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We foot the bill for evacuees
HOW nice of Blackburn with Darwen Council to welcome the evacuees of Montserrat with open arms, in the form of a special welcome committee and the benefits and housing agency on stand-by to cater for their every need. I read recently of the same council
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ROVERS: Players fight for places in 'dead' tie
Coca Cola Cup (2nd rnd 2nd leg): Preston North End v Blackburn Rovers - Peter White's big match preview TONIGHT'S second leg is a mere formality, with Blackburn Rovers' 6-0 victory over Preston North End having killed off their Coca-Cola Cup second round
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TEN YEARS AGO: £200m bid for brewery
BIG brewers Scottish and Newcastle went in for the kill with a near £200 million bid for Blackburn-based Matthew Brown. The border brewers, who were beaten off at the 11th hour in a takeover battle two years before, hit back with a breakfast time bid
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Lead water pipes shock
HOUSEHOLDS with lead water pipes could be drinking water with levels 5,000 times higher than recommended, it was revealed. Samples taken the previous year found lead levels in some Blackburn households containing 1,000 times the then recommended limit
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Tower is an old friend
I HAVE just read the article on the Darwen Tower replicas going on sale. I am a regular reader of the Evening Telegraph and the Blackburn Citizen by way of the Internet. I left Blackburn in 1963 to live in Canada. I return often to visit the Blackburn
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Only too glad to assist, Mr Dobson
EAST Lancashire is to play a key role in the government's demolition of the internal market the Tories created in the NHS. For health secretary Frank Dobson announced today that Blackburn and Darwen will be among the 42 pilot projects for replacing the
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£100,000 cost of town hall humbug
THERE is an overpowering reek of cant and profligacy coming from Blackburn town hall over deposed chief executive Gerald Davies. The new, incoming self-run local authority does not want him as boss. It dumped him last May and gave the £80,000-a-year job
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MP joins bid to stop day hospital closing
PRESSURE on Burnley Health Care Trust to withdraw its plan to shut down the day hospital for the elderly at Burnley General mounted, as MP Peter Pike added his voice to the chorus of opposition. The Community Health Council has spearheaded objection to
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ROVERS: Hodgson's Coca-Cola shake-up
ROY Hodgson could give senior debuts to three players against Preston North End tonight. Blackburn Rovers take a 6-0 lead to Deepdale in their Coca-Cola Cup second round, second leg tie. And, just hours after being named in the Welsh squad to travel to
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Fence is welcomed
I AM writing in praise of the railings erected on Buncer Lane, Blackburn, down the side of the school playing field. I have spent the summer months seething at being denied access to Ned Hole Wood from Buncer Lane, which I have used almost daily for the
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Whale of a tour in Canada
MEMORIES of hitting the high notes on a glacier, serenading killer whales and meeting a Mountie during a singing tour of Canada will live with members of a junior choir for the rest of their lives. About 50 youngsters aged between 12 and 18 have returned
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Goodbye Tony, bonjour Paris
JANET Anderson, Rossendale and Darwen MP, is deserting the Labour Party's victory conference in Brighton the day after Prime Minister Tony Blair's speech for a romantic few days in Paris. The Government whip is being whisked away by husband Vince to celebrate
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Racks a crafty ruse
REGARDING Mr K A Brown's remarks on the cycle racks in Great Harwood and Rishton (Letters, September 25), here is one reason why the so-called racks in Rishton are under-used. They are cunningly built on a slope, so your bike slides gracefully into the
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ROVERS: Hoddle rap for Sutton
CHRIS Sutton, the Premiership's top scorer, can justifiably wonder what he has to do to get into the England squad - but it seems he mustn't do his wondering in public! Glenn Hoddle once again ignored the Ewood striker yesterday when he named his England
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CLARETS: Hot shot Cooke in lumber
ANDY Cooke was due to visit a specialist today in a bid to cure a troublesome back problem. The striker missed the weekend's action at Brentford with a back injury and now Cooke hopes the trouble can be sorted out once and for all. Waddle said: "It is
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Fewer local firms are failing
BUSINESS failures in the region so far this year have fallen. Latest figures from Dun & Bradstreet show 2,762 business failures recorded during the first three quarters of 1997, a fall of 5.8 per cent on 1996. Liquidations have fallen by 12.6 per
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Hague wrong over conference sleeping plans, says Bishop
TORY leader William Hague has caused an East Lancashire rift in the run up to next week's party conference - because of his sleeping arrangements. The Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev Alan Chesters, the new Lancashire president of the marriage guidance
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Your Shout: Clarets fans have their say
BURNLEY should have won at Brentford. They created far more chances than Brentford up until Lee Howey got sent off. But I think a lack of judgement by Chris Waddle may have cost us the game. When we went down to 10 men he looked shattered. He should have
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SOS to save dying tot Aimee
AN APPEAL has gone out to East Lancashire people who could save the life of young leukaemia victim Aimee Read and other sufferers. Aimee, five, suffers from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and will die in 12 months if she does not get a bone marrow transplant
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Your Shout: Rovers fans have their say
JUDGING by Sunday's performance, and the one at Tottenham, the bubble has burst. Rovers would never have scored if they played until Monday. Why are all the players Hodgson buys, Dahlin excepted, midfielders. Is there no one at Ewood who can play on the
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Schools parking problem
RECENTLY, in Blackburn, there has been a crackdown on people illegally parking outside schools. I have noticed traffic wardens and police officers out in full force near some schools, but I have not seen any at all outside Beardwood School and Westholme
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Hotel owner's gripe over fire safety prosecution
FIRE safety officers decided to prosecute the owner of a large East Lancashire hotel after finding dangerous faults in the staff quarters. But Malcolm Weaving, owner of the 50-bed Stirk House Hotel at Gisburn, claimed in court that he had been "victimised
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Villagers halt traffic in protest over homes
PROTESTERS stopped traffic for 10 minutes in a campaign against plans for homes in their village. Dozens of Billington residents spent the afternoon displaying placards at the proposed site, near the railway bridge, off Whalley Old Road. The protest follows
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Duo keep in Tempo
TWO new appointments have been announced by the Tempo Recruitment Group. Martin Thompson is now manager of Tempo Managerial and Professional, a division of the Blackburn based group, and Lorraine Dickinson, with more than 18 years' management experience
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Health care revolution: East Lancs leads way
A RADICAL move which could lead to the abolition of the NHS internal market is to be put on trial in East Lancashire, it was announced today. Blackburn and Darwen area has been chosen as a pilot area for a scheme which could effectively destroy the Tories
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Pictures of purr-fection
TEN talented winners received a purr-fect prize for their drawings of a cat in our Animal Art competition. Copies of Dorling Kindersley's I Can Draw Fantastic Animals or I Can Draw Amazing Faces went to the lucky winners. Look out for lots more NIE competitions
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Council staff go back to school
COUNCIL staff have been going back to school this month. A team of 11 from Burnley Council has been taking part in a project aimed at improving the job prospects of local students. Under the monitoring scheme, run by the East Lancashire Education Business
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Passages of time: New book aims to keep our heritage alive
Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter "THE thud of the bombs, the shouts of the air raid wardens. The flames from burning buildings as the incendiary bombs rained down lit the sky for miles around as the searchlights raked the sky trying to locate the
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Clutter is council's fault
I AM amazed at Blackburn Council's one-sided attitude to pavement clutter. Traders' small 'A' boards must be removed, yet the council itself has recently installed a large 'gate' in Northgate and a statue in the middle of the Boulevard's pavement area
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£100,000 pay-off for council chief
A COMPROMISE deal on the future of a top council boss who lost his job to his deputy has been agreed by Blackburn town hall leaders. And the final package is likely to cost the council in the region of £100,000 in redundancy payments and wages. The agreement
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Readers say: Legalise cannabis
CALLERS in a Lancashire Evening Telegraph phone poll have backed the legalisation of cannabis by a majority of more than four to one. Just over 80 per cent of people who rang our voteline yesterday backed the celebrity campaign involving Sir Paul McCartney
