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Steps towards £15,000 total
Stepping Stones Developmental Therapy Unit in Haslingden is aiming to raise £15,000 to take 12 children with special needs to Lapland to visit Father Christmas. Fundraising events will be held all year for children aged from six-months-old to five years
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Easter ribbons for the hospice
Rossendale Hospice, Rawtenstall, is to hold an Easter celebration on April 9, from 1pm. People are invited to sponsor a yellow ribbon to remember the life of a loved one, the birth of a child, or an anniversary. There will be a short service in the
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Super slimmer Shelley sheds 4st
SUPER slimmer Shelley Heneghan is hoping to step her way to new heights of success. For the 35-year-old mum-of-two, who has shed almost four stones following a healthy eating plan, is set to use her success as an example to other slimmers when she takes
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It’s a £30m high five for hospital
A £30million development at Burnley General Hospital has moved a step nearer completion with the handover of the scheme to the hospital trust. The new building Phase Five will re-house services which are currently in outdated Victorian buildings.
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Police to target beggars
A CRACKDOWN was today being launched on Polish street beggars who have been targeting elderly people in Burnley for cash. Over the past few days police have received several reports of people claiming not to speak English asking for money because their
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Balloons go far and wide
THE voice of a small Pendle town can now be heard in far flung parts of the British Isles. For 10 balloons released at the Brierfield Spring Festival have landed in County Meath, southern Ireland. The theme of this year's event was the voices of Brierfield
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Call goes out to help blooms
ORGANISERS behind a competition to brighten up Colne have renewed their call for volunteers to join their ranks. Colne In Bloom is the group behind the drive to make the town a nicer place by tidying grot spots and planting flowers. The group is once
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Revamp plans under threat
COMMUNITY projects in West Craven could have their funding slashed because of Barnoldswick Town Council's decision to pull out of a flagship development. West Craven Together (WCT), the body formed to breathe new life into the area, has decided to cut
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£200,000 blaze: youths hunted
DETECTIVES were today hunting five youths suspected of starting a £200,000 blaze at a Burnley company. And the officer leading the investigation into the suspected arson at PD Global, Smallshaw Lane, off Accrington Road, today warned the culprits to
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£10,000 reward offer as puppy is stolen
A BUSINESSMAN today offered a £10,000 reward to catch the thieves who stole his young daughter's beloved pet puppy. Mike Sweeney said five-year-old Melissa and the rest of his family were devastated after the rottweiler's disappear-ance from their home
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Just keep it up!
A BURNLEY youngster is hoping that once he pops he can't stop in a national "keepy-uppy" competition. Marcus Palmer, from Lyndhurst Road, is just one step away from being picked to join the first Pringles freestyle football squad after dazzling judges
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East Lancs rule the road
COMPETITORS in the East Lancashire-based SD34 Road Rally Championship dominated the top ten finishers on the Ryemoor Trophy. With an entry list that read like a who's who of northern road rallying, any of the top 25 crews were capable of victory on the
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Medal is close to the Hart
CHARLOTTE Hartley has returned from her magical month in Melbourne with the Commonwealth Games medal she craved. The 19-year-old from Cliviger helped England Ladies win a hockey bronze after a dramatic penalty shoot-out win against New Zealand. The
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Call to restore fire-hit aviary
AN historic former aviary burned to the ground by arsonists should be restored, people living near the park s have claimed. A meeting of the Friends of Memorial Park, Great Harwood, overwhelmingly agreed at a public meeting that the fire-hit building
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‘Join final push’ plea
THE leader of Hyndburn Council has urged residents to get behind Accrington Stanley in their final push for promotion. Councillor Peter Britcliffe, who travelled on the team bus to watch last Saturday's 4-2 victory at York, called on people to attend
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TV review: Cooking With... Cilla Black, BBC2
I THINK I am in need of some enlightenment. Can anyone tell me what the exact purpose of last night's Cooking With ... programme was? I can understand that TV regards food as a sure way of attracting viewers and we all know how production companies are
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Climate change on the agenda
PEOPLE sympathetic to the environment are invited to the next meeting of Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Friends of the Earth. New members of any age are welcome to attend the meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, April 19, at the council chambers, Church
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‘Threat’ to mum’s job
A CHILDCARE lecturer may be forced to give up her job for the sake of her children because of a lack of free parking in Blackburn. Sally-Anne Mitchell, 41, claims that due to traffic congestion she would have to leave her Belthorn home at 7.45am to guarantee
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Education by natural selection
GIVEN the amount of information available on the internet, books, audio tape, computers etc, try to envisage a world without formal education. That is, no schools, no teachers, no universities, no billion pound budgets. The intelligent would self educate
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If you’re guilty, just accept it
MR Kenyon, of Livesey Branch Road complained about receiving a parking ticket for parking to unload shopping for five minutes. I take it that there are yellow lines outside his house. Were they there when he bought his house? If so, he has nothing to
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Leisure centre is long overdue
THE development of the new Darwen Leisure Centre (LET, March 21) has received one or two adverse criticisms from people purporting to speak for "all Darreners". One even claimed that the people of Darwen were happy with what exists now and asked why
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We can’t afford to lose another heritage ‘gem’
AS the latest edition of the council's mouthpiece The Shuttle' states, Blackburn is booming and set to undergo its biggest change for years.' I applaud the council's efforts to regenerate the town, likewise Darwen, but do they have real vision? Change
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Normal service after computer breakdown
A RURAL post office which had to turn elderly people away when its computer broke is serving Royal Mail customers again. Post Office bosses had to apologise after a computer glitch at Mellor Post Office meant it was unable to pay pensions for nearly
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Pitch in and help project
DARWEN Cricket Club wants volunteers next weekend to help transform the ground. It is hoped that more than 100 people will take part in the facelift, part of the Nat West CricketForce 2006 scheme on April 8 and 9. Club bosses are also appealing to local
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'Keep an eagle eye out for my falcon'
A FALCONER who lost his prized bird of prey on Darwen moors today appealed for the public's help. Jason Butler, of Kelvin Street, Darwen, was out with Bernadette the Saker Falcon last weekend when it failed to return. Today he appealed for anyone who
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Community joins in park spruce-up
A DARWEN park will undergo a complete overhaul during the next few months to make it more community-friendly. The Friends of Ashton Park have launched a project, which is expected to cost around £25,000, to improve the look of the area and modernise
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£39m for new homes
GOVERNMENT agency the Housing Corporation, which funds newly-built affordable housing in England, has announced investment of around £39.5million in Lancashire. The amount, which has been awarded under the Corporation's National Affordable Housing Prog-ramme
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Family waits a year for MRSA death inquest
A WIDOW'S legal action over her husband's death from MRSA has prevented his inquest going ahead and left her estranged family in "turmoil". David Short, 61, of Zion Road, Blackburn, died after contracting MRSA during a routine operation for ulcerative
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Former MP helps launch pro-life charity
FORMER Hyndburn MP and right to life campaigner Ken Hargreaves has helped launch a new national charity promoting "respect for human life". Mr Hargreaves, 67, of Park Lane, Oswaldtwistle, said the Right to Life Trust, will aim to educate and inform people
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Plan for £245k shopping spree
PLANS for the final phase in the refurbishment of Accrington's main shopping street have been unveiled. Funding has been allocated to extend the street-scaping project which was started last year on Broadway. The final phase will include Cornhill and
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Break in at house on farm
A house at Higher Brown Birks Farm, Bolton Avenue, Huncoat, was broken into between 10pm on Tuesday and 12.30am yesterday. Thieves forced open patio doors at the back of the property and stole electrical items, including a Playstation, stereo and a digital
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Funding black hole jobs fear
HOSPITALS bosses may be forced into major job cuts after discovering an £11.7million funding black hole. The East Lancashire Trust was already facing a spending cut of £11.6million after a reduction in its budget, to £255million. But now it has discovered
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Mosque visit for Rice is scrapped
THE FOREIGN Office was forced to cancel plans for American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to visit a Blackburn mosque this weekend because of community opposition. The Masjid Al Hidayah mosque, Millham Street, was approached by officials but did
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Travellers’ litter fury
A MAMMOTH clean-up operation has been undertaken at a Ramsbottom super-market after travellers set up camp on the site. Bosses at the Co-op in King Street were forced to launch a massive clean-up on the site after travellers left rubbish strewn all over
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MEP tells Rice: Stay at home
A NELSON solicitor and Euro MP today slammed a top US government official's visit to East Lancashire as a shameless publicity stunt. And Sajjad Karim told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice not to visit the area this weekend unless she apologised
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£20m contract is down to three
A HOST of developers vying for a £20million contract to regenerate a historic part of Nelson has been whittled down. Regeneration bosses have drawn up a final shortlist of three archi-tects to put forward in depth proposals for the transformation of
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MP’s concerns over A & E move plans
PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice is to question plans to move blue light Accident and Emergency Care from Burnley General to Blackburn's Queens Park Hospital for patients with life-threatening conditions . Mr Prentice is due to meet East Lancashire Hospital
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‘Buy Burnley’ to help jobs
KITTY Ussher has launched a personal "Buy Burnley" campaign at Westminster. The town's MP used a Budget debate in the House of Commons to urge MPs and consumers to choose products made in her constituency ahead of foreign alternatives. The Burnley Labour
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Orienteers announce new dates
PENDLE Forest Orienteers have announced the details of their Annual Spring Series of events. The series is suitable for all the family from complete beginners through to experienced orienteers and everyone is welcome. Certificates will be awarded to
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GT Lang is Le Man!
RACING driver Jonny Lang has moved a step closer to his dream of competing at Le Mans after securing a seat in the 2006 British GT Championship. For the 25-year-old company director from Barrowford has joined with the Trackspeed team to drive a Porsche
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Passion turned us around
THERE were so many things to be pleased about on Saturday not least being able to have a good night's sleep! Our win at York was a much-needed one under the circumstances. And we had the added bonus of Hereford suffering an unlikely loss to Kidderminster
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Tugay set for new Rovers deal
TURKISH midfield star Tugay is close to agreeing a new deal which will see him stay on at Blackburn Rovers next season. As I understand it, the veteran playmaker, who has been in inspirational form for Mark Hughes' side this season, has all but shaken
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Tables are turned for Cotterill
STEVE Cotterill has thrown the gauntlet down to his players ahead of the final month of the season. Recent signings have given Burnley competition in almost every outfield position. And Cotterill warned the pressure is now on players like Micah Hyde
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Inviting firms to join the party...
"IT'S not as easy as people think to organise a party in a brewery!" If there is one person truly qualified to make that judgment, it's Simon Westgate, marketing officer for the Lancashire Digital Development Agency. Before joining the team, which is
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Toy gun held to head of driver
A MOTORIST who held an imitation gun to the head of a man whose car had tailgated him has been jailed for three and a half years. Michael Rollinson's victim was hit with the toy gun but the incident was witnessed by an off duty police officer. Rollinson
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Burns victim OAP ‘went to bed after incident’
AN 81-YEAR-OLD man who suffered 70 per cent burns when his pyjamas caught fire went to bed as normal after the incident, it emerged today. Cyril Grimshaw died on Sunday night after he tried to light a fire at his Manor Lane home in Nelson. And today
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Labour make Waves!
LABOUR councillors have begun a petition to save Blackburn's most popular tourist attraction even though they have no plans to close it! Wensley Fold councillors have collected hundreds of signatures in support of their campaign. It has been triggered
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£6,000 payout for pub attack victim
AN electrician assaulted in a pub toilet has been awarded £6,000 compensation. Kevin Spink was given the payout by a judge after two men admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm on him in the British Queen pub in Duckworth Street, Darwen. The compensation
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Churches unite under one roof
CONGREGATIONS from three Great Harwood churches are set to come together to worship under the same roof. St John's Church, St Hubert's Road, has already been declared redundant by the Church of England and there is a possibility that Orchard Street Methodist
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US ‘not interested’ in Dr Rice's trip
WHEN Condoleezza Rice comes to Blackburn tomorrow she will have arrived at "the centre of the world", so says The Shuttle Blackburn with Darwen Council's free newspaper. But while East Lancashire is eagerly awaiting the arrival of Alabama's famous daughter
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Pupils master ancient game
Pupils at Oakhill College, Whalley, battled it out for chess supremacy during the final of the school's one-month chess tournament. Daniel Tattersall (right), aged 10, of Blackburn, narrowly defeated Harry Isley (left), eight, from Clayton-le-Moors.
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Most folk want better facilities
IS Bill Stemp for real in suggesting Darwen Leisure Centre shouldn't be improved? In your article I fear for my clubs' (March 21) he asks why can't we just carry out essential work and forget the larger pool and revamp! £9million is being invested in
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Robbery youth’s 3 years
A TEENAGER who took part in a violent street robbery has been sentenced to three years' detention. The victim was punched and kicked while walking with Talha Lunat and others away from the town centre, where they had been drinking. His wallet was taken
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Movie stars in Straw poll
AL Pacino, Alan Rickman or Steve Coogan the Westminster guessing game has begun over who will play Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in a new film. Blackburn producer and director Michael Winterbottom is planning to bring former ambassador to Uzbekistan
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Valley art plan abandoned
THE Ribble Valley could be the only part of East Lancashire left without a panopticon following a decision to abandon the contro-versial arts project in the borough. Plans for the public artwork were shelved after fierce local opposition scuppered two
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Terror as man stuck for 3 hours
A MAN feared being buried alive when a ditch he was digging collapsed around him. Rescuers, who were called into action from across the North West, had to dig the man out with their hands in case the rest of the trench fell in around them. A fire engine
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Lesson in fame for school kids
PUPILS at a Padiham primary school had a taste of fame after television crews turned up to film for a teachers programme. ITV Granada visited St Leonard's Church of England Primary School, Moor Lane, to film part of a series on PE and sport in primary
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Harriers blaze road relay trail
Blackburn Harriers were the leading Lancashire club in the North of England Men's 12 Stage Road Relays at Heaton Park in North Manchester, finishing seventh outright, the second highest position in their history. The team easily qualified for the National
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Petrol cost? I don’t know
NEARLY half of motorists have no idea how much a litre of petrol costs, it has emerged. The average British driver reckons petrol costs £1.06 a litre that's as much as 17 per cent more than the actual price of about 90p, a survey by AA Personal Loans
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Cutbacks due to fuel hikes
More than a third of motorists have cut back on journeys because of rising fuel prices, according to research conducted by a motor insurance company. Those making reductions in the last 12 months have either limited their car use to essential journeys
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Share your car
The first ever car-share lane on a British motorway will open next year, it has been announced. The one-mile lane will start in 2007 at the junction of the M606 and M62 between Bradford and Leeds in West Yorkshire, Transport Secretary Alistair Darling
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Listen to Morrissey's Ringleader Of The Tormentors album
Morrissey is back with a bang. Or more specifically, a major UK tour, a radio-hogging single You Have Killed Me and new album Ringleader Of The Tormentors. You can listen to tracks from the album here. The former Smiths singer releases Ringleader Of
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What do you think of Condoleezza Rice's visit to Blackburn?
We asked you "What do you think of Condoleezza Rice's visit to Blackburn?" Here are the results. Pleased 40.6%. Displeased 31.9%. Not bothered 27.5%. So the majority of our users are pleased Condoleezza Rice is coming to Blackburn. Take
