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Think pink for Floyd
WE are writing a book on the British rock band Pink Floyd, based around all their concerts from their inception to date. We hope to have it published next year. Although we have details of most performances, we are having difficulty accounting for some
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Holiday hire bike riders dicing with death
HOLIDAYMAKERS are dicing with death when they ride motorbikes without any practice or tuition during sunshine breaks abroad. The warning was given at an inquest into the death of two Blackburn youngsters who died when the 75cc Honda Vision scooter they
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It's expensive to talk
BT is putting up phone line rental by £3.60 per year, a 3.7 per cent rise. The present cost of line rental is already high enough. It is high time that their monopoly on line rental was broken. BT says the cost of calls is being cut. This will make very
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£5000 computer theft rocks school
A COMPUTER firm had a van containing £5,000 worth of equipment stolen just minutes before it was due to be delivered to a local school. A thief broke into the rented vehicle while the Complex Computers driver was away for less than two minutes, collecting
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Peggy is flagger-gasted by stone thieves
PENSIONER Peggy Plows was amazed when she returned home to find someone had dug up and stolen flagstones from the side of her house. She said: "I couldn't believe it, I was completely taken aback.'' Mrs Plows has lived in the same house in Burnley Road
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GOLF: Stuart's storm
A CLOSING 73 for a three-over-par total of 145 left Stuart J Taylor of Duxbury Park tied for fourth place in the Lancashire Strokeplay at Duxbury Park Golf Club, Chorley. Ian Taylor of Clitheroe was joint 12th (149), John Twissell, also from Clitheroe
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CRICKET: Church anger over 'wide' rumpus
CHURCH have reacted angrily to claims skipper Phil Sykes sanctioned the deliberate wide which sparked furious scenes in their Lancashire League derby against Rishton. Bowler John Longden said he was acting on captain's orders when delivering four wides
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CRICKET: Bevan fumes as Lancs 'play by the rules'
LANCASHIRE today defended their refusal to complete the Yorkshire innings in a stormy end to the first day of the rain-affected Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final. B&H games are supposed to finish at eight o'clock, but play can continue with the agreement
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Job well done
IN response to 'Chase away thugs' (Letters, May 27), regarding gangs in the Audley area of Blackburn, as victims of these people, we are delighted that the Asian community publicly condemns this behaviour. I also totally agree with the acknowledgment
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Europe thumbs down
YOUNGSTERS from Blackburn took part in a survey which revealed 80 per cent of British schoolchildren want to turn their back on Europe. A group of around 25 pupils aged between 10 and 16 were among 800 questioned by fax and photocopier company Gestetner
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Germany calling
SYLVIA Noble has lately been very quiet, but in her letter 'Unpatriotic Slur' (LET, June 1), she raises the issue in a chaotic fashion of European integration and monetary control. On Sylvia's allegation of Hitler effectively cancelling the German national
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Challenge cash bid to fund youth festival
A MAJOR Youth Arts Festival will celebrate the new millennium in Burnley, if a £26 million community improvement package gets the Government go-ahead. Two sports and arts centres of excellence and childminder support network are also included in the council's
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Fight against blight
GORDON Prentice is to launch a campaign to help people hit by blight from road projects that take years to start - such as his constituents at the end of the M65 in Colne. The Labour backbencher is asking people affected by blight to contact him. He said
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Clarets eye top defender
BURNLEY are chasing a Premiership defender as Turf Moor chief Adrian Heath steps up his search for fresh talent. The unamed star has had preliminary discussions with Clarets manager Adrian Heath and could travel to Turf Moor this week. Heath has at least
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10 YEARS AGO: MPs march in anger
LANCASHIRE Tory MPs today joined in angry protests over the Government's refusal to find extra finance to help repair the county's crumbling schools. They were furious with Junior Education Minister Bob Dunn for failing to give a detailed reply to the
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5 YEARS AGO: Eating ourselves to death
EAST Lancashire had one of the worst health records in Europe and was eating itself to an early grave, according to a survey out today. The major study carried out for the Co-op claimed that smoking, heavy drinking and lack of exercise were to blame for
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Whose blame?
HYNDBURN Council leader Coun George Slynn always blames central government for the lack of funding for schemes. How much has the transformation of roads in Great Harwood cost? If a socialist government comes in at the next election and cutbacks are still
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Little changes
AFTER some of the Unionists stormed away from the Northern Ireland peace talks following a fall out among themselves, we were left thinking: This is where we came in a quarter of a century ago. The same blinkered, bigoted approach that has dashed hopes
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Our lottery handouts are a joke
JOHN MAJOR chose his words carefully when he described National Lottery cash awards to prostitutes and homosexual groups and an anti-deportation organisation as "ill-founded and ill-judged." It was the first time the National Lottery Charities Board,
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Drug death mystery of asthmatic patient
THE death of an asthmatic patient at Calderstones Hospital has mystified nursing staff and medical men at an inquest. Peter Benson, 59, was found to have in his body poisonous amounts of a drug he had been taking for a long time to help with his asthma
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Elsie at 102 is a vintage Claret
BURNLEY Football Club's oldest supporter Elsie Hoyle is 102 today. Teetotaller Elsie puts her longevity down to a healthy upbringing on a farm and the fact that she has never drunk alcohol, smoked or taken a tablet in her life. Elsie celebrated her birthday
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Shell deal a sure sign of this firm's success
YOU may not realise it but an East Lancashire company's products are seen by motorists all over the country every time they fill up. Hepworth Building Products, of Padiham, produces a range of items including forecourt signs for Shell petrol stations
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Italian fans' night of delight
A GROUP of Italian soccer supporters from Darwen enjoyed a pizza the action in Euro '96. The fanatical fans, along with hordes of fellow expatriates and fans from the Old Country, took over Anfield's famous Kop as they witnessed their country's opening
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MP backs fight to stop cement site reopening
NEWS that the Tarmac company has resurrected plans to reopen an old cement works in Colne has angered Pendle MP Gordon Prentice. He is backing local residents who are fighting the proposal to start work again at the plant in Knotts Lane, which shut five
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Ripley's going nowhere
GREEK superstar Georgios Donis and winger Stuart Ripley face hand to hand combat for the Ewood Park number seven jersey. And today Rovers assistant boss Tony Parkes scotched rumours that the Donis signing could lead to Ripley's departure. Already Ripley
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Dexter Paints endorse NVQs
DEXTER Paints of Burnley has become another local firm to endorse NVQs as a way of training. The company is trying for the Investors In People standard. It recently presented two candidates with their level 4 National Vocational Qualifications after help
