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Warnock set to end the waiting
BURY are expected to name Neil Warnock as their new manager early next week. The former Oldham Athletic chief was at Gigg Lane for more talks with chairman Terry Robinson and major shareholder Hugh Eaves on Wednesday (June 10) and is taking the weekend
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No last minute luck for Lions
HULL KR 16 SWINTON LIONS 10 DESPITE a heroic defensive performance the Lions went down to a last minute Richard Smith try in Sunday's (June 7) game at New Craven Park. Neither side deserved to lose a match where a draw really would have been the fairest
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Good sports at BAe
PROUD bosses at British Aerospace are giving talented staff a cash boost through a sporting awards scheme. Four workers at the company's Samlesbury site have just received extra money to help them in their bids to achieve national and international success
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Pubs' new owners in £35m deal
A LEADING pub operator has acquired five East Lancashire pubs as part of a £35 million deal. Pubmaster, which recently bought 54 hostleries from the Nelson-based Devonshire Pub Company, has acquired Midlands operator Mercury Taverns in the latest venture
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Radcliffe Carnival in crisis
A CRISIS meeting is to be held following the worst Radcliffe Carnival in living memory. Torrential rain, community apathy, and a catalogue of disappointments all combined to make Saturday's (June 6) event an embarrassing washout. "I've been involved in
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Bury bursts into bloom again
BLOOMING 'eck - it's that time of year again. Summer is bursting out all over, and residents and community groups have a major role to play in ensuring that the array of splendid colour is here to stay and be enjoyed. Prizes are up for grabs in the council-run
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Trade show pays tribute to Israel
BURY'S biggest-ever trade show will be staged next week and serve as one of the cornerstones of nationwide events to celebrate Israel's 50th anniversary. A glittering dinner for 170 guests, including many VIPs, will be held in Bury Town Hall next Tuesday
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British beef back on menu - if parents give OK
BRITISH beef could soon be back on the menu in Bury schools - but only if there is a demand for it. Bury Council's competitive services committee councillors had planned to discuss beef at their latest meeting - and make a decision on whether to reintroduce
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Danger road crash probe
A TEAM of road traffic experts are being called in to investigate driving conditions on a notorious stretch of road between Haslingden and Blackburn. The investigation on the Grane Road has been called following a string of serious accidents and complaints
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10 YEARS AGO: Stable inferno
SCHOOLBOYS made a desperate attempt to rescue a trapped horse as its stable became an inferno. But flames and heat beat the boys back, and the Arab mare perished in the stable at Healey Heights, Burnley. Owner Linda Leaf, 18, said: "I just don't know
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Crash victim's dad gets new inquiry
A CAMPAIGNING Radcliffe father has persuaded Home Office officials to launch an independent inquiry into a police investigation of his son's death. Anthony Killoran, 25, was killed in a road accident in Newport, South Wales, in September 1995. He was
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Rural areas mental health boost
PEOPLE in rural areas can expect a faster response to mental health crises and better care, thanks to a £350,000 grant. East Lancashire Health Authority successfully bid for the Department of Health cash and will contribute another £160,000 to the scheme
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GOLF: Mother of all battles!
TONY Holt lifted the Lancashire Evening Telegraph Harold Ryden Trophy at the third attempt - but nearly injured his mother-in-law in the process! Holt, a member at Wilpshire, won ELGA's showpiece event after a sensational 3 and 2 victory over Darwen's
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Government slammed for dragging feet over 'bug"
RIBBLE Valley Tory MP Nigel Evans has highlighted the potentially fatal consequences of the Millennium 'bug' on health and other public services. In a special Commons debate on the Year 2000 problem he accused the Government of complacency and "dragging
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Conference advice on putting waste to work
BUSINESS and environmental benefits of "Putting Waste to Work" were outlined to bosses from across Lancashire at the start of a two-day conference. The event, which started yesterday and continued today, was held at Northern Technologies, Nelson. It aimed
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Feeling blue over vanishing election posters
TORY candidate David Heginbotham is crying blue murder after his election posters vanished twice only hours after they went up. Shopkeeper Mr Heginbotham is fighting to get elected in the Worsthorne and Cliviger Ward of Burnley Council in by-elections
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LANCASHIRE: Lancs make light work of it
SAY what you like about day-night matches - the Lancashire players love 'em. They beat Yorkshire at Old Trafford last season, Sussex at Hove in April - and last night, in another thrilling finish, Gary Yates snatched a four wicket win over Surrey with
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Lucas jobs threat to be debated in Parliament
BURNLEY MP Peter Pike has taken up the battle to save 70 jobs at the Lucas plant in the town. He has raised the job losses with Tony Blair and Energy Minister John Battle. As well as winning the Prime Minister's sympathy for the workers he has urged him
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Bramwell Speaks Out
HELP me out here. Exactly why did I leap out of my seat and punch the air when Alan Shearer and Paul Scholes scored on Monday? For one, I have little personal respect for one of those two players (no prizes for guessing but this striker is only marginally
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Savage dog terror
I WOULD like to thank the members of the public who assisted my sister in King Street, Blackburn, on June 10 following a savage attack by a stray dog on one of my two dogs which she was walking. This was a serious incident which almost cost the life of
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GOLF: Popgun is Top Gun
TONY Holt is known as 'Popgun' to his team mates at Wilpshire Golf Club because the young players are starting to out-hit him off the tee. But that might now become 'Top Gun' after the 39-year-old rolled back the years at Pleasington last night to lift
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Labour's nightmare
IN a recent edition of "Leviathan" on BBC TV, there was a newsreel clip with Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald introducing members of his government after Labour's election victory in June 1929. There were high hopes among Labour supporters for the
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No harm in fair wages
ONE of Labour's key pledges, a minimum wage, was finally being fulfilled today - just when ominous clouds begin to gather over a hitherto sunny economy. The new national minimum rate of £3.60 an hour for most workers is launched as unemployment increases
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Funeral of ex-soccer star Keith Newton arranged
SOCCER stars of past and present from Blackburn Rovers and Burnley are expected at the funeral of Keith Newton next week. Newton, the former Blackburn, Burnley and England full back, died on Tuesday, aged 56, after a long battle against cancer. The funeral
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Pies ad fuels Cup fever
PIE power is gripping East Lancashire as Holland's launches a new poster campaign amid World Cup fever. Giant billboard adverts featuring international referee David Elleray munching on a meat and potato pie have been pasted up to celebrate football fans
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Robber flees with Good Samaritan in pursuit
A BRAVE customer gave chase after an armed robber fled with £200 from a Bury off-licence. But the thief managed to get away and was last seen close to Bury Golf Club off Manchester Road on Wednesday (June 10), minutes after the raid on the nearby Threshers
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Angela's identity is a Pendle Discovery
A "MYSTERY" woman featured on the front of a council tourism brochure has been traced thanks to eagle-eyed Lancashire Evening Telegraph readers. Pendle Council was inundated with telephone calls from people who recognised her following an appeal in the
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Anglers face weekend licence blitz
NEARLY one hundred anglers from the North West were caught fishing illegally on the region's waterways. Now the Environment Agency is carrying out a second rod licence checking blitz in the county over the weekend in an effort to crackdown on dodgers.
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Bury MP has the gift of the gab
THERE are more questions and answers for Bury's table-topping MP David Chaytor. The Labour man has come 43rd out of 659 when it comes to asking the most written questions in Parliament - some 138 in all. The Bury North MP is Number One among Greater Manchester
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ROVERS: Battle for Peacock
NEW signing Darren Peacock is ready to fight for a first team place when he launches his Blackburn Rovers career next month, wrirtes PETE OLIVER. Peacock has agreed a three-year contract at Ewood Park following his free transfer from Newcastle United
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Strong pound hits Scapa profits
BOSSES at the Blackburn based Scapa Group have blamed currency factors and the economic crisis in the Far East for a drop in profits of almost £6 million. The industrial material manufacturer with headquarters on Preston New Road and factories throughout
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Thwaites link up with lager giant
BREWERS Daniel Thwaites have announced a major new deal with German lager giants Warsteiner. The partnership means Thwaites will take over all kegging and distribution of Warsteiner throughout the country. The deal follows three months of talks between
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New pilot speech scheme for children takes off
MORE children with speech disorders and language difficulties are set to benefit thanks to the success of a pilot scheme in Bury. A speech and language disorder unit currently exists at Unsworth County Primary School which receives £127,000 of funding
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More time on TV than homework?
SCHOOLCHILDREN spend more time watching television than doing their homework. And Bury's education bosses have vowed to do all they can to buck this trend by supporting new government guidelines for homework. Homework is universally recognised as an important
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Against all odds
HOLE-in-the-heart baby Hannah Wilson celebrates her first birthday today - and her parents are praying it will be the first of many. Battler Hannah has spent much of her first year in hospital after being born prematurely with a serious heart defect.
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Rats on rampage in takeaway town
RATS are running rampant in Brierfield town centre and the problem has been made worse by the number of takeaways, according to a shock report. The council is claiming the infestation in the centre of Brierfield is encouraged by people throwing away unused
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Sunshine funtime at 30th Bury Carnival
THE sun came out as if on cue to provide a warm welcome to Bury Carnival's 30th anniversary celebrations. It was just the icing on the carnival cake for organisers Bury Lions which had feared the earlier rain would continue throughout Sunday (June 7).
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Stay of execution for popular centres
BURY Arts and Craft centre and the Mosses centre have been granted a stay of execution by community education bosses. They will now have one year to find alternative sources of funding and resources in order to survive. Campaigners were stunned when the
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Massive private houses grants bonanza
PENDLE Council has been given the government go-ahead to spend £810,000 on paying for council grants to renovate run-down private houses in the borough. Local Government Minister Hilary Armstrong has decided to bend the rules for using cash from the sale
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Hostel plan fury
FURIOUS residents demanded an investigation into plans to put homeless families into a building which was closed after an asbestos scare. The 27-bedroom Marsh House Hostel, Darwen, was closed in 1991 after a report on its asbestos-lined walls. The row
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Mum's fireball death after two suicide bids
A MOTHER of four suffering from severe mental health problems set fire to herself in the outside toilet behind her Blackburn home, an inquest heard. Mahrun Yakub Adam lit a butane cigarette lighter which ignited fumes from turpentine stored in a drum
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Builders 'measure up' around hospital patients
CONTRACTORS moved into a threatened day hospital for the elderly in Burnley yesterday and "measured up'' around the patients and staff. Health 'watchdog' chairman Coun Frank Clifford told the Community Health Council last night that he felt aggrieved
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What a sickener
IT is about time we had an inquiry into the amount of sick leave taken by council employees. We are constantly reading of our services being affected by so called sick leave. Recently we read of Blackburn Museum being closed as four out of five were off
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Ex-mayor gave work to DSS claimant pal
A FORMER mayor allowed a jobless councillor friend to help with his aerial rigging business because he feared the man was on the verge of suicide, a court heard. "He was really down in the dumps and I thought he was going to do himself in," said Paul
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Election pledge broken
THIS week the Labour government showed how little it really cares about young people in Burnley. People trusted Tony Blair when he said before the election that Labour had no plans to introduce fees for higher education. But he has turned his back on
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Give Branson a gong
IT was disappointing to learn that business entrepreneur Richard Branson was left out of the Queen's Birthday Honours List after being recommended for a knighthood by William Hague. Mr Branson has created thousands of jobs and generated millions for British
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Sack these idiots
PRIME Minister Tony Blair's call for bosses to sack World Cup soccer thugs may be an admission of the government's failure to stop louts going to France but it is a smart and positive response. If these people drag our reputation through the mud overseas
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Cause must be found
YOU reported (LET, June 3) that I suffer from Gulf War Syndrome. I do not. It might be helpful if I explain a little about this malady. On return from the Gulf War, gradually, over a period of months I became ill with severe stomach problems. After about
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Woman found dead
FIREFIGHTERS alerted by neighbours who heard a smoke alarm discovered the body of a woman pensioner when they forced their way into her Blackburn home. The dead woman, Bertha Slater, 87, was on the bedroom floor in her flat in Westwood Road. Inspector
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Extra cash to cut hospital waiting
BURY and Rochdale Health Authority is on target to receive extra government cash in the fight against hospital waiting lists. Figures for the end of March this year show that 10,940 Bury and Rochdale patients were on waiting lists in hospitals all over
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Spartacus crucifies cabs
BURY police and local authority officers identified 51 offences when they stopped and checked 93 taxis. The offences vaied from vehicle defects to a drink-driving offence in both public and private hire vehicles during the three month operation code-named
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700 drivers caught in speed trap
POLICE have put their foot down on speeding drivers in Bury. A total of 726 drivers were stopped by Bury traffic officers during last month's Greater Manchester Police Kill Your Speed Campaign. Some 699 local motorists are now facing hefty fines, points
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Company angered at mistaken identity
A PRESTWICH company has been the victim of mistaken identity following a hard-hitting "World In Action" television expose this week. The programme investigated the activities of Preston-based A1 Accident Management and made a catalogue of alarming allegations
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ROVERS: Seasman special!
BLACKBURN Rovers have already backed the judgement of their new chief scout John Seasman - by signing teenage sensation Jim Corbett. For, if Seasman had got his way, Corbett would now be a Tottenham player. Seasman, today revealed as the new chief scout
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CLARETS: Cooke and Little sign three-year deals
ANDY Cooke has signed a new three-year contract at Burnley with his sights set firmly on playing at a higher level,writes PETE OLIVER. Burnley boss Stan Ternent delivered the news all Clarets fans wanted to hear when he revealed that Cooke and Glen Little
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Lions set to maul Leigh in weekend encounter
SWINTON Lions are on the prowl again this weekend when they travel to rivals Leigh Centurions in Rugby League Division One. Les Holliday's side are sitting pretty in fifth place in the table, which would be enough for a play-off spot come the end of the
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Nervous wait for Bury World Cup star Gary
GARY Neville will learn within the next 48 hours if he has won a place in England's starting line-up for their World Cup opener with Tunisia. Bury's most famous footballer faces an anxious wait before learning his fate from coach Glenn Hoddle. If he gets
