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Rovers' youth academy takes shape
WORK is under way at Blackburn Rovers' new soccer academy aimed at grooming the club's stars of the future. The £4.75 million facility for the cream of Rovers' youth talent is being built on the former Brockhall hospital site in Langho by Yorkshire-based
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Flu jabs won't be advertised
A HEALTH authority says flu jabs will be available to those at risk this winter - even although it has no cash to advertise the service. East Lancashire Health Authority says it has no spare money to pay for sending out reminder letters to people who
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Ewood door may open for Grayson
EWOOD'S crippling injury list could force Blackburn Rovers to look again at a utility player such as Aston Villa's Simon Grayson as a possible transfer target. And the latest injury blow, to Darren Peacock, will focus attention on Sheffield Wednesday
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We want more of marvellous Mura
LANCASHIRE Cricket Club, riding high at the present, owe a lot to their world-beating star, Muttiah Muralitharan. To have his services for only part of a season is hardly good enough. Other commitments take him away; his first duty being to his country
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Events in East Lancashire on Wednesday. July 28th
Dorothy Nimmo, Haslingden Trades Club, Regent Street, 8pm. St Bartholomew's and St Andrew's Church Charity Shop, Lord Street West, Blackburn, 10am-4pm. Blackburn Aces Morris Dancing classes, Ivy Street Community Centre, 7pm-10pm. Ages four and over. Line
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Police appeal after rider dies
A MOTORCYCLIST involved in a head on smash with a car on Friday afternoon has died in hospital. David Heys, 43, of Telford Close, Silsden, was riding along the A682 at Paythorne heading towards Gisburn, on his S-registered Suzuki GS500 machine when the
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County backs river path court battle
RAMBLERS in East Lancashire have won county council backing in their high court bid to stop the closure of a Ribble riverside path. The council and the ramblers have been involved in a long running wrangle with landowners over the path between Sawley
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TEN YEARS AGO: Boy plunges 80ft
A MAJOR rescue operation was launched to reach the boy after he fell 80ft over a rock face at Calder Bank, off Bull Hill, at Darwen. Amazingly, 12-year-old Paul Talbot Newton only suffered a broken finger and bruising to his back. Emergency services issued
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Much ado about nothing
WHAT'S all this fuss about an eclipse? If it was total, what could you see, anyway? BRIAN SWAINBANK, Longshaw Lane, Blackburn. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.
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NON LEAGUE SOCCER: Stanley impress in win
ACCRINGTON Stanley continued their encouraging pre-season programme with a 1-0 win at Mossley last night. That followed on from an impressive 1-1 draw with Stockport County on Saturday when Paul Heavey's penalty was cancelled out by a late Stockport spot-kick
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Tapping into a welcome windfall
AS the saying goes, what is seldom is wonderful and into this category, surely, must go the prospect of householders actually seeing their water bills go down - for the first time since privatisation. For the call today by the industry's regulator, Ofwat
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GOLF: Doughy delight
WORLD junior champion Nick Dougherty overcame his opening hurdle in the English Amateur Championship at St Mellion in Cornwall yesterday. The Shaw Hill 17-year-old seeded player won his first round match five and four. However, Accrington's Graham Mitton
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CRICKET: Lancashire League Under-17s
LANCASHIRE Under-17s League - Results: Burnley 61-0 (3), Haslingden 58-5 (0); Enfield 78-0 (3), Bacup 77-3 (0); Longridge 143-3 (1), Nelson 9-1 (1) no result; Lowerhouse 114-2 (3), Colne 97 ao (9); Ramsbottom 51-3 (3), Accrington 79-5 (0), Ramsbottom
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ATHLETICS: Lobo in the running for world championships
JASON Lobo is hoping for two more chances to clinch a place in the World Championships in Seville. The Blackburn 800 metres man will be automatically selected for the Great Britain team following his second place in the AAA championship at Birmingham
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SCHOOLS CRICKET: With Graeme Hollinshead
LANCASHIRE Under-13s made it 10 games without defeat with a nine-wicket triumph over Staffordshire at Egerton CC. Chris Tye (Bolton) took 4-23 to help bowl out Staffordshire for 119 and Burnley's John Clare (50 not out) and Chorley's Tom Smith (56 not
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COUNTY CRICKET: It's spin wars
NatWest Trophy quarter-final preview FORGET Star Wars - stand by for Spin Wars at Old Trafford tomorrow. Both Lancashire and Yorkshire have included three spinners in their squads for tomorrow's NatWest Trophy quarter final. And no prizes for guessing
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Questions to be answered
REGARDING your article 'Racial equality job hitch' (LET, July 15), as an ex-councillor and county councillor for Blackburn, I had several phone calls following it. I, of course, explained to the people concerned my position now. Nevertheless, on behalf
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Change is a must
WHEN I was a small boy in Great Harwood in the late 1940s and into the 1950s, it was a very rich and thriving cotton town with approximately 22 textile mills. There was the Oxo food factory and two slipper factories employing not only Harwooders, but
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Council feeling blue over cash-strapped festival
THE popular Burnley National Blues Festival is facing the axe amid concerns about the costs of staging the annual event. Councillors will tonight discuss a feasibility study on the future of the Easter festival, which started as a unique event in 1989
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Stores bids will be heard together
THREE applications to build superstores in Burnley will be checked-out together at a meeting in October. The move follows a request from the most recent of the three stores wars applicants, Tesco Stores Ltd, who want to build a store and petrol filling
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Pea-crock: Rovers hit by new injury blow
DARREN Peacock looks like being out of action for between four and six weeks with a cartilage problem, as Blackburn Rovers boss Brian Kidd faced up to a daunting pre-season injury crisis. Kidd held a medical roll call at Brockhall yesterday and is already
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New head
ANDREW Himelfield is the new head of property at Taylors solicitors. Andrew joined the Blackburn firm in February and has since acted on a number of major transactions, including the completion of a multi-acre industrial development site in Bury. He is
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Gear up for Bill warning
EXPERTS are warning that employers should be gearing up now to be ready for the implementation of the Employment Relations Bill. The Bill - which will put into effect many of the Labour Government's Fairness at Work Manifesto commitments - could receive
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Reminder to schools
WE have a host of projects and materials on offer to any school in East Lancashire for the next school year. Schools Millennium Supplement Has your school reserved a page in our Time Capsule millennium supplement? The special commemorative publication
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Fun time lined up for shoppers
SHOPPERS will get more than they bargained for when they visit the Admiral's Market Place, Nelson, next week. Pendle Council has arranged a seven-day programme of entertainment and events from Saturday. The programme will lead up to the start of the Great
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School fraud: Businessman on conspiracy charge
A SALES and marketing manager from a Blackburn firm has become the third man to be charged following an investigation into financial mismanagement at an East Lancashire high school. George Edward Brewin, 59, works for electronics manufacturer Unilab,
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River flows crystal clear
VOLUNTEERS are working to restore an East Lancashire beauty spot which has been blighted by rubbish. Enough rubbish to fill a large skip was dragged from the River Darwen at Hoghton Bottoms, Hoghton. The clean up was organised by Carol Price, of Valley
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Race chief quits council job over 'error of judgment'
A LABOUR councillor who applied for a £22,000 job with a race watchdog of which he was already chairman has resigned his top ranking council job over the affair. Coun Mohammed Khan, who had already stepped down as chairman of the area's Racial Equality
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Death crash
A driver from Blackburn was seriously injured in a crash in Warwickshire which claimed the life of a West Midlands man. Arnold Ashton, 51, of Selborne Street, Redlam, was driving a Renault Espace when he was in a head-on collision with a Peugeot 305 estate
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£600,000 centre plan unveiled
AN AMBITIOUS plan to create a £600,000 community centre to serve two of the poorest wards in Pendle has been unveiled. Waterbridge Community Association, which was set up to drive the project forward, has applied for planning permission to convert the
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Thugs nearly killed son in canal, say parents
A BATTERED teenager's parents told today how thugs nearly killed him when they savagely beat him, robbed him and threw him into a canal. Thomas Todd, a 19-year-old factory worker, suffered a broken jaw and two broken cheekbones in the attack on the canal
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Financial warning for Ewood
BLACKBURN Rovers have been warned they face a race against time to catch up with the Premiership gravy train. North West-based James Dow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants says the Premier League cash boom is set to continue, widening the gap between
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Rochdale run-out for on-trial Grant
TRIALIST striker Stephen Grant will get another chance to press his claims for a Turf Moor contract when Burnley continue their pre-season build-up at Rochdale tonight. Grant will be included in the Clarets first-team squad which gets its third run-out
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Fast track United to Wembley
MUCH hot air has been expounded over the question of whether Manchester United should or should not play in the forthcoming season's FA Cup. In my opinion, the obvious solution has been overlooked, that is, let the other clubs play off for the honour
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Race chief quits council job over 'error of judgment'
A LABOUR councillor who applied for a £22,000 job with a race watchdog of which he was already chairman has resigned his top ranking council job over the affair. Coun Mohammed Khan, who had already stepped down as chairman of the area's Racial Equality
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Pea-crock: Darren out in new injury blow
DARREN Peacock looks like being out of action for between four and six weeks with a cartilage problem, as Blackburn Rovers boss Brian Kidd faced up to a daunting pre-season injury crisis. Kidd held a medical roll call at Brockhall yesterday and is already
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Unit future in balance
THE future of Accrington Victoria Hospital's maternity unit was in the hands of Virginia Bottomley. Regional health chiefs backed the East Lancashire health authority's decision to axe the unit, saving £300,000. But continued opposition from the Community
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Eclipse just magnificent
REGARDING the eclipse of 1927, the pupils of our school, St John's, Baxenden, were all gathered at 4.30am and issued with goggles made of cardboard and smoked glass that fastened with elastic around the head. We were taken to a rise of land above Priestley
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NON LEAGUE SOCCER: Magpies visit Shawbridge
CLITHEROE tonight continue their pre-season friendly programme when they entertain UniBond Division One outfit Chorley at Shawbridge (kick-off 7.30pm). The Blues beat North Western Trains League Division Two side Colne 3-1 at the weekend. Clitheroe start
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Hospital stay: no complaints
REGARDING the report listing complaints made against the NHS (LET, July 17), while not doubting the allegations, let me sound a note of praise. I was recently admitted to Blackburn Infirmary as an emergency and spent 10 days altogether there and at Queen's
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Lessons not learned
SO Frank Allaun (Letters, July 14) wants further cuts in Britain's defences. Let me tell readers the present strength of Britain's armed forces. Royal Navy: three small aircraft carriers, 12 submarines, 12 destroyers, 23 frigates and no cruisers. RAF:
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Join the coffee party
IF your life has been touched by the sadness of cancer, you may like to help Macmillan Cancer Relief in the fight against the disease by joining 'The Worlds Biggest Coffee Morning' on October 1. Last year in the Lancashire area, more than £50,000 was
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Teacher on Thai sex charge
A FORMER Burnley man arrested by Thai police after allegations of tourists having sex with children was bailed by a court. Police have been investigating in the beach resort of Pattaya. Teacher Philip Howarth, who is from East Lancashire but works as
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Drunken clubber's attack on passer-by
AN innocent nightclubber was attacked after a motor mechanic thought he was butting into a row with his girlfriend. Burnley magistrates heard Steve Watson, 24, hit Christopher McLoughlin in the face "suddenly and without warning" - but suffered when he
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MP fights for justice for alleged rape victim
BURNLEY MP Peter Pike is urging the Government to press the Turkish authorities to reopen an inquiry into the alleged rape of a teenage constituent who was on holiday in the country. He is deeply alarmed at the way local police in the resort of Bodrum
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Heartfelt thanks to lifesaver inspector
BUS driver John Taylor made a special visit to Burnley bus station yesterday, to thank the man who saved his life. Mr Taylor, 68, of Ashenhurst Road, Todmorden, was working as a part-time driver for Rossendale Transport and was in the canteen at Burnley
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Run-out for Clarets triallist
TRIALLIST striker Stephen Grant will get another chance to press his claims for a Turf Moor contract when Burnley continue their pre-season build-up at Rochdale tonight. Grant will be included in the Clarets first-team squad which gets its third run-out
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Hospice £1,000 in mum's memory
A CANCER victim's daughter has handed over £1,000 to the East Lancashire Hospice Appeal after organising a big charity event. Natalie McMillan, 34, of Rough Lee Road, Accrington, organised it in memory of her mother Ann Elizabeth McMillan, who died of
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Digital wizardry links BAe with US
A TRANSATLANTIC link-up has entered the digital age! Workers at British Aerospace at Samlesbury and at Boeing in St Louis, USA, are now using the latest in digital editing technology for their work on the T-45 Goshawk programme In the past when there
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Hobbies for the holidays
SCHOOL'S out for the summer but if the weather is less than sweltering you'll be looking for something to entertain the children indoors. What could be better than a good book, particularly one that gives loads of ideas for taking up new hobbies or designing
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Sisters re-live car ram terror
TWO sisters today told of the terrifying moment when a shopping trip with two toddlers turned into a nightmare as their car was rammed by a motorist as he escaped an attack. Arlene Todd and Martine Cocker from Darwen were stopped at traffic lights on
