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CRICKET: Jason hits a Sunday best
JASON Gallian hit a new Sunday best as Lancashire humbled title holders Kent at Canterbury yesterday but he was one of the early casualties as the Red Rose county chased a total of 340 on day four of the County Championship today. Gallian was dismissed
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Scapa makes Swiss swoop
SCAPA Group plc has bought a specialist Swiss business for an undisclosed sum. The firm, based in Blackburn, has acquired the Prestex division of Sefar AG who manufacture synthetic fabrics. The Prestex business specialises in the manufacture of heavy
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Enterprise's £350,000 incentive
BUDDING entrepreneurs are being offered chance to develop their small businesses thanks to a £350,000 Euro grant. The award has gone to Nelson and Colne College under the European Adapt Initiative to help people develop their enterprising ideas. "This
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Council leader wins power challenge
BURNLEY Council's Labour leader Kath Reade has narrowly survived a bid to oust her from power. Her challenger and former deputy group leader, Coun Stuart Caddy, decided not to seek re-election as deputy leader or group chairman after his bid for the leadership
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Pest giant will supply school dinners
SCHOOLS across East Lancashire are to have their meals provided by someone new: a giant pest control company! Rentokil has bought BET Catering Services, which supplies food to schools in the county. And the news comes as dinner staff voted to take industrial
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Fears over radiation
FEARS grew in the North West today about the effects from the fallout of the Soviet radioactive cloud which swept over Britain. Anxious parents, pregnant women and farmers jammed the switchboards of the Agriculture Minister and the nuclear safety watchdog
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Heath cash boost
BURNLEY will back Adrian Heath (pictured) with a major summer cash injection to bolster his Second Division squad. Heath had to cancel his plans for a flying visit to Portugal yesterday after his international target pulled out with a hamstring injury
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GOLF: Lora drops to fifth place
LORA Fairclough from Chorley finished joint fifth in the Welsh Open at St Pierre, seven shots behind overnight leader Lisa Hackney, after shooting a final round of 72. Bolton Golf Association defeated their East Lancs counterparts 10-8 in a keenly contested
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Showstopper Ian pops the question
A THEATRE audience went wild when a brave Romeo jumped on stage in the middle of a performance and proposed to his shocked girlfriend. People clapped and cheered as embarrassed Jane McCash accepted boyfriend Ian Dickinson's proposal in front of more than
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Soldiers' silver on show
A DISPLAY of silverware commemorating significant events in the history of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment and its predecessor is on show at Fulwood Barracks, Preston, from Monday May 13. It will show uniforms through the ages, campaign honours, sporting
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Thomas the Tank steams into town
YOUNGSTERS from all over the country have been visiting the East Lancashire Railway this weekend to see Thomas the Tank engine and his friends. Thomas, on instructions from the Fat Controller, has been kept busy giving rides in the sidings at Rawtenstall
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Houston has lift-off on crimes scheme
A DETECTIVE in charge of the county's Crimestoppers scheme has returned from a fact-finding visit to the home of freephone crime lines. DC Charlie Sykes spent five weeks in Texas, where the initiative started 20 years ago and where there are now 250 schemes
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Twelve arrested as fans fight in street
TWELVE people were arrested as trouble flared in Burnley town centre on Saturday. Police were taken from football duty at Turf Moor to deal with a number of incidents, some of them involving Shrewsbury soccer fans who had allegedly been drinking and did
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Ear bitten off in club attack
A 20-YEAR-OLD man is recovering after having part of his ear bitten off in a vicious attack at a Blackburn nightclub. The incident, described as "appalling" by police, happened in the early hours of yesterday morning when Darren Cassidy and Graham WIllets
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Alf is Messiah for jazz buffs
JAZZ fanatic, former professional drummer and Lancashire Evening Telegraph journalist FRED SHAWCROSS talks to a man who has devoted his retirement years to promoting entertainment at King George's Hall in Blackburn, a venue which he took to his heart
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Wind farm pleas blown away
ANGRY East Lancashire MPs have failed to win any concessions from the Government over tightening up the planning procedure on the siting of wind farms. Ribble Valley Tory Nigel Evans led a strong attack on plans to site groups of turbines on Longridge
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Poison pen
BLACKBURN Rovers made Chelsea eat their words last night with a stinging response on the pitch to some insulting comments in the Stamford Bridge match programme, writes Peter White. But it couldn't clinch a UEFA Cup spot for Ray Harford's men, despite
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Sales cheer softens prices blow
A SIGNIFICANT rise in the number of local firms expecting to take on staff has been reported. The latest Dun & Bradstreet quarterly survey shows North West firms are also increasingly hopeful about improving sales and profits. But optimism over exports
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New fighter plane flies job hopes
THE first flight of a new two-seater fighter plane which could help secure Lancashire jobs has been judged a great success. The Gripen - which BAe and Saab have entered as a joint venture to manufacture and market for export sales - flew from the Swedish
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Power of London
GLENN Hoddle must have had a quiet groan to himself when he realised that Blackburn Rovers were the main guests at his Stamford Bridge "leaving do". For, this was where the new England coach-to-be came in three seasons ago, with a 2-1 defeat by Rovers
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Car parking rap for 'whingeing nurses'
A HEALTH watchdog leader has urged hospital staff to "stop whingeing" as he launched a savage attack on the nursing profession. The outburst by patient watchdog boss Nigel Robinson is the latest shot in the row over controversial plans which could force
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Hero, 14 saves blaze victim
A BRAVE 14-year-old attempted to rescue his next door neighbour from a fire after he smelled smoke and heard his cries for help. Waquas Ajaz, of Palmer Road, Blackburn, kicked down the front door of the burning home where Jim Clarke was trapped late last
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Sledgehammer store raid
SLEDGEHAMMER robbers snatched thousands of pounds in a daring superstore raid. They struck at Blackburn's main Tesco store when it was packed with Saturday shoppers and threatened a guard before grabbing a bag full of cash. "It was obviously a carefully
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CRICKET: Harper plays a sweet tune
ROGER Harper was the talk of the Marsden BS Lancashire League after a stunning return to action, writes NEIL BRAMWELL. His nine wicket Saturday haul against Accrington - for just 22 runs off 20 overs - was followed by another five for 45 at home to East
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CRICKET: Shahid the run machine
RUN MACHINE Shahid Nawaz kept up his hot pace in the Vaux Ribblesdale League, scoring 93 runs in a scorching victory over Edenfield. The Read professional also picked up four wickets with team mate Terry Little scoring 48 not out as they rattled up 217
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'Real' jobs needed
ALMOST 1.5million new jobs will be created over the next five years - all of them part-time, according to a report today. Meantime, the number of full-time jobs may drop by 10,000. This, of course, is an underlining of a pattern already well-established
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Check snoopers
NO matter how valuable it may be in the fight against crime, the move in planned legislation to allow police the enter private homes to plant bugging devices and hidden cameras is a sinister one for any supposedly free society to contemplate. It is, of
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School reports get top marks
ON its own, the report today by school watchdogs Ofsted on a Blackburn primary school makes somewhat grim reading as its concludes that too much of its teaching and learning is unsatisfactory. But while parents, teachers and governors may view these findings
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Hot competition in Thwaites bike grand prix
THE sun came out to make the Thwaites Grand Prix that little bit more gruelling as it snaked through some of East Lancashire toughest hills. More than 100 riders slogged their way along the 62-mile route from Burnley to Accrington watched by hundreds
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Taming of Shrews
CAN any Burnley fan remember a recent season to rival it? A nail-biting, energy-sapping, whiteknuckle rollercoaster ride to the very edge of a football nervous breakdown. Not since Clarets fans suffered the season from hell - when Football League status
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CRICKET: Flying Fleg sets post-war record
AFTER starting the season as if he had forgotten how to hold a bat, Shawn Flegler finally tapped into his rich talent against Accrington at West End. The Queenslander, whose previous three innings had amounted to an insignificant 35, went through the
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7 hurt in M6 riddle
SEVEN people were taken to hospital - one in a serious condition - after a mystery motorway accident. The men were travelling in an N registered Toyota Previa people carrier on the M6 southbound near Lymm when the vehicle collided with the central reservation
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Pensioner missing on trip to seaside
FAMILY and friends are concerned for the well-being of a former top club snooker player who has disappeared while on holiday in Blackpool. Mr Ronald Bannister, 65, of Haven Street, Burnley, was with eight friends from the Rosegrove Unity Club enjoying
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Report finds serious weaknesses in school
A SCHOOL has 'serious weaknesses' in the quality of education, according to an inspector's report. School watchdogs Ofsted said the standard of teaching and learning in the reception class and infants at St Aidan's Primary School, Mill Hill, Blackburn
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Luvvies are being served by TV's Mollie
TELEVISION star Mollie Sugden has written to a new drama group to wish them luck in for their first production. The Hoghton Players - known affectionately as the Luvvies - are getting ready to stage the comedy Friends and Neighbours by Austin Steele.
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Lucas clinch £33m deal
A £33 MILLION contract could secure jobs until at least the year 2000 at Burnley's Lucas Aerospace factory. The contract is to manufacture fuel storage cylinders for natural gas powered vehicles made by Ford in the United States. The deal, which is expected
