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Soccer ground rock worries
WORRIED residents have warned that Burnley FC will score an "own goal" if music rocks into the night as part of plans to use the ground as an arts and concert centre. People living in the shadow of the redeveloped Turf Moor fear their lives could be blighted
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Dwindling numbers signal end for St James's
A CHURCH at the centre of a 'Save Our Spire' campaign is to close. The congregation of St James's has met in a converted engineering works on March Street, Stoneyholme, since the original church building, dating back to 1849, was demolished in 1966. The
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Crime blitz to go on
A BURGLARY-plagued area at the centre of a police blitz is being targeted in a major crime prevention operation aimed at stopping future break-ins. More than £50,000 worth of property was seized and 60 people were arrested during a crackdown on burglary
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Oh no! We've double trouble
JOANNE Galvin has been landed with double trouble after an awol hamster resurfaced in the kitchen. She bought Taz for her three-year-old son Jack two weeks ago, but after it escaped from its cage, replacement hamster Sammy was bought a week later. But
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Praise for Pike
YOUR headline on your report (LET, May 9) on my good friend, Burnley MP Peter Pike, crudely distorted my account on his parliamentary skills. In my book, Commons Knowledge, I praised Peter as a skilled and resourceful MP. At the bidding of our party whips
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Shipmates sought
IN the summer of 1946, the Bay Class frigate, HMS Porlock Bay and HMS Padstow Bay left for Bermuda to form part of the first post-war American and West Indies Squadron. During her time abroad, Porlock Bay visited ports in the USA and central and South
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Boot camp costs too high
REGARDING the huge cost of dealing with young offenders - £60,000 per person per year, I believe, in boot camps - what consideration has been given to spending that money on improving the quality of life of young people in general so that they are not
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Pensioners promised a hearing on axed buses
TRANSPORT bosses at County Hall have agreed to listen again to residents unhappy at the decision to axe bus services. Pensioners Rene and Jack Houldsworth organised a protest campaign, after it was announced M3 and M4 services to Revidge, Blackburn, would
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Murder victim's favourite pop songs play at funeral
FAMILY and friends said their last goodbyes to murder victim Diane Hamer as her favourite Elton John song played. Diane, 32, was stabbed to death by her jealous lover, whom she was planning to leave to return to her home town of Burnley. After killing
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County faces the heat
COUNTY councillors received an ear-bashing when they visited Clitheroe on a fact-finding mission about Cemfuel. Community leaders and clean-air campaigners are up in arms about Castle Cement's use of the controversial fuel. And they have accused Lancashire
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CLARETS: Boss jets off on spying mission
ADRIAN Heath launched a continental spying mission today with a mystery target in his sights. The Clarets chief was expected to fly out to Amsterdam to watch a player in action in one of tonight's Dutch League games. Heath would not reveal the identity
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Here we Quo!
The SHANE LEE Column in association with E W Cartons IT promises to be a really crazy weekend with the Inter-League Cup tie at Littleborough today and a tough home league game against Accrington tomorrow. It will be a blessed relief to get out of the
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ROVERS: Hendry recovering after groin surgery
COLIN Hendry will be ready to start pre-season training when Blackburn Rovers report back in early July, after undergoing successful groin surgery this week. The Scottish international, who played through the pain barrier for much of the second half of
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Not one single meeting missed!
A CONSCIENTIOUS councillor has clocked up a 100 per cent attendance record for meetings. General purposes sub-committee chairman Coun Edward Fisk was top attender at Burnley Council meetings. The former miner achieved a 100 per cent record for attending
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CRICKET: Lloyd tipped for Trophy test
ENGLAND'S selectors will tonight decide whether Graham Lloyd is the man to combat Shane Warne in the Texaco Trophy. The new panel of Mike Gatting, Graham Gooch and chairman David Graveney are expected to choose a combination of Test regulars and one day
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What's up, Doc? I'm traffic sick
A HOSPITAL consultant is demanding compensation from highways chiefs after being delayed in the traffic snarl-up which caused misery to hundreds of motorists. Burnley surgeon Bob Hughes instructed his solicitor to take legal action when he missed a plane
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Eric the Red
The Saturday Interview with Eric Whalley "I DON'T think it's something you plan to do, it's just something that happened. "From schoolboy days to the Lancashire League to the connection with Accrington Stanley, you grow up with it - it's something that's
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Playscheme hit by cuts
A SUMMER playscheme which is always over-subscribed is likely to be cut back to save money. Rossendale Council lopped £5,000 off the three-week project for local schoolchildren as one of the cuts it was forced to make in its annual budget to stay within
