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Landlords, you should take a tip from soccer
IN response to your article 'Landlords welcome war on boozy louts' (LET, July 8), I feel that the laws which are now in place are good enough. The true problem lies with funding for the police. We are all aware of the large profits made by the breweries
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Why did bride-to-be die?
AN INQUEST has failed to solve the mystery of why a bride-to-be took a fatal cocktail of drugs and alcohol. Denise Annette Rowe was found dead on the kitchen floor at her home in Mosley Street, Blackburn. Both her mother and her fiance told an inquest
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Child among four hit by car on pelican crossing
FOUR people were injured, one a year-old child, when they were in collision with a car on a pelican crossing. Pauline Southan, 50, of Barden Lane was detained in Burnley General Hospital with a broken nose, cuts and bruising following the accident at
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CRICKET: Lancashire prepare for MacLaurin Report
LANCASHIRE were bracing themselves today for the MacLaurin Report, which is expected to recommend the biggest shake-up of county cricket for years, writes ANDY WILSON. Lord MacLaurin, the Tesco millionaire recruited during the winter to conduct a thorough
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SUPERBIKES: Spills and thrills
BRIAN DOOGAN reports CARL Fogarty gave his adoring fans the win they sought at Brands Hatch. But he surrendered his overall lead to bitter rival John Kocinski after a dramatic seventh round of the World Superbikes Championship. The Blackburn ace crashed
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Good to see firm's workers getting reward
CONSERVATORY roofing firm, Ultraframe, began life 14 years ago in a small workshop. Today, with more than 500 workers, it is Clitheroe's biggest employer and has a turnover of more than £40million. That's a big success story. And just how really big it
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Driving centre must be rebuilt
YOUR account 'Disgrace of drive centre wrecking,' the picture of the ruin of the Ewood Road Safety Training Centre and the comments of Blackburn Area Road Safety Association chairman Ross Heron (Letters, July 29) must cause dismay to the many thousands
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Cannabis curb is a nonsense
IN A community gripped by a drugs crisis, the call today by hospital trust medical director Dr David Grimes for the outlawed drug, cannabis, to be given to patients is sure to shock. But it is a fact that, all the time, doctors lawfully prescribe drugs
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Now we'll see what Labour's priorities are
WHEN the ruling Labour group unveiled a controversial £250,000 package of perks for councillors - mobile phones, personal computers, free newspapers, support staff and so forth - the Tories on Blackburn with Darwen Council stayed silent. Presumably, they
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Top doc in call to legalise cannabis
A TOP doctor today called for a change in the law to allow cannabis to be legally prescribed to multiple sclerosis sufferers. Dr David Grimes said it was "absurd" that the soft drug could not be given to victims of the debilitating condition. He said
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Children's 'mother tongue' is English
WHEN I was at school, we were taught the 'mother tongue' is the language of the country in which you were born and as the Asian children in our schools were born in Darwen and Blackburn, English is their 'mother tongue.' While I agree they should be taught
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M65 link nears completion
WORK on the final piece in the jigsaw to link East Lancashire to the rest of the country by motorway started at the weekend. Contractors began putting the finishing touches to the M65 by constructing the stretch between the existing motorway and the 13
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Centre's soaring hopes
A FALCONRY centre is taking local youngsters under its wing thanks to help from British Aerospace. The firm's military aircraft division, which employs more than 12,000 in Lancashire, has teamed up with the Yorkshire Dales Falconry and Conservation Centre
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Heroin killed anti-drug song writer
A MUSICIAN who fought drug addiction and wrote a song about the evils of heroin, died after injecting himself with a fatal dose, an inquest heard. Harry Washburn, 33, manager of Accrington band Leash, died three days before the Sounds '96 pop concert
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Arthritic retired salesman hanged himself
A RETIRED salesman who hanged himself at his Baxenden home left notes at the front and back doors telling his wife not to go in the house, an inquest in Blackburn heard. Police who broke in after asking his wife to go to a neighbour's found Derek Bannon
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ROVERS: It's a miss-tery
Sheffield Utd 2 Blackburn Rovers 1 THE latest speculation doing the rounds at Bramall Lane yesterday was that Blackburn Rovers' pre-season build-up had been scripted by Ruth Rendell, writes PETER WHITE. There's certainly been more than enough mystery
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The wrong impression on homes
THE East Lancs Matrons Group is concerned about the Health Authority Registration and Inspection annual report and the fact that the general public may have been given an entirely wrong impression of nursing homes in this area. We are not disagreeing
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We'll get fuel ban ended, firm says
CEMENT firm bosses today hit back at the Environment Agency's surprise temporary ban on controversial Cemfuel by vowing ''We will prove it is safe''. Castle Cement had an emergency meeting with the environmental watchdog yesterday to discuss the ban.
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Police change cash for info system
THE system of paying police informers in Lancashire is to be changed following a review into the county's force. A government inspector spent three days carrying out a performance review into the way the force operates. The inspector highlighted a wide
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Nurse Sally scoops award
HARD-working "angel" Sally Chesson was feeling better than ever after scooping the North West Nurse of the Year title. Sally, a clinical nurse metrologist at Blackburn Royal Infirmary, responsible for rheumatology patients, won the prize for setting an
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Pub opening laws change
BRITAIN'S drinkers were set to toast new plans to allow pubs to open up to 12 hours a day - except on Sundays. Proposals to call time on the country's archaic drink laws and allow pubs to open from 11 in the morning to 11 at night were unveiled by the
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CRICKET: Fans call for Jordaan
LOWERHOUSE supporters have been collecting names for a petition to try to get Corrie Jordaan to return to the club next summer. As we exclusively revealed on Saturday, the South African, whose bowling has taken the Lancashire League by storm this summer
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Sticker scheme launch to beat bogus officials
EVIL bogus officials who prey on the elderly and vulnerable have been targeted by a new campaign aimed at driving them out of East Lancashire. Police have launched the Blackburn Community Crime Prevention initiative to protect homes in the area. North
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CLARETS: City too Lee-thal
Burnley 0 Manchester City 3 CHRIS Waddle's aim is to get Burnley into the First Division, writes TONY DEWHURST. It is to be hoped that if he does, Manchester City are no longer there. As an exercise in assessing the readiness of his team ahead of the
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Meet the big boys
LOCAL manufacturers gave one of the country's biggest supermarket firm's food for thought. Several food and drink firms from East Lancashire met buyers from the giant Sainsburys group in an event co-ordinated with the Chamber of Commerce's Regional Supply
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Your foreign coins can do some good
I HAVE been all over the world on my travels, but one thing that I find irritating is lugging a ton of exotic foreign change around in my pockets. But all that lingering shrapnel, which ends up lurking in drawers or being stored in a jar, can now be put
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Tory move to cut perks
CONSERVATIVES are calling on the ruling Labour group at Blackburn town hall to cut a £250,000 budget set aside for a controversial package of perks. The Tories say the cash earmarked to assist councillors should be the first money to be slashed following
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A Major honour
GINA Hearn, former chairman of Pendle Young Conservatives, has received the Order of the British Empire in John Major's resignation honours list. Mrs Hearn, 40, constituency secretary to the former Prime Minister for the past five years, is one of 60
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ROVERS: Hodgson praises unhappy Le Saux
GRAEME Le Saux looks set to get the vote from Blackburn Rovers boss Roy Hodgson for Saturday's Premiership opener against Derby County - unless there is a dramatic burst of transfer activity on the eve of the new season, writes PETER WHITE. And, even
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CLARETS: Waddle eyes striker
CHRIS Waddle is closing in on a striker before the big kick-off against Watford on Saturday. And he may add another player before Burnley begin their Second Division campaign. Bolton Wanderers' Mick Paatelainen, 30, who held talks with Plymouth Argyle
