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Youth set to shine
BLACKBURN boss Mark Hughes is ready to give youth a chance as Rovers step up their pre-season preparations in Germany this week. Hughes has whisked his players off to Bavaria for a 10-day training camp and Academy starlets Matt Derbyshire, Gary Harkins
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Wonderful Walton march on in the cup
WALTON High School is celebrating the success of three of its cricket teams who all reached the quarter final stages of the Lancashire Schools Cricket Competition. The year seven, eight and nine teams put the school on the map following a series of impressive
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Ready to rumble!
BURNLEY boss Steve Cotterill believes his side are bang on target to start the Championship season in the shape of their lives. The Clarets ramp up their pre-season schedule at Accrington Stanley tomorrow night in their second pre-season friendly. But
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Super Steve is a world beater
STEVE Fleming, the reigning Blackburn pool champion, showed just why he is the local "hot pot" - by beating the world champion! Steve's heroics in a sensational decisive frame helped Lancashire to a dramatic top-of-the-table victory in a Roses clash with
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Come and get it!
THE company responsible for spending hundreds of millions of pounds of Government money on housing projects in East Lancashire today called on local firms to make sure they benefited. Around £7million-worth of tenders are currently on offer for repair
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Darwen deliver but fail in the nationals
DARWEN Under 15s progress in the English Schools Cricket Association Taverner's Colts Trophy was halted on Sunday as the Lancashire champions side came up against their outstanding Nottinghamshire county counterparts. Radcliffe, who included five county
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Girl, 3, killed by van
A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl died after being knocked down by a van in front of her mother. The tragedy happened as the toddler was standing on the pavement waiting with her family to cross Livesey Branch Road near the junction with Heys Lane, Blackburn. The
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Churches £80,000 shortfall
RESTORATION work has started on two medieval churches after nearby residents raised a staggering £250,000 to save the crumbling buildings. But the fundraising campaign will keep going after the bill for work at St Wilfrid's Church, Ribchester, and St
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Poor response to London bombings
I WOULD like to ask, in the wake of the atrocious bombings in London, what is the Government's response? Is it to deport Abu Hanza immediately instead of mollycoddling him in jail awaiting deportation to America? Or better still is it to deport Sheikh
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Vandals target the police
POLICE were hunting vandals who attacked two police vehicles in Nelson over the weekend. Officers had been attending genuine call outs in the Every Street area on Saturday and Sunday and returned to their vehicles to find windows had been smashed. Today
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New lease of life for show
IT'S no exaggeration to say the Royal Lancashire Show has had a troubled time in recent years. Two years ago people across East Lancashire welcomed the event's move from Astley Park, Chorley to Salesbury Hall, Ribchester. It marked a return to the area
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Find this man who preys on the elderly
A PRISONER on the run is believed to be behind a crime spree against the elderly -- prompting a police warning to pensioners across East Lancashire. David Charles Lynch, 47, was jailed for six years and six months in June 2003 after pleading guilty to
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Landlord has heart attack on holiday
A POPULAR Burnley pub boss has been taken seriously ill while on holiday in Turkey. Ian Jagger, landlord of the Gordon Lennox Arms, Cliviger, suffered a stroke and a heart attack while staying in the Mediterranean resort of Marmaris with his girlfriend
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Police team films under-age drinkers
POLICE have waged war on underage drinkers on the streets of Prestwich and Whitefield... by capturing them on video, then pouring confiscated alcohol down the drain. In an operation last Friday night, officers recovered up to 70 cans of lager, bottles
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Farewell to a 'father figure'
THE Blackburn Combination has bid a sad farewell to its 'father figure' after former chairman, Harry Parker, past away. Harry was chairman of the league for more than 30 years and was a friendly and familiar face down at Pleasington Playing Fields most
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Youth set to shine
BLACKBURN boss Mark Hughes is ready to give youth a chance as Rovers step up their pre-season preparations in Germany this week. Hughes has whisked his players off to Bavaria for a 10-day training camp and Academy starlets Matt Derbyshire, Gary Harkins
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Final countdown
THE prize couldn't have been any greater for teams competing in the CIS/Blackburn Rovers Football in the Community festival of football. For winners of each of the seven age group semi finals will get the chance to play the finals at Ewood Park before
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Symmo strikes
LANCASHIRE skipper Mark Chilton hailed another sterling all-round display from Andrew Symonds as his team booked their place in the Twenty20 Cup semi-finals last night. The Australian one-day star hit an unbeaten 57, took a wicket and secured an instinctive
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Wrong way lorry fears
STACKSTEADS residents fear lorries hurtling the wrong way down a one-way street will cause a fatal accident. They claim around half a dozen HGVs a day are illegally turning down Farholme Lane to access a local mill. And they fear poor visibility could
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Ready to rumble!
BURNLEY boss Steve Cotterill believes his side are bang on target to start the Championship season in the shape of their lives. The Clarets ramp up their pre-season schedule at Accrington Stanley tomorrow night in their second pre-season friendly. But
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TOMORROW
BLACKBURN East Lancs ME/CFS group meet Wilpshire Methodist Church, 7.30pm. Guest speaker is Pam Toothill Inner Wheel Club of Blackburn annual nearly new shop, Lord Street West, 9.30am-4pm. Until Friday. Guided Tours, Hoghton Tower, 11am-4pm. Iron Garden
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Simply the best
A HALF-ACRE country garden in Entwistle has been chosen by the Royal Horticultural Society as its Lancashire Garden of the Year. Gill and Tim Bullough, owners of "Heaselands", in Overshores Road, were delighted to learn their garden had been selected
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Find this man who preys on the elderly
A PRISONER on the run is believed to be behind a crime spree against the elderly -- prompting a police warning to pensioners across East Lancashire. David Charles Lynch, 47, was jailed for six years and six months in June 2003 after pleading guilty to
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Eyesore should be demolished
DOES anyone know what is happening to the building on the corner of King Street and Freckleton Street? Since last September, I walk past every day wondering is it being demolished, renovated? There is also a building facing Montague Street pleading to
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Find this man who preys on the elderly
A PRISONER on the run is believed to be behind a crime spree against the elderly -- prompting a police warning to pensioners across East Lancashire. David Charles Lynch, 47, was jailed for six years and six months in June 2003 after pleading guilty to
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Killers must learn Earth is heaven
THERE are many reasons why some people become terrorists. One is because they welcome such a condition to call attention to themselves no matter what the cost to themselves. Many times these people want their belief in failure to be proven rather than
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Stone hurled by yobs fractures gran's skull
A WOMAN enjoying the sunshine in her back yard was left with a fractured skull after yobs hurled a stone over her wall. Today the woman's family slammed the yobs who injured the mum-of-three and claimed: "She could have been killed." Ann Whiteside, 56
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Do we 'wheelie' need these bins?
I WAS concerned to read the article about wheelie bins and boxes in the Ribble Valley (LET, July 13). Whereas I am all for recycling waste (taking glass, tins, etc, to our local waste recycling site weekly), I do not see why wheelie bins are necessary
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Girl, 3, killed by van
A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl died after being knocked down by a van in front of her mother. The tragedy happened as the toddler was standing on the pavement waiting with her family to cross Livesey Branch Road near the junction with Heys Lane, Blackburn. The
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'Rage' lover in rape bid charge
AN "enraged" man wrapped telephone cable and underwear strapping around the neck of a woman in an attempted rape, a court heard. The claims were made at Preston Crown Court on the opening day of David McCarthy's trial who faces 11 charges over the alleged
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Is leisure centre now under threat?
THE phrase "Darweners are to be consulted about ..." would probably send a shiver down the spine of most Darreners. Particularly the most cynical among them. When these words are uttered by a Blackburn with Darwen Council spokesperson, it seems to raise
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Girl, 3, killed by van.
A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl died after being knocked down by a van in front of her mother. The tragedy happened as the toddler was standing on the pavement waiting with her family to cross Livesey Branch Road near the junction with Heys Lane, Blackburn. The
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GIRL,3 KILLED BY VAN
A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl died after being knocked down by a van in front of her mother. The tragedy happened as the toddler was standing on the pavement waiting with her family to cross Livesey Branch Road near the junction with Heys Lane, Blackburn. The
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Mullin set for a championship challenge
PAUL Mullin is relishing the chance to pit his wits against two more Championship sides. The Accrington Stanley striker, who scored in the Reds' 3-1 defeat at home to Cardiff City on Saturday, is gearing up for back-to-back games against Preston North
