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Stories for 2 February 1999

Accrington News

Why double need not mean trouble

PARENTS of twins could soon get a helping hand thanks to the efforts of a sympathetic mum.  more...

Blackburn Business

Firms get offer of extra expertise

FIRMS in East Lancashire are being urged to forge links with universities to develop new products and services.  more...

Pair are backed by the bankers

TWO building society workers have been backed by bankers!  more...

Dynamic duo are going Dutch

TWO computer buffs have gone international just months after launching their new venture.  more...

Top sales post for Paul

PAUL Wood has been appointed sales director at Burnley-based Peter Scott Printers.  more...

Blackburn Leisure

FIVE YEARS AGO: Punishment avoided

CRIMINALS escaped punishment for hundreds of crimes in East Lancashire despite admitting their guilt to police.  more...

TEN YEARS AGO: £6 million windfall

BLACKBURN and Burnley were set to receive almost £6 million of government cash to regenerate run-down areas.  more...

Events in East Lancs and the North West tomorrow (Wednesday, February 3rd)

Organ Recital, Blackburn Cathedral, 1pm-1.30pm.  more...

Blackburn News

Shamed mayor stands down

PETER SWAINSTON, the Burnley mayor who resigned after an indecency conviction, is to stand down from Burnley Council.  more...

Lights, camera, and action!

"IT'S not just the film of the year, but film of the decade," claimed one enthusiastic young reviewer after seeing the sponsored viewing of Shakespeare in Love.  more...

School students given an insight

A GROUP of Hyndburn students gained an insight into newspaper production on a tour of our head office and printing plant.  more...

Chickens home to roost for Labour

REGARDING your editorial (LET, January 26), it is true that Tony Blair's election promise was "no plan to increase taxes" but that cannot be the root cause of the savage cuts to public services, because, in addition to inheriting a strong economy, Labour has made 17 significant tax increases.  more...

Statements repeated

IAN Sutheran, General Manager of Castle Cement, Clitheroe (Letters, January 21), says that it is I who am guilty of issuing erroneous statements regarding HM Inspectorate of Pollution's withdrawal of the authorisation for Castle to burn 'Cemfuel' in Kiln 7, in September, 1994.  more...

Principles `sold out' in Burnley

ENOUGH is enough. Not only has Burnley Council's Labour group sold out on its principles, it has thrown out its false teeth as well.  more...

Driver left injured cat

I WOULD like to thank the driver whose car hit a cat on Whitebirk Road, Blackburn, late on Monday, January 18.  more...

Hoddle talk is twaddle

SO Glenn Hoddle has spoken. Why do one and another of these religious bigots come forward to sit in judgment on their fellow citizens?  more...

Mountain of concern

AT last, Mohammed comes to the mountain.  more...

Increases should pay for quality

LOOSENING the tight rein on pay for 1.3 million public sector workers - teachers, doctors, nurses and armed forces among them - with inflation-busting awards of more than four per cent that will set benchmarks for the two million other public servants in the queue, the government was today evidently striving to mend the harm caused by past years of pay erosion while looking to reforms to improve the system tomorrow.  more...

Cold comfort

IN fear of an upsurge in divorce proceedings, I thought I had better put the record straight. In reply to 'Wife of a gritter' (Letters, January 21), may I reassure her that her husband was indeed out gritting on the night of Monday, January 11 and early morning of January 12 and three fellow drivers and a supervisor will vouch for him.  more...

County faces extra £2m schools' bill

FINANCE bosses facing a £2million shortfall in the budget because of controversial government pay rises for teachers today made assurances there would be no increase in council tax in Lancashire.  more...

Mother's nightmare over child allegations

AN angry woman today claimed a routine check up of her hyperactive daughter turned into a nightmare when a doctor accused her of hurting the toddler.  more...

Blackburn Sport

Pressure mounts on Glenn Hoddle

PLAYERS' chief Gordon Taylor and Blackburn Rovers chaplain Ken Howles today lead the attack on Glenn Hoddle.  more...

Rovers: Sherwood claims are rubbish, says Hall

ERIC Hall today rubbished claims that he was to blame for unsettling Blackburn Rovers skipper Tim Sherwood - to the point that the player's Ewood exit seems imminent.  more...

CRICKET: Chucker Wilks backs Muralitharan

SRI Lankan spin sensation Muttiah Muralitharan's future as Lancashire's overseas player may be not be cut and dried.  more...

Select few wield power

REGARDING Bramwell Speaks Out (LET, January 28), Tim Sherwood says he doesn't want to leave Blackburn Rovers, and that he is very disappointed at being unable to agree terms.  more...

Pressure mounts on Glenn Hoddle

PLAYERS' chief Gordon Taylor and Blackburn Rovers chaplain Ken Howles today lead the attack on Glenn Hoddle.  more...

Sympathy after so sad scenes

THOSE who witnessed the scenes at England's recent game against Sri Lanka must have been saddened at the spectacle of a team leaving the field.  more...

Pickering back in Clarets action

ALLY Pickering returns to action tonight as Burnley Reserves step up their bid to avoid relegation.  more...

Sherwood claims are rubbish says Hall

ERIC Hall today rubbished claims that he was to blame for unsettling Blackburn Rovers skipper Tim Sherwood - to the point that the player's Ewood exit seems imminent.  more...

Super Mac is a legend

I READ with great interest Stephen Cummings' article (LET, January 26) in which he mentioned the magnificent Jimmy McIlroy. As one privileged to be a personal friend of his, I agree with everything he wrote about him.  more...

Cummings and Goings

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

Down by the Riverside

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

Spring clean call at Ewood

THAT great apologist for all things pertaining to Blackburn Rovers is at it again.  more...

Money mania the real problem

REGARDING the Sherwood saga. There are pros and cons, rights and wrongs, but most of the problem lies, as in everything else these days, in money.  more...

Don't expect out for 'nowt

DOES Alan Kenyon (Sports Letters, January 26) not realise that for most of Rovers' home games so far this season `Top Tenner' tickets have been available? Exactly how much does he expect to have to pay to watch Premiership football?  more...

Bolton Business

Food firm takes on extra bite

KEARSLEY-based Lyndale Foods Ltd today announced the acquisition of Fords the Bakers of East Lothian. The deal includes the Meadowmill Bakery at Prestonpans and all retail shops. Lyndale Foods, which has its headquarters in Lyon Road, was established by Chief Executive John Jesky in May, 1996 to buy Warburtons' retail bakery business and the Peter Hunts savoury pie operation.  more...

Future looks brighter for Booths

BOOTH Industries Group plc has announced encouraging preliminary results for the year ended September 30, 1998.  more...

Vision on at video conference suite

LOCAL businesses will be able to benefit from a new Business, Innovation and Design Centre due to open at the end of this month.  more...

Bolton Info

Chemists open in the Bolton area:

Wed Feb 3: Tesco, Mansell Way, Horwich (5.30pm to 6.30pm).  more...

Bolton Leisure

What's on in and around Bolton, Wednesday, 3.2.99

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...

Bolton News

They need sympathy

I refer to the BEN report about Farnworth market traders and the refurbishing.  more...

From the BEN files

GREAT train robber Ronald Biggs will stay behind bars in Brazil until he is positively identified. But if the Brazilian police act quickly, he could be back in a British gaol this weekend. The man, arrested in a Rio de Janeiro beach-side hotel yesterday, denied that he was the fugitive robber, hunted by police forces across the world since he escaped from Wandsworth prison nine years ago.  more...

Wicksy the dog saves arson attack family

A PET dog saved the lives of a family after arsonists attacked their Leigh home.  more...

Green talk may take pupils to parliament

CHILDREN from six Bolton primary schools will get the chance to appear in Parliament when they battle it out in an environment debate next month.  more...

£500 to trap van thieves

A SELF-employed man, whose livelihood was ripped away from him when callous thieves stole the van that "contained 25 years of his life", is offering a £500 reward.  more...

Plans to emigrate

I AM 18 years of age and I'm a student at Bolton College studying A Levels full time.  more...

STAGE: Rita's aiming for theatrical graduation

RITA Whitelaw, Assistant Producer for New Rosemere AOS's production of Trial by Jury and HMS Pinafore, is combining her academic and practical work. While she is helping producer George Taylor, Rita is also studying for a degree in Theatre Studies and Literature at Bolton Institute. She said: "I'm studying for a degree on a part-time basis and I've already realised what a diverse subject I'm involved in. It is also a vast and very interesting subject."  more...

Man dies at police station

AN inquiry has been launched into the sudden death of a 25-year-old man in police custody.  more...

HEALTH MATTERS: Helping hands for vital carers

ONE of Bolton's most active support groups has been getting a helping hand from the professionals to help tailor services to meet the specific needs of their users.  more...

HEALTH MATTERS: Searching for the unsung stars of NHS...

BIG hearted volunteers, community health workers and non-medical staff in hospitals and community health organisations in the North-west region will be honoured for their hard work and dedication in a national award scheme.  more...

OPINION: Consistency needed here

THE lay magistrates at Bolton's courts generally do a difficult job well.  more...

STAGE: What a Valentine treat

LORNA Rushton (soprano), Steven Craig (tenor) and Jacqueline Tinniswood (piano) are giving a lighthearted tribute to love for the Bolton School Arts Centre Sunday Afternoon Series on February 14 at 3 pm.  more...

STAGE: The two Peters

BARITONE Peter Wilson, with accompanist Peter Fielding, will perform songs from English composers and German Lieder, at this Thursday's lunchtime concert at St Andrew and St George United Reformed Church, St Georges Road, Bolton.  more...

The daily poem

Requiem for Kosovo In Kosovo, this ruin, so silent  more...

What a hero!

I am delighted that the Civic Trust are about to honour Sir Arthur Rostron, captain of the liner which went to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic on April 15 1912, who was brought up in Astley Bridge.  more...

'I don't see why I, and others like me, should have to do extra work on top of the demanding jobs we

BEN Health reporter Angela Warhurst meets a hard working Bolton nurse for a morning-after-the-night before view of the new pay award. FOR more than six years Sandra Horan, left, has worked extra shifts to supplement her pay.  more...

MP takes BEN jobs fight to Blair

PRIME Minister Tony Blair had Bolton's jobs loss crisis staring him in the face when three copies of the BEN were laid under his nose - on the Cabinet table.  more...

Scarred woman's 'disbelief' at attacker's jail sentence

A BOLTON woman, left horribly disfigured after a bicycle was thrown at her face, says she "gasped in disbelief" as her attacker received a jail sentence of just six months.  more...

Car giants 'won't pull plug on Motability aid'

RUMOURS that car giants Ford, Peugeot and Rover vehicles are to pull out of the Motability scheme for disabled drivers have been scotched by the organisation.  more...

Changing places brings in the cash for charity

A TOP business executive is taking time out from his busy schedule to help to launch a charity's latest 'Job Swap' scheme.  more...

Courts praised for blitz on truancy

BOLTON magistrates have been praised for getting tough with parents who let their children skip school.  more...

So happy to be together - again

A TROPICAL storm didn't stop love-struck Jean and Tony Pickering from tying the knot in the Cayman Islands - 35 years to the day when they first married. In a wedding ceremony battered by torrential rain, the divorced couple refused to let the weather put a dampener on their special day. The sentimental duo re-married in a short ceremony on the dock of an idyllic bay.  more...

Drug czar back in town

DRUGS czar Keith Hellawell will be one of the speakers at a national conference being held in Bolton this month.  more...

Stabbing victim talks about his attack

A BOLTON man viciously stabbed outside a Leicester city centre nightclub has spoken to detectives after regaining consciousness.  more...

Good Samaritans come forward to help

DELIGHTED Bolton Samaritans are hailing their latest modern recruiting campaign an overwhelming success.  more...

Debate the issue

I REFER to some comments on equality measures and the puritanical sex laws of this country.  more...

Hague's games

THE TORY Leader, William Hague, has decided to play cheap political games with the Northern Ireland peace process by opposing the Government's laudable aim to implement the 'Good Friday Agreement'.  more...

Millennium memories

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

Bolton Sport

RUGBY: Ground switch for Miners

RUGBY League heroes Leigh Miners Rangers have been rewarded with a home tie against Challenge Cup giants Hull KR. Rovers, Wembley winners in 1980 and finalists on five other occasions, provide attractive opposition for the giant-killing amateurs who pulled off the shock result of Round Three by beating Division One side Bramley.  more...

SOCCER: Rigby rejects offer

BURY midfielder Tony Rigby has turned down a new contract offer. Shakers chairman Terry Robinson broke the news at a packed fans' forum organised by the newly-formed Supporters Association last night.  more...

Neil's goal hits bookie's pockets

NEIL Cox's first goal of the season at the Reebok on Saturday cost local bookmaker, Fred Done, over £25,000. One punter at the game, who had £30 on the full-back to score the last goal of the match at odds of 50-1 scooped £1,500.  more...

Leicester Link

LEICESTER could offer Arnar Gunnlaugsson a way out of his contract wrangle with Wanderers.  more...

Burnley News

Pub pair pocketed baby charity cash

A PUB landlord and his wife pocketed almost £1,000 cash raised by customers to help save sick and premature babies, a court heard.  more...

Turmoil as half of tenants' group resigns

A TROUBLED tenants' management group has been thrown into even more turmoil with the resignation of almost half its membership.  more...

Shamed mayor stands down

PETER SWAINSTON, the Burnley mayor who resigned after an indecency conviction, is to stand down from Burnley Council.  more...

Police appeal after `skinhead' attack

POLICE are appealing for information about three `skinheads' who assaulted a youth in Thursby Road, Burnley.  more...

Bishops must go says MP

BURNLEY MP Peter Pike has branded the right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords as 'nonsensical.'  more...

Meagre meal aids battle against polio

A FRUGAL meal served up to Burnley Rotary Club has raised money to help fight polio in Africa.  more...

Talking rubbish

Rubbish collection and street cleaning in Burnley and Padiham will come under the spotlight at Burnley and District Chamber of Trade meeting on February 22.  more...

Clitheroe News

Interchange plan comes under fire

A MASSIVE scheme to create a bus and rail interchange in Clitheroe has come under fire from the town's civic society.  more...

Action Man and Barbie mark the spot

CHILDREN at Longridge Grant Maintained Primary School have taken part in the burial of a time capsule to mark the opening of a new supermarket in their town.  more...

Nelson News

Support for new centre if cash can be found

RESIDENTS have been told they have councillors' support in their fight to get a new community centre to replace one that burnt down last year.  more...

Pots on parade

AN identity parade of chimney pots is being held at Nelson Police Station.  more...

Rawtenstall News

Man, 25, found hanging in police cell

A 25-YEAR-OLD Waterfoot man died after being found hanging in a Rawtenstall police station cell.  more...

  
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