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Stories for 24 February 1999

Accrington News

Stanley bosses' anger at council

BOSSES at legendary football club Accrington Stanley have accused Hyndburn Council of failing to support the team which helped put the town on the world map.  more...

Hospital fund-raisers' last gift after 90 years

AN institution which has raised money for Accrington Victoria Hospital for 90 years has made its last donation.  more...

Pervert pensioner gets three years

A PENSIONER who sexually assaulted two schoolgirls has begun a three-year jail term.  more...

Future secure say firm's new owners

OUTDOOR clothing firm Karrimor has finally been sold with a £9 million price tag after weeks of negotiations.  more...

New m-way surface kinder to owls

HIGHWAYS bosses say resurfacing work which will cause two months of motorway delays should help safeguard the future of barn owls living near the M65.  more...

Blackburn Leisure

TEN YEARS AGO: Masonic inquiry

AN internal inquiry was launched by the police complaints authority into the Masonic dinner dance case in which two innocent businessmen were assaulted. Blackburn MP Jack Straw demanded a full independent inquiry into the extent of Freemasonry within Lancashire Constabulary and called on the chief constable to purge his force of Freemasonry.  more...

FIVE YEARS AGO: Snow chaos on roads

HEAVY snow cut off much of Rossendale and police motorcyclists took hot drinks to trapped motorists as the M66 ground to a halt.  more...

Local events for Thursday, February 25

Alf Wright's Afternoon Music Hall - The Jimmy Cricket Laughter Show, King George's Hall, Blackburn, 4pm.  more...

Blackburn News

Teenager in fall riddle

A TEENAGER was fighting for her life today after suffering multiple injuries when she plunged through the upstairs window of a terraced house.  more...

Blair puts mayorality beyond our Ken

I SENT a donation to Labour MP 'Red' Ken Livingstone this week - though I've no time for his dinosaur-style of socialism. And, after all, when he was in charge of the old Greater London Council, it was loony Leftism institutionalised and l don't think he's changed his spots much in the meantime.  more...

Profit-share college should get down to real business

I SHARE the anger of the town's Liberal Democrat leader, Councillor Gordon Birtwistle, at the disclosure that staff at Burnley College got Christmas-present "profit sharing" handouts worth a total of £60,000.  more...

Running the risk

WE should not walk on by when we see crime or anti-social behaviour being committed, says Home Secretary Jack Straw.  more...

Budding succesors

Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy  more...

Feelings of déja vu?

THE Times obituary column of December 8, 1998, announced the death at the age of 86 of Baron Robert Rochschild, Belgium Ambassador to Britain from 1973 to 1976, during the reign of Prime Minister Edward Heath.  more...

Gates hazard for blind

REGARDING your report (LET, February 11) on the refusal of Blackburn's town hall planners to allow the National Westminster Bank to install wheelchair access to their premises, one of the reasons given was it's being a listed building.  more...

Labour slow to fulfil pledges

I SEEM to have upset G E Rayner (Letters, February 18) by giving credit where credit was due - to well-paid Tory MPs Nigel Evans and Iain Duncan-Smith.  more...

Move with the times

FIRST, Len Rushton (Letters, February 11) had a go at me, and now a Mr B Maguire (Letters, February 17).  more...

Take council tax at source

REGARDING your article (LET, February 9) concerning council rent arrears and also the issue of council tax owed, why can't this money be taken at source?  more...

Watch out for Joe Public's euro storm

TONY BLAIR's launch of the National Changeover Plan - spending tens of millions of pounds preparing Britain to join the euro - is, he says, not a change of policy, only a change of gear.  more...

Amnesty sets the record straight

Val Cowan Surfs the Net  more...

Ban GM food in schools: demand

A BAN on genetically modified food in school meals is being demanded by a leading East Lancashire environmental campaigner.  more...

Mother started blaze

A DRUNKEN woman who started a blaze at her council home had to be dragged out unconscious.  more...

Luke flying out for dolphin treatment

A SEVERELY disabled five-year-old boy is off to Florida to swim with dolphins after a successful £10,700 appeal.  more...

Balloon-race pupil wins with a Euro!

YOUNGSTER Uwais Hassan sent a balloon up, up and away in a race organised by his school - and got a letter from Denmark in reply.  more...

Lottery sellers have golden touch

STAFF at Little Harwood Post Office are celebrating National Lottery success after scooping a top award in a retailers scheme.  more...

New 'brain bug' blood test

A REVOLUTIONARY test for diagnosing meningitis will be considered for use in East Lancashire's hospitals if it can be proved it works, according to health bosses.  more...

Get set for a BIG band sound!

A JAZZ band with no fewer than 28 members will take the stage this Friday at the Hornby Theatre, Blackburn Library.  more...

Blackburn Sport

Brad manners on the ID parade

LIVERPOOL keeper Brad Friedel is developing a poor reputation with the Anfield faithful.  more...

Kev moves in the goalposts

CHECKING on the progress of Burnley duo Carl Smith and Colin Carr-Lawton with Ethinikos this week, colleague Pete Oliver tracked down the Greek club's manager Howard Kendall.  more...

YOU get asked some strange questions at football matches, but few stranger than the one on Saturday

"Excuse me, you haven't seen Roar's drum, have you?" asked a concerned Rovers official.  more...

KEVIN Davies is clearly putting in some 'overtime' when he returns home to Sheffield. Apparently, th

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.  more...

Swan sidelined for six weeks

BURNLEY utility man Peter Swan is facing a six-week absence as he needs a cartilage operation to sort out his knee problems.  more...

Shearer to miss replay

ALAN Shearer is set to miss out on tonight's FA Cup fifth round replay after going down with a bout of flu.  more...

DROYLSDEN 3 GREAT HARWOOD TOWN 0

HARWOOD'S hopes of ending a dismal sequence of crushing defeats were blown apart by a killer strike from Lee Cooper in first half injury time.  more...

Riley storms to national title

ATHLETICS: Catherine Riley's stunning run in the AAA's indoor championships has earned a place in the national side competing in Paris this weekend.  more...

Replay rumpus

CUP replay controversy has torpedoed a school's bid to reach the last 16 of a national competition.  more...

Harper leads trio

RALLYING: Daniel Harper heads a trio of East Lancashire rally drivers aiming for success on this weekend's Bournemouth Winter Rally, the opening round of the Mintex National Championship.  more...

We know Howey

CONFIDENT Newcastle believe they are still bang on course to meet Everton in the FA Cup quarter finals.  more...

Swan sidelined for six weeks

BURNLEY utility man Peter Swan is facing a six-week absence as he needs a cartilage operation to sort out his knee problems.  more...

Shearer to miss replay

ALAN Shearer is set to miss out on tonight's FA Cup fifth round replay after going down with a bout of flu.  more...

COVENTRY RES 0 BURNLEY RES 0

BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent made the trip to Coventry last night and was impressed by the club's reserve side as they collected a deserved point from Pontin's League First Division leaders Coventry.  more...

Shootout puts em on the spot

WHAT odds on a penalty shootout being needed to decide tonight's FA Cup replay at Ewood?  more...

Bolton Business

Recession buster at the double!

A SUCCESSFUL manufacturer gave tips on beating the recession when he addressed a local business meeting. Mr Ken Lewis, of Dutton Engineering in Bedfordshire, was a guest of Bolton and Bury Chamber's Business Link and the Engineering Employers' Federation at their first INTO 2000 seminar. He said his metal fabrication company had more than doubled its sales and achieved remarkable production improvements by adopting an innovative approach to work responsibilities and a ruthless attitude to overheads.  more...

Jurys add to city hotels

DUBLIN-based hotel group Jurys is to open its latest Jurys Inn on April 16 in Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester - near the Bridgewater Hall.  more...

Bolton Leisure

What's on in and around Bolton, Thursday, 25.2.99

THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE ST Paul's (Astley Bridge) AOS present The Pajama Game at Theatre Church, Seymour Road at 7.30pm. For further information tel: 843391.  more...

Bolton News

Millennium meanies!

BOLTON and Bury have been dealt a double Millennium cash blow.  more...

Shopping stress

IS it possible I wonder, to go into Bolton for shopping without being harassed by canvassers selling things?  more...

Ready for a change of image?

By Matthew Taylor TO any male who has ever worried about the words "beauty therapy", here's a home truth - men, just like women, want to look good.  more...

From the BEN files

25 YEARS AGO  more...

Wanderers fan out on his ozone

A FORMER Turton High School pupil has been awarded a doctorate after carrying out cutting edge research into the ozone layer.  more...

Artist Jan is a model helper

CHILDREN from the Farnworth area are taking an active role in improving play facilities at Moses Gate with the help of Huddersfield artist Jan Harley.  more...

Guide dogs charity to share £60,000 windfall

A PRESTON woman has left more than £21,000 to Bolton's guide dogs training centre - because she was so impressed by the stories told to her by a relative who worked as a volunteer puppy walker. Mrs Eva Leary, who was in her 80s, left a total of more than £60,000 in her will to three charities including the famous Bolton based centre in Lowndes Street where dogs are trained to lead the blind. The other charities to benefit are Royal National Lifeboat Institution and Marie Curie Cancer Care.  more...

They aren't important!

IT NEVER fails to amaze me how Bolton Council can find money for unimportant things like the Moran painting and now the Octagon Theatre. These two combined have cost approximately £250,000.  more...

£280,000 cuts put up cost of leisure

THE cost of using Bolton's sports and leisure centres is set to go up in a bid to bring in extra cash.  more...

OPINION: Put tables in their place

WHILE we applaud the local primary schools who have done so well in the schools' league tables, we stress these tables do not always reflect the school's achievements as a whole.  more...

Caroline aims for a Cher of the limelight

LEIGH singer Caroline Lowe, who became soul star Lisa Stansfield for last year's Stars in their Eyes, is about to step into the spotlight again.  more...

THE DAILY POEM: Today - Yesterday

Today I saw  more...

OPINION: Money's not everything

A low-budget horror movie which is wowing American audiences was filmed in Leigh, Atherton and Tyldesley.  more...

Did you play?

I am undertaking a project about leisure and recreation for women in Bolton.  more...

Humiliation of a truant's mother

A WIDOW struggling to bring up the youngest of five children claims the public humiliation of her courtroom fine for her son's refusal to attend school was "unfair and futile".  more...

Glamorous Ruth stops the traffic with her glowing looks!

BOLTON girl Ruth Higham stopped the traffic when she made her debut as Glo White - the beautiful, blonde bombshell and star of Launderama, the Internet's on-line soap opera from ACDO, Bolton-based washing specialists. Glamorous Glo is currently touring the country's universities handing out free samples of ACDO washing prducts to students. "Hopefully this will prevent them from taking bagfulls of dirty washing home to mum," giggled Glo as she disappeared amid a sea of Manchester University students.  more...

Public appeal

MANY of my constituents have objected to a particular planning application and at their request I applied to the Planning Inspectorate at Bristol to hear the appeal in public.  more...

Trading fair marks a boost to third world

PEOPLE in Bolton and Horwich will have a chance to do some tasting in the first fortnight of March.  more...

Time to skate

I too think it is time Bolton had a roller or ice rink in the town.  more...

Wanted: Volunteers to send bolton back to the future

PLANS announced by the Heritage Lottery Fund may have one foot in the past, but the focus is firmly set on the future.  more...

Music festival celebratesa golden milestone

HUNDREDS of Horwich residents will make music this weekend as the town's famed festival gets into full swing.  more...

Soldiering on for peak performance

A BOLTON student will leave his text books behind him when he heads for the icy mountains of Nepal.  more...

Bar humbug says Paul

BOLTON teen heart-throb Paul Nicholls has rubbished allegations that he's considering taking up bar work to "make ends meet". Reacting to claims being made in tabloid newspapers, he said the claims were "misleading and potentially damaging".  more...

Town to get say over 'super estate' plans

WESTHOUGHTON town councillors are planning to hold a referendum of local people to gauge support for housing development opposition.  more...

£30 copies fee row goes to Ombudsman

THE Ombudsman - as well as the European Commission - is now being asked to decide whether Bolton Council's £30 fee for photocopies of planning documents is fair.  more...

Carlton's walk of life

THIS time last year, the life of Carlton Constantine revolved around playing football, having a pint at his local and working hard.  more...

Shadow this MP

WHEN you attack someone in the press, you should have the courage to put your name to the article or letter. Therefore, it was with great disappointment that I read the letter published in the BEN of February 15, criticising me.  more...

Worth a fiver

I WAS appalled to read in Tuesday's BEN that it will cost me £30 to obtain copies of all the planning information regarding Westhoughton's proposed "super estate".  more...

Bolton Sport

CRICKET: Grant for Jonathan

LOCAL cricketer Jonathan Fearick is being backed for the future by a Sports Aid Foundation grant. Jonathan, who plays for Association side Atherton, is currently on tour with the England under 19s in New Zealand, and is hoping to establish a career in county cricket.  more...

Taking cover

COLIN Todd is hoping Danish trialist Tommy Schramm comes up to scratch tonight to ease the strain on Wanderers' promotion squad.  more...

ICE HOCKEY: Storm go for glory

MANCHESTER Storm can be crowned ice hockey Sekonda Superleague champions tonight. A victory for the Storm, ironically over reigning title-holders Ayr Scottish Eagles on the road, and defeat for Cardiff Devils' at the Sheffield Steelers, will see Storm take the title.  more...

Burnley News

Soccer memories are home

A PIECE Of Burnley FC history has been brought back to the heart of Turf Moor to kick start plans for a Clarets museum.  more...

Drunken mum hit epileptic on head

A NIGHTCLUBBER ended up unconscious with her face covered in blood, after she was pulled to the ground by a drunken woman, a court was told.  more...

Teenager in fall riddle

A TEENAGER was fighting for her life today after suffering multiple injuries when she plunged through the upstairs window of a terraced house.  more...

More protests in store over GM food

CAMPAIGNERS calling for a ban on the sale of genetically engineered products at foodstores say they will step up their protests in the light of mounting public concern.  more...

Jilted dad tried to hit ex-girlfriend

A "BROODING" jilted boyfriend left a £1,300 trail of damage when he turned up at his ex-girlfriend's home and tried to hit her.  more...

Captured on camcorder

A FILM of life in Burnley over the last 100 years is being planned by Burnley Camcorder Group.  more...

Raiders' needle threat to store manager

RAIDERS struck at a Burnley supermarket - ramming a security manager with a trolley before fleeing empty handed.  more...

Burning bras - Victorian-style!

THREE actresses from Burnley have been picked to play the roles of the Pankhurst family suffragettes in a BBC1 Northwest Tonight feature.  more...

Clitheroe News

Crackdown on violent crime

VIOLENT crime and public disorder in Clitheroe town centre looks set to be tackled with a series of get tough measures.  more...

Costs cut to lower tax

A TOWN council has slashed spending on hospitality to bring down its share of the borough's council tax.  more...

Darwen News

Warning on quick-fingered conman

POLICE investigating a quick-fingered conman who preys on old folk have urged residents with elderly neighbours to help.  more...

Gesture at PC led to arrest

THOMAS McClung, 20, of Bute Crescent, Paisley, Glasgow, was fined £150 with £45 costs by Blackburn magistrates after admitting using threatening behaviour and failing to answer bail.  more...

Nelson News

Councillor in cheap flight row

A ROW has blown up after a Pendle councillor obtained discounted air tickets through an official fact-finding visit to Kashmir even though he was not part of the delegation.  more...

Rawtenstall News

Burglars find dead woman, 31, in bath

TWO burglars sparked a murder investigation into the death of a 31-year-old woman after breaking into her house and finding her body in the bath, a court heard.  more...

  
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