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Recipe for disaster
THE British people are assured by the Labour leadership that its 390,000 members are united in support of Mr Blair and the policies he and his close advisers have imposed on the party. For Labour activists have sent in dozens of critical resolutions for
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Jill's made up with bike challenge
MAKE-up artist Jill Brindle will leave her lotions and potions behind when she goes Down Under to represent Britain in the world mountain biking championships. Jill, 30, from Tockholes, will be concentrating more on tyres and pedals than blushers and
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ABBEY HABIT!
NOTHING quite lifts the confidence like a few goals going in and Blackburn Rovers got the habit back at the Abbey Stadium last night. It was just the sort of workout manager Ray Harford wanted - a fast, open game against Third Division Cambridge United
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Don't be fooled by 'smoothie' Blair
LABOUR has changed since the Eighties, but it has got rid of one set of dangerous policies and substituted them with another. In the 1980s, Labour wanted to withdraw from Europe, abandon the nuclear deterrent that guaranteed our security and wreck the
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Take a bike ride through history
IN March, 1997, Mencap is staging a sponsored Nile Bike Ride, which will involve 150 volunteers bike riding for 500 km through 3,000 years of history - along the Egyptian river Nile. Participants are asked to pay a registration fee of £200, and will need
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Stamp of approval for post service
CUSTOMERS think they get a first-class postal service, according to a new poll which puts the Royal Mail at the top of a 1996 league of public services. Eighty one per cent of people nationally are satisfied with the speed of postal deliveries, says a
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5 YEARS AGO: Nursing home closed
A SHOWPIECE nursing home was up for sale after receivers were called in. High interest rates and bad timing for opening the project were being blamed for 'continuing financial difficulties' at the Langho Centre, near Clitheroe. "The nursing home employs
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5 YEARS AGO: POLICE and community leaders urged calm today after new trouble flared in the streets b
Two shop windows were smashed and police made three arrests as crowds gathered along Devonport Road. A large police presence remained in the area throughout the night but there were no further incidents. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000.
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10 YEARS AGO: NO SMOKING notices were going up throughout the council offices in Pendle after counci
The personnel committee voted to outlaw smoking in offices throughout the borough and decided that they could even be breaking the law by allowing people to smoke at work. A report said that although people had the right to smoke, non-smokers must have
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Kick in teeth for Britain
HOW'S this for another kick in the teeth for British industry? A large proportion of the operating stock running on what's left of our railway network has been purchased by a Canadian railway company. So the profits generated by what is now known as the
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Police chief in military move
POLICE chief Pauline Clare helped end a six-month military operation involving troop movements across the county when she re-opened an army cadet drill hall. Commanders of the Haslingden Detachment of the Army Cadet Force have been transporting members
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Legal eagle query
WOULD some legal eagle kindly explain to me why four people boast of having broken into private premises and destroying equipment worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, apart from possibly jeopardising an export order worth millions of pounds, can be
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CRICKET: YATES IN CONTENTION
GARY YATES is in line for his first Championship appearance of the season against Surrey at Southport tomorrow. Yates has been an ever-present in one-day cricket, but is included in the four day squad ahead of Gary Keedy for the first time. Lancashire
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A Lott to tie the knott
HOLDING wedding ceremonies in the magnificent setting of Towneley Hall. Burnley, looks like remaining something of a lottery, museum chiefs have been told. The investment in new facilities, licence fees and staff time, would be considerable, museum officers
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Bobby's 40th a Barnes stormer
CHEERS: Graham with Mary (right) and first sales Janet Brooks BEAT bobby Graham Davies hoped a holiday in Holland would put friends off the scent of his 40th birthday. But his Dutch departure was no match for Singer's army store branch manager Mary Barnes
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New party for old
OVER the years I have been a floating voter, voting for whoever I thought would do their best for the community at large, and I have been bitterly disappointed. It would appear that once MPs get their feet under the table, they look after themselves.
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Mum and baby bond
IAM doing research into the possibility of mother-baby bonds when a baby is being breastfed. Far from being far-fetched and fanciful, there is some evidence to suggest that even when parted from her baby, a breastfeeding mother has a 'let down flex,'
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Heath checks out
ADRIAN Heath has switched his attention to Malawi international defender Walter Manta And Manta made his Clarets bow as a second half substitute at the Deva Stadium last night as Burnley went down 2-0 against Chester. "He's over here on a short trial
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THERE'S NO PRESSURE SAYS GOAL HERO GALLY
KEVIN GALLACHER scored the first goal by a Blackburn Rovers striker since Alan Shearer's £15 million single ticket to Tyneside and dismissed all talk of pressure on the attackers who remain behind at Ewood. "I don't think there's any pressure at all,"
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UNLIKE MURPHY, HEATH IS BITTER!
BURNLEY survived 450 minutes and a week of Ulster rough and tumble without leaking a goal. But it took Third Division Chester just 180 seconds to breach the Clarets rearguard action at the Deva Stadium last night. The defensive unit which kept Coleraine
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Council officer is suspended
A SENIOR officer at Hyndburn council has been suspended from his job after being escorted from his office. Town hall chiefs have not given a reason for the move but an inquiry is expected to be carried out in coming weeks. The senior officer, who is not
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Undertaker 'cheated' over OAP's cremation
Conman cashed policies and kept the money A CONMAN,who had a pensioner cremated with no intention of paying the undertaker's bill, walked free from court. Single father of two Brian Fleming, who had been the executor of the late Albert Bolton's will,
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Card fraudsters target part-time staff
CARD fraudsters are preying on inexperienced part-time staff taken on in East Lancashire shops during the busy summer period, store bosses have been warned. Fraud on plastic cards is expected to cost more than £9.6 million this summer. And thieves using
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Advice offer
IT is estimated that more than 650,000 people in the UK have some form of dementia such as Alzheimer's Disease. Many are older people, but not all. Caring for someone with dementia can be very stressful and isolating. Counsel and Care, a national advice
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MOTOR SPORT: Foggy quashes reports
CARL Fogarty today quashed reports linking him with a £1million return to Ducati next season. And he also denied any firm plans to retire from motor cycling at the end of 1997. The 30-year-old Blackburn ace is nursing his wounds in his Tockholes home
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No stopping 'fat cats'
FOR Walt Meadows (Letters, July 30) to describe all that has gone on since privatisation as hiccups and dissatisfaction with some of the management, has got to be the understatement of the decade. None of these industries has adhered to rules and regulations
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Rail line wins over cars
THE number of passengers using the Clitheroe Railway Line has outstripped original forecasts. And an exhibition has been opened in the town's county information centre to show local people the results of a recent survey, and encourage others to use the
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Grief of finger horror victim
A TEENAGER who lost two fingers in a horrific accident at work has been told he cannot receive sick pay. Raven Engineering (Pressings) Limited have denied payments to 18-year-old Andrew Griffin whose middle, index and tip of his ring finger were sliced
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Ripping yarns
SPINNERS Florence Hargreaves and Dorothy Waring are so crazy about their craft that they chased a Spanish herdsman across an idyllic hillside for the wool off his sheep's backs. The two "mad" Lancashire women appeared on the horizon and began running
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Imports have pubs in a froth
A FLOOD of foreign beers could soon be sampled in East Lancashire pubs if Eurocrats haul the Government before the EU court. Britain has been urged to abolish its rules which restrict the sale of guest beers in UK pubs. The European Commission claims
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Bus wars firms in secret talks
TWO bus companies at war on the road are in secret talks about the possibility of a joint future, it was revealed today. Hyndburn Council chief executive Mike Chambers admitted today that negotiations are taking place with Rossendale Transport about a
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Yobs' park plants boob
THIEVES who stole hundreds of plants from an Accrington park have got a useless haul on their hands. For the second time in less than a month wreckers have targeted Hyndburn's floral displays. And in the latest incident raiders struck at Oak Hill Park
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10 YEARS AGO: Safety officer injured
A HEALTH and safety expert needed stitches in his arm after testing the controversial water flume at a new leisure pool, it was revealed today. Blackburn Council health and safety officer Alan Haworth flew out of the flume with blood pouring from a cut
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CRICKET: Lever in quit threat shock
ENGLAND'S build-up to the crucial Headingley Test was marred today by a report that Peter Lever was on the brink of quitting as the side's bowling coach. Lever was said to be upset about David Lloyd's innovative ideas to lift team spirit - such as rock
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GOLF: Furey's spectacular run
GED Furey produced a spectacular run of ace, birdie, birdie on the final three holes at Hesketh to propel Pleasington into the Lombard Top Club final. Pleasington's professional, partnered by amateur Geoff Wilson, staged his last gasp shoot-out to pip
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EU ruling could ruin our pubs
IN ANOTHER instance of Brussels' urge to overrule UK law, the European Commission is intent on forcing draught continental lager into our pubs - though the upshot may be the death-knell for many smaller British breweries. The dispute is over our law which
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Postal workers should think on the miners
THE IMMEDIATE impact of the government's one-month suspension of the Post Office's monopoly on mail deliveries in response to the postal unions' new series of one-day strikes is bound to be minimal. But the lasting consequence could be that which the
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£3.6m benefit fraud shock
FRAUD officers targeted take-aways in Burnley to bag dole fiddlers feeding on benefit hand-outs while working. Benefit agency chiefs say the successful swoop was part of a campaign in which they uncovered £3.6 million of benefit cheating in the town over
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Postal service grinds to halt
AS POSTAL services ground to a halt in East Lancashire today Royal Mail bosses urged union bosses to let workers vote on a settlement package. Despite the Government announcement of a one month suspension of the monopoly no local companies appeared to
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All-night club planned
A NIGHTCLUB owner is planning to bring dancers back to town and away from city venues with regular all-night events. Andy Wright, owner of Kazy's in Wellington Fold, Darwen, said the town was losing out to Bolton, Liverpool and Manchester as nightclubbers
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Row erupts over 'false allegations'
COUNTY Council leader Louise Ellman has accused Blackburn Council of making false allegations in a row over co-operation. Coun Ellman today denied claims from Blackburn that the county was 'refusing all contact' in the run-up to the transfer of services
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Steer clear of kidnap region warning
TOURISTS are now largely heeding warnings to steer clear of the Indian region where Blackburn student Paul Wells was kidnapped, officials have revealed. The news came as the partners of two of Paul's fellow hostages reached the Indian summer capital of
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REGARDING the comments by Conservative MPs Robert Atkins (LET, July 4) and Nigel Evans (LET, July 22
Rather than assuming what will happen after the next General Election they should tell the people the truth - what has happened in the last 17 years, with the Tories in office. Didn't they say: Don't vote Labour; they'll bang taxes up but we'll bring
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Straw will split Tories over handgun ban vote
BLACKBURN MP Jack Straw is plotting to split the Tories over demands for a ban on handguns and hopes to turn it into a general election issue. He is masterminding Labour plans to use demands for a handgun ban to embarrass the government. Public opinion
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Mayor 'sorry' for disabled snub
DISABLED drivers who felt they had been snubbed by the Mayor of Burnley at a carnival have been promised a visit. Tony Palmer, executive committee member of the East Lancashire group of the Disabled Drivers' Association, said: "We couldn't get a float
