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Theft blow to racer's world title hopes
BIKE racer Phil Smithson's hopes in the World Enduro Championships have been dented after the theft of vital tools and equipment in Italy. More than £2,500 worth of specialist gear was taken from the Clitheroe engineer's hired service van while he was
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Hotel wins top award
A HOTEL in the Ribble Valley has been named as Hotel of the Year at a top national awards ceremony. The Gibbon Bridge Country House Hotel near Chipping won the votes of the judges in the Association for Catering Excellence competition at Warwick Castle
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Forgotten victims
FATHER Jim McCartney is a well-known figure in the shady world of teenage drug abuse. He's helped dozens of desperate young people with nowhere else to turn and in some cases watched them overcome their addictions. But now the priest is on a new mission
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In defence of my father
I WOULD like to respond to the comments (Letters, May 21), concerning the Ewood murder trial, in which my father, Brian Blakemore, was convicted of the manslaughter of Julian Brookfield. Ironically, I couldn't agree more with some of the remarks made
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Disharmony threat to race group's survival
PERSONAL differences are damaging the work and image of a Burnley and Pendle race harmony group, says its secretary. Coun Azhar Ali says the problem within the racial equality council has led to disillusionment of some members and could put future public
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Mother's shock
WINNIE Bentley was talking to a neighbour when she froze with fear. At first she thought she hadn't heard correctly. But then the horrifying words were repeated: "Your daughter's on drugs." Winnie told herself it was just neighbourhood gossip. Her girl
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Burning issue of Cemfuel
IT was stated on Radio 4's Face the Facts programme that neither the Department of Health, nor Dr S Morton, of the East Lancs Health Authority, has ever given the burning of Cemfuel at Castle Cement in Clitheroe a "clean bill of health". Dr Morton also
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Police close probe into nursing home death
POLICE investigating the death of a resident at a Ribble Valley nursing home after a morphine overdose are to take no further action against a nurse and a pharmacist. Widow Mrs Bessie Aspin, 79, who lived at Riverside Court Nursing Home in Sawley, is
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United in faith
MEMBERS of the Swedenborgian New Church of Burnley joined Muslims and Quakers for inter-denominational talks at the Nazareth Unitarian Chapel, Padiham. Minister the Rev Andrew Rowley said: "It always strikes us just how much we all have in common. "Our
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TEN YEARS AGO: Lucas land massive order
LUCAS Aerospace at Burnley won one of the largest contracts ever to go to the town. The company announced it was taking a major share of a £1 billion-plus order for a new multi-launch rocket system for Nato. The announcement meant the company could go
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FIVE YEARS AGO: County in mini freeze
EAST Lancashire shivered when overnight temperatures dropped to a little over zero - in June. People found their cars covered in ice when temperatures plummeted to 0.6 degrees celsius - the lowest recorded in June since 1955. Patients awaiting cataract
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GOLF: Rain at Amateur Championship
TORRENTIAL rain and a howling gale turned the first round of the Amateur Championship into a nightmare for many of the competitors at Turnberry's Ailsa and Arran courses. But Clitheroe's Paul Dwyer and Stuart Andrew as well as Nelson's Nick Uttley all
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CRICKET: Fairbrother in fight for Essex fitness
NEIL FAIRBROTHER is battling to be fit for Lancashire's Championship game against Essex at Chelmsford on Thursday. Fairbrother missed the Sunday League victory over Gloucestershire with a calf strain, but Lancashire are desperate for his experience at
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Why separate laws for the footballers?
ENGLAND'S highly paid footballers are to share a fine after the disgraceful scenes on board a Cathay Pacific jumbo jet bringing them home from Hong Kong. Like a classroom of naughty schoolboys they are taking collective responsibility for smashing up
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The nightmare
YET one more little life gone - nine-year-old Daniel Handley. Kidnapped, raped and then murdered by two gay perverts. The way this little boy lost his life will be history tomorrow for us, but his parents will live with this for the rest of their lives
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Dead baby's teenage parents charged
THE TEENAGE parents of five-month-old baby Levi Rose have been charged with his murder. Christopher Rose, 19, and Kelly Catlow, 18, of Cronkshaw Street, Burnley, and formerly of Within Grove, Huncoat, were arrested by police on Saturday and were yesterday
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Thieves steal year's work
CAR thieves have stolen a student's bag containing a year's college work. Eighteen-year-old Simon Book of Mellor Brook was devastated when he realised that his red Puma bag had been taken from the boot of his Maestro. He had parked on Blackburn shopping
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The final insult for Hillsborough families
FOURTEEN police officers are to receive a total of £1.2 million in agreed damages for mental trauma suffered during the Hillsborough disaster seven years ago. Not surprisingly the relatives of the 96 Liverpool fans who died in the crowd crush at the Leppings
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Boy, 6, swallowed dumped tablets
A SIX-year-old spent a night in hospital after swallowing a handful of potentially deadly tablets he found dumped in a garden being cleared by council workmen. Lee Scott was put on a heart monitor after taking three anti-depressant tablets left in the
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Indian police search forest
SNIFFER dogs and hundreds of Indian policemen were today trying to discover the fate of Blackburn student Paul Wells. More than 500 Indian police officers followed the dogs into the mountains of Kashmir to investigate claims that Paul and three other
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CRICKET: Grant's got the wind up
PADIHAM pace ace Joe Grant today blamed the wind for his controversial beamer barrage. The Jamaican ace was ordered out of the bowling attack during his side's game against Oswaldtwistle Immanuel. Grant was cautioned by umpire David Pilkington for delivering
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Why some animal experiments are vital
IF, as Sheila Brennan claims (Letters, April 25), animal research was irrelevant, then no-one would support it, and no-one would do it. But there are ethical limits to human clinical studies - in other words, the experimentation that can be done using
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Seat belt demand for all minibuses
TRAIL-BLAZING Rossendale Councillors are set to exceed Government regulations by demanding all minibuses it licenses are fitted with seat belts. New guidelines, set out in March, mean minibuses and coaches used wholly or mainly for carrying children have
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Appleby in the frame for the Clarets
DARLINGTON'S out-of-contract defender Matty Appleby today emerged as a Turf Moor target, writes TONY DEWHURST. I can reveal Burnley had a £160,000 transfer deadline day bid turned down for the ex-Newcastle United star and player-chief Adrian Heath has
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Rovers ticket bonanza
BLACKBURN Rovers have taken around 13,000 season-ticket renewals so far, with two and a half months still to go to the big kick-off in August. That represents two-thirds of last year's total record-breaking sale of 19,000-plus and the club will expect
