Harrison for taking the shine off his team's shock Lancashire ATS Challenge Trophy quarter final victory.  more...

Pool star Jones on Kidd hit list

ROB Jones could be the next player in Brian Kidd's sights as he continues his rebuilding job at Ewood Park.  more...

Gawthorpe upgrade is planned

BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent is hoping for a £500,000 redevelopment of the club's Gawthorpe training ground to groom the Clarets of tomorrow.  more...

Bolton Business

Institute granted £1.2m to help unemployed

BOLTON Institute has been awarded £1.2 million in grants to help unemployed people gain job qualifications.  more...

Information service's three year stretch

THE Bolton Business Information Service is to run its KIC project (Knowledge, Information and Commerce) for a further three years.  more...

75 years at paper mill

THREE employees of the East Lancashire Paper Mill Company Ltd at Radcliffe have received awards to mark 25 years' service.  more...

Bolton News

Weeds encroach

WHEN Bolton Council were responsible for grass verges and pavements, they were regularly cleared of encroaching weeds. I believe this service has been privatised now.  more...

The crimper who will never crumble

IN this new series, we look at local people who have had to deal with traumatic situations in their lives - and have fought back. Here, ANGELA KELLY talks to a local businessman who fought to save his hairdressing business only to find himself diagnosed with a crippling illness WORK has always been the fuel of life for Andrew Higgin.  more...

From the BEN files

25 YEARS AGO  more...

Tragedy parents call for ban on club drug

THE parents of a 25-year-old Bolton woman who died after drinking the new club drug nicknamed GBH, have called for an immediate ban of the legal but lethal drug.  more...

They call it puppy loaf

IT was definitely a case of puppy love when a group of schoolchildren were introduced to Warburtons' new TV star.  more...

Company move threatens jobs

MORE Bolton jobs are on the line following a decision by international courier firm Hays DX to move most of its operation out of town to a new base in Trafford Park.  more...

Poetry book

HAVE YOU any Millennium Memories that you would like to share with BEN readers?  more...

IInquest on designer drug victim Andrea

AN inquest was being held in Wigan today into the death of a former Bolton girl who is thought to have died from the effects of the designer drug GHB.  more...

STAGE: Girls, girls, girls

By Doreen Crowther, Showbusiness Correspondent IT'S all girls together on Friday when Crissy Lee and her orchestra play at the Mill at the Pier, Wigan.  more...

Keeping tags on the toddlers

IT'S a nightmare scenario for parents. You're on holiday in a strange place, and your child is suddenly missing. You have to describe him or her to strangers or to police, or wait until you can fetch a photograph (if you have one with you) from your hotel.  more...

OPINION: Investigation must be held

WE demand an investigation.  more...

Daily poem

NAKED AND NONCHALANT So many nights TV is viewed,  more...

Daily poem

FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT Last year I met this certain chap,  more...

OPINION: Drive for jobs

ANYONE who witnessed the hundreds of people queuing outside Bolton Job Centre on Saturday will appreciate there is no doubt we have a unemployment problem.  more...

Whizzing around

WHIZZ-Kidz is a children's charity that gave me a fantastic wheelchair. Whizz-Kidz provides disabled children like me with tailor-made wheelchairs, trikes or walking frames.  more...

Don't horse around with riding safety

A BOLTON fireman is launching a campaign to improve the safety of horses and their riders on the road. Kirk Cornwall, who is based at Farnworth Fire Station, says a number of recent accidents have spurred him into action before something tragic happens. Kirk, who is a keen rider himself, knows through his job the devastating effects of an accident involving a horse.  more...

Friendly library staff praised by readers

FRIENDLY Bolton librarians have been given the thumbs up by local bookworms.  more...

Hi-tech ambulance is streets ahead

A NEW state-of-the-art ambulance goes on the roads of Bolton this week - specially designed by the front-line crews who will use it. The design, exclusive to Greater Manchester Ambulance Service, was drawn up after four people from the service told vehicle engineers exactly how they wanted the ambulance to look and what they wanted in it. It is aimed at making work easier for the crews and to try and reduce response times.  more...

Daffodil time again

MARIE Curie Cancer Care need helpers for their annual Daffodil Campaign in March. We have a number of collection dates at Morrisons, Asda and Safeway in Bolton, and a licence to collect in Bolton Town Centre on March 27.  more...

Reporters rewarded for hearts of gold

THE Bolton Evening News has been awarded the British Epilepsy Association (BEA) Gold Award for Journalism 1998, in recognition for its "positive and accurate" coverage of epilepsy during the year.  more...

Offer a discount

WOULD it not be a good idea if the Council followed the practice which is already implemented in many parts of the country, of offering a discount to council tax payers who pay the whole amount within the first month in which it is due. A figure of 10pc is suggested.  more...

Credit card fraud

SEVEN people have been arrested by police probing a major Bolton credit card and cheque book fraud.  more...

Raid hit club to stump up reward

OFFICIALS of a Bolton cricket club are offering a reward for information in a bid to catch out a gang of thieves.  more...

Fewer families want free school dinners

THE number of Bolton families claiming free school meals has dropped dramatically over the past few years.  more...

Birds hop on the bus

BINOCULARS and telescopes were trained on Bolton's biggest bus depot as expert watchers descended on the town centre . . .  more...

Half term teddy bear treat

CHILDREN'S TV entertainer, Mike Amatt of Bolton, will be be a top treat for tots later this month.  more...

Three rescued after arson attack at pub

FIREMEN had to rescue three people trapped upstairs after an arson attack at a Bolton pub in the early hours of today.  more...

It is your last chance tonight

MAY I use this newspaper to appeal to the people of Horwich?  more...

Don't lump us together

ARE all newspaper editors fat? Do they all drink too much, wear peaked eye shades and have cigarettes permanently hanging out of their mouths?  more...

Exciting find for the fans

THE FINDING of the old Dr Who film must have been very exciting to fans of the cult sci-fi series. The real Holy Grail, among fans, is the fourth episode of The Tenth Planet where the Cyberman plan, which resembled an inverted Earth, is turned up. I think this was when Patrick Troughton took over from William Hartnell, during the Autumn of 1966.  more...

Bolton Sport

Fish tug of war

WANDERERS fear they are losing out in their latest club v country tussle over Mark Fish.  more...

Super John hits the jackpot

'SUPER" John McGinlay remains a top draw with the fans, more than a year after leaving Bolton Wanderers.  more...

Fish tug of war

WANDERERS fear they are losing out in their latest club v country tussle over Mark Fish.  more...

SOCCER: Kids pay for missed chances

WANDERERS youth team crashed out of the FA Youth Cup at the fourth round stage with a 4-0 defeat at the New Den last night. It could have been so different for the Wanderers if they had capitalised on their early chances when they were dominating the game.  more...

Burnley News

Mobility charities in store wars

A FURIOUS row has broken out between two charity branches after members of one went into a neighbouring town to collect cash.  more...

Teen lout gang's reign of terror

POLICE have pledged extra support after a community in fear vowed to fight back against hooligans who terrorised their estate.  more...

MP Pike backs sex Bill change

BURNLEY MP Peter Pike today gave his support to the Bill lowering the age of homosexual consent from 18 to 16 - because he believes in equality.  more...

Court's 'stay away' order

A DRUNKEN man kept turning up at his ex-partner's home, shouting, screaming and demanding to be let in.  more...

Clitheroe News

Relief at cell hanging 'accident' verdict

A JURY has returned a verdict of accidental death on a young dad who was found hanged in a police cell by a cord from his hooded sweatshirt.  more...

Darwen News

Pupils take a shine to bulb show

ORGANISERS of the Darwen Civic Society annual bulb competition and exhibition enjoyed a bumper crop of entries for their 1999 show in the town's St John Ambulance Hall.  more...

Nelson News

450 furniture workers face jobs axe

MORE than 450 jobs were in the balance today as Pendle furniture maker Buoyant called in the receivers.  more...

Rawtenstall News

Buck Inn is `hart' of community

A PUB which takes the place of shops and a post office as the place to meet has been nominated for a community award.  more...

  
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