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Corporate manager
BLACKBURN-born Richard West, 39, has been appointed area manager for Lloyds Bank Commercial Services in the North West. His role will include supporting commercial service staff in Blackburn dealing with businesses with turnovers of more than £1 million
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Goods go on show
PENDLE Borough Council is sponsoring Barrowford firm Lynx in the country's biggest engineering exhibition at the NEC in the spring. "To be asked to take part is a real plus for us and our stand will feature alongside the best in Britain," said managing
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Wind storm brewing!
A WIND farm furore looks set to blow up in the Ribble Valley. A new company which has a registered office in Blackburn, is seeking permission to set up wind-speed monitoring equipment on Longridge Fell. If the project proves to be economically viable,
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Youth's life saved
PARAMEDICS were today praised for saving the life of a teenager who suffered multiple stab wounds during an incident in Nelson last night. Staff at Burnley General Hospital sent a note praising the Nelson ambulance crew's efforts to save 19-year-old Shane
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Cash rolls in to aid brain boy John
A DEVOTED mum's labour of love to help her 13-year-old son is paying off. Last September Evonne Aspinall, 33, of Maudsley Street, Accrington, wrote 5,000 letters to companies over a wide area. Her son John has suffered from water on the brain and epilepsy
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ICE HOCKEY: Schling your hook
HORATIO Schlinger has been put on the Hawks transfer list. The Canadian netminder has lost his place to dependable Ian Young with concerns that he was unsettled. Meanwhile, Manchester Storm are "doing a Newcastle United" in the battle for the British
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RUGBY UNION: Rochdale RUFC 3 Blackburn RUFC 44
BLACKBURN Rugby Club recorded their 13th win of the season in a highly entertaining game with both sides deserve credit for producing running rugby in adverse conditions The first half was fairly equal with the visitors missing too many first time tackles
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Dedicated
RECENTLY, my neighbour went into Blackburn Infirmary and she could not have been better cared for. Of all the patients, my neighbour was the only one able to go to the toilet on her own. Some of the others needed bed changes several times a day. Despite
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Get an alarm
IS IAN Coogan (Letters, January 15), suggesting that trespassers face a death sentence if they enter the property of someone who owns one or more rottweiler dogs, as was the case when David Kearney was attacked? Mr Coogan, why don't you and other rottweiler-loving
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Practical plan to blunt the knife menace
AS the nationwide month-long amnesty ends with 40,000 blades of all kinds being handed in at police stations, Shadow Home Secretary Jack Straw adds a welcome cutting edge to the war on the "knife culture" inspired by the murder of heroic London head teacher
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£2m bus share sell-off to go ahead
BURNLEY will lose out on a £2.85 million cash bonanza if it misses the bus and fails to sell its share of Burnley and Pendle Transport. Pendle Liberals announced today they will accept the £2 million on the table from the giant Stagecoach company for
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PC goes missing
A POLICEMAN has mysteriously disappeared 90 minutes before he was due to go on duty. PC Michael James Hickey, 24, from Blackburn, was due to report to Collyhurst police station in Greater Manchester at 3pm on Saturday. But he never turned up, despite
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Traders sold on our appeal
WHALLEY'S recently-formed Chamber of Trade has given £200 to the SuperScan Appeal. The chamber was formed only two years ago after businesses left the Clitheroe and district chamber to form their own. Now the Whalley branch has 58 members and is working
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Mix 'n' match pupils
MODEL pupils at Queen's Park High School, Blackburn, organised their own clothes show with an Eastern flavour. Pupils mixed and matched the new and the traditional and set up their own catwalk in the school hall at lunchtimes. Pupil Aziza Patel, who has
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Lodgers save landlord's life
TWO young lodgers rescued their landlord from a blazing bed. Raymond Harwood, 46, fell asleep at his house on Stephen Street, Blackburn, with a lighted cigarette in his hand. The two men, who do not want to be named, returned to find the bed in flames
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NW Water applying for more supplies
NORTH West Water is applying to take more water from the Lake District to supply parts of drought-hit Lancashire. The firm has been extracting water from Windermere and Ullswater since before Christmas, but the drought orders - granted by the Government
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MP calls for stricter control on knives
NEW controls on the sale of knives have been proposed by Shadow Home Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw. The move comes at the end of the month-long national knives amnesty, during which more than 1,000 blades were handed in at police stations across
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Modern view of 'God's kingdom'
A RELIGIOUS writer has penned a guide to the current day kingdom of God. Masud Ahmed, 45, says he hopes the 222 page publication entitled Milk And Honey will be read by people all over the world and that any possible royalties will help a wide range of
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Gloom is the keynote
NORTH West firms are among the least optimistic in the country according to a survey by Dun & Bradstreet, out today. Optimism over sales and profits over the coming months are significantly down. Just over half of businesses in the region expect to
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Trader's fury at 'death dealer' branding
A TRADER has hit back at a report in a national newspaper which brands her a "dealer in death". Jean South, 40, has hit out at a story in the Daily Mirror which claims she is involved in a murderous trade. And Jean, who owns an army memorabilia shop in
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Stand and deliver
BURNLEY are on track to cut the tape on the new North Stand by early April and conclude the first phase of the £6 million Turf Moor redevelopment. Construction work on the 8,700 capacity stand is pushing ahead on schedule. And the Lancashire Evening Telegraph
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Medical service
DOCTORS and nurses do a great job and recent instances of patients being refused beds in their locality must be an undeserved burden on them. This situation, however, can only worsen as the whole fabric of the NHS is further weakened. This all started
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Second crash victim dies
A TEENAGE girl who was driving a car involved in a fatal road accident has given others the chance of life after dying in hospital. Gemma Louise Cowburn, 19, of Radfield Road, Darwen, was behind the wheel of a black Peugeot 205 GTi when it spun out of
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10 YEARS AGO: Hospitals to close
CHOPPING £1.1 million by health bosses from this year's budget was to bring the closure of three hospitals and a maternity unit. The Government-ordered cuts were to close Hartley Hospital, Colne, and the Rossendale Maternity Unit, while the closure of
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5 YEARS AGO: Casualty plans
THE ARMY in the North West today unveiled its plans to deal with deaths and casualties from the Gulf conflict. And they issued a simple message to families "Remember, no news is good news." The Army at their Preston base had a direct line to the Gulf
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Stations without trains
REGARDING the Regional Railways slogan: "When there's a station on the doorstep, who wants to get behind the wheel?". Yes, we have stations on the doorstep, but you cannot use them because Regional Railways run a "limited-stop" system. Passengers wishing
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CRICKET: You got off lightly - Donald
ALLAN Donald believes England would have suffered even greater humiliation in South Africa had the home groundsmen prepared pitches to suit his lightning pace. In a blast every ounce as devastating as one of his thunderous deliveries he told England:
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Labour's Europe
IN REPLY to David Bullen (Letters, January 16), because John major signed the Maastricht Treaty does not mean that he believes in, or wants, a federal Europe. Indeed, the Prime Minister has stated on a number of occasions that, while he believes that
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Not just a breath of fresh air
THE VERY thought, it seems, has put the wind up them in the Ribble Valley...of giant turbine blades turning in the breeze on the skyline of one of Britain's most beautiful spots. And even at the first breath of the wind farm idea there is a poster and
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Rovers say no to Irish FA!
BLACKBURN Rovers have turned down a request by the Irish FA to speak to Kenny Dalglish, despite today's announcement from Dublin that he is on their short list to succeed Jack Charlton. Ewood's Director of Football was named with three others, Mick McCarthy
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Orders welcomed
NEWS that Germany is expected to increase its order for the Eurofighter has been welcomed. The Bonn government, one of the four partners in the fighter project on which thousands of UK jobs depend, is hoping to confirm soon it is increasing its order
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Council backs fight against landfilling
BLACKBURN Council is backing local people in their fight to stop tipping at an Edgworth farm. The final decision over whether to allow dumping of inert waste at Slacks Farm, Broadhead Road, rests with Lancashire County Council, which asked Blackburn for
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Parking trial brings a success
A SUCCESSFUL 'residents only' parking scheme in Blackburn is set to be extended to other streets nearby. A trial project in the Infirmary area proved so popular that residents of adjoining streets asked for the scheme to be extended. And residents in
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Labour not tied to unions
JOHN Blunt's outrageous tissue of half-truths (LET, January 17) should be challenged. In his article "Back to the Future," he accused the Labour party and its executive leadership of being in the pockets of the unions and that a return to chaos would
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CLITHEROE 2, DARWEN 0: Ref in the dock
CLITHEROE progressed into the third round of the ATS Trophy in a match marred by controversial refereeing decisions. About 10 players were booked and Darwen's Ian Whittaker was sent off as the referee appeared to lose control. Darwen had what appeared
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Room service! College to make history
AN East Lancashire college will be the first in the country to run its own hotel. Staff and students in the catering department at Accrington and Rossendale College, Accrington, will move into the former Platt Saco Lowell's Globe Enterprise Centre in
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Keegan set to target Batty
DAVID Batty could well become an official target for Newcastle United if and when they complete a club record deal for Parma's Colombian striker Faustino Asprilla. Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan was in Rome today, expected to clinch a club record £6.7 million
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Advice from the brokers
STOCKBROKERS Henry Cooke Lumsden believe shares in Airtours, Crown Eyeglass, Wardle Storeys and Wolstenholme Rink are all set to rise and are suggesting them as 'buys'. They advise investors in P&P, Scapa, Seton Healthcare and Silentnight to hang
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Left in cold for three days
A YOUNG mother is furious with the council after she and her five-year-old son were left for three days without heating during a bitterly cold weekend. Sheryl Wild, 23, of Mona Road, Blackburn, was woken early on Saturday by her son, Jordan, after he
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Charity cash on the move
SLIMMERS are putting their best feet forward to raise cash for a cancer charity and helping to shed the pounds. Slimming World has a £500,000 campaign to raise cash for Marie Curie Cancer this year and the fund-raisers reached Blackburn this weekend to
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Man found on rail line named
A MAN killed by a train on the East Lancashire line at Nelson has been named as 18-year-old Derren Mitchell Tait. Mr Tait of Messenger Street, Nelson, died instantly when he was hit by the Colne to Blackpool train close to the Lomeshaye Road bridge at
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Thieves blitz a dozen cars
CAR owners should be on their guard after a blitz of auto-crime in Great Harwood. Windows were broken on a dozen cars but no property was stolen in a weekend spate. Cars were broken into and searched in Garden Street, Hope Street, Croft Street, Meadow
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Award winner is riding Carousel
AWARD winning actress Angela Boulds is taking to the stage in St Stephen's AODS popular Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. There is plenty of talent in the principal line-up with Angela Boulds, winner of the NODA North West award for best actress
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Dicing with danger
THE life of British backpacker Johanne Masheder was brutally snuffed out during a visit to a tourist attraction in Thailand. A Buddhist monk has confessed to killing 23-year-old Johanne when she fought with him inside a temple as he tried to snatch her
