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Supporters can get tired, too!
HAVING watched their defeat by Newcastle United, I think Blackburn Rovers' team is bordering on the worst Rovers team for years. Jack Walker has done a great job at Blackburn, with a super stadium, but I say to him: "Please don't let them near your chequebook
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Friendly face of our hockey
I AM proud of the Blackburn Hawks fans because of their attitude at the game against Oxford. Just over halfway through the second period, after Oxford's goalie had been stretchered off, the Blackburn fans were brilliant. As Oxford didn't bring many supporters
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Jobs boost in factory expansion
UP to 75 new jobs could soon provide an employment boost in Pendle and help lift the gloom after the area was hit by hundreds of redundancies. Councillors are poised to give engineering firm Mal Tool the go ahead for the 3,485 sq metre extension at its
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Holt invests £127,000 in share issue
BURNLEY director Clive Holt purchased shares worth £127,000 in the club following the recently completed rights issue to become the third biggest Clarets shareholder. Holt bought 635 shares to take his overall holding to 2,074. Chairman Barry Kilby is
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Ashamed at the Blackburn end
LISTENING to the comments of so-called fans on Radio Rovers after the match against Sheffield Wednesday, it is obvious that most of these people can play the game better than our players, and quite a few could even manage the team better than Brian Kidd
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Cummings and Goings
A fan's-eye view from Turf Moor, with Stephen Cummings RESPONSIBILITY. It's a big word. It's an important word. And, worryingly, it's a word that seems to be missing from the vocabulary of too many people associated with Burnley Football Club at the moment
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Music cash boost for school kids
MUSICAL school kids have been given a boost with hundreds of thousands of pounds of government cash to buy new instruments and have special lessons. Blackburn with Darwen Council has got £310,000 while Lancashire County has received £686,000. The cash
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'Red mist' Chris still has respect
WHAT has Tim Flowers done to Eddie Brandon? (Sports Letters, February 23). Mr Brandon now blames Flowers for putting the Rovers near the relegation zone in the past few seasons, as well as having the audacity to claim that Alan Fettis is a better goalkeeper
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Lorry boss fined for diesel spill in brook
A DIESEL spillage into Mellor Brook cost haulage company boss Stuart Taylor nearly £3,000 in fines and costs. Blackburn magistrates heard the incident had already cost thousands pounds for Taylor, who runs a fleet of 40 lorries carrying out international
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Where are they now?
This week, Peter White tracks down JOHN WADDINGTON HE BEGAN his football career at the top level with Liverpool, spent an English summer opening the bowling with West Indies cricket legend Michael Holding and is currently working on getting a suspiciously-high
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Events in East Lancs/North West tomorrow (Wednesday, March 3rd)
Cabaret with Darwen Youth Theatre, King George's Hall, Blackburn, 7.30pm. Parachute Regimental Association and Airborne Forces meet Bold Street WMC, Accrington, 8pm. Probus Club meet St Silas Church Hall, Preston New Road, Blackburn, 10.30am. "Back to
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TEN YEARS AGO: Petrol attack on boy
A NINE-year-old boy was attacked by a gang of teenagers with a petrol bomb while playing on a building site in Moorgate Street, Blackburn. David Haydock escaped with a burned lip and eyelids and singed hair and eyebrows after a gang threw a milk bottle
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Owls before people?
SCORES of residents living near the M65 extension at Darwen say the noise of traffic on the motorway is making their lives unbearable and claim that the Highways Agency says it would cost too much to reduce it. Action, according to the Agency's officialese
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CRICKET: Enfield search
Enfield have started to look for a replacement professional for Shane Lee, after the Australian all-rounder was named in his country's preliminary World Cup squad of 19 players. That squad will be trimmed to 15 on March 24 but Enfield president John Hargreaves
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Elderly care bill is a real poser for all
IIN Opposition, Labour railed at thousands of old people having to sell their homes in order to be looked after in residential care. But, now in government, it balks at the bill the state would have instead. For though the Royal Commission it appointed
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Tony's Euro U-turn
THE Prime Minister has told the British people that he and his government were in favour of abolishing the pound and joining the European single currency. Mr Blair said he believed it would be good for the economy. Perhaps Mr Blair has forgotten what
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SOCCER: SGL Seat Cars West Lancashire Football League
RESULTS - Premier Division: Burnley Utd 1, Kirkham & Wesham 5; Eagley 4, Wyure Villa 1; Feniscowles 0, Lansil 1; Fleetwood Hesketh 1, Dalton Utd 5; Freckleton 0, Blackrod Town 0; Leyland Motors Ath 4, Padiham 1; Springfields 0, Fulwood Amateurs 4;
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CRICKET: We have a good chance of winning - Austin
IAN Austin launched England's World Cup campaign today by claiming: "We have nothing to fear. "In English conditions, and on pitches where hopefully our experience will count, we must have a good chance of winning it. Certainly there won't be any lack
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SOCCER: Jimmy's Jubilee glee
SOCCER: Jubilee did what no other team in the Blackburn Sunday League has done this season . . . they defeated Old Toll Bar 2-1. Craig Andre had given Toll Bar a first half lead, but Rossendale FC manager Micky Graham equalised for Jubilee before Jimmy
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M-way views ignored
THE Highways Agency is now resurfacing parts of the M65 and in doing so, have taken into consideration the plight of barn owls. What puzzles me is, how do we know for sure that it's the noise level that as reduced the owl population? Could it be that,
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Sexuality is not a choice
REGARDING the remarks by Albert Morris (Letters, February 24) on oestrogen pollution of the environment and its effects on wildlife, this alters the sexual physical appearance, not the sexual preference of, fish and other water creatures that ingest the
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Pensioner killed, husband injured in crash
A PENSIONER died and her husband was today fighting for his life after an accident on a busy main road in Burnley. Arthur and Ann Wilkinson, of Fairfield Drive, Burnley, were in their P-registered Nissan Micra on Colne Road at 12.40pm yesterday when Mr
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New service launched
A NEW service has been launched by a freight firm. Nortex of Burnley has introduced a next-day delivery service across the world. The service is aimed at exporters who required deliveries at a specific time. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000
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Riddle of pushcair tragedy
MYSTERY surrounds the death of an 18-month-old toddler who was found in her upturned pushchair 30 minutes after being left to cry herself to sleep, an inquest heard. Recording an open verdict on Bethany Jane Smithson coroner Andre Rebello said: "I can't
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Sales rise - but profits take a dip
HOUSEHOLD products manufacturer McBride has seen sales rise but profits dip. The firm, which employs almost 300 at its Burnley factory, made £16.7 million operating profit on sales of £248.4 million in the last six months of 1998, up by six per cent on
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Searching for a story
MORE than 140 pupils in a Blackburn high school have embarked on our Super Story Search literacy project as part of the school's reading initiative. All year 7 pupils at Queen's Park High School are encouraged to read a wide variety of texts selected
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Office seating firm to sell factory
SHAREHOLDERS have agreed to the sale of an East Lancashire office seating factory in a £1.75 million deal. Calderburn is disposing of its Blackburn-based Dauphin factory to Daco, part of a German-based group. An extraordinary general meeting of Calderburn
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Rivers of sewage must run clear
NORTH West Water has been ordered by the Government to stop pollution getting into the River Darwen. It is one of many water companies nationwide which have been ordered by Environment Minister Michael Meacher to include improvements in their business
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Rovers to win survival fight
I HAVE never known Rovers to have as many injuries and suspensions as they have at present. Even so, I was very disappointed with the performances against Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle. Against Wednesday, the players looked very tired and out of sorts
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Opera star Keith's home-ground concert
SINGER Keith Latham is returning to his roots to treat his "home" fans to a classical music extravaganza. Keith, originally from Padiham, will join soprano Helen Field and tenor Jeffrey Lawton on stage at Colne Municipal Hall on March 14 for a concert
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Down by the Riverside
A fan's-eye view from Ewood Park, with Phil Lloyd I HAVE a terrible admission to make. I'm becoming a Manchester United fan. But before you start demanding that this column be handed over to someone more loyal to the blue-and-white cause, let me explain
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Tim's departure has me baffled
I HOPE I am wrong, but I suspect Brian Kidd and Blackburn Rovers will regret the decision to let Tim Sherwood go to Spurs. With Billy McKinlay and Garry Flitcroft out for the remainder of the season, Rovers' midfield is lightweight and inadequate. With
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I don't know if I'm coming or going, says Duff
DAMIEN Duff is in a no-win situation at the centre of a tug-of-war between Blackburn Rovers and the Republic of Ireland over next month's World Youth Championships in Nigeria. Birthday-boy Duff, 20 today, is being torn apart by the conflict between club
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SOS to Jepson as Cooke undergoes the knife
RONNIE Jepson may be handed an SOS - Save Our Season - call from Stan Ternent after striker Andy Cooke became the eighth Burnley player to undergo an operation this season. Cooke was rushed into hospital last night to have his appendix removed after reporting
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Boos were not for the players
IN BRAMWELL Speaks Out (LET, February 25), Neil Bramwell complained about the lack of commitment from Rovers supporters in terms of attendance and vocal support, he was very judgemental about the section of the crowd which had the audacity to voice their
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Man thrown in river
A FRENCH visitor was beaten up by thugs then thrown into a river after being 'befriended' by the three men in Clitheroe. The 21-year-old man, from Fontainbleu University, managed to climb out of the river and call an ambulance. Nothing was stolen in the
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Why must we suffer?
YOUR correspondent "humanist" (Letters, February 24) states that "what individuals choose to do in bed should be private and not up for debate." I agree, it should not. However, what is up for debate is why should I (and many others) be apprehensive when
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Orange badge scheme abused
I THINK there is a lot of abuse of the Orange Badge scheme for the cars of the disabled. When I take my wife, who is disabled, out in our car, I see a lot of motorists park in spaces for the disabled. Then, they just jump out of their vehicles and go
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NON LEAGUE SOCCER: Carroll swoop by Chorley
New Chorley boss Dalton Steele has snapped up the UniBond League's leading goalscorer Tony Carroll in a bid to save the Magpies from relegation. Carroll, the scorer of 34 goals for Radcliffe Borough this season, has joined on loan with a view to a permanent
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Bring back the birch
JACK Straw tells us not to walk by when we see a crime. But it is quite obvious, when he comes out with a remark like this, that he has no idea how to address the crime problem. Mr Straw has police protection on his home, not like us who could have a
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SOCCER: Saints on cup trail
SOCCER: St Mary's College Old Boys have earned themselves a second round Birtwistle Cup game against holders Netlon after they saw off Alexandra Hotel's challenge. The Saints won the long-awaited game 4-1 on a day when the weather at long last smiled
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Quiet may put owls at risk
I HATE to put a damper on the recent optimism about the barn owls in the Hapton area benefiting from the noise reduction on the M65 (LET, February 25 and 26), but, in reality, this could have quite the opposite effect. Barn owls and kestrels are attracted
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NON-LEAGUE SOCCER: Darwen's Trophy challenge
DARWEN are aiming to pull off one of the biggest shocks in their history against Southport in the semi-finals of the Lancashire ATS Challenge Trophy tonight. Player-manager Steve Wilkes is under no illusions about the size of the task as four divisions
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People should come first
SOME 100 residents living near the M65 at Blackburn Road, Darwen, meeting highways officials on February 4, were more or less told that it would cost too much to calm the noise from the motorway by raising fencing and erecting a baffle of the plastic
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Sobbing children in knife siege drama
A NIGHT-shift worker barricaded himself into a house with several crying children and produced a knife, a court was told. Michael Fegan, 27, refused to let the youngsters go and held a baby in his arms before finally releasing a sobbing girl, Burnley
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Rubble trouble with overloaded council lorry
COUNCIL bosses admitted allowing a lorry to be loaded with rubble to twice its legal weight when they appeared before Hyndburn magistrates. The driver, a Hyndburn Council employee for six years, had never received training on how much weight his vehicle
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Quality confirmed
AN engineering firm is celebrating a quality stamp of approval. Parker Engineering, which employs 13 at its Accrington factory, has been awarded the IS09002 standard. The family firm specialises in the design and manufacturing tools for production of
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John tops sales team
SALESMAN John Goldie is the toast of his firm. John, 61, has been named top salesman at Burnley-based Progress for the second year running. John trained as a draughtsman and engineer before joining the household housewares firm in 1980. He drives 28,000
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You will survive!
AS the exam season looms, with SATs and GCSEs just around the corner, we are launching a competition for parents and children aged 7 to 15 to help take some of the agony out of exams by offering tips on survival and the chance to win great educational
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Jewel conman targets elderly
POLICE are stepping up action to track down a jewellery-snatching conman who is preying on pensioners in Darwen. The move follows six reports from elderly residents who say they have been visited by a man asking about their valuables. During the first
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M-way owl friends don't give a hoot, say residents
ANGRY residents today blasted highways bosses for trying to reduce disruption to owls - but not giving a hoot about them. Householders at Earcroft, Darwen, are furious at the Highways Agency's moves to cut noise on the M65 between Huncoat and Burnley
