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Capturing the market
A FAST-expanding firm has set up a satellite site and recruited more staff to help it deal with a bulging order book. Cad-Capture, which specialises in document management, has opened a new office at Daisyfield Mill in Blackburn after winning two major
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Making an impact on recovery
MANAGING director Alan Tinker turned for help when profits dived at his manufacturing firm. And after signing for a special programme in East Lancashire aimed at business owners and managers, he has seen the financial performance of Jet & SBR Rollers
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£200,000 storm bill for college
THE bill for storm damage at the Eagle Street centre of Accrington and Rossendale College could hit £200,000. Around 1,000 students have been told not to come in as contractors carry out major roof repairs and dry out equipment. Gales on Christmas Eve
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£260,000 package helps stop hospital beds crisis
HOSPITAL bosses believe a £260,000 package of contingency plans is helping to prevent a winter beds crisis. Staff at Blackburn Royal Infirmary and Queen's Park Hospital are managing to cope with a recent surge in admissions. They say contingency plans
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Sutch is the way of life
SAUCY Cynthia Payne was set to become Government chief whip in a Cabinet reshuffle announced by Monster Raving Loony leader Screaming Lord Sutch. And 10 Downing Street could have become merely an attraction for Japanese tourists with the real centre of
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Five-mile journey now takes an hour
A COUNCILLOR is calling for action after being bombarded with complaints about traffic congestion following the opening of the new M65 extension. Darwen councillor Dave Smith, has written to the Highways Agency in an attempt to solve the problem at Moss
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Cash bid for town centre security cameras
A NEW push to get controversial closed circuit TV security cameras installed in a town centre has been launched by councillors. The scheme in Nelson would be smaller than the original project rejected by the council's Liberal administration two years
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Jaws wired after vicious attack by mystery thug
A TEENAGER today spoke about how his life has been made a misery by a violent thug who smashed his jaw while he enjoyed a night out with friends. Danny Maguire, 18, had to have his mouth wired and fitted with two steel plates after the vicious attack
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Concert 'magic'
I WOULD like to thank those who gave their services, enabling me to stage the concert in aid of the Paul Wells, Hostages in Kashmir Appeal on December 30. The appalling weather kept the crowd down, but those who came, with the odd exception, were wonderfully
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Policies a betrayal
AS a young RAF Regiment officer serving on an operational squadron, I was alerted in June, 1969, for an 'emergency' move, to support the RUC on the streets of Londonderry. The OC thought that we would be back in time for the squadron sports, the following
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Worthy plan for power station site
THE problem with the derelict former Huncoat power station site has not been a shortage of ideas on what to do with it, but bringing them to fruition. Remember the scheme for a ski slope there? And the ambitious Zeri leisure and recreation park plan?
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Businesses can help run our schools
THERE can be no denying the government has not stopped hammering away at its education theme since taking office with a pledge to improve it. But, surely, its latest idea is the most radical yet - that of bringing in private firms to sort out failing
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Ted's a mine of information
A FORMER East Lancashire miner has turned story-teller to put his pit memories down on paper in a new book. Pensioner Ted Clarke went down Scaitcliffe Colliery in Accrington when he was 14 , toiling in coal seams only 24 inches high. Now aged 72, his
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Prepare to be invaded!
Mark Templeton surfs the net IT should be a very happy New Year for anyone interested in the Internet. This year we will probably see the first serious use of Internet applications via digital television. And watch out for e-mail which will appear more
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Earring clue to headless youth killing
POLICE have revealed that Burnley teenager Christopher Hartley was probably wearing a distinctive gold earring on the day he died. Christopher's dismembered body was found in a bin outside a Blackpool hotel nine days ago. The missing head has still not
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Flats residents get terrier man moved out
ELDERLY residents who feared they would be hit with a £2,700 TV licence demand after a man moved into their sheltered housing complex have won their fight to get him out. The pensioners gave 54-year-old Colin Hunt a cool reception when he was rehoused
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'Home alone' Tara safe and well as mum says thanks
A MOTHER has thanked local people who spotted her young daughter walking home alone after she stormed off from her family. Six-year-old Tara fell out with her brother Michael, seven, at the Boatyard pub at Hoghton and walked home on her own - to Feniscowles
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TEN YEARS AGO: Rovers' stand grant bid
BLACKBURN Rovers' promotion push hinged on a politicians' decision due to be made behind closed doors, the team's manager claimed. For if Blackburn councillors turned down the club's request for a sizeable grant towards the cost of rebuilding the condemned
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Eco-power idea at flopped theme park site
A REVOLUTIONARY "eco park" for business and industry in the North West could rise from the derelict site of the former Huncoat power station. Hyndburn Council has revealed draft plans for a research centre into the business applications of energies like
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Fresh protest over flats plan for mental patients
WORRIED residents have renewed their protest over the building of flats for people with long-term mental health problems. Father-of-three Stuart Halstead says families will live in fear when people with mental health disorders, including schizophrenia
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Anger as maternity unit faces 10-bed cutback
ANGER erupted today after hospital chiefs said they plan to close one ward at a maternity unit just three years after it opened. Ten beds at the Queen's Park Hospital department in Blackburn could be chopped in the cost-cutting move. The unit opened in
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Lancs tour backed by ICL
LANCASHIRE's pre-season tour of South Africa will be sponsored by ICL, the international computer company. Lancashire's tour will be based in Cape Town and the team will play in the prestigious Boland Bank One Day tournament against Western Province,
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Nurses up to the job
REGARDING your article (LET, December 27) on the standard of nursing on Ward 5 at Blackburn Infirmary, I am a patient there and, on quite a number of occasions during the last 12 months, have been admitted to the same ward. At no time have I, or the many
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Former chief man with vision
WITH reference to your obituary report on the former chief executive of Blackburn Council, Mr Clifford Singleton, (LET, December 30), my memory of him takes me back to the early 1970s when, on the Bennington Street estate, we had just reformed the Community
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Cab fight is right
BLACKBURN and Darwen Council should be given the full support they deserve in their bid to make the town's taxi drivers face up to their obligations to the public. Surely, in the light of police findings during spot checks on taxis, the drivers cannot
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Rhododendrons get the chop - and rightly so
Nature Watch, with Ron Freethy MANY people who love walking the nature trails around Thanet Lee Woods in Towneley Park, are wondering why the rhododendrons are being cut back. The project is part of the Forest of Burnley's planting programme and in this
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Power plant will create 12 jobs
THE FINAL decision on plans for a major power plant at a Blackburn factory will be made by a Government minister. Scottish Power has applied for planning permission to build a power plant at Sappi paper mill in Feniscowles. The state-of-the-art generator
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CLARETS: Ingleby wants Bury boss for Turf Moor hot-seat
Exclusive, by Neil Bramwell TYCOON Ray Ingleby has already identified Bury manager Stan Ternent as the man to lead his Turf Moor revolution. I understand that Ingleby sees Ternent as the ideal solution should current boss Chris Waddle's disastrous start
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ROVERS: Road to Europe eases for Hodgson's men
ROY Hodgson's route to Europe for Blackburn Rovers could prove even smoother than anticipated. As things stand at the moment, a place in the top six would guarantee a European spot for Rovers and Hodgson's target of around 60 points should be enough to
