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LEAP DAY: Birthday boys who will be forever young
NEXT-DOOR neighbours Roy Heald and Danny Miller (pictured) are young at heart - grey-haired Roy is really a teenager while exam student Danny has just turned four! Roy, of Stirling Street, Mill Hill, Blackburn, is 76 years old - born on February 29, 1924
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Raise a glass to Rovers
BLACKBURN Rovers fans can now enjoy raising a glass to their favourite team, with a new range of exclusive branded wines. The club has introduced the range to mark their 125th anniversary year and season ticket holders are automatically members of the
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Village craft sessions
CRAFT and sewing sessions will be held at the Barlow Institute in Edgworth next month to help promote International Women's Week. Experts will be on hand during the daily two-hour sessions, throughout the week beginning March 4, to advise on needlecraft
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LEAP DAY: Key of the door - after 84-year wait!
SPRIGHTLY pensioner Anne Thompson has got the key of the door - at the age of 84. Anne is one of those leap year babies born on February 29 whose "official" birthday only come around once every four years. So although she is 84 years old today - born
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Ecstasy tablets found in car
A CHEMICAL worker found with ecstasy tablets used them to keep him awake at all-night clubs, Burnley magistrates heard. Glenn Uttley, 26, had nine tablets of the drug in his car when he was stopped by police in a routine check. Ottley, of Church Crescent
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Hard-up mum's dud cheque ploy
A HARD-up mother-of-three spent more than £100 in cheques at a service station - but did not have any cash in her account. Burnley magistrates heard how Victoria Parkinson, 31, told police there would be enough money to honour all cheques in two days
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Turf Moor set to hold its biggest all-seater crowd
TURF MOOR will hold its biggest crowd since the ground was turned into an all-seater stadium six years ago for Saturday's visit of local rivals Preston North End. The promotion showdown is also likely to generate record receipts for the club, surpassing
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Light work
BUSINESS and Professional Women's Club members from Blackburn, Ribble Valley and Burnley, held an International Evening at the Clarion Hotel, Billington, and lit candles for each country where branches of the organisation exist. Pictured, front from the
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First stage complete at 'fabulous' complex
A CONTROVERSIAL development in Helmshore has reached the end of its first phase with the opening of the new Holden Vale conference centre. The complex, on the site of the former Holden Vale bleach works, Holcombe Road, also features a fitness suite in
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'Cracker' profilers hunt for danger gunman
UNDERCOVER police have swamped the area around Witton Park, Blackburn in a bid to track down a mystery gunman. Two weeks after teenager Adam Hayes was blasted with a shotgun in a nearby street, police stepped up their efforts to trace his attacker. Detectives
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Down by the Riverside
A fan's-eye view from Ewood Park, with Phil Lloyd IT was planned with military precision and executed with perfect timing. Every part of the operation went smoothly and according to plan. It was, in short, a great success. Fellow sufferers at Ewood on
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LEAP DAY: Abby's pals enjoy 'first' party
FAMILY fortunes took a turn for the better for Alan and Eileen Leech when their second daughter arrived four years ago on February 29. Alan meant to attend auditions for the Family Fortunes quiz show with his brothers and sisters, but daughter Abby decided
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Dalglish makes Ewood return
Division One: Blackburn Rovers v Norwich City - Peter White's match preview ALAN Shearer has already come back to haunt Blackburn Rovers supporters this season. Ewood regulars will be hoping that the same does not apply tonight with another familiar name
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Armstrong set to face North End
CLARETS skipper Gordon Armstrong could be ready to make a timely return to action in Saturday's promotion showdown with derby rivals Preston North End. The versatile defender missed the weekend win at Colchester with a calf strain that initially looked
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Nursery closures re-think
PLANS to close several nursery schools in East Lancashire and merge others to form "centres of excellence" are likely to be scrapped after a public outcry. Lancashire County Council was today set to back down from radical plans to create "super nurseries
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Events in East Lancashire on Wednesday, March 1st
East Lancashire Quilting Group, St James the Less Social Club, Burnley Road, Rawtenstall, 7.30pm. Friends in Bereavement, St John's Methodist Church, Albert Road, Colne, 7pm. An afternoon of free talks including "Fit for Life" and "Confidence Building
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Hospital carer on drugs charge
A CALDERSTONES care assistant has been accused of supplying cannabis to a patient at the hospital. Ian James Whittaker, 33, of Billington Gardens, Billington, appeared before Blackburn magistrates yesterday charged with supplying the drug to a patient
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Lecturer turns to film to highlight complementary health
A CLITHEROE woman is promoting complementary health therapies in the UK by starring in a range of information videos. Lynn Askew (pictured), senior lecturer and regional examiner in complementary therapies, features in a series of seven colour videos
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Hospital dream a nightmare
REGARDING your article (LET, February 15) on the transfer of hospital services in Blackburn to one site, it was said that the scheme "will be the realisation of a dream for staff at the hospital." I beg to differ. It may be a dream come true for the local
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COUNTY CRICKET: Schofield tipped for England contract
CHRIS Schofield is being tipped as the shock name on England's first list of contracted players when it is announced at Lord's tomorrow. Captain Nasser Hussain, coach Duncan Fletcher and the other selectors will meet tonight to finalise their squad for
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FIVE YEARS AGO: All's not well at hospital
HOSPITAL staff sickness was on the rise despite attempts by bosses to cut absences. Latest figures from the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Care Trust showed employees were off for an average of almost six per cent of January. The 2,500 staff
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Melissa sums up her maths success
A YOUNG Burnley teacher has been given top marks for her work with children and has been chosen as one of Lancashire's leading maths teachers. Melissa Potts, 25, who lives in the Rosehill area of Burnley, has been teaching at Healey Wood Infant School
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Teenage pregnancies: Sarah Lou highlights gymslip mums' plight
TONGUES are wagging on Coronation Street again as 13-year-old Sarah Lou Platt discovers she's pregnant - and the soap's latest plot has got East Lancashire professionals talking too. The under 16-pregnancy rates in East Lancashire are some of the worst
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Meeting a 'watershed' for democracy in town
THE people of Oswaldtwistle are being encouraged to attend Hyndburn's first area council meeting tonight. The historic meeting - part of a massive shake-up of local government in the borough - will see power devolved to the community. Residents will be
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LEAP DAY: Waiting over for Frances
FRANCES Brown (pictured) was today celebrating her 21st birthday - at the age of 84. Frances, who lives at Wordsworth House private nursing home, Hapton, was born on February 29, 1916 and is actually 84, but she was celebrating only her 21st "official
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LEAP DAY: Odds on sisters' big day
MILLION-to-one sisters Marie and Sarah Whittle (pictured) are celebrating their birthdays today, after waiting four years. The special sisters, of Station Road, Huncoat, share a leap year birthday after both being born on February 29. Marie, 16, and Sarah
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Good lord! I've a Sir in the family
MEMBERS of the Hyndburn branch of the Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society were on hand to help visitors at Accrington Library trace their family tree. The group set up special computer programmes in the library's reference department to help
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Family feud pair jailed after attack
A FATHER and son are both behind bars after a feud between two Huncoat families left a man beaten up and semi-conscious. Father-of-four Duncan Johnstone, 36, was sent to prison for nine months and his son, Duncan Cash Johnstone, 17, himself soon to be
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Sex acts scandal at lap-dance club
LEWD acts and illicit lap-dancing have been taking place at an East Lancashire nightclub, the Lancashire Evening Telegraph can reveal. The sleazy acts have been happening at The New Top Club, Whalley Road, Clayton-le-Moors, during its weekly topless barmaid
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Looking to the future
TEENAGERS got the chance to find out about careers at an open evening. Training 2000 threw open the doors at its Harwood Street base in Blackburn to show students facilities for training in areas including engineering and vehicle maintenance. Engineering
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Cheer over new director
A NEW director has been appointed at brewers Thwaites. Chartered surveyor James Dean (pictured), a partner with property firm Savills, is also a director of CLS Holdings plc and Property Internet plc. After beginning his career as a management trainee
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Are you up to the challenge?
IF your school or college is planning a special event to celebrate World Book Day on March 10 this year, we are issuing an additional challenge to write your own report of this and, like real journalists, meet your deadline of Saturday March 11. Extracts
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Record breakers
COULD this be a record? A Nelson school's link up with our Newspapers in Education project started in September 1999 and is planned to last right through the school year, boosting literacy and numeracy skills. A group of students at Edge End High School
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Clever pupils scoop prizes
YOUNG winners of a religious competition were presented with their prizes at the Anjaman Centre, Nelson. The annual competition was organised by the Anjaman Islah-ul-Muslimeen group and involved more than 50 participants. Winners of the primary school
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Ivy enjoys a tot to celebrate a century
A TOT of rum helps 100-year-old Ivy Myers get going in a morning. Ivy celebrated reaching the century mark on Sunday by enjoying her 100th birthday party at Walverdene Home for the Elderly, Nelson, with staff and other residents. The occasion was a good
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Nursery victory for parent power
PARENT protesters were today poised to celebrate the axing of controversial plans to "close" nursery schools in East Lancashire and create new centres of excellence. Lancashire County Councillors were recommended to back down from radical plans to create
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Alert over chemicals
RESIDENTS living in the shadow of an Oswaldtwistle steel factory were told to keep their windows and doors shut today after a mystery chemical alert on the site. Police, firefighters and the Environment Agency have launched an investigation after receiving
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Rain thwarts procession
MEMBERS of Darwen's Brownies and Girl Guides were forced to abandon plans for a Thinking Day procession through the town because of bad weather. The group, which included members of more than 20 packs, had intended to march from Derwent Hall in Peabody
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Hunt on for armed store raiders
POLICE are hunting armed raiders who escaped with £25,000 from a supermarket on Saturday. The two men, wearing balaclavas and gloves, went into the Aldi Store, in Harpers Lane, Chorley, through an exit door as customers were leaving the store at about
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Mark is on for treble marathon
RUNNER Mark Roberts (pictured) is going for the treble when he takes part in the London Marathon in April. Mark, 39, of Wensley Road, Blackburn, has completed the marathon twice before - but he is hoping this year's time will be his best yet. Last year
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DNA samples aid search for rapist
DETECTIVES have taken DNA samples to help track down a rapist who attacked a woman after luring her into a car by offering her a lift. DNA matching could also be used to eliminate innocent suspects during the investigation into the attack, which happened
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Kelly rescues reserves
Preston North End Reserves 2 Burnley Reserves 2 A LATE wonder strike from Eammon Kelly silenced a crowd of just over 400 at Deepdale last night to give the Clarets a share of the spoils in this dress rehearsal of Saturday's Lancashire derby. Only 13 minutes
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Action awards team sought
VOLUNTEERS across East Lancashire are being sought for the Whitbread Volunteer Action Awards 2000. As part of the country's community volunteering awards, Whitbread is searching for unsung heroes who selflessly give their time, skill and enthusiasm to
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Tenants take seats on shadow board
SIX council tenants from Blackburn and Darwen have been selected to sit on the shadow board of the company which may soon be running the local authority's houses. The new organisation will officially take over responsibility for council homes if town
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Cummings and Goings
A fan's-eye view from Turf Moor, with Stephen Cummings BEFORE last weekend I had publicly doubted that 5.15am actually existed. I'd heard rumours that it did, but rather like the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and Blackburn Rovers "going straight back up
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High-flier super 'tec is demoted
A HIGH-flying detective who caught the people responsible for a brutal Blackburn town centre killing has been demoted, after admitting he falsified records in an unrelated incident. Neil Smith, the former head of Blackburn CID, has been stripped of the
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Sixties' law that could silence pubs
A KARAOKE operator claims he and dozens of landlords could be put out of business if councillors follow a 40-year-old law which could silence the pubs of Blackburn and Darwen. Nigel Ely has been running karaoke and discos in Blackburn for 11 years but
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Valuable warning to farms
FARMERS and landowners across East Lancashire should give written permission to people wanting to search for treasure on their land - warns the Country Landowners' Association. "The long spell of wet weather can wash up to the surface valuables as well
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School 2000 reunion ideas wanted
PAST pupils of four Blackburn junior schools are being asked to come up with ideas for a millennium reunion. Peter Hearne, of Heys Lane, Blackburn, has organised two reunions in the past for pupils of Accrington Road, Intack, Furthergate and Lambeth Street
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Town's just a rubbish dump
MY daughter has just returned to Melbourne, Australia, after a six-week holiday in Blackburn visiting relatives and friends. She was disgusted, to say the least, by all the rubbish everywhere, especially the Griffin area, some parts of which appear to
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Programme a switch-off
I ONLY watched the programme (if you can call it that) 'League of Gentlemen' for 10 minutes before switching off. It was just puerile rubbish. I can't imagine that it was supposed to represent any real life town. I'm sure Bacup, labelled 'frightening'
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Who controls the council?
I DO not recall casting my vote for the nameless auditor who apparently controls Hyndburn Council and who shows how weak our elected councillors are in failing to retain the outlying offices (LET, February 19). As there are now more Labour councillors
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Our chance for unity
WITH virtually all our colonies now gone and devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland leading inevitably to the break up of the United Kingdom, the final curtain is being brought down on our imperial past. As an Englishman, I find the prospect
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Let there be light
I HAVE just returned from a short trip to Belarus, an impoverished former republic of the Soviet Union. Electricity in that country is expensive and in short supply and, as night falls, village homes darken, all activity comes to an end and people simply
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What's to gain from Europe?
IN response to MEP Chris Davies' remarks (Letters, February 17) in "Euro the only way to go," one asks: to go where? We must bear in mind that with the inclusions of Eastern European countries into the EU, there will be a greater increase in the workforce
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TEN YEARS AGO: Waterloo gathering
THOUSANDS of spectators and demonstrators gathered for the annual Waterloo Cup. The three-day event at Altcar, near Southport, had been a trouble spot in the past when anti-blood sport demonstrators opposed to hare coursing clashed with spectators. Converted
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SNOOKER: Taylor sets sights on senior service
SNOOKER legend Dennis Taylor will retire from professional competition at the end of the season. But the 51-year-old Blackburn-based Irishman does not plan to bring down the curtain altogether on his snooker career and could soon be back in action on
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£50,000 bail
A MAN accused of killing his cousin in an Oswaldtwistle pub has had his case committed to Crown Court. James Bruce Singleton, 29, of Kingfisher Court, Oswaldtwistle, is accused of the manslaughter of 25-year-old Mark Taylor. He was granted bail on condition
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Why should we pay for shirkers
WHEN the unsubtle Norman Tebbit issued his famous 'On yer bike!' advice to the unemployed to go out and find work in the 1980s, there were howls of protest. But in echoing him today, Chancellor Gordon Brown will only draw applause. For the big difference
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Who are the GMC there to protect?
THE CASE of incompetent East Lancashire family doctor Ahmed Zaman is shocking enough itself - he lied again and again to cover up his messed-up treatment of elderly Thomas McHugh, who later died. He even sent Mr McHugh to a residential home he owned when
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Council tax rise
COUNCILLORS in Burnley will tonight be asked to approve a council tax increase of 5.3 per cent. The total tax for Band D houses will remain just under the £1,000 mark at £998.05. The Burnley element is £167.10 compared to the Lancashire County Council
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Speech is put to the test
FESTIVAL fever will hit East Lancashire next month with the arrival of the annual Festival of Speech, Music and Dance. More than 300 entries were received for the speech and drama classes, on March 3 and 4, making this the largest festival section for
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Puzzle of Percy the piranha
PERCY the vegetarian piranha is baffling aquarium staff. When someone broke into the council-run natural history centre at Caldervale Park, Todmorden, they didn't steal anything, they just left the extra fish in one of the tanks! The raider forced open
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Dirty dog penalty threat
BURNLEY Council is calling "foul" on dog owners who allow their pets to leave a mess. Owners who do not clear up after their dogs will now face prosecution or a £25 fixed penalty. The Burnley and District (Fouling of Land) order came into effect on the
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Clarets star Armstrong set to face North End
CLARETS skipper Gordon Armstrong could be ready to make a timely return to action in Saturday's promotion showdown with derby rivals Preston North End. The versatile defender missed the weekend win at Colchester with a calf strain that initially looked
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Eco-warrior's arrest on ship
AN ECO-warrior from Burnley was among Greenpeace activists who boarded a ship to stop it from unloading its cargo of genetically modified soya at Liverpool. Richard Watson, 35, was one of five protesters arrested in a late-night raid by police when they
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Walker makes appeal to fans
JACK Walker today appealed to all Blackburn Rovers fans to get right behind the team in their bid for promotion. The Ewood owner pledged that, even if Rovers failed to reclaim their Premiership place, he would continue to back the club "101 per cent"
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Gym fixes it for super Nancy, 84
SHE has been described as 'superwoman' and is superfit, strong and slender. Active and athletic, Nancy Shutt likes to join her friends down the gym several times a week for a good work-out. But despite being 84 there are no signs of arthritis, rheumatism
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Mixing the music
THE East Lancashire Concert Band held an RAF Association concert at Accrington Town Hall. The music ranged from The Dam Busters and Belle of the Ball to more modern material such as Abba and Queen hits. There was also music by the Red Rose singers. The
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Banned driver hid from police
A BANNED driver who fled from police in Clayton-le-Moors sparked a manhunt and was captured after hiding in the grounds of the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Hyndburn magistrates heard. John Wesley Cleary, 18, was driving an E-registered Ford Fiesta when he was stopped
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Brothers charged
TWO teenage brothers have appeared in court charged with attacking a 20-year-old man in Accrington early on Saturday. David Wilding, 19, and Carl Daniel Bates, 17, both of Sandy Lane, Accrington, are jointly charged with unlawfully and maliciously causing
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Massive interest in e-commerce
TECHNOLOGY expert Graham Whitehead will be addressing North West e-entrepreneurs next week. Former QEGS pupil Graham, who is now BT's senior futurologist, is taking part in a live video broadcast to the First Tuesday meeting on March 7. First Tuesday
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Jan's job to boost town centres
PENDLE has a new Town Centres Officer - a woman who has already had considerable success over the border in Yorkshire. Jan Joshi (pictured), 33, helped to get 100 per cent occupancy of town centre premises in Batley and aims to do the same for Pendle.
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MP sticks to his guns over payouts to PoWs
LABOUR MP Gordon Prentice is to step up his battle to win compensation for Far East Prisoners of War despite a rebuff from the Government. The Pendle back bencher pledged to keep up the campaign after he received a letter from Defence Minister Dr Lewis
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Lamb alert over spring walks
SHEEP farmers across Lancashire have issued a vital early warning to walkers: Don't disturb sheep and their young this spring. "The warning is early but circumstances are critical for some of our members because of the depressed financial state of farming
