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Treat your teeth properly
REGARDING your report 'Dentist turns away a patient in pain' (LET, June 27), I have been a regular patient at the dental practice of Christopher Lee and Simon Austin for many years and find them to be helpful, caring and accommodating. If you respect
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Bridge plunge escape
A TEN-year-old boy had a lucky escape after he plunged 15 feet backwards off a bridge and found he could not move. Neil Hodgkinson, of Tiverton Close, Blackburn, was detained in Blackburn Royal Hospital on Saturday night after the fall in Mill Hill Bridge
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Bovine bungling blamed for job losses
BOVINE bungling by the Government has already cost the country thousands of jobs, says Pendle MP Gordon Prentice. He blamed mishandling of the mad cow disease problem after demanding official figures from Agriculture minister Douglas Hogg. Mr Hogg told
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Robbery terror
A FAST FOOD restaurant manageress was recovering at home today from an ordeal after she was tied up by a robber with a squint. Police are appealing for anyone who might have seen the thief r who made off with hundreds of pounds after waiting until the
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10 YEARS AGO: Paper group wins battle
FAST-growing East Lancashire wall-covering group Coloroll, of Nelson, won its £14 million battle to buy out Staffordshire Potteries. The company announced it would issue nearly eight million new shares to raise £12.9 million to finance its expansion.
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CRICKET: Matt finish - CHURCH v COLNE
THE pre-match gloss focused on whether Colne's Australian professional Ben Johnson could become the first to the magical 1,000-run mark this season. But in the end, this game had a truly Matt finish..for it was Church's Aussie import Matthew Mott, who
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CRICKET: Oscar winner!
THE roar which greeted Ian Austin's selection as Gold Award winner said it all. One of Lancashire's most popular cricketers had earned national recognition at last - and the army of fans who had followed the Red Rose to Lord's were delighted. In the hour
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Take Diana's title off her
I REALLY must put pen to paper concerning Diana keeping her title. No way should she be allowed to do this. There seems to be no limit to what she will do to keep to keep in the public eye. If she is so keen to do charity work and be a representative
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Extra cash to watch out for chemical pollution
A GOVERNMENT grant of nearly £150,000 will help to monitor a pollution hot spot. The Department of the Environment has announced that Ribble Valley Council is to receive £147,200 to carry out a pilot scheme of air monitoring around the area, which includes
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Drunk on words
IS your correspondent (McVee, July 8) inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity? When he claims that none of Tony Blair's shadow cabinet - a title which he got wrong in any case - is at loggerheads, I can only assume that either he, or the information
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Call to bring Bosnian war rapists to justice
A FREELANCE journalist from East Lancashire is calling for Bosnian Serb soldiers to be brought to justice for the serial rape of dozens of women. Jean West has spoken out after a harrowing visit to the civil war hell-hole of the former Yugoslavia. Jean
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Pepper bandit strikes at off-licence
POLICE are hunting a robber who fled with £160 in off-licence takings after throwing pepper in a shop assistant's face. The robbery at Chapel Stores, Olive Lane, Darwen, is the second shop theft in three days in the town. In the latest incident an Italian-looking
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Where textiles lost out
TEXTILE workers and, in particular, the thousands who have lost their jobs under successive Tory Governments, should take note of the millions of pounds in compensation that the Government is prepared to hand out to the farming industry to deal with BSE
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Mountain bike rider's river bank rescue
A CYCLIST had to be rescued by firefighters after he fell while carrying his mountain bike over a stile. Neil Baxendale, 35, from Clitheroe, was riding near the banks of the River Ribble at West Bradford Bridge, Pimlico Road, and slipped when lifting
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Yobs terror at bowling green
TEENAGE bullies are terrorising a pensioners' bowling team by constantly hurling abuse at them as they play. Thugs as young as 11 and 12-years-old sit and shout at the B-team who play twice a week at Green Park bowling green in the Ewood area of Blackburn
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City go cool over striker Newell
INTEREST in Mike Newell from Birmingham City boss Trevor Francis seems to have gone off the boil. The First Division club first asked Blackburn Rovers about the striker a few weeks ago and were prepared to pay a fee of around £750,000 for him. But Francis
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Sex claims club chief suspended
A BOYS' Club chief at the centre of adultery claims has been suspended from duty by his bosses. Lancashire county council today confirmed that Jack Bottomley, long-serving leader of the 400-member Burnley Boys' Club, has been told to stay away from work
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Archbishop slaughtered
I THINK it was in 1990 that I wrote protesting about the way your paper verbally slaughtered Bishop George Carey the then Archbishop Elect of Canterbury. I asked for a fair chance for Bishop Carey to prove his worth. Then on Wednesday, June 26 last, the
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£38,000 between victims with loss of view
TEN householders are to receive £38,000 compensation between them for loss of value to their homes after a council planning blunder robbed them of a view. The residents of Avondale Road, Darwen, said their homes were reduced in value because of the planning
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5 YEARS AGO: Fire damages fun pub
FIRE swept through the upper floors of a Blackburn fun pub, causing extensive damage. Fire crews were called to Crackers in Regent Street, after a policeman spotted smoke coming through the upstairs windows. Mr Adrian Garner, pub landlord said: "The fire
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Appointments
John Bates has been appointed branch manager of electrical wholesaler Newey & Eyre's Burnley outlet. John has previously worked for the firm in Salford, Altrincham and Rochdale. Gill Culshaw, of Preston, has been appointed to head up the public relations
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CRICKET: Rishton set to make complaint
RISHTON are to make an official complaint to the Marsden BS Cricket League about playing conditions at Bacup yesterday where Allan Donald had another seven-wicket spree. There was much debate before the game about the state of the wicket and footholds
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Austin in the England frame
IAN Austin has bowled himself into contention for an England debut in the Texaco Trophy after his man of the match performance in Lancashire's Benson and Hedges Cup triumph on Saturday. Austin confirmed his position as Lancashire's most effective one-day
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Cemfuel controversy can now be nailed
UNDER AN otherwise cloudless sky, the view over the Ribble Valley this morning was marked by a grey-white cloud clinging low to the landscape for several miles. It was that of smoke from the Castle Cement works chimney at Clitheroe. It stood as a silent
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Young thugs should not be tolerated
IS THERE not a vexing snapshot of our sick and brutalised society in the report tonight of an East Lancashire pensioners' bowls team being plagued by teenage bullies - so much so that some of the old folk are now becoming too frightened to play? The list
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Council concerns dismissed
BURNLEY Council's concerns over lottery cash bids by private groups have been dismissed by National Heritage minister Iain Sproat. Councillors were angry that a major application for a new community centre in Daneshouse ward, made by the Asian Community
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Bomb car is found
POLICE believe they have found the getaway car used by the terrorists who planted the massive bomb that devastated Manchester. The red Ford Granada was found last Wednesday in the centre of Preston, in the same spot where it was left after the blast more
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£14m superhighway launched
A £14 MILLION scheme to help Lancashire firms join the information superhighway has been launched. A new partnership providing one of the best packages of technology and innovation services available in Europe has been formed under the North West Technology
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Tag kings in the park
SEVERAL thousand people turned out to cheer on their team at the annual kabbadi tournament. Spectators also enjoyed wrestling matches at Witton Park, Blackburn. Kabbadi, the national sport of Pakistan, is a game similar to tag with the 12 team members
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Dancing king
Danny Price literally dances his way through life and gets paid for it. CAROLINE SEPHTON meets the man with the muscles who has moved with Madonna. WHEN live wire dancer Danny Price explodes on to the podium at a Blackburn nightclub the girls go wild
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Search after school knife alert
PARENTS have been warned to be extra vigilant after a mother reported seeing a knifeman outside a primary school just days after the machete nursery attack in the Midlands. The parent immediately alerted the head of St Mary's RC School, Bacup, Michael
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Bambo cleared to join Clarets training
BOAVISTA striker Bambo's move to Turf Moor took a positive step forward today when the Portuguese under-21 star was cleared to join Burnley for pre-season training. Burnley boss Adrian Heath, who is also on the verge of announcing the capture of a midfield
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The Globe is Dorene's world
DORENE Jones has been appointed manager of the new £3.5 million Globe Centre due to open in Accrington later this summer. Dorene joins Globe Enterprises on long term secondment from Hyndburn Borough Council, where she has worked in the property services
