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Barber is on TT paceThis Is Lancashire, UK - 13 hours agoBarber completed his next race on board his Robinsons of Rochdale Triumph Daytona without hitting the front. His next challenge comes tomorrow when he has ...

Nightclub helps young pupils get in the grooveThis Is Lancashire, UK - May 5, 2008By Staff Reporter CHILDREN from Green Fold School were given the chance to hit the dance floor at a Bolton nightclub. The children, who suffer from various ...

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After gaining promotion last year the second after the final whistle went at Wembley everyones thoughts turned the to the Lancashire derbies against Preston and Burnley. 6 games in total with each playing home and away. The results Burnley 2-2 Blackpool - 15-09-2007 Preston 0-1 Blackpool - 08-12-2007 Burnley 2-3 Preston - 15-12-2007 Blackpool 3-0 Burnley - 01-01-2008 Blackpool 0-0 Preston [...]

Maria makes her pointThis Is Lancashire, UK - Apr 3, 2008By Neil Johnson THE opening round of the Triumph Triple Challenge was just that for bike racer Maria Costello. The female TT lap record holder endured a ...

Biker wants more successThis Is Lancashire, UK - Apr 2, 2008Barber is grateful to Robinson Triumph of Rochdale who will supply him with a Triumph Daytona 675 for the North West 200 and the TT. ...

Lancashire Constabulary, historically at the forefront of police motoring, is launching a new fleet of cars in a bid to go green. Long gone are the days of MGs and pandas, the force now relies on hi-tech BMW 330ds and Mitsubishi Outlanders. With them, they hope to cut their carbon footprint by 10% but not everyone is happy, as traditionally British models like the Land Rover are left behind. Chris Malkin, the force’s fleet and transport manager, said: “We are evolving all the time towards effective vehicles which makes us more efficient. We are no longer buying bog standard vehicles – these are purpose-built vehicles.” There are currently 900 owned and hired police cars. The area started out with just six MG sports cars along with Armstrong-Siddeley road patrol vehicles

The weather has been horrible over the past couple of weeks, so I haven't had any time to venture into the countryside with my camera. All we have had is rain, rain rain and more rain. Well, I guess that comes with living in England...LOL! So, whilst I am still waiting for the weather to improve so that I can complete my photo challenge for this month, I decided to bring a little bit of the countryside into the house, by cooking a tradional rustic British meal of Lancashire Hot Pot. Whilst deciding to cook this for my dinner yesterday evening, I made the decision that this would become my next blog recipe. So here it is....______________________________________________Ingredients(Serves 4)500 g / 1 lb neck or chump of lamb (or minced lamb)150 g / 5 oz diced carrots150 g / 5 oz diced s

As well as local residents Spring Cleaning the Ribble riverbank this friday, BBC Radio Lancashire, as part of the BBC Breathing Places campaign, has asked our local councils to bid for a visit from the BBC 'swat team' to clean up a public space or park that's a bit of a 'grot spot' to create a place where people can enjoy their natural surroundings. They've given it the great name of "Weed it and Reap"!!You can vote now, for the South Ribble bid for the Ribbleside habitat of Church Woods/Castle Hill, overlooking the Ribble at St. Mary's Church, Penwortham.If you have trouble voting on-line, you can also text "vote south ribble" to 07786201955. Church Woods and Castle Hill (or Motte as the old form would have it) is situated just above Priory Park, by the Ribble close to Penwortham New Bridge (Liverpool Road bridge), and is also accessible from Liverpool Road in Penwortham.Why does it deserve the Swat Team treatment?"This shaded woodland valley is a tranquil area close to St Mary

Michael Vaughan's comments have won him few friends in the north-west Lancashire chief executive Jim Cumbes has reacted angrily to claims from England skipper Michael Vaughan that Andrew Flintoff's off-the-field antics ruined the international team's morale during the World Cup. Flintoff had to be rescued from the sea off Rodney Bay in St Lucia after drunkenly commandeering a pedalo the night after England lost a group game to New Zealand. Vaughan claimed in an interview with the Guardian that the incident increased the pressure on the squad and team spirit soon began to drain away. But Cumbes, who deals with Flintoff at county level, believes that the 2005 Ashes hero has been betrayed by his captain. "I was absolutely staggered when I read that, I just couldn't believe it," he told BBC Radio Five Live. "It's despicable against a guy like Fred, who over the last few years has given England blood. "I think Fred will be bitterly hurt by this, because the l

MPhil/PhD Research StudentshipIdentifying, sourcing and utilizing international talentLancashire Business School - Department of Strategy and InnovationUniversity of Central LancashireReference No RS/06/16A full-time MPhil/PhD research studentship is available in the above Department. The studentship commences 1 July 2007 and is tenable up to three years (subject to satisfactory progress). The studentship will cover the cost of tuition fees and pay a maintenance grant (currently £12,300 per annum). Applications are welcome from UK/EU and overseas applicants. Applicants should hold a minimum of an upper second class honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject.In recent years talent management (TM) has emerged as a key HR challenge. Under the imperatives of globalisation internationally operating firms are finding it increasingly important to identify, source and utilize talent from a multiplicity of business cultures. There is also evidence that firms view foreign talent diffe

Chorley, Preston and South Ribble Councils are 'working together on big planning issues' a phrase which suggests their discussions will include such major development issues as a Ribble Barrage and large housing developments in it's floodplain. They have called this joint planning initiative the 'The Central Lancashire City', which in itself suggests that the priorities of this initiative are to do with urbanising and commercialising rather than defending our environment or our valuable green spaces and community facilities (it also implies that the partnership may be rather unequal, with the leaders of the City of Preston's priorities taking precedence over those of people in Chorley and South Ribble). It is therefore important that local people get involved in the 3 public forum meetings that are being organised for March 2007, one each in Chorley, Preston and South Ribble - these are meetings where the public can let the councils know their views on planning issues and o

After checking out the weather we decided on joining some of the guys from Blackpool and Layton Angling Society (BLAS) on Blackpool North Wall to fish in a competition. On arriving (after driving through some sleet!) the choice was made to move the match to a more sheltered venue at Fleetwood, known as the Cadet Base, where the Sea Cadets have a building as the wind and hence the surf was too fierce.The match was started at 8pm and scheduled to finish at 11.30pm. Wendy and I had been looking forward to the first Cod sea fishing session of the season and on my third cast I managed to snare a plump little codling of 1lb 12oz (42cm long), using a big lugworm as bait.The weather stayed fine for most of the evening except for a very heavy hailstorm halfway through the session. I was the only one to catch a Codling but a few large Whiting came out as well as a small Rockling.The top rod of the evening was Dave who was managing to pull in Whiting 2 at a time towards to end of the match using

The tides were not suitable for sea fishing at any of our favorite marks last weekend so after a lazy Saturday we woke on Sunday to glorious sunshine. After having a quick look at the days weather forecast we decided to brave the crowds and go and give the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust reserve of Martin Mere a visit.This is where last months BBC programme, Autumn Watch was broadcast from and as it's only a short journey from our front door after packing a flask, some snacks, binoculars, new camera and a good bird book we set off and arrived at about 11am.Even though it is only a few miles away we've only been here a couple of times and pulling into the car park we remembered why, it was packed! We quickly entered and made our way as far from the crowds as possible.Martin Mere consists of 2 main areas; the ornamental wildfowl section which is all fenced off and contains many different birds from around the world and the 'meres' which is where the main action is.Every year tens of tho

After the rather unproductive sea fishing session at Crosby on Saturday night we decided to be a bit more pro-active in our search for winter fishing locations and journeyed up to the Rossall Beach area of our coastline, near Fleetwood, Lancashire.This area fishes very well in the middle of winter when the tides are high and the wind blowing off the sea. In previous years we've had many Whiting and the odd Codling (Cod of less than 5lbs) from many areas along this stretch of the coastline, caught mainly on local Black Lugworm.The beach is bisected with many groynes which help keep the sand in place but pose a few problems for anglers. When the tide is high these structures are almost invisible and you can easily get your lines tangled round them.More importantly, the sand build up creates a bank which constantly shifts depending on the tides and weather and to be in with a chance of a good fish you need to know where the gaps are in these sand banks and where any deeper gullies can be

After saying in my last post that the weather was a bit grotty, last Sunday afternoon the sun came out so I went for a walk down to the boatyard and along the banks of the River Douglas.I've been walking along this stretch of our local river since I was a child (a long time ago) and my father used to keep his boat on a fixed mooring in a creek off the river - I remember going out in the middle of the night fishing off Blackpool and not being able to come back until the tide came back in.After getting to the boatyard I turned left and walked along the top of the embankment that keeps the flood tide out of the fields.This tree stump has been here almost as long as I can remember. The tide floods the area I was stood on during spring tides so it must weigh a good few tones not to have been washed out to sea.Continuing on, the river bends to the left and heads almost in a straight line until it joins the River Ribble which then meets the sea at Lytham.I didn't walk that far although it i

I was determined to get out for a walk on Sunday even though the weather was a bit overcast so I paid a long over due visit to one of our local nature reserves, Mere Sands Wood, which is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside.This reserve has always been a favourite of mine, not only because it's almost on our doorstep, but due the the huge variety of flora and fauna that can be seen without the use of any special equipment.As I was in no hurry I meandered up and down all the paths and went into all the bird hides to see if any of the winter visitors had arrived yet.The Great crested grebes were still looking after some chicks that looked large enough to fend for themselves and all the usual water birds were present but no signs of the winter species yet.Apparently a few rarities had been spotted earlier in the week but I'm not dedicated enough to sit staring through a pair of binoculars for hours on end for that one elusive glimpse.I'd rather

Yesterday I had a bit of free time on my hands and after finding out during last week that one of my cousins was sailing in the West Lancashire Yatch Club's 40th 24 hour race I decided to go and have a look at the start of the event on Marine Lake, Southport.My cousin and her husband both sail for Ogston Sailing Club and each of them were doing a couple of 2 hour shifts throughout the race. Ogston had 3 boats competing this year consisting of masters (over 40's), fast and everything else crews, all in Enterprise class boats.The event was very well attended and the weather was fantastic. The wind coming across the lake made some good speeds possible and it was not unusual to see the small boats plane across the water - especially the GP14 class as pictured here which was able to take a spinnaker (the light blue sail) to catch even more wind.It was good to have a little insider knowledge into the 'mechanics' of sailing and after a while I began to realise that I had underestimated th

Last night we had a quick trip up to Rossall near Fleetwood, Lancashire to see if we could snare a few fish before Christmas and to get away from the mayhem that seems to arrive at this time every year.The weather was by no means ideal and when we got there the sea was flat calm with a mist rolling in. It's always a bit strange being on a beach during the night but with hardly a ripple on the sea and visibility down to 100 meters it was a little odd, but damn it was good to be out sea fishing after so long.Hi-tide was about 1 o'clock so we fished from about 10.30pm through to 2.00am.Bites were a little slow in coming to me during the run up to high water but Wendy was getting plenty of interest in her lug worm baits but just couldn't connect with any fish. Then as high water arrived she started landing a few Whiting then proceeded to show me how it's done by catching 2 at once.It was another of those sessions where I was out fished by Wendy, 6 fish to 3 although I did manage a Flou