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Stories for 10 May 1999

Accrington News

Public protests win back bus services

A BUS company has reversed its decision to cut back services from Accrington after protests from pensioners and councillors.  more...

Blackburn Business

Golden chance to land orders

FIRMS are being offered the chance to meet buyers looking to place millions of pounds worth of orders next week.  more...

Blackburn Leisure

FIVE YEARS AGO: Mayoral double act

THE 21st mayor, who would lead the Ribble Valley through one of its most important years, was installed in office.  more...

TEN YEARS AGO: Takeover bid fails

BURNLEY Football Club fought off Colne businessman Graham White's £1 million-plus bid for control.  more...

Events in East Lancs/North West on Tuesday, May 11th

Fashion Show by Foxy Lady of Darwen, St Francis Church Hall, Feniscliffe, Blackburn, 7.30pm. Proceeds to the British Heart Foundation.  more...

Blackburn News

Editorial spot-on

AS the father of a child attending Lammack Primary School, Blackburn, and currently fighting for a place at Pleckgate High School, I feel I must respond to Mark Pattison, Director of Education and Training for Blackburn with Darwen Council (Letters, April 22).  more...

Right course to take

SOME readers may need to know that this is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Week and that Wednesday is International ME/CFS Awareness Day.  more...

Bridge too far for Nato

APPROXIMATELY 15 innocent men and possibly women and children, too, were killed by Nato while travelling in a bus over a bridge at the weekend of May 1 in Kosovo.  more...

Divorce a dear 'do'

YOUR article (LET, April 28) regarding the woman who, in order to pay her legal bills, may have to sell her home even though the charge against her was dropped, prompts me to write.  more...

Wind-up for grandma

THE watch my grandma has owned for three years suddenly stopped working.  more...

Nato blunder throws lifeline to Milosevic

EVEN if error is a grimly inevitable factor that infiltrates virtually every military conflict, the deadly NATO bomb that destroyed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade remains a monumental blunder that may yet unleash endless tragedy for those this war is all about.  more...

Last orders: When town centre progress finally called time on a historic building

IT IS has been the experience of many a drinker to be unable to remember the name of the pub where he enjoyed a pint.  more...

Missing boy found in sea-front shelter

MISSING youngster Martin Duguid was dramatically found today after police swooped on the seafront of a south coast holiday resort.  more...

Chaos reigns in Albanian cities

AN East Lancashire aid team today told of the terrible conditions and chaos in the towns and cities of Albania, as charities try to reach the thousands of stranded Kosovar refugees.  more...

A lord's prayers - Hurd visits Cathedral

LEADING peer Lord Hurd spoke of childhood memories and the changing face of the English language when he appeared as guest speaker at Blackburn Cathedral.  more...

John's loft takes him back in time

BRITISH Civil War enthusiast John Bentley is so batty about the 17th century he's converted his loft into a Puritan shrine!  more...

Fraud father dies in jail

THE head of a family who operated Britain's biggest fraud factory by faking car crashes and serious injuries has died in prison.  more...

Blackburn Sport

Contracts d-day for Clarets

BURNLEY'S out-of-contract players face a mid-week date of destiny to see if they have a future at Turf Moor.  more...

I will sort it, says Rovers boss

BRIAN Kidd today stood by his scathing post-match words and vowed to put back what is missing into gloom-laden Ewood Park - a heartbeat and spirit.  more...

LOCAL CRICKET: Lancashire League round-up

AUSTRALIAN pace-ace David Saker proved too hot for Colne at Dill Hall Lane as he claimed seven victims to set up Enfield's second victory of the season.  more...

LOCAL CRICKET: Worsley Cup round-up

WORSLEY Cup holders East Lancs staged a battling fightback to take their place in the second round at the expense of Rishton.  more...

LOCAL CRICKET: Ribblesdale League

THE first round of the Jennings Ramsbottom Cup was packed with tension and incident.  more...

RUGBY LEAGUE: Woeful Lynx take a hammering

Lancashire Lynx 10 Swinton Lions 56  more...

COUNTY CRICKET: I can't wait for cup to start, says Austin

IAN Austin today looked ahead to the biggest week of his cricketing life and said: "I can't wait for it to get started."  more...

LOCAL CRICKET: Darwen stay top despite rain

DARWEN maintained their lead in the Vaux Northern League despite only picking up four points in a rain hit draw against Fleetwood.  more...

Relegation fate all but sealed

Blackburn Rovers 1 Nottingham Forest 2 - Peter White's big match verdict  more...

Cook-a-hoop Clarets stretch unbeaten run to end of season

Northampton Town 2 Burnley 2 - Pete Oliver's big match verdict  more...

Kidd: I will sort it

BRIAN Kidd today stood by his scathing post-match words and vowed to put back what is missing into gloom-laden Ewood Park - a heartbeat and spirit.  more...

D-day for Clarets

BURNLEY'S out-of-contract players face a mid-week date of destiny to see if they have a future at Turf Moor.  more...

Rovers form watch ( v Nottingham Forest)

FILAN: Not at his best on crosses but made a couple of decent first-half saves...6  more...

Clarets form watch ( v Northampton Town)

PAUL CRICHTON: After an impressive season, the keeper sadly signed off on a low note with two errors that cost goals...5  more...

Depressed Kidd blasts players

BRIAN Kidd was calm, collected but ruthlessly clinical in his post-match verdict which came from the heart - no belief, no courage and spiritless was his description of his "frightened" players.  more...

Difficult campaign ends on high note

ANDY Cooke and Paul Smith ended frustrating seasons on high notes as they and the Clarets whet the appetite for things to come.  more...

Bolton Business

Glen's delight over New Deal

JOBLESS Glen Morton is back at work - thanks to a new Government initiative. Glen, who is aged 52 and lives in Halliwell, is the 200th person to be helped by the Bolton New Deal for the Disabled programme. And he found himself the centre of attraction when Margaret Hodge, the Minister responsible for people with disabilities, came to Bolton to meet the people running the scheme - one of six pilot projects being run with a view to eventually introducing some sort of national programme.  more...

Investors in People again

BOLTON-based EEF Lancashire - which represents about 300 member companies in the manufacturing sector - has been re-accredited as an Investor in People.  more...

Riva Group's £550,000 contract

THE Wingates-based Riva Group has landed a £550,000 contract with fashion retailer USC.  more...

Bolton Leisure

Oh, What A Lovely War

Bolton Little Theatre  more...

The Hill-Wiltschinsky Duo, Galina Vale, The Vale Duo, Bolton Central Library.

I HAVE become something of a fan of the Hill-Wiltschinsky classical guitar duo since I first saw them a couple of years ago.  more...

HearSay, with guest artist Richard Ireland

Rivington Parish Church THIS was the first time that Rivington Music Society had opted for vocal music as the main feature in their series of concerts at the local Parish Church.  more...

Pupils of the Chetham's School of Music, Rivington Music Society

IT must have been a first for many of the audience at this excellent concert - a Bach sonata played on an accordion.  more...

Bolton News

Vicar fears for Farnworth

25 YEARS AGO  more...

Stress-busters stepping out

STRESS-busting pupils have been keeping a step ahead of their exams.  more...

Devoted Chico needs a new home

A NEW, kind-hearted owner is needed Chico, the border collie so devoted to his master that he guarded the man's body for 10 days when he collapsed and died in his home.  more...

Blair

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Daily poem

Guilty road The lord looked down upon this town,  more...

We're with

you all  more...

Rat of the Week stole baskets

I am writing to you to let you know, and all people of Bolton about my Rat of the Week.  more...

Tycoon loses £20m

BURY football club's major shareholder has lost £20 million of his friends' retirement savings after a series of disastrous stock market gambles.  more...

All aboard for a trip down memory lane

A BOLTON pensioner was overcome with emotion after being reunited with a bus he used to work on 60 years ago. Jack Green, 87, of Ainsworth Hall Road, Ainsworth, joined the Bolton Corporation Transport in 1929 as a lad of 17. But as part of The Museum of Transport's celebration of a 100 years of Bolton transport Jack was back on the buses, where he worked as a conductor.  more...

Jury out on long school holidays

LONG summer holidays go on trial this week when people power helps decide if schools on the outskirts of Bolton should be among the first in the country to drop the traditional six-week break.  more...

Horror as gate crushes girl's leg

A YOUNG girl's leg was shattered in two after a half-tonne gate she was playing on fell and pinned her to the ground yesterday. Police chiefs say Kimberley Porter, 12, of Willow Street, Atherton, is lucky to be alive after the huge industrial gate fell on her as she was swinging on it.  more...

Road crash girl's second skull fracture

A BOLTON schoolgirl suffered a fractured skull - for the second time in six months - in a road accident at the weekend. Nine-year-old Rebecca Neary, of Little Harwood Lee in Harwood, was involved in a collision with a Vauxhall Astra on nearby Lea Gate at about 1.15pm on Saturday.  more...

Ruth tipped for the top

BOLTON MP Ruth Kelly is one of a handful of Blair's Babes tipped for the top according to political comm- entators.  more...

Man arrested after £100,000 drugs swoop

DRUGS with a street value of more than £100,000 were seized after police officers swooped on a man in a Harwood street. A kilo of cocaine was recovered by drug squad officers in a bag which the man threw away as he tried to escape. The cocaine has a street value of £100,000.  more...

Pensioner robbed in vicious attack

DETECTIVES are hunting a cowardly thug who attacked an elderly widow after she answered a knock at the door of her Little Lever home. The 83-year-old woman was then bundled inside and thrown down on to the living room floor.  more...

Young and old remember the fallen

THE younger generation helped to lead the solemn tributes to Bolton's fallen war heroes at the VE Day ceremony.  more...

Why the bombing has to stop now

IT is hoped that some, at least, of those who supported the bombing of Yugoslavia at the outset may now be having second thoughts. Certainly, those of us who have been out petitioning for the bombing to stop have noticed that people are signing more readily than they did a few weeks ago. For what we are witnessing is the brutal attempt to destroy a small European country as a functioning economic and social entity merely because it has refused to capitulate completely to NATO's demands (the "ethical cleansing" and the atrocities were largely subsequent to the bombing and did not cause it - rather they were caused by it). This, even though NATO had no authority in international law to insist that Yugoslavia should accept alliance troops on its soil or face bombing. Even those who support the NATO bombing will have to admit that its actions are those of a vigilante; the expression not of international justice but of lynch law; IRA punishment beatings writ large.  more...

We are to blame for this

MAKE no mistake about it, we are responsible for allowing our leaders to slaughter and destroy the well being of the defenceless people of Yugoslavia by an overwhelming massive air power. It is another stage in the invasion of the Balkans.  more...

Bolton Sport

SOCCER: Bury's relegation gloom

Bury 1 Port Vale 0  more...

Mission accomplished

MARK Fish was talking mean today as he plotted his route to a Wembley dream. The Wanderers skipper has never so much as clapped eyes on the famous Twin Towers and he's no intention of letting Ipswich stand in his way now that they are in touching distance.  more...

Testing time for Supr Whites

COLIN Todd began to prepare his players today for the mental test that will determine whether they can, after all, bounce back into the Premiership.  more...

SUPER STEVE BANKS ON IT

STEVE Banks is relishing his first real taste of the promotion play-offs and thanking his lucky stars that he's part of it. The 'Top of the Stops', who watched from the sidelines in 1996 when Blackpool famously blew it at Bloomfield Road after winning their first leg at Bradford, looked forward to a semi-final clash with Ipswich and said: "This is why I came to Bolton.  more...

Testing time for Super Whites

COLIN Todd began to prepare his players today for the mental test that will determine whether they can, after all, bounce back into the Premiership.  more...

RUGBY: Centurions riding high

Leigh Centurions 42  more...

Burnley News

Praise for staff and students

HIGH marks were awarded to St Theodore's RC High School, Burnley, by Government inspectors who said its strengths outweighed its weaknesses.  more...

Council house info blitz

COUNCIL housing chiefs will carry out a door-to-door blitz of council houses in Burnley and Padiham, to inform people about the proposed £74million housing stock transfer.  more...

Raffle aids Kosovo elderly

FOUR students at Walshaw High School, Burnley have raised money to help elderly Kosovar refugees.  more...

Claret fans complain about keeper's taunts

AN inquiry has been launched after claims were made that Northampton Town goalkeeper Billy Turley allegedly gesticulated at Burnley FC fans during Saturday's Division Two match.  more...

Thug gang attack leaves boy unconscious

A TEENAGE boy was beaten unconscious in an unprovoked attack by three older youths near a cemetery.  more...

Councillor in hospital

BURNLEY Independent councillor Bob Chadwick is recovering in Burnley General Hospital today after suffering a stroke.  more...

Record entries after show swaps venue

"UNBELIEVABLY brilliant" was how the first Cliviger Riding Club show of the year was hailed by the club's general secretary Linda Whittaker.  more...

Clitheroe News

Toddler's death after afternoon nap

HEARTBROKEN parents of baby Calum Rain today told of their shock and devastation at his death just hours after he was put to bed for an afternoon nap.  more...

Branching out for the year 2000

A CONSERVATION group is hoping to plant thousands of trees, all grown from seeds collected in the Bowland area.  more...

Darwen News

Prison threat for handbag thief

A MUGGER who helped herself to a woman's handbag is awaiting sentence - while a judge seeks confirmation that claims she has made are true.  more...

Vandal hunt as train hits barrel

A TEENAGE vandal is being hunted after a train struck a barrel left on the line near Darwen this morning.  more...

Nelson News

Girl, 18, allegedly held prisoner

A TEENAGE girl was allegedly imprisoned and seriously assaulted in a house in Southfield Street, Nelson, in an incident which lasted at least 12 hours.  more...

Sex terror knifeman is jailed

A GLOVED knifeman who sexually assaulted a little girl is behind bars for three years.  more...

Rawtenstall News

Racists try to blow up balti take-away

A BALTI house manager has vowed he will not be run out of town by racists who tried to blow up his take-away.  more...

  
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