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Stories for 24 May 1999

Accrington News

Young girl who helped catch thief

A DRUNKEN burglar has started 15 months' detention - and a judge has paid tribute to the eagle-eyed schoolgirl who helped put him there.  more...

Mum and sons rescued

A MOTHER who was rescued from the bedroom of a burning house with two young boys today spoke of their escape after a chip pan fire threatened to engulf her home.  more...

Blackburn Business

Bosses lobby for the future

AEROSPACE leaders from East Lancashire put their case to protect the industry in a lobby.  more...

Beat the millennium bug

A MAJOR initiative to help firms make sure they are not caught out by the millennium bug has been launched  more...

Law insight

A SEMINAR looking at how new employment laws affect smaller firms is being staged tonight.  more...

Blackburn Leisure

FIVE YEARS AGO: Guns found in street

TWO police guns were found lying in a Blackburn street.  more...

TEN YEARS AGO: Heatwave kills fish

HUNDREDS of trout drowned in the River Ribble - victims of the sizzling summer heatwave.  more...

Events in East Lancs/North West on Tuesday, May 25th

Michael Rampling and Pat Moss, Brierfield Full Gospel Mission, Stanley Street, 7.30pm. Refreshments available.  more...

Blackburn News

Choice taken away

COUNCILLOR Bill Taylor, Chairman of the Education Committee of Blackburn with Darwen Council, in a statement to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph on May 17, is quoted as saying three Conservative councillors have been looking into individual cases with regard to school admissions to "try to find fault, but have been unsuccessful."  more...

Thin end of the wedge

ON June 10, we are bidden to vote in a Euro election. Time for some hard thinking.  more...

Euro would help farmers

YOU report (LET, May 13) the return of farmers' markets in Colne.  more...

Search for ancestors

I AM researching the ancestry of my family which originated from Lancashire.  more...

An economic nonsense

IF the councillor quoted in your article (LET, May 17) about new scholars at Pleckgate High School, Blackburn, doesn't think a child from Rhodes Avenue (from where you can see the school) should go to Pleckgate and should go to another school at the other end of the town, I would assume that he could afford to pay any excess bus fares himself, out of money saved in the free car parking that the councillors enjoy.  more...

Down, but not out!

I WOULD like to thank all the electors who voted for me in the Livesey parish elections held on May 6.  more...

Freedom of Information? It's a joke

AT LAST, after more than 20 years of Labour manifesto promises and after months of delay since the party came to govern, a Freedom of Information Bill finally trundles into the open today. But it comes with the squealing sound of the brakes being applied to those high-minded good intentions of old.  more...

We want letters, say troops

I'M serving with the British forces in Macedonia and I would like to thank my parents in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph for sending me copies of it as well as letters and parcels.  more...

It is time to play safe on mobile phones

NOT for the first time, the use of mobile phones is linked with causing brain tumours.  more...

Act now over landmark

QUITE some time ago I heard that the chimney of India Mill in Darwen was to be renovated, but nothing appears to be happening.  more...

School crossing was a non-starter

IT WAS hailed as a unique road safety experiment, but though the "Checkpoint Charlie" barriers made and tried out by staff and pupils at Blackburn's Shadsworth High School - now Queen's Park High - 32 years ago this week had the the town's MP, Transport Minister Barbara Castle, and top police and safety experts at their unveiling, the scheme stayed that way - unique.  more...

Success is in Brian's grasp

FORMER bus driver Brian Foote has won a £45,000 grant - to develop a bright idea he invented in his garden shed!  more...

Plane hit by bolt from blue

A COUPLE whose plane was struck by lightning as they flew to Ibiza are safely back home.  more...

Blackburn Sport

LOCAL CRICKET: East Lancs pro unstoppable

Lancashire League  more...

LOCAL CRICKET: Unbeatable duo out on their own

Ribblesdale League  more...

LOCAL CRICKET: Taylor-made for victory

Lancashire League: Haslingden 174 (12pts), Nelson 87 (2) - Paul Agnew reports  more...

LOCAL CRICKET: Inter-league competition

THE Lancashire League will have nine representatives in the second round of the Inter-League Cup after a string of high-scoring encounters against their Central League counterparts on Saturday.  more...

COUNTY CRICKET: Lancs slump after stirring championship win

LANCASHIRE followed up a magnificent championship win with a dismal CGU National League defeat.  more...

GOLF: Jackson lifts Lancs title

BLACKBURN'S Tony Jackson won the Lancashire Amateur Championship for the first time at Ormskirk yesterday.  more...

RUGBY LEAGUE: Lynx slip to sloppy defeat

Lancashire Lynx 28pts Batley Bulldogs 47  more...

Sutton for sale at £12m

PREMIERSHIP clubs chasing Blackburn Rovers striker Chris Sutton will have to start the bidding at around £12 million.  more...

Burnley will get West, says Warnock

CLARETS target Dean West is expected to make the move to Turf Moor - by his manager at Bury.  more...

Starlets clinch Hong Kong triumph

THE Blackburn Rovers Academy side won the inaugural Carling Soccer Sevens at the Hong Kong Football Club.  more...

Bolton Business

Small firms are big on pay

SMALL firms are paying well over the minimum wage level, it is claimed today.  more...

WORK AND LEARN PIONEERS

STAFF at six Bolton companies are pioneering a new learning programme.  more...

Bolton Leisure

TUESDAY 25.5.99

THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE BOLTON Music Service activities at Bolton Music Centre, The Deane School, New York, Bolton include Bolton Youth Stage Band, 7.30pm-9.30pm; Bolton Beginners Brass Band, 5.45pm-7.15pm; Bolton Training Orchestra, 6.30pm-8.30pm and at Eagley Junior School Bolton Training Wind Ensemble (Turton) will be playing from 4pm-5pm. Tel: 658804 for further details.  more...

Paying homage

to pure genius An Evening with Mozart, Bolton Catholic Musical and Choral Society with Bolton Sinfonietta, Bolton Parish Church.  more...

Bolton News

LOCAL councillors who do not disclose a financial interest in discussions at town hall meetings shou

THE work of eliminating Mortfield bleachworks lodge, scene of a recent drowning tragedy, must begin as quickly as possible. The meeting of Bolton Borough Council, said this at last night's meeting. In the public gallery were residents of the Vermont Street area of Brownlow Fold, who waved paper banners demanding that the lodge should be filled, not fenced.  more...

Three teams playing

IN REPLY to D Smith's letter in the May 18 BEN. While I agree with you in theory about the Bolton supporters stay-aways, we did not all stay away just to watch telly that Sunday, and certainly not to watch Manchester United - I would not waste precious eyesight on that Stretford team.  more...

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Sophie, 5 in lolly choking horror

A FIVE-year-old girl is fighting for her life after choking on a lollipop outside her school.  more...

Vandals cause £6,000 damage at new church

THUGS have wreaked thousands of pounds worth of damage at the site of the town's newest church. Last Saturday the BEN told how Christ Church in Little Lever was taking shape to form a new place of worship for the new Millennium.  more...

Biker and son poorly

A BOLTON motorcyclist was fighting for his life today after a hit and run driver left him and his seven-year-old son badly injured on a busy road.  more...

Green champs honoured

DEDICATED "green champions" were honoured for their commitment to Bolton's environment at a major award ceremony.  more...

Labour wants town of culture vultures

BOLTON Council has been chosen to pioneer a new strategy of putting tourism, sport, leisure and the arts at the top of the political agenda.  more...

Arsonists strike again at school

ARSONISTS have struck for the second time in two days at Joseph Eastham High School in Little Hulton.  more...

Protest calls flood in

PARENTS have inundated the BEN with calls to protest about possible school closures.  more...

Jump threat woman talked down

A WOMAN who was threatening to throw herself off a car park in Leigh was eventually talked down by a woman police officer.  more...

Reasons why the Octagon must be saved

THE LETTER from Ernest Sampson (Readers Views: May 15), with its narrow-minded parochian views, made me see red.  more...

MP Brian Iddon.

DR Brian Iddon MP demands more action to save rhinos. This is the latest appeal. Before he wanted to twin up Bolton with Palestine and also to save the bears in Pakistan.  more...

Bolton Sport

CRICKET: Axford's 23-year wait for first ton

MARTIN Axford finally gained some reward for loyal service to Farnworth with his maiden century for the club - after 23 years of trying. He reached 100 not out to earn a draw and frustrate a Little Lever side that had totalled 253-6.  more...

TICKET BONANZA

WANDERERS fans shelled out a cool £1 million over the weekend on a white hot Wembley spending spree.  more...

RUGBY LEAGUE: Millward'swords lift Leigh

4 Leigh Centurions 27  more...

CRICKET: Bowlers in seventh heaven

THE Bolton League's match of the day lived up to its billing with last season's top two sides producing a first class bowling display. Yet for the batsmen it turned out to be a horror show, the two sides struggling to accumulate a total of 231 runs for the combined loss of 20 wickets.  more...

TICKET BONANZA

WANDERERS fans shelled out a cool £1 million over the weekend on a white hot Wembley spending spree.  more...

CRICKET: Cornwall's calypso beat

WILDEN Cornwall produced some calypso cricket for Daisy Hill as he produced his own brand of fireworks against Blackrod. The West indian pro went out to hit 136, the Association's top score of the season, taking his side to 227-9. He then picked up the ball and finished with five wickets for 53 in a sparkling all round performance.  more...

CRICKET: Victories with a difference

WALSHAW and Adlington continued their neck-and-neck battle at the top of the Association with two contrasting wins on Saturday. A superb bowling performance from pro Jonathan Fielding put Walshaw on their way to a relatively easy win over Golborne, but there were only two balls remaining when Adlington snatched success against Atherton.  more...

Burnley News

Sex attack on boy,16

A 16-YEAR-OLD Burnley teenager was the victim of what police are describing as a serious, vicious and unprovoked sex attack.  more...

Right loyal ladies retire

A NEW chapter has begun for Elizabeth Hitchen who has retired after 36 years as divisional children's librarian for East Lancashire.  more...

Invite to the dance - for justice

DANCE for justice is the invitation next month, as money is raised for the Christopher Alder Campaign.  more...

Councillor's son in bid for Labour seat

THE son of a Burnley councillor will find out tonight if he is to represent the Labour Party at the by-election caused by the death of Foreign Office minister Derek Fatchett.  more...

Shop pair terrified by masked raiders

TWO masked men burst into the Spar Food Market, Manchester Road, Burnley, and escaped with a substantial amount of cash.  more...

Clitheroe News

Faiths join forces to heal scars of war

REFUGEES arriving in East Lancashire from Kosovo tonight will be offered support from the area's Christian and Muslim communities.  more...

Head warns over future standards

THE headteacher of an award-winning grammar school today issued a public warning over standards and cash as it prepared to go back into local authority control.  more...

Bid to ditch cowboy workers

A CHARITY for the elderly has joined forces with a home improvement agency to combat cowboy workmen.  more...

Colne News

Man in horror crash out of intensive care

AN 81-YEAR-OLD man was still recovering in hospital today after being seriously injured in a horrific head-on crash.  more...

Darwen News

Surprise day for Betty, 90

BIRTHDAY surprises don't come much bigger than the ones arranged for 90-year-old Betty Noble.  more...

Wine stolen from scrap yard

SIX cases of expensive wine bought for a millennium party were stolen during a raid on a vehicle dismantlers yard.  more...

Nelson News

Town hall wrangle prompts sell-off fear

FEARS that Brierfield Town Hall could be sold off have been voiced by local Liberal councillor Sajjad Karim and he has called for a full report on its future.  more...

Soccer scuffle at pub

POLICE officers cleared about 150 people from a Pendle pub, after scuffles broke out following a screening of the FA Cup Final.  more...

Rawtenstall News

Couple return to find home gutted

A DISTRAUGHT couple returned from a night away to find their picturesque home had burned to the ground.  more...

Crowbar attack

A man suffered head injuries in a crowbar attack at his home in Dunnockshaw.  more...

  
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