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Judo talk will help cops
POLICE officers are to be taught the art of "verbal judo" in groundbreaking courses to be held in Lancashire. Staff from the defensive tactics team will host two special courses this month which will be attended by officers from forces including the Channel
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Chemists on duty
Wednesday, 5 August, 1998 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 & 6 Railway Road; The Surgery (Chiropody), 132 Lammack Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road; T G Pendlebury
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Drink-drive woman loses car and job
AN alcohol-related offence has cost a woman her driving licence, job and car. Blackburn magistrates heard Sharon Kay Sharp refused to take a police station breath test after being stopped and arrested on Haslingden Road. Margaret Duckworth, prosecuting
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Health chiefs to tackle commmunity care tragedies
SWEEPING measures which will change the face of care for the mentally ill in East Lancashire have been welcomed by health chiefs. Health minister Frank Dobson announced earlier this week the end of the controversial care in the community policy and major
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Chemists on duty
Monday, August 3, 1998 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels Chemist, 4 & 6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street; To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road; G Pendlebury, 3 New Park House, Preston New Road
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Green group recorded songs to mark success
GREEN campaigners who battled to stop a steel plant being built on open fields between Blackburn and Chorley have released a song celebrating their success. The Gale Moss Action Group was formed by people living near Wheelton to protest against plans
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Search is on for deported mill rioter Mary's relatives
A COMMUNITY organisation is trying to trace relatives of an East Lancashire woman deported to Australia for her role in the mill riots of 1826. Mary Hindle was arrested in riots at Higher Mill, Helmshore. Violence had erupted there - and in many other
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Man tells court he needs '20 pints to get drunk'
A DAD who told police he needed 20 pints to get drunk and got drunk "virtually every day" has been ordered by a court to follow a special "Alcohol in Moderation" programme. Blackburn magistrates heard Mark Warburton held his petrified ex-partner at knife-point
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Brothers free after baseball bat attack
TWO brothers who carried out a baseball bat attack which ended with a man fighting for his life escaped a jail sentence when they appeared at Preston Crown Court. Judge Reginald Lockett handed out an 18-month probation order after Stephen and Eamon Mahoney
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Board tried to gag me - Ingleby
RAY Ingleby today claimed that Burnley Football Club attempted to slap a gagging order on his final bid to take control at Turf Moor. The New York-based tycoon was angry at suggestions that the latest talks had broken down because he refused to sign a
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Sutton's on song to leave Rovers chirpy
Ipswich Town 0 Blackburn Rovers 3 - Peter White's match verdict ROY Hodgson had every reason to feel chirpy last night as his 'Canary Connection' ensured that Blackburn Rovers' pre-season build-up moved up a gear. There is nothing former Norwich players
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GOLF: Kim's stomach for Curtis fight
KIM Rostron survived a bout of food poisoning to take her place for the start of the Curtis Cup today. The Clitheroe golfer was one of four Great Britain and Ireland players to sample the hotel's vegetable lasagne the night before yesterday's practice
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Traffic calming will slow 'speedsters'
SPEEDING motorists in the Harle Syke area of Burnley will be slowed by traffic calming measures. Coun Margaret Lishman told Burnley planners some motorists had been recorded travelling at 60mph in the 30mph zone. She said: "When Harle Syke was built it
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School gets praise from Ofsted
HIGH teaching standards and good relationships both inside and outside Burnley's Primrose Hill special school have been praised by Ofsted inspectors. But they add that educational direction lacks a clear focus and there are unsatisfactory elements of
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I want Hendry to stay, says Jack
JACK Walker today revealed his burning desire to keep Colin Hendry at Ewood Park. The Blackburn Rovers owner is disappointed and frustrated that Hendry decided to opt for a move to Glasgow Rangers just days after agreeing a new contract. Both he and manager
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Rough diamond
Demo Den SUB ROSA: Untitled - A slightly duff sound on the tape supplied - or maybe it was the batteries in my stereo - didn't manage to mask the potential of this Blackburn five-piece. The first track, Helpless, opens with some jangly indie chords, a
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Head for studio
WACKY Pendle pub rockers Walter Mitty's Head have set about squeezing 13 years of experience into 30 studio hours as they start making their long-overdue debut album. The band were formed at Christmas 1986 by singer Dave Ormerod and guitarist Scott Wilkinson
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Rock and roll! Lucky escape for Space Monkeys
DASHING back from a gig in Belgium to watch the World Cup final, a burst tyre nearly blew the careers of promising East Lancashire band The Space Monkeys. CLIVE LAWRENCE caught up with the group as they talked about their moment of motorway terror. ROSSENDALE
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Rotarians' gift of solar power
ROTARIANS from Blackburn raised more than £30,000 over four years to pay for equipment to help water irrigation work in Tanzania. The cash paid for a solar panelled power unit which will aid in the task of delivering water to villages in the east African
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Chemists on duty
Thursday, August 6, 1998 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 Railway Road. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road; To 6.30pm: E Collins, 53 Fishmoor Drive; Healthbook Ltd, Audley Shopping Centre, Audley
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Chemists on duty
Friday, August 7, 1998 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 & 6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: T G Pendlebury, 3 New Park House, Preston New Road; Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm
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Tributes to war dead ready for new site
A PIECE of a village's history will be officially unveiled at a special ceremony next week. It has been organised to mark the re-dedication of two war memorials close to the M65 in Guide. Highways chiefs caused a storm of protest when they revealed the
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Chemists on duty
Tuesday, August 4, 1998 Blackburn: To 9pm: Peels, 4 & 6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy. 95 Accrington Road; T G Pendlebury, 3 New Park House, Preston New Road. To
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Burglar jailed for scorning chance
A BURGLAR who went to work instead of carrying out community service has been sent to prison for nine months. Neil Giltrow, 24, had been told by a judge he had escaped custody by the narrowest of margins when ordered to do community service after admitting
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Girlfriend tells of moment her lover was murdered
THE distraught girlfriend of murder victim Thomas Hunter has revealed how she left another man to begin a new life with him the day before he was stabbed to death. Agnes Thompson spoke as a police chief warned people not to take the law into their own
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I want Hendry to stay, says Jack
JACK Walker today revealed his burning desire to keep Colin Hendry at Ewood Park. The Blackburn Rovers owner is disappointed and frustrated that Hendry decided to opt for a move to Glasgow Rangers just days after agreeing a new contract. Both he and manager
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Fresh hope for future after heroin addition
HEROIN addiction infected every part of John's life but now he wants a new start helping others beat drugs. John (not his real name), from Darwen, decided to give up heroin while recovering in hospital after being beaten up with a baseball bat in a drugs-related
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Utopia Discotheque, Blackburn: KAREN RAMIREZ, KULAY
Club Savanna, Darwen: RHYTHMLAND, garage and house tunes till 4am, £3.50/£4 Rhythm Station, Rawtenstall: KICK START, pop rock Mighty Muldoons, Accrington: SHADY, rock Jazzy Kex, Blackburn: jazz/funk sounds with live band The Witchwood, Ashton-under-Lyne
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DARTS: Red-hot Ronnie is a match for Rod
RONNIE Baxter faces world number one Rod Harrington in the biggest game of his professional career tonight. The Hyndburn arrows ace reached the final of the World Matchplay Darts Championship at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool after a nail-biting 13-11
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CRICKET: Lights out for Lancs
HAMPSHIRE have destroyed Lancashire's plan to play more floodlit cricket at Old Trafford this season. Lancashire had sent a request to Southampton to switch their AXA League fixture against Hampshire from the day after the NatWest Trophy final to the
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CRICKET: Enfield plan Arthurton assault
ENFIELD skipper Andy Barker believes his team can succeed where most other sides in the EW Cartons Lancashire League have failed and put the brakes on Rawtenstall's run-machine Keith Arthurton. Confident that they are capable of improving on last season's
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First axed Lucas worker clocks off
THE first of the axed Burnley Lucas workers left the factory yesterday - nearly 20 years after he first joined the once-mighty aerospace plant. Peter Barker joined the company, which once employed thousands of workers in the town, on January 29, 1979,
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Theatre dream dying as cafe bar gets go-ahead
AN impassioned plea to save the Empire Theatre fell on stony ground as Burnley Council planners gave the green light to plans for a cafe bar. Full details of proposed alterations to the Edwardian premises, which has been a theatre, cinema and bingo hall
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MPs back mum's crusade over new m-way drivers
DRIVING campaigner Anne Ravenhill is delighted that more than 100 MPs have backed a Commons motion to introduce compulsory motorway lessons for new drivers. It is seven years since the Burnley mother launched her Learn to Live Campaign and in January
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'Wheelie' crime risk probe by police
POLICE have been called in to investigate residents' claims that a wheelie bin ruling could be running roughshod over crime-busting initiatives in Burnley. Householders are being told to put the new wheelies outside their back yards and leave the gates
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Four conned senile woman
A COURT heard how four Accrington men deceived a 77-year-old Blackburn woman into giving them thousands of pounds for work they had not done. Two of them took their victim to her bank and building society on a number of occasions to withdraw money which
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Race relations boss hits back at 'scaremongering' claims
A RACE relations boss has hit back at claims that local racial equality council offices will close as part of an East Lancashire-wide reshuffle of services. Mohammed Hanif, director of Hyndburn and Rossendale Racial Equality Council, also insisted that
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'Sell off council homes or face £30 million bill' claim
THE cost of bringing Hyndburn's council homes up to scratch could be a staggering £30 million according to the head of a residents' group. Jack Townsend made the claim ahead of next Thursday's crucial decision by councillors whether to sell off the borough's
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Street attack youth, 18, left his victim 'prostrate'
A YOUTH is behind bars for 12 months for his part in the street attack on an off-licence owner who had barred him from his stores. Dominic Cooper, 18, of Alexandra Close, Clayton-le-Moors, punched and knocked Thomas Johnston, 46, to the floor and left
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Teen burglar escapes jail after revenge raid
A BURGLAR who wants to study law escaped jail - but was told he wouldn't get another chance. Scott Lang raided a man's home in vengeance after the victim's son "put in a bad word" about him to his girlfriend and she dumped him. Accomplice Jamie Clayton
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SINGLES
DUFFY: You Are (Cookin' Vinyl) - "You are my guiding star, You are my Shangri-La." Oh dear! It sounds as if the artist formerly known as Tin Tin (left) has gone soft in the head where romance is concerned. Produced by XTC's Andy Partridge, I suppose a
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Mum's come home plea to missing Melanie
A TEENAGE girl from Pendle has still not returned home, ten days after she walked out on her family. Worried mum Karen Wareing has not seen daughter Melanie since she left their home in Barkerhouse Road, Nelson, on June 22. Police have investigated a
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Chemists on duty
Sunday, August 2, 1998 Blackburn: 12noon-1pm: M H Moosa, 238 Livesey Branch Road; 10am-4pm: Superdrugs Pharmacy, 3-7 Stonybutts; 11am-2pm: Aston Dispensing Chemists, 95 Accrington Road; 11am-1pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. Darwen: 12noon