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Battersby costs Shakers £120,000
BURY have moved swiftly to fill the gap left by the free transfer of leading scorer Mark Carter. Boss Starn Ternent has splashed out £120,000 on Tony Battersby who was on loan from Notts County at the end of last season. "Tony did well for us and I had
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Carter is released
MASTER marksman Mark Carter has been handed a free transfer by Bury. The 36-year-old striker, Bury's top scorer for the past three season's and player-of-the-season in his first term at Gigg Lane, joins six other players who did not feature on the retained
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Player search
IAM writing a history of Lincoln City Football Club, which is due to be published this autumn. I would like to trace former players or the relatives of former players, particularly those who played in the period 1884 to 1947. The Imps have recruited many
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Woman, 89, died after hospital sent her home
AN inquiry has been launched by Burnley Health Care Trust into the death of an 89-year-old widow, sent home from casualty in the early hours with fractured ribs and a damaged lung. It is also alleged that a sister phoned the Lancashire County Council
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Army honour for 'daughter'
ARMY representatives paid their last respects to a woman known as a "daughter of the regiment.'' The title was given to Kathleen Woolley, the daughter of a Lancashire Fusilier, after she was born in barracks at Bury. Mrs Woolley, of Infirmary Street,
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Harford chases Ripley
FORMER Blackburn Rovers boss Ray Harford is poised to try to pull off at least one transfer swoop at his old club - and winger Stuart Ripley looks to be his prime target. I understand that Harford, given financial backing to turn First Division West Bromwich
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Dog fouling costs owner £350
A STUDENT has had to pay £350 for letting her dog foul the pavement. Miss Victoria Baker (21), of Fern Street, Ramsbottom, is the first person in the town and the second in the borough to be prosecuted since the by-law was introduced by Bury Council in
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Deaths spark 'take care' warning
A FIRE chief is warning Bury householders to be vigilant in the wake of three blaze tragedies to hit the town in recent weeks. Since April, three people have died following house fires in the town. Now Bob Bonner, divisional officer with Greater Manchester
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Supertrams are doubly good
METROLINK services are twice as good as the previous British Rail operation on the Bury-Manchester line. Latest figures show the number of passengers using the light rapid transit system is double those who travelled on BR trains prior to Metrolink's
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Soul sisters unite for cancer charity
A SET of legendary soul sisters will make history when they unite in aid of cancer care next month. For the first time ever, seventies greats Sister Sledge, The Supremes and The Three Degrees will appear on the same bill for Marie Curie Cancer Care, at
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Killers tried to bluff team probing death
THE KILLERS of David Ward tried to bluff detectives into thinking he was the victim of a gang-land slaying. The walls of Mr Ward's house were defaced with black paint after he was strangled and words associated with notorious gangs in the area were daubed
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Sadness for sanctuary volunteer
ANIMAL lover Paul Clark has been told he can no longer visit a local bird sanctuary alone - because he is deaf. Paul (28), of Horne Street, Bury, has been profoundly deaf since birth, and has been a volunteer at Greenmount Wild Bird Hospital for the last
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Utility blasts tax as profits rise
WATER and electricity giant United Utilities announced a 14 per cent profits rise today - and hit out at the Government's windfall tax plans. Profits before tax and special provisions at the group, which includes North West Water and Norweb, increased
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Award-winning boss bounces back
AWARD-winning Bury boss Mark Bedward is back in business. And the ex-managing director of the collapsed Nationwide Telephone Company (NTC) has recruited twelve of his former staff to help him. Mr Bedward, who has launched a new telecommunications company
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Policy change to beat bed blocking
SOCIAL services chiefs are to end their controversial "two out, one in" policy in a bid to beat Bury's bed-blocking crisis. Some 17 elderly people have died in local hospitals since October while waiting for a place to become available in a nursing home
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Steve sends his thanks
SOME of your readers may have been among the 940 NSPCC runners who took part in the London Marathon on April 13 to raise money for the society. I send out my heartfelt thanks to all those who ran, jogged, walked and hobbled the 26.2 mile course. We are
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Happy Andrew sails out of the Doldrums
PARENTS and friends of round-the-world yachtsman Andrew Hindley are hoping his thirtieth birthday will bring plenty to celebrate. The Accrington skipper is set to dock in Southampton on the big day - July 15 - at the end of the gruelling BT Global Challenge
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Tank hero James has a really royal day
RUBBING shoulders with royalty from two countries made a military ceremony a day to remember for war hero James Baron. The Queen was personally introduced to the former tank commander at the changing of the battle honour flags of the Irish Guards. And
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We can't affford to rest on our Trophy laurels
By NEIL BRAMWELL DAVID Lloyd and his England players have set new standards on the field with a Texaco Trophy series performance bristling with typical Southern Hemisphere agression and strategy. So it is a pity that those efforts have been stopped dead
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The pain of redundancy
IT is time that Accrington and Rossendale College principal Michael Austin took some responsibility for his dreadful mismanagement of the college. An industrial tribunal unanimously agreed that I had been unfairly dismissed. The selection process whereby
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Colin's retirement watch!
A RETIRING fire station commander has made a little bit of history with the first photograph of all the personnel serving at Accrington. The turnout by around 60 firefighters, many of them off-duty, was a mark of respect and affection for Colin Cunliffe
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Woman fell down trapdoor
IT was not prices that plunged when Julie Glover went out shopping. Magistrates at Bury heard how the shopper took an unexpected tumble - right through a trapdoor. The court was told how she bounced down stone steps to end up in the storeroom cellar at
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Cig theory in house death fire
PRELIMINARY investigations into the death of a Bury woman who died following a house fire suggest that a cigarette could have started the blaze. Former cleaner Mrs Patricia Lillian Watson (51), of Rydal Close, Bury, was pulled from the burning house by
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Car thieves wreck family's holiday
BIRTHDAY girl Hazel Smith clocked up 30 yesterday but had little reason to celebrate after a family holiday in Cornwall turned into a nightmare. Thieves drove off with their car and cleaned out more than £2,000 worth of belongings from the boot before
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Heath draws up summer shopping list
BURNLEY are closing in on four transfer targets. And I can reveal tonight that manager Adrian Heath is tracking: A Second Division full back A Premiership International striker A Division One midfielder A First Division central defender. Heath revealed
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Snooker men bid to make history
ICE man Ray Birtwistle will be hoping to put the skids under Bolton for the first time in more than a quarter of a century when Bury Snooker League bid to take the Greater Manchester Inter-league Snooker title next Wednesday evening (28). It's the first
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Lancs favour Grace Road!
IAN AUSTIN today explained Lancashire's relief to be away from Old Trafford. They went into today's game at Leicester bottom of the table after failing to win any of their first three home fixtures. Lancashire have not won a championship game at Old Trafford
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Male nurse rose to boss of hospital
DAVID WARD was a high-flying hospital worker who had climbed his way up the professional ladder. But in his private life police had to regularly visit his house after he had called them over trouble with flat-mate Travis Dehorney. Colleagues at the John
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Noisy neighbour in milestone case
NOISE, insulting behaviour and fighting has led to a Whitefield woman being ordered to leave her council house. And the case marks a milestone in the fight against nuisance neighbours as it is the first time Bury Council have been able to rely on "professional
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Animal lovers? A fantasy
IWOULD agree wholeheartedly with S Smith, (Letters, May 15), that anything ever written can be interpreted in many different ways. He will understand, therefore, that I found his interpretation of Mr M A Khan's remarks (Letters, May 12), accusing him
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"Stupid" shoppers risk death
SHOPPERS are dicing with death as they dodge speeding traffic rather than use a purpose-built subway in Radcliffe. In the latest in a series of accidents, a 78-year-old man suffered minor head injuries when he was struck by a car being driven along the
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Shelter plea
COULD not the council provide brick bus shelters instead of ones with windows? It may cost more, but in the long run it could be cheaper, because they would not have to keep on replacing the windows and people would not get wet and cold. B MURRAY (Mrs
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I won't be gagged
THE new head of Bury's troubled race relations body has issued a "shut up or stay away" directive to his vice-chairman on the eve of a crucial meeting. But businessman Mohammed Muneer says he won't be gagged and intends to voice his concerns about the
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Marchers' Job Centre protest
NOTHING got the goat of protesters on a trans-European march - they simply brought their own! Their mascot, Edna, joined them in laying siege to Bury Job Centre in the town's Silver Street this week. It was their way of saying farewell to Bury as the
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10 YEARS AGO: Death charges dropped
TOP Hollywood director John Landis and four associates were cleared of death charges after a film set tragedy. They were found not guilty on charges of involuntary manslaughters in connection with the 1982 accident on the set of the 'Twilight Zone' which
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5 YEARS AGO: Town's double jobs blow
THE jobs of nearly 650 Burnley workers hung in the balance after the second devastating industrial blow to the town within hours. Cooker manufacturer Belling had gone into receivership, placing the jobs of 300 workers at Compound Engineering in jeopardy
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Hammer these benefit fraudsters
YET another of those spot-check swoops on East Lancashire taxis - this time in Burnley - nets the by-now-familiar haul of clapped-out cabs, but also a disturbing something else. For out of 18 taxis hailed at random by police, the driver of every single
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Camelot are asking for taxing sanctions
THE last government's ineffectual hand-wringing over "fat cat" bosses' pay played a part in its downfall - which is why, politically, Tony Blair may need to respond with more than his reported outrage over the jackpot salary increases awarded to directors
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Vicar's 'parish of drugs and prostitution'
A VICAR has joined our war against drugs and is urging Blackburn people to 'shop' known drug dealers to the police. The Reverend Peter Grierson believes the growing number of prostitutes and burglaries in his parish is directly linked to a rise in heroin
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Eastern promise from deal
A MAJOR deal to establish a foothold in the Far East has been struck by a Blackburn firm. Scapa Scandia, part of the Scapa Group, has signed an agreement with Japanese-based Chuetsu Tech. The deal will see Scapa Scandia specialist fabrics introduced in
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Senior cop's passage to India
A SENIOR policeman is continuing an Asian fact-finding mission with a two-week trip to Pakistan. Insp Andy Pratt of Blackburn Police is travelling back to the sub-continent after he paid his own way on a similar working holiday in India last summer. Insp
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Fury as trees get the chop
MYSTERY surrounds the massacre of a number of trees which have been hacked down in Radcliffe's Close Park. Now all that remains of the once mighty trees are stunted trunks. Nearby residents are furious at Bury Council for approving the carnage. One householder
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Shaken in bed by traffic vibration at roundabout
LORRIES thundering over the top of a mini roundabout in Great Harwood are being blamed for shaking nearby residents in their beds. Now, next door neighbours Betty Ather, 68, and Mona Barker, 77, are calling on Hyndburn Council to do away with the 'unnecessary
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Police hunt vicious rapist
POLICE are hunting a vicious rapist who attacked a 24-year-old woman in broad daylight. The assault happened at 6.30pm on Sunday (May 18) as the woman was walking along Tanpits Road, near to the former Beldam Asbestos works. She was grabbed her from behind
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Sex shocker gets all clear
THE cult sex film which has been banned in many parts of the country has been given the all clear in Bury. The unanimous decision to release "Crash" was made after Bury's moral guardians watched a special preview of the film, which shows people getting
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Vision of future makes nice present
A YOUNG girl's vision of the future has brought her school prosperity in the present. Bury Grammar School pupil Abigail Don has won £3,100 after emerging as junior winner in a UK-wide competition run by Mercury Communications. The school itself keeps
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School figures that don't add up
IT doesn't take an academic genius to know that class size makes a difference in education. And Lancashire's record on cramped classrooms is not one to boast. In fact, it's your young ones who have made up the statistics that put Lancashire at the top
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'Punters' danger to girls
THANK you for your excellent series on drugs (LET, May 20-22). I live and work in the same area of Blackburn as Father Jim. Two immediate consequences of the drug trade are apparent in the Redlam area. Firstly, the increase in prostitution. A few years
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Please get in touch
MY husband passed away recently, leaving only one living relative that I know of, but I am unable to contact her, as I have no address or telephone number for her. All I have to go on is that her name is Eileen Thompson (maiden name) and that her family
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Traders fear £1m 'name'
A LEADING department store looks set to become the £1 million big name in the planned Accrington town centre shopping development. Hyndburn Council is not disclosing the company - rumoured to be discount operator TJ Hughes plc - but confirmed that a retailer
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Flats emptying for demolition
TENANTS are being moved out of dilapidated multi-storey flats in readiness for demolition. Around two thirds of the people living in Blackburn's Mill Hill flats have been found new homes and Blackburn with Darwen Council is now close to sealing a deal
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Ady to defend boxing title
MIGHTY Atom, Ady Lewis, has a capital date next Tuesday (May 27) when he defends his British Flyweight crown. Lewis, who won the title in January when he defeated Keith Knox in Glasgow, meets London's Mark Reynolds at the Marriott Hotel. Reynolds won
