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High price for lip service
I NOTICED that Lancashire County Council and Blackburn Council are to give £25,000 for teaching youngsters their "mother tongue" - Urdu, Punjabi, Gujerati, etc - in mosques. The mother tongue in this country is English. I hope the councillors are paying
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Royal Lancs Show winners
LANCASHIRE winners at the 1997 Royal Lancashire Show include: LIGHT HORSE Small hack, mare or gelding: Mrs KM Hewetson, Aynams, Rimington, Clitheroe: Somerset Midnight. Amateur owner rider cob, mare or gelding: Miss H Sabia, Peel Hill, Preston New Road
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Centre's end not surprising
I WAS saddened, but not surprised, to receive a telephone call from one of your reporters informing me that the Road Safety Training Centre at Ewood, Blackburn, had been destroyed by a fire, after being vandalised. In late May, when Lancashire County
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Devron's height of bravery
NERVES of steel will be required when a parachuting pair take to the skies for the first time. Devron Wood of Scott Avenue, Baxenden, said he does not have a good head for heights but is determined to overcome his fears in time for the charity jump on
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Terror on the canal
A DISTRAUGHT mother today slammed a gang of youths who threw her 10-year-old daughter into the canal and claimed: "She could have drowned." Mrs Sharon Coupe said her daughter, also Sharon, was pushed into the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Mill Hill, Blackburn
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10 YEARS AGO: 'Come and join us' call
BLACKBURN Chamber of Commerce chiefs were inviting High Street retailers to join them. The cut-price £20 a year retail membership was offered following approaches from a number of stores. The organisation was until then made up mainly of industrialists
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Golden date at palace
ASSISTANT Scout leader Francis Hindle had a date with Royalty today after going for gold. Francis, 26, of Thursby Square, Burnley, was at Buckingham Palace to receive his Duke of Edinburgh Gold award after completing a series of tasks. "I did most of
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RUGBY LEAGUE: Tamati suffers injury blows
LANCASHIRE Lynx will be looking for a home victory in the Divisional Premiership when Second Division rivals Carlisle visit Deepdale tomorrow, kick off 8pm. Last Sunday Lynx travelled to First Division Whitehaven and they shocked the home side in the
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Clampdown needed on benefit fraudsters
A £1BILLION bill for housing benefit fraud was shown to the taxpayers today by an official investigation. And though councils, which administer the benefit for the DSS, are clawing back increasing amounts lost through cheating claims - £1.3million was
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Households' free testing
offer to detect deadly gas HOUSEHOLDERS across East Lancashire are being offered free tests in a bid to find traces of the potential lethal gas radon. The Government is sending 2,691 invitations to homes across the county as part of a national initiative
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Firm's tribute to Jackie
A FIRM has paid tribute to a former employee by paying for a bench to be placed on one of his favourite walkways. Clitheroe man Jackie Cottam worked for B Dugdale and Son for 31 years, delivering animal feeds throughout the Ribble Valley and surrounding
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Family upset by 'too shallow' grave
A GRIEVING family were left standing at the graveside as diggers worked to make it deeper. The funeral at Burnley cemetery was delayed for about an hour because of the mix-up over the requirements for a Moslem interment. Family friend Burnley councillor
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A good man, a great patriot
THE death of Sir James Goldsmith has passed with little comment, as has the demise of the Referendum Party. Sir James had a flamboyant past and no doubt there will be revelations forthcoming to twitch the most straight-laced of suburban curtains. As is
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Tree plunge girl hopes for a birthday release
SCHOOLGIRL Nichola McVey is recovering in hospital after suffering head injuries when she fell more than 15 feet from a tree. Nichola, 11, spent time under sedation on a ventilator in the intensive care unit. She is now on the children's ward at Blackburn
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Black eye, but white wedding goes
BRIDEGROOM Anthony Cook's eye will gleam brighter than his wedding ring when he gets hitched this week after a stag "do" ended in a punch-up. Anthony was thrown out of a nightclub following a drunken scuffle as he and friends celebrated on a boozy night
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Ben's a metal maestro
BEN Sergeant's bosses don't mind when they hear he's on the fiddle! For the 19-year-old worker at British Aerospace, Samlesbury, has won a major national award after making a violin out of copper and brass. Ben won £100 after winning the Institute of
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'Bullies have made life hell for my truant son'
A MUM fined £50 after her son skipped school for 18 months has hit out at education chiefs. Valerie Dakin, of Bolton Road, Blackburn, said bullies at Beardwood High School had made life "hell" for her truant son. But governors have claimed there must
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ROVERS: Le Saux for sale at £7.5m
GRAEME Le Saux was put up for sale by Blackburn Rovers today with a £7.5 million price tag on his head, writes PETER WHITE. And that is set to spark a transfer chase by some of Europe's top clubs, with Arsenal expected to lead the way in a bid to sign
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Going for a drive - from Peking to Paris
HOW does a night for two, all in, at the 'Yak and Yeti' sound? It could prove to be the most luxurious hotel for miles around for two businessmen when they join teams from 23 countries in the adventure of a lifetime, driving 16,000 kilometres from China
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5 YEARS AGO: Swift promotion for new MP
EAST Lancashire MP Janet Anderson was put onto the fast track to promotion when Labour deputy leader chose her as chief parliamentary aide. Mrs Anderson's appointment just three months after being elected to the Commons was almost unprecedented. She was
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Memories at the end of the line
AS an "exile" from my hometown for the past 40-odd years, I felt I must compliment you on your Looking Back series, in particular the article regarding trams in Blackburn and the surrounding towns (LET, July 21). My father was the conductor on the last
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What road is Labour going down?
IN AXING two of the most controversial major road schemes, but approving five others and putting off decisions on others, the government has managed to please no-one. Both environmentalists and the roads lobby are upset. But what is significant about
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Camera cover spreads with £356,000 scheme
SECURITY camera cover has spread to many new areas of Burnley following the completion of a £356,000 scheme. It is hoped the second round of the CCTV programme will produce the same dramatic crime-beating success as that in the town centre where camera
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River death pals inquest opened
AN INQUEST has opened into the deaths of two eight-year-old girls who drowned during a riverbank birthday barbeque. Charlea Fox was celebrating her eighth birthday last Monday when she died with best friend Jasmin Neville in the River Wharf, near Otley
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CLARETS: Manager ponders home bow
CHRIS Waddle is still undecided whether to make his home debut when Burnley take on Brazilians Gremio at Turf Moor on Thursday night, writes PETER WHITE. The player-manager is more concerned with giving other members of his squad some match action. But
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CRICKET: Chapple's battle
GLEN CHAPPLE faces an uphill battle to be fit for Lancashire's next Championship game against Warwickshire starting at Blackpool a week tomorrow. Chapple has missed the last three matches and bowled only 25 balls in four weeks because of stomach muscle
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Safety in the small print
READING of so many tragedies caused by fire, I wonder if something should be done about educating people. Perhaps something similar to the warnings on cigarette packets could be issued by makers of things powered by electricity or gas. Instructions could
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Probe into rabbit dumping mystery
THE RSPCA is hunting callous people who threw three boxes packed with live rabbits from the back of a van. Three crisp boxes containing 10 domestic bunnies, were thrown from the back of a black Transit-type vehicle in Wesley Street, Oswaldtwistle. The
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Vandals wreck flower bed tribute to gardener
VANDALS have wrecked a special flower bed designed to commemorate a retired council gardener's 40 years of service. Hyndburn Council workers were left to pick up the pieces and redesign the plot in Oak Hill Park, Accrington, after the hooligans pulled
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Pathfinder blazes a trail for others to follow
A SPECIAL bus service in the Trough of Bowland has received a pat on the back from marketing chiefs. The Bowland Pathfinder hail-and-ride service, aimed especially at walkers and other visitors, has been praised by Simon Holt Marketing of Cheadle. The
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Lessons from the ghetto
Tuesday Topic with Christine Rutter "I HAD to be very careful when washing the vans that I didn't accidentally spray a passer-by with water. "They would have taken this as a personal insult and I would have had it." Carolyn Lee used her forefinger to
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Farm raid mum tells of terror campaign
A MOTHER today described the terror when armed raiders clubbed their way into her farmhouse and brutally assaulted her and her boyfriend. The two attackers smashed a window and broke down a door at Crabtree Hurst Farm, Lench Road, Waterfoot, Rossendale
