Lancashire | Archive | 2000 | January
AN Independent councillor is refusing to answer to a scrutiny panel examining his connections with a fugitive accused of being a bogus solicitor. more...
ICE skating, fairground rides, music, dance and fireworks will fill Accrington town centre on Sunday. more...
A MOTHER-of-two claims she had to serve pie and chips for Christmas dinner because police have not paid compensation for battering down her front door. more...
THE rugged charm of Hyndburn's villages has helped the borough clinch an environmental award. more...
A MINICAB driver was subjected to a terrifying ordeal at the hands of two men who robbed him at knifepoint. more...
THE parents of hostage Paul Wells were today awaiting details of new Indian claims that a body exhumed three years ago in Kashmir is that of their son. more...
BUSINESS failures in the North West rocketed by 18 per cent in 1999, according to latest figures. more...
A CAR care products firm is hoping to clean up with its latest acquisition. more...
ONE of Clitheroe's biggest employers has been singled out as the best in the world. more...
A TEXTILE firm has made a double transfer swoop. more...
SWINGEING cuts in council services were set to make it a miserable New Year for thousands of Lancashire's most vulnerable people, finance bosses warned. more...
YOUNGSTERS at an East Lancashire school got the chance to become policemen - by computer. more...
Cinderella On Ice, King George's Hall, Blackburn, 1pm and 7pm. more...
A RELIGIOUS book shop has been opened at the rear of Benedictine Brindle St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Hoghton. more...
THE winners in East Lancashire's premier green awards will be chosen on Tuesday. more...
Food News, with Amanda Killelea more...
Reporter Mike Ribbeck's daily diary as he attempts to give up smoking more...
JAN Creamer of the National Anti-Vivisection Society (Letters, December 16) is unaware that British regulations on animal research are regarded as the strictest laws in the world. more...
AS we enter into the third millennium, no doubt we all celebrated in style. Then on reflection, what have we learned? more...
DOESN'T Blackburn pub and club owner Margo Grimshaw love publicity? more...
AT 4.30pm on Tuesday, December 21, my daughter and I were driving along the A59 on the busy stretch past the British Aerospace works at Samlesbury when we had a puncture. As neither of us could change the wheel, we were in trouble. more...
ON behalf of Blackburn Cat Rescue, I wish to thank the many people who have contributed in a variety of ways to help us care for the local needy and abandoned cats over the last year. more...
I AM a 66-year-old disabled pensioner and for six days at Christmas and four days at New Year, I was left on my own. more...
THERE is a rank stench of deceit and hypocrisy arising from the Indian government's announcement that the body exhumed from a grave in northern Kashmir is that of Blackburn student Paul Wells, who was kidnapped by Islamic militants five years ago. more...
I WISH Blackburn would go back to the traditional pantomime instead of panto-on-ice. more...
IN another episode of the upheaval that surrounds Hyndburn Council's lone independent and balance-of-power holder, Councillor Adrian Shurmer, we find him today refusing to appear before a panel which will examine his links with a bogus solicitor on the run from the police. more...
IN July last year, my Dad, Bob Taylor, and sister Heather, went on a coach trip to Scotland. more...
Valerie Cowan's Web World more...
POLICE want to trace the driver of a Toyota Corolla who didn't stop after colliding with a Peugeot 309 and damaging four parked cars in Accrington Road, Blackburn, at 6.30pm yesterday. more...
WHEN Terry Gavigan started working for the A and J White car dealership, a new car cost around £300. more...
A GRIEF-stricken mother has spoken about the loss of her 22-year-old husband, who died after being crushed when a 32-tonne lorry toppled onto the pavement. more...
THE Bishop of Blackburn today claimed that many headteachers were at breaking point as he launched a scathing attack on the Government for putting too much pressure on schools. more...
A HUGE £2.2million complex, aimed at putting young people on the right track in life, looks set to be built in Blackburn. more...
JOB fears were sparked today as the parent firm of one of Darwen's biggest employers was hit by a multi million dollar financial crisis. more...
RON Sangster was sent to a gym just to get fit - but now he's about to marry his instructor. more...
IT was during the first innings of the third Test in Durban when it all started becoming bizarre. more...
A MAN will need plastic surgery after having part of his ear bitten off in a struggle at his home, a court heard. more...
EAST Lancashire communities could benefit from £20 million in grants being offered by the Millennium Commission. more...
A PRE-SCHOOL group is extending its opening hours to cater for an increased demand for its services. more...
A PRE-SCHOOL group is extending its opening hours to cater for an increased demand for its services. more...
CLARETS schemer Paul Cook insists it will take a decent performance from his former club to end Burnley's FA Cup dream at the fourth-round stage. more...
BRIAN Kidd will not be making a shock return to football with Rovers' FA Cup rivals Liverpool. more...
"IT'S good to be back on my dad's old stamping ground" smiled Graham Hill after the Europrint 10K. more...
HOSTS Blackburn Harriers scooped the major prizes at the Ribble Valley 10K on the penultimate day of last century. more...
AKZO Juniors found themselves trailing by three goals with only 15 minutes left of their Under-12s match with Barrowford Celtic in the Hyndburn and District Boys' League. more...
SUE Becconsall, of Todmorden Harriers, became the first woman in the country to complete a marathon this century when she won the British Millennium Marathon at Leyland by a 10-minute margin. more...
HASLINGDEN Cricket Club are pressing for a return to straight overs games in the Lancashire League. more...
THE fastest 25-yard sprint performances overall in the Darwen Masters Swimming Club Gala came from defending champions Jonathon Smith and Emily Kinnery. more...
THERE was Millennium mayhem at Haworth as the Auld Lang Syne Fell Race on New Year's Eve attracted 537 athletes. more...
LEE McCash has received an invitation to run cross country for the Great Britain Under 20 team in Portugal on January 22. His latest honour follows his fine second place when running for England Under 20s in the Belgian Cross Cup in November. Meanwhile, the young Pendle star looks set to miss this weekend's Lancashire Championships. more...
HAWKS star Colin Downie could be back in action sooner than expected after linking up with Blackburn Rovers' medical staff. more...
BRIAN Kidd will not be making a shock return to football with Rovers' FA Cup rivals Liverpool. more...
PAUL CRICHTON will face one of the Premiership's in-form strikeforces when he stares down the barrel at Robbie Keane and Cedric Roussel in the FA Cup fourth-round at Highfield Road on Saturday. more...
CLARETS schemer Paul Cook insists it will take a decent performance from his former club to end Burnley's FA Cup dream at the fourth-round stage. more...
Burnley Reserves 1 Birmingham City Reserves 0 more...
A RECORD £40,000 in cash prizes is up for grabs in the local Millennium Business Awards launched today. Bolton Business Ventures Ltd, the organisers, are convinced that the eighth annual Bolton and Bury Business Awards competition will be the best yet. Prize money is up from £31,000 and this year there will be 14 different categories, including new awards for Marketing and Professional Advisers. more...
LEISURE, SPORT AND KEEP FIT BOLTON Excel, Lower Bridgeman Street, tel: 334456: 7.30am-10.30pm. more...
NEW Labour's shenanigans over the selection of their candidate for Mayor of London, ought not to distract the rest of us to the dangers of elected mayors elsewhere in Britain. more...
WHATEVER the accurate description of the current bugs hitting hundreds of local people and laying them low, the effect is certainly being felt at the sharp end at the Royal Bolton Hospital. more...
25 YEARS AGO more...
THE Bolton Evening News has been hailed by the town's MPs for its successful Millennium Jobs Challenge. more...
LAST year was the busiest ever for a group of specialist rescue experts in the town. more...
TWO fabulous 40s women from Blackrod have raised more than £10,000 for a cancer charity after taking part in a sponsored walk - through the Sahara desert! more...
I STARTED my first job in 1948 at the Croal Spinning Company, Deane, Bolton. more...
A RETIRED Bolton teacher who caught the foreign travel bug at the age of 85 has just celebrated her 90th birthday. more...
COUNCIL chiefs are desperately trying to rectify a legal blunder which may have seen thousands of car park customers over-charged. more...
She gives you just one chance, more...
FLU and cold sufferers in Bolton are turning to herbal remedies in a bid to beat the town's "Millennium bug". more...
ROMANTIC Andrew Harbidge made the arrival of the new Millennium a true night to remember - by popping the question inside the Millennium Dome. more...
BOLTON shoppers are bound to feel "all shook up" when they take to the Asda aisles on Saturday. more...
BOLTON North East MP David Crausby has made an appeal to recycle Christmas trees and cards and save waste. more...
I READ with interest Mrs Bleakley's letter, (BEN Tuesday, December 28), and of the picture of Overhouses, Turton. My parents moved into the cottage where the water pump was about 1930. I was born there in 1936 and lived there until getting married in 1958, then moved to Bolton. more...
A CHANCE meeting between two mothers produced the inspiration to create what has become a pioneering centre in Little Hulton. more...
A BOLTON mother who is suing an international drugs company because she believes a routine vaccination left her daughter severely disabled has inspired thousands of other parents throughout the country. more...
A BEDS' crisis has brought the Royal Bolton Hospital to the brink of closing its doors to patients. more...
A RARE amphibian could be the deciding factor in the fight against a 170-house development. more...
A MAJOR children's TV series filmed at a Horwich factory is being shown on ITV from next week - and one of the stars will be the boss's son. more...
IT may be out with the old and in with the new as the first few steps are taken into the 21st Century. more...
MORE than 30 neglected, abandoned or starved cats and dogs passed through the doors of Bolton Destitute Animal Shelter during the week-long festive season. more...
PLANS to bring in a 20mph speed limit to ensure children can walk to school in safety were due to go before highways chiefs today. more...
A BOLTON community is at its wits end because it has been left without a bus once a week for three months. more...
AN organ once played by Handel is under threat from a leaky Bolton church roof. more...
AM I the only Boltonian who is a little sick and tired of hearing Tory councillor John Walsh run our town down? more...
REGARDING the standards of road-surface maintenance in Bolton. more...
ALTHOUGH many oif us failed to see why we had to change from Imperial to metric measure, we were prepared to operate the system. more...
I FIND it somewhat awesome to see the Government undermining people's integrity by stating quite categorically that they were justified in spending, millions on the Millennium Bug, millions on the so-called Millennium Dome, and then millions on a wheel that does not work. more...
MANCHESTER Giants basketball team have played seven games over the last 45 days but begin a punishing schdule of eight games in 17 days on Friday. more...
WANDERERS supporters have been warned not to travel to Saturday's FA Cup tie at Grimsby without a ticket. more...
SAM Allardyce spelled out the stark facts of financial life as a Wanderer today after confirming that his captain, Mike Whitlow, had rejected the offer of a new contract. more...
BURY have told caretaker manager Andy Preece he has got the job for the rest of the season. more...
A DISABLED man who claimed social services staff were more interested in partying than sorting out his problems sat in the middle of the road in protest, a court was told. more...
TWO grey horses used to pull wedding carriages were found to be emaciated when they were seized by a horse protection society from a field in Mellor, a court heard. more...
BURNLEY actress Julia Haworth has her sights firmly set on the future in her latest screen role on ITV next week. more...
HIGH flyer Ian Walker has gained his commercial airline pilot's licence at the age of 19. more...
A RECOVERY plan to treat Burnley Health Trust's ailing finances will be presented to directors next month. more...
A MAN found dead next to a railway line was probably killed by a glancing blow from a train, an inquest was told. more...
A STAFFORDSHIRE bull terrier attacked three children after being left to roam in an alleyway, a court heard. more...
COUNCIL chiefs in Burnley have finally got their man with the appointment of Nick Aves as director of finance - five years after they first offered him the job. more...
CASTLE Cement has withdrawn an appeal against an Environment Agency notice restricting Cemfuel trials. more...
THE closure of Clitheroe Castle Museum on winter weekdays has been blasted by a Ribble Valley councillor. more...
A NEW scheme to enable Ribble Valley residents to barter with each other is set to be launched. more...
VOLUNTEERS are needed to take on new roles in the Ribble Valley. more...
COMMUNITY groups want people to mark the millennium by offering some of their free time to help others. more...
A £30million scheme to end years of traffic congestion in Colne will go out to consultation in a series of community exhibitions next month. more...
A UNIQUE social history project for the Millennium year has been launched by a group of amateur movie makers in Pendle. more...
SHAUN Stephenson's Christmas night out in Blackburn left him with a sour taste in his mouth. Blackburn magistrates heard that he was abandoned by a taxi driver, whom he had paid up front, after leaving the car to be sick. And he eventually spent the night in police cells after making repeated 999 calls from a telephone box. more...
LOCAL historians in Pendle are already looking ahead to the 22nd century. more...
A PUB company has cut the number of bedrooms in its plans to convert its head offices into an hotel. more...
A PUB company has cut the number of bedrooms in its plans to convert its head offices into an hotel. more...
MILLENNIUM Dome performer Emma Lewis mixed work with pleasure as she celebrated the New Year. more...
PART of the Hodge House housing estate at Nelson could be made into a 20 mph zone. more...
MARIE White has a real taste for adventure and is gearing up for a trip of a lifetime to Uganda. more...
ROSSENDALE residents can do their bit for the environment by taking Christmas trees to Groundwork Rossendale to be turned into wood chips. more...
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