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Clarets showed real character, says Burnley boss Dyche
BURNLEY manager Sean Dyche praised his players' mentality to come back from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 at Millwall and stretch their unbeaten league run to 10 games. The table topping Clarets trailed for only the second time in the Championship this season
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Clarets showed real character, says Burnley boss Dyche
BURNLEY manager Sean Dyche praised his players' mentality to come back from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 at Millwall and stretch their unbeaten league run to 10 games. The table topping Clarets trailed for only the second time in the Championship this season
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Knife man strikes at Blackburn newsagents
A KNIFE-WIELDING thug burst into a town centre shop and demanded money from a worker. The would-be thief, who had a black scarf hiding his face, held the weapon to the stomach of the woman behind the counter before grabbing at the till and fleeing
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Former Burnley FC director in talks with Giggs and Neville
FORMER Burnley FC director Brendan Flood is reported to be behind a bid to redevelop a police headquarters site in Manchester with football stars Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville. The ex-Clarets director is said to have teamed up again with the Manchester
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Blackburn Rovers accounts show massive loss
BLACKBURN Rovers debts have more than doubled to £54.5million, accounts filed this weekend showed. The club has also recorded a loss of £36.5million in 2012/13, a major drop after posting profits of £4.3million last time round. Turnover has dropped
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Football mad soldier brings Blackburn Rovers to Kenya
A FOOTBALL-mad soldier is doing his best to turn Kenya blue and white by donating Blackburn Rovers shirts, hats and scarves. Rovers fan Darren Gudgeon is based in Nairobi and helps to train the Kenyan Army while also providing food, shelter and medical
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Blackburn Rovers 1 Middlesbrough 0
JASON Lowe’s first goal for the club earned Rovers a deserved victory at a cold and rain-lashed Ewood Park. The midfielder was marking his 96th appearance in a blue and white shirt – and it was one he will never forget as his stunning 76th-minute
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Jane Clough reconstruction 'hard to watch' - parents
THE PARENTS of murdered East Lancashire nurse Jane Clough said a television programme recounting her death was ‘hard to watch’. Channel 5 documentary Countdown to Murder, which aired on Thursday night, focused on the death of Jane. The episode
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FULL-TIME: Millwall 2, Burnley 2
LEAGUE leaders Burnley came back from 2-0 down to keep their unbeaten Championship run in tact. The Clarets went into this afternoon's game at Millwall boosted by seven straight league wins. But that run was put under threat when the Lions roared into
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FULL TIME: Accrington Stanley 1 Wycombe Wanderers 1
ACCRINGTON Stanley moved off the bottom of the League Two table after Peter Murphy's last-gasp equaliser gave them a draw at home to Wycombe. Stanley went behind to a goal from Anthony Stewart in the 72nd minute, but Murphy fired in a leveller in the
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Calls for lights to be switched on on M65
CALLS for motorway lights to be switched on during darkness are being made amid fears that the cost cutting measure is putting lives at risk. Currently, control of the lighting on the M65 is split between the Highways Agency and Lancashire County Council
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Two-vehicle smash in Cliviger
A FOURTEEN-month-old boy was airlifted to hospital after a crash in Cliviger. The boy was in a black Volkswagen Polo being driven by his mother when it collided with a Renault Master van in Greencliffe Lane, Cliviger, at 2.30pm today. An air ambulance
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Tributes to Burnley house fire death victim
THE FAMILY of a Burnley man killed in a fire at his home have paid tribute to a ‘kind-hearted, loving man’. Jimmy Thompson, 57, died after, it is believed, a discarded cigarette started a fire at his ground floor flat in Kay Gardens. His sister
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Matchday live: Millwall v Burnley
The teams are out of the tunnel - we're just minutes away from kick-off Teams are changing ends Millwall get us underway Yellow 'winter' football introduced today Scott Malone has limped back into the action after receiving lengthy treatment
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Blackburn Rovers v Middlesbrough: Matchday Live
4:22pm Rhys Williams now goes into the book for Boro for leaving Alan Judge in a heap. 63 mins. 0-0. 4:21pm Fantastic cross from Kei Kamara just taken off the foot of Albert
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Blackburn Rovers v Middlesbrough: Team News
BLACKBURN Rovers manager Gary Bowyer has named an unchanged side for this afternoon’s visit of managerless Middlesbrough to Ewood Park. But Bowyer has had to make two alterations to his substitutes’ bench. DJ Campbell is suspended following
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TEAM NEWS: Millwall v Burnley
DEAN Marney misses out for this afternoon's game at Millwall, where league leaders Burnley are looking to stretch their winning Championship run to eight games. The midfielder picked up a thigh injury in last weekend's win at home to QPR and has not
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Heys: Betting ban won’t taint my love for Accrington Stanley
‘PRIVILEGED and honoured to have been managing director of Accrington Stanley Football Club. Always a supporter. Always.’ Those are the words with which Rob Heys sums up his feelings for Stanley on his newly modified biography on Twitter. No longer
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Darwen killer released from French prison
THE daughter of a woman whose killer has been released from a French prison has said he should have died in jail. Robert Lund was jailed for 12 years in 2007 after being convicted of the manslaughter of his wife, Evelyn, in December 1999. His trial
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Padiham fraudster jailed over bogus building work
A FRAUDSTER who deliberately targeted three elderly people for bogus building work was branded ‘vile’ as he was jailed. Christopher McKillop got more than £900 from an 80-year-old woman and hundreds of pounds from a man, both living in the Waterfoot
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Colne railway history to be bulldozed
DEMOLITION is on the cards for an old-fashioned railway signal box which has stood beside the East Lancashire line for 128 years. Network Rail has already been installing the equipment to convert the manned level crossing at Brierfield into one
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Blackburn corrupt solicitor guilty of perverting course of justice
A CORRUPT solicitor with a cocaine addition who passed top-secret police information to drugs dealers has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice. Basharat Ditta, who was employed by Blackburn law firm Forbes, held his head in his hands
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Father figure role is perfect for Judge
IT has been an eventful first season back at Blackburn Rovers for Alan Judge. The 24-year-old started the campaign as a key component in Gary Bowyer’s side. But after being dropped to the bench for the 4-1 home win over Bolton Wanderers the
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QPR win gave us real belief, says Burnley defender Mee
CONQUERING promotion favourites Queens Park Rangers has given the Clarets confidence to keep on top, says defender Ben Mee. Although the midweek cup exit at home to West Ham United ended an eight-game winning run, there is conviction around Turf Moor
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Rugby League World Cup Diary: Now is the time to overcome pain
BROTHERS and sisters, surely you can feel the clamouring for redemption in the air, as the Rugby League World Cup enters its second full weekend? Only Scotland, from the home nations, can hold their heads up high, going into the second round of
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Blackburn boys all set for a showdown
IT will be the battle of the Blackburn boys when Accrington Stanley host Wycombe Wanderers this afternoon. The age gap between former QEGS sports star James Beattie and St Augustine’s RC High School pupil Gareth Ainsworth is too great for the pair
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Lancashire Telegraph racing column
It is exceedingly tough to oppose Long Run in the bet365 Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby. Those who take the short odds about him landing the first major jumps prize of the British season will not make their millions overnight. But, in this
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Mosque plan for former Colne Sunday school
A FORMER Sunday school building in Colne could be taken over by a local mosque association. Talks are understood to have taken place between the current owners of the Old School House in Exchange Street, and the Colne Mosques Association, over
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Teenager goes 'back to primary school'
AN ENTHUSIASTIC apprentice has returned to his primary school just six years after leaving. Liam Halliwell, 17, from Whitworth, has started work as an apprentice teaching assistant at St John with St Michael CofE Primary School in Shawforth.
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Dann: We must stop sloppy goals
CAPTAIN Scott Dann says Blackburn Rovers must stop being their own worst enemies if they are to harbour serious ambitions of promotion. Rovers have conceded the first goal in eight of the 13 Championship matches they have played this season.
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Whalley nurse given star award
NURSE Lynsey Brown has been named as a ‘rising star’ of the profession at a major awards ceremony in London. Lynsey, 36, who works for the Whalley-based Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, got to meet Prince Charles after scooping the title
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Pendle councillor encourages traders to ‘help businesses Rise to challenge’
EXTRA help is required to encourage traders to make a success of Nelson’s half-empty Pendle Rise shopping centre, a councillor has insisted. No fewer than two anchor stores, including the former Iceland outlet, and eight smaller shops, are now