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Festival set for return
BLACKBURN'S Arts in the Park festival could become one of the biggest events on the musical calendar. That is the message from the councillor involved with the event, Ashley Whalley. More than 40,000 people flocked to the event which saw the like of Bliss
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Nylon should wear well
NYLON PYLON Brooks Club, Accrington PROMISING Mancunians Nylon Pylon justified their media when they played in Accrington this week. Ritchie Stubbs, a bizarre look-alike to Toploader's Joseph Washbourne, and his group began to pick up the pieces after
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Drivers know the sign for a good meal
SPREAD EAGLE, Barrow By Andrew Turner WHEN you are looking for a pub that serves good grub, a full car park is always a good sign. Personally, I worry that if too many people have been before then there won't be any food left for me. I needn't have worried
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MY FIRST
JOHN COLEMAN Accrington Stanley manager MEMORY: Sitting on a beach in Wales, throwing stones at an old plastic toy windmill. HERO: Gerd Muller, the German centre forward, although I did hero-worship my brother and my dad. They played local football and
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One Fort in the grave with keith Fort
Students don't know how lucky they are AMID all the anguish, joy and disappointment of this year's General Certificate of Education results, it will probably be only my generation that remembers it was exactly 50 years ago that the tests were introduced
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Meeting the neighbours
By DAVID BOGLE Sub-editor IT MAY be our big next door neighbour but, like many others, the only time I had spent in France was the odd day passing through en route to somewhere else. That changed when we decided to take our three-year-old son Robert on
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Shakers bid to bounce back from cash blow
BURY take on QPR tomorrow at Gigg Lane full of confidence - though a little disappointed by events elsewhere, writes Steve Canavan of the BOLTON EVENING NEWS. Former skipper Chris Lucketti has decided not to leave Huddersfield to join Cardiff, a decision
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Silly season of wasting money
THE silly season is certainly in full swing according to your reports (LET, August 14). The sum of £100,000 going down the drain on an electronic bus timetable that never worked is nothing in comparison to the overall picture of waste by councils. Anyway
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Do something to save our estate now
REGARDING your front page story about refugees being attacked (LET, August 11), and in reply to Gwyneth Sarkar of Twin Valley Homes (Letters, August 6), who at least took the trouble to reply to my earlier remarks, Coun Edward Harrison, who lives among
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Snooker cue attack mum outraged at sentence
A MOTHER today hit out after a man who assaulted her son with a snooker cue was given a conditional discharge and said: "He should never have taken the law into his own hands." The mother of the 15-year-old boy, who suffered a broken arm after being hit
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Furniture company making plans to expand
A LOCAL company has bucked the downward trend in the fortunes of manufacturing industry by announcing plans to expand. Nigel Platt, Director of retail furniture makers MA Platt Ltd., has applied to Hyndburn Council for permission to expand the premises
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PIC ON MONDAY CAPTION TOO
By MICHAEL ADDELMAN JD Wetherspoons wants to invest in Accrington Pub chain unveils £900,000 project NATIONAL pub chain JD Wetherspoons has unveiled plans to invest £900,000 transforming three empty shops into a new pub. The company says the project in
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Rounded up like geese lightning!
It's one man and his dog with a difference IT'S THE EYES THAT HAVE IT: TV star sheepdog Roy -- who has different coloured eyes -- has no trouble rounding up the geese in his usual calm style THE TEAM: Farmer Bill Heslop with sheepdogs, from left, Daz,
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lChemists on Duty
Wednesday, August 22 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; The Surgery (Chiropody), 132 Lammack Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: The
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Chemists on Duty
Monday, August 20 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: Moss Pharmacy, 314 Bolton Road; The Pharmacy, Oakenhurst
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Church pro is out to sink rivals Accrington
CHURCH professional James Bryant is hoping to leave the Blackburn Road club on a high note at the end of the summer and victory over local rivals Accrington tomorrow should further banish the threat of ending up with the Transco Lancashire League's wooden
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Bands on a stage with bikes
THERE will be more than just motorbikes to see at Europe's biggest town centre motorbike show in Rossendale -- three bands will also be playing on the stage. Non-Jovi, as the name suggests, are a tribute band to Bon Jovi and have played locally and far
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Star wars as band hit back at critics
STARSAILOR frontman James Walsh today urged his critics to concentrate on their own music rather than blasting him and his ever-rising band. James, a Chorley-born 21-year-old, has been forced to endure criticism from several high-profile bands since Starsailor
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EVENTS taking place in East Lancashire on Saturday, August 18:
Smallholders Annual Show, Civic Theatre, Stanley Street, Nelson, 2.45pm-5pm. Summer Fair, Springfield Nursing and Residential Home, Preston New Road, Blackburn, 1pm. Steve Preston as Elvis, King George's Hall, Blackburn, 7.30pm. Family Fun Day, Shadsworth
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EVENTS taking place in East Lancashire on Sunday, August 19 and Monday, August 20:
SUNDAY Computer Fair, Burnley Football Ground, 10am-3pm. Brassworks 2001, Centre Vale Park, Todmorden, 3pm-9.30pm. Fun Day, Playing Fields, Salterforth, 1pm-5pm. Europrint 10K Road Race, Witton Park, Blackburn. Blackburn Ramblers, Blakey Moor Baths, Blackburn
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Shakers aim to be quids in
IT'S quid-a-kid day at Gigg Lane and Bury boss Andy Preece wants his side to make it a day to remember. Newly-relegated Queens Park Rangers are the attractive opposition and it's hoped they go the way of another relegated side, Tranmere Rovers, last weekend
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Parable applies to cathedral art
AS a churchgoer, I have had occasion to parry the awkward questions from sceptics about the Christian church and its clergy; the latest being: "How come you have vicars sitting on roofs, people abseiling, etc, to raise funds for churches that badly need
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Dino on the mark for RMI
NEW signing Dino Maamria scored in the 18th minute to give Leigh RMI a great start against Hayes but the visitors equalised for a 1-1 draw in front of a miserable crowd of 546. Maamria confirmed his pre-season form - he netted his third goal in RMI colours
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Saints feel the might of the Bulls kicking
THE mighty boots of Bradford's half backs Henry Paul and Paul Deacon laid the platofrm for a storming 27-14 win over the Saints and Valley Parade Paul's remarkable display of marksmanship, in which he succeeded with all eight attempts at goal, allied
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Chemists on duty
THE following duty chemists will be available for dispensing services on Sunday, August 19, between noon and 1pm (unless stated otherwise): Earlston Pharmacy, 35 Eccleston Street, Prescot; Taylor's Chemist, 191 West End Road, Haydock (10am to 8pm); Lloyds
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Gig guide
TONIGHT Oxygen, Blackburn: '70s DISCO SOUNDS, 9pm to 1am, free. Cubes, Blackburn: DAMIAN LEE, 9pm-2am. Utopia Discotheque, Blackburn: SEDUCTION, chart and party tunes, 10pm to 3am. WEDNESDAY Utopia Discotheque, Blackburn: REPLAY, '70s, '80s and '90s sounds
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Chemists on Duty
Sunday, August 19 BLACKBURN: 10.30am-4.30pm: Superdrugs Pharmacy, 3-7 Stonybutts; 11am-2pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road; 12noon-1pm: Geloo Bros Ltd, 1 New Wellington Street, Mill Hill. DARWEN: 12noon-1pm: Geloo Bros Ltd, 14 Union Street.: ACCRINGTON
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Chemists on Duty
Thursday, August 23 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohens Chemist, 63 Whalley Range; To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 6.30pm: Donald Wood Ltd, 53 Fishmoor Drive;
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Chemists on Duty
Friday, August 24 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: Moss Pharmacy, 314 Bolton Road; The Pharmacy, Oakenhurst
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Chemists on Duty
Tuesday, August 21 BLACKBURN: To 9pm: Lloyds Pharmacy, 4-6 Railway Road; Cohen, 63 Whalley Range. To 8pm: Johnston Pharmacy, 50-52 Johnston Street. To 7.30pm: Aston Pharmacy, 95 Accrington Road. To 7pm: The Pharmacy, Oakenhurst Road; Geloo Bros, Cleaver
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Welsh dragon Gareth loving life at Turf Moor
STRIKER Gareth Taylor may be a man with a point to prove on Bank Holiday Monday. The 28-year-old front-runner has made no bones about the fact that life at his previous club Manchester City went a little sour. So when the Clarets come head to head with
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Clarkson fired up for showdown
EARBY skipper Ian Clarkson today kicked-off the psychological warfare ahead of tomorrow's Ramsbottom Cup final with Great Harwood by insisting his side have the extra experience necessary to bring the trophy back to Applegarth. Clarkson is just one of
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Rock chick chicken!
AN actress and presenter who mingles with the stars yet keeps her feet on the ground is a rare commodity. DAVID HIGGERSON finds one -- Natalie Casey, the Rawtenstall girl whose current career in music is a far cry from her first TV appearance. IN the
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Nelson fires Shakers in front, but QPR hit back
MICHAEL Nelson scored the second fastest goal of the season today to put Shakers 1-0 in front at home to Queen's Park Rangers at Gigg Lane. But Shakers were rocked when veteran Andy Thompson equalised from the penalty spot in the 30th minute and in the
