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ROVERS: All Ovre bar the scoring
Hvidovre IF 1 Blackburn Rovers 1 - Peter White reports from Copenhagen IT TOOK Roy Hodgson just a few sentences to sum up Blackburn Rovers' final game of their Scandinavian tour in Copenhagen on Saturday. "We played very well" he said. "We attacked well
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Why no fence?
ABOUT your "Schools on Risk List" article (LET, July 15), while I was attending my son's sports day at Shadsworth Junior School, Blackburn, three young hooligans invaded the school playing fields, shouting abuse and threatening the youngsters with large
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Twenty dogs found in house
POLICE and RSPCA officers wearing protective gear removed about 20 dogs from a terrace house in Nelson after complaints from residents. The animals were taken away by the RSPCA after the joint operation which lasted for more than an hour. The officers
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TEN YEARS AGO: New bid for brewers
A NEW bid for Blackburn brewers Matthew Brown was looking more certain after Scottish and Newcastle sold its stake in a hotel group. The brewers revealed that they had sold a near five per cent in small hotel company Norfolk Capital. The announcement
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Riots on council estate
VIOLENCE erupted for the second night running on the Stoops council estate in Burnley when police in full riot gear were bombarded with stones, bottles and petrol bombs. At one point a blazing barricade of old mattresses and furniture was formed across
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Quality the key
AEROSPACE firms from across the region heard how quality was the key to improved competitiveness when more than 70 representatives of Lancashire aerospace companies attended a seminar at Northern Technologies, Nelson. "Improving competitiveness in world
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CRICKET: Hard-fought win topples champs
Lancashire League highlights HASLINGDEN consolidated their position at the top of the league with a hard-fought victory over champions Rishton at Blackburn Road, reaching 184-8 before bowling Rishton out for 167. Without captain Mark Griffin, Haslingden
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CLARETS: Eyres late goal rescues Burnley
Crusaders 2 Burnley 2 TURF MOOR free kick specialist David Eyres conjured up a late, late show to halt Ulster Champions Crusaders. Player-manager Chris Waddle watched Burnley for the first time in senior competitive action at Seaview and Eyres' thunderous
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Bosses 'less certain' of growth
BOSSES in the North West are less confident about increasing orders in the coming months. Almost two thirds expect new order levels to rise over the coming quarter but the figure is down from threequarters, according to the latest survey from Dun &
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Closed club's doors have States opening
DOORS from the now closed Haslingden Conservative Club have left Rossendale bound for America. The glass panelled internal doors were at the top of the stairs leading into the club in John Street. The club closed and is being sold to the Co-op to develop
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Holidays are fun at home
THE SUN put its hat on for the start of seaside-style frolics being staged to create a holiday-at-home atmosphere for town centre shoppers in Blackburn. Donkeys drafted in from Blackpool were just one of the attractions at the first of a series of events
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Tot Gemma heroine of fire drama
A QUICK-thinking little girl saved a family of seven after her brother who is fascinated by fire set the bedroom alight. Gemma Osbaldeston, five, was sleeping downstairs in the house in Lister Street, Accrington, and spotted the smoke and flames when
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Nightclubbing mum, 41, in late night rape horror
NIGHTCLUBBERS are being urged to help track down a rapist who attacked a mother of two as she enjoyed an evening out with friends. The 41-year-old victim was pounced on after arriving at the Roxy club on Market Street, Darwen, just after 12.30am yesterday
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Mercy crews in charity 'paddle'
MERCY crews from Lancashire Ambulance service will be taking to the canal to paddle for charity. They will take part in a 5-day event in aid of the North West 'New Heart-New Start' appeal. They will canoe the 127 miles along the Leeds Liverpool canal
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CRICKET: Gallian hints at new deal with bubbling Lancashire
SUNDAY hero Jason Gallian today handed bubbling Lancashire another boost - a hint that he wants to stay with the county. Gallian's contract is up at the end of the season and he has already been linked with a string of other clubs, including yesterday's
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CRICKET: Golden Brown!
Lancashire League - Colne 197- Burnley 201-2 ALTHOUGH he failed to make a deserved century, Michael Brown may yet look on his innings against Colne as a coming of age. There have been better batting performances perhaps by the 17-year-old Burnley opener
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There's a cost to a price on knowledge
DESPITE the revision in recent years of its socialist doctrines, it still ill-behoves Labour to be party which axed the principle of free higher education - if only because it will hurt the middle class whose votes it courted in order to get elected.
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Many hurdles ahead before lasting peace
THE less-than-euphoric reaction to the new IRA ceasefire underlines how hard it is to be optimistic for a lasting peace in Northern Ireland. For ominously, once again, there is no mention of a permanent ceasefire. And the fact that it has taken 30 years
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Huge entry for service awards
A PRESTIGIOUS public service award has attracted a mammoth entry from Lancashire. A record-breaking 25 organisations have applied for the 1997 Charter Mark Award including several from East Lancashire. A tenancy scheme in Hope Street, Blackburn, Accrington
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Shop's message to petrol yobs
CUSTOMERS of a newsagents which was hit by vandals two nights in a row have left a message for the culprits in case they decide to return. A sign has been put up in the window of Redlam News, Blackburn, blasting the attacks which involved the window being
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CRICKET: Tree-mendous effort as title looms closer
Ribblesdale League TWO wins from a double header weekend kept Cherry Tree on track for the Vaux Ribblesdale League Championship. Only Clitheroe stand a chance of catching the Preston Old Road club and, after slipping up against the top outfit on Saturday
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Sick, evil yobs
REGARDING the article "Smokey flees blaze yobs," (LET, July 14) on the cat that was rescued from a smoke-filled house, what made me mad was the evil of the yobs that kicked the cat about and chased it back into the building. They must be callous youths
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The power and the story
Mark Woodhouse meets Peter Salmon, director of programmes for Granada TV WHEN news sneaked out that Coronation Street's Derek Wilton was about to join the big sales convention in the sky, Granada Television's hotlines were hot with protesting fans. Peter
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Back-tracking with the trams
Looking Back, with Eric Leaver WAR on the car is the municipal theme of the '90s, with schemes to make motorists pay to enter towns and cities and severe curbs on parking in a bid to reduce gridlock and pollution. But if the planners had been as far-seeing
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Cool cheek to an ice cream man
I WRITE to complain about Blackburn with Darwen Council and in support of Mr Geoff Hindle who has the ice cream van outside Darwen Market Hall. He has been there for 22 years. He is good with all age groups and, early this year, he applied to put tables
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Council tempts builders with plan for flats
A PACKAGE of proposals has been put together in a bid to tempt developers to take on the job of demolishing the unpopular Mill Hill flats. Blackburn with Darwen Council is hoping to attract building firms by offering for redevelopment the land on which
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CLARETS: Waddle set for debut
CHRIS Waddle is ready to make his Burnley debut against Glenavon on Thursday, writes TONY DEWHURST. Burnley's new player-manager was a non-playing substitute as the Clarets kicked off their pre-season tour of Northern Ireland with a 2-2 draw against Ulster
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Return to school will do sum good
ACCOUNTANTS have gone back to school - without leaving the office. Employees at PM&M have linked up with Blackburn College's supervisory management course via a video conferencing link. "It has been very successful and a great project to work on.
