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Problem kids or their parents?
PARENTS in many poorer countries will do almost anything to get their children a decent education. They make huge sacrifices and even part themselves from their youngsters because of a recognition that good schooling is the key to a better way of life
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Jack Straw: success or Blair puppet?
JACK Straw is top of the news agenda this week as he tackles the row over the future of Gibraltar and negotiates with the United States to allow three Britons held in Cuba's camp X-ray to be returned to the United Kingdom for trial as Afghan terrorists
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FAREWELL TO CHAIRMAN WHO CARED
WALKING into Gigg Lane for last week's match against Wrexham, you sensed something just wasn't quite right. Chairman Terry Robinson's resignation on Monday had cast a giant shadow over the club and couldn't you tell? His decision to sever his links with
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Food quiz answer wrong
An answer in your food knowledge quiz (LET, January 25) was inaccurate. Samphire is not a seaweed, it is a member of the umbelliferous family and closely allied to the better-known fennel. It was the stem that was formerly used in pickles or cooked in
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Skips could be cheaper option
THREE times a week, I make a bus journey which takes me up Oak Street, Blackburn. The spare ground and the factory premises there are used as dumping grounds and are horrendous. They have been cleaned up in the past, only to return to this state shortly
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Premier team retains red rose
AS a born and bred Lancastrian living in exile in Nottingham, I feel nothing but disgust and disbelief that the elected councillors of Lancashire are even considering changing the emblem which has been the pride of our county for the last 600 or 700 years
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Imitation tree is a fine idea
REGARDING the telephone mast disguised as a pine tree (LET, January 24), instead of complaining about this 'stealth' tree, it's about time people stood back and thought properly for once. Most of us have mobile phones and to make reception better we need
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Problem lies with the pet owners
SHOZIA Hussain (Letters, January 9) and D Ormonde (Letters, January 17) had no positive response from the RSPCA, but both commendably resolved the animal problems themselves and relieved the distress of two kittens. I hope the owners of the animals, if
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Councils are taking micky out of public
IWATCHED with interest a current affairs programme on television the other weekend, which featured the leader of Hyndburn Council, Peter Britcliffe and Hazel Harding, the Labour leader of Lancashire County Council. Ms Harding was found wanting in her
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Funeral of Bury Hospice chairman
THE funeral of Bury Hospice chairman Colin Caffrey, who died suddenly last week, will be held on Friday (Feb 8). Mourners are expected to pack Guardian Angels RC Church in the town for the Requiem Mass service, which will begin at 10.30am. This will be
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A hole lot of trouble
A DRIVER was brought down to earth with a bump when she came across an unmarked maintenance hole in the middle of the road. Forty-five-year-old Jennifer Griffiths, of Walshaw Road, Bury, was negotiating the easterly junction of Lichfield Drive and Woodhill
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Fears for missing teenager
POLICE say they fear for the safety of a 16-year-old girl missing from the Clitheroe area for almost four days. Samantha Yates was last seen as she left her home for college at 8am on Friday. She has not been seen since and police say they are becoming
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Mum of five admits killing
A MOTHER has admitted killing her husband after he was found with stab wounds on their sofa. Dawn Bracewell, 37, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Gary Bracewell, 34. She pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of Gary Bracewell, 34, on June 19 last
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Tugay battle-cry
TURKISH midfield ace Tugay today backed Rovers to beat the drop. But the former Rangers star believes his Ewood team-mates need to start getting tough if they want to survive. "We are having a really bad time in the league and we have to work harder to
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Souness will wield the axe
EWOOD chief Graeme Souness today vowed to ring the changes ahead of Saturday's 'monster' clash with Fulham at Craven Cottage. After a depressing run of nine defeats from their last 11 league games, Rovers travel to the capital desperate for a win to ease
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Chris in search of a world title
A PUPIL at Burnley school St Theodore's has found his way to a world orienteering competition. For the second time in two years, Chris Mitchell,15, above, has been selected to represent Great Britain. Chris will be finding his way to Portugal to compete
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GPs leaving surgeries in droves
GORDON Prentice is calling on ministers and health bosses to do more to attract young doctors into East Lancashire as an ever-increasing number of elderly GPs in the area retire. The Pendle MP tackled Health Minister John Hutton on the issue this week
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Mum of five admits killing
A MOTHER has admitted killing her husband after he was found with stab wounds on their sofa. Dawn Bracewell, 37, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Gary Bracewell, 34. She pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of Gary Bracewell, 34, on June 19 last
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Five years ago
GOOD luck is supposed to come in threes but £100,000 Spot the Ball winner Peter Hill was more than happy with his double dose of good fortune. Peter, a retired bus driver from Hoghton, was given the all clear after an operation to remove a cancerous tumour
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A lot of effort for a load of rubbish
OH DEAR! After the euphoria of Cup success the harsh reality of Premiership life kicked in last week. That after 492 miles and a 16-hour round trip to watch 90 minutes of rubbish. That was Saturday's unanimous view from the fine people I travelled down
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Animal export ban 'should stay'
EAST Lancashire MP Greg Pope is urging the Government to continue its ban on live animal exports despite the end of the foot and mouth crisis. When the epidemic was at its height, all meat from Britain was banned from going overseas. Now some exports
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Fears for missing teenager
POLICE say they fear for the safety of a 16-year-old girl missing from the Clitheroe area for almost four days. Samantha Yates was last seen as she left her home for college at 8am on Friday. She has not been seen since and police say they are becoming
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Tribute to Billy
FOOTBALLERS from different generations united in a tribute to former Burnley keeper Billy O'Rourke yesterday. Clarets legends Brian Miller, his first manager at Burnley, another ex-Turf Moor player and boss Frank Casper and players Mike Phelan and Derek
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Clarets are forced inside
THE only injury that the young players at Burnley will be fearing at the moment is trench foot as the dreadful weather of the past week caused more problems for Terry Pashley's players. The youth team has not played a game since the middle of last month
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Make or break for Clarets rivals
THE Clarets and the Hornets go head to head tomorrow night with Watford boss Gianluca Vialli pledging to go all out for victory. The Italian star's first season in charge at Vicarage Road has been a tricky one and they will kick-off tomorrow night in
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Celebration Never ends for Margo
BLACKBURN's Never Never Land has begun a month long party to celebrate its tenth birthday. And owner Margo Carmichael-Grimshaw has had her Bentley resprayed especially to mark the occasion, pictured. Margo says she is thrilled to have spent a decade working
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Health group acts after shock of survey results
THE shocking results of a lifestyle survey of Radcliffe's elderly population has sparked a scheme to improve local facilities and services. As reported in the Bury Times, the consultation, carried out by Radcliffe Health Group, found a host of complaints
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Shop rent rockets!
A POPULAR Bury store faces an "extortionate" 300 per cent rent rise if it wants to remain in the town's Mill Gate centre. But bosses of the Animal Magic pet store, which is being shut down because of redevelopment, say they can't afford to transfer elsewhere
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Make or break for Clarets rivals
THE Clarets and the Hornets go head to head tomorrow night with Watford boss Gianluca Vialli pledging to go all out for victory. The Italian star's first season in charge at Vicarage Road has been a tricky one and they will kick-off tomorrow night in
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No joke! The big cardi comeback is on the cards
IT'S back! The cardigan is hot, hot, hot! For trendies, it's the season's must-have piece of kit, the garment of the moment. Or so fashion pundits keep saying. Only it's never gone away. At least to me it hasn't. My cardigans have been the butt of many
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Boom time travel sales
THE SUN is shining brightly on East Lancashire's travel agents despite a post September 11 slump in sales. Many have reported increased sales for January as holidaymakers jet off for the sun in bigger numbers than ever, with the most popular destinations
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Over the 'mooning' as team wins at last
KIDS' soccer coaches Joe Buchanan and Pete Palmer paid the price of success when their team came good at the 14th time of asking. True to their word the duo bared their behinds when the lads of Rishton United under nines won their first game of the season
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Lucky escape as wall crashes on car
A FATHER told today of his lucky escape after 50 house bricks crashed down on to his car. Ashidul Haque, 27, had parked the Vauxhall Cavalier in Bromley Street, Blackburn, yesterday, moments before high winds blew the bricks from the gable end house.
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Seminar could be a stroke of good luck
EATING your way to a healthier heart is just one of the subjects on the agenda at a seminar at Ewood Park next week. The free seminar on heart disease and how to prevent it will be led by Dr Ahmed Shihadah from Queen's Park Hospital, and has been organised
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VOTE NOW: Will you pay more for gritters?
COUNCIL tax payers were today told it could cost them £6.50 each to have all roads in their borough gritted in bad weather and were asked: "Are you prepared to pay?" The leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council Bill Taylor said it would take a 143 per
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Rams plead guilty
RAMSBOTTOM UNITED will plead guilty to the charge of illegally approaching five Rossendale United players. Dale manager Jim McCluskie accused Rams coach Chris Willcocks, a former Rossendale United player, of talking to some of his reserve team players
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Lobo on track for middle distance glory
IN the glory days of Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram, Britain's middle distance runners knew no equal. Since then, there has been a dearth of young talent coming through to step into their spikes. Jason Lobo was a youngster coming onto the track
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Not much fun on this rollercoaster
LIFE is a rollercoaster, so the song goes, and no more so than when you run a non-League football club. Brent Peters has had his ups and down - mostly downs - with Bacup Borough. He has put virtually everything he has into the North West Counties Division
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That's my kind of music
A COMPOSER from Whitefield whose music was unwittingly used in several film blockbusters celebrated today as he enjoyed his royalties scoop. The theatre and club performer could earn a fortune from his long lost success. As a budding musician in 1972,
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Department at crisis point
ACTION plans must be implemented urgently to keep Bury's social services budget under control. The District Auditor says more must be done to stop the department spiralling into the red and provide the services people need. Social services overspent by
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We've replaced like with like
JUST like Hazel Hamer (Letters, January 24), I long for the good old days to return. Four million out of work -- all the backbone of British industry crushed. Miners, steelworkers, car workers on the scrap heap; 15 per cent interest rates, not to mention
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Quiz host Anne leaves Andrew weak at knees
CELEBRITY chef Andrew Nutter believed he lived up to his name when he accepted an invite to star on the television quiz show, The Weakest Link. Andrew, who owns Nutters Restaurant in Edenfield, starred in a celebrity chef edition of the show which is
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Top dogs aid charity
TRAINING sessions to raise the standard of dog behaviour in Bury will also be raising money for a worthy cause in the future. Professional canine instructor Gordon Salmon has been running Sunday morning dog obedience classes since 1983. He now plans to
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Cooke burns Rovers in Villa win
ROVERS reserves crashed to a disappointing defeat last night at the hands of an experienced Aston Villa side. England Under-19 international Stephen Cooke was the hero for Villa as he bagged the all-important goal midway through the second half of a dull
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Licensees unite to wipe out violence
LANDLORDS in South West Burnley are the latest group to unite together in a bid to bar troublemakers. The latest Pub Watch initiative is to be launched in the area next week, after a number of similar schemes were hailed as a huge success across East
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Lloyd - a red rose who blossomed
LAST season may have been one to forget for Lancashire Cricket Club on the field but it was a memorable one for batsman Graham Lloyd off it. His testimonial season saw him travelling the county for a series of events and he admitted: "It was great fun
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An inspired move for Valley landlords
FOUR Rossendale pubs are central to a round of New Year acquisitions by national pub company InnSpired. The group was keen to expand its estate in the north and soon spotted the potential in the former Valley Inns Ltd bars, which was good news for the
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Funnygirls gather for a comedy showpiece
LOCK 'N' LOAD Comedy Club, based at the Wharf Pub, Eanam, Blackburn, is hosting four top female stand-up acts this Thursday night. Organisers claim women are grossly under represented on the comedy circuit and have put together the Handbags 'n' Gladrags
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Praise for improving school
THE sum of teachers' efforts have spelt success for Unsworth Primary in its latest Ofsted report. Since a previous visit, the school has shown a marked improvement in the quality of its teaching, the report said. The last inspection in 1997 revealed that
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Souness will wield the axe
EWOOD chief Graeme Souness today vowed to ring the changes ahead of Saturday's 'monster' clash with Fulham at Craven Cottage. After a depressing run of nine defeats from their last 11 league games, Rovers travel to the capital desperate for a win to ease
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Truancy purge nets 26 errant children
SCHOOLCHILDREN who were out on the streets of Darwen instead of being in the classroom were stopped by police as part of a truancy crackdown. Sergeant Graham Eccles, of Blackburn police, carried out the operation together with other police officers and
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New Capita centre to bring in 200 jobs
MORE than 200 jobs are to be created in Darwen after the firm which has taken over much of the council's administrative work agreed to open a new base there. And bosses at Capita have also revealed it will be increasing the number of staff it has at a
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Care boss to visit axe-threat homes
THE councillor proposing to close 35 of Lancashire's old people's residential homes will this week come face-to-face with the people most affected by the plans. Coun Chris Cheetham's whirlwind tour of many of the county's residential homes comes as councillors
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Mother's tribute to 'devoted and precious son'
THE grieving mother of teenage shooting victim Anthony Rigby told mourners about her precious and special son and said: "His death was pointless." A speech written by Carole Rigby was read out to friends and family by Father Clive Birch at the funeral
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EVENTS taking place in East Lancashire on Wednesday, Date: February 6
A LOOK at events, from amateur theatre to rambles through our beautiful countryside. Rossendale Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society, Longholme Methodist Church, Rawtenstall, 7.30pm. Catalogue Ken Clothes Show, Royal British Legion, Brunswick
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Curtain up for a feast of musical favourites
A SHOWBIZ Gala, featuring selections from a clutch of favourite musicals, will take to the tonight (Tues Feb 5). The curtain will rise on the latest production by St John and St Mark's Dramatic Society. The show has been produced and directed by Mark
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Black shines for Rovers
PROMISING youngster Ian Black was again on the scoresheet at the weekend but it wasn't enough to secure another victory for Rovers' Under 17s. Black, a Scottish Under 17 international, has been in prolific form all season weighing in with a number of
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Testing times for faithful
"KEEP the faith" says Ternent. And we will, of course. After all, the committed football supporter will not, indeed cannot, turn their allegiance on and off at will. However, these are testing times for those keepers of the faith. Since dispatching desperate
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Ten years ago
AN improved bus service for the Ribble Valley was given the green light by county transport chiefs. A Lancashire public transport sub-committee approved a 12-month experiment for extra daytime services between Blackburn and Longridge after a number of
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Troop scouting about to raise roof cash
A TROOP of Hyndburn Scouts will need more than a bob a job if they are to raise enough money to fix their leaky roof. A campaign to raise £5,000 has now been launched for funds to put a new roof over the heads of the Second Rishton Baptist Scout Group
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Young to take places on youth panels
LOCAL communities will soon have an influence on the punishment of first-time young offenders in their area. Lancashire's Youth Offending Team is currently looking to recruit volunteers from Hyndburn to sit on a youth offender panel which will decide
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Six charged over school fights
SIX pupils have been charged with affray and eight more have received a final warning after a police investigation into a high school brawl. The 14-year-old, three 15-year-olds and two 16-year-olds were arrested in connection with the disturbances at
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Making a right royal connection
SPECIAL street signs could be produced in an East Lancashire borough to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee -- but only if roads have a royal connection. Hyndburn Council has published a list of 47 existing streets which are deemed to have a royal links.
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Attractions link up to pull in tourists
ELEVEN tourist attractions are joining forces to shake off the after-effects of foot and mouth once and for all. They are known as the East Lancashire Tourist Attractions Consortium (ELTAC) and have obtained nearly £10,000 funding to promote themselves
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Robinson gets Blades job
SHAKERS chairman Terry Robinson, who sensationally resigned last week, has been appointed football executive at Sheffield United. Robinson will work alongside chairman Derek Dooley and John Thurman at Bramall Lane and maintians the club's links with Bury
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Third man to face kidnap charge
A THIRD Blackburn man has been sent in custody for trial at Birmingham Crown Court after appearing before the city's magistrates yesterday on a charge of kidnap. Nawaz Khan, 21, of Preston New Road, is jointly charged with Tariq Ellahi, 29, of Trevor
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Bottle attack victim home
A MAN who was seriously injured in a vicious street attack is home after three weeks in hospital -- but has little recollection of the assault. The first thing Anthony Grogan remembers is waking up in Blackburn Royal Infirmary, a week after being bottled
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Beating classroom violence is theme of US trip
TEACHERS from Blackburn are in America to see how a city's schools have banished violence from the classrooms. Staff from four schools -- three primaries and one secondary -- have flown out to Chicago, Illinois, to meet their counterparts who have helped
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White's on course
HASLINGDEN athlete Rebecca White finished third in the triple jump in the AAA Indoor Championships at Cardiff at the weekend. White, who competes for Sale, jumped 12.64m but was some way off British number one Ashia Hansen who leapt to 13.53 to take the
