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Shop support
AGE Concern Blackburn and District has been overwhelmed by the support and goodwill shown to us since we opened our new charity shop in Market Street, Darwen, two weeks ago. We have received a generous response from 'Darreners' and would like to say a
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We'll be back soon, vows wood developer
DEVELOPER Paul Dew is confident that work will resume on a sensitive site at Holme in Cliviger within a few days. Excavation work which has ripped up bluebells from a wood was stopped yesterday when Burnley Council officers successfully applied to the
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Christopher,11, is hero of river tragedy
A PROUD grandmother has told how her 11-year-old grandson rescued two drowning youths in a beauty spot river tragedy. Christopher Jones sprang into action on the River Wharfe at Bolton Abbey, Skipton. His grandmother, Mrs Hilary McAllister, of Melville
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Clarets line-up an Anglo-Irish summit
BURNLEY will begin a tasty pre-season build-up with an Anglo-Irish summit against Ards at Castlereagh Park next month. Burnley have arranged a four-game tour of Northern Ireland and today Turf Moor officials confirmed the remaining dates for the visit
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Homeless treatment shameful
WITH reference to the story 'Homeless Anger' (LET, June 11), about a housing association property made available for a homeless family, standing empty and vandalised. Is there not something shameful the way politicians play political football with the
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School back on the road again
CHILDREN at White Ash School, Oswaldtwistle, can hit the road in a gleaming new minibus thanks to the dedication of fund-raisers. Staff, parents, friends and nursery nurses helped over four years to raise £19,000 to buy a replacement for the school's
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Anger grows over playing field camp
A COUNCILLOR is calling on town hall bosses to take extra security measures to stop travellers camping on a popular Oswaldtwistle park before residents take the law into their own hands. A 20-strong band of caravans moved off White Ash playing fields
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Fears grow over missing teenager
FEARS are growing for a teenager with distinctive blonde hair who has been missing from home for more than five days. Worried police have once again issued an appeal for Sarah Jane Hopkinson to get in touch with them or her parents. The 15-year-old from
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5 YEARS AGO: Textiles body-blow
MORE THAN 200 jobs were to go in the latest body-blow to East Lancashire's hard-hit textile industry, it was announced today. Carrington Viyella planned to scrap many of their looms at their Holmefield Mill plant in Barrowford, with the loss of about
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10 YEARS AGO: Streakers halt play
STREAKERS who disrupted play at a cricket ground two weekends in succession were to be dealt with by the club. Accrington cricket officials decided that once the daring spectators were found they would be banned from the Thorneyholme Road club and stressed
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Why has it taken so long to get round to it?
THERE are two prongs to the government's White Paper proposals today to allow local authority schools to select up to 20 per cent pupils by ability - so spurring John Major's dream of a grammar school in every town. The first is that of a political stab
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100 print jobs go as firm closes
A PRINTING works is to close in October with the loss of more than 100 jobs. The jobs bombshell was dropped on shocked staff at Mitre Printing, Nelson, by local managers. The owner of the Lomeshaye Industrial Estate firm, Gala Leisure, said the decision
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Champ Jonathan appeals
AS world triple jump champion and record holder, I am training heavily for the Olympics now, but I wanted to take a few minutes out to encourage readers to accept their own physical challenge this summer for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Over the
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Double take
TWINS, triplets and other superbirths may result in babies who look like carbon-copies of each other - but their personalities are anything but! Yet despite the spiralling number of twins and triplets in this country, people are still treating them as
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Action pledge on firm's access road
ACTION is to be taken to stop a Darwen firm using a rear access road to its premises. Weltonhurst Ltd had temporary permission to use the access while work was going on to re-roof a building at the back of the mill. But the route is still being used,
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Auction of PenDelfin does hospital proud
A HULL hospital will receive nearly £15,000, thanks to an auction at the PenDelfin factory in Burnley, which attracted collectors from all over the world. One keen collector Buyl Raymonola, from Belgium, bought so many items she could not take them all
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Thugs beat nightclub teenager unconscious
NIGHTCLUBBER Jon Worden is recovering after being attacked and kicked unconscious for the second time in six months. The teenager spent 24 hours in Blackburn Infirmary following a brutal assault by thugs outside the Utopia nightclub, Blackburn. The attack
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OTHER SPORTS
A selection of sports stories will appear here Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.
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Canopy would solve problem
EVER since the recently established "Tea Break" cafeteria was opened between the two shopping precinct escalators in Blackburn, customers have been at risk from falling fag ash from youths smoking as they slouch over the rail above and the dust from broom
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Patriots? No - just thugs in ink
THERE may be a smack of repentance in today's toning-down of the trashy tabloids' disgraceful anti-German campaign over tomorrow's Euro 96 semi-final clash with England. But this hardly absolves the original offence. For, despite all the pleas today that
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Paint attack on pensioner's car
CRUEL vandals caused heartbreak for pensioner Harold True when they threw paint all over his car. The retired glazier was devastated when he discovered his dark red Volvo 240 saloon car splattered with white household paint. "I can't think why anyone
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Police refute JP's claim of crime displacement
CAMERAS in Accrington town centre have shifted crime into outlying towns, a leading Hyndburn magistrate has claimed. But police chief Malcolm Rawcliffe said there was no evidence of Accrington centre problems being displaced to Rishton, Clayton-le-Moors
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Seek out support, Asians urged
ASIAN businesses have been urged to make more use of services to help their firms prosper. Although East Lancashire's Asian business community is thriving, many businesses do not take advantage of help available, a conference heard. "Lancashire's Asian
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Councils united in European rights call
A EUROPE-WIDE appeal calling for an amendment of the Maastricht Treaty to include the principle of self-government has been signed by Blackburn and Hyndburn councils and Lancashire County Council. The three are among 2,490 local and regional authorities
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Lung op hero Robert home
BRAVE teenager Robert Daly was heading home today after stunning doctors with an amazing recovery from a double-lung transplant operation. The 15-year-old was given the gift of life in a dramatic eight hour operation last month. Surgeons had expected
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Victory in battle over 'eyesore' mast
RESIDENTS in a Ribble Valley town have won their battle over a Vodafone mast eyesore. The telecommunications mast, which was erected without permission at Inglewhite Road, Longridge, must be removed within six weeks. The order has come from the planning
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Something in 'miracle'
DUNCAN McVee in his letter of June 12 seems to take a delight in trying, without success, to score points off Sylvia Noble and her letter detailing Hitler's 'Economic Miracle.' (Letters, June 1). Hitler was a great deal more than a dictator whose economic
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Rovers linked with Romanian ace Florin
BLACKBURN Rovers are linked with the growing race to land Romanian international Florin Raducioiu. Spanish First Division outfit Espanol are already considering West Ham United's offer but Rovers are reported to be in the hunt to land the exciting attacking
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Americans take stake in Centurion
AN American manufacturer has bought a major stake in furniture manufacturer Centurion. The La-Z-Boy Chair Company, the third largest furniture manufacturer in the USA, has invested £2 million in Centurion preference shares and taken a 22 per cent stake
