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Hot-foot in the park!
PEOPLE are being urged to don their trainers and take to the track for a charity fun run in Blackburn. The event has been organised by the Rotary Club of Blackburn Borough and is supported by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. It will be held at Witton
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Double murder charge man in court
A 33-YEAR-OLD man believed to have links with East Lancashire has appeared in court charged with the double murder of a man and woman found shot through the head in a seaside resort. Raymond Whittaker, of no fixed abode, appeared before Bridlington magistrates
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Crime to be 'cut by a third'
POLICE in Lancashire have pledged to cut car crime and domestic burglary levels in the county by around a third over the next five years. The force has set itself a target of reducing theft of and from vehicles by 30 per cent and house burglary by 34
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Wright: Player reaction
CLARETS skipper Steve Davis hailed Ian Wright's shock signing for Burnley as "brilliant" news for the club. Davis, who has taken on the captain's arm band from Gordon Armstrong in the past couple of games, said today: "I am absolutely delighted. It's
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Bust-up denied as curate quits
AN East Lancashire curate who shares his garden with England international and Manchester United soccer star Phil Neville and his wife (pictured) today announced he was leaving the parish - but stressed: "I've not fallen out with them." Eric Lomax, who
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Young taking the reigns to raise cash
PUPILS from a Blackburn school are setting up a support group for children at Derian House Children's Hospice, in a scheme which will be a first in East Lancashire. The youngsters from Pleckgate High will run the group, which will aim to raise awareness
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Ian's mixed season
IAN Wright has had a mixed season so far, with his biggest success undoubtedly coming during a loan spell with struggling First Division side Nottingham Forest. He started the campaign with West Ham but did not figure in any League games and his recent
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Wright: Pete Oliver looks at the striker's career
IAN WRIGHT has been one of the most prolific goalscorers and colourful characters in British football since he burst on to the scene at Crystal Palace15 years ago. Dogged by disciplinary problems in recent seasons, the 36-year-old striker plans to hang
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Gunman on streets of fear
TEENAGERS and parents today told of how a mystery gunman has brought fear to the streets in a corner of Blackburn. And detectives have revealed they are now looking at a number of incidents involving teenagers being threatened by a man fitting the description
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Couples take the plunge
DARING couples celebrated Valentine's Day early by abseiling 120ft down a tower at Blackburn fire station. The event was organised to raise money for the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity with the help of firefighters. A steady stream of people abseiled
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Top chef reveals recipe for success
DETERMINATION and selling yourself well are the keys to business success, according to celebrity chef Paul Heathcote. And the Longridge restaurateur has named his father and grandfather as the role models who inspired him. "My father and grandfather are
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Pity we can't turn clock back
NICK Holt (Letters, February 8) says pensioners should stop carping as the country does not owe them a living. Many of the pensioners he refers to gave up six years of their lives in the Second World War. Let us hope that if he has to do the same in his
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Cummings and Goings
A fan's-eye view from Turf Moor, with Stephen Cummings IT's time to drag out and dust down that old cliche again. You know - the one about there being 'a buzz around Turf Moor'. And that was before the sensational news that Ian Wright will be wearing
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Lucky to pay tax
DOESN'T Nick Holt (Letters, February 8) realise today's pensioners lived through a war, many of them through two wars and a depression, in which, if you didn't have a job, you didn't eat? It has taken most people all their time to exist from week to week
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Pay relative to economics
BEFORE Nick Holt's comments on carping pensioners (Letters, February 8) leave me speechless, let me say that he must be a fair way off being able to put OAP after his name when he speaks of the 50-year era in which he seems to think pensioners have had
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Council brake on tax rise
TORIES at Hyndburn Council look set to keep their promise by freezing the borough's council tax charge. But when the bills from county hall and Lancashire Police are added, householders look set to pay 4.8 per cent more than last year - taking the Band
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Second charity stint for star of Street
CORONATION Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh (pictured) has agreed to be president of a Lancashire charity for a second year. Julie, who comes from Church and plays Hayley in the soap, was first elected president of the Burnley branch of the Parkinson's
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Council brake put on tax rise
TORIES at Hyndburn Council look set to keep their promise to taxpayers - by freezing the borough's share of the council tax charge. But when the bills from county hall and Lancashire Police are added, householders look set to pay 4.8 per cent more than
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INSIGHT: Gum - are we stuck with it?
YOU can freeze it, smash it, soak it in acid and blast it with a water cannon but it'll still stick around - why use superglue when chewing gum will do? The stickiest of sticky problems is under the spotlight again as East Lancashire MP Peter Pike vows
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Students for summer
EMPLOYERS are being offered the chance to take on a student for the summer to help their business grow. The Shell Technology Enterprise Scheme has already helped dozens of East Lancashire firms carry out specific projects ranging from introducing new
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Some good ideas technology-wise
SEMINARS to help firms get the most out of new technology are being staged over the next three weeks. The events, being held on three dates in February and March, are being organised by the Government-led Information Society Initiative, which aims to
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Town dips deep to break fund-raising record
A RECORD total of £22,650 has been collected by Darwen's committee of the Cancer Research Campaign. The group, which celebrated it 40th anniversary last year, is delighted . Press officer Linda Chatburn said: "We had a big push because it was such a special
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Ian's all Wright for Clarets
SOCCER excitement soared today as the Clarets found the Wright way to get Burnley buzzing. News that the former Arsenal and England goalscoring machine was on his way to Turf Moor from Celtic was the talk of the town. There was near jubilation as word
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Ally Kats purring
EXAM and competition success is being celebrated at Ally Katz Dance Studio, Blackburn. Sarah Lang was highly commended in her associate ballroom exam and Emma Knowles was highly commended in her associate disco exam. Sixty other dancers also achieved
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Retail park could soon be full house
TWO new shops could open soon at a burgeoning retail park. The Town's Moor development, between Russell Street and Bolton Road, Blackburn, opened late last year and Blockbuster Video, Wickes Home Improvements and What Everyone Wants have already opened
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Town's three peers make history
HISTORY will be made in the House of Lords tomorrow when the 'Blackburn Three' get together. Adam Patel will officially take his seat as Lord Patel of Blackburn - with Lord Taylor of Blackburn and Baroness Castle of Blackburn at his side. It is believed
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Musical students ready to raise the roof
EAST Lancashire musicians are among more than 300 youngsters taking to the stage at Preston's Guild Hall this week. Six student orchestras from across Lancashire take part in the Millennium of Music concerts organised by Lancashire County Council tomorrow
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Two stabbed at christening party
A CHRISTENING party ended in a mass brawl which saw two men stabbed and a barmaid attacked with a pint pot, a crown court heard. Taxi driver Wasi Khan and shopkeeper David Wilson both denied charges of affray when they appeared at Preston Crown Court.
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Driver dies
A 40-YEAR-OLD man from Blackburn has died after a road accident in Audley Range at 4.20pm yesterday. Police believe the driver may have been taken ill at the wheel. His car either reversed or rolled off the forecourt of Eccleston Garage, near the junction
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Teenagers in danger from street stalker
THE gunman who shot Adam Hayes in Blackburn appears to be locked into a spiralling pattern of aggressive behaviour - a potential killer who could strike again. And the parents of his victim have called for him to hand himself over to the police before
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The real Dele
Division One: Birmingham City v Blackburn Rovers - Peter White's match preview AS Glenn Hoddle might have said, Birmingham City's Dele Adebola is playing like a born-again striker. Top scorer for the Blues of St Andrews last season, with 17 First Division
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Mitchell fixed it for me
IAN WRIGHT today revealed how old pal Mitchell Thomas helped make him a Burnley player. The ambitious Clarets have stunned the football world by signing the former Arsenal and England striker to spearhead their promotion charge. Wright has joined the
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Four-car smash
FOUR cars were involved in a collision in Montague Street, Blackburn, at 6.55pm yesterday. A Mercedes, driven by Mo Cheyn Yip, 39, of Preston Old Road, was turning into the junction with St Paul's Street, when it collided with a Volkswagen Polo driven
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Kelly eyes double City challenge
ALAN Kelly is ready to tackle twin challenges at St Andrews tonight - and the Blackburn Rovers keeper reckons his team-mates can rise to the occasion too. Rovers' completed the signing of keeper Alan Miller from West Brom in a cut-price £70,000 package
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Worldly pupils win quiz
THREE pupils from Blackburn's Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School are celebrating after winning a regional final of the National Geographical Association World Wise Quiz. The team (pictured) consists of Lewis O'Dea, from Blackburn, Ufaq Qazi, from Burnley
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Events in East Lancashire on Wednesday, February 16th
"Sing On," Arts Club Theatre, Gibraltar Street, Blackburn, 7.30pm. Rossendale Aviation Society meet Haslingden Cricket Club, 8pm. Blackburn and District Probus Club, St Silas's Parish Centre, Blackburn, 10.30am. Institute of Mechanical Engineers, County
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Welsh move threatens cement plans
PLANS for an £8million investment in Castle Cement's Ribblesdale works at Clitheroe could be delayed after problems with plans for a sister plant in Wales. The company had agreed to invest the cash in Ribblesdale if the go-ahead was given for a proposed
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TEN YEARS AGO: Royal Mail on cue
SNOOKER ace Dennis Taylor officially opened a new £1 million sorting office - right on cue. The former world champion gave the Royal Mail building in Canterbury Street, Blackburn, his stamp of approval by unveiling a plaque, and he took part in a one-frame
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FIVE YEARS AGO: Pupils' charity knit
PUPILS from Year nine at Oakhill College, Whalley, spent time during lunch breaks and at home to knit dozens of woollen squares which had been made up into a large blanket ready to be sent off for the Rwanda appeal. The class, 19 boys and girls, spent
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Hague had better heed criticisms
NO matter how much he may speak of sour grapes, Tory leader William Hague will do well to pay heed to the criticism of him today by John Maples who was sacked as Shadow Foreign Secretary in his reshuffle two weeks ago. For, whether or not he is a bitter
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Down by the Riverside
A fan's-eye view from Ewood Park, with Phil Lloyd IF A week is a long time in politics, as someone once famously said, then a month can be a lifetime in football. One month ago to this day, Rovers had just tamed the Terriers from Huddersfield with more
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RACING: Harry's stable whispers
JUST five weeks to go for the start of the 2000 flat season to start on Thursday, March 23 at Doncaster and training is really hotting up on the gallops at Hambleton. Last Wednesday Kevin Darley, Fergal Lynch, Iona Wands and Mark Birch were putting the
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Insulted by remarks
MY husband and I are both on the retirement pension, but in view of Nick Holt's remarks (Letters, February 8), I wonder how he is going to save for his old age, if he can't afford to warm his house now while he is working. Paying taxes is not something
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Nursery axe threat raised by MP
BOSSES at County Hall have been urged by an East Lancashire MP to maintain standards of nursery education at present levels. Widespread concern over possible closures of nursery schools and the incorporation of classes into primary schools resulted in
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Ian's all Wright for Clarets
SOCCER excitement soared today as the Clarets found the Wright way to get Burnley buzzing. News that the former Arsenal and England goalscoring machine was on his way to Turf Moor from Celtic was the talk of the town. There was near jubilation as word
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Homes plan set to go ahead
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build 31 houses in Clayton-le-Moors are set to be approved by planning chiefs. Fears about highway safety and congestion have been raised over the proposal to erect homes on land off Whalley Road. The application was deferred at
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Kelvin is buzzing in print
A NEW commercial manager for a Burnley print company is planning big changes. Kelvin Metcalfe aims to bring in improved systems and bigger business to Peter Scott Printers. The 53-year-old Blackburn Rovers supporter, who lives in Colne with his wife Yvonne
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Lunch and a look around
A FREE lunch is on offer at Burnley Business Centre for firms interested in staff training. The Burnley College Business Development Unit have put out an open invitation to look around their new £60,000 state-of-the-art premises, at the Burnley Business
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Mind your language
A WHOLE week of language awareness for pupils in every year was the aim of an initiative in a Blackburn school. Witton Park High School's language coordinator, Anne Kirkpatrick organised cross curricular activities boosting language skills not only in
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Let's go math-fanatical!
Launch of Maths Year 2000 "INSPIRING, informative and just wonderful" were some of the comments from teachers attending the conference to launch the Maths Year 2000 initiative in Blackburn and Darwen. The event, held at Ewood Park and attended by representatives
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Plan to create one of North's leading nightclubs
AN East Lancashire nightspot could be transformed into a Mecca for clubbers from all over the North and beyond after being bought out in a £1.2 million deal. The Equinox club, Nelson, will be given a new look and a new name - The Auditorium - in the spring
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Children light up bulb show
GREEN-FINGERED children from Darwen had their efforts rewarded after taking part in an annual competition. Prizes in the Darwen Civic Society bulb growing competition for schools were handed out at a special event at the St John Ambulance headquarters
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River record snaps can win a prize
AMATEUR photographers are being challenged to record interesting images of the River Darwen on film. Darwen Civic Society has launched its 12th annual photographic competition. The aim is to encourage Darweners to look clearly at the river from its source
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Life-saver for 'a few pence'
A LIFE-saving disposable device, which costs just a few pence to produce, has been invented by a doctor from Lower Darwen. Andrew Breakell, 35, and his colleague, Dr Chris Townsend-Rose, from the A&E department at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital
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Action plan over estate snags
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to force developers to clean up their act after a series of problems on new housing estates in Lower Darwen. Earcroft ward councillors Michael Barrett, Simon Danczuk and Mary Leaver want action after listening to two years
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Gunman on streets of fear
TEENAGERS and parents today told of how a mystery gunman has brought fear to the streets in a corner of Blackburn. And detectives have revealed they are now looking at a number of incidents involving teenagers being threatened by a man fitting the description
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Drivers warned about road works
MOTORISTS are being warned about roadworks which look set to cause traffic problems on Blackburn and Darwen roads in the next few weeks. The first to start involves resurfacing work at Copy Nook, between Higher Audley Street and Harwood Street, which
