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Wildlife action week of events
NATIONAL Wildlife Week swung into action at the weekend and people of all ages will be invited to venture out to enjoy more than 300 action-packed events throughout the country. Lancashire Wildlife Trust at Bamber Bridge will be one of the places for
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CRICKET: Knowles smashes batting record
GRAHAM Knowles smashed a magnificent unbeaten 183 for Haslingden against Rawtenstall at Bacup Road - and smashed his way into the Lancashire League record books. The 22-year-old, who was playing today for Lancashire seconds at Fleetwood, hit seven sixes
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CRICKET: Read ace Nawaz stars again
SHAHID Nawaz kept Read on top of the Vaux Ribblesdale League with a brilliant all-round performance. The Whalley Road professional scored 70 with the bat and stepped in to take seven wickets as Baxenden were dismissed for 103. Earlier Marsh had scored
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Foxley: Where is the justice?
THE man who cheated his way to a fortune, and cost East Lancashire 1,000 precious jobs on the way, is out of prison. The people at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Blackburn, who found themselves out of work because of civil servant Gordon Foxley's sheer greed
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Union chief's fury at Foxley release
A UNION chief today launched a scathing attack on the judicial system following the early release of crooked civil servant Gordon Foxley. The 71-year-old fraudster, who pocketed £3.5 million in backhanders from foreign companies, costing Blackburn's Royal
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Fun Day sparkles in fund-raising frenzy
SUPER sunny weather added the finishing sparkle to Scanner Fun Day as shoppers packed Blackburn town centre for a charity fund-raising frenzy. Hundreds of volunteers, some in fancy dress, a host of bands and street entertainers performed for shoppers
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Race to help kids
PROCEEDS from the Whalley Nab race on Friday, June 14 are for the Chernobyl Children Lifeline Lancashire link. There is a senior race for the 16 and overs, starting at 7.15pm (seven miles). The junior race, nine to 15 years, is 2.1 miles and starts at
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New cash gives training boost
TRAINING places for 150 unemployed adults should be available soon. The Government has announced funding worth £283,000 to ELTEC to provide basic skills training for the jobless under a pilot scheme. ELTEC has now selected four training providers - LE
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Road rage quandary
THE controversial issue of "road rage" is back on the national agenda. Fed with the oxygen of publicity, lack of self-discipline has suddenly acquired a fashionable label and unchanneled aggression has become high-profile and vaguely "acceptable". This
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Widow's anger over husband's roof fall
A WIDOW, whose husband died almost nine years after he was crippled in a work's accident, has lashed out at her former husband's company. Mary Ellen McCabe slammed the Blackburn building firm Waddingtons for failing to take proper safety measures, at
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Curfews not the answer
I DON'T often agree with your editorial opinion, but with "Child catchers not the answer" (LET, June 3) I not only agree with your summation, but endorse everything you say. How Jack Straw can even be thinking of such a scheme as curfews on children beggars
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Shattered! 240 windows smashed in raid at school
VANDALS rampaged through a school and smashed more than 240 windows in broad daylight. And today as police began investigating Roman Road Primary School head teacher Mrs Liz Fisher said that the single act of vandalism will wipe out the school's annual
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Hunt for treasure
THE seventh annual treasure hunt challenge is set to be staged by Pendle Business Club. The popular event is open to teams of four. They will have to drive around the area answering clues with a business and rural flavour. Anyone interested in taking
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CRICKET: Crawley boost
LANCASHIRE have suffered a massive Benson & Hedges Cup blow with an injury to John Crawley. It is almost certain Crawley will be ruled out of the semi-final with Yorkshire at Old Trafford tomorrow because of a pulled hamstring. He sustained it in
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CRICKET: Golden's duck
GOLDEN boy Shawn Flegler fell victim to the cruelest irony imaginable...and if ever a game of cricket turned on the events of a few seconds then this was it. A shrug of his shoulders, a rueful smile and a barely audible "these things happen" was all the
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Shattering times
THE vandals who smashed 240 windows at Roman Road primary school, Blackburn, went about their sickening work on a Saturday afternoon in broad daylight. It took a fair amount of time to put in all those windows. But, apparently, no-one bothered to report
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Take pain out of health visits
WHEN we have occasion to visit a health centre, the chances are we are feeling pretty low. And that state of mind is not improved one little bit if we have the misfortune to arrive at a centre like Larkhill, Blackburn. It has come in for severe criticism
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Bold Ben's adventure - just capital
AN ADVENTUROUS 17-year-old faced the mammoth challenge of cycling 350 miles from Kendal to the House of Commons in London. But Ben O'Keeffe, from Langham Road, Blackburn, is more than just an average athlete. The cheerful student is a quadriplegic and
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New missile cell seals US link up
A MANUFACTURING facility marking a flourishing transatlantic partnership has been opened. The new cell at the Lucas fabricated systems operation in Burnley will make launch canisters for the McDonnell Douglas Harpoon missile. The US giant recently awarded
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Unhappy vision of the future
READERS may be aware of the wide-screen format which the TV people intend to introduce as a "new" experience. In fact, it was first brought in by the film industry many years ago and was great for the large cinema. But I do not consider it practical for
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Cathedral's flower festival
VISITORS to Blackburn Cathedral will soon be able to trace a path through time depicted in flowers in what promises to be a magnificent spectacle of blossoms and blooms. The cathedral is celebrating 1,400 years of Christian worship and officials are gearing
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The great Euro puzzle
I WONDER if any reader can give me one good reason to be in the European Community. I know it can't be trade, as we are billions of pounds in deficit. It can't be that we are gaining financially, as we put far more in than we get out. It must by now cost
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Clarets boss Heath eyes Croatian ace
ADRIAN Heath is continuing his sweeping Europe-wide search for top continental soccer talent. I can reveal the Turf Moor player-chief (pictured) is closing in on several overseas targets and has made an advance move to bring a Croatian player to Turf
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Dugarry chooses continental lifestyle
FRENCH ace Christophe Dugarry today claimed he was taking a pay cut in choosing AC Milan above Blackburn Rovers. The former Bordeaux striker - due in action as France kick off their Euro 96 campaign tonight against Romania at St James's Park - revealed
