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McKinlay faces fitness race after op
BILLY McKinlay could be fit for the start of the new season after undergoing an operation for the injury he sustained on World Cup duty with Scotland. And McKinlay could be joined in the Blackburn Rovers line-up by Sebastian Perez with the Ewood Park
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Brian's career is taking off
BRIAN Harrison has been appointed the new chairman at Manchester Airport. Brian joined the airport's board in 1987 and has just completed his year as deputy chairman. "With the new £75 million Terminal 1 British Airways operational and a £35 million hotel
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Bumper pay rise for boss
THE boss of healthcare firm Seton, which owns the Cupal site in Blackburn, has seen his pay packet jump by 22 per cent. According to the annual report of the Oldham-based group, chief executive Iain Cater's package, including pensions benefits, increased
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Man stabbed outside post office
A MAN was stabbed in the chest in front of his wife in a busy town centre street today. The injured man, 47, staggered into a post office on Preston New Road, Blackburn, just before 10am. Staff raised the alarm and he was taken to hospital where he was
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Clare takesher first step to stage stardom
BUDDING actress Clare Bracewell has stars in her eyes, after being awarded a place at a leading London drama school. Clare, a former Nelson and Colne College student, found persistence paid off after struggling to get on an acting course even with good
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Poll tax set to rise
THE Government blamed town halls for over-spending as it was revealed that poll tax charges would be much higher than expected. New calculations by tax experts meant the new community charge, set to be introduced in 1990, would cost Britain's taxpayers
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Grant bid refusal shoots down eye in sky hopes
A £65,000 bid to help pay for CCTV security cameras in two East Lancashire towns has been rejected by the Government. The cash would have been used to pay for cameras to combat crime and anti-social behaviour in Brierfield and Padiham town centres. Of
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Battle looming over OAPs'sheltered homes
OLD people are to be asked whether they want to switch from being council tenants to a housing association or private landlord. Their choice will determine what happens to sheltered flats and bedsits at Underbank House in Bacup. The council is deciding
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Praise for hospital staff
I WOULD like to sing the praises of the staff at the Blackburn Infirmary. Dr I G Lowry and his team did a first class job on my badly injured leg when amputation was a distinct possibility. The staff of ward 6 - staff nurses, juniors and auxiliaries -
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'Polite' gunman raids shop
AN AMAZED shop keeper today told how a polite robber apologised for raiding her store before sticking a gun in her ribs and handcuffing her. Barbara Irwin said the crook said sorry repeatedly during the attack on the Greenhill sub post office, grocers
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Going round in circles
YOU ask us to give you a laugh. Well, I was thinking about our miserable weather, and how the sun seems to have gone to bed, only to pop out occasionally, as if to see what has disturbed him. Then I wondered why the sun and moon are both male. Answer:
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Row over Rovers soccer dome
ANGRY residents are crying foul over plans to build "a soccer dome as big as the Titanic" in their picturesque Ribble Valley village. Blackburn Rovers wants to erect the 14-metre high building in Brockhall Village to house a special soccer school for
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Dougherty on top of world
NICK Dougherty took another huge step on his way to the top after playing a vital part in England's win at the World Junior Golf Championships in Japan. The Shaw Hill ace kept his nerve in the final round to help England to their first ever victory in
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Epileptics can help
I AM writing on behalf of the 150 British Epilepsy Association branches across the country to ask for support. GMTV has chosen BEA as one of five charities for this year's "Get Up and Give Appeal." The appeal will be broadcast throughout the week commencing
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Buy-out saves company
MORE than 20 jobs have been saved by the sale of a firm. Vandalite, based in Accrington, has been in the hands of administrators after the collapse of its parent group six months ago. It has now been bought out by a group of businessman for an undisclosed
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Keep your noisy pets quiet warns council
COUNCIL tenants are being warned to keep noisy dogs under control or face legal action. The warning follows complaints to councillors in Rossendale that barking dogs are making residents' lives a misery. Coun June Forshaw told the Valley's housing committee
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Sports store pioneer dies, 83
THE former head of long-established Burnley shoe and sports store, Mr Albert Cocker, has died at his home in Hereford. He was 83. Mr Cocker and his brother Fred ran the family-owned shoe shop Herbert Cocker and Sons which has operated in the same Keirby
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A chance to 'grill' councillors
A QUESTION session to allow people to 'grill' councillors before meetings will be introduced in Pendle from next week. The public will be able to discuss a range of topics from housing and road safety to street cleaning and noisy neighbours during a 15
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Village lost and found
Nature Watch with Ron Freethy MY reservoir walk this week brought me a real taste of forgotten Lancashire. I am a collector of leaflets and I picked up one about a North West Water Site which I thought might make a small and not very interesting walk.
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30 slipper jobs axed
ROSSENDALE was today hit by the news that one of the last slipper manufacturers has gone into voluntary liquidation with the last of 32 jobs. R Spencer (Cosy Comfort Slippers) Ltd, at Glentop Works, Stacksteads, was already operating on short time. Owner
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BT ring up a rumpus
Valerie Cowan Surfs the Net NO sooner has telephone giant BT (http://www.bt.co.uk) revealed it will be trialing a service in Northern Ireland offering access to the Web on a pay-as-you-go basis, than the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA -
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Action call to end unfit homes misery
PROBLEMS caused by empty houses have sparked a 1,700-name protest petition from residents in the Burnley Wood area of Burnley. They are demanding council action in an area where one in 10 of the 1,200 homes in the district is empty or boarded up. Their
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Jobs go as firm calls halt to manufacturing
ONE of East Lancashire's oldest firms has announced another round of job cuts after finally deciding to stop manufacturing. Eight workers will lose their jobs at the Cherry Tree Machine Company in Blackburn after the firm decided it could no longer make
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'Substantial sum' for textile firm
A TEXTILE firm has won a substantial settlement after a copyright battle with a company over its designs. Monks International BV has agreed to pay a five figure sum to Oswaldtwistle-based Hilden Manufacturing, after a dispute over copying by Monks of
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Injection of cash to help fund expansion
A £350,000 cash injection is set to help a DIY firm expand. Top Team Industries, which manufactures hardware products at its Blackburn factory, has received the investment from a venture capital fund. The company, which is being renamed TT Industries,
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Police appeal for calm after paedophile panic
POLICE have reassured frightened families that a paedophile has not moved into their area and warned people not to take the law into their own hands. The warning came after families living in the Peel Park area of Accrington were told a man who recently
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Doctors' morale shock
HEAVY drinking, thoughts of suicide, marital problems and depressions were the startling symptoms showing doctors' morale had hit rock bottom. A national poll revealed two-thirds of GPs wanted to pack in the job because of too much pressure in the new
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Lib Dems back leader after DSS conviction
COLLEAGUES of a high profile councillor and former mayor have backed their leader after he was convicted of a DSS offence. The move comes as Liberal Democrat leader councillor Paul Browne was amazed to receive a personal invitation from Tony Blair asking
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Fears for safety of waste paper dump
COUNCILLORS are being urged to oppose plans to turn a disused quarry into a paper dump amid fears that the waste could be toxic. The five-year plan for Little Tooter Quarry, Todmorden Road, Bacup, would see 20 lorries a day carrying waste paper residue
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League set tough target
THE Inter-League clash between the Lancashire League and the Central Lancashire League is delicately poised as play resumes at Middleton Cricket Club tonight (6.30pm). Put into bat, the Central Lancs League set a formidable total of 189 from their 40
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Learn to live with noise
MAY I offer a crumb of comfort to the people who are worried by the noise of the motorway (LET, June 16)? Many years ago, when there were more, and far noisier trains, we came to live here. We thought we would never get used to the rumbling, puffing and
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Lancs handed double boost
NEIL Fairbrother and Ian Austin returned to give Lancashire a double boost ahead of today's NatWest Trophy first round tie against Sussex at Old Trafford. Both shook off the injuries which ruled them out of the championship victory over Surrey. But Warren
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It's O.K. for a queue but not for an A!
A TRADER has questioned why Daniel O'Donnell 'groupies' are allowed to camp outside a Blackburn box office while shopkeepers in the town are banned from putting out A-boards. Tailor Robert Wilson said he was amazed that the singer's fans, some of whom
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Scholarship opportunity
MAY I urge readers who may be considering taking a gap year between the end of A-levels and the start of university studies to apply for our annual programme The Bridge in Britain scheme. Since 1980, the Friends of Israel Educational Trust has offered
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Protect prickly pals
AT this time of year, we are asking people to take care around hedges because they provide havens for many mother hedgehogs and their litters of little hoglets, and it is important not to disturb them. If you find a nest of little hedgehogs in your garden
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TV time for fair play
TO ERR is human, but to wrongly referee is quite another matter - especially in something as important as the World Cup. For look at the upshot of the flawed decisions in France last night. Norway beat Brazil by virtue of a bogus penalty award - and out
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Equal rights for smokers
LITTLEWOOD'S Stores' decision to re-introduce smoking areas in its public restaurants is a welcome positive step-forward in the debate over provision for smokers. Littlewood's have rejected the prohibitionist route advocated by professional anti-smokers
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In spite of protests...
IF BLACKBURN with Darwen Council has already policed the stupid and discriminatory ban on shopkeepers' A-board signs and pavement displays with far more zeal than other local authorities, what, then, is to be made of it adding sheer bloody-mindedness
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Get road priorities right
AS I read Rosalind Train's article, "Highway cash cuts put town on road to ruin" (LET, June 19), a smile crossed my face and no doubt Adrian Shurmer's too. Is this the pot calling the kettle black, I asked myself? For the people who wasted nearly half
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Holy Land post for Fr Kenny
A BLACKBURN priest will tomorrow become the first Englishman appointed to a particular top post in the Roman Catholic Church. The Very Rev Kevin Kenny, of Pleasington Priory, will be invested as honorary canon of the Cathedral of the Holy Sepulchre in
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Business boom as firms flock to new centre
BUSINESS is booming at an Accrington trade centre, claim Hyndburn council bosses Seventeen units have been let to businesses at The Globe Centre near the town centre, with travel, finance, marketing and information technology firms moving in. And council
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COBBLERS TIE UP MATTHEW DEAL
BURNLEY midfielder Damian Matthew has joined Second Division rivals Northampton Town on a free transfer - six months after rejecting a £55,000 move to the Cobblers. Matthew has been unable to agree terms with the Clarets and will sign a two-year deal
