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Litigation lawyer
CHARLES Hurst has joined the litigation support department at Blackburn accountants Waterworths. He has been involved in assisting lawyers with work on fraud cases, personal injury claims and in other complex financial areas for 10 years. Previous news
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Rod behind new flotation
ONE of the people who helped steer Clitheroe-based Ultraframe through its Stock Market flotation is set to do it again. Rod Sellars, a non-executive director of the conservatory roof firm, has been appointed non-executive chairman at North West housebuilder
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Boxing men only
WITH reference to Julian Pilling's query (Letters, November 11), regarding lady boxers, it is certainly correct that lady boxers were included in the 1904 St Louis Olympics when boxing was introduced. It was, however, as a demonstration, as only the men's
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Jean genius sewn up by amazing Amazon
THE first trainees to graduate from a jeans school have been given the denim carpet treatment. The Amazon Training Centre was launched in Blackburn earlier this year by the North Lancs Training Group. The idea for a training school was initiated by Gulam
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Firms join race for equal opportunity
REPRESENTATIVES from a pie firm are set to meet Home Secretary Jack Straw in a new move to improve race relations in industry. Walter Holland & Son of Baxenden are one of 18 firms in the North West taking part in the Race for Opportunity initiative
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King and cocaine: FBI files on Elvis's habit
Mark Templeton surfs the net AMERICA'S FBI is often shrouded in secrecy but their web site is an open house and a great source of information...particularly for tabloid journalists. Recent stories about Elvis being a cocaine addict came from the FBI home
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Right to crack whip
TENS of thousands of people were fleeced when greedy firms and commission-hungry salesmen encouraged them to leave sound company pensions schemes and take out less-good personal pensions in the late Eighties and early Nineties. The culprits have been
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'Super' race group plan for harmony
A 'SUPER' race harmony group is planned for East Lancashire, following the turmoil surrounding the racial equality council in Burnley and Pendle. It will mean the creation of a single equality council covering the present Burnley and Pendle and Hyndburn
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Oil cash mis-spent
I WOULD like to remind John Blunt (LET, November 12), who seems to cringe when a person signs a free prescription in his local chemists, that if the revenues from North Sea oil, over the last 12 years, had been put into our health and education services
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Pop 'stars' pathetic
REGARDING the recent letters about pop groups, their bad manners, bad language and so forth, I cannot understand how these people get to be 'stars,' earning more in a week than I could earn in a year. Most of them can't sing - at least half of the guitarists
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Top tots toddle off with prizes
SHOPPERS at Blackburn's Mothercare World watched as a gorgeous line-up of Lancashire Evening Telegraph Baby of the Year Competition winners received their prizes. Lancashire Evening Telegraph Editor Peter Butterfield presented money vouchers to the section
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Lucky ones: Full car park at temple of doom saved Blackburn women from death
TWO Blackburn women today told how they were saved from the Luxor temple massacre - by a lack of car parking space. Cheryl Ciraolo and Margaret Read, who were airlifted home from Egypt last night, should have been on a tour of the Hafshepsut Temple with
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CLARETS: Waddle's men Savage-d by classy Londoners
Burnley 1 Millwall 2 - Peter White's big match verdict MILLWALL handed out some harsh lessons at Turf Moor last night when, for once in the Second Division, there was an obvious gap between a team near the top and one hovering around the bottom. "No-one
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Falling on deaf ears
MR R J Wilcock's remarks (Letters, November 11) are yet another sensible criticism of the currently in-vogue rash of traffic management schemes ('calming' is incorrect - no one becomes calm on these roads. but stressed - yes). Unfortunately, it will fall
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FIVE YEARS AGO: School into Top 100
BRAINY pupils saw their East Lancashire school rocket into the national top 100. Clitheroe Royal Grammar chalked up 39th place in a league table compiled by the Press Association based on A and AS Level results. But heads, teachers and parents' groups
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TEN YEARS AGO: Tube tragedy clues hunt
TUBE officials were hunting for clues to the cause of an inferno which claimed the lives of at least 30 commuters. As plastic surgeons prepared to operate on the most severely-burned survivors, an eerie quiet hung over King's Cross underground station
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NHS legacy excuse starts to wear thin
HEALTH Secretary Frank Dobson may blame the "Tory legacy" as hospital waiting lists, growing by more than 1,000 patients a week, reach record levels and Labour's election promise to cut them by 100,000 begins itself to look sick. But though it is true
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CLARETS: Search for loan striker goes on
CHRIS Waddle's search for re-inforcements goes on and the need for new blood was underlined at Turf Moor last night when Burnley suffered their first home League defeat for nearly eight months. But the player-manager admitted that, while he hadn't given
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Flash living in rural Cheshire
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy IT is always a good plan for those of us interested in natural history to get to know our local patch. It is also a good idea to keep a diary, or at least a record, of local sightings. Every now and then, however, you should
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CRICKET: Lancashire set to shine under the lights
LANCASHIRE have fixed up two floodlit league matches at Old Trafford next season. And they will play in another three day-night games on other grounds. The big two Manchester dates are Monday, June 22 against Surrey, and Monday, July 20 against Worcester
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Scandal of early pay-offs
The John Blunt column REMEMBER the report last month that showed Blackburn's streets were in such a rotten state that the council was paying out nearly £467,000 a year in compensation to people tripping up and having accidents on them? And who can forget
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Ban for director in £2m crash
A BUSINESSMAN has been banned from being a director for three years after a court heard a company crashed owing more than £2million. Michael Kershaw of Bankside Close, Bacup, was one of the directors of Leonard Horsfall and Co Ltd, a Todmorden based electrical
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Wrexham chairman's apology to the fans
WREXHAM chairman Pryce Griffiths has apologised to Burnley soccer fans following the "overcrowding" furore at last month's Racecourse Ground clash. But he is sticking to his guns in insisting there were enough seats for the Clarets' supporters in the
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Girl, 3, fights killer bug
A THREE-year-old girl was fighting for her life today after being struck down by the killer bug meningitis. Samantha Forrest, who lives in Oswaldtwistle, was initially admitted to hospital in Blackburn before being transferred to the Royal Manchester
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CLARETS: Replay on satellite TV
BURNLEY'S FA Cup first round replay against Rotherham next Tuesday night will be shown 'live' by Sky TV. The satellite channel visited Turf Moor last season to show the League game against Bury, won 3-1 by Burnley. Despite the screening, there is no change
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ROVERS: McKinlay signs new Ewood contract
BILLY McKinlay has put pen to paper on a new four-year contract with Blackburn Rovers, taking him through to the summer of 2001. The Scottish international midfielder, who is set to go to next year's World Cup finals with Ewood team-mates Colin Hendry
