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Teasdale ponders his Turf future
FORMER Burnley chairman Frank Teasdale is to consider his future role at the club in the light of a boardroom re-shuffle at Turf Moor. Teasdale was replaced as chairman by major shareholder Barry Kilby at the Clarets' AGM at the turn of the year. He remains
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Cup clash warning
POLICE are urging soccer fans to get to Ewood Park early in a bid to avoid trouble and congestion before Saturday's crunch FA Cup clash with Sunderland. Inspector Stuart Caley, from Blackburn Police's Football Planning Office, wants to avoid a repeat
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Plan to build on site is opposed
RESIDENTS and businesses are opposing plans to build on a Clitheroe town centre car park. Members of Clitheroe's Muslim community want to buy the Peel Street car park for a mosque. The proposal to sell the site was part of a discussion on a report on
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TEN YEARS AGO: Back seat birth
POLICE who stopped a taxi after seeing it speeding through traffic lights found the driver's wife giving birth on the back seat. The mother, who was Asian, had been unable to make anyone understand on the telephone and had waited for her husband to come
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Fiddles fury
I AM infuriated by fraud. Billions of pounds of taxpayers' hard-earned money are annually leached away at every level - local, national, EU and international - by thieves who rarely seem to face prosecution or even investigation. When is somebody going
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William's boxed himself in
LABOUR and the Liberal Democrats were, naturally, out to score points against Tory leader William Hague over the resignation of two of his MEPs to set up a rival pro-European party - even if these are political minnows already dropped as party candidates
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Comrades in arms
THE RAF Police Association was formed in 1984 to enable serving and retired members of the RAF Police and associated branches and trades to meet together with the aim of fostering good fellowship and advancing the spirit of comradeship formed during service
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Directions in the runes
A MOTORIST from Yorkshire stopped me in Accrington to ask directions. I have lived here all my life, but I struggled to tell him the best way to his destination. With pedestrianisation, the town centre has been changed quite a lot. Six sets of traffic
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New tech's heavy toll
IN reply to John Porter (Letters, January 11), while agreeing that technology has brought many benefits, it has also exacted a heavy toll. We have the squandering of finite resources, pollution, global warming, extinct species, industrial diseases and
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'Broken man' jailed over illegal tipping
A BUSINESSMAN who ran an illegal tip branded an environmental disaster was today starting an eight month jail term. Michael Kokocinski, 54 tomorrow, continually turned his nose up at authorities over the Sansbury Quarry, Knotts Lane, Colne. Judge Raymond
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A killer's Samaritan training in prison
THE killer jailed for kicking Accrington father-of-seven Ray Hampson to death trained with the Samaritans while he was awaiting trial. Mr Hampson's devastated family have expressed surprise that a man who was being held in custody charged with murder,
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A Topp effort
TILE firm Topps has seen profits jump by 20 per cent. The firm, which operates a store in Blackburn, reported turnover increased by 27 per cent to £19.3 million in the six months to November 28, compared with the same period last year. Profits grew to
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Sweet success for bakery firm
BAKERY firm Inter Link Foods, which supplies chocolate mini rolls and apple pies to major supermarkets, has seen its profits rise. The firm, based at the Crossfield Foods site in Blackburn, today reported it made pre-tax profits of £270,000 in the six
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Centre boost to business
BUSINESSES in East Lancashire have been encouraged to use a newly-opened management training centre in Pendle. Mark Price, chief executive of training organisation ELTEC, told an audience of business and training leaders that Nelson and Colne College's
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Manners cost nothing
I WAS totally unsurprised by the findings of a study - by Central Lancashire University psychologist Dr Sandi Mann - that while today's young people may have plenty of A-levels, most fail miserably when it comes to social graces. She found that, according
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Terror link needs answer
WHATEVER the truth of the allegations that five British Muslims arrested in Yemen were part of an armed gang plotting murder, or that the terrorists who killed four of the Western tourists they abducted were seeking the release of these five, an undeniable
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'Broken man' jailed over illegal tipping
A BUSINESSMAN who ran an illegal tip branded an environmental disaster was today starting an eight month jail term. Michael Kokocinski, 54 tomorrow, continually turned his nose up at authorities over the Sansbury Quarry, Knotts Lane, Colne. Judge Raymond
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Liam sets sights on spot at the top
TEENAGE singer Liam Houghton is aiming to hit the high note as a professional performer, after impressing audiences at one of the top clubs in Blackpool. The 17-year-old from Earby, who is studying performing arts at Accrington and Rossendale College,
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£13m to help long-term unemployed
INITIATIVES aimed at reducing the number of long-term unemployed in East Lancashire today received a share in a £13million windfall. The money, from the European Social Fund, is part of a package for the North West announced by the government and will
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Downes rejects holiday claims
CLAIMS that Blackburn Rovers had offered a promising schoolboy footballer's family a holiday in the Bahamas as a carrot to sign were rejected today by Ewood's Academy director Bobby Downes. Allegations were made in a national newspaper that Rovers were
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Crewe block Johnson bid
CREWE boss Dario Gradi has issued a stern "hands off" warning to Blackburn Rovers in the hunt for his young midfield star Seth Johnson. And the Ewood club, who have also been talking to Liverpool about Jason McAteer, may yet turn their attentions elsewhere
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What's On Tomorrow, Thursday, January 21
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Diabetic Association meet Temple Street Resource Centre, Burnley, 7.30pm. Annual General Meeting. Cafe in the Crypt, Blackburn Cathedral, 12 noon to 2.30pm. Darwen British Legion meet Catholic Club, Wellington Fold, Darwen
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Contracts lost
LANCASHIRE County Council lost 19 out of 20 contracts for school catering, building, cleaning and grounds maintenance to private firms. More than 4,000 council staff were set to be transferred to new employers and a Unison spokesman said they were extremely
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Handout is criminal
I THINK it is criminal that the project for the new stadium to be built at Wembley has received £103 million from the lottery fund, when hospitals can't cope at present because they cannot afford to pay nurses for their excellent services. I think whoever
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HARTLEPOOL 2 PNE 2 (Hartlepool won 4-3 on pens)
DAVID Moyes did not search for excuses last night as Preston crashed out of the Auto Windscreens Shield at lowly Hartlepool. Despite fielding close on a full strength line-up against the side sitting just three off the bottom of the Third Division, North
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Power to the peers of the people
FREQUENTLY accused of borrowing Tory ideas, Tony Blair has interestingly developed one of John Major's for a radical constitutional reform over which Labour and the Conservatives are deeply at odds - overhaul of the House of Lords and the sacking of hereditary
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Time for a change
THE council knows best, so the saying goes. Now one of Blackburn and Darwen's special schools has to close - cost-cutting again, like the closure of two old folk's homes. I have voted Labour for 52 years and had my doubts when Blackburn went unitary,
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Scuderi set to return to Colne
CRICKET: Joe Scuderi will be returning to Colne this summer for his eighth season in the Lancashire League. The Australian all-rounder was one of the most prolific performers in the league during a six-year stint with Nelson. After a year's break he returned
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GUISELEY 2 CHORLEY 1
TWO goals in the last nine minutes ended Chorley's FA Trophy interest last night in an absorbing and very tight third round replay. It was another heartening performance by a brave Magpies team, again lacking several players ineligible for the tie, but
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White warms up with Welsh challenge
THE WHIRLWIND breezes into town next month aiming to be billed as the Regal Welsh Champion. For while Jimmy White will be in exhibition mode against John Virgo at the Lancashire Evening Telegraph's Regal Snooker Classic, he is still deadly serious about
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Civilians in war
IN association with my colleague Dr Nigel Hunt and Professor Peter Coleman, of the University of Southampton, I am conducting research into the long-term effects of World War Two experiences on British civilians. A great deal has been written concerning
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Christmas spirit lives
I HOPE the following will cheer up those who believe that the spirit of Christmas is no longer with us, for I can assure them that, in the St James' Road area of Blackburn at any rate, it is alive and kicking. A few days before Christmas a lady, widowed
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New head's pledge to build on success
THE new head of Barden High School, Burnley, has spoken of his delight at taking over a school which has become so successful. It is the first headship for Dr Adrian Lythgoe, who has been in the teaching profession for 16-and-a-half years. He said: "I
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Headless corpse murder trial: 'Maniac' killer jailed
Double tragedy of victim's family TEENAGE murder victim Christopher Hartley died because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, his distraught family revealed today. Family and friends spoke out after Stuart Diamond was jailed for life for the gruesome
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Killers are back
IN the 1960s and 1970s, birdwatchers in Lancashire tended to put the flags out to celebrate the sighting of a bird of prey. In the last 30 years there has been a dramatic improvement - so dramatic that one single factor cannot have been responsible for
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Insight into the Valley drive
A MAJOR exhibition to highlight the Ribble Valley's business community is being staged next week. The exhibition is being staged next Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the foundation of Business Link Ribble Valley. The event at the Foxfields
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Mexican wave of panic in Oz
BEWARE, performing the Mexican Wave can seriously damage your health - well, according to the Australian police it can. In fact, the police reckon it can dirve you into a "frenzy". Eh? And, even though it is a rallying call for sports fans worldwide (
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Worlds apart
THE budding young millionaires of Leeds United had the chance to taste football at the sharp end when they met Rushden and Diamonds in the FA Cup. And, hopefully, they listened closely when a man like Jim Rodwell was talking. The Diamonds defender showed
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Perhaps it's Best left alone
NO doubt a few of today's top professional footballers found it difficult to suppress a chuckle on hearing George Best's verdict on them. The words pot, kettle and black come to mind after his appearance on Talk Radio claiming many of his successors were
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Euro cop out on lost cash
ONE presumes Labour expects voters to be impressed by its integrity when, despite protesting their innocence, ministers Peter Mandelson and Geoffrey Robinson fall on their swords over a fishy £300,000-plus home loan from one to t' other. But what are
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Drinkers' danger in safe road scheme
PUB landlord Jimmy Hughes fears a traffic safety scheme will only make things dangerous for his customers. He says the scheme, with traffic islands and a mini roundabout, will prove hazardous to people entering and leaving Uncle Jacks in Branch Road,
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Headless corpse murder trial: 'Maniac' killer jailed
Double tragedy of victim's family TEENAGE murder victim Christopher Hartley died because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, his distraught family revealed today. Family and friends spoke out after Stuart Diamond was jailed for life for the gruesome
