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Line's hot for NI dodgers
A NEW Lancashire-based fraud hotline is aiming to crack down on unscrupulous bosses. The Business Anti-Fraud Hotline has been set up to expose employers who avoid national insurance payments or collude with staff claiming benefits when they are working
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Secretary pay drops two per cent
AVERAGE salaries for secretarial staff in the North West have fallen, according to a survey. Latest figures compiled by employment agency Adecco Alfred Marks found that average secretarial and clerical salaries are £10,482 compared with the UK's average
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Lost brother search
A DYING man launched a search in East Lancashire for his long lost brother, whose last known address was in Clitheroe. Phillip James Glynn, from Australia, was diagnosed with lung cancer and decided his last wish would be to get in touch with his brother
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It's a miserable life for burglars in the Valley
HOUSE burglaries in the Rossendale area are on the increase but police are winning the war with new tactics aimed at making burglars' lives a misery. Divisional Superintendent Alfred Hitchcock told the Valley's police and community forum that between
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Cost of parking in town centre going up
BURNLEY'S Town Hall car park may be handed over to shoppers and other visitors. The facility is now exclusively used by council staff who are charged a parking fee. But the change could be made as part of a proposed increase in car parking charges aimed
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Ofsted report says school is extra special
PUPILS at a Rossendale school are top of the class, according to an inspector's report. Sharneyford Primary School, Bacup, has 88 pupils, with a quarter having special educational needs. The Ofsted inspector said: "Sharneyford is a good school which gives
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James in plea for sex show godfather cop
THE GODSON of the detective sacked for his part in a strippergram party has pleaded with Lancashire's chief constable to reinstate him. Eleven-year-old James Leighton, right, has sent an emotional letter to Pauline Clare urging her to reconsider the decision
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Age bias pledge ignored by Labour
IF you are over 50, news that the Government is no longer pursuing as a priority a pre-election pledge to introduce legislation to outlaw age discrimination within the job market (made in writing to this Association in 1995) is particularly disappointing
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Can do much better...but only if pushed
TEACHERS responded to the publication of this year's primary school league tables with a by-now-familiar mantra - that they don't show the whole picture of schools' performances. But another "whole picture" they did not show was the impact of the tests
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Stick to your guns, Will
REGARDING your Opinion (LET, January 6), it seems you were taking another opportunity to present your Europhile credentials, albeit in a roundabout way. You highlight William Hague's weakness on the position he has taken on the single currency and suggest
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What a day for the Press gang!
PUPILS in Pleckgate High School's Press Gang became so keen on a visit to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph that they stayed on to produce their own newspaper pages! The following account of their action-packed day was written by young reporter 12-year-old
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CLARETS: Winstanley out to make his Mark
BACK-IN-FAVOUR Mark Winstanley has a double incentive to ensure Burnley's progress in the Auto Windscreens Shield against Notts County at Turf Moor tonight. The Clarets defender, operating on a week-to-week contract, has played his part in successive
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ROVERS: Wonder-kid Damien Duffs 'em up!
FA Cup 4th round: Sheffield Wednesday 0 Blackburn Rovers 3 - Peter White's big match verdict DAMIEN Duff provided the Irish cream on top of Blackburn Rovers' FA Cup cake at what proved a very happy Hillsborough for Roy Hodgson's side last night. The Rovers
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Initial move in the group
STAFF at Blackburn-based security firm Shorrock are getting used to a new name. The company will in future trade as Initial Shorrock to reflect the fact that it is now part of the Rentokil Initial group. Initial Shorrock has a network of 54 branches and
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Team takes a lift to top
A TEAM of workers have gone up in the world. The 22 employees from BAe Samlesbury recently passed their NVQ level 2 in lift truck operation - the highest available. Said Peter Armer, imports and outbound supply manager: "It is tremendous that so many
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TEN YEARS AGO: Benefits warning
A £6 MILLION plunge in benefits for Lancashire people was forecast by county council leader Louise Ellman. New legislation giving power for cash handouts to regional bodies rather than central ones could mean money running out with no way of topping it
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Inspectors give pupils and teachers top marks
PUPILS and teachers were given top marks after a visit by Government inspectors. Meadowhead Junior School, Blackburn, was described by an OFSTED team as an "effective school in which there is good management, a significant amount of good teaching and
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Get on the right track
AS an ardent cyclist for over 40 years and a car driver of 25 years, averaging 25,000 miles a year, I think Jim Todd's comments on the £20 fine for cycling on pavements (Letters, January 21) are misguided. Certainly, the county's infrastructure is way
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Plenty of other options
REGARDING the proposed closure of the Lewis Textile Museum because of Blackburn Town Hall needing more space, why could they not have taken over the old Refuge building on Ainsworth Street. If that is too large, what about the three listed buildings on
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Booze bus to beat drinkers
BOOZE buses could soon be breathalising hundreds of East Lancashire motorists each day in a bid to catch drink drivers. County council bosses and police are considering introducing a pilot scheme based on a project which has slashed the number of road
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Save the textile museum
REGARDING your article about the Lewis Textile Museum (LET, January 19), the idea of shutting it and cutting off any memories of an industry that East Lancashire was built upon is just absolutely thoughtless. As for the saving of £10,000 and the redeployment
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Cart before the horse
IT would appear that all New Labour MPs have been programmed to utter the same message, like those dolls that say 'mama' - only these say "we stood as New Labour and were going to govern as New Labour." The latest phrase, 'affluence testing,' will put
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Disgust at dustmen
ON January 7, I politely asked the workmen emptying our wheelie bins if they would put next door's back outside their driveway as it is nearly always left at the top of mine, so that when I need to get my car out, I have to move it along with one from
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Sex monster who stole my life
Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter THE children sitting around the room share the gruesome details of their dark secrets. One cherub-faced girl reveals how she was regularly passed around as a plaything for paedophiles. Others tell equally horrific
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ROVERS: Hodgson salutes his cup aces
ROY Hodgson saluted his double-chasing heroes at Hillsborough last night as they romped into the fifth round of the FA Cup with a 3-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday in just one word: "Fantastic!" With a tough trip to West Ham lying in wait in the next round
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CLARETS: Shield test for new strike pair
ANDY Cooke returns from suspension tonight looking to strike up a goalscoring partnership with new signing Andy Payton and accelerate a Burnley revival. Three goals contributed by the pair have yielded six points from the last nine in the Clarets' bid
