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Events in East Lancs, Wed Jan 3
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Charter Theatre, Preston, 2pm and 7pm. Blackburn and District Probus Club, St Silas Parish Church Hall, Preston New Road, Blackburn, 10.30am. Parents and Toddlers, Daisyfield Centre, Blackburn, 10am-noon. Free and Easy
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Historical harvest of the old Grane
'Winter warmer' walk with Ron Freethy TO many people the idea of a walk in and around Haslingden might not seem to be all that appealing. Don't be put off, however, because there is plenty of history and natural history on offer. I started off in the
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Sore points on the telly
ON radio and television I often hear 'sore' which usually means 'having seen.' 'Droring' crops up quite often, being the method of creating a picture on paper or canvas. Recently, on Countdown I noticed contestants asking for a vowel or a 'continent.'
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Pub's name butchered
I READ with deep regret about the name of The Bull and Butcher pub in Burnley being changed to the Slaughtered Lamb (LET, December 11). My husband was a great-great grandson of the John Brown who owned the pub in 1835. If the new owners should take an
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Car parking a shambles
HAVING just returned from a shopping trip to Blackburn in what must be the busiest week of the year for most retailers, I spent half an hour attempting to park on the shopping centre car park. To my amazement, I discovered that the top levels were reserved
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Carnage has already begun
IN THE past couple of weeks we have seen that the carnage has already begun on Blackburn's 'orbital route' and adjacent roads, beginning with the death of an 82-year-old woman on Barbara Castle Way and a hit-and-run on Montague Street. Most worrying perhaps
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Eastern promise!
FUND-raiser Alan Hilton will next month get on his bike for charity -- in a country more than 6,000 miles from home. Alan, 33, from Atherton, will saddle-up to ride 300 miles across Laos, which borders Thailand and Cambodia. He will join about 40 other
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Nigel's hoping he is worthy
CARETAKER boss Nigel Worthington is hoping his side's 1-1 draw with Rovers will be enough to help him secure the Norwich job on a permanent basis. Former Blackpool chief Worthington was due to meet the club's board of directors after yesterday's clash
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Bent spares Hughes' blushes
NORWICH 1 ROVERS1 HOT-SHOT striker Marcus Bent conjured up a stunning solo strike to save Mark Hughes' bacon as Rovers ground out another vital point in their quest for promotion. Graeme Souness's recent £2.1 million capture from Sheffield United cancelled
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Pass on those unwanted gifts
Anyone who doesn't know what to do with their unwanted Christmas presents is being asked to 'pass the parcel' to the Marie Curie Cancer Care shop in St James Street, Burnley. Sylvia Wright, area manager of Marie Curie shops, said: "Every year most people
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Burger giant's eatery plan 'brash'
BURGER giant McDonalds has been asked to tone down the design for its new restaurant and drive-through take-away in Colne which has been described as brash, themed and overly dominant. The building to be constructed on the North Valley business park already
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Four year wait for patients
PATIENTS are being forced to wait up to four years for appointments due to a serious shortage of health specialists in East Lancashire, it has been revealed. People with mental health problems are being kept waiting almost four years for appointments
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Carollers' cash
MORE than £400 was raised during two December evenings when the Bolton-by-Bowland's carol singers braved the weather. The roving singers, organised through the village's WI committee, met outside the Coach and Horses Inn before setting off to serenade
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Prosperous New Year beckons for Mel
MANY students will spend the festive season in the library swotting up for next term's exams but former Palatine High School pupil Mel Walker will do her swotting in the local park. For eighteen-year-old Mel is studying at the National Women's Football
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Boxing Day blues for Tangerines
Blackpool 0 Halifax 1 By Chris Reece ONCE again Blackpool set themselves up for a play-off position only to throw it away in a game that should have been won. Pool missed chance after chance against struggling Halifax only to see their opponents grab
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Ward's claim for top job
JOHN Ward strengthened his claim for the job of Wolves boss on a permanent basis by taking three points from his former employers at Turf Moor yesterday. Burnley's former assistant manager guided the Midlanders to their third win in four games since the
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Ternent slams morons
BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent slammed the "morons" who jeered substitute Ronnie Jepson as he came off the bench to try and avert a fifth straight defeats for the Clarets. Some of the home supporters booed Ternent's decision to replace record signing Ian Moore
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Unhappy new jeers
Burnley 1 Wolves 2 NEW Year, same old story. Burnley have found a rut and they can't get themselves out of it. For the best part of half-an-hour yesterday they gave Wolves the run-around and ended their goal drought with a well worked effort from Graham
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Caring and dedication award
GIVING weight to slimming! That's Ros Ingham, group leader of the Bolton, Bury and Cadishead Slimming Magazine clubs, who has just been awarded the company's national "caring and dedication" award.
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Think green
REMEMBER to "think green" this New Year and take your Christmas trees along to be recycled. That's the plea of town hall bosses, who urge residents to dispose of their trees at their nearest civic amenity site: at Fernhill in Bury, the Cemetery Road site
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On the road to quieter surfaces
BURY'S roads could soon be quieter, although it will be nothing to do with the overall volume of traffic. For the town's highways could be altered to provide a noise reduction. The Highways Agency is to seek the views of Bury Council over its plan to
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Recycling time
REVELLERS can keep the party going by making money recycling their festive drinks cans. Taking aluminium cans to the Swinnerton Brothers depot in York Street, Bury also gives people a chance to do their bit for the environment. Trade bosses say that up
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Welcome for reform bill
LOCAL business leaders have welcomed the Regulatory Reform Bill which was announced in the recent Queen's Speech. Bolton and Bury Chamber chief executive Richard Bindless said: "The Regulatory Reform Bill sets out to ease unnecessary and outdated regulations
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Still time to speak out
THE public have around one month left to air their views over the proposed merger of two Manchester NHS Trusts. Health chiefs believe substantial savings would be made by the merger of Manchester Children's Hospitals NHS Trust and Central Manchester Healthcare
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Council issue safety first warning
BURY road safety chiefs issued a warning to motorists as winter took a grip on the borough's highways. Plunging temperatures and the proper snowfall last week led to treacherous conditions. Mr Paul Birch, Bury Council's senior road safety officer, said
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Race group chairman in Honours list
CHAIRMAN of Bury Racial Equality Council has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's New Years Honours List. And Dr Mohammed Salim (55), believes he is the first person ever from Mirpur Azad Kashmir to receive such an award. A qualified chemist, he has been
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French group profits fall
PROFITS at pillow and quilt manufacturer Northern Textiles, which employs about 200 people in Burnley, have been hit by rising costs and increased competition. The firm's parent company, French plc, said the difficult trading conditions affected the group's
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Death tragedy after party
A FAMILY New Year's Day party ended in tragedy when a grandmother died and her husband was injured in a fall downstairs. The Haslingden family are said to be distraught following the accident at the elderly couple's home in the Manchester Road area of
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Adoption plan is welcomed
A RADICAL overhaul to the adoption process has been announced by Government ministers, promising that more children will be moving faster through the system. Millions of pounds are to be spent on the new proposals which aim to increase the number of adoptions
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A happy crime-free New Year
CHIEF Supt Richard Taylor has called upon the readers of The Citizen to remain extra vigilant over the New Year period to help deliver a peaceful, happy and crime-free New Year. In a special message, the Divisional Commander for Lancashire West said:
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Scheme for civic champs
WOULD-BE civic champions are needed to help improve our local environment -- and they can win awards to help them get started. Run by the Civic Trust, the Civic Champions award scheme helps people who want to run projects for others, ranging from self-build
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Appeal for blood as donors 'dry up'
BLOOD donors are being urged to make a life-saving gift at East Lancashire centres as soon as possible. Stocks for emergency operations and transfusions are usually low after the Christmas and New Year holidays, when fewer people give blood. Penny Richardson
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Welcome to the world
BABY Ebony Walker missed the white Christmas -- but became the first arrival of the New Year. Ebony was born weighing just over 7lbs at 3.10am in Blackburn's Queen's Park Hospital. Mum Christina Rigby of Stanley Street, Accrington was pleased she was
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Couple's TV tale
A PENSIONER who will lift the lid on the golden age of the British holiday today admitted: "It's not like it used to be." Eva Kay is one of the stars in a programme about post-war holidays in Britain to be aired on television. Eva, of Brooklands, off
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'Copter crews work flat
LANCASHIRE air ambulance was called to a record number of incidents over Christmas and New Year. The Helimed 8 helicopter was used on 40 jobs over the last week, almost three times more than normal. Its average number of call outs is two a day. The helicopter
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Pub spirits not just in bottles!
STAFF at a town centre pub have reported ghostly goings on -- and claim the vodka and the brandy are not the only spirits in the bar. Eerie-figures have been seen drifting across the eating areas and a the shadowy figure of a man has been spied in the
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Four-year wait for some patients
PATIENTS are being forced to wait up to four years for appointments due to a serious shortage of health specialists in East Lancashire, it has been revealed. People with mental health problems are being kept waiting almost four years for appointments
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Non league: Vase showdown
Rossendale's FA Vase match against Brigg Town is hoping to go ahead at the fourth time of asking at Dark Lane tonight. Jim McCluskie's men have lost just one of their last 16 games and this should be their first home game since November, providing the
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Measure care level in all homes
BLACKPOOL Labout Party has sunk lower with their tactics regarding the care homes scandal. Now they want Citizen readers to think my campaign was really a plan to insult the integrity of staff in private rest homes. I challenge Mr Crossley to attend a
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Derby depression at Deepdale
Preston North End 0 Bolton 2 Quite simply, Preston were not at the races in this the first match of the new year at Deepdale and North End have now lost four out of their last five games. Preston had new one and a half million pound striker David Healy
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I feel a new woman
MOTHER of four Heidi Weber is making a remarkable recovery after an operation which removed breast implants which were threatening her life. Heidi, 34, from St Annes received soya oil breast implants at Fulwood Hall private hospital in Preston five years
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RUGBY LEAGUE: Stunning Torley rips Lions apart
Leigh Centurions 46, Swinton Lions 4 YOUNG Neil Turley is fast emerging as a one of Leigh's new heroes. The full-back, in only his fourth senior game, is the buzz of Hilton Park after claiming a stunning hat-trick as Leigh demolished previously unbeaten
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Boxing Day blues for Tangerines
Blackpool 0 Halifax 1 By Chris Reece ONCE again Blackpool set themselves up for a play-off position only to throw it away in a game that should have been won. Pool missed chance after chance against struggling Halifax only to see their opponents grab
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'Tin fishing' in Atlantic
FISH? We 'tin fished' them when I served in the North Atlantic during the Second World War. When stocks were getting down in the galley, dropping a depth charge (if we had any left) was a regular thing when we had been at sea some four weeks, the Bosun's
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Reactions are tip top
IN response to Linda Preston's observations about dithering elderly drivers (Letters, December 19) I would like to put forward views of a not-so-dithery, 70-year-old driver. As a former Royal Signals motor cycle display team rider, HGV1 driver, hang glider
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Nominations called for
AS patron of the Help the Aged Not Old Just Older Awards (NOJOs), I would like to take this opportunity to encourage your readers to put forward their nominations. These prestigious awards recognise the achievements and contributions of those who have
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Road action urgent
THE crossroads at Marsh House Lane/Roman Road/Hoddlesden Road, near Hoddlesden, Darwen, was recently the scene of yet another horrendous accident. Commonly, I suppose you would now call this crossroads "a death trap." When is "enough is enough" going
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Death in house 'not suspicious'
POLICE today said they were not treating a fatal house fire as suspicious, despite reports that the victim was involved in a fight the night before he died. Officers said the dead man was believed to be Phil Lewis, 30, who lived at the house Every Street
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Four-year wait for some patients
PATIENTS are being forced to wait up to four years for appointments due to a serious shortage of health specialists in East Lancashire, it has been revealed. People with mental health problems are being kept waiting almost four years for appointments
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Souness: We are as strong as anyone
GRAEME Souness believes his side now have the platform to challenge for automatic promotion. With West Brom and Bolton both winning yesterday, Rovers actually slipped down to fourth in the First Division table. But Souness said: "We certainly feel we
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Souey slams Hughes red
EWOOD chief Graeme Souness today jumped to the defence of veteran striker Mark Hughes after he was sent off in yesterday's clash with Norwich at Carrow Road. Hughes was shown the red card by referee Paul Danson in first half injury time after picking
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Heroin offender faces stiff sentence
A MAN who served hundreds of customers with heroin from a specially adapted retail "drugs shop" in Nelson was today facing a "premier league" prison sentence. Anthony Dewhurst, 28, of Giles Street, Nelson, failed to attend Preston Crown Court when three
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Death in house 'not suspicious'
POLICE today said they were not treating a fatal house fire as suspicious, despite reports that the victim was involved in a fight the night before he died. Officers said the dead man was believed to be Phil Lewis, 30, who lived at the house Every Street
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Five years ago: King of the road
KING of the road Gerry Newton had a date at Buckingham Palace. It was work as usual for the popular council road sweeper, of Derby Road, Accrington, despite being awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours for his service to the community in Rishton.
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Ten years ago: drink drive shame
DRUNKEN drivers put Lancashire top of the country's list of shame over the festive season. While most other counties reported a drop in the number of motorists over the limit, in Lancashire the figure rose -- and East Lancashire accounted for most of
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Off licence raider armed
A man wielding a large kitchen knife stole more than £250 from an off licence last night. The man walked into the Boozebuster shop in Blackburn Road, Accrington, shortly before 8pm and demanded cash from the till. He threatened the two staff with the
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I feel a new woman
MOTHER of four Heidi Weber is making a remarkable recovery after an operation which removed breast implants which were threatening her life. Heidi, 34, from St Annes received soya oil breast implants at Fulwood Hall private hospital in Preston five years
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Cemfuel views invited
RIBBLE Valley Residents concerned about Castle Cement's plans to begin burning Cemfuel in dry kiln seven still have time to make their views known. The Environment Agency, which has drafted plans to give the firm permission to burn the controversial fuel
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Road delay 'could have killed wife'
A MAN whose seriously ill wife endured a three-hour journey to hospital after the ambulance crashed in the snow today said ungritted roads could have caused a tragedy. Maureen Williams was on her way to Blackburn Royal Infirmary suffering from suspected
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Neil aims to be a high-flyer
ROYAL Navy trainee Lt Neil Winbolt has found the years are flying by as he trains to become a pilot. After joining in 1998, Neil, 25, from Lytham, has gone on to complete his officer training at Britannia Royal Naval College and then an arduous aircrew
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Booing aimed at tactics: fans
CLARETS fans today defended their reaction to the Ronnie Jepson substitution by claiming the boos were directed at the decision -- and not the player. Manager Stan Ternent blasted the boo-boys, believing a minority had turned on Jepson after the striker's
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Have a beer
BLACKBURN licensee Kevin Cordner is serving up a treat from today. Kevin, who runs the Postal Order in Darwen Street, Blackburn, is selling an unrivalled selection of beers from around the UK until January 28. There will be up to 100 different beers,
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Party of the year
REVELLERS partied through the night across East Lancashire as they welcomed in the New Year. Police praised revellers for their good behaviour and said there were no major incidents, despite using overspill lock-ups in Clitheroe after filling the cells
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Name change ruled out this time
THE owners of the renamed Slaughtered Lamb pub in Burnley have taken over the football supporters' local, the Park View. Chris Sullivan, from Accrington, and Steve Bolton, from Harrogate, are bidding to establish a chain of pubs in the North West. When
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Now women can enjoy their Christmas!
A BAR will be reviving an age-old Irish festivity when it holds a women-only snail-racing competition. O'Neill's, in King William Street, Blackburn, will be inviting customers to celebrate Women's Christmas, or Nolliag na mBhan. The event is traditionally
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SOCCER: Leigh start New Year with a bang
Leigh RMI 3, Northwich Vics 0 LEIGH RMI finished off the festive period with a thorough demolition of Northwich Victoria. The biggest Nationwide Conference victory of the season for the Railwaymen was only secured late on, yet the dominant hosts looked
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It's just the ticket
BURY commuters have helped boost sales of First Manchester's new weekly ticket, FirstWeek, which have exceeded all expectations. The bus company launched the new low cost ticket in November in response to public demand. It provides seven day travel in
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Souey slams Hughes red
EWOOD chief Graeme Souness today jumped to the defence of veteran striker Mark Hughes after he was sent off in yesterday's clash with Norwich at Carrow Road. Hughes was shown the red card by referee Paul Danson in first half injury time after picking
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Ternent slams morons
BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent slammed the "morons" who jeered substitute Ronnie Jepson as he came off the bench to try and avert a fifth straight defeats for the Clarets. Some of the home supporters booed Ternent's decision to replace record signing Ian Moore
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Boxing Day blues for Tangerines
Blackpool 0 Halifax 1 By Chris Reece ONCE again Blackpool set themselves up for a play-off position only to throw it away in a game that should have been won. Pool missed chance after chance against struggling Halifax only to see their opponents grab
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David plans a gala for all
IF he's got to work on New Year's Eve, then Blackpool Grand Theatre is the only place David Steadman (pictured) will do it. Out of all the theatres and concert halls in the country, "The Glorious Grand" holds most sentiment for the conductor. The music
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CBI chief in call to extend tax credits
A BUSINESS leader has called for greater tax incentives to help firms invest in skills and new equipment in the coming year. Confederation of British Industry director general Digby Jones, said in his New Year message that tax credits for companies investing
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The North-South 'divide' widens
FEWER businesses went bust over the past year, according to figures which expose a north-south divide in survival rates for firms. While the number of failed businesses fell by almost six per cent to 40,847 compared to 1999, the tally for the North of
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Bury 0 Rotherham Utd 0
Unlucky Shakers let points slip SHAKERS boss Andy Preece reckoned it was two points lost after Bury came within an inch of beating high-flying Rotherham United. Defender Sam Collins' last gasp header smashed against the upright just as referee Phil Dowd
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Wall collapse causes alarm
THE New Year came in with a bang for people living in one area of Darwen, when part of a house collapsed. The side of the house, which is on the end of a row of terrace houses in Franklin Street gave way at about 7am yesterday -- sending large stone slabs
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Moorland death drinker
A MAN found dead at a remote moorland beauty spot suffered a head injury after slipping down an icy slope, police revealed today. Detectives investigating the death of Brian Thomas Baron, 37, said a combination of the bitter cold and the amount of alcohol
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Chilling advice for motorists
DRIVERS are being warned to take extra care this winter on the roads as Lancashire County Council issue free leaflets full of cold weather driving tips. The leaflets contain advice and tips on how to be a safer driver throughout the cold winter months
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Gunmen rob man of £480
A MAN was robbed of almost £500 at gun point by two men at his Blackpool home on December 16. The men knocked on the door of his house in St Albans Road, Blackpool, at about 10.40pm and when he answered they forced him inside. They then produced a gun
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Gill and Elyse's labour of love
SPARKLY trees, bows, baubles and brightly-coloured windmills have transformed the garden of a Blackpool centre for special needs children into a shimmering winter wonderland. Blenheim House, on Whitegate Drive, was featured on ITV's Surprise Gardens recently
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Fido therapy just the tonic
DOGS are proving to be the ideal creature comfort for hospital patients on the Fylde Coast. Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Community Health Trust has introduced the pets on wards for the elderly mentally ill. Man's best friend is once again living up to his
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Margaret bows out with verse
AS WELL as hanging up her stocking for Santa this Christmas, one Cleveleys lady is hanging up her lollipop as she gives up 15 years of crossing patrols. Margaret Bilham, the lollipop lady from Norbreck County Primary School, Norbreck Road, Cleveleys,
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Mum declares you man and wife!
A PROUD mum had the best view in the church when she witnessed her daughter's wedding -- she carried out the service! The Rev Joan Brown, from Feniscowles Methodist Church, Blackburn, said she felt honoured to have been able to officiate at the wedding
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Pensioner James' Tiger treat
PENSIONER James Saul began the New Year by re-living the moment he went airborne in a Tiger Moth and vowed: "I may even try it again!" Not many people have the chance to celebrate their 70th birthday carrying out a loop-the-loop 3,000 ft above the ground
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Vicar stands up for kneelers
A VICAR has defended the right of worshippers' to "sit on the fence" in a debate over kneeling for prayer. In an article which is being reproduced in a number of parish magazines throughout Lancashire, the Bishop of Lancaster has questioned the modern
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Soccer: deadlock at Gigg Lane
Bury 0, Rotherham 0 FORMER Burnley striker Alan Lee could not get past the Bury defence in the goalless encounter with promotion chasing Rotherham. Lee, who joined the Millers earlier this season, looked lively in a stop-start game which was littered
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Soccer: Ricketts strikes
Preston 0 Bolton 2 BOLTON super sub Michael Ricketts struck again to boost his side's promotion bid and harm Preston's in the high noon showdown at Deepdale. Rickets, a £250,000 buy from Walsall during the summer, took his tally to 15 goals this season
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Don't be too triumphant
I AM the leader of Britain's fourth largest political party, the UK Independence Party. It has come to my attention that Mr Neil Derbyshire, Chairman of North West Liberal Democrats, has written to many north west newspapers making personal criticisms
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Missing from the survey
Poor Mr Crossley! He uses up so much space in his letters in descending to personal invective against me and praising his town hall heroes that he leaves himself no room to address the points at issue. He claims at having "conducted a survey amongst holidaymakers
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Christmas cracker!
Sheffield United 3 Preston North End 2 What a way to bring down the curtain on the old Millennium. A five-goal thriller in bitterly cold conditions, an absolute Christmas cracker of a Roses match. Preston got off to a brilliant start with a goal inside
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We want wardens
BURY'S pioneering scheme to put a team of "street ambassadors" on patrol in the borough's town centres has become a victim of its own success. New recruits are urgently needed to help the Community Safety Wardens project carry on its good work. The ground-breaking
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Waiting list woe
WHILE the length of waiting lists for operations is the measure often employed by voters to determine the state of the NHS and by government as a guide to the extent of political feel-good, it comes as a shock today to discover how alarmingly long patients
