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Orchestra to pay tribute to young musician's memory
YOUNG musicians are to honour a talented colleague who was killed in a horrific car crash. Casey Fetigan, 17, of Montague Road, Burnley, played double bass with the East Lancashire Youth Orchestra. The teenager died at the wheel of her E-reg Fiat Uno
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Scooter rider's horror plunge
A SCOOTER rider was today fighting for his life after plunging 20ft off a railway bridge in a freak road accident. John Steed, 51, collided head on with a Ford Transit van on a left hand bend near a bridge in Pimlico Road, Clitheroe, shortly before 5.30pm
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Ref books a place in soccer league history
A FORMER amateur football player and referee has scored a success with a 60-year history of a local soccer league. Jack Lord, who teaches physical education at Edge End High School, Nelson, invested £3,000 - most of it his own cash - on getting 1,000
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Royal divorce speculation
GROWING speculation that Prince Charles and Princess Diana were to divorce surrounded the announcement that the Prince was to visit Blackburn. The announcement that the Prince would come to see the latest achievements of the Blackburn Partnership came
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'Unique scheme' for slow learners
TEACHERS at six Haslingden schools will get help from parents and other volunteers to boost the progress of under-achieving nine and ten-year-olds. The unique scheme aims to identify areas where children are not making the progress they are capable of
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TEN YEARS AGO: Doubling workforce
AMERICAN owned medical products firm Medex announced plans for a £1 million expansion which would double its workforce to more than 100. The company was to build a new 22,000 square foot headquarters at the Hurstwood development park, Haslingden. Vice-president
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New £1m home for school
A SCHOOL which has been without a permanent home for 15 years has been placed top of a list of priority schemes. And when the next round of Government cash is made available, St Saviour's Primary School, in Stubbylee Lane, Bacup will be the first to benefit
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Brassed-off mum Gillian says 'Let there be light'
A BRASSED-OFF resident has bought her own street light after claiming the lamp outside her home has not worked for at least four months. Gillian Moore, of Roegreave Road, Oswaldtwistle, says her mother-in-law and three-year-old son, who suffers from arthritis
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Council pledges to put the environment first
A PEOPLE-friendly action plan will take Pendle's green charter into the new millennium. Council chiefs have drawn up a 68-point charter with initiatives to cut pollution, clean up the environment, make better use of natural resources and generally improve
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Cash crisis hits top-performing high school
A LEADING high school is facing a financial crisis and may have to axe staff, it was revealed today. St Wilfrid's High School - the top performing secondary school in Blackburn - is expecting to exceed its budget for teaching staff by £37,000 next year
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Thank you to caring staff
I WISH to express my heartfelt appreciation to the consultant and nurses on Ward 23 at Burnley General Hospital and the staff looking after my mentally handicapped and autistic son, who spent a week in the intensive care unit - just before Christmas.
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Stagecoach boss forgets his roots
SO Stagecoach's buses boss Brian Souter says passengers north of an imaginary line in Great Britain are "beer swilling, chip eating, council house dwellers with low car ownership." (LET, January 6). Does he not realise that some of the relations of these
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Schools re-jig overdue
THE big shake-up of the primary school curriculum announced today to make more time for basics is long overdue. For barely more than half today's 11-year-olds can read or do sums properly. It may be that the government's back-to-basics drive, giving more
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Tough decisions
REGARDING your report (LET, January 1) about the lady having problems getting a ramp at her house for her wheelchair, I can feel for her as I, too, am in a chair. I can, however, get out in mine as I now live in a flat, but I know the council has only
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At last there's a glimmer of light in Ulster
IT IS premature and perhaps too optimistic to speak yet of the deal between London and Dublin on the political future of Northern Ireland as a breakthrough. The new blueprint for the province does, however, provide the most significant opportunity for
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Many manipulated by the few
THIS is possibly old hat, but I have been intrigued by the number of fairly-recent letters denouncing fox-hunting. Most were from anti-hunting organisations and reiterated the same arguments - a somewhat orchestrated attack. The arguments were specious
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Superb competitions mark health anniversary
OUR Newspapers in Education project has got together with East Lancashire Health Authority to launch three major competitions for schools to mark the 50th anniversary of the National Health Service. Superb prizes of £500 for winning schools and £100 tokens
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There is nothing like a dame! How quiet Keith becomes outrageous Widow Twankey
Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter KEITH Myers tried in vain to soften his manly features under his shocking pink ringlets and admitted: "I resisted becoming a woman for a long time." The 39-year-old continued fiddling with his make-up and his feather-lined
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MP's husband in Lakes fog rescue drama
RESCUERS helped Rossendale and Darwen MP Janet Anderson's husband Vince to safety from a fog-shrouded Lake District fell. Mr Anderson, 51, who is a lawyer for Safeways, went walking on Sunday afternoon above Haweswater, with a friend. However, while on
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NORTH END: Moyes faces tough baptism
DAVID Moyes takes charge of his first game as Preston's new manager tonight just 24 hours after taking over from Gary Peters. And the Scottish defender, who has played around 150 games for Preston since arriving from Hamilton four seasons ago, isn't expecting
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CLARETS: Cummings and Goings
A fan's-eye weekly view, with Stephen Cummings PRIOR to the Clarets fantastic victory over Watford on Saturday, I happened to bump into an old friend who I hadn't seen for a number of years. Being a fellow Burnley fan, the conversation immediately turned
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ROVERS: Flitcroft faces two-game ban
GARRY Flitcroft faces a two-match suspension after picking up his fifth caution of the season during Sunday's defeat by Derby County at Pride Park. The ban comes as a bitter blow to the Blackburn Rovers midfielder, who has only just re-established himself
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CLARETS: Waddle aims to Cooke up recipe for goals
CHRIS Waddle has believed for much of a beleaguered season that he needed a new-look strike force. And Saturday's stunning victory over Second Division promotion favourites Watford - when change was finally made - not only re-inforced the manager's view
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Church service furore as vicar ends up on the floor
A VICAR ended up on the floor during a service after a row with a worshipper over "happy clapping". The Rev John O'Connor had to pick himself up from the aisle after the incident with an unhappy parishioner. Brownies and cubs were among the congregation
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Driver, 22, killed in crash
A FAMILY was today mourning the death of a 22-year-old car enthusiast who was killed in a head-on smash. Upholsterer Umar Ravat, of Rydal Road, Blackburn, died after his hired Ford Mondeo was in collision with a Hollands Pie van in Preston New Road, Samlesbury
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Workers wait for money, money, money!
CATERING workers are still waiting for a cash refund four months after fire forced an Abba cabaret night to be cancelled. The 32 colleagues from Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn, paid a £320 deposit for the October bash at Martholme Grange to mark a retirement
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Ramp champs race to put Mary back on the road
A BLACKBURN firm has come to the rescue of a disabled woman who could not get her wheelchair out of her home. Mary Thomson, who has suffered several strokes and heart attacks, spent £4,500 on an electric wheelchair last summer. She applied to Blackburn
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CLARETS: Waddle won't take chances for Shield clash
Auto Windscreens Shield: Burnley v Notts County - big match preview CHRIS Waddle is poised to hand his young guns a chance to shine in the low-key surroundings of tonight's Auto Windscreens Shield tie against Notts County at Turf Moor. With one or two
