Stories for 8 May 2001
Accrington News
TWO fish fryers from East Lancashire are earning their stars and stripes serving the North's favourite dish to the rich and famous in New York's only chippy.
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A MOTHER today banned her children from playing in their local park, claiming drunken teenagers were making their lives hell.
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PHOTOGRAPHY enthusiasts from across the county are expected at a meeting of Accrington Camera Club later this month.
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THIEVES struck in the dead of night to steal several thousands pounds from a Church club.
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SCHOOLCHILDREN scrambled to take part in an exciting day of activities.
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Blackburn News
CAMPAIGNING gardeners are claiming a victory after council landlords announced a U-turn over plans to increase their rent by 85 per cent.
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TOURIST attractions across East Lancashire reported a boom in trade over the Bank Holiday weekend as the sun brought visitors flooding in.
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EAST Lancashire's acute hospital bosses are to get £1 million to spend on new equipment in the coming year.
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NEIGHBOURHOOD Watch leaders are ready for the launch of a new scheme which will make the household fridge the latest tool for the emergency services.
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PATRICK Sharkey spent the best part of the weekend in a police cell because of an argument with his partner.
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A GROUP of dancers took centre stage in their first charity variety performance.
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A TOP beauty student is made up after being plucked to represent her college in a national health and beauty competition.
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Bolton Business
A BOLTON consortium has been awarded £30,000 in government money to develop an environmentally friendly travel scheme.
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A GROWING local company has decided to transfer all its financial affairs into Lloyds TSB Commercial's specialised Industry Focus banking service.
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The Health and Safety Executive has published two booklets highlighting the dangers of asbestos. Copies of Introduction to Asbestos Essentials and Asbestos Essentials Task Manual are available from the HSE on 0178 881165.
THE Health and Safety Executive has published two booklets highlighting the dangers of asbestos. Copies of Introduction to Asbestos Essentials and Asbestos Essentials Task Manual are available from the HSE on 0178 881165.
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MANCHESTER Manufacturing Institute is staging a practical hands-on programme to help manufacturers tackle global competition and the strong pound.The "How to...." series will run on June 20, 21 and 27 and July 11. For more information, contact Joanna Britton on 0161-874-3204.
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Bolton Leisure
CLIFTON Theatre Workshop is performing its ninetieth production this week -- coinciding with the group's 45th year.
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VARIETY is the key word for the Rivington Spring Festival 2001 with activities ranging from a step back in time to the Middle Ages, through to an evening of murder.
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SMITHILLS is currently alive to the sound of music as young musicians limber up for a busy month of May.
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TYLDESLEY Little Theatre's Ian Taylor may be aged only 31 years, but is preparing to notch up 50 roles for the group in its next production, Time Of My Life.
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BOLTON Amateur Theatre Society (BATS) dates for May are:
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Bolton News
JACKIE Webb believes in miracles. She knows they exist because she should have been in the Top Storey Club on that May night.
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FIRE precautions should prevent another Top Storey disaster today -- as long as clubs and other entertainment venues are well-managed and obey the rules.
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THE Top Storey Club was destined for a brief life.
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PATRICIA Moran may only have been a girl of eight at the time but she has special cause to remember the fire.
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Francis Roylance, 33, Mancroft Avenue, Bolton
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IT may be 40 years ago but memories of the Top Storey Club inferno were fresh in many people's minds this week.
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BOLTON medics are fighting young patients' fear of needles -- with strawberry-flavoured oxygen and jokes!
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AN irate mum is calling for an apology after receiving a letter warning she may face prosecution over her daughter's lateness at school.
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AN irate mum is calling for an apology after receiving a letter warning she may face prosecution over her daughter's lateness at school.
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ACOUSTICS experts have been called in at a Bolton company after neighbours complained about noises coming from the premises at night.
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BOLTON West MP Ruth Kelly has been accused of involving the town's schools in underhand electioneering.
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OUTRAGED heart-swap grandfather Bernard Dunleavy has voiced fears for his future in the light of threats to close the region's top transplant centre.
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BOLTON Hospice is all set to give away £1,500 a week-- thanks to its new lottery to be launched in September.
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HALF a million pounds has already been ploughed into the construction of a Bolton youth club's plush new headquarters.
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TUDOR times came to Hall i' th' Wood in a traditional celebration of May Day.
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IT'S third time lucky for a Horwich nursery school as they celebrate a near-perfect report from Government Education watchdogs.
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TUDOR times came to Hall i' th' Wood in a traditional celebration of May Day.
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BOLTON people are being urged to do their bit for others in need by making May the month they give blood.
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THE Duchess of York visited Bolton today as part of a whirlwind tour of the region.
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FORMER Bolton Wanderers star John McGinlay helped to kick off a fun football competition being run at a Bolton supermarket.
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A LONG-serving member of a Bolton youth club has retired after 50 years.
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A WESTHOUGHTON comedian received his MBE from the Queen after spending years putting smiles on the faces of hundreds of people.
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THE Duchess of York visited Bolton today as part of a whirlwind tour of the region.
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A FORMER Methodist minister from Bolton has died in Devon.
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A WOMAN escaped serious injury in a collision with another car and a motorbike in Westhoughton last night.
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A FIRE which burned for two hours at the back of Done Bookmakers in Horwich is believed to have been started deliberately.
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A MAN, aged 56, was in a serious condition in hospital today after being beaten unconscious by two men in Horwich last night.
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A CONTROVERSIAL American doctor, described as "like a God" in some medical circles will visit Bolton in a major coup for the town.
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BOLTON is educating the world when it comes to preventing pain and suffering.
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ARLENE Cochrane has long been the mainstay of the daily running of Fortalice, Bolton's hostel for battered women and their children.
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SHARPLES mum Jeanette Morris had a day she'll never forget when she won her way to the catwalk at a top Bolton event.
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BOLTON'S rich textile history enters a new and fascinating period with an exhibition at Smithills Hall.
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PEOPLE who care for disabled or seriously ill relatives may be unaware that more benefits are up for grabs.
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A GANG armed with baseball bats had a door slammed in its face by a quick-thinking pub worker.
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THE Reebok will stage its first international on Sunday, May 27, when England meet Scotland in a warm up to the European Women's Championhsip Finals.
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VOLUNTEER-run children's groups can share a slice of £3.6 million. The Government has awarded the huge sum to Bolton to help provide services for children at risk of social exclusion.
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THE Marco Players present 'Shadowlands', by William Nicholson, at Chorley Old Road Methodist Community Church, Bolton, from June 13 to 16, starting at 7.30pm.
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SMALL charities and community groups have been invited to a training day to help them find new ways of fundraising.
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STORYTELLING sessions will be held at Bolton Museum, Art Gallery and Aquarium.
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FIREMEN spent two hours fighting a blaze at the water treatment works in Kearsley.
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BURNING rubbish sparked a fire inside a derelict house in Tonge Moor.
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MANCHESTER Dog's Home is looking for a family, who are thinking of adopting a dog, to appear in a TV series on Channel 4.
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A FORD Mondeo was destroyed by fire early today on Pennington Flash anglers' car park in Slag Lane, Leigh. A fire service spokesman said the blaze was malicious.
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IF you are going on a family holiday this year you could be the stars of a new Channel 4 show. Fulcrum Television would like to hear from families who are holidaying together between now and the end of the year. Phone Sue on 0207 689 4286 or Lara on 0207 689 4276.
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BURNING rubbish sparked a fire inside a derelict house in Tonge Moor.
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MEMBERS of the Farnworth and Kearsley branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution raised more than £1,645 for lifeboats.
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A FORD Mondeo was destroyed by fire early today on Pennington Flash anglers' car park in Slag Lane, Leigh.
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BOLTON has a new top detective -- and already he's a busy man probing the fatal Moat House hotel fire.
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HOSPITAL staff have been given some crime-fighting tips in the battle against thieves who target the town's carers.
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BOLTON police chiefs are on the hunt... to reward deserving youngsters.
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A YOUNG man and woman plundered a pensioners' home after talking their way into the property.
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IT numbed Bolton and horrified a Britain where the club culture was just starting to be king in those Swinging Sixties.
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IF the Top Storey Club existed today, it would have to comply with the latest national building regulations.
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FIREMEN who arrived at the Top Storey Club were faced with a terrible dilemma.
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FIREMEN who arrived at the Top Storey Club were faced with a terrible dilemma.
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JACK Breen knows he's a lucky man today.
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ONE of Bolton's most famous family-owned stores opened up to serve refreshments to police and firemen at the Club fire.
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CAREER women -- including a nursing home worker -- are walking the town's streets offering sex for sale, the BEN can reveal tonight.
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MIRACLE baby Tilly-Jo Jepson, who owes her life to the wonder of science, has finally left hospital -- hours before a visit by the Duchess of York.
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THE Bank Holiday sunshine brought an unusual visitor out to play in Bolton town centre.
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BEN reader 'Name and address Supplied' suggests that Wigan would be the main beneficiary of the A5225 bypass.
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RACISM probably seems very remote for people who've never been on the receiving end.
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CAN anyone explain to me why they are burning animal carcases before burying the remains, during this present outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease?
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THE week of May 13th to 19th is National Breast-feeding Awareness Week, so it is fitting to use the week to promote the health benefits of breast-feeding to both babies and their mothers.
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I AM sorry that Mr Patel is unhappy with me exposing the hypocrisy of the Bolton Tory candidates' positions on fox hunting, but, thankfully, the BEN is a firm believer in free speech.
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IT'S the world's oldest profession and it's on the streets of every town and city in the land.
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THE Prime Minister has now made it absolutely clear that he is determined to abolish Community Health Councils, despite enormous opposition from within his own party and the wider public.
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THANK God that this Labour Government has shown commonsense in refusing to subsidise the rebuilding of the Wembley Stadium with public money.
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I'VE often thought about the times when I used to go the the Derby Hall Dance Hall in Bowkers Row, Bolton, every Friday night with friends from work.
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I HAVE just read the sickening damage etc to cars in Great Lever.
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I SHOULD like to place on record my appreciation and thanks to the staff of Ward F4 of the Royal Bolton Hospital, for the excellent nursing care, service, and first class attention I received during a recent stay on the ward, following major surgery.
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THERE is a reunion taking place at Rumworth Labour Club, Bolton, in May 2002 for anyone who left Hayward Green School in May, 1982.
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WHAT is it about the British that persuades them to accept low-grade standards of public service as the norm?
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I GOT a severe shock when I visited my 92-year-old mum on Mother's Day. She is convinced the 'authorities' have her under surveillance as a possible IRA sympathiser or terrorist.
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A FEW months ago I touched briefly on the subject of insurance claims and the length of time it takes for them to be settled.
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Bolton Sport
BOLTON Under 15s completed their Greater Manchester Schools' league programme with a thumping 5-0 win against Wigan at Leigh Bedford High School on Saturday.
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LAST year's Hospital Cup runners-up Breightmet United went out of this year's competition when they were beaten 1-0 by Blackrod Town.
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DAISY Hill were held to their first scoreless draw of the season at home to Darwen last night.
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A KEARSLEY darts team's hopes of winning a dream trip to Las Vegas continues to hang in the balance.
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ATHERTON have staked an early claim as the side to beat by setting the early pace with a double victory in the Redmayne Bentley Bolton Association.
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Their Benson and Hedges Cup campaign ended in suitable style with a crushing seven-wicket defeat by Notts at Trent Bridge - leaving them joint bottom of their group with two points from five matches.
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WANDERERS appear to have won the race to sign Gillingham's highly-rated midfielder Nicky Southall.
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FORMER Bolton Wanderers star John McGinlay helped to kick off a fun football competition being run at a Bolton supermarket.
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TICKETS for the play-off opener at West Brom on Sunday will be in short-supply after Wanderers were offered an allocation of just 2,300 by the Midlands club.
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BIRMINGHAM won the race to be the first of the contenders to book their hotel for the Play off Final in Cardiff.
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Burnley News
THOUSANDS flocked to Burnley's 23rd annual May Day Festival as warm sunshine welcomed visitors to the Towneley showground.
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WALSHAW High School, Burnley, is the first in the area to receive the Basic Skills Agency quality award.
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AN amended plan to create a cattery at Higher Trapp Farm, Trapp Lane, Simonstone, has been deferred and delegated to the chief executive for approval.
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THE newly-formed Burnley Sea Cadets percussion band will perform at a summer fair at St Mary Magdelene's RC School, Burnley, next month.
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CLARETS defender Mitchell Thomas was in good form when he helped the Burnley Asda store kick off their "Kick for £1 Million" event.
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SIX people were hurt or suffered from shock when two cars collided in Yorkshire Street, Burnley.
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Bury News
A BURY teenager is recovering in hospital after falling from a tree on a riverbank.
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THREE weeks after storming out of the house following a row, Harold Giles was found drowned in Heaton Park.
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THE landowner who placed boulders along the side of a narrow country lane in a dispute with the council has incurred the wrath of highways chiefs.
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IMPROVING world trade practices and protecting the environment are difficult tasks for any country's leader.
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TALENTED 12-year-old Patrick Fogg is well on the way to becoming the next Billy Elliot, according to his dance teacher.
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TOWN hall bosses have started the job of looking for a successor to chief executive Dennis Taylor.
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FOUR new works of art have arrived in Summerseat to add colour to the summer months.
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A ROYAL encounter with a fake sheikh proves that the royal family should register their business interests.
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AN anniversary celebration at a block of retirement flats in Prestwich has led to double delight for local charities.
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VANDALS have gone on a rampage in Tottington's war memorial gardens.
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Bury Sport
Brentford 3 Bury 1
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Clitheroe News
RIBBLE Valley Dyslexia Association is urging parliamentary candidates to take into account the needs of their dyslexic constituents as they campaign for election.
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A BEAUTY salon in Read has been given the go-ahead despite fears that it would cause traffic chaos in the village.
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SCARECROWS, ducks and a May Queen were the highlights of a spring fair in Waddington.
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HAND-crafted scarecrows took pride of place in the streets of Waddington this Bank Holiday Weekend and visitors flocked to see them.
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MEMBERS of the St John's and All Hallows' Mothers' Union, at Mitton, will be helping celebrate their 125th anniversary with a visit to Gawthorpe Hall.
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OLD soldier Syd Pratt was guest of honour at the East Lancashire Royal Marine Association annual dinner.
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Colne News
A FAMILY involved in a dispute with a 92-year-old farmer who faced magistrates after a row over a farm gate today said they were moving out.
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VISITORS could quite literally be dropping into a popular Pendle hostelry -- with the pub poised to get its own helicopter landing pad.
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A MURDER-style investigation has been launched after the body of a man was found at a house.
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NEIGHBOURS have objected to plans to build a bungalow on land off Lenches Fold, behind Spring Gardens Mill, Waterside.
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Darwen News
HEALTHY eating will be top of the menu for people in Darwen when the town's first organic food shop opens its doors.
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SCHOOLCHILDREN took time out from class to enjoy the great outdoors at the official opening of their new £12,000 adventure playground.
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BOSSES at a countryside restaurant hit by the foot and mouth outbreak today said they were still suffering the after effects of the disease.
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YOUNGSTERS worked up a sweat in the warm spring weather as they helped rebuild a wall at a local cemetery.
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Lancashire Business
SHARES in support services company Enterprise plc have more than doubled in the past year, valuing the company at £120 million.
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TIME is running out for East Lancashire companies interested in entering this year's North West E-Commerce Awards.
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ACCOUNTANTS in Lancashire have called on the Government to adopt a range of new measures to revitalise rural businesses.
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GREAT Harwood-based Metflex is investing in its reputation as one of the UK's leading rubber moulding specialists.
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CORONATION Street's Vera Duckworth has officially opened the new £1.7 million duty free shop at Manchester Airport.
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Lancashire Leisure
FANS were in high spirits as they celebrated Rovers promotion in pubs throughout Blackburn.
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A PUB regular grudgingly lost his long blonde locks to raise money for charity.
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THE Campaign for Real Ale has been raising glasses in celebration of National Mild Day aimed at promoting one of Britain's finest styles of beer.
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FRIDAY night went down a storm when dancers got into the summer groove in their home town.
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THE New Millennium Theatre in Burnley Road East, Waterfoot, plays host to internationally-renowned trumpet player Jim Wilkes on Friday from 8.30pm.
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RIBCHESTER Amateur Theatrical Society is also pursuing the subject of getting hitched with its production of When We Are Married.
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Waddington Royal British Legion's Coffee Evening, Waddington Village Club, 7.30pm-9.30pm.
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Lancashire News
OUR bedroom is full of boxes. Piles of them, large and small, jostling for space with crates, holdalls and outsize carrier bags.
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FORMER Blackburn Rovers striker Alan Shearer signed a new deal to partner a six-foot orange monster. He was pictured getting a hug from the Honey Monster character on the front of boxes of Sugar Puffs and a two-inch replica of the player was one of six models to be found inside the cereal boxes.
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HEALTH managers at Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley health authority announced they were planning to close a life-saving breast cancer service in a bid to save £63,000. The authority had drawn up plans to axe the 'self-examination' service when new mammography clinics opened.
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CAMPAIGNING gardeners are claiming a victory after council landlords announced a U-turn over plans to increase their rent by 85 per cent.
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TWO fish fryers from East Lancashire are earning their stars and stripes serving the North's favourite dish to the rich and famous in New York's only chippy.
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IAM pleased approval has been granted to convert the old Co-op building in Great Harwood, into a wine bar and bistro (LET, April 25).
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REGARDING Councillor Paul Browne's demand that the Millennium Commission and Sainsbury's re-direct their money to light up Darwen Tower instead (LET, May 1), as a newcomer to the area, I am astonished that some locally elected representatives have such a poor grasp of finance and fail to understand that, in the modern world, you cannot simply take one pot of money, accept it for one thing and then suddenly decide you want to spend it elsewhere.
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IHAD to laugh at the report (LET, May 2) about the 'row' over the translation of Darwen's motto 'Absque Labore Nihil' on the plinth of Darwen's millennium marker.
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ALONGSIDE hands-on help the RSPCA has given farmers in the foot and mouth crisis, we have raised our concerns to the Government about some of the slaughter methods employed and have sent inspectors to monitor the mass site in Cumbria.
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THE picture of the Council's Executive Member for regeneration Councillor Ashley Whalley, in Blackburn's somewhat dilapidated Lord Square, (LET, May 1) made me reflect on his assurances to the traders of the town that once the closure of Church Street was agreed, quality businesses would be attracted to the area and all would be well.
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MY grandmother, Delphine Mary Purnell, born 1903, moved from Bath to Bolton Road, Darwen, to live with her aunt, Maria Hillier (nee Horler).
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IT smacked of soulless accountancy when, out of the blue, Blackburn with Darwen Council targeted its allotment tenants for a thumping 85 per cent rent rise.
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HOW depressing it is that, yet again, one of East Lancashire's finest and most historical churches has been the target of vandals.
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AS the rejoicing continues over Blackburn Rovers' promotion to the Premiership and neighbours Burnley celebrating their best season for a quarter of a century, let us not overlook East Lancashire's other footballing heroes -- Rossendale United, champions of the North West Counties League's First Division, destined now for the Unibond League next season.
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Lancashire Sport
NELSON 3 - WARRINGTON TOWN 4
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PADIHAM 3 - ALSAGER 0
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CLITHEROE 2 - PRESCOT CABLES 1
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BACUP 0 - BOOTLE 0
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GREAT HARWOOD 2 - MOSSLEY 2
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DAISY HILL 0 - DARWEN 0
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FOURTH-placed Ramsbottom are in action tonight as they look to finish as high up the NWCL Division One as possible.
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CLARETS midfielder Lennie Johnrose is to undergo a further bout of surgery to make sure he will be fit for the start of next season.
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EWOOD chief Graeme Souness plans to buy British this summer as he looks to make Rovers a force in the Premiership next season.
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CLARETS midfielder Lennie Johnrose is to undergo a further bout of surgery to make sure he will be fit for the start of next season.
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AND so, this remarkable season has finally drawn to a close. And what a success it has been.
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EWOOD chief Graeme Souness plans to buy British this summer as he looks to make Rovers a force in the Premiership next season.
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Our acquaintance with you lasted a season longer than we planned, after our unscheduled exit from the land of footballing milk and honey.
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BLACKBURN Rovers are planning a pre-season tour to Austria as they step up their preparations for a return to the top-flight.
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Nelson News
CHILDREN at a special needs school in Nelson found themselves on the right side of the law when they were paid a visit by the police.
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Rawtenstall News
ROSSENDALE United fans know all about the ups and downs of the beautiful game.
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VICTORIAN metal gates outside a newly-refurbished church have been smashed in a £2,000 vandal attack.
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DRIVER safety will top the agenda when taxi drivers meet police after a cabbie was robbed at knifepoint.
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POLICE are looking for a teenager who indecently exposed himself to young children playing in the street in Thorn Gardens.
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