Lancashire | Archive | 2000 | June
REGENERATION chiefs still reeling from the announcement of 550 job losses at the town's biggest employer believe the bombshell may ultimately help them in their bid to secure £13million of government money. more...
A MAYORESS who is one of 550 workers made redundant at Leoni's Accrington plant has vowed to go to the top in a bid to save her colleagues' jobs. more...
BLACKBURN'S cramped police HQ is to be put up for sale within the next two years as part of a £7.9million scheme to create a new heaquarters close to the M65. more...
A SWIMMING group for asthmatics faces closure if price hikes for pool hire are enforced by council bosses. more...
A VOLUNTEER who has helped more than ten charities has been named a local hero in an Asda superstore award ceremony. more...
WORKERS today faced a mile-long crawl into Blackburn because of a gas leak in the town centre. more...
PASSENGERS travelling across East Lancashire can look forward to a better ride following the launch of the Quality Bus Route. more...
THE future of a path which runs through Charles Turner's Mill in Belmont will be decided by a public inquiry. more...
STONYHURST College staff and pupils returned to a heros' welcome after completing a 1,500-mile cycle pilgrimage. more...
SIXTY years of church singing was marked for chorister Joan Sharples with the surprise presentation of a framed certificate at St Mary's Church, Mellor. more...
TEACHERS at Mount St Joseph's School, Bolton, have been back to school to learn about Information Technology. more...
THE Knowsley Compact -- an Education Business Partnership -- is celebrating a hat-trick of prestigious quality standard awards. more...
TRADE Partners UK is to launch a new package of support to help small and medium-sized companies break into the Canadian market. more...
BOLTON North-east MP David Crausby and the gas pipeline company Transco are hosting a Business Breakfast meeting at the Bolton Moat House Hotel on Friday, July 7. more...
LEISURE, SPORT AND KEEP FIT BOLTON Excel, Lower Bridgeman Street, tel: 334456: 50+ badminton, table tennis, squash and gym, 1pm-3pm; body conditioning, 2pm-3pm. more...
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Schools' Music Association Festival, Victoria Hall, Bolton. Runs until Friday THE second night of this festival once again featured a host of young musical talent. more...
BOLTON'S landlords have been approached by another company offering them cash to take in asylum seekers. more...
A HOMOSEXUAL kiss in heartthrob actor Paul Nicholls' new play has sparked controversy -- among his Bolton mates! more...
THE fiancee of a Horwich man who died from lung cancer just three weeks ago has carried out his wish to stage a charity night in aid of Bolton Hospice. more...
A BOLTON mill has been named one of the country's historic "buildings at risk" in a report published today by English Heritage. more...
PLUCKY cancer victim Ricky Wayne, who has dedicated the rest of his life to helping others, is edging towards his cash target. more...
A BOLTON pet lover found his cat dead in the street after it had been tied up in a carrier bag and thrown out of a passing car. more...
STAFF at a firm were amazed with what they pulled out from down the back of an old sofa. more...
A FORMER Atherton schoolteacher died after he suffered a heart attack while swimming. more...
A SCHOOL fun day which has been planned for months has had to overcome a soccer crisis. more...
AN Egerton man has brought the countryside into the living-room . . . courtesy of a unique video. more...
25 YEARS AGO more...
YOUNGSTERS at Walmsley CE School got to grips with sword fighting and witchcraft when they took part in a Shakespearean workshop. more...
VILLAGERS in Turton and Belmont can be proud of sending a load of old rubbish to Blackburn. They have helped to boost collections at recycling bins in Blackburn and Darwen by one fifth. more...
A TWO-year-old toddler was lucky to escape with his life last night when a "stone" he found in his garden turned out to be a live hand grenade. more...
I DO not look back to the War years very often -- too many unhappy memories, too many lost friends. Fred Shawcross's article on Dunkirk made me do it. I was glad to see he placed the blame for the War on Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Fascists, and not on the British or German people. Unfortunately, there are still many Fascists about in all countries today. more...
A CHATIN'S statement that socialism is the answer to safeguarding jobs (BEN, May 23) is wrong. more...
THE seven charities benefiting from the Children's Promise want to join me in thanking your readers for the support they gave to the Appeal at the end of 1999. more...
HAVING read in the BEN the account of Driver Wilks having lay in a drainpipe to avoid the bombing and shelling at Dunkirk, I was reminded of the following. more...
ONCE upon a time whenever a man needed a haircut and little else, he went out and looking for that familiar red striped pole fixed at an angle from the outside wall of the barber shop. more...
AT the last election, I voted Labour. This was a first for many years but, the thing that made me give Labour my vote, was Mr Blair's promise to end hunting with dogs. more...
REFERENCE the review of the Joe Lee Wilson and Kirk Lightsey concert. BEN, Thursday, June 1. more...
I WAS quite astonished to read Andrew Hanson's letter (BEN: June 8) stating explicitly that British Gas customers are no longer paying ANY separate standing charges. more...
CONGRATULATIONS to all concerned with last Thursday's stimulating Environment Forum Conference 2000 at the Town Hall. more...
LEIGH Centurions' star winger Alan Hadcroft is likely to miss the rest of the Northern Ford Premiership campaign. more...
WANDERERS chiefs have handed out a big thank-you to their fans after season ticket sales hit a new high. more...
NEW council house tenants in Burnley have been hit with a triple whammy -- pushing up rents on scores of lower priced properties by 200 per cent. more...
A FORMER church may have to be demolished after the fourth serious fire in the Stoneyholme and Daneshouse area of Burnley in the past few months. more...
A CAR fabrics firm has bucked East Lancashire's economic gloom with news that more than 130 jobs are to be reprieved. more...
A PETROL bomb was thrown at the house of an 83-year-old pensioner living in a sheltered housing scheme in Burnley. more...
FIRST a fire devastated Nelson town centre -- then came the flood. more...
ROSSENDALE'S footwear heritage has been preserved in a new museum which is already attracting coach parties. more...
BURNLEY Football Club have been congratulated by Sports Minister Kate Howey for introducing a children's cheap season ticket. more...
PENDLE will feature new boundary signs welcoming visitors to the borough, but only when local firms and groups come up with sponsorship to cover their cost. more...
FACTORY worker Steven Greenwood walked 127-miles alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to raise more than £1,500 for Hospice Care for Burnley and Pendle. more...
THIEVES stole 14 young bullocks from a farm in Startifants Lane, Chipping between 9pm on Sunday and 5.45am on Monday. more...
THIEVES stole 14 young bullocks from a farm in Startifants Lane, Chipping between 9pm on Sunday and 5.45am on Monday. more...
PLANS for improvements to a Pendle pizza restaurant have been submitted to the council. The owners want to build a first floor extension to Giorgio's Pizzeria, Albert Road, Colne, for new toilets and erect an external fire escape at the back of the building. The scheme will be discussed by the council's Colne area committee on June 29. more...
POLICE trying to trace missing wedding guest Keith Munton are examining a jacket found on playing fields in Nelson to see if it belonged to him. more...
A MAN recovering from a cancer operation was among thousands of Darwen residents left without water when a mains burst cut off supplies. more...
A NEW strategy has been drawn up to help businesses prosper after a major survey. more...
ENGLAND star Dennis Wise has signed up for a Rawtenstall team! more...
A GAS fire firm is glowing! more...
Blackburn Artists' Society meet Stables, Osbaldeston. more...
EVEN a hard-hearted sort like me, who believes that bending the immutable laws of economics with grants or subsidies to create jobs is ultimately a waste of time, raises his eyebrows at the preferential deal which -- in a week when more than 1,600 jobs bled from East Lancashire -- paid an old-established firm £2.4million to up sticks from Blackburn to go to a new factory in County Durham and leave 113 jobs behind. more...
AS a value-for-money exercise, the £350,000 proposal to fit alarms to protect hundreds of empty sink-estate council houses in Blackburn and Darwen takes some beating. more...
NOT for the first time, thousands of women who have had breast implants are in a panic -- after warnings that those made from soya bean oil may cause cancer or harm unborn children. more...
BURNLEY was branded as a suicide capital of Britain in a shock report produced on behalf of the Government. more...
A MULTI-million pound golf and leisure complex for East Lancashire looked set to rise from an old ruin. more...
BLACKBURN'S cramped police HQ is to be put up for sale within the next two years as part of a £7.9million scheme to create a new heaquarters close to the M65. more...
A CAR fabrics firm has bucked East Lancashire's economic gloom with news that more than 130 jobs are to be reprieved. more...
DID this year's London Marathon whet your appetite for a 26.2 mile challenge? more...
OVER the years, Lancashire County Council has done some illogical things, but its latest stunt in Oswaldtwistle really takes the biscuit. more...
REGARDING your article, "Higher expenses for councillors will cost £91,000 more" (LET, June 6), the facts are as follows: more...
BLACKBURN Labour Party's agent says (Letters, May 29) Jack Straw is liked and respected as a constituency MP. That may be the case within the Labour quarter. more...
COLLECTION envelopes from Barnardo's are being delivered between until June 18, as part of a campaign to raise £1.1million. more...
TONY Blair returns from paternity leave and brings to the NHS Summit evidence of the birth of a happy healthy child. more...
MAY I offer thanks to Ron O'Keeffe for his letter (Letters, June 1) in which he castigated me personally and extolled the virtues of Jack Straw. more...
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy more...
AS East Lancashire still suffers the shockwaves of more than 1,600 jobs going in just one week, the prospect of adversity being turned to advantage was being looked for in Hyndburn today where 550 workers are among those now facing the dole. more...
BEING an interest group, English Heritage may be overstating its case when it talks of historic buildings in East Lancashire rotting away, with some in danger of being lost for good, more...
LANCASHIRE League run-machine Keith Arthurton believes the return of Brian Lara can help the West Indies beat England this summer. more...
BARNOLDSWICK'S carefully laid plans are starting to bear fruit as they recover from a wretched start to the season. more...
NEW signing Paul Burns believes Accrington Stanley can emulate the feats of his old club Morecambe as they prepare for an assault on the UniBond Premier Division next season. more...
DON'T tell John Crawley that Lancashire's match against New Zealand A is a waste of time. more...
TODMORDEN'S Richard Baigent will captain the Transco Lancashire League team to take on the Central Lancashire League in their annual challenge match next week. more...
MANCHESTER City front man Gareth Taylor could emerge as a summer target for the Clarets. more...
BLACKBURN Rovers midfielder Per Frandsen could be handed an escape route out of Ewood Park. more...
MANCHESTER City front man Gareth Taylor could emerge as a summer target for the Clarets. more...
BLACKBURN Rovers midfielder Per Frandsen could be handed an escape route out of Ewood Park. more...
ONE of the most controversial proposed developments in Pendle in recent years will come before councillors again this week with them being urged to turn down the scheme. more...
A YOUNGSTER who stays cheerful despite his handicaps hopes to walk unaided -- if his appeal fund hits a £12,000 target. more...
WRITER Carole Solazzo is now a member of the prestigious writing team for the world's longest running soap -- Radio 4's The Archers. more...
A CHURCH known locally as "The Cathedral of the Valley" looked "blooming lovely" during a flower festival held to mark the new millennium. more...
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