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Big money all over the world
THE world of international finance gave East Lancashire industrialists plenty to chew over. The event was held in Accrington to increase awareness of opportunities available throughout the World Bank. Guest speaker at the dinner was Javed Hamid, director
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Showdown over doomed homes
ANGRY householders will pack into Burnley Town Hall tonight (Wednesday) in a bid to save their homes. Residents in the Rectory Road area of Stoneyholme will try to stop plans to clear 87 properties in a £1.7 million scheme to provide extra land for industry
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Wish you were here...Blackburn by the Sea!
HOLIDAYMAKERS who join the annual exodus from Blackburn will miss a week of festivities and fun at Blackburn by the Sea! Local businesses and Blackburn with Darwen Council are joining forces to stage a series of events to promote the town centre. The
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Oh no, not again...
WHEN I read your front-page headline "Couple who killed their baby" (LET, June 24) I'm sure that, like me, dozens of other readers thought: "Oh, no, not again." Yet another baby has died at the hands of adults who are old enough to know better, but who
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Press-button help is proving a boon
NINE people have received prompt emergency treatment through six Help Point buttons in Burnley town centre. Use of the brightly coloured buttons gives instant access to the 24-hour control room running the town's award-winning CCTV system. Over the last
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Commitment the key as head hails prizewinners
A SCHOOL head spoke of his pride in his pupils as he marked a year of achievement during a presentation ceremony. Peter Donnelly, head of Fisher-More RC High School, Colne, told students at last night's annual school presentation event: "I congratulate
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5 YEARS AGO: French roads chaos
HOLIDAYMAKERS heading for France were advised to check with their travel agents if they wanted to beat road blockades set up by farmers and hauliers. Traffic had ground to a halt on hundreds of major routes in France as protests continued over EC subsidies
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Alabama George finds wrong rose roots
AMERICAN George Calvert spent 36 years making trips to Lancashire to trace his family tree - then discovered his relatives were originally from Yorkshire! "My Burnley area cousins are still having difficulty coming to terms with that,'' he joked. Mr Calvert
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Top chef in hostelry buy-out
ONE of the country's top chefs and his wife are behind the buy-out of an historic Ribble Valley hostelry. Steven and Marjorie Doherty have taken over the popular Spread Eagle Hotel in picturesque Sawley. The ten-bedroom riverside hotel was in the hands
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Council aims for priority for special needs tenants
PEOPLE with special needs are to be given top priority by Blackburn and Darwen housing chiefs over the next 12 months. Town hall bosses are drawing up a document to shape housing strategies and policies for the next year and residents, tenants' groups
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Pound's a strong problem
FIRMS in Lancashire are facing increasing difficulties in selling their products overseas because of the strength of the pound. And the problem is beginning to hit profits, according to the survey carried out by business information group Experian. Businesses
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Furniture firm sheds 10 jobs
ONE of Darwen's biggest employers has announced job losses. Office seating manufacturer Evertaut, of Cross Street, blamed difficult trading conditions for the 10 redundancies. Said manufacturing director Alan Hynd: "The furniture industry is very subdued
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It's simply dino-mite!
DRIVERS blew their horns when they came across an 8ft dinosaur on a school dinner trolley in the middle of the road in Burnley. The shiny green Tyrannosaurus Rex is the creation of 50 pupils at Healey Wood County Infants School and was on its way from
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Vital help for kids in danger
DURING the past year the customers and staff of SPAR Stores, many of them your readers, have contributed to a fundraising effort which has so far raised £560,000 for ChildLine. SPAR committed itself to funding ChildLine's night service. For some children
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Crossing campaign is going to the top
ANGRY residents are to take their fight to Westminster in a 20-year campaign for a pelican crossing at an accident blackspot. The fight to prevent a tragedy on Preston Old Road, Blackburn, near the Cherry Tree Lane junction, has been stepped up after
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Village joy as new homes plans axed
CAMPAIGNERS are celebrating after a plan to build 55 houses in the heart of their village have been scrapped. The proposal, which affected Green Belt land, off Long Lane, Tockholes, sparked an angry reaction from residents. Opponents set up The Friends
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Art students in frame for prestigious award
ARTWORK by pupils at St Christopher's CE High School, Accrington, has been short-listed in a national competition. Pictorial altar pieces created by 14 Year-10 art students has put the school in the running for a £1,000 first prize in the TSB First Visit
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ROVERS: Trio make final bid
THREE players from Blackburn Rovers were involved with the Republic of Ireland squad, playing holders Argentina in Malaysia today for a place in the final of the World Youth Championships (under-20s). Damien Duff, David Worrell and Tom Morgan have helped
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Pioneer in use road
AN INITIATIVE to reduce business traffic on Lancashire's roads could become a model for the rest of the country. The TravelWise scheme was launched last year by the county council to encourage firms and employees to reduce their dependence on the car.
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A job well done
IN reply to D Pratt of Accrington, "Good Evans! No Job for Nigel" (LET June 24). May I remind him that Nigel Evans was given his most important job on May 1 by the electorate of the Ribble Valley as their MP. Nigel earned this by hard work, full commitment
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Muggers break woman's jaw
A 66-year-old woman was recovering in hospital today with a broken jaw after being knocked to the ground by a gang of teenage muggers. She was left bleeding and crying with a badly cut nose as the gang ran off. The incident happened at10pm on Tuesday
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ROVERS: Roy at the ready
ROY Hodgson officially took over as manager of Blackburn Rovers only today but he revealed he had been drawing up his battle plans for months. The new Ewood boss was unveiled to the nation's Press at Ewood and outlined his hopes for more success. For
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Jazz king Stan Barker dies at 71
JAZZ king Stan Barker, the East Lancashire pianist who enjoyed an international reputation, has died, aged 71. Stan, of Waddington Road, Clitheroe, had a career in which he took to the stage with the Duke Ellington and Count Basey bands, along with jazz
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10 YEARS AGO: Cleaners lose battle
A TEAM of hospital cleaners who had battled for months to keep their jobs in the face of privatisation lost their fight. The contract for cleaning Queens Park Hospital, Bull Hill Maternity Home and various health centres in Blackburn district was to go
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Make it Wimble-dome
INSTEAD of millions of pounds being spent on a dome for the Millennium, why can't the money be used for a permanent roof for Wimbledon stadium? A bad summer wouldn't matter then. More tourists would attend. It would be a permanent fixture, and, during
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Car makers need to learn - like teachers
ONLY one car out of the 13 popular saloons smashed in official European crash protection tests came out with the top four-star safety rating. More surprising, it was the cheaper models which did better than the pricey ones with a reputation for safety
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Now we know truth we must tackle problem
IN A SENSE, today's "shock" figures, showing racial harassment incidents in Blackburn leaping by 870 per cent in just 12 months to the highest level in the country, are like the old Tory unemployment statistics. We all knew the official total was a lot
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Top note line-up for music festival
A MUSICAL extravaganza looks set to take the Ribble Valley by storm as the annual Ribchester Music Festival gets under way next week. A programme of events featuring international musicians and local celebrities comes under the conductor's baton at historic
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CLARETS: Go for Joe, say fans
JOE Royle is the Burnley supporters' choice to be Turf Moor's new manager - by a mile, writes PETER WHITE. In our exclusive telephone poll, the former Everton and Oldham boss received more than 75 per cent of the votes, with hundreds of Burnley fans naming
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CRICKET: Pros warned to take out insurance
LANCASHIRE League chairman Peter Westwell today put claims by Brad McNamara over medical expenses into perspective. Australian all-rounder McNamara's season was brought to a premature end last week by a serious shoulder injury. And his message to fellow-Aussies
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Dawn tumbles out of big time
A TEENAGE rider who was knocked unconscious falling from her horse was disappointed when a stint in hospital prevented her from lunching with the mayor. Dawn Kehoe was set to join her sister, Michelle, who is Accrington Carnival Queen, and the Mayor and
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Yob-menace claims raise estate anger
PROUD residents today angrily denied claims that yob rule has taken over their council estate. People living on the Anchor Estate, Darwen, were responding to claims by some residents that a children's playground was used as a base for drug dealing, violence
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Relatives must share blame for tragic tots
IN the past few months we have read in your newspaper about the deaths of babies Levi Rose and Tara Jane Howe. In both cases, the parents were drug abusers, or "smackheads" apparently incapable of anything other than satisfying their own needs. But these
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Job agency boss's Burnley manager jibe
JOB shop boss Neville Gee is taking another jibe at local football - and this time his humour is an own goal. Naughty Neville, who placed a spoof job ad for a replacement for Alan Shearer after the Blackburn Rovers star deserted Ewood Park, is now jokingly
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Objectors may lose caravan site fight
COUNCILLORS will be asked to rule tonight (Wednesday) on plans which could increase the size of a caravan park by half as much again. Christopher and Gabrielle Tattersall, who run the mobile home site at Holden Mill House, on Grane Road, Haslingden, have
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Defusing chips time bomb
MORE than 130 firms were warned about how the Millennium computer time bomb problem could hit their businesses. The warning came at a seminar on the problem staged at Ewood Park to mark the official launch of Blackburn's Business Link. Tony Kesten from
