A HOUSEBUILDING mini-boom in a Rossendale village has put new bounce into the fortunes of a West Midlands spring manufacturing company. Engineers Turnpyke Group PLC, saw profits soar 70 per cent to £407,000 in the year to December, with the company's
THE Environment Agency is investigating after a half-mile stretch of water was contaminated with 1,000 gallons of sewage. The Agency was alerted after reports of foul smells coming from the tributary of Waterside Brook in Hoddlesden. Eleven-year-old John
ELDERLY people were today warned not to battle with bag-snatchers after three pensioners were attacked within hours of each other near Darwen town centre. Police fear a gang of robbers may be behind the crimes which have left the victims deeply distressed
SIR Everton Weekes's record breaking bat sold at auction in London for £1,050. The Stuart Surridge bat was used by the legendary West Indian batsman to break the Lancashire League aggregate run record for a season when he scored 1,518 runs for Bacup in
Lancashire League MATTHEW Mott hopes an encouraging double-header for himself and the team last weekend will trigger off an improvement in Lowerhouse's fortunes - starting at Todmorden tomorrow. Like Todmorden, Lowerhouse have just one Lancashire League
PULSE - music and more, with Paul Barry WANNABE pop star Ayesha Keighley hopes she will have the last laugh after being made to look a fool on national television as she tries to get her pop career off to a flying start. But the East Lancashire lass,
ASTON Villa defender Steve Staunton could be the next on Roy Hodgson's summer shopping list. Staunton is out of contract at Villa this summer and free to move for nothing under the Bosman ruling. He has been given a June 1 deadline by Villa boss John
TEN East Lancashire pubs have been sold in a £15 million-plus deal. Pubmaster, one of the country's biggest pub operators, has bought 54 pubs from the Nelson-based Devonshire Pub Company. The pubs sold include the Bridge Inn and the Crown in Accrington
UNHAPPY children from East Lancashire have been using a national helpline to register their misery about family life. The authors of a ChildLine report confirmed that youngsters from the area have used their service in similar numbers to those from other
PUPILS were praised but teachers came in for criticism in an official report on a Blackburn school. Teaching is generally sound and well planned at Audley County Junior School, according to a team of OFSTED inspectors. But there were weaknesses in mathematics
A CITIZENS' panel involving up to 1,000 residents will help lead the next step forward in extending "people power" in Pendle. Local people will be asked to volunteer to join the panel, which could cost more than £20,000 to set up, and have their say in
A QUARRY in Rossendale is to be the film location for a battlefield drama about the brutality of war. Accrington and Rossendale College media students James Emmett, 20, and Martin Peacock, 40, will begin shooting 'King and Country' on Monday at Hutchbank
A TOP hospital boss has missed out on a £4,500 pay rise, despite independent investigations which showed he is being underpaid. David Chew, the £76,000 chief executive of Burnley Health Care Trust, was found to be receiving six per cent less than the
THE old brigade linked up to rescue Lancashire at Chelmsford yesterday - but they might have discovered a new all-rounder. Neil Fairbrother top-scored with 126 in their reply to Essex's 242 on the second day of the Championship match, and the only other
A PUNK rock band who sold their gear 20 years ago to finance a farewell single are set to have their record re-released. And a picture of the band taken by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph on the streets of Blackburn in 1978 is set to grace the cover
CHORLEY manager Bryan Griffiths has pulled off a double transfer coup by signing up striker Jim McCluskie and midfielder Andy Grimshaw. Griffiths was delighted at beating off a clutch of top non-League clubs to persuade the pair to join his Victory Park
A LEADING Burnley supporters' club has called for a rapid conclusion to the takeover saga at Turf Moor. The Clarets Independent Supporters Association is appealing to the Burnley board to call an EGM, place a strict deadline on the funding issue and put
