ON October 2, my son went to Blackburn College, where he is in his final year of a three year course. As an apprentice, he is not flush with money. This month's wages were all allocated to various things including £80 to tax his car. He left college with
TWO years ago today, a 22-year-old woman's life was shattered by a savage rapist who committed an assault so sickening that even hardened senior detectives admitted they had never known anything like it. The victim can never forget that horrific day -
Mark Templeton Surfs the Net IT'S Newspapers in Education week and there's no better place for kids to get involved than on the Internet. The Lancashire Evening Telegraph has pages dedicated to NIE on our web site, running alongside our weekly printed
NOW that the fencing-off of Buncer Woods in Blackburn has been found to have been carried out without the necessary planning permission, I ask the councillors responsible to explain their actions. If we are to resolve this situation, some solution must
A PHONE call broke the dramatic news that a former Blackburn man, feared dead after a jumbo jet disaster in Amsterdam, was alive. Khurshid Alam, 37, was found in rubble near the scene. He had been badly burned on his feet and hands. He had been walking
FORMER Rossendale and Darwen MP Sir David Trippier, Lord Wade of Chorlton and comedy scriptwriter Barry Roberts are the guest speakers at the East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce annual dinner. Tickets for the dinner at Ewood Park on November 21 are available
I WOULD like to thank readers for the enormous response we have received to the RNID/BT 'Hear for All' Awards. The national campaign was launched in June. It aimed to find people or organisations who had made a significant contribution to the lives of
A SEMINAR to help firms protect themselves from crime is being staged next month. Initiative Burnley is organising the free event in response to concern over the effects of crime on businesses. Security exports and police chiefs will be among those speaking
IN 1894, Keir Hardie was elected as the first independent Labour MP. Although 27 candidates had stood at the General Election of 1892 as Liberal/Labour, none was elected. When the official Labour Party was formed in 1900, Keir Hardie was elected as its
The opinions expressed by John Blunt are not necessarily the opinions of this newspaper ACCUSED of cashing in on Diana's death, author Andrew Morton has been called a loathsome creep by Bob Geldof - a sentiment echoed by many others . And charities she
REGARDING the hazards of A-boards, displays of wares outside shops, etc., these remind me of an incident some years ago. A blind man was walking safely and confidently on the pavement, his white stick guiding him. Then his head hit a sort of window box
CONSUMER experts today called for school kitchens to be turned into "community cafes" to feed healthy food to deprived East Lancashire residents. The move follows the results of a shock survey which claims many families in the Brookhouse area of Blackburn
IRISH international Jeff Kenna is the latest Blackburn Rovers player to commit his long-term future to the club. The 27-year-old full back has signed a new three-year deal. He joins Gary Croft and young stars Marlon Broomes and Damien Duff in backing
BED giant Silentnight today reported record sales helped by shoppers spending building society windfalls. The Barnoldswick-based group, which employs more than 4,000 people nationally, saw a 19 per cent rise in pre-tax profits up to £5.8 million in the
STANLEY extended their unbeaten run to three games under Leighton James, claiming a third successive 1-1 draw in a highly entertaining local derby at Victory Park. But it needed a double substitution by Leighton James on the hour to inject much needed
I WONDER if the planners of road safety campaigns ever trouble to find out about the side-effects of their campaigns. Last week, I found myself in a queue of traffic travelling at 10mph below the legal limit of the road I was on and headed by a vehicle
LANCASHIRE police are still struggling to attract ethnic minority people into the force, despite having Britain's highest ranking Asian officer. Assistant chief constable Tarique Ghaffur launched a drive to have more ethnic minority police men and women
AN amazing offer from Blackburn's giant Walker Steel company paved the way for the rebuilding of Ewood Park's Riverside stand. But Rovers chairman William Fox made it clear that in spite of the gesture Rovers would still need more cash, possibly from
BLACKBURN showed flashes, but failed to be consistent in this disappointing league defeat at Lymm. It was generally an ill-tempered affair in which the Cheshire outfit tried to bully Blackburn out of the points. The tone was set in the first minute when
CONSIDER paying £10 to see your GP or £80 for a stay in hospital on the NHS. It is a thought that will frighten many, but it is one that doctors see as an option to ease the health service's cash crisis. It is, however, a notion that soon loses a lot
OUTSPOKEN old Tory general Lord Tebbit's attack on Britain's multi-cultural society may have rocked the party's post-election relaunch, but the scare he throws up of our country becoming a Yugoslavia is, surely, as ridiculous as his argument is flawed
A FAMILY'S seven-year ordeal came to an end yesterday when a High Court awarded brain-damaged Neil Gibson more than £600,000 in damages. The Manchester hearing was told Mr Gibson's career in design was wrecked after he suffered brain damage when he was
CRASH victim Simon McCoskery was an experienced driver and tests showed no alcohol or drugs, an inquest heard. His father Peter McCoskery, of Red Lees Road, Burnley, said he was devastated to learn his son was the badly injured driver, and not the less
LIONHEART Chris Waddle today answered Glenn Hoddle's urgent World Cup call after a special plea from the England chief. Waddle has given the green light for Burnley number two Glenn Roeder to fly out with the England squad today for the decisive World
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy AUTUMN is an ideal time to enjoy watching wildlife in towns. Nobody seems to have a kind word for the poor old street pigeon. This species has evolved from the rock dove. When you come to think about it, there is not a lot
THE other night, a boy among a group of youngsters playing outside my house deliberately threw a glass bottle at my doorstep. I cleared up this danger after a young lady, who saw the incident, knocked on my door. I wonder if the practice of a redeemable
A PLASTIC recycling scheme at a Clitheroe school has bitten the dust, just weeks after receiving a cash boost from the town council. Green-minded pupils at Edisford Primary School launched the flagship scheme at their annual fun day in June. Three cages
MAY I remind you that in 1992, it was the army of Algeria which stepped in to cancel elections when it became obvious that a government based on religious principles would otherwise have been elected? The ordinary folk - mainly poor villagers - of that
THE team of Scotland Yard detectives sent to help identify human remains discovered in a grave in the Kashmir Valley were today beginning their work. Two further Metropolitan police officers arrived in New Delhi yesterday to join a police inspector who
FORMER bar worker Antonio Ruiz-Moreno has swapped cocktail sticks for cocktail cabinets for his new career. Spanish-born Antonio, who lives in Accrington was made redundant and enrolled on an ELTEC Target Training scheme for unemployed people through
