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Learning by buggy building
A TRAINING group is on the look-out for teenage girls interested in a career in engineering. Training 2000 are to hold a 12-week course for 14 to 16-year-olds during which they will design and build a remote-controlled buggy. It will count towards an
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Trunk road to £160,000
STAFF are celebrating a £160,000 crop of orders. Blackburn-based Thorsman has won five recent orders for its cable management products. Aluminium trunking to house cabling is being supplied for a four-floor extension to Newcastle University's library.
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Residents oppose new homes plans
OPPONENTS of a major housing scheme in Ridge Avenue, Burnley, will attend tomorrow's (Thursday) planning committee meeting. Developers are planning to build 110 dwellings on the site near to the top of Queen's Park The original scheme for 129 houses was
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Charities benefit in will
FORMER Todmorden journalist, Horace Greenwood Stephenson has left money to six charities in his will. Mr Greenwood, of Hallroyd Crescent, Todmorden, died on New Year's Eve, aged 89. He spent his life in the newspaper industry starting out at the Todmorden
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Blackpool 3, Burnley 1: Gloomfield Road
BIG Sam Allardyce shivered and shook in the Bloomfield Road players' tunnel. His ears turned a whiter shade of pale while his nose glowed like a golden mile illumination bulb. He could afford a smile as he braved the sub-zero Siberian blast because, a
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Thieves lift charity gifts
THIEVES whisked away up to £450 worth of donations which had been left in sacks for Oxfam collectors. Two youths were spotted travelling along a road in the Sunny Bower area of Blackburn in a red Fiat car, collecting the sacks of old clothes and second
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10 YEARS AGO: Anger on the buses
BUS SERVICES across East Lancashire were to grind to a halt in an all-out strike over pay. In Hyndburn passengers were already facing dozens of cancelled services as the overtime ban by transport workers entered its fourth day. Burnley and Pendle busmen
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Tell-tale love bytes
WHAT will they computerise next? For now, it seems, you can get a bit of the other in bytes. Red hot passion on your PC! Well, if you work for Rossendale Council, that it is. It's there to see - on every computer screen in the authority..."You are such
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Spin doctors will only make things worse
ALL is obviously not well at one of East Lancashire's leading centres of further education. For Accrington and Rossendale College is having a somewhat unhappy 21st anniversary year as a provider of tertiary education. It is sacking lecturers to save money
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Queen sweep for Gerry!
STREET sweeper Gerry Newton, pictured right, swapped the streets of Rishton for Buckingham Palace when he picked up his MBE from the Queen. And the 56-year-old from Derby Street, Accrington, got a special thank you from the Queen herself for keeping Hyndburn's
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It really can seriously damage your sex life
SMOKING can affect your love life! Cigarettes can significantly affect the quality of a man's sexual performance and is recognised as a contributory factor to impotence. This is because smoking - and nicotine in particular - affects the circulatory system
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Nice one, nicotine nobblers: Hospital trust honoured for helping staff to quit smoking
A HOSPITAL trust in East Lancashire has scooped a national award for inspiring its staff to ditch the dreaded weed. The timely prize for Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust comes as millions of smokers across the UK were today urged to kick
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Bamber Bridge 3, Chorley 0: Magpies are blasted out of cup
CHORLEY were emphatically knocked out of the ATS Lancashire Challenge Cup after holders Bamber Bridge kept up a repeat of last year's final with Morecambe by cruising to a comfortable victory. The Magpies failed to show the necessary appetite for the
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Superbikers aim to hit town centre
SUPERBIKES will be revving up in Rawtenstall town centre in September for the fourth annual Rossendale Valley Motorbike Show. Last year more than 10,000 people and 150 superbikes from all parts of the country flocked to the Rossendale Valley for the event
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Holm-ing in on second chance
MATTY Holmes is in line to start a second successive Blackburn Rovers game tonight - for the first time since the early days of the season. With wingers Jason Wilcox and Stuart Ripley major doubts for the Premiership clash with Leeds United at Ewood,
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Shock report targets patient care
A SHOCK report today claimed that hospital casualty departments may need to be merged to improve patient care. The Audit Commission said accident and emergency units were under terrific pressure due to increased demand and a shortage of qualified staff
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Costs hit chemical firm profits
RISING raw material costs hit profits at William Blythe chemicals. The firm, which operates plants at Hapton and Church, saw profits fall from £5.5 million in 1994 to £4.7 million last year despite an eight per cent increase in turnover. Parent company
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They'll not miss us
RECENT media interest in the decline in male fertility reveals how conceited mankind has become. We do not stand at the summit of the evolutionary mountain. Nor are we the most successful species; the vast complexity of the universe does not exist solely
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Smokers create misery for young
SMOKERS are increasing the misery of dozens of young asthma sufferers in East Lancashire. A survey has revealed that smoky environments adversely affect the health of three-quarters of children who suffer from asthma. The figures also showed that 31 per
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Short-sighted leaders
I WAS most distressed by your report (LET, February 28) concerning council cuts and the restricted opening of Blackburn Museum. We hear that the nation's average council taxes have increased by double the rate of inflation and are informed by our councils
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Go-ahead for new flats?
WORRIED neighbours, who formed a residents' association to fight plans for a block of flats and maisonettes near their homes, seem set to lose the battle. Objectors say 98 per cent of people living in the immediate area are against plans by Crowther Homes
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5 YEARS AGO: 'Appalling' conditions
HEALTH watchdogs were "appalled" by conditions in the psychiatric unit of an East Lancashire hospital. Their shock report on the mental illness wards at Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn, said that their surprise visit was "one of the most disheartening
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NETBALL: Anna shoots her goal
YOUNG netball star Anna Newell had a dream come true when the Rishton teenager captained the England under-16 team against the Republic of Ireland under-18s, writes SUZANNE GELDARD. And despite the opposition's age advantage, England coasted home 58-29
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RUGBY UNION: Stockport RUFC 25, Blackburn RUFC 20
BLACKBURN Rugby Club lost 25-20 away against Stockport. This was a game which if the visitors had played to anything like their ability, would have won comfortably. But instead turned in a listless unmotivated first half performance to give the home side
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£60 insult
REGARDING your story "£60 a week is fair, says boss in pay row" (LET, March 6), how can mattress factory proprietor Mr Peter Cunliffe blame MP Janet Anderson and Coun Dave Smith for "depriving someone of work." Mr Cunliffe should put his own house in
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Gun laws must be tightened up after horror
THE horrific slaughter of thirteen little children in a Scottish school by a madman with a gun appals beyond words. But though the causes of this dreadful carnage may never be fully understood, one fact is plain at the outset. That is that the security
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Fury over college PR
A COLLEGE sacking staff to save money is reported to be bringing in a PR firm to boost its image. Lecturers union NATFHE is outraged by the move by Accrington and Rossendale College to employ an outside firm of public relations consultants with a monthly
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Surfer's paradise down at public libraries
DIRECT links with the world's information superhighway may soon be available to the public at East Lancashire libraries. Terminals allowing members of the public to access the Internet may be installed on a trial basis at seven East Lancashire libraries
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Strength that saved race ace
RACING driver Martin Brundle can thank a Darwen-based firm for its part in his dramatic escape from a 185 mph Grand Prix crash. Many of the ultra-strong components that make up his Formula One car were manufactured by the Brookhouse Group. Brundle escaped
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Behind mask
I SUPPORT your Opinion "Shoot meddler down," (LET, March 6) for condemning Defence Secretary Michael Portillo's use of an unelected "special adviser" with right wing credentials when considering defence contracts. You ask "what right has this shadowy
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Mayor puts charity in the picture
"BET YOU can't." "Bet I can!" Blackburn Mayor Coun Maureen Bateson can never resist a challenge - especially when it's for charity. Her boss at East Lancashire Coachbuilders, sales director Philip Hilton, came up with the ultimate tall order - "Get your
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Town buzzing in grip of cup fever
CLITHEROE is being gripped by football cup fever again this week as the local club sets out on the road to Wembley once more. Clitheroe FC plays Mangotsfield, near Bristol, on Saturday in the first leg of the semi-finals of the FA Vase and the players
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Mystery death was an accident
DETECTIVES probing the mystery death of Padiham man George Jarrad now believe he was the victim of an accident. A murder-style inquiry was launched when Mr Jarrad, 52, was found dying on the driveway of his Warwick Drive home by his 15-year-old son, David
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Museum dogma
AS YOU reported (LET, February 28), Blackburn Council once again displays the narrowness of its political dogma and its imposition of political correctness rears its ugly head on the pretext that it is attempting to be a prudent authority. Here is a town
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Brolin's still to show his best warns Niklas
TOMAS Brolin has yet to show English football the full range of his remarkable talents. And Niklas Gudmundsson - the latest addition to Blackburn Rovers' ranks - is hoping his Swedish international team-mate does not choose tonight at Ewood Park as the
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No to religious festival sparks anger
NURSERY nurse Katrina Lofthouse was so impressed with the way Burnley council marked the muslim Eid Festival, she called for a repeat performance for Christians in the town. Council chiefs had draped a banner across the town hall to celebrate the Asian
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Heath hits out at hate mob
FURIOUS Adrian Heath has called for a clampdown after the Burnley bench was subjected to a Bloomfield Road hate mob attack. The Turf Moor manager claimed stewards and police did nothing as fans spat and abused Heath, assistant Clive Middlemass, picture
