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Let your MP explain
REGARDING the readers' comments under the headline "MPs' noses in the trough" and the pictures of three of East Lancashire's Labour representatives (Letters, July 16), it seems to have escaped people's notice that Conservative MPs accepted the deal and
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Foundry puts down roots
A FOUNDRY has won a top national green award. Ouzledale Foundry in Barnoldswick won an award under the Brightsite Campaign which aims to help small and medium-sized companies improve their working environments. The foundry, helped by Groundwork East Lancashire
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Speedy crooks target trucks
TRUCK firms are being targeted by quicksilver thieves who can change a vehicle's identity or strip it down before the owners even notice it has been stolen. The speedy crooks, estimated to cost Britain's truckers £600 million a year, are thought able
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Disco boosts scanner appeal
REVELLERS raised the roof - and the SuperScan Appeal total - with a disco at Hoddlesden Conservative Club. Organisers Debra Wood and Gill Whitcher presented their cheque for £500 to Ian Ashton, Darwen chairman of the SuperScan Appeal who gave them a silver
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Holiday warning
MY advice to anyone making a private holiday booking is to be careful. My wife and I, both pensioners, decided on a caravan holiday in Wales. One we saw advertised in a national newspaper seemed suitable and we phoned the owner to make a booking. On arriving
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Biker killed in horror smash
A MOTORCYCLIST was killed in a horror crash in front of shocked stallholders at a car boot sale. The accident happened near the Coronation Arms on the A59 at Bracewell, near Gisburn, when the motorcycle collided with a car at 7.40am yesterday. The 31-
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MOTOR SPORT: Barton 13th in Grand Prix
HODDLESDEN rider Darren Barton finished 13th in the 125cc British Grand Prix at Donington yesterday. The race was won by Barton's Aprilia team-mate Stefan Perugini from Italy in 43:41.67. Barton's finishing time on a track he knows well was 44:23.13,
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MOTOR SPORT: Hodgson claims third spot
BURNLEY'S Neil Hodgson enjoyed his first podium as he finished third in the first race of the sixth round of the World Superbike Championship at the Laguna Seca circuit near Monterey, California. Blackburn's Carl Fogarty finished eighth in the first race
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CRICKET: Lancs slump to five-wicket defeat
LANCASHIRE are heading for one of their worst-ever Sunday League seasons. Yesterday's five-wicket defeat by Derbyshire at Old Trafford was their fourth in succession, and their fifth out of six, and leaves them fifth from bottom of the table. Lancashire's
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CRICKET: Ribblesdale title race wide open
THE chase for top spot in the Vaux Ribblesdale League has been blown wide open after a double-header weekend which left just 11 points between the top six clubs. Barnoldswick looked to have taken a stranglehold on the league with an emphatic victory over
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Saint not to be ignored
THE great apostle St Paul, in his letter to the Romans, condemns homosexuality. He was the first and greatest theologian and what he wrote on Christian doctrine is for all time. Everyone should read this profound letter. Many high churchmen have changed
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Classy chassis light up annual show
CLASSIC cars congregated at Hoghton Tower for Lancashire's largest- ever vehicle display. Around 750 vehicles, 400 individuals and others representing 30 clubs throughout the country attended the sixth annual Lancashire Classic Event. Vehicles ranging
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CRICKET: Stelling a march (East Lancs 164-5, Ramsbottom 138)
ALTHOUGH this Meadows clash brought together the two teams immediately behind Rishton in the table, it often had the feel of watching those early starters on the final day of the Open. Entertaining and competitive it may have been, but there was a constant
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Be aware of liver disease
AS a result of the letter you published about National Liver Awareness Week, the British Liver Trust has been able to help hundreds more people with liver disease. Our information line received four times the number of calls it normally does and we sent
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Yen to be a pen friend
A LOT of young Japanese people want penpals from Britain. Our club is one of the biggest correspondence societies in Japan. It was established in 1950 to promote friendly relations and cultural exchange with countries. Would you please write to us? We
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'Corrie' stars in rematch
CORONATION Street's Kevin Webster, alias actor Mike Le Vell, will be among a star-studded team of players kicking off for charity in a tense rematch against football heroes from the past. Other stars from Coronation Street, Brookside and Hollyoaks will
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Thief's soggy escape
A MASKED, knife-wielding robber was forced to leap into a canal and drop most of his stolen haul after a brave butcher gave chase. Police, whose underwater search team recovered the stolen store cash box from the Leeds-Liverpool canal, were hunting the
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Flowerbed destroyed
A PARK suffered its worse attack of vandalism in memory, according to council officials. Wreckers tore up the showpiece flowerbed containing 1,400 plants at Darwen's Bold Venture Park. Mr John Firth, Blackburn Council's principal assistant for parklands
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CRICKET: 'Half Nelson' puzzle (Todmorden 162, Nelson 218-8)
WHEN you catch Nelson on one of their better days, as Todmorden did, the mystery deepens as to why such a capable team has spent most of this season languishing in the lower reaches of the table. Tipped by many to be chief contenders for Rishton's crown
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How can these cracks be papered over?
PARLIAMENT is poised for its long summer break, but there is no holiday at all for the government's damage-control crew - as yet again the issue of Europe exposes the deep Tory rifts. For if the speculation proves true that John Major is set to lose a
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Party funding should be an open book
MORE sleaze allegations trouble the Tories today - over a fund-raising club whose members pay thousands of pounds to dine with ministers, including Premier John Major. But what is on the menu may be somewhat different from the stated opportunities for
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'You have Aids' letter slammed as 'sick'
AIDS workers in East Lancashire have blasted a 'sick joke' letter which tells people they have the killer virus. The letter was handed in to the HIV Prevention Team in Blackburn by a horrified member of the public. It claims to be from the Manchester
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Nothing's too unusual for Supply Network
KATHRYN Czaja and her team are getting used to dealing with pretty strange requests from companies looking to buy products. "So far we've had people asking for everything from red plastic noses for Comic Relief Day to pig's ears!" said Kathryn who runs
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Mum's bargain buy saves Jane
PRETTY Jane Danson was almost scarred for life after riding her bike into the path of a car. But ten-year-old Jane was saved by a cycle helmet that her mother, Jill, had bought hours earlier at a car boot sale. Jane, of Ribchester Road, Wilpshire, broke
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Organ donors gave them a new lease of life
THIRTY-SIX thousand balloons were being released into the skies over Britain today - each one representing an organ transplant operation which has taken place over past 25 years. The balloon release, marking the launch of National Transplant Week, is
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Police attitude a crime
AFTER reading your 'Opinion' on police attitudes to young thugs (LET, July 15), I am writing to tell of my experience. Our area has been plagued for years by young people, so, seeking some preventive action, I wrote to the police through my MP Jack Straw
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Young rider's hit and run horror
A HIT and run driver is being sought by police after he ran into a teenage girl riding her horse in Belthorn Road, Guide. Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Lambert and the horse were left with badly bruised legs after the accident on Friday evening. Susanna
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Fishing line threat to wildlife
AN animal lover has appealed to anglers not to discard hazardous fishing lines - a potential deathtrap for wildlife. Mrs June Eddleston made the appeal after a second cygnet became entangled in fishing line on the canal at Rishton in less than a week.
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Shearer in clear-the-air talks
ALAN Shearer will be back in full training with Blackburn Rovers next Monday and is set to talk about the summer of transfer speculation with Ewood chairman Robert Coar at the weekend. But Rovers stressed today that, as far as they were concerned, nothing
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Heath closes in on German targets
ADRIAN Heath is closing in on the two German targets he would like to bring to England with a view to adding more signings to his squad which is now starting to take shape. It's a similar move to the "loan" deal which has brought Portuguese star Bambo
