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Limber up, step out and cash in!
INTREPID people across East Lancashire have been urged to take on the ultimate challenge. Organisers are hoping the Chairman's Challenge will provide a giant boost to the £1 million SuperScan appeal. SuperScan chairman Mike Trickett is encouraging people
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Tommy's torment
A DISTRAUGHT smallholder has lost his pet dog and thousands of pounds worth of horse riding equipment in an arson attack by yobs. Pippa the eight-year-old Jack Russell died inside the burning storage hut at the stables and farm complex - known as Tommy's
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ATHLETICS: The going gets tough
DAVE Lewis of Rossendale slumped to a time trial position of 15th in the Northumberland Castles Challenge All Terrain Marathon which worsened his overall classification to seventh after day three. Although the shortest of the eight stages, the one-mile
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MOTOR SPORT: Carl's Brands Hatch mission
CARL Fogarty is planning a repeat of his heroic deeds last season at Brands Hatch when the seventh round of the World Superbikes Championship takes place on Sunday. Over 50,000 fans celebrated a Foggy double on the spectacular track last year as the world
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CRICKET: Earby look for travel sickness cure
TITLE-CHASING Earby must improve their away record dramatically if they are to win the Vaux Ribblesdale League. That is the blunt assessment of Applegarth pro Jon Harvey on the eve of a difficult away tie to Gurinder Pal Singh's Ribblesdale Wanderers.
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CRICKET: Billy isn't bluffing
BILLY Stelling isn't bluffing when he says: "East Lancs don't deserve to win the league this season!" The popular professional will, of course, be trying his hardest to make sure the Marsden BS Lancashire Cricket League championship trophy finishes up
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Now we're giving it away
THE LATEST fat cats lapping the cream can hardly be blamed - for it has been poured into their laps courtesy of Tory ideology. They are the bosses and staff of a trains leasing company which bought out the firm from British Rail and just six months later
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Good outweighs bad
AT TIMES it seems that the bad outweighs the good in this world. But, when you look under the surface, you realise that this is not so. Consider the case of Tommy Talbot and his smallholding in Mill Hill in Blackburn. For years the pensioner has had to
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Why can't they just give us the facts?
ANOTHER twist in the BSE scare - now it is admitted that cows can pass on the disease to their calves. That is what scientists have found out. But though this is a new and nasty discovery in the Mad Cow saga, there is something already familiar about
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College tutors set to strike
ANGRY lecturers at Accrington and Rossendale College were considering strike action at an emergency mass meeting today. The move comes in the wake of the announcement that over 340 part-time lecturers face the stark choice of signing up with an employment
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School kid in post office raid
TWO teenage villains - one a schoolboy playing truant - have been detained for a bungled hooded raid on a Barnoldswick post office. The duo, James Hamilton Cooper, 16, and Anthony Myers, 17, watched a second-rate video about a robbery, and fancied themselves
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Come and see disgrace of cobbles
REGARDING the bid by residents of Finsbury Place, Ewood, to retain their heritage by keeping the cobbles in their street (Letters, July 2), I and other residents of Bonsall Street wish that someone from the council would walk down our street. The pavements
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New police chief's feet under the table
PENDLE'S new police chief has said he is looking forward to the new challenge of running one of the largest divisions in the county. Superintendent Clive Helliwell has taken responsibility for policing the Colne division from Superintendent Peter Rawstrone
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Members back home in own club - Paradise
IT will be Paradise Regained for drinkers when a blaze-hit working men's club re-opens tonight. Fire swept the Paradise WMC in Burnley, gutting the games room and lounge and causing more than £130,000 damage a month ago. Since then, contractors have been
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Rovers start life after Shearer
RAY Harford and the Blackburn Rovers squad will welcome the chance to put the Alan Shearer saga well behind them at Layer Road tomorrow when they make their first appearance in public against Colchester United. A week of sensational action and reaction
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Road safety campaign given Labour backing
A LABOUR pledge to look at making the driving test tougher has been welcome by East Lancashire road safety campaigner Anne Ravenhill. Mrs Ravenhill, of Brunshaw Avenue, Burnley, has attracted national attention through her 'Learn to Live' campaign, which
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Masters of the Glen
IMPRESSIVE BURNLEY thrashed Ulster Cup holders Glentoran in Belfast as their pre-season plans stepped up another gear. And this most convincing of wins takes their Northern Ireland goal tally to an impressive 13, with none conceded. The Clarets dominated
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Nurses pay rise pitiful
IN February this year, I wrote in dismay at the paltry pay increase given to nurses and stated what everyone knew - that the suggested local 'top-up' was likely to be minuscule, despite the Government's rhetoric that it would equate to all other professions
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Shearer signs as tax man says goodbye
AFTER 40 years service, Mike Hodkinson has stepped down from a job which made him the person everyone loves to hate. And if the fact that he was Pendle's top tax man wasn't bad enough, Mike is also a keen Blackburn Rovers fan! He retired as Pendle District
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10 YEARS AGO: 'Bombed' from bridge
A COLNE man escaped injury when his car was 'bombed' from an M-way bridge. Francis Heyes, 31, of Talbot Street, Colne, was driving on the M65 motorway when four boys threw an object from the bridge at Lomeshaye interchange, Nelson. It smashed the windscreen
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5 YEARS AGO: Gunman on the rampage
A GUNMAN was on the loose after three young men were shot in a street disturbance early today. Armed police had been drafted into Burnley after the three men, all Asians, were taken to hospital with what the police described as 'serious' injuries. Two
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SHOWJUMPING: Billington needs lift-off
GEOFF Billington must pick himself up for Sunday's individual final in Atlanta after Britain's showjumping team slumped to their worst Olympic result for 36 years. In the stifling humidity, the damage was done in a disastrous opening round which left
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Bus care
I WOULD like to thank the bus driver and lady passenger on the Blackburn to Spring Vale route for their care and concern following my accident on Thursday, July 18. I am most grateful. EILEEN BARNES, Isherwood Street, Blackburn. Converted for the new
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Pleased to oblige
I AM writing to thank you very much for helping to keep the plight of Paul Wells in the minds of your readers by continuing to print his portrait on the front pages of your newspaper. It is highly commendable, especially as no news has been heard of Paul
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From another planet!
WHERE has Walt Meadows (Letters, July 18) been for the last 18 years? In those Tory years, millions of people have been thrown out of work, again and again. In those Tory years, everyone with some sort of job has been scared stiff of losing their very
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Kids' champ on his bike
LONG-distance cyclist Maurice Fisher aims to clock up £1,000 to help youngsters with leukaemia. The 30-year-old children's champion is tackling a 240-mile sponsored bike ride from Oswaldtwistle to the world-famous Great Ormond Street children's hospital
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Overson's emotional Turf Moor return
BIG Vince Overson has turned his back on a lucrative Stoke City testimonial to sign for Burnley. Overson becomes Adrian Heath's third major signing at Turf Moor today when the 34-year-old puts pen to paper on a two-year deal. And Overson immediately links
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Get tough on crime
I THINK we have a futile sentencing system in this country. Crime is an ever-increasing problem in our society. It's always been there and always will be. But as far as I'm concerned enough is enough. How many more innocent children are going to be murdered
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Hands of Nick warn Boro
MIDDLESBROUGH have again slammed the door firmly shut on any suggestions that Nick Barmby could be on his way to Blackburn Rovers. There is known to be a long-standing Ewood interest in Barmby but a Boro spokesman said: "It's just pure speculation, Nick
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Wiped-out! Blunder zaps NI numbers
HUNDREDS of forgotten teenagers could face "immigrant" style interviews to obtain their National Insurance numbers after being wiped from the Contributions Agency computer. The blunder was brought to light by the case of 16-year-old Rishton student Graeme
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I'll see thi' in God's county!
THOUSANDS of "exiled" Tykes woke this morning to find themselves back in God's own county - unofficially at least. West Craven has been caught in the middle of a new twist to the latest War of the Roses. Former England bowler Fred Trueman yesterday unveiled
