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Burnley man jailed for stairs push which broke woman's back
A RETIRED Merchant Navy worker has been jailed for a year after pushing a woman down the stairs, breaking her back. Samantha Balderstone, 26, suffered three fractured vertebrae and spent a month in hospital. Drunken John Mowat pushed Ms Balderstone
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East Lancs dad’s fury at appeal hearing judge ‘error'
A GRIEVING father has hit out at the ‘total incompetence’ of officials dealing with the asylum seeker who killed his daughter in a road crash. Paul Houston has been fighting for the deportation of Aso Mohammed Ibrahim for seven years since the death
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Men injured in Blackburn stabbings
TWO men suffered stab wounds in separate incidents in Blackburn over the weekend. Detectives from Blackburn CID are investigating the unrelated incidents, which happened in the Infirmary and Stansfeld Road areas on Friday night and early hours
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Woman, 45, punched in Padiham mugging
A PADIHAM mum was knocked to the ground and punched in the face this morning by two muggers who stole her handbag. The 45-year-old Padiham mother-of-one was targeted as walked home in the early hours. She had been walking up a path between
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East Lancs judge: I'm sick of drink excuse for violence
A JUDGE has hit out at drunk-enness being used as an excuse for violence — and said she was sick of hearing it. Judge Beverley Lunt made her comments when she was sentencing a 20-year-old for knocking another man out in an early hours large-scale brawl
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Burnley youth theatre company hit by funding cuts blow
A YOUTH theatre company is vowing to stay positive despite funding cuts. Burnley Youth Theatre has become the latest victim of Government’s cutbacks, and has lost 10 per cent of its Arts Council funding, amounting to thousands of pounds. The theatre
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Burnley artist wins £25,000 art prize
A BURNLEY-born artist has won one of art’s most prestigious prizes for his work Spectrum Jesus. Keith Coventry took the £25,000 John Moores Painting Prize, described as the ‘Oscar of the art world’. He follows the likes of David Hockney who have
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Cull of 29 Lancashire County Council managers to save £1.2m
PLANS have been revealed for 29 managers’ jobs to be shed as part of a shake-up at Lancashire County Council. Bosses said the cull would save £1.2million from the budget for looking after elderly and disabled people. But critics said
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Accrington woman who stole from pensioner jailed
A FORMER home help from Accrington who emptied a pensioner's bank account in a 'despicable' theft has been jailed for 21 months. Mother-of-three Kelly Cobb, 29, helped herself to £6,300 belonging to 82-year-old Alfred Whittaker after he went
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Darwen technology firm set for expansion
A TECHNOLOGY company plans to create 30 new jobs and find new office space as experts predict it will make a profit for the first time next year. Bosses at Darwen-based Bglobal want new workers to help it expand as it bids to become the world leader
