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CLARETS: The Ful monty! Burnley stripped of points share
Fulham 1 Burnley 0 - Nick Brownlee's big match report JUDGMENT night this might have been. Justice night it definitely was not. And while the jury is still very much out on Chris Waddle's Burnley after their sixth defeat in seven games, the only true
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Give elderly a decent festive rise
WHEN Edward Heath, the pre-Thatcher Tory Prime Minister, gave pensioners a Christmas bonus of £10, it was enough to purchase extra food and drink for the festive season, with a little left over to purchase small luxuries. It has remained pegged at £10
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Jail all drink-drivers - shock call by magistrates
A MAGISTRATE has called for all drink drivers to be automatically jailed. Stipendiary magistrate Jonathon Finestein said the sooner it happened the sooner drinking and driving would stop and innocent road users would be protected. Mr Finestein was passing
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Former coroner, 67, dies in his sleep
A MAN who served as coroner for 32 years has died after a long illness. Mr George Graham, 67, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, had been living at the Rowans Nursing Home, Whalley New Road, Roe Lee, Blackburn. He died peacefully in his sleep at 10.50pm
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ROVERS: Damien's a devil of a good player
The Saturday Interview: Paul Agnew meets Rovers winger Damien Duff DAMIEN Duff has already crossed the touchline to stardom. The soccer world, always ready to throw its arms around a young prodigy, awaits the result. Those in the know reckon they already
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Well done!
f=Zurich Bd BT s=8l=8.5PRAISE indeed for the two council workmen who found £100,000-worth of heroin hidden in a wall in Blackburn (LET, December 12). They should be handsomely rewarded for their actions. May they both know the joy of Christmas and flourish
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Road puzzler from A to B
HIGHWAYS bosses have left drivers baffled after promoting a country road to an A-class route - without telling anyone. Motorists using the new multi-million pound stretch of the M65 are left facing a confusing sign stating the name of a road which does
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Unfair to ban ALL our guns
DURING the gun control debate following the Dunblane atrocity, the Lancashire Evening Telegraph took a moral stand generally supporting the handgun ban and deploring the violence and "gun culture" that pervades society. Although in my "Local Gun Collector
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Margaret finds brother after 58 years
A WOMAN who was parted from her brother at an orphanage when she was two years old has found him again - after 58 years. Margaret Stones, 60, of Kinross Walk, Audley, Blackburn, last saw her brother Bernard in 1939, when they were both at the Stile Cottage
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Cancer care boost in £5m winter windfall
THE Government has given East Lancashire Health Authority a £5.5 million festive bonus to help cope with winter demands. And the cash includes £85,000 to spend on breast cancer care in the area. The authority's finance director, Chris Dickson, said the
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Tory's rap over telly
AN East Lancashire MP has accused Government ministers of betraying pensioners over increases in the cost of television licences. Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans has written to Heritage Secretary Chris Smith condemning the increase to £97.50 from April 1
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At last! Now baby Jonathan is really ours
A COUPLE who helped with an international babies-for-sale investigation are about to give a home to the toddler they feared they had lost forever. During a nine-month long probe, Pat and Stephen Hampson, of Darwen, were offered a child called Jonathan
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Tubby or not Tubby? Kiddie acts dominate Review of '97
PULSE - music and more, with Simon Donohue WE STARTED the year with the fab five and ended it with the flabby four. As The Spice Girls kickstarted the year with the number one single Two Become One, so the Teletubbies rose to megastardom with their chart-conquering
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CLARETS: Waddle curses his luck
BURNLEY boss Chris Waddle was left cursing his luck today after his side's latest cruel set-back. And the player-manager, who dropped himself to sub last night, has more headaches on the horizon. Left wing back Paul Weller is due in hospital on Monday
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ROVERS: Blackburn must cough up for Croft
GARY Croft is about to cost Blackburn Rovers a small fortune - but no-one at Ewood Park will be complaining. And neither will his former club Grimsby, who are set to receive a healthy cash windfall from the full back's emergence as a Premiership player
