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Shooting stars failed to deliver
STOCKPORT COUNTY 0, BURY 0 THE irony of Stockport County's decision to perk up their pre-match entertainment with a cheerleading troupe called the Shooting Stars won't have been lost on anyone at sun-baked Edgeley Park on Saturday. How this game cried
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Cricket: Hope your team is doing better than England!
A TRUE captain's innings got Greenmount back to winning ways in the BOLTON LEAGUE when they entertained Farnworth Social Circle at Brandlesholme Road on Saturday. After Mark Stewart had given Circle a torrid time reducing them to 160 all out with a superb
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Landlady is the toast
A LANDLADY has come to the rescue of a workingmen's club which forgot its licence. Members of Spring Terrace Workingmen's Club on Haslingden Road, Rawtenstall, faced a month without beer when their five-year registration certificate expired. But Mrs Margaret
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ROVERS: Hodgson won't push Hoddle
GLENN Hoddle hasn't been pestered by Roy Hodgson this week, even though Blackburn Rovers' charge to the top of the Premiership has prompted thoughts of England selection for some of the Ewood stars. Hoddle is due to announce his squad to face Moldova
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Show time - but leave the car!
PRESTWICH is preparing for big traffic problems this weekend, August 23-25. Thousands of people from all over the North West will descend on the south of the town as the Manchester Show takes over Heaton Park. But, along with all those people will be
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Chemist move row
A ROW has erupted over the future of Bury Pharmacy. The Manchester Road chemist wants to relocate along with neighbouring Blackford Bridge Medical Centre which is moving to Croft Lane later this year. Although health bosses gave the green light to the
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Time for much-needed weedkiller
I WISH to report a sighting in Accrington of a once-rare, now all-too-common plant. The one I spotted was at the corner of Electricity Street and Hyndburn Road. It is Chocwrapy Cannaris Crisppacyii (or the Greater Common Eyesore). It is to be found within
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Unions plan summer of solidarity
UNEMPLOYMENT and anti-racist activities are spearheading a "summer of solidarity" being staged by Bury trade unionists. Throughout the campaign, organisers will be highlighting the services offered by Bury Unemployed Workers' Centre as well as raising
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Sea ordeal man discharged
JOHN Brodie, the East Lancashire man who survived 19 hours adrift at sea off the Welsh coast, has been discharged from hospital. But there is still no news of his 23-year-old son Charles, who is now presumed dead, after the pair's boat capsized off Llandudno
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Users wil fight centre closure
USERS of a popular day centre for people with learning disabilities are preparing to "fight tooth and nail," to keep it from being shut down. Whittle Pike in Ramsbottom is earmarked for closure as social services chiefs start a shake-up of day services
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Street shows even split
PUBLIC opinion is divided on whether Rawtenstall's main shopping street should be cobbled rather than covered with tarmacadam. Questionnaires delivered to 9,000 homes in the town have failed to deliver a cut and dried answer on how Bank Street should
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Bald truth about men's worst fears
NORTHERN Man's worst nightmare is being bald, visiting the doctor and missing out on a Club 18-30 holiday. That is the conclusion of a survey of 1,200 local people carried out by the Brandlesholme-based O'Neill Consultancy which is to hold a Men's Day
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ROVERS: It's Preston in cup for Blackburn
BLACKBURN Rovers were handed an intriguing derby against Preston North End when the Coca-Cola Cup second round draw was made today. The first leg will be at Ewood in the week beginning Monday, September 15, with the return at Deepdale a fortnight later
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CRICKET: Warne puts pressure on
SHANE WARNE has stepped up the pressure on Lancashire by promising to make a decision about next season "within three weeks." Notts and Northants have made offers to an agent representing Warne this week while Sussex have already tabled a six figure bid
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CRICKET: Wishy-washy Lancashire
THERE is one glaring omission in the new development plans at Lancashire County Cricket Club - a members' laundry. And that is because, for once, Old Trafford's dirty washing must be done in public. Despite the denials of the county's chiefs, the club
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Diana should have stuck to her guns
DIANA, Princess of Wales, has been accused of causing trouble because she described the last Tory Government as "hopeless" in its approach to the international problem of landmines. It is argued that members of the Royal Family should not become involved
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Playgroup wins fight to carry on
A TODDLERS' playgroup which could have faced closure has been saved by councillors at the eleventh hour. The playgroup, which used to meet at St Mary's Church, Haslingden, has been looking for a new home all summer and needed a decision before September
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Changes tempt mums back
FOR THE first time in a decade the number of women choosing to have their babies at Burnley is on the increase. Sweeping changes to the system and a drop in perinatal mortality sent out the message that Burnley was a safe place to have your baby, the
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Woman found dead in yard
A WOMAN has been found dead in the back yard of her home in Stanley Street, Accrington, after suffering a suspected heart attack. The body of Doreen Heap, who was in her late fifties, was discovered late yesterday morning after police forced an entry
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ROVERS: Boss steps up keeper hunt
ROY Hodgson was pressing ahead with his goalkeeper search today, knowing that he only has until tomorrow lunchtime to sign someone to be eligible for Saturday's game at Crystal Palace. The Blackburn Rovers boss, however, stressed that the important thing
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Energy saver in for top award
A TEXTILE firm is in the running for a top energy award. Scapa Filtration (Europe) has been nominated for a Norweb Business Energy Award after introducing a new manufacturing process. The firm, which produces industrial textile belting, had previously
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Rhythm and booze banish blues
FESTIVAL organisers say their mammoth music event hit a new high note with thousands of people generating a party atmosphere that lasted throughout the Bank Holiday weekend. The Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival, which took over Colne town centre
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Star performers in the classroom
These Bury Grammar pupils were among the brightest stars when yesterday's GCSE results were announced yesterday. All gained nine straight top A* grades. They are (from left) Stephanie Jackson (15) of Brooklands Road, Holcombe Brook; Neel Gupta (16) of
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You'll be framed, yobs told
YOBS are being warned to watch out or have their behaviour caught on camera. In the latest bid to fight crime in Ramsbottom town centre, the area's Rotary club have raised enough funds to buy a mobile closed circuit television camera for the town. Now
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Boyfriend had knife
JUST a day after being arrested and released Michael Madden found himself back in custody. A court at Bury heard how police officers were originally called out twice in less than an hour after an argument between the 42-year-old and his girlfriend. However
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Baby, what a coincidence!
I READ with interest the article and picture of the brothers who celebrated becoming fathers on the same day (LET, August 20). It could have been sub-titled 'History Repeats Itself', for on August 31, 1946, my father and uncle, George and Frank Hunt,
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Mum's warning after house blaze escape
MOTHER of four Philomena Richardson is warning parents not to leave their children for as much as a minute following a fire in her Rossendale home. And she has hailed 12-year-old son Marc a hero after he led his brother and sisters to safety and called
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Bury lead rule change fight
BURY will be in the forefront of those Nationwide League clubs battling for a rule change on substitutes. At present, sides in Divisions One, Two and Three are allowed only three players on the bench compared to the five permitted in the Premiership.
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Unhelpful town
BLACKBURN must be the most environmentally-unfriendly town in the kingdom. Every bus, every day has to play ring o' roses on the Boulevard (above). How much wasted petrol does this add up to in a day? The buses wait at their stands with their engines
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Child's play for RPC
PACKAGING firm RPC Containers is helping children play it safe in the kitchen. The Guide firm is producing easy-to-handle containers for Spillers Food 'Make and Bake Crunchy Eyeballs Cookies' range produced for Boots the Chemist. The product is aimed
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DRUGS: Ex-addict's mum launches help group
GWEN Clarke kept asking herself where she had gone wrong. The guilt was gnawing away and the only answer she had was to blame herself. Like every mother, she thought she had done everything she possibly could to bring up her daughter Nicole in the way
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Artists' high notes
YOUNG artist Helen Shoesmith will soon be wearing her work with pride. Organisers of a painting competition were so impressed with her artwork, based on the Great British Rhythm & Blues music festival held over the Bank Holiday weekend, they are thinking
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Concern as 'outside' patients clog up wards
BURY'S hospitals are taking the strain while health bosses throughout the North West struggle to balance their books. Operations have been cancelled at Fairfield and Bury General because beds are clogged up by patients from outside the borough. Doctors
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Shot boy lucky to be alive
THE mother of a Bury teenager shot by an air gun has told how he cheated death by a fraction of an inch. The pellet lodged in his stomach, narrowly missing a main artery after going through his liver and penetrating his pancreas. Now, parents Barbara
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Pistol man shoots off protest letter to Hague
A LOCAL pistol shooter has written to Tory leader William Hague urging him to demand an independent inquiry into the Government's ban on handguns. Mr Jim Hayward, 67, fears that the way in which the handover of guns has been drawn up by the Home Office
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Fury over sandmine plans
HIGH-QUALITY agricultural land could be mined for sand - and there is little Bury Council can do about it. The land off Pilsworth Road in Hollins has been identified as a "high mineral source search area" under the Unitary Development Plan - which maps
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Barber Martin tears his hair over lorry noise
BARBER Martin Baybutt has added his voice to the growing calls for action to put a halt to convoys of lorries thundering through a residential Blackburn district. People in Shadsworth Road have written to Blackburn with Darwen Council to complain about
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BT readers bid to help cancer youngster
MORE than 200 Bury Times readers have offered life-saving bone marrow following our moving report on leukaemia victim Aimee Read. The massive response has been described by charity officials as "the best ever from a local newspaper". It has led to two
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Little heroine praised
LITTLE heroine Victoria Congleton acted quickly to stop a chip pan fire turning into a serious blaze. Victoria, eight, was watching TV when she smelled smoke coming from the kitchen of her home in Richmond Hill Street, Accrington. She opened the kitchen
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TEN YEARS AGO: Airport chaos grows
FAMILIES were facing travel turmoil following escalation of strike action by Spanish air traffic controllers. Holidaymakers heading for Spain faced nightmare delays of at least 16 hours on flights from Manchester Airport. And as 140 air traffic controllers
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GOLF: Nick and Nick
NICK Dougherty teamed up with Nick Faldo at the Forest of Arden today after a sensational victory in Faldo's Junior Classic Series. The 15-year-old from Shaw Hill, near Chorley produced a sizzling second round of 69 in horrendous conditions to win the
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Spies have a chance to reclaim image
THE promise by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to target the international narcotics trade with the Secret Intelligence Service and MI5 is welcome. But Mr Cook was right when he said Britain would need help "to bear down on this scourge as never before."
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DRUGS: Parents' fear as kids find drug needles
A SAFETY alert has been sparked on a housing estate after two youngsters were pricked as they played with a discarded syringe. Seven-year-old Matthew Warren and his friend Corrie Maine, five, found the needle in an alleyway between Holden Fold and Lilac
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Thanks for your views
THANK you Coun John Milburn (Letters August 19) for replying to my concerns about the Livesey Estate in Blackburn and also to two residents whose remarks, sharing our fears, were printed the same night. Perhaps a few more residents who feel this way may
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Readers go for gala change
READERS have voted seven to one in favour of a new date for the rain-soaked Blackburn Lions Gala. The Lancashire Evening Telegraph's vote line was set up after gala organisers revealed they were considering a change in a bid to beat the bad weather which
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I knew I'd been shot: teenager
A TEENAGER told today how she was left drenched in blood after being blasted in the head by gun thugs. Laura Page, 16, was sitting on swings with friend Tina Maher, 17, when she felt a pain on the right side of her head. She says had been shot by a gang
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Town centre boost
RADCLIFFE town centre is a step closer to receiving a major boost with plans for a retail and leisure complex. A formal application for outline planning permission has now been submitted to Bury Council by the Sale company English and Overseas Properties
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Bursting the bubble: Wine selection should be matter of taste
Food News, with Christine Rutter WHY do we make such a drama about wine? We drink spirits without a second thought and down beer without any bother, selecting it by the pub rather than by than the pint. But wine? The art of wine picking abounds with doubts
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Sparkling spectacular switches on tomorrow
"THE Greatest Free Show on Earth" will light up the eyes of thousands of seaside visitors as singer Michael Ball hits the right note at the switching on of Blackpool Illuminations tomorrow night. The dazzling display will run until November 2 with a number
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Cricket club to take no action on party
CRICKET club chiefs have decided not to take action over claims that a match was interrupted by people at a nearby party. Jeering and chanting was heard coming from a garden during a game between Oswaldtwistle Immanuel Church and Ribblesdale Wanderers
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CLARETS: Burnley draw Stoke
BURNLEY will do battle with First Division Stoke City in the second round of the Coca-Cola Cup. The Clarets were paired against the Potteries side when the draw was made today - and Burnley will have home advantage before the second leg joust at Stoke's
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Ady keeps cool before battle begins
BATTLE lines have been drawn as Bury boxing champ Ady Lewis, pictured relaxing in his garden between training, prepares to defend his British Crown but he is far from worried about the fight with Commonwealth title-holder, Peter Culshaw. Ady has stepped
