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Listings for East Lancs, Tuesday Jan 9
Don't forget for full coverage always read it in your Lancashire Evening Telegraph. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" pantomime, Colne Municipal Hall. Until January 21. Guided Walk -- Treasure Hunt, Witton Park Visitor Centre, Blackburn, 1pm.Get together
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Our doctors must be screened
HARD on the heels of the shocking disclosure last week that mass murderer Dr Harold Shipman killed up to 265 patients over a quarter of a century comes an equally chilling revelation today. It is that, when he was fined and sent into professional disgrace
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Point was missed
REGARDING my previous comments on older drivers and in response to James Saul's remarks (Letters, January 3) it was with some amusement that I read them as it would appear that he missed the whole point of my original letter. My main concerns were the
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Arson attack on Nelson market cafe
A CAFE owner today said "half of his life" had gone up in smoke after a suspected arson attack. Tony Walsh has run the Rose Cafe in Nelson market for 24 years but all that now remains is a blackened gutted shell. The whole market could have gone up in
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Leigh's new star is shining bright
Chorley Lynx 4 Leigh Cent 56 IT'S been quite a week for young Neil Turley. Following his New Years' day hat-trick against Swinton, the Leigh full-back yesterday grabbed five tries as the Centurions demolished lowly Chorley, writes Mike Hulme Turley also
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Scoreline flattered Rovers claims City boss Barrow
CHESTER City boss Graham Barrow believes a 2-0 scoreline flattered Rovers at Ewood on Saturday. Blackburn fans had to wait 72 minutes before Martin Taylor finally broke City's stubborn resistance. And, though Marcus Bent then went on to add a second,
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Keller for Dailly
BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness is hoping to land West Ham midfielder Marc Keller today as part of an exchange deal involving Christian Dailly. Hammers boss Harry Redknapp has been back in touch with Rovers about a possible move for Scottish international
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Rovers escape banana skin
CHESTER City centre back Matt Woods fell flat on his face after stepping on a bar of soap climbing out of the bath in the build up to the biggest day of his life. And Rovers could have suffered a similar fate here after this cup tie threatened to become
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Canoe course and fish plan for river
A CANOE course and fish pass are planned on the River Calder at Padiham weir. The Environment Agency has applied to Burnley Council for planning permission to create a series of pools and drops for use by canoeists. A pass is also planned for both course
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Cyclist suffers fractured skull
A CYCLIST suffered a fractured skull in a freak accident as he travelled downhill on a quiet country road. Stephen Thompson, 47, of Moss Street, Great Harwood, is receiving treatment in the intensive care unit at Burnley General Hospital, where his condition
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How the craziest of swimmers chill out
FORTY swimmers from pension age down to 10 plunged into the icy cold waters at the annual New Year's dip in Lee Dam, Lumbutts, Todmorden. And after that bitter experience many who took part were thinking of renaming the location Numbutts The dippy dippers
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Shipman: Pain of town
PEOPLE in Todmorden where evil GP Harold Shipman is thought to have honed his killing skills have told of their shock at the mass murder claims. Jean Hartley, who has a cheese stall on the town's market said: "I only saw him twice, he was not my regular
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Shipman: Pain of town where evil GP honed his skills in killing
PEOPLE in Todmorden where evil GP Harold Shipman is thought to have honed his killing skills have told of their shock at the mass murder claims. Jean Hartley, who has a cheese stall on the town's market said: "I only saw him twice, he was not my regular
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Shipman: I first blew whistle on Dr Death
A FORMER colleague of Dr Harold Shipman today said the serial killer would never have had the chance to get away with murder if the authorities had not given him a second chance. Retired GP Dr Michael Grieve was speaking as the Government announced the
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Song that kept the golfers chipper
EVIDENTLY those old-time golfers were proper swingers -- going off the goings-on at the annual smoking concert hot-pot at the clubhouse in 1949. For the programme for the event in February nearly 52 years ago at Blackburn Golf Club -- sent to Looking
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Residents' no-cash trading system unveiled
LETS all do it together residents in Colne are being urged. People in the Waterside and Vivary Bridge area of town are being invited to a presentation of the LETS scheme (Local Exchange Trading System) at the Waterbridge centre, Rigby Street, on Thursday
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Mugged woman, 79, breaks hip
TWO women were mugged in almost identical attacks at the weekend. However, detectives said the two assaults were not being linked to each other or to attacks in Blackburn before Christmas. In the first attack a 79-year-old woman suffered a fractured hip
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Jewellery thieves target woman, 80
POLICE in Burnley want people's help in tracing two women who stole jewellery valued at £1,200 from an 80-year-old woman's home. The victim answered the door at her home in Pheasantford Green, Duke Bar, at 7pm on Friday and, after a conversation, let
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Lennie's lifeline
RELIEVED Burnley boss Stan Ternent believes Lennie Johnrose's FA Cup lifeline could be the spark to revive the Clarets season. Ternent's side was less than two minutes away from crashing out of the cup to Third Division Scunthorpe United at Turf Moor.
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Late strike earns RMI a point
Scarborough 1 Leigh RMI 1 LEIGH RMI have a resurgent Ian Monk to thank for maintaining their unbeaten record in the New Year, as it was his late volley that ended Scarborough's good run, writes Martyn Hindley It was a game in which they were easily outplayed
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French ace Marc linked in Dailly deal
BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness is hoping to land West Ham midfielder Marc Keller today as part of an exchange deal involving Christian Dailly. Hammers boss Harry Redknapp has been back in touch with Rovers again about a possible move for Scottish international
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Lennie's lifeline
RELIEVED Burnley boss Stan Ternent believes Lennie Johnrose's FA Cup lifeline could be the spark to revive the Clarets season. Ternent's side was less than two minutes away from crashing out of the cup to Third Division Scunthorpe United at Turf Moor.
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Vernon takes up top post
THE industry body representing engineering firms in East Lancashire has elected a new president. The Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) North West has chosen Vernon Holt, production director of a Manchester paper company, to take the top post during
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Late bill paying is just improving
FIRMS are still taking 61 days to pay their bills, but things are improving slightly. Two years after the Government introduced legislation giving small companies the right to interest on late payments, research shows the average payment period across
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Mistakes on tax returns can be costly
MISTAKES caused by rushing to meet the end of month self-assessment deadline could have serious consequences, according to North West tax experts. Taxpayers are being urged to be ultra cautious following the introduction on January 1 of a new criminal
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It's muddy hell as Shakers slide goes on
Bury 0 Cambridge 1 THE 'R' word hasn't been mentioned at Gigg Lane this season but a few more results like Saturday's and it soon will be, writes Steve Canavan This disastrous defeat meant the Shakers have taken six points from the least 30; have won
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The day thou gavest Lord is ended
THE last Hymn was number 648 -- The Day Thou Gravest Lord Is Ended -- which the Rev Terry Young said was usually reserved for funerals. And to the congregation packed into the humble church that is exactly what it was. A passing. Tearful mourners gathered
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Hope for top stars' return to improved hall
BIG-NAME stars are to be enticed back to East Lancashire after the final phase of improvements start on a leading venue. Chart-topping bands were banned from playing stand-up concerts at King George's Hall, Blackburn, when bosses at Blackburn with Darwen
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Councillor vows to improve crash bend
A COUNTY councillor has vowed to campaign to improve road safety after a woman escaped tragedy by seconds when a bus crashed through two outhouses. Jean Hannon had just left one of the outbuildings on Knuzden Brook, between Blackburn and Knuzden, when
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Smash hit for a theatre revival
THEATRE-lovers are at last celebrating spending their hard won cash to lift the curtain on a new venue after more than 20 years fund-raising. Builders and electricians will start work this week to transform the old Empire cinema into the new 200-seater
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Ex-servicemen's help office forced to close
AN office set up to help former servicemen and their relatives has had to shut because of lack of funds and volunteers. The Royal British Legion's welfare office in Railway Road, Blackburn, has closed only a year after opening. Chairman of the Blackburn
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Great Harwood to play Prescot
GREAT Harwood will battle it out at home to high flying Prescot Cables tonight as they look to move out of the bottom two in the NWCL Division One table. Manager Denis Underwood should have an almost fully fit squad to choose from after their Worthington
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Preece feels wrath of fans
BURY 0 CAMBRIDGE 1 BURY'S fans have finally run out of patience with their underachieving side, who have now won just six points from the last 39. Boos echoed around the near empty stands as the few who turned up witnessed one of the worst football matches
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Ricketty Wanderers escape giant-killing
BOLTON 2 YEOVIL 1 BOLTON boss Sam Allardyce was mightily relieved when his golden boy Michael Ricketts again turned up trumps to shatter the FA Cup dream of Yeovil. Allardyce's decision to leave out seven recognised stars almost backfired and it was left
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Ronnie shrugs off his injury
RONNIE Baxter took his medicine and then prescribed a first round beating for MItchell Crooks at the Embassy World Darts Championship yesterday. Baxter lost the first set but then stormed back to win the next three and made light of the repetitive strain
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Darwen's hat-trick of victories
DARWEN 3 NELSON 2 DARWEN made it three wins on the bounce against local rivals Nelson in the Worthington Challenge Trophy. Nelson were left to rue missed chances as Steve Wilkes's side edges through to the third round, where they meet NWCFL Division One
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New boy Mason steals the show
NORTH FERRIBY UTD 0 CHORLEY 3 CHORLEY produced an eye-catching performance on Humberside to complete their first league double of the season and inflict North Ferriby's heaviest home defeat for five years. Striker Andy Mason, on loan from Leigh RMI, brought
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Moyes takes stock of strikers
PRESTON manager David Moyes is banking on his new-look strike force to make an impression soon. His new £1.5m buy David Healy, 11-goal scorer Jon Macken and American international forward Brian McBride had opportunities to put North End in the hat for
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Concentration lapse costs brave Boro
RADCLIFFE Boro fell for the sucker punch of "you're never more vulnerable than when you've just scored" in a 3-2 defeat at Matlock Town. With the final minutes ticking away the Derbyshire outfit held sway at 2-1 in a rather dour Unibond Division One encounter
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Log on to a new recipe
TIRED of the same menu every week? A new website is currently under development at BBC Online that will enable people to submit and exchange hundreds of recipes just by logging on. The new site -- Food Nation -- will be home to a database listing a wide
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French ace Marc linked in Dailly deal
BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness is hoping to land West Ham midfielder Marc Keller today as part of an exchange deal involving Christian Dailly. Hammers boss Harry Redknapp has been back in touch with Rovers again about a possible move for Scottish international
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Back in time to boost charity coffers
MEMBERS of Burnley Soroptimist Club went back three centuries to raise money for Pendleside Hospice with an event at Towneley Hall. Local actors in period costume helped to bring history to life by acting out scenes from the Towneley family history dating
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Workers' courses fresh term starts
COURSES varying from people in medieval times to ancient civilisations and deaf awareness are being run by the Colne branch of the Workers Educational Association. Classes at a new venue, the Nelson and Colne College Reedyford site, begin on Tuesday,
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Trust blasts plan for former factory
A TOWN's Civic Trust is protesting over plans to alter an historical building The former Prestige factory in Burnley is being developed on behalf of Sainsbury's to include business space, a food store, DIY store and garden centre and other units. The
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When a town had too many pubs
LONG famed as Blackburn's "Street of Inns" -- it had 16 pubs and beerhouses when the landlord of one of them, Will Durham, compiled his potted history of the town in 1866 -- Northgate was on the brink on having one fewer when licensee James Simm posed
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Rape allegation
A MAN is being questioned by Accrington CID after an allegation of rape. Police said the alleged incident took place in the victim's house on Saturday night and the man was picked up by police on Sunday, 7th January to be questioned.
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Asda men's Africa climb for charity
TWO intrepid managers from Asda in Accrington are looking to scale the heights to raise cash for a children's charity. Kieran Riding and James Birney are in training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, and their sponsorship efforts
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Kevin's 'free firm' is handed over
A MAN who offered his furniture business for free to save it from closing down when he retired, today revealed the firm had been handed over. Now Kevin Cosgrove is planning other scheme to help others, offering artists free space at another of his Accrington
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Vital goal: Ternent
RELIEVED Burnley boss Stan Ternent believes Lennie Johnrose's FA Cup lifeline could be the spark to revive the Clarets season. Ternent's side was less than two minutes away from crashing out of the cup to Third Division Scunthorpe United at Turf Moor.
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Johnrose hopes to calm Clarets nerves
CUP saviour Lennie Johnrose hopes his last-gasp goal against Scunthorpe will help calm the nerves at Turf Moor. Burnley's confidence has been sapped by a losing streak in Division One but Johnrose is looking to Saturday's 2-2 third-round draw to give
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"The fist half was the worst I've seen this season from our lads," ranted Atherton Colls manager Chr
"We were lucky it was only 1-0 at the break and the lads were left in no doubt at half time over how I felt about it. The second half was much better. They responded well so overall I was quite pleased." Luke Hardman got the point-saver 10 minutes from
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Success story is keeping right on track
A LEADING East Lancashire based construction firm has invested £500,000 in heavy equipment. Nelson-based Barnfield Construction has added to its fleet of 35 machines with the purchase of two mini excavators and seven full-sized diggers, all made by JCB
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Mum's 'cyst' is really a baby!
ASTONISHED Linda Bentley gave birth just 30 minutes after learning that her "cyst" was a baby. The 45-year-old - whose other two children are in their twenties - didn't know she was pregnant until medical staff examined her. Linda, 45, of Cemetery Road
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Woman stabbed in throat shocker
A WOMAN was today recovering in hospital after being stabbed in the throat. Police arrived at the first-floor flat at Homestead, Clayton Brook, at 9.10pm last night, where paramedics treated the 50 year old. A man aged 44, also at the scene, was arrested
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Gizmo's return ends toddler's heartbreak
GIZMO the wandering Highland Terrier is back home after going walkabout from the family home in Blackburn. Two-year-old Saskia Curry was left heart-broken when the six-month-old pup escaped through an open garden gate in Shorrock Lane on New Years Eve
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Council bosses' gritting pledge
COUNCIL chiefs today vowed to keep the roads and footpaths free from ice throughout the remainder of the winter after a pensioner broke his arm on an untreated path. Blackburn with Darwen Council was encouraged to step-up their gritting of town centres
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Stanley suffer Bishop defeat
BISHOP AUCKLAND 2 ACCRINGTON ST 1 STANLEY's inconsistent league form continued as they went down to defeat at UniBond Premier side fourth place side Bishop Auckland, despite leading through a first half goal by Simon Carden. Playing down the slope in
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Princess is popping in
LOCAL dignitaries will welcome HRH The Princess Royal to Prestwich tomorrow (Tues Jan 9). She will call into the Salford Mental Health Services Citizens' Advice Bureau, which is based at Prestwich Hospital in Bury New Road. As patron of the National Association
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Stamps plea
I COLLECT used postage stamps for Mencap and Guide Dogs for the Blind and will refund postage cost to senders who kindly help my efforts. G D BATEMAN (Mr), 49 Strand Court, Strand Quay, Rye, East Sussex TN31 7AY.
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Support is appreciated
ST John Ambulance, Lancashire, would like to thank you for the publicity you have given us over the past year. As a charity, we are very dependent on good publicity to ensure successful recruitment and fundraising, enabling us to continue our service
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Research into VC winners
I AM compiling a guided ghost walk of old Blackburn, which will not only take in ghost stories, but murders and mysteries from over the years. In my research, I have come across many heroes and villains and am very interested in four Blackburn servicemen
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Crime start to New Year
WELL, didn't the residents of Harwood Street and surrounding streets in Darwen have a good start to the new year? The majority of them awoke on New Year's Day to find the windows on their cars all smashed up. Is it any wonder, though, when there is no
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Bank move a boon to town
REGARDING your article about the Halifax's branch relocation proposals for Blackburn town centre (LET, December 12), far from reducing our presence in Blackburn by closing the two existing branches, we consider that the proposal to move into the former
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'Cyst' mum's baby shock
ASTONISHED Linda Bentley gave birth just 30 minutes after learning that her "cyst" was a baby. The 45-year-old - whose other two children are in their twenties - didn't know she was pregnant until medical staff at Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn, examined
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Smith up for Rovers return
DERBY boss Jim Smith is relishing the prospect of returning to Ewood for a fourth round FA Cup clash with Blackburn later this month. Yesterday's draw paired the two clubs together after Rovers booked their place in the hat courtesy of Saturday's 2-0
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Replay for rejected games arcade plan
PLANS for another amusement arcade in Burnley town centre will be decided by councillors this week. The application for change of use of the former Jean Junction shop in St James Street has been re-submitted, having been thrown out in March last year.
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Arson attack on Nelson market cafe
A CAFE owner today said "half of his life" had gone up in smoke after a suspected arson attack. Tony Walsh has run the Rose Cafe in Nelson market for 24 years but all that now remains is a blackened gutted shell. The whole market could have gone up in
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10 YEARS AGO: Blizzard standstill
A BLIZZARD of complaints swept Blackburn after rush-hour traffic ground to a standstill because of a sudden snowfall. The town centre was clogged with frustrated motorists whose journeys home turned into an icy nightmare.
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5 YEARS AGO: Robbery ordeal
A ROBBER threatened a shop assistant with a truncheon before escaping with National Lottery cash from a newsagents. The raider and his accomplice fled with more than £550 from Livesey News in Blackburn -- two hours before the £42million jackpot was drawn
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Delays add 47 hours to pals' 8-hour flight
A STONYHURST College pupil and his two friends endured a 55-hour journey to the Middle East - when it should have only taken eight hours. Francis Ryan, 16, a student at the college, and his two friends David McGrath, also 16, and 15-year-old Jeremy Aston
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Underlay firm plans to rebuild
PLANS to rebuild the middle warehouse of a carpet underlay factory, which was destroyed by fire in November, have been submitted to Rossendale Borough Council. More than 150 firefighters tackled the blaze at Duralay, Haslingden, six weeks ago, estimated
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999 crew tackles danger roof
FIREFIGHTERS battled against high winds to remove a loose piece of metal roofing which could have killed someone if it had been ripped off. Steve Roberts, leading firefighter at Blackburn, said three metal pieces were dangerously close to being ripped
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'Cyst' mum's baby shock
ASTONISHED Linda Bentley gave birth just 30 minutes after learning that her "cyst" was a baby. The 45-year-old - whose other two children are in their twenties - didn't know she was pregnant until medical staff at Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn, examined
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Dale face Trophy exit
ROSSENDALE may crash out of the Worthington Challenge Trophy after fielding an ineligible player. It took extra-time goals from David Gray and Pat Lauber to win the game but it looks likely to be NWCL Division Two side Padiham who will face Kidsgrove
