Oswaldtwistle Community Action News

By Tackler

I was working away using my laptop on the dining room table at about 8am on Sunday morning when my daughter exclaimed "There's a big hot air balloon daddy, I'm not joking!". I got up from my computer and looked out of the window to see an enormous hot air balloon flying fast and low which appeared to be almost touching the chimneys of the grey slated terraced houses of Spread Eagle Street.

"It would make a good story dad, UFOs spotted over Oswaldtwistle" chirped my daughter with great enthusiasm.

By Tackler

The Furniture Clinic Emporium Limited are about to expand their showroom into ajoining premise. Father and son John Bradley will have been in their Oswaldtwistle showroom for 10 years in October.

Previously they had a shop in Whalley Road Accrington but when they moved to Oswaldtwistle they had made their first sale within the first 2 minutes of opening their shop.

John Bradley says he had done a survey and had discovered that twice as much traffic passed along Union Road as passed along Whalley Road Accrington.

By Tackler

Bryan from Stanhill and Andy from Great Harwood started in business in 2002 when E.J. Riley went bust. They buy, sell and refurbish snooker and billiard tables and they have the contract for Riley Snooker Clubs.

B&A Snooker & Pool Ltd already have premises in Accrington but they are mainly for storage. They now have four fitters permanently on the road and are probably the biggest billiard company in the North West.

By Tackler

The announcement of the Pennine Reach proposal for the improvement of bus transport from Darwen to Accrington has given rise to considerable concern among Oswaldtwistle residents. These proposals are currently at the consultation stage and Capita Symonds on behalf of Blackburn with Darwen held a consultation meeting at the community centre on Harvey Street.

By Susan

West End residents Jean and Neil Reid recently celebrated their silver wedding in style. The festivities began with a 12 day cruise around the Med on none other than luxury liner The Queen Mary, and Jean and Neil toasted the day, which was the 18th June, with a glass of champagne overlooking the harbour at Barcelona. "It was perfect" said Neil.

By Tackler

Oswaldtwistle John street residents have tidied up the flower beds that the council had neglected and turned them into a beautiful garden.

They have improved an ordinary street of terraced houses and made it a street that Oswaldtwistle can be proud of.

If you know of any other local self improvement projects please let me know: editor@OswaldtwistleCAN.co.uk

By Tackler

There is a general assumption that it is greener to travel by bus than it is to travel by car. According to an authoratative source (DEFRA) if you divide the average amount of carbon dioxide produced by a bus per kilometer by the average number of people traveling on a bus, each passenger uses about 90g of carbon dioxide per kilometer.

Compare this to the 100g of carbon dioxide produced by a modern small car per kilometer and there is little difference.

By Tackler

Sections of Grane Road between Holden Vale Road and the Grey Mare pub are to be closed from Monday 7th July to allow improvements to the road and the road is expected to be closed for the following 7 days.

Resurfacing work will be carried out around August 2nd and 3rd although the road is expected to remain open.

On August 18th, sections of the road will be closed for up to two weeks for further improvements. Double white lines will be painted to prevent drivers overtaking.

By Tackler

People have been storing ICE on their mobile phone with an emergency contact number for some time to help the emergency services contact their relatives In Case of Emergency.

The new Utag digital dogtag allows you to enter emergency information such as emergency phone contact, photo ID, GP information and extra information such as medical conditions and blood type.

If you were to be injured in an accident and perhaps unconscious it could save valuable time for attending doctors and paramedics, time which might be the difference between life and death.

By Tackler

Steve McDonald is pictured riding a Honda CBR600 RR in a previous Manx TT race.

Steve McDonald will be riding a Suzuki GSXR 750 in the August Manx TT Race and will be sponsored by Jennings Race Products of Oswaldtwistle. They have previously sponsored Jim Hodson.