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Councillors bus axed - for a taxi
BOSSES have axed a bus which was used to ferry one student to college and replaced it with a taxi - to save a fiver! Ismail Patel, 55, had the chauffeur-driven bus to himself until the Lancashire Evening Telegraph revealed details of his lone 80-mile
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CLARETS: Heath on trail of new blood
ADRIAN Heath is hot on trail of two transfer targets on the eve of tomorrow's final Division Two fxture of the season against Watford, writes TONY DEWHURST. Burnley's faint play-off hopes expired at Notts County a week ago - and now the Turf Moor chief
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CRICKET: Nawaz on warpath
AFTER inspiring Read to their most sustained title challenge in over 15 years last season, Shahid Nawaz is on the warpath again. But he is having to break the pain barrier to do it. The 26-year-old from Pakistan, who opened his Ribblesdale League career
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ELECTION - Blackburn
No surprises as Straw sweeps to easy victory VICTORIOUS Jack Straw pledged to repay the trust shown in him by the British people after a "political earthquake." The man tipped as the next Home Secretary admitted he was stunned by his party's massive victory
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CRICKET: Corrie is right up our street
SOUTH African spin doctor Corrie Jordaan has struck fear into the hearts of Lancashire League batsmen. His prodigious 9-59 on the opening day of the campaign at Church was followed up by five wickets against Enfield and a 3-37 haul against East Lancs,
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Sports scheme starts
AN INITIATIVE to promote more interest in sports clubs among teenagers is set to start in Pendle tomorrow. Its aim is to attract more high school sporting stars to become members of local clubs. A wide range of sports will be on offer at Pendle Leisure
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Hammer threat teacher's terror
A TEACHER was threatened with a hammer after asking a man to remove a horse from school playing fields. The teacher, at St Wilfrid's High School, Blackburn, was left shaking after the ordeal and police were called in. The school says the threat is just
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ROVERS: Ince fury over Rovers snub
PAUL Ince has launched a blistering attack on Blackburn Rovers. The Inter Milan star was furious after Rovers chairman Robert Coar was reported as saying, like Arsenal and others, that their interest in signing him had cooled. "I don't like it when I'm
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ELECTION: Sleaze - so what's new?
THE accusations of sleaze traded by today's politicians would seem very tame to the hardened campaigners of the last century. The history of Blackburn's elections reflects the town's taste for plain speaking and fierce passions - and the old traditions
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ELECTION - Rossendale and Darwen
Janet's majority increases nine-fold RED-HOT Janet Anderson swept to a storming victory as she strengthened her grip on Rossendale and Darwen. The mother-of-three easily fought off the challenge of Tory Trisha Buzzard by increasing her majority from a
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SOCCER: Evans won't help us!
SAINTS striker Mike Evans was once desperate to play for Blackburn Rovers - now he wants to put them back on skid row at the Dell tomorrow, writes PETER WHITE. Hot-shot Evans has already shaken the survival hopes of West Ham and Coventry with goals in
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ELECTION - Pendle
Great Scot! Gordon's majority is up five-fold LABOUR'S landslide swept Pendle's Gordon Prentice back into Westminster with a five-fold increase in his majority. The quietly-spoken Scot who has made Barnoldswick his home admitted his result was astonishing
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TABLE TENNIS: Holt looking for home comforts
ANDREA Holt is asking her home fans can lift her when she begins her singles campaign in the world table tennis championship at the G-Mex Centre in Manchester. The 26-year-old British number three from Ramsbottom faces qualifier Zuzane Poliackova of Slovakia
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SUPERBIKES: Twin-track approach
DUCATI'S Carl Fogarty and Neil Hodgson are taking the twin-track approach to the third round of the World Superbike Championship at Donington Park on Sunday. Former world champion Fogarty, from Blackburn, believes that two good races could propel him
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Election was lost a long, long time ago
IT WAS the longest election campaign in living memory, but it will surely live longer in the annals of British political history as one of the greatest electoral triumphs that anyone can remember. For this was not just a spectacular victory for Labour
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Gardeners get a meter offer
GARDENERS in East Lancashire are being urged to have water meters fitted if they intend to use sprinklers this summer. The area has been targeted for free meters by North West Water because it was one of its problem districts during the droughts of '95
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ELECTION - Ribble Valley
Nigel's Welsh wizardry stems tide TRIUMPHANT Tories toasted a further reign in the Ribble Valley as Nigel Evans bucked the national trend and held on to his Parliamentary seat. The 39-year-old Welsh whizzkid overcame Liberal Democrat and Labour challenges
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ROVERS: Garry flits with scoring flourish
GARRY Flitcroft's first Premiership goal for Blackburn Rovers was a long time coming - more than a year, in fact, after he made the move from Maine Road to Ewood, writes PETER WHITE. But the former Manchester City midfielder wasn't in the least bit surprised
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New man takes over at a time of change
PAUL Heald is a man with a vision. He has taken up the post of organisational development director at ELTEC following the retirement of Harry Buls. And he takes over at a time of change for the 40-strong department following the launch of Business Link
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ELECTION - Hyndburn
Go-ahead Greg gains on the swing JUBILANT Greg Pope notched up a sensational victory in Hyndburn with a stunning swing to Labour, giving him his second successive win. He increased his majority to 11,448 - almost 9,500 up on 1992 - and took more than
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Landmark might have to go
PERMISSION to demolish a Burnley town centre landmark is being sought by shopping developers Great Portland Estates. St James' tower and steeple has to go to make way for the £12 million redevelopment of the Curzon Street area, says the company and its
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ELECTION - Burnley
Record smashed as Pike sweeps to fourth victory JUBILANT Peter Pike scored his fourth consecutive victory in Burnley and with it a Labour May Day record majority. He saw his majority increased by half as much again over the last election from 11,491 in
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More firms going bust
THE number of North West company collapses has risen for the third quarter running. Figures compiled by accountants KPMG show that receivers were called into 45 companies in the region between January and March compared with 36 in the final quarter of
