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Boulevard blues - again
HOORAY! At last the long-awaited Boulevard bus station has now been re-opened. So where do I find the bus for the popular Queen's Park Hospital route? No, not on the marvellous bus station with a shelter and seat, but further along Railway Road, outside
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BAe's community award
BRITISH Aerospace in Lancashire has won a top regional award for its service to the community. BAe Military Aircraft, which employs more than 11,000 at its sites at Samlesbury and Warton, won the 1996 North West Business in the Community private sector
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Race council shocker
LESS than a third of the organisations which held voting power on a troubled race harmony group had any right to be members, an official inquiry has revealed. Just 25 of the 87 affiliated groups on Burnley and Pendle Racial Equality Council met the membership
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CLARETS: Bold Brass is shining
Burnley 1 Bournemouth 0 - Tony Dewhurst's big match verdict THE bold figure of Chris Brass strode into the press room sporting a smile as wide as the Ribble Valley. And why the heck not. Because life is pretty rosy for the fearless Easington lad. Shown
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Leave time for travelling
ALTHOUGH I feel very sorry for the plight of Mrs M E Cook (LET, November 16), I cannot understand anybody leaving home at 12.35pm for a 1pm hospital appointment. We live approximately five miles from BRI but we would still have left home at 12.30pm to
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Work starts on £15m hospital scheme
WORK has begun on Burnley's £15 million hospital re-development scheme - a massive four year project which will take services at Burnley General into the new millennium. And already Health Trust chiefs are finalising plans for further £7 million improvements
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5 YEARS AGO: Pub under siege
ARMED police laid siege to a pub after a man was shot dead. Police sealed off a wide area of Accrington and surrounded the Britannia pub in Nuttall Street. A mother and her five children were left homeless after fire swept through their home. Susan Bretherton
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What's noise got to do with unitary status?
THE recent change in the law which will enable councils to crack down on noise nuisances received widespread approval. But Blackburn council appears to be dragging its heels on the grounds that the situation will be reviewed early next year as part of
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CLARETS: Heath's praise for skipper Swan
TURF Moor chief Adrian Heath today paid a warm tribute to Burnley's man-mountain Peter Swan. Swan was handed the captain's armband after skipper Nigel Gleghorn was substituted at half-time with a shoulder injury. And Heath reckons the big number five
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ICE HOCKEY: Hawks on the slide
Blackburn Hawks 4 Whitley Warriors 8 WHITLEY Warriors were late turning up...pity for Hawks that they bothered to show at all. It was "ice" on the roads out of the north east that delayed the in-form Warriors, but when they finally got their feet on the
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Crime cameras slammed for missing shop attack
A BUSINESSMAN has slammed a crime-busting camera system as "useless" after his shop was targeted by vandals for the ninth time in less that two years. Mr Peter Lawson, who owns Essentials by Panache operating from the former Broughton's premises in King
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CLARETS: King Kurt ends bets
CLARETS sharpshooter Kurt Nogan has shot bookmaker Bill Slinger in the foot! Goal-king Kurt, Paul Barnes and Nigel Gleghorn have given the bookie a bashing and led to his withdrawal from the betting booths at Turf Moor. The eight booths were closed for
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New move to win £50,000 crime camera cash
CRIME-cracking surveillance cameras could prove to be the perfect Christmas present for Darwen town centre if a new bid for cash is successful. Blackburn Council has submitted a second CCTV Challenge Scheme application totalling £50,000 to the Home Office
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ROVERS: Mission possible, declares Sutton
Nottingham Forest v Blackburn Rovers - Peter White's big match preview CHRIS Sutton is a man with a mission as he goes "home" tonight - and Blackburn Rovers' leading scorer believes it's far from impossible. Two victories this week, starting against Nottingham
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Town's 'pay more for less' fear
ALARM bells are already ringing in town hall offices over Government cash plans for next year. Council officers and councillors in Pendle fear that once again the message will be "pay more for less" leading to another round of belt-tightening when it
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10 YEARS AGO: Death toll 'unnecessary'
A HORRIFYING report revealed that nine out of ten people in Rossendale died unnecessarily the previous year. District medical officer of health Dr Peter Grime told members of the local council's environmental health committee that 93.1 per cent of deaths
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STANLEY: Director of football quits
Accrington Stanley 4 Witton Albion 1 BRENT Peters quit as director of football at Accrington Stanley prior to Stanley's 4-1 win over Witton Albion. Peters said that he felt frustrated in his position at the Crown Ground because he wanted to return to
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CRICKET: £100,000 boost for league
LANCASHIRE'S new cricket Premiership has won a £100,000 sponsorship deal from the Thwaites Brewery. It is a three-year agreement starting in the summer of 1998. The sponsorship was announced today by the Lancashire Cricket Board who will govern the Premier
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MOTORSPORT: Armin leads the Q!
Neil Johnson reports from the RAC Rally NIGEL Worswick was in sensational form on the Network Q RAC Rally, storming 41 places up the leader board to claim 10th spot overall after this morning's special stage 22 at Dyfi in Mid-Wales. The Blackburn engineer
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Not natural
LET nature take its course, was advice that we would once have heeded. Now, the scientists take over with genetic engineering. Are the scientists cleverer than nature? We only have to read the latest reports on the thinning of the ozone layer over our
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Let's get the French into the Euro court
THE French lorry drivers' blockade is hitting trade across the length and breadth of Europe. They are blocking key roads and ports in an effort to get better wages and earlier retirement. We have seen it all before. The French are quick to take to the
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World does not end at Preston boundary
IF you live in East or West Lancashire you will almost certainly not be reading the full details of the Lancashire police "performance indicators" which cover such things as response times and crime detection rates. This is because the police authority
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House blaze couple smash way to safety
A COUPLE smashed their way out of their home by throwing a chair through a window after a blaze filled the house with deadly black smoke in the early hours of this morning. A firefighter said it was fortunate that householder Patrick O'Callaghan, 30,
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Vital rape evidence saved from lab blaze
DETECTIVES have been relieved to learn that forensic evidence from one of the county's biggest rape inquiries escaped the blaze which badly damaged a science laboratory. Information from scores of criminal cases investigated by Lancashire police was put
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Morality of the sadistic
ISUPPOSE it is inevitable that in these feverish, pre-election days, Britain should suffer one of its periodic fits of moral panic. However, when people begin seriously to contemplate returns to barbarism in the name of discipline it is time to speak
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Cliff hangers: Dedicated fans who follow Peter Pan of pop
HEATHCLIFF, the musical, casts veteran pop star Sir Cliff Richard in the role of the brooding Bronte hero. And, despite being savaged by the critics, the show seems set to break all records, thanks to the enduring appeal of the perpetually youthful Bachelor
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Tory claims outrageous
IN his usual party political polemics Ribble Valley Tory MP Nigel Evans asks social security minister Oliver Heald to confirm that government policies would protect the incomes, through the basic state pension. Of that one third of pensioners who have
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Beware of bombs, shoppers warned
POLICE today launched a Christmas anti-terrorism campaign across Lancashire amid fears of violence during the run up to the festive period. The move, which follows a Metropolitan Police decision to increase security in London, has come as hopes of an
