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Rugby Warriors' home is a site for more tries
AN ambitious youth rugby league club has taken a significant step towards its dream of having a purpose-built home. West Craven Warriors RL are currently based at West Craven High School, Barnoldswick, but the club has quickly grown out of the temporary
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March against cruelty
THE use of animals in experiments is being constantly challenged and the benefits of humane testing methods are being realised. More and more people are going 'cruelty-free' to avoid funding animal cruelty. Every year, Uncaged run a national march against
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Reunion planned
I AM seeking ex-pupils and staff of Upton Hall School, near Northampton, for a reunion on June 28. The school closed in 1965. As many of us were from HM Services' families and disappeared to join our families, often overseas, it was hard to maintain contact
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U-turn as funding is restored for snorers
HEALTH bosses who controversially withdrew funding for a snoring-related condition have completed a dramatic U-turn, it was revealed today. East Lancashire Health Authority caused a storm of protest last year when it stopped paying for treatment to cure
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Be a VIP on carnival day
NOMINATIONS are being sought for a king and queen to help Burnley's King Cotton Carnival celebrations go with a swing. The first ever celebration of the cotton industry will be held on June 14. The family event is sponsored by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph
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Life honour goes to campaigner
SOLICITOR Chris Eddlestone has helped to raise £1.1 million for Macmillan Cancer Relief over the years. Now he is one of eleven charity workers awarded with honorary life memberships by the national charity. He was presented with the award in York by
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Blitz on burglars brings crime figures tumbling
BURGLARS blitzed by a new clampdown committed 1,500 fewer break-ins in Lancashire during the last year. Latest figures contained in the draft Lancashire Police Authority annual report have confirmed an 8.5 per cent fall in house burglaries in the 12 months
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Degrees via video
STUDENTS are already starting to sign up for a high-tech degree course. Blackburn College is launching its first degree course in English language and literacy studies. Part of the course will see a professor from Lancaster University give lessons to
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Green week is good
ON behalf of the Civic Trust and everyone involved in this year's BT Environment Week, I would like to thank readers for their contributions to the event which have made it our most successful year ever! We estimate more than 1,250,000 people actively
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Sweet memories: When confectionery we craved was produced on our doortstep
Looking Back, with Eric Leaver PART OF the pleasure of trips down Memory Lane is the surprising sidetracks on the way - such as the one that this week diverts us from a disappearing toffee factory to the days when soccer crowds took some licking.. It
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Family flee blaze after their barbie
A COUPLE and young child had a narrow escape early today after their home was engulfed in flames hours after having a barbecue. The barbecue had been stored in a lean-to next to the house in Walnut Street, Bacup, and fire broke out shortly after 1am.
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ROVERS: Player exodus on hold
THE anticipated exodus of several players from Ewood this summer has yet to materialise, even though a number of departures still seem likely to make way for new signings by manager Roy Hodgson. Blackburn Rovers chairman Robert Coar confirmed today that
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CRICKET: Lancashire pair sound defiant England call
JASON Gallian and Peter Martin have fired jubilant England a message: Don't forget us. As Mike Atherton's men completed their Texaco Trophy whitewash at The Oval, Gallian and Martin produced Sunday best performances against Northants to keep Lancashire
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Garages greedy
REGARDING your story "Garage fury at 'mercy' service" (LET, May 17). Ramzan Patel has quite a nerve criticising the garage service offered at Blackburn by Lancashire Ambulance Service at somewhat cheaper rates than his own set-up. Competition is the name
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Yobs' beating leaves man unconscious
VICIOUS yobs who carried out a sickening and unprovoked attack knocked out Paul Houston's front teeth and left him nursing a badly bruised eye. The 27-year-old machine operator was knocked unconscious when he was jumped on from behind as he walking home
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Park sex ordeal of 14-year-old
POLICE were today trying to piece together the awful ordeal of a 14-year-old girl pounced on by a sex attacker in a park. The 14-year-old girl was taking a short cut through Victoria Park, Nelson, when she was jumped on from behind. She was dragged into
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Six taking charity plunge
EMPLOYEES of fruit juice manufacturing company MD Foods are taking the plunge for charity - in memory of their former factory manager Bill Naylor. The six - Christine Aspin, Paul Howarth, June Smith, Wendy Shorrock, Debbie Sharples and Len Dewhurst -
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5 YEARS AGO: Rovers a Premier club
BLACKBURN Rovers won promotion to the Premiership and the club's man-in-a-million Jack Walker said he was aiming for Europe. Mr Walker said promotion to the top flight of English football was only the start. He told fans that, after returning to the elite
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10 YEARS AGO: Militants backing Jack
MILITANT supporters expelled from the Labour Party were bidding to join Jack Straw's election campaign. In a leaflet to Blackburn Labour Party members they attacked a ban on help from Militant imposed by the local Labour Party. Labour leader Neil Kinnock
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GOLF: Rostron takes English title
KIM Rostron produced some of the finest golf of her career to lift the English Women's Close Amateur Championship at a windy Saunton East in Devon with a 4 and 2 victory over Kate Burton. It was her biggest triumph in what is building up into a fantastic
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A good read on the Net
IN preparation for a June visit to Burnley for some genealogy research, I have been enjoying reading the Lancashire Evening Telegraph each night on the Internet. It has given me a great deal of insight into what is going on in Burnley and the nearby area
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Good health or cash savings?
TREATMENT on the NHS for a snoring-related condition is back on again for East Lancashire sufferers - now that health bosses have agreed to pay for it once more. The decision is hailed as a victory by the watchdog Community Health Council. After they
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Profits still the priority in water industry
THE unloved water industry seems determined to wring the last drop out of the consumers. For despite facing the well-deserved sting of the government's planned windfall tax, the companies are evidently bent on keeping their excessive profits gusher going
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Christians' intent with mission under canvas
THE public are being canvassed to come on down to a huge Christian mission tent in Accrington. The 500-seater marquee, decorated with bunting, has been erected in the grounds of Rough Lee nursing home and will be there until Sunday. The mission has been
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Guardian Angels and cherubs celebrate heavenly success
GUARDIAN angels and their "cherubs" have been honoured at a presentation ceremony at the Fence Gate Inn, Fence. The first award event to be held since the Guardian Angel scheme was extended throughout East Lancashire saw Cartex of Nelson named as the
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CRICKET: Church left without a prayer!
Church 79 East Lancs 172 - Peter White reports IT might not be a long, hot summer but it certainly looks like being a long, hard one for Church who suffered in Saturday's sunshine as East Lancs cruised through to the second round of the Jennings Worsley
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Children thank the crime-busters
CHILDREN learned a painful lesson about the effects of crime - after burglars stole their school computer system. But now they have joined the anti-drugs crusade after police recovered the equipment. The 10 and 11-year-olds from Meadowhead Junior School
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Council is getting fit for summer challenge
COUNCILLORS and officials in Blackburn with Darwen borough council are limbering up for a fitness challenge this summer. Council leader Malcolm Doherty, coun Kathy Ramsden, Phil Richards, the director of housing, and operations director Ian Stephenson
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Can they make £1m extra?
TWO hospitals in the North West are being told "thanks a million" by privatised giant United Utilities. The company has given £500,000 each over the past four years to the Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust at Alder Hey and the Christie Hospital, Manchester
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Children need examples
WHAT very strange sentiments by Masihur Table (Letters, May 19). If "children are a problem and nuisance for their parents" and, said parents feel relief when rid of their children, what on earth makes him think that the rest of us should be saddled with
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Catch the supplier
WE have learned from the tragedy of Dunblane that it is not just those who use guns, but also those who supply, who are part of the problem. Just as in the arms trade, we cannot put the whole blame on the user. Most of the blame must go on to the supplier
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Amazing day for Grace
BUBBLY Grace Biddle took the crown at Accrington Lions' carnival princess competition. The Accrington seven-year-old scooped the 1997 title after being interviewed by the compere during the event held at McDonalds, Accrington. Blond-haired Grace who attends
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Juvenile crime-cracking plan could be copied abroad
BURNLEY'S unique programme to combat juvenile nuisance is attracting attention not only from police forces all over this country but from the Middle East as well. Ruth Geva, Chief Superintendent in charge of the research and evaluation section of the
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CLARETS: Overson starts build-up
VINCE Overson's Second Division build-up begins tomorrow. The strapping centre-half has sacrificed his summer holiday and is instead booked in for a gruelling training schedule at Lilleshall. Manager Adrian Heath observed: "I sat down and had a long chat
