UNIFORMS made by workwear firm Simon Jersey are featured in a new exhibition. The Fibres, Fabrics and Fashion event at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester aims to highlight the North West's role in the industry. Simon Jersey designs and specialist
A MUSIC shop owner who helped bring rock n' roll to East Lancashire has died, aged 67. Mary 'Mort' Mortimer was responsible for introducing "bop" to thousands of music fans in the 1950s. She and her late husband, Joe, were professional ballroom dancers
A DOUBLE boost will bring extra work and greater security to a booming industrial estate in Pendle. A luxury car dealership will create more than 40 new jobs on the Lomeshaye Estate, in Nelson, when new workshops, a showroom and stores open next spring
PAUL Barnes has no fears about the fans as Burnley return to Turf Moor on Saturday for the first time since the war of words which followed the game against Northampton. A torrent of criticism was poured on Barnes's striking partner Lee Howey that afternoon
A CANCER victim's daughters were today attending their mother's graduation ceremony. Joyce Swindlehurst, 50, lost her fight for life days after learning she had got a degree. Her place at the ceremony at Preston's Guild Hall was to be taken by her 28-
AIRTOURS celebrated its tenth year on the stock market with record profits today. The Rossendale travel giant said the successful launch of all-inclusive holidays, in which drinks and ice creams are all part of the package, helped its profits soar in
HEART-stopping statistics showed Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale were still death blackspots - and things were not improving, said the district's medical officer Dr Peter Grime. More than 900 people died from acute coronary heart disease - nearly 30 per
YOUR article (LET, November 28) about more European funds coming to Blackburn made no mention of Bank Top. Multi-screen cinemas and a tarted-up station are both very nice, but are no comfort to those with an outside toilet and rising damp. And does the
THE official opening of the long-awaited M65 extension is finally set to go ahead next Monday. Traffic will be able to travel along the road for the first time more than 20 years after the scheme was first unveiled. And Home Secretary and Blackburn MP
ACCRINGTON professional Shokat Ali failed in his bid to reach the quarter-finals of the German Open at the Atlantis Rheinhotel in Bingen. Ali was beaten 5-2 by world champion Ken Doherty who faces Scotland's Jamie Burnett tomorrow for a place in the semi-finals
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy EARLY last week there was a heavy frost and a morning mist, both of which I think combine to provide some lovely views of trees in winter. I walked along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal between the Barden area of Burnley and
I AGREE with S Spence (Letters, Dec 6) regarding Tommy Ball. This gentleman was treated very badly by the then Blackburn Council over Sunday opening. Mr Ball has been, and still is a benefactor to this town, and should have received some sort of civic
Mark Templeton Surfs the Net THERE'S no need for expatriates to worry about getting their Christmas message across to relatives in East Lancashire this year...they can let the Lancashire Evening Telegraph do it for them. We've created a special form on
A TEENAGER may face prosecution over claims that a laser pen was pointed at a teacher's face during a lesson. The woman was supervising a morning class at Bank Hey Special School, Heys Lane, Blackburn, when a light from one of the controversial pens was
EXCITING plans for Blackburn Cathedral and its precinct are being put before the town's people for their opinion. Cathedral officials have unveiled an ambitious renewal project featuring the possible creation of a hotel, conference and community facilities
FATHER Christmas thought he was seeing treble when three birthday girls paid him a visit. The Smedley triplets - Shannon Marie, Nicole Louise and Laura Jane - were taken to meet Santa as a birthday treat. It is now two years since the sisters arrived
THAT the successors of the disbanded East Lancashire Regiment are to receive the Freedom of the Borough of Accrington and District ('Hyndburn' seems oddly inappropriate) may to some seem overdue. However, we must remember that for those who knew and loved
EIGHT people, including four policemen, were injured in separate bomb blasts at a London shopping complex. None were thought to be seriously hurt and seven were expected to be discharged from hospital. A coded IRA warning was received before the bombs
SO, another beef scare! As an old soldier, I'm not scared! There has been more damage wrought by bullets and bombs than by a plateful of beef! At 76, I hope, one day, to go to my grave full of it! D BULLEN, Albany Road, Blackburn. Previous news story
AT LAST, the M65 extension is to open. And on Monday the road this newspaper and thousands of others in East Lancashire have campaigned for and demanded for more than a generation will be complete. No longer the "road to nowhere" - as it was without this
TONY Blair will tonight bulldoze away his first major back-bench rebellion as at least 20 of his party's MPs prepare to vote against the government's plans to cut benefits for single parents. After all, with his huge majority hardly dented and with the
AN East Lancashire town could lose a show which has already put it on the national map and could put it on the international map. Organisers of the Rossendale Motorbike Show are threatening to pull out of Rawtenstall, where it has been staged for the
ROY Hodgson found it difficult to contain his surprise today over the fact that Bolton Wanderers are to appeal against the dismissal of Alan Thompson. The Bolton player saw red for a late and reckless challenge in Saturday's Ewood derby which has left
INVENTOR Trevor Baylis OBE told East Lancashire businesses that billions of pounds had been lost because Britain's bright ideas were ignored. Trevor told an audience of almost 200 that his idea for a clockwork radio was ignored or mocked by organisations
SPECIAL schools are hitting back after a report criticised some of them for failing to put pupils in for GCSE exams. Heads of schools across East Lancashire reacted furiously when the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education said special schools were
The John Blunt column WE are already witness to condoms being dished out in youth clubs to under-age youngsters and free needles being given to scum drug addicts. But if the encouragement to break the law that goes with this is one thing that the do-gooders
YOUR report (LET, December 8) highlights a developing problem over discipline in schools which is in need of some urgent and serious thought. Children are becoming more and more uninhibited which at the appropriate time and in the appropriate place can
BUILDING products firm Ensor Holdings has seen profits soar by 200 per cent. The firm, which has a depot in Blackburn, reported operating profits increase to £520,000 in the first six months of its financial year. Chairman Ken Harrison said the results
