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Valley's Christmas a big switch-off
ANGRY Rossendale shopkeepers will not dip into their tills to pay for Christmas lights in the Valley, a traders boss has insisted. Rossendale Council has pulled the plug on festive lights in Haslingden, Rawtenstall and Bacup as part of a cost-cutting
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Bouquet for Boulevard
BLACKBURN Council has been the target for quite a number of brickbats in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph recently, particularly from motorists. May I, therefore, offer a bouquet - as a pedestrian? Living on an estate adjoining the northern section of
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New laws 'open way for a Titan repeat'
INVESTORS could be hit by a repeat of the £17 million Titan 'scam' which hammered scores of Lancashire people in the pocket, a trading standards boss has predicted. The county's chief trading standards officer Jim Potts has slammed new laws introduced
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Union pledges to fight Tenneco job cutback
UNIONS will fight to try to reduce the numbers to go in Burnley's latest jobs blow. Car exhaust makers Tenneco-Walker (UK) Ltd added to Burnley's redundancy gloom by announcing that 69 from the 251-strong workforce face redundancy. The company hopes that
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5 YEARS AGO: Election date named
PRIME Minister John Major named the General Election date as April 9. He went to Buckingham Palace to get the go-ahead from the Queen to dissolve Parliament. Mr Major acted after public urgings from Chancellor Norman Lamont, who warned that continuing
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10 YEARS AGO: Birth 'meant to be'
A ROMAN Catholic mother defended her right to have a test-tube baby and said her four-month-old daughter was 'meant to be.' Mrs Pauline Livesey and her husband, Peter, from Blackburn, turned to a test-tube clinic after trying for eight years for another
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Measuring up
THEY'RE pulling a fast one down at the pub, serving short-measure pints galore and robbing drinkers of a staggering £1million a day, according to research today. Nationwide, says the real ale consumer group CAMRA, eight out of 10 pubs are at it. And,
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Important ray of light in our classrooms
AS the first primary school league tables were published today, Education Secretary Gillian Shephard proclaimed that the results would "shine a bright light into every classroom in the land." Nearer the truth is that they send in only a narrow beam, giving
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Injured horse girl rescued from woods
A TEENAGER who fell from her horse at an isolated beauty spot was plucked to safety by a mountain rescue team. Camille O'Donnell, 14, of Lynthorpe Road, Blackburn, toppled from her horse on the outskirts of Tockholes Woods, nearly two miles off Tockholes
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Cowboy workmen rip off pensioners
POLICE are warning elderly householders to be on their guard for workmen offering to resurface their paths and drives for a discounted price. Pensioners in Blackburn have been conned into paying several hundred pounds for work which has turned out to
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RACING: King's day at Festival
KONVEKTA King will strive for his fourth successive win over jumps tomorrow when the Rossendale horse takes part in the Cheltenham festival. The nine-year-old gelding runs in the Mildmay of Flete Challenge Cup Handicap Chase over two and a half miles.
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Take time out
REGARDING your article, 'Minister hits out at politicians' (LET, March 1), our children must be taught in childhood the basic Christian principle: 'Love one another' and all that goes with it. We all need to take an hour or two out of our busy lives to
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Out of context
REGARDING the first of the reports by Bill Jacobs referring to Freemasonry and the events in the so-called 'boxing night' assault case at Blackburn (LET, February 26), he has obviously taken the context from the original information reported in your newspaper
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Government accused of mad cow cover-up
A BSE disease expert has accused the Government of a cover-up as a new mad cow dumping row flared in Burnley. Microbiologist Dr Stephen Dealler says the danger to public health from the burial of infected animal carcases - as occurred in Burnley - was
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It's all set for Channel 5
MOST television viewers in East Lancashire will be able to enjoy the new Channel 5 when it is launched at the end of this month. Channel 5, the UK's fifth free terrestrial television station, is due to reach 85 per cent of the population by the end of
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Care was first class
RECENTLY, I had an operation and was in Queen's Park Hospital for five weeks. I cannot speak too highly of the care and attention I received from the nurses in Ward E1. They work from 7.30am until 9pm, and do the same amount of hours on the night shift
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School tables anger
FURY erupted today over the very first publication of primary school league tables as head teachers branded them "rubbish, meaningless and unfair." East Lancashire heads have slammed the controversial tables and say they reflect nothing about a school
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ROVERS: Colin Ten-dry
COLIN Hendry will play through the pain barrier again for Blackburn Rovers tonight and celebrate a double milestone against Nottingham Forest in a crunch Premiership relegation battle, writes PETER WHITE. It's exactly 10 years to the day since the Hendry
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It's not natural
THE creator of Blackburn's tin trees (LET, March 6) has outdone nature! Trees with no roots. Trees that won't bud, that won't leaf or shed leaves. What a triumph! Greenless trees! I'm sure God will be jealous. DAVID BULLEN, Albany Road, Blackburn. Converted
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CRICKET: Premier League snub
ACCRINGTON have given cricket's proposed new Premier League a resounding thumbs down and will be staying in the Lancashire League. An extraordinary general meeting was held at Thorneyholme Road last night when the vote against quitting the Lancashire
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CRICKET: Rishton lose out on Sleep
PETER Sleep is unlikely to play for reigning champions Rishton as an amateur this summer, even though Lancashire Cricket League rules would allow his application to be granted. Rishton's hopes appear to have been dashed by Lancashire, who employ the Aussie
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Teacher has courage
i WAS sorry to read of the resignation of the Luton schoolteacher who allowed a five-year-old pupil to slap alleged bullies with a ruler. Why? - because if we had more teachers with her courage and common sense, we would then rid our schools of bullying
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Pensioner Clara defies yobs
AN elderly woman who suffered a fractured hip at the hands of two teenage muggers has spoken of her terrifying ordeal. It was the second time that 85-year-old Clara Crosby has been the victim of a bag snatch attack just yards from her home. But the plucky
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Van Hooydonk ends up at Ewood
PIERRE Van Hooydonk has ended up at Ewood Park after all - but he will be wearing the red of Nottingham Forest, rather than the blue and white of Blackburn Rovers, when the two teams battle for three vital survival points tonight, writes PETER WHITE.
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Disabled drivers blamed for town's traffic chaos
A BOSS of Britain's biggest bus company is blaming disabled drivers for town centre traffic chaos. Mr Trevor Roberts, Operations Director of Stagecoach Ribble, Preston, accuses "indiscriminate and uncontrolled parking of disabled drivers' vehicles" for
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Car firm's beaming smiles over UFO
BAFFLED sky-gazers feared alien activity was afoot when they spotted a mystery circle of lights above Accrington. Worried residents within a five-mile radius of the town centre saw the laser-like beam, twirling and swooping in the dark sky on two consecutive
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Super star beams out its secrets
FORGET Star Wars, Star Trek and the X Files, reporter STEWART PIMBLEY talks to astro-physicist Dr Barbara Bromage about her job, which really is out of this world AS soon as the much-hyped Star Wars bursts on to cinema screens, there are guaranteed to
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Help available
THE Tobacco Trade Benevolent Association wishes to contact anyone who has had at least 10 years connection with the tobacco trade either in manufacturer/wholesale/retail or allied trade and who may have fallen upon hard times - particularly those of advancing
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CLARETS: North End bid for Nogan!
BURNLEY are believed to have turned down a £200,000 bid for Kurt Nogan from red rose rivals Preston North End, writes TONY DEWHURST. The Turf Moor board of directors met last night to discuss the offer but have told the Deepdale club to increase their
