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Treated like dirt
WHAT is this world coming to when, shopping in a supermarket, you have to be swept up by a young juvenile delinquent as part of the rubbish as you contemplate your much-needed items? A long brush tapping at your heels does nothing to form good feelings
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Arts group ditched in festival wrangle
A COUNCIL will take an arts festival out of the hands of professionals and give it back to the people. Rossendale Council has decided to ditch Mid-Pennine Arts as organisers of the annual Rossfest and let local groups run and take part in the festival
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CLARETS: Cooke can't wait for his start
ANDY Cooke is enduring the worst week of his soccer life. The striker will be on the sidelines as Burnley take on Gillingham at Turf Moor tomorrow reflecting on the red card at Notts County in Burnley's final away game of last season. It meant Cooke has
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Families cheer victory in Battle of the Bulge
FAMILIES who have been fighting the Battle of the Bulge for eight years are celebrating a victory. Residents of Hightown, Rossendale, have lived since 1989 in homes perched on top of a 20-foot retaining wall declared unsafe by council engineers. Now a
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Arson at school
FIREBUGS struck at an empty school block, damaging a new training centre next door. The blaze was the latest in a string of arson attacks on the former Everton High School in Manxman Road, Blackburn. The fire started in a pile of rubbish in the roofless
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CRICKET: Martin sets double target
PETER Martin gave himself a double target as he went into today's Championship clash at Derby. Lancashire's 6ft 4ins tall paceman was aiming for his best-ever season, both at first-class level and in the Sunday League. And he said: "It would be great
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MOTORSPORT: Foggy caught in points wrangle
CARL Fogarty could fall further behind bitter rival John Kocinski in the World Superbikes championship race even before Sunday's eighth round in Zeltweg, Austria. Niall Mackenzie's Yamaha failed a fuel test following his third place in round seven at
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Council ignores the electorate
REGARDING the Hyndburn roads saga, the points made (Letters, August 11) are all relevant to the on-going chaos in the area, but probably the most disturbing fact is that there is no comment from the authorities. Do the elected powers never listen to the
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Close this loophole
THE new national register of paedophiles is supposed to be a major weapon in preventing child molesters from re-offending. But already it is looking like a weak one. For now it emerges that probation officers are banned from giving the addresses of paedophiles
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Directors face long ban after £800,000 collapse
TWO company directors face bans of at least five years after a court heard how a business ended up more than £800,000 in the red after just ten months of trading. Blackburn County Court was told that Retek Electrical Products had been one of a number
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Noise plea battle is lost
CAMPAIGNING residents have failed to persuade Hyndburn Council to scrap a mini roundabout in Great Harwood. More than 50 people signed a petition protesting about excessive noise and vibration caused by vehicles driving directly over the roundabout at
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ROVERS: Dahlin's day will come, says boss Hodgson
ROY Hodgson has given Martin Dahlin a massive vote of confidence, even though his £2 million summer signing from Italian giants Roma has yet to start a Premiership game. Dahlin struggled for full fitness, because of an injury problem in pre-season, and
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Revamped market open for business
BACUP'S new-look market which cost £600,000 to refurbish was officially opened by Rossendale mayor Coun Peter Heyworth during Great British Market Week celebrations. The new market includes 25 permanent stalls built of natural stone and slate and 38 open
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Internet company in television spotlight
AN EXPANDING high-tech computer firm based in Pendle which started two years ago with £500 and an Apple Macintosh machine is to be featured on TV tonight at 6pm on BBC1 as part of a series of innovations. A TV crew from BBC Look North West spent the afternoon
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Bride and zoom! Rally car speeds Irvine to church
Friday Folk BEST man Mark Hughes had to make sure the bridegroom got to the church on time - so the rally driver took him in his racing car! Bridegroom and rally co-driver Irvine Holtom arrived with time to spare at Padiham Methodist Church to wed his
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Streets an assault course
DRIVING through Rishton's main street is a nightmare - it's an incomplete assault course. Why don't they go the whole hog and put gates across it? What is the cost of this 'blot on Rishton?' Let's rename it 'Hazard.' It's an insult to drivers' intelligence
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Councillor in call for smog inquiry
A COUNCILLOR has called for an investigation into reports of a "TCP smog" in Oswaldtwistle. Coun Peter Britcliffe said he had received a number of phone calls from residents in the Thwaites Road area about a summer smog creeping in through open windows
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One step that cages disabled Dennis
A DISABLED pensioner who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer is a prisoner in his eighth floor home - because of a step. Dennis Marsden, 71, paid £850 for a disabled scooter but cannot use it because of the wooden step at the entrance to his council
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Carnival parade will top festival weekend
TOMORROW'S parade through Padiham promises to be one of the best for years. The Clan Wallace Pipe Band will lead the parade of floats, carnival queens and majorettes which leaves Blackburn Road at 2pm. Festival queen Stephanie Clough will be accompanied
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CLARETS: Skipper wants Moor noise
CAPTAIN fantastic David Eyres has issued a rallying call on the eve of tomorrow's clash against Gillingham. Burnley start their Second Division Turf Moor programme and Eyres is appealing to the Burnley faithful to give the Clarets a massive vocal lift
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Millionaire's daughter lives on state hand-outs
A MILLIONAIRE'S daughter is living on a £64-a-week Income Support hand-out, we can reveal today. Angela Margerison, 23, struggles to pay bills as her self-made millionaire father, Stephen, enjoys luxury breaks on his Spanish yacht. But the Blackburn mother
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Calming complaints not on
RECENT complaints about new traffic-calming measures in Hyndburn are surely ill-founded. On close analysis, the council should be congratulated for its far-sightedness. In responding to 'green' issues and promoting the health of its taxpayers, it has
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Trees a folly
COUN Dave Smith, (Letters, August 12) says the £25,000 grant for minority languages was provided by Lancashire County Council. Is he saying the grant was for these specific projects or were there no more sensible alternatives? As I said after the condemnation
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Time limits put on quarry lorries
CONTROVERSIAL plans to extend a Ribble Valley quarry have been approved, despite fears over the number of lorries using the site. County councillors gave the go-ahead to allow quarrying until 2007 and to extend the site at Waddington Fell Quarry. However
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TEN YEARS AGO: Jobs go at snooker firm
NEARLY half the workforce were being made redundant at the East Lancashire headquarters of snooker company Riley. A major "cut to survive" plan involving 50 shopfloor and staff redundancies was announced by new owners Midsummer Leisure. The Padiham operation
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CRICKET: Lee called up by Aussies
LANCASHIRE Evening Telegraph columnist Shane Lee has been handed a shock call into Australia's plans for the final Test. The Enfield professional was called up with Shaun Young after Brendon Julian suffered a fracture in his left wrist to follow the withdrawals
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Ban m-way lorries
CARS could be banned from bottleneck stretches of some motorways to improve the flow for lorries, according to a scheme being studied by ministers. The idea is to shut access junctions at peak periods to keep local commuter traffic off frequently-jammed
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Council must cut through all the red tape
IMAGINE the anguish of terminally-ill cancer victim, pensioner Dennis Marsden, unable to walk and trapped in his high-rise council flat. His answer to his plight was to buy a powered disabled scooter so that he did not spend his last days housebound.
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Plea for hostages on India's freedom day
OFFICIALS were today urged to remember the fate of student hostage Paul Wells during the 50th anniversary celebrations of India and Pakistan. Paul's father Bob Wells said the events which led to the anniversary also sparked the kidnapping of Paul and
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Hunting poll a fact
I WAS surprised by the sheer nonsense about hunting by R Bracewell (Letters, August 8). He claims that "The public at large have never expressed an opinion on fox-hunting," which is rubbish. In fact the most recent poll carried out by IFAW suggests that
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Cabbies to develop safety plans
TAXI drivers and firms who faced detailed weekly safety checks on vehicles have been granted a reprieve. Blackburn with Darwen Council public protection committee has agreed to allow private hire and hackney carriage operators to come up with with their
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'Paint our houses' plea
RESIDENTS in 40 households on Burnley's Belvedere estate have petitioned the council about the poor condition of external painting to houses and garages. Karen Ainsworth, neighbourhood housing manager for the Brunshaw area, reported to the housing committee
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Language puzzler
HAVING been a teacher for many years in a school with a very large percentage of ethnic minority children, I am much mystified by the granting of £25,000 to teach these children their 'mother tongue' (LET, July 25). All the children have parents and/or
