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Crashed firm's machinery seized
PRINT company Lords of Burnley has crashed into receivership with the loss of 50 jobs. Workers who had not been paid for three weeks were given the news as bank creditors moved in to seize machinery at the Trafalgar Mill works. Print union G.P.A. forced
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50 jobs lost in engineering firm crash
AN engineering firm has been sold at the same time as another run by the same businessman crashed into receivership. Machine Fabricators of Clayton-le-Moors has been acquired by a Scottish firm for a "substantial six figure sum". The announcement came
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Cinema site is place for pub
THE mystery location of Burnley's newest pub has been revealed as Hollywood Park, the same site as the popular multiplex cinema. The total cost of the development is £2m with building works estimated at £1.4m. When it opens in February, the pub will bring
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Club boss wins appeal over £600,000 nightspot
AN entertainments boss has been given the green light for a showpiece club in Nelson- which he says will be the area's number one nightspot. Richard Gallamore is pumping £600,000 into the century old former Grand Theatre but his plans were scuppered when
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Thousand names to turn the tables
MORE than 1,000 people in three days backed a snack seller's campaign to provide an open air eating place for summertime shoppers. A petition has been sent to Blackburn with Darwen Council by Geoff Hindle, who has been selling ice cream and hot snacks
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ICE HOCKEY: Hawks get down to league business
LANCASHIRE Hawks get down to the "real business" tomorrow night - with hopes high and a few lessons learned. Hawks take flight at Murrayfield as the new-look ice hockey league structure takes hold after a month of warm-up fixtures. Manager Mike Cockayne
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Anger as pavement ad boards disappear
A CAFE owner in Clitheroe has hit out at a Lancashire County Council campaign to "return the pavements to the people". Workmen confiscated advertising boards from Castle Street in an early-morning blitz, leaving Angela Sampey of the Court Jester cafe
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Prayers as hostage family waits for news
THE family of hostage Paul Wells today faced an agonising wait after remains were found in a Kashmiri graveyard. The remains were dug up after a cemetery grave was identified by captured militants four days ago at Akingham in Indian occupied Kashmir,
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Swoop nets fake designer labels
TRADING standards officers believe they could have caught one of the main suppliers of fake designer labels in a raid yesterday. Almost £3,000 worth of counterfeit clothing was discovered in the back of a transit van along with 10,000 designer label tags
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CLARETS: Gerry is a Luton target
SECOND Division rivals Luton Town want Gerry Harrison, writes TONY DEWHURST. I can reveal tonight that Luton boss Lennie Lawrence has made a firm enquiry for the transfer-listed utility man. But any interest has cooled until Harrison recovers from a hamstring
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ROVERS: Deadly Dublin's Sky high hopes
Blackburn Rovers v Coventry City - Peter White's big match preview DION Dublin will be a man with a mission at Ewood Park tomorrow when Sky TV viewers tune into Blackburn Rovers' game against Coventry City banking on another goal rush. Dublin wouldn't
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Posh house in Pendle for Beckham and Spice Girl?
NEW "sightings" of Manchester United soccer star David Beckham and girlfriend Posh Spice have fuelled rumours that the glamorous couple have been house-hunting in Pendle. Foulridge housewife Pauline Whitfield is convinced a girl in a red sports car who
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Protest puts hounds off the scent
HUNT saboteurs were in action on the moors high above Darwen as part of their campaign against Holcombe Harriers. Seven members of the North West Campaign Against Bloodsports scented the fields with garlic and lemon and mimicked the voice and trumpet
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Planners bowed to pressure
REGARDING the artistic treasures in Blackburn town centre, surely, one would have thought that these barricades would have been finished off properly in the studio workshop and not have to be tickled up on site (LET, September 20). Secondly, why have
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Empire that was built on secrecy
IN reply to Mr J Porter (Letters, September 9), in Victorian and Edwardian days any street urchin with the rags of his backside hanging out could be heard to say: "I am English and proud of it." But why? Because a unique feudal system, passed down since
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ROVERS: High noon for Stuart
STUART Ripley's ambitions of joining England's World Cup crusade to Italy in a fortnight's time will be decided at noon on Monday when Glenn Hoddle announces his squad. But hopes of a spectacular gamble on the Blackburn Rovers winger's fitness seem to
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My holiday romance with Spice Girl Mel B
PULSE - music and more, with Simon Donohue AN artist from East Lancashire has told how he enjoyed a teenage holiday romance with Spice Girl Mel B. Max Bretherton, who lives in the Nelson area, dated international millionaire pop star Scary Spice when
