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Blair challenge
TORY MPs and candidates have been assured that in their election addresses to constituents they will be allowed to declare their opposition to a single currency. Tony Blair has challenged the Prime Minister to force his Euro-doubters to toe the party
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Hard work brings a roomy reward
WHEN organisers at Earby's much-used community centre decided it needed a major facelift, they took up the challenge with a vengeance and raised the necessary £42,000 within a year. The result was the official opening of the Centenary Room - previously
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Victim of an evil gang
A HORRIFIED pensioner looked on helplessly as her 88-year-old husband was kicked to the floor and spat on by youths who burst into the couple's home. Four youths smashed through the front door of Norah and Harold Wood's house in the Audley Range area
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Mart is shut to animal demo
PROTESTERS against live exports and calf processing held a demonstration outside Haslingden Auction Mart - when it was closed. More than 30 campaigners from Blackburn, Preston and Bolton arrived on Saturday morning with placards and banners to highlight
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ICE HOCKEY: Hawks Cook up double treat
Altrincham 9 Blackburn Hawks 10; Blackburn Hawks 8 Castlereagh Knights 2 JIM Pennycook helped Blackburn Hawks notch up a double helping of ice hockey stick this weekend with home and away wins. Pennycook, out since last year with damaged ankle ligaments
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In a sweat
MY daughter attends Darwen Moorland school and my son attends QEGS. Each has a uniform sweater which has not seen the light of day because their schools are so warm that they would feel uncomfortable. If the heat was reduced, school costs would be reduced
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What's wrong with being happy in church?
THE former Archbishop of Canterbury's criticism of "rave in the nave" services has left the Church of England divided. Lord Runcie attacked modern services and appealed to the church to hold on to traditional forms of worship. He warned against turning
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CLARETS: Don't write us off - Gleghorn
DEFIANT Turf Moor skipper Nigel Gleghorn has warned Burnley's Second Division rivals: 'Write us off at your peril.' Burnley's promotion hopes were dealt a hefty blow as the Clarets crashed to a shock 2-1 defeat to strugglers York City at Turf Moor. Gleghorn
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Policeman attacked during Eid 'scuffles'
A POLICEMAN was assaulted as tension mounted between Asian youths during the annual Eid celebrations. The officer was kicked and punched as police tried to break up scuffles between gangs of Indian and Pakistani youths. Police had been called after hundreds
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Fresh enviro controls for cement firm
A MOVE by environmental watchdogs to clampdown on plume grounding at Clitheroe's Castle Cement has been welcomed by campaigners. The Environment Agency's announcement comes as a team of experts start to examine the results of recent air quality monitoring
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CLARETS: Is time right to plunge into transfer market?
Burnley 1 York City 2 - Tony Dewhurst's big match verdict IS IT time for the Turf Moor board of directors to back Adrian Heath further in the transfer market? That's a loaded question as Burnley's Division Two season reaches its defining moment. Yet that
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'Begging' not new
AFTER reading my Evening Telegraph (February 4) I can only assume that there must have been a distinct shortage of credible editorial material on that day. I refer to the article about Labour councillor Bill Taylor receiving a letter from Brian Mawhinney
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Family are rescued in house fire drama
FIREFIGHTERS rescued a family through a bedroom window as smoke engulfed their home. Householder Matthew Thompson, 25, smashed the window and called neighbours for help when he, his partner Gillian Taylor and three-year-old daughter Isobella were trapped
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Hostage's family snub Oyston cash offer
THE family of student hostage Paul Wells today rejected an offer by jailed tycoon Owen Oyston to pay for a mercy mission to Kashmir. The convicted rapist offered to finance the £3,000 cost of a spring quest to discover the fate of Paul, 25, and his three
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10 YEARS AGO: Boffins baffle county
LANCASHIRE'S nuclear boffins were rapped over the knuckles for blinding people with science. They were asked for an explanation of terms used in reports on radiation levels across the county. Blackburn councillors issued the 'could do better' verdict
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5 YEARS AGO: Boss's bank protest
COMPANY boss Ian Sultana hit back at the NatWest Bank with a doorstep protest. The managing director's one-man demonstration took place outside the King William Street branch, Blackburn. He claimed a change in the bank's lending policy resulted in his
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Slim majority means they have to listen
HOME secretary Michael Howard is to modify the Government's plans on bugging. He has agreed that intrusive surveillance operations must be approved in advance by independent commissioners. Following talks with Jack Straw, Shadow Home Secretary and MP
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Major facelift for shopping street
CONSTRUCTION work on a major facelift of Blackburn's main shopping street will get under way next week. The builders will move in on Monday, February 17, but shoppers will still be able to get to shops in King William Street. The firm who carried out
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Labour hits back in councils debt row
A COUNCIL chief today rubbished claims that Labour-controlled local authorities have run up massive debts. Figures released by Conservative MP Steven Norris for March 1996 put Blackburn, Burnley and Hyndburn in the North West's list of top ten debtors
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New doctors end crisis
HEALTH chiefs have averted a casualty crisis by filling all their junior doctor vacancies. Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust has struggled to attract young medics during the past two years, owing to a national shortage of doctors wanting
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Market your firm and win a top new award
DOES your company pride itself on the way it markets its products or uses sales promotion techniques? If so why not get your achievements recognised by entering the Lancashire Evening Telegraph 1997 East Lancashire Business Awards. A new category has
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Euro elections will be a waste
IN your columns a Euro MP Mark Hendrick, asserts his belief in a single currency. I, and I'm sure many others, would rather support the views of fellow Labour Llew Smith, Labour MP for Blaenan, Gwent. I quote: "Among its many effects, a single currency
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Simon's walk is a real scream!
SPOOKY whisperings and blood-curdling screams are used by sound mimicker Simon Entwistle to animate a new ghost trail in the Ribble Valley. Clitheroe man Simon, whose talent has been used on TV and radio, has turned ghosthunter in and around Clitheroe
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Halls 'should unite for the hills'
A TOURISM chief has urged council bosses to join forces with other town halls in a scheme to promote Lancashire hill country. Ribble Valley Council are being urged to rejoin the Lancashire Hill Country Consortium by county tourism chairman Roy Lewis.
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Lecturers' strike to disrupt college
LECTURERS have voted for all-out strike action which could disrupt Accrington and Rossendale College. Members of the lecturers' union NATFHE elected to halt work in a ballot at the Sandy Lane site, Accrington, on Friday. But the result was so close that
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Question of sex
THE POSTER is typically frank. There was a young couple from Kent, Who spent the weekend in a tent, He got an erection, But had no protection, So she picked up her bags and went. Similar safe sex messages adorn the walls of the Brook Advisory Centre,
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BAe workers misled on visit by Portillo
I WAS pleased to read (LET, January 30) that the Defence Secretary Michael Portillo has at last found time to tour British Aerospace at Samlesbury. It was, however, disappointing that he chose to turn his visit to the Ribble Valley into a party political
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French collection for thrifty savers
FRENCH-born Regine Simpson has become a saving group's first employee. Soaring membership increased pressure on the band of volunteers who run Nelson Community Credit Union to the point where they needed to employ someone to help collect money and keep
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Did fierce warrior women roam here?
A BATTLE of the sexes has broken out over suggestions that a fearsome tribe of warrior women roamed the Ribble Valley more than 1,800 years ago. It was sparked by the discovery on the Russian Steppes of graves of female warriors believed to be the Amazons
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ROVERS: Citko deal looks set to go through
BLACKBURN Rovers hope to wrap up the move of Polish star Marek Citko within the next week, despite scare stories that Arsenal have joined the chase. There has been speculation in the national newspapers that the Gunners are about to try and pinch the
