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First pet show packs 'em in
A STICK insect, rat, ferret and tarantula put in an appearance at the first pet show to be held in Weir, Rossendale. Children and adults turned out in force to support the venture, which raised £160 for the National Cystic Fibrosis charity. Julie Cunliffe
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Caring for Kosovo
CARING regulars at Rosemount Working Men's Club, Stacksteads, dug deep to raise money for the refugees from Kosovo. Club president Eddie Elsworth, said: "People were talking about what had been going on in Kosovo and how they would like to help, so we
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Game for a splash!
THREE Rossendale councillors went for an early bath today in the newly refurbished Marl Pits swimming pool - much to the delight of child onlookers. Coun Paulinus Barnes, complete with suit and tie, chairman of the leisure committee Coun Lawrence Forshaw
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Bottle attack on holiday island
A TEENAGER needed 100 stitches after he was brutally slashed with a beer bottle outside a nightclub on the holiday island of Corfu. Brennan Clemance, 18, underwent a five hour operation at the weekend to repair a slashed throat, cheek and chest. He was
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Events in East Lancashire on Tuesday, July 20th
Accrington and Blackburn CHA meet Royal Hotel, Tockholes, 7.15pm, for an evening ramble. Blackburn Fellowship for the Hard of Hearing meet Ardley Centre, Bent Street, Blackburn, 7.30pm. Open Night. Friends in Bereavement meet Day Hospital, Burnley General
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Mystery man: What were the secrets this grandfather was so eager to keep?
NINETY-ODD years ago when Dafanie Goldsmith's paternal grandfather Robert Bennett turned up in Wellington, New Zealand, and began to woo local lass Mabel Tonks, he struck her father as being so fishy that he forbade the match. Mabel defied her dad and
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NETBALL: Newell's starring role
RISING netball star Anna Newell played in the second game of the England Youth 2000 Australian tour. The 19-year-old from Blackburn was part of a strong English performance against the Canberra Nationals senior team, losing 47-62 against the current Canberra
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LOCAL CRICKET: Northern League
THE much anticipated Cup clash between the top two teams in the Northern League resulted in a resounding victory for Darwen as they defeated St Annes by 39 runs after one of the most impressive batting performances seen from a Darwen side for many years
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COUNTY CRICKET: Lancashire's double task
IT WAS crunch time on two fronts for Lancashire today. They faced Warwickshire Bears in another floodlit CGU National League clash at Old Trafford tonight, with Lightning hoping to make the most of a double slip by First Division leaders Yorkshire Phoenix
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'Time-bomb' law must have checks
IT IS, of course, an anathema that a free country should consider locking up people who have done nothing wrong. But, surely, such values and high-minded ethics have to take second place to the indisputable, commonsense logic that says it is wrong to
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LOCAL CRICKET: Nawaz tops 1,000 runs
RIBBLESDALE Wanderers kept up their pursuit of leaders Cherry Tree with maximum points from their two weekend games. On Sunday, professional Shahid Nawaz scored 53 and took his personal to over 1,000 runs for the season. Wanderers scored 138-4 after dismissing
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LOCAL CRICKET: The great escape
JEZ Hope spends half his life trying to prevent people from getting away with daylight robbery. But the 36-year-old policeman turned the tables yesterday in spectacular style as he and professional Martin Van Jaarsveld masterminded the perfect smash and
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LOCAL CRICKET: Lancashire League Sunday round-up
HASLINGDEN turned up the heat on league leaders East Lancs with a thrilling last over victory against fellow title contenders Colne at The Horsfield. Chasing the home side's mammoth total of 269-5, Hassy pair Andy Smith and Brad McNamara went into Jeff
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Check up on those benefits
AGE Concern is moving Padiham information sessions from Knight Hill House to Padiham Methodist Church. The move is a joint venture between Age Concern and the church and volunteers are needed to help run the sessions on the third Friday of every month
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Cooke is 'key man' in Clarets squad
STAN Ternent was quick to stress today that Andy Cooke remained a key member of his first team squad - following speculation that the striker might be on his way to Crewe Alexandra. The Burnley boss refused outright to become involved in the claims, reported
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School's standard raised
A PRIMARY school has raised standards and provides satisfactory teaching, but pupils' attainments are still below the national average in some areas, according to Ofsted inspectors. Staff at St Paul's CE Primary School, Oswaldtwistle, have worked hard
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New investment
A £2.8 MILLION investment programme is set to get started under the lead of a new managing director. Textile coaters J B Broadley, of Rawtenstall, has doubled in size in recent years and, by investing in new technology, the firm is expanding further.
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Garage arson attack sparks blast scare
FIREFIGHTERS faced a potential explosion when a fire was deliberately started in a garage containing eight gas cylinders. The garage, in a colony behind houses on Staghills Road, Newchurch, had been set on fire using burning paper at 9.15pm on Saturday
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Water by name, sunny by nature
VILLAGERS turned out in force to support a Rossendale village fete which, for once, didn't live up to its name. For the past five years the village of Water has held a fete, thanks to an idea by committee member Diane Myrtle - but every year the heavens
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Horror smash kills bike rider
TWO motorcyclists - one from Rossendale - died when their machines collided head-on at speed on the popular route between Lancaster and the Trough of Bowland. A couple from Accrington on a third bike escaped serious injury in the crash yesterday afternoon
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Fighting crime can be fun!
NEIGHBOURHOOD Watch schemes from the Longshaw area of Blackburn raised £400 when they teamed up to stage a fun day as part of their fight against crime in the community. The event was held in the grounds of Longshaw Working Men's Club and featured stalls
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Paul's flying visit to birdwatch heaven
A PRIMARY school teacher has been picked to work with environmental scientists on a major research project in Hungary. Paul Heaton, a teacher at St Peter's RC School, Newchurch, Rossendale, will spend part of this summer holiday carrying out research
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Bus drivers offered ticket to a pay boost in university city
BUS giant Stagecoach is enticing East Lancashire bus drivers to head for the streets of Oxford and its dreaming spires with the promise of hotel accommodation at £90 a night. Drivers are also being offered 20 per cent more pay than they are getting in
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Kids worst hit as food bug strikes
CHILDREN in East Lancashire are victims of a dramatic rise in cases of food poisoning which leaves people ill for up to three weeks. Public health officials have revealed that, during one three-week period, a dozen cases of cryptosporidium were recorded
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Police oultine 'worst case scenario' for millennium mayhem
A POWER failure caused by the millennium computer bug and a fight in a supermarket over the last can of lager. These were two of the possible scenarios outlined to the public in a video presentation showing the problems the police may face during the
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Ternent: Cooke is key man in squad
STAN Ternent was quick to stress today that Andy Cooke remained a key member of his first team squad - following speculation that the striker might be on his way to Crewe Alexandra. The Burnley boss refused outright to become involved in the claims, reported
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Injury jinx strikes again for Kidd's men
ASHLEY Ward and Garry Flitcroft were heading for home early today as Blackburn Rovers' annual pre-season tour jinx struck again. Neither player was expected to be fit enough to turn out in Rovers' two remaining games here in Norway - against top club
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SUPERBIKES: Sean by a hair's breadth
Sean Emmett re-wrote the British Superbike Championship record books as he claimed the narrowest-ever winning margin in the seventh round's second race at the Oulton Park. Emmett headed off the challenge of series leader Troy Bayliss by just 0.001sec
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TEN YEARS AGO: Chunnel snub fury
A FURIOUS reaction greeted transport minister Paul Channon's thumbs-down to high-speed rail and road links between Lancashire and the Channel Tunnel. The links had been looked on as a lifeline to prosperity for the North after 1992, and the shock announcement
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LOCAL CRICKET: Baxenden walk off in protest at 'danger' pitch
BAXENDEN surrendered their Jennings Ribblesdale League game at Cherry Tree after claiming the pitch was too dangerous to continue. Cherry Tree batsman Nigel Robbins fractured a cheekbone and his eye socket after one ball reared up into his face as he
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Five-screen insight
THE newly refurbished Apollo Cinema in Blackburn threw its doors open to the public. All were invited to look round the five-screen complex, free of charge, and to see trailers of forthcoming movies. There were also demonstrations of the Dolby Stereo
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RUGBY LEAGUE: We were dreadful, admits Lynx coach
Lancashire Lynx 13 Rochdale Hornets 34 LANCASHIRE Lynx's hopes of moving away from the lower reaches of the Northern Ford Premiership took another blow when they went down to a disappointing defeat against fellow strugglers Rochdale Hornets. Once again
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LOCAL CRICKET: Lancashire League Saturday round-up
EAST Lancs collected maximum points at Burnley in a thrilling game that they almost threw away. The league leaders had been bowled out for 92 but then they had Burnley on the ropes at 58-9 and there looked to be only one winner. But Burnley's final pair
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Put the jewel back in crown
LIKE County Councillor George Slynn (Letters, July 12), I am a born and bred Harwooder and although I don't always agree with his policies, I share his belief that for the good of Great Harwood, as well of Safeway, their proposed supermarket is a must
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Put yourself in their place
I THINK people who whinge about this country taking refuges from Kosovo should try to imagine what it would be like if it was their houses burning, their women and children having to hide in woods and eat plants and hearing the shooting of their husbands
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Action on air guns overdue
REGARDING your report and Comment about air pistols being on offer to children for £19 on a phoneline service (LET, July 6), action against the free availability of these toy guns and replicas should have been taken several years ago. The Dunblane massacre
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The ugly side of fluoride
I SEE from your article (LET, July 10) that the fluoridation debate has again reared its ugly head. The whole spurious argument says we need fluoride in the water supply to help protect children's teeth. But think about just how much water we drink. Why
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What now for site plan?
SO another firm has applied to build houses at the back of the post office in Billington and we know that access to the site, along with the proposed calming measures through the village, are included in the scheme. As this is a new plan, will the Ribble
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Rovers injury jinx strikes again
ASHLEY Ward and Garry Flitcroft were heading for home early today as Blackburn Rovers' annual pre-season tour jinx struck again. Neither player was expected to be fit enough to turn out in Rovers' two remaining games here in Norway - against top club
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Toxic leak charges
REPRESENTATIVES from chemical firm Nipa Laboratories were due before Hyndburn magistrates today after toxic gas leak from the company's factory. The firm, of Nook Lane, Oswaldtwistle, faces charges brought by the Environment Agency and the Health and
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Buybacks help school
A COMPUTER firm has joined forces with council bosses to help local schools. Old PCs no longer needed by Blackburn with Darwen Council are refurbished either by council staff or by MGH Reclaim, of Darwen, under a recycling scheme set up this year. Machines
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Just a hair's breadth away
A MAJOR milestone has been reached in East Lancashire's role in the production of the Eurofighter Typhoon. Drilling on the first major aircraft structure to accuracies previously unheard of have has just been completed at British Aerospace's Samlesbury
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Mother and child in tears after two-day flight delay
AN EAST Lancashire mother and her six-year-old son were reduced to tears when their scheduled flight to see family in the USA was delayed by two days. Teresa and James Lyons were forced to sit around the departure lounge at Manchester Airport waiting
