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Calls to expand the M65
BUSINESS leaders and politicians want East Lancashire's motorway to be widened - to boost the local economy by half a billion pounds a year. The move, which they believe will also create thousands of jobs, has come amid fears that the M65 is reaching
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Group criticises school move plans
A PROJECT to rebuild a Rossendale primary school on green belt land has attracted criticism from a national conservation charity. Campaigners have expressed disquiet about Lancashire County Council's proposals to resite Waterfoot Primary from its current
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Man stabbed by Christmas raider
A 67-YEAR-OLD man was stabbed in the head after a burglar broke into his house on Christmas Eve. The man was stabbed when his home in Canal Mews, Nelson, was broken into at 8.15pm on Monday. The man was bleeding heavily and was taken to the Royal Blackburn
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Exhaust fumes worry at new bus stop
EXHAUST fumes from buses waiting on a busy town centre street are causing concern for traders and shoppers. Buses regularly wait at bus stops in Duckworth Street and Market Street in Darwen town centre for periods of up to ten minutes as they pick
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Family's hopes as boy, 8, starts final cancer treatment
THE family of a boy who is battling cancer are hoping for the best late Christmas present ever after doctors said he might be cured in the New Year. Bradley Dean, eight, of Marlborough Street, Burnley, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a cancer of the
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Canal clean-up proposed
FRESH efforts are set to be made to clean up the Leeds and Liverpool Canal running through Pendle in 2008. Talks have taken place between British Waterways and borough councillors, following concerns about the amount of litter affecting the waterway
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Pair jailed after holding up their local garage
TWO armed raiders who brought terror to their local garage have both been jailed. Burnley Crown Court heard drunken and drugged-up Darren Fell, 25, and Craig Parkinson, 22, who held-up the Accrington Road Service station armed with hammers, were never
