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Help rescue little foals
ARE there just 2,000 "guardian angels" who could generously donate £100, or possibly 20,000 "little angels" who could donate £10 to help us purchase our own permanent "Foals and Horses" Sanctuary at Oswaldtwistle? We have no boundaries that preclude "
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Sean Bean heads for East Lancs
A NEW series of Sharpe, the top-rated action adventure series starring heart-throb actor Sean Bean, is to be filmed in East Lancashire. Producers from the series plan to film at Helmshore Textile Museum and in Bacup as part of a five-week shoot in Lancashire
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Teachers can help start 'Fame' school
MUSIC teacher Neil Shepherd is hoping to start a Fame-style school for the performing arts in East Lancashire. Neil, who lives in Great Harwood, is choirmaster and conductor of Ribble Valley and Hyndburn Youth choir. He is appealing for teachers who would
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Frogman Mark is going under for ten days!
SCUBA diver Mark Webber is aiming to make a splash in the record books - by staying under water for ten days! The aqua fanatic will go ten feet under in a bid to earn a place in the Guinness Book of Records. But he took a break from preparations to warn
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Health trust poll storm
A STORM blew up over plans to spend £7,000 on an opinion poll in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale to see if people supported their hospitals' bid to manage their own budgets under trust status. Lancashire leader Louise Ellman ordered the poll to help the
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Postal trouble flares
SEALS went on post boxes throughout the Blackburn area as the "offensive language" dispute in Preston's sorting office took a turn for the worse. And in the Burnley area there was to be no second-class mail collection. Trouble flared when workers at Preston's
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CRICKET: Peterson's making no predictions
BARNOLDSWICK'S Vaux Ribblesdale League marathon has stepped up another gear. Last weekend's five point win at Blackburn Northern saw the Victory Park outfit climb into top spot. And professional James Peterson is predicting an enthralling finale as Barnoldswick
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Third Reich sham
IN reply to J Pilkington (Letters, June 25), the Third Reich was a complete sham. This new Germany was financed on "tick" money obtained from all over the world with no intention of paying it back. Hitler talked peace while he prepared for war. To him
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Watch that cable work, Valley urged
WHITWORTH and Edenfield have been excluded from Nynex plans to link Rossendale to the cable network. Rossendale Council gave a mixed reaction to a presentation by Nynex and Edenfield Coun Jeff Cheetham called for a letter to be sent to the company asking
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Contract rebels set to sign
BURNLEY'S contract rebels Marlon Beresford and Gerry Harrison are ready to put pen to paper on Turf Moor deals. The Clarets first choice goalkeeper and utility star Harrison have had two rounds of fresh contract talks with manager Adrian Heath this week
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Hostels policy mistaken
HOUSING committee chair Coun S Reid (Letters, June 29) informs us how wonderful, generous, caring Blackburn Council has been refurbishing the bedrooms and lounges of the hostels for the homeless with new furniture, curtains, carpets and whatever. This
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Students make it a Dutch treat
THEIR footballers may have come away empty-handed from Euro 96 but a team from Holland left East Lancashire as winners. The four students from a college at Sittard in the Netherlands all passed a four-day export sales course held by East Lancashire Chamber
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Howarth quits!
SECRETARY John Howarth is leaving Blackburn Rovers next week after more than 25 years at Ewood Park. Mr Howarth's departure - by mutual agreement - came as a surprise to the rest of the Ewood staff when they were told yesterday. But he stressed that he
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Trash news merchants
OBVIOUSLY, "gutter" tabloids can print just about anything they like, seemingly with total impunity. I refer, of course, to the excesses prior to the England v Germany semi-final which amounted to little less than incitement. "It was just a bit of fun
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Tip's plans thrown on scrap heap
PLANS for a seven-year time extension at a Rossendale tip have been blocked by county planners. Local people sent 109 letters to Lancashire County Council protesting about plans for Horncliffe Quarry off Bury Road, Rawtenstall. The controversial tip now
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CRICKET: Pakistan pull in the crowds
THE Old Trafford Texaco Trophy international between England and Pakistan on August 29 is already a guaranteed sell-out. Lancashire report phenomenal interest in the first of a three-match series which should see Wasim Akram and Mike Atherton clashing
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Tony Blair dumps old red baggage
TONY Blair's mini-manifesto revealed that, just as the Tories have now accepted, New Labour is indeed a changed party, not the old one in disguise. For what is most striking about this package is how much of the old ideology-driven socialist baggage has
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Jack the crimebuster: Straw's manifesto
ANGER over youth crime in Blackburn has helped to mould Labour's policies to tackle the problem nationally, Blackburn MP Jack Straw has revealed. The Shadow Home Secretary said at yesterday's launch of their draft manifesto: "This is the direct result
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Young ones pick up awards
A TRIO of fledgling firms have won awards worth more than £6,000 for their 'extra' potential. The ventures have won cash prizes, computers and business support packages in ELTEC's Extra 96 initiative, organised in conjunction with the six enterprise agencies
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Both sides of Germany
REGARDING the bad feeling towards the German footballers, I'm just reading a book about the last war, which paints a different picture of their country. Most Germans were true Germans and against Hitler and the Nazis and a lot of good Germans worked in
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Battle to save council jobs
JOBS are under threat and services could be cut as Rossendale Council has to find savings of £800,000. An all-party delegation from the council - supported by the borough's two MPs Greg Pope and Janet Anderson - is calling for a meeting with the Minister
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A lesson in friendship
YOUNGSTERS from Romania have been getting a first-hand taste of what life is like in an East Lancashire school. A party of eight teenagers from Eastern Europe are staying with families in the Rishton area and have spent several days at Norden High School
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400 jobs coup for Blackburn
A £5 MILLION investment bringing more than 400 jobs to Blackburn was today hailed as a major coup for the town. The move - the biggest of its kind for several years - is seen as further evidence that the M65 extension will breathe new life into the town's
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Ghost is Fred the phantom
FRED the phantom seems to be behind the ghoulish goings-on at a Blackburn nightspot. Since the story of the recent spooky activities at the main 'bubbles' bar at Utopia appeared in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, staff at the club say they have been
