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CRICKET: Lancashire League round-up
HASLINGDEN were made to sweat at Bentgate after bowling Burnley out for 128. They reached 130-6 with less than four overs to spare. But they were 89-5 and then 104-6 as the visitors threatened a huge upset. Their problem was not enough runs on the board
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DIANA: Disbelief, then tributes
PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice said he was stunned when he awoke to hear the news on his radio alarm early yesterday. "At first, it was not clear from the broadcast and I thought the Queen Mother may have died. "Then came the horrible realisation that it was
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CLARETS: Waddle woe at bore draw
Burnley 0 Bristol Rovers 0 - Tony Dewhurst's big match verdict THE Saturday night radio phone-in crackled into life and a bloke called Dean let rip with a discharge of untamed anger. And boy was he spitting feathers. Fury was not the right word. This
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DIANA: Palace vigil of couple on TV
BLACKBURN couple Ron and Margaret Hayes were interviewed on TV when they joined the first mourners at Buckingham Palace. Margaret said: "It's such a shame she died this way and it's a tragedy for the family and especially for her boys. She was so beautiful
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DIANA: Pub shares Al Fayed's grief
AN East Lancashire publican and friend of Mohammed Al Fayed today spoke of his grief at the tragedy. Derek Howells, who runs the Alma Inn, Laneshawbridge, Colne, was a fierce campaigner in trying to persuade the British government to grant the Egyptian
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TEN YEARS AGO: Tourists fear strike misery
MANCHESTER Airport was bracing itself for another major snarl-up as Spanish air traffic controllers threatened to strike again. Thousands of sunseekers faced a repeat of the chaos which resulted from a 24-hour strike by Barcelona two weeks before. Manchester
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Bid to restore civic pride
ONE of Britain's first town centre managers was appointed to give new life to the commercial heart of Blackburn and Darwen. Paul Isherwood, a chartered civil engineer employed by Blackburn Council for 18 years, was given the post. His job was to bring
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Buncer issue burns on
I HAVE read all the letters regarding railings on Buncer Lane, Blackburn, the closure of the footpath and short cut to Witton Park across the school playing fields. I wonder if all this trouble would have arisen if they had erected the fence across the
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Not a bright idea
THE "experts" who thought up the excuses to cut costs, mentioned in your article "Bright idea to cut energy means dim street lights" (LET, August 27), gave me the best laugh I've had for ages. They should write for Comic Cuts. They want the lights dimmed
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Pill controls a waste of time
WHAT a pathetic attempt at sound bite legislation by this Labour government! I refer to the proposed controls on the sale of paracetamol in supermarkets, off-licences and shops, which will be introduced next year, to try and stop suicides. Reducing the
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DIANA: Let's hope people's princess lives on in her son
AS a nation numbed with grief struggles to contemplate life without Diana, Princess of Wales, the events which led to her death and those of her friend Dodi Fayed and the chauffeur are under close scrutiny. She was hounded to her death in a Paris underpass
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Do police bow to mob rule?
WHY did Blackburn police grant a special dispensation to the visiting Liverpool contingent at Ewood Park? As a local resident without either garage or safe parking space, I have to move my car every match day as, on one occasion, someone sprayed red paint
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Take 'Summer Wine' with Hetty!
FORGET the glamorous Hollywood hills. Wide-eyed tourists are invited to embark on a journey around the famous film sets of Lancashire! Travel company Goldenrail is offering celebrity seekers the chance to see locations from hit BBC shows Last Of The Summer
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DIANA: Quiet place for prayer
BLACKBURN Cathedral will be open all week for "quiet reflection and thought" after the Paris tragedy. The Provost, the Very Rev David Frayne, today lit a candle in Diana's memory. He said people could go to the cathedral to light candles and say prayers
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Start on new base for Rectella
THE first sod of a £7 million investment has been cut. The ceremony was held this week will see the start of work on new office premises, showroom and restaurant facilities at Rectella's site on Roman Road in Blackburn site. Rectella, the UK's largest
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Tenants to get vote on council house sell-off
COUNCILLORS have set the ball rolling on the possible sell-off of all 3,900 council houses in Hyndburn. But no decisions can be made without the support of the majority of tenants who will have the final say in a secret ballot. They are now to be consulted
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Giant step from 5,000 walkers
ORGANISERS of Motorway Superwalk '97 were astounded at the 5,000 people who brought the SuperScan appeal one step closer to its target of buying a life-saving MRI scanner for East Lancashire people. They raised more than £150,000 smashing the £100,000
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CLARETS: Boss hunts striker
CHRIS Waddle is hunting for a striker to end Burnley's gloomy goal drought. The Clarets manager spent yesterday trying to tie up a deal to bring a forward to Turf Moor in time for tomorrow's Lancashire derby with Oldham Athletic. Waddle was forced to
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CRICKET: Haslingden challenge replay decision
HASLINGDEN skipper Mark Griffin believes yesterday's washed-out Lancashire League programme should NOT be replayed. And the Bentgate club will be checking tonight whether a decision was made by league representatives, before the season started, to replay
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CRICKET: Cherry delight
CHERRY Tree clinched an amazing league and cup double in the Vaux Ribblesdale League with a spectacular performance. The champions were bowled out for 184 with professional Naeem Ashraf scoring 66. He went on to take five wickets as Edenfield were shot
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CRICKET: Yorkshire cry foul to Lord's
YORKSHIRE are considering an official complaint to Lord's over Saturday's Roses washout which could cost them the championship. The game was abandoned in glorious sunshine because heavy overnight rain had leaked under the covers and left the crease at
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Goodnight sarge - give me a kiss!
HERE we go again - some politically-correct wimp in the Ministry of Defence decides that soldiers are being treated too harshly. No more route marches, no endurance tests, no reveille. Guess what? - aerobics instead of P.T. Imagine a regimental sergeant
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DIANA: Our queen of hearts for ever
DIANA became the Queen of Hearts with East Lancashire folk long before she coined the famous phrase. Her first visit to the area was in 1983 when she visited the Joseph Arnold and Co greetings card factory in Church. She was radiant despite the miserable
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ROVERS: Swiss guard Henchoz is top
Crystal Palace 1 Blackburn Rovers 2 - Peter White's big match verdict STEPHANE Henchoz has an ominous message for Premiership strikers - he's going to get even better. The defender is set to add to his rapidly-expanding collection of international caps
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Queen's award up for grabs
FIRMS in East Lancashire are being urged to try and hit the headlines by winning a 1998 Queen's Award. Five local companies, including Wolstenholme International and Panaz, were named among the 1997 recipients. The Queen's Award is regarded as the highest
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SUPERBIKES: Fogarty on the chase
CARL Fogarty closed the gap on John Kocinski with a tremendous second race win in a thrilling ninth round of the World Superbikes Championship at Assen, Holland. The former two-time world champion from Blackburn led from start to finish but he was closely
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Church history will be made on M-way bridge
A NEW motorway bridge will be the focal point of an historic open-air service to mark the unification of nine churches within three denominations. Hundreds of Christians from Darwen are expected to gather at Moss Bridge next Sunday afternoon and walk
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Praying for rain as the heat is on
Looking Back, with Eric Leaver AS a heat-wave August gives way to September, no doubt many in East Lancashire are hoping for an extended Indian Summer. But it wasn't so 38 years ago - people here were praying for it to pour down. For as the 1959 summer
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CRICKET: Soulless East Lancs
THE cry went up in the East Lancs dressing room, "We was robbed" writes BRIAN DOOGAN. And it had nothing to do with events on the cricket field. Those were bad enough with East Lancs, having been set an undaunting target of 140, producing a batting performance
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DIANA: Communities united in grief
MULTI-racial leaders throughout Burnley and Pendle linked to pay tribute to Princess Diana - "the woman whose work for good knew no barriers". Asian leaders cancelled their celebration dinner to mark the 50th anniversary of the birth of Pakistan. Instead
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DIANA: Bishop praises caring mother
CHURCHES across East Lancashire said prayers for the tragic princess yesterday. Many congregations wept as tributes were paid to the Royal and prayers were said for her sons and "the country." The Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev Alan Chesters, described
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ROVERS: My horror, by battler Hendry
FRIGHTENING was the word used by Colin Hendry today to describe the sickening collision which left him motionless on the Selhurst Park pitch for some eight minutes on Saturday, writes PETER WHITE. Happily, Hendry has made a full recovery from the incident
