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Armstrong backs Stan
CLARETS skipper Gordon Armstrong insisted today that manager Stan Ternent had the full backing of his players. Ternent was having talks with chairman Barry Kilby this lunch-time to discuss the crisis at Turf Moor which heightened with last night's 6-0
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Little: If we keep playing like that we are down
GLEN Little admitted it's down to the players to save Burnley's skin after a 6-0 thrashing by Manchester City last night left the Clarets staring down the barrel at relegation. That defeat, hard on the heels of a 5-0 home drubbing by Gillingham, could
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Marital mystery tour!
COACH passengers on a mystery weekend were given an extra surprise - when the driver stopped to get married! David Howarth took guests to the wedding at Gretna Green after announcing his plans during a journey around southern Scotland. All 45 passengers
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Fugitive family found in Blackburn hotel
A NATIONWIDE search for a missing mother and her three children ended in Blackburn late last night. Amanda Sparrow sparked a massive police operation when she went missing from her Southampton home with her three young children. The 20-year-old who was
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Sidelined Collins still feeling the pressure
JOHN Collins might have been playing for Blackburn Rovers against Everton at Ewood tonight if things had worked out differently during the summer. For Roy Hodgson was interested in the Scottish international midfielder who eventually moved to Goodison
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D-DAY FOR TERNENT
STAN Ternent's tenuous hold on the manager's job at Burnley was dependent on a high-noon showdown with chairman Barry Kilby today. Kilby met with Ternent and his number two Sam Ellis after cancelling a trip to London. And those talks in the aftermath
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Burnley 0 Manchester City 6
Sad Clarets hit for six JUST when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it did. Rampant Manchester City eclipsed the five goals Gillingham put past Burnley in their previous home game to heap further shame on the beleaguered Clarets. And this defeat
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What's on tomorrow, Thursday, March 11
Blackburn Artists Society meet St Gabriel's Church Hall, Brownhill, Blackburn, 7pm-9pm. Workshop - Still-life. Roe Lee Seniors Group meet in the Scout Hut, Emerald Street, Blackburn, 2pm. Cancer Reserch Campaign Charity Shop, 50 Railway Road, Darwen,
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Scheme slides away
THE farmer behind a housing scheme hit by a freak landslide has been told he cannot build more cottages at the site. Residents at Hodder Bridge Court, Chaigley, were evacuated from their homes when the car park behind their houses started collapsing into
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MP backs school fightto survive
AN MP has joined the row over the proposed closure of a tiny village school. Nigel Evans is backing parents who have vowed to fight the closure of Tosside Primary School, Gisburn Forest, tooth and nail. The school, which recently received a glowing report
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Fur flies over fashion mag
Valerie Cowan Surfs The Net ANIMAL rights organisation Peta is targeting fashion magazine Vogue in a new anti-fur website. The organisation, which regularly uses its website (http://www.peta-online.org) to save animals threatened with death, has set up
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In search of Dorothy
WITH a view to a reunion, I am searching for a former school friend, Dorothy Eddleston, who attended Audley Secondary Modern School, Blackburn, from 1953 to 1957, when she left to live in Blackpool. If readers know where I can contact her, I would be
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Unfit to be a city
I HOPE that not one penny of our money is going into Blackburn with Darwen's bid for city status. Any town that can't support two homes for the elderly or two special schools for our children - or is unable to provide a small museum (except by appointment
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Gordon gets ready for next election
GORDON Brown may have had the task of presenting the last Budget of this century, but yesterday the Chancellor was clearly looking ahead to the next one and laying the foundations for Labour being returned to power in 2001. For this-something-for-everyone
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Charity plea from the heart
THE British Heart Foundation's Blackburn and Darwen branch would like to hear from anyone interested in joining or supporting this organisation. The branch will meet on Monday, March 15, at 7.30pm in the reference room of Blackburn College where all new
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Playing the race card
THE word "racism," is a gift to anyone losing an argument. One only has to toss it into a debate and it virtually brings that debate to a standstill. Thus it is a convenient weapon for the Labour party! Councillor Peter Kenyon (LET, March 5) should have
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RUGBY UNION: Rossendale 3rd 0 Blackburn 3rd 45
BLACKBURN put in another impressive team performance against a subdued Rossendale side in this one-sided derby. The visitors made their intentions clear from the kick off, with forwards and backs surging through some half-hearted tackling, they were encamped
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Rail service not all bad
REGARDING the Manchester to Clitheroe rail service, I live near this line and observe the trains going by. To the casual observer, they appear to run like clockwork; much to the satisfaction of someone who was delighted to see the reintroduction of the
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No shame in U-turns
REGARDING "Tony's Euro U-turn", Councillor D Pearson (Letters, March 2) like a one-handed driver, forgets that U-turns are all about changing direction before you crash into a cul-de-sac. And on the topic of politicians' quotes, I seem to remember the
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Green award for the Weavers
THE Weavers Triangle Visitors Centre in Burnley has been presented with a Green Lantern Project certificate after taking part in a Lancashire County Council environmental scheme. The centre was offered a free environmental review and gained the certificate
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Council needs your views
RESIDENTS and businesses in Burnley - your council needs you! Planners have published eleven issues papers as part of the preparations for the new local plan for the borough in 2011. That may seem a long time away but work has to begin early if the future
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'Easy cash' lands burglar in prison
A PAINTER and decorator who raided a taxi boss's home at night, called in his girlfriend to ferry away the £3,000 haul, a court was told. Gary Whitehouse, 28, saw an opportunity to make easy cash when he let himself into John Edgar's Barnoldswick home
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Budget: Low pay cheer, truckers' fear
BREWERS, businessmen and the low paid in East Lancashire welcomed the Budget - but homeowners and hauliers will be hard hit. With East Lancashire having one of the worst rates of low pay in the country, the Chancellor's measures to cut income tax rates
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Girls are overcome by school bus fumes
THREE teenagers were taken to hospital after being overcome by fumes on a school bus. The 16-year-old girls, pupils of St Mary's College, Blackburn, were taken to Blackburn Royal Infirmary after the incident on a Stagecoach Ribble bus at 8am yesterday
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Festive decorations trap burglars
BURGLARS who raided a house just before Christmas were caught out when glass fragments from tree decorations were found on their shoes. Jason Bancroft, 18, and Clarke Townsend, 17, struck as a couple slept in their beds five days before Christmas, Burnley
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Sandra has a reason to quit the weed
Telegraph Insight TODAY is No Smoking Day - 24 hours of the year dedicated to persuading people to ditch the dreaded weed. A huge array of information and propaganda will urge the smoking population to quit. But those trying to do so know that laying
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Following the way to beat dinosaurs
EMPLOYERS in East Lancashire can pick up tips on how to transform their business - and how to beat the dinosaurs! Author, lecturer and successful businessman Ken Lewis OBE will be speaking to local firms at the next ELTEC membership event being held at
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Firm set to spark major jobs boost
A NEW firm is set to spark a major jobs boost for East Lancashire. ARD Electronics has been launched on the Altham industrial estate to distribute electronic components. The move continues the Duckett family's 60 year association with the industry. Arnold
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Furniture factory jobs threat lifted
A DEAL that ends weeks of uncertainty and saves the jobs of 300 workers at Nelson furniture maker Buoyant has been announced by the company's new owners. Nottingham-based Wade Furniture Group agreed to buy the stricken firm from administrative receivers
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Physician heal thyself...
NOT for the first time, I have found myself wondering whether their work eventually drives psychiatrists nuts. For what else but madness is the proposal by doctors treating a convicted rapist for depression and impotence to give him Viagra to restore
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Choc treat for fans
SEVENTIES pop star Errol Brown says he is still sexy, funky and planning to rock the crowds at King George's Hall, Blackburn, tomorrow. The Hot Chocolate revival started with the hit movie The Full Monty, which featured his classic "You Sexy Thing." Now
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Form watch
LITTLE: The winger deserves better than struggling at the foot of Division Two again. Although not fully fit he still caused City problems with his ability to go past players...7 FORD: The midfield man did the simple things well early on and was one of
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Labour accused of Tory actions
TWO Labour councillors attacked the government at a meeting called to decide council tax levels for 1999/2000. Coun Don Rishton said local government was in a never-ending cycle of decline because Labour had continued Conservative policies of not putting
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Sandra's reason to quit weed
Telegraph Insight TODAY is No Smoking Day - 24 hours of the year dedicated to persuading people to ditch the dreaded weed. A huge array of information and propaganda will urge the smoking population to quit. But those trying to do so know that laying
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Don out to teach starlets
DON Hutchison is ready to nursemaid Everton's young guns out of relegation trouble and towards Premiership survival. Like Rovers, Everton have been forced to entrust their hopes of beating the drop once again to a number of less-experienced hands. Both
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Low pay cheers, truckers' fears
BREWERS, businessmen, pensioners and the low paid in East Lancashire gave a broad welcome to the Budget - but local homeowners and hauliers will be hard hit. With East Lancashire having one of the worst rates of low pay in the country, the Chancellor's
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Ward: We need faith
ASHLEY Ward believes confidence can be the key to survival as Blackburn Rovers prepare to patch up their walking wounded for tonight's crucial relegation "six-pointer" against Everton at Ewood. The striker, who was involved in a similar scrap to stay
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Women unite for world celebration
GIRLS in Ribble Valley spiced up the municipal hall to celebrate International Women's Day. Sixteen members of Ribble Valley Girls' Group, backed by the Longridge Youth and Community Centre, designed and produced posters for the event. They also handled
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TEN YEARS AGO: Comic Relief crazy
EAST Lancashire went comic relief crazy to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for East Africa charities and needy youngsters and pensioners at home. Four curates took part in a marathon cornflake sit-in in Morrison's, Blackburn, for the appeal, which
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Stream of blood
A STREAM ran red with blood after a slaughterhouse on the Whitewalls Industrial Estate, Colne, spilled waste into it twice in one day. The National Rivers Authority investigated after a member of the public said Swinden Clough was full of red dye, and
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Help aid fairer trade
UNTIL March 14, it is Fairtrade Fortnight, which aims to tell more people about 'fair trade' and encourages them to shop fairly. Many of the products we buy exploit the producers in some way, so when shopping look for the Fair Trade Mark. This means the
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Anti-smokers' hidden agenda
ANOTHER No Smoking Day has arrived and despite protestations from the anti-smokers that they only want to help smokers, their real agenda is all too clear. Take last week's assertion by Dr Martin Jarvis, of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, that the
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SOCCER: League out of order
THIS week's Memorial Sunday League tables show drastic changes from last week due to an LFA ruling which states that six point matches cannot be played. The league positions have had to be adjusted accordingly. Once again bad weather decimated this week's
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No choices left
THANK you for printing (LET, March 5) part of my press release and part of the subsequent interview with your reporter. Let me make my own future political intentions clear. The only thing I rule out is standing in the 1999 Euro-elections. Proportional
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Officers hurt in match clashes, 16 arrested
SIXTEEN people were arrested and two police officers injured in clashes before Burnley's 6-0 defeat at home to Manchester City. But the widespread disruption forecast after "sinister'' information was released on the Internet didn't materialise after
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Cutting edge device spares the knife
A REVOLUTIONARY machine for treating orthopaedic injuries without surgery has been tried out at Burnley General Hospital. Consultant orthopaedic surgeon Gunther Schmitgen heard about the lithotripter from contacts in his native Germany and managed to
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Clear waters
Nature Watch with Ron Freethy IT is a popular pastime in the 1990s for people who should know better to a attack the state of our rivers and to say that they are the most polluted in Europe. This may have been true a few years ago but it is certainly
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New initiative helps point right direction
A NEW initiative to help give small business owners more money and more time to spend it has been launched. Chartered accountants Haworths have developed a new intiative based on a series of workshops and seminars aimed at people who run their own business
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No holds barred
GIVEN that only last week this column was noting how with their multi-choice menus and newspapers delivered to the inmates - to which one could add the colour TVs, telephones and the availability of booze and drugs - our prisons have all the characteristics
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Waste of money
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has delivered his third Budget in terms we can understand - pounds and pence - though his provisions include plans to spend millions on preparing us in advance, whether we want it or not, for swapping them for the euro. Forward
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Mr Windsor cashes in on mum's name
HAVING only a bunch of meretricious and shallow film stars to act as its aristocrats, it is easy to understand why, with such a barren heritage, America puts out the red carpet for visiting genuine blue-bloods. Nonetheless, is not our own dear Prince
