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Lifeline for rural companies
RURAL firms in East Lancashire are being offered a helping hand to improve the country economy. A £170,000 programme funded by Lancashire County Council and European funds has already helped more than 40 small enterprises in areas including agricultural
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YOUR SHOUT - on Rovers getting into Europe
CONGRATULATIONS to Blackburn on qualifying for the UEFA Cup, but let's not think that all is rosy in the garden. It was a very fraught end to a season that could have ended in total disappointment had they not won the last match. The last half of the
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TEN YEARS AGO: Housing facelift
HOUSING Minister William Waldegrave was set to give the green light to a £500,000 improvement scheme to Blackburn's Shadsworth housing estate. He was to confirm that the estate had been accepted for the Government's Priority Estates Project, which was
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34 held in early-morning raids
THIRTY-FOUR people were arrested in a series of police raids on houses in Burnley early today. More than 300 officers, many drafted in from other areas, were involved in the biggest ever operation of its kind in the town. It followed months of undercover
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Water cut-offs down
A HUGE cut in the number of homes disconnected for not paying water rates was welcomed. More than 2,000 homes in the North West were cut off in 1991/2, but that number dropped to just 495 the following year. North West Water was commended for its efforts
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Carnival date for newly-crowned princess
KIMBERLEY Bottomley had her moment of glory when she was crowned Oswaldtwistle Carnival Princess. The nine-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle, beat off tough competition from 25 other youngsters to take the title after a contest at Oswaldtwistle Mills. Kimberley
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New clues in hunt for hit-and-run driver
FRESH clues in the hunt for a hit-and-run driver who left a man for dead were thrown up in a massive police operation in Darwen town centre. More than 100 club-goers were interviewed exactly a week after Dylan Smalley was mowed down by a car in the early
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Burned tot's glove-ly gift from Prince Naseem
THE mother of a Burnley tot who was badly burned in a house fire was knocked over to receive a telephone call - from World Boxing Champion Prince Naseem Hamed! The fight king has thrown his weight behind the cash-raising campaign to buy a car for burns
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CRICKET: Mike stakes claim for Lancs recall
MIKE Watkinson staked a strong claim for a Lancashire Championship recall with a superb all-round performance for the second team at Old Trafford yesterday. Watkinson, who has only made one first team appearance this season because of a shoulder injury
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SUPERBIKES: Hodgson speaks of Monza tragedy
SUPERBIKE ace Neil Hodgson revealed his anguish following the death of World Supersport championship rider Michael Paquay at Monza. Paguay was involved in an accident with three other riders on the start and finish straight but despite the efforts of
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I'll fight for gay rights, says sex case ex-mayor
A FORMER Mayor of Burnley who quit after being convicted of gross indecency today pledged to campaign for equality for the gay community. And Peter Swainston, who has been elected to head Burnley Council's drive for fair deals for minority groups in the
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Headache for chemists
THE FUTURE of hundreds of small chemists was said to be under threat today as the government moved to scrap retail price maintenance on the sale of over-the-counter drugs like aspirin. But while chemists may have welcomed the anomalous retention of RPM
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Revenge was so sweet
SO Hyndburn Council leader George Slynn says that his party's disastrous results in the local elections were because of conscious abstentions. Too right - it was. Time after time, on the doorstep, voters who normally support Labour were telling our canvass
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Is Tony Blair really trying to help Cook?
FOREIGN Secretary Robin Cook was facing a mauling in the Commons today over the so-called Arms to Africa affair - after the Prime Minister's sudden candour appeared to cut the ground from underneath him. For, after days of smokescreen and denial over
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Town 'twinners' sample a day with the Press
VISITORS from the Isle of Man joined pupils from a Burnley school on a visit to find out how our newspaper is produced. Ramsey Grammar School has been taking part in annual exchange visits with Primrose Hill Special School in Burnley, for the past 14
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ROVERS: Robson's PSV booked for Ewood friendly
DUTCH giants PSV Eindhoven have been lined up for a pre-season friendly at Ewood on Friday, August 8. It is the first time for a number of years that Rovers will have played a home friendly as part of their pre-season build-up. But they felt the time
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CLARETS: Waddle shoots down Little transfer talk
CHRIS Waddle wants Glen Little to be a key part of his plans next season rather than cashing in on his talents this summer. Little has been linked with a move to Premiership hopefuls Sunderland but Clarets boss Waddle has dismissed the transfer talk as
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ROVERS: Youngsters run out of steam in county final
Lancashire FA Youth Cup final: Blackburn Rovers Youth 0 Tranmere Rovers Youth 3 ROVERS' youngsters got the sympathy vote at Ewood last night but little else as their hopes of adding a cup to their league championship success simply ran out of steam. For
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Quality task
ANDREW Eastham has been appointed quality manager for Yorkshire-based packaging group Thomas Waide. Andrew, of Blackburn, had previously worked for the Great Harwood firm Boxes. Previous news story Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images
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Kind hearts bowl 'em over!
EMPLOYEES have bowled over charity workers with a £1,000 donation. Staff from the fabrications department at British Aerospace at Samlesbury raised the cash with a series of events including a bowling evening. The money was presented to the Derian House
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Health chiefs back Mary over heart surgery wait
HEALTH officials have expressed their shock after a Blackburn woman revealed she could have to wait two-and-a-half years for heart surgery. Mary Duxbury, 62, of Arthur Way, has already been waiting for a year for life-saving triple heart bypass surgery
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Cemfuel campaigners fight on after court defeat
CAMPAIGNERS are to fight on despite losing lost their legal battle to prevent Castle Cement in Clitheroe from burning Cemfuel. Rachel Sellers and Judith Petty, neighbours from Quarry Farm Court in Chatburn, were among four people who challenged the Environment
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CRICKET: Worsley Cup round-up
BACUP took just under three overs to snap up the final two Enfield wickets at Dill Hall Lane and secure their place in round two of the Worsley Cup. Medium pacer Terry Lord had done the damage on Sunday evening when collecting 4-10 to leave the home side
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Award to Japanese emperor is distasteful
PERHAPS there is a case, on commercial grounds, for inviting the Japanese emperor to visit this country. But there is no justification whatsoever for gratuitously awarding him our highest order of chivalry - the Order of the Garter. This is indeed the
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HORSE RACING: Faith sees Swanny through danger patch
Harry Barlow's stable whispers WHAT a difference a week can make in horse racing. After having a terrible couple of weeks with Ribble Pet being found dead in his box and Swan at Whalley breaking blood vessels, things could not get much worse. Then last
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A clash of laws
WOW! I've just read John Blunt's tirade 'What happened to the ten commandments?' (LET, May 6). Here is an angry man. How I wish there could be a commandment that said: "Thou shalt see the other person's point of view. "You see, Jesus gave us an eleventh
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Horses are victims, too
IF every tourist to Spain were made aware of the brutal facts behind bull-fighting, very few would make it part of their holiday. The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) is urging all tourists not to visit bull-fights, even out of curiosity
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Road prospects bleak
FOLLOWING a further report (LET, May 5) regarding Blackburn Road, Great Harwood, I feel I must inject some balance into the story that has unfolded across your pages over the last few weeks. A bizarre traffic-calming scheme for Lee Lane, Rishton, was
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Straight laced: Corsets are back with a painful vengeance
Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter VICTORIAN ladies passed out because of them. And legend has it the same ladies resorted to deliberately breaking their ribs to get into them. We're talking corsets. And the most uncomfortable of all undergarments ever
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ROVERS: No World Cup chance for Sutton
GLENN Hoddle has closed the door on any chance of a reprieve for Chris Sutton, despite speculation today that the England coach has held out an olive branch, writes PETE WHITE. And the Blackburn Rovers striker himself today acknowledged there was "no
