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The dancing days
TIME passes and one grows older and begins to look back and wonder about the number of people still in circulation who went to Taylor's School for Dancing on Manchester Road, Burnley, to enjoy modern ballroom dancing. Everyone was happy and looked it.
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Small firms call for crackdown on crime
A SMALL firms pressure group has sent Home Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw a New Year plea to tackle crime. The Federation of Small Businesses, which has several hundred members in Lancashire, has written to Mr Straw urging him to crackdown on crime
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ROVERS: Your Shout!
IN 58 years of watching the Rovers, I have never seen a team outplayed as much as Palace and steal and point. But to put the blame on Steve Patrick is unfair. Why were the Palace subs and trainer allowed to churn up the Darwen End at half time stopping
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Town hall to tighten purse strings
TOWN hall departments at Blackburn with Darwen Council have been set targets to reduce spending by £4.3 million over the next 12 months. Blackburn with Darwen council is looking to save the money during the first year of going it alone under single status
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CLARETS: Your Shout!
EVERYBODY in the ground on Boxing Day could see what was missing from the Burnley attack. It was lack of width. We needed somebody to get hold of that ball, get down the wing and get it across. Now that Chris Waddle has sat on the bench for two games,
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Neighbour's hols spark TV turn-off
SCORES of households were left with blank television screens over the Christmas break when a neighbour went on holiday - and turned off the aerial switch. The plug was pulled on the communal aerial on Boxing Day and residents are still waiting for normal
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Aerial repair men appeal for calm
A TELEVISION engineer inundated with requests for repairs to aerials after the Christmas Eve storm is appealing for calm from irate customers. David Dugdale of Dugdale's TV and Satellite in Chatburn Road, Clitheroe, has received 87 calls after aerials
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Sister's thanks
I WOULD like to express my thanks for your obituary report (LET, December 20) on my sister, Patricia Blake. You recognise, as I do, those in our community who put much of their energy into solving problems within their community without the recognition
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Times have changed, Mr H
EAST Lancashire Euro-MP Mike Hindley fires a bizarre early parting shot today as he prepares to pack in. For he predicts the break-up of the Labour Party before the next election and accuses Tony Blair of being a Tory. It is, of course, absurd to consider
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Brave Kurt's Disney dream comes true
A PLUCKY youngster with a rare brain disorder has enjoyed the Christmas treat of a lifetime - thanks to the generosity of local people. Six-year-old Kurt Hines returned home to Foulridge, near Colne, from a dream trip to Disney World, Florida, laden down
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CLARETS: Billion dollar man
Focus on the tycoon plotting to take over Burnley FC THE American company owned by prospective Burnley Football Club chief Ray Ingleby is worth a massive one billion dollars. New York-based Caribiner International Inc is one of the American business success
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ICE HOCKEY: Hawks on guard
LANCASHIRE Hawks will be aiming to ring out the old year on a high note tonight. The local ice hockey aces have a rare midweek home date at Blackburn Arena when their Kingston namesakes fly in for a Northern League clash (face off 8pm). But Jim Pennycook's
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Fire crews' busiest Christmas
FIREFIGHTERS in East Lancashire had their busiest Christmas on record - though they dealt with just six fires. The figures were released as wind-battered East Lancashire braced itself for more gales in the lead-up to New Year. In 24 hours across the county
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CLARETS: Unhappy new year for the fans
Cummings and Goings - a fan's eye view, with Stephen Cummings HAPPY New Year from Turf Moor? Well, that's certainly open to debate. Traditionally a time for both considered reflection and contemplation of what might lie ahead, the claret and blue faithful
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Ban sex 'slave' trade, says MEP
AN EAST Lancashire Euro MP has called for swift action to stop foreign females being forced into prostitution on the streets of East Lancashire. Labour MEP Mark Hendrick fears that the widespread problems of immigrants selling sex in cities such as Paris
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Time right for a major expansion
A FAST growing firm is seeing in the New Year with a major expansion programme across the UK. Simonstone-based Time Computer Systems has just opened a new showroom in Cardiff and a clutch of other stores are under development. The latest showroom is the
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'Man of vision' dies at 75
TRIBUTES have been paid to a former council chief executive who directed a town through a decade of change. Clifford Singleton, 75, lost his battle against cancer in East Lancashire Hospice on Christmas Day. He had been ill for four months. During a career
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ROVERS: New kit deal pending at Ewood Park
BLACKBURN Rovers are hoping to announce a new kit deal early in the New Year - and that might well signal a change from their present suppliers ASICS. Millions of pounds are at stake for Premiership clubs in their dealings with kit manufacturers and Ewood
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Crossing opposition amazes
IN reply to the remarks by Mrs J O'Malley (Letters, December 16), as a 'pedestrian' parent who frequents St Francis' School, Blackburn, I was disappointed and amazed that anyone living in the vicinity could actually oppose a pelican crossing. The parents
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TEN YEARS AGO: Drink-driving shame
BOOZY East Lancashire motorists had ignored drink driving advice and topped the county's league table. And drivers in the Burnley area were the worst offenders over the 10-day police drink drive campaign. Blackburn drivers were close behind and there
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Rookie Ian's hole-in-one
TEN-year-old Ian Cock sunk a hole-in-one - just six months after taking up golf. Ian cracked a glorious tee shot on the 188-yard second hole at Marsden Golf Club, Nelson. And he watched his ball bounce on to the green, up to the flag, and straight down
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Sinister twist to arrest of drugs reporter
THERE is a disturbing and sinister twist today in the case of the Cabinet Minister's son arrested for allegedly selling cannabis to a Mirror investigative journalist. For the journalist herself was arrested for possession of the drug when she went, by
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'Posties' with the mostest want to be with their horse
A FAMILY tradition spanning decades will come to an end next Tuesday when sub-postmaster Jack Dorrington and his wife Katrina retire. Katrina's grandparents ran Whalley post office for 20 years. It was then passed on to her parents who ran it for 48 years
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Signs send wrong signal
NOW that the M65 motorway has been completed and the incorrectly-spelt (albeit temporary) sign pointing to 'Haslingdon' has been removed, I note that the exit signs at Junction 5 are informing drivers to travel along the A6177 to Blackburn or Haslingden
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New year, new leaf: How many will stick to those resolutions?
Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter WHAT resolutions have you made for 1998? Signing up for a season ticket at the gym, doing the Christmas shopping early next year, shedding the flab in time for the summer hols? Why is it we always make unrealistic
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Tribute to courage
I WAS sad to hear of the death of Mrs Pat Blake (LET, December 20), even though it was not completely unexpected after her lengthy spells in Blackburn Infirmary and Tameside Hospital this year. She achieved great things despite having very few advantages
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Faith in doctor remains
THE trouble with making headlines, accused of some appalling crime, is that the readership already begins to make judgments. So, while Dr Francis Apaloo (LET, December 19) painfully faces the ordeal of courts and the outcome of this awful charge against
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Blair is a Tory, claims Euro MP
TONY BLAIR was today accused of following Conservative ideals by one of his own Euro MPs. East Lancashire MEP Mike Hindley also predicted the break-up of the Labour Party before the next election. In a stinging attack, the left-wing MEP who represents
