Stories for 30 September 2003
Accrington News
A DISABLED charity has closed after the chairman quit following a police caution relating to two charges of indecent assault.
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A 16-YEAR-old schoolboy told of the terrifying moment he was hit by an airgun pellet fired by a gunman during a shooting spree in Accrington.
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POLICE were today hunting three men who punched and robbed a 16-year-old in Accrington.
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Blackburn News
A MUÔf-two confined to a wheelchair today spoke out to highlight the difficulties for disabled people travelling on buses.
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A DECISION is set to be made within weeks over the future of a new council ward which two East Lancashire Labour MPs don't want.
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A COMPANY controlled by the trustees of the late Jack Walker has closed down with the loss of more than 70 jobs.
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EAST Lancashire's multi-million pound Pathfinder scheme to tackle derelict streets will help halt the rise of the British National Party, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has promised.
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YOUNGSTERS in Lancashire can become busy bookworms thanks to a month-long series of library events.
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POLICE have charged a man with manslaughter following the death of a 47-year-old man in Blackburn town centre.
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A 46-YEAR-OLD man, arrested for the 11th time in a year, admitted two charges of damaging windows at the home of his former partner.
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AN EAST Lancashire charity and a women's group are holding a special meeting to raise awareness about breast cancer.
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Bolton Business
THE new Bolton Business Investment Centre, due to be opened next month, is a partnership initiative designed to help boost local prosperity and will provide a bedrock to Bolton's growing business quarter.
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A NEW initiative backed by the North West Development Agency, Motivating Business to Innovate, aims to help forward-thinking local firms.
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THE weather plays a great part in Mark Lord's business. The Arthur Lane Nurseries at Ainsworth grows a lot of its own stock and the weather needs to be right for the flowers, plants and trees to flourish.
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Our wives think we're nuts working long hours for such a small amount of money, but we love being here!
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BUSINESSES across Bolton are being urged not to throw their profits away by wasting energy.
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You are at the mercy of Mother Nature and toil long, hard hours in the knowledge that you could earn more working in a supermarket. But you love what you do.
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NICK Gordon loves wood. The feel of it and the look of it. Which is just as well as he handles a lot of wood in a typical working week.
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FIRMS are being advised about managing staff sickness absence. Experts say all absence, no matter how short or inconsequential, should be recorded and investigated.
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THE number of people choosing to invest in buy to let property rather than pension schemes is rising steadily in Bolton, it is claimed.
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NEW technology is making us more miserable, a survey reveals. Research by business information company Croner found that 60 per cent of respondents felt that mobile phones, laptops and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) increased stress levels and actually made their jobs more difficult.
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WORK has begun on a multi-million development set to bring 300 jobs to Bolton.
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UK Online for Business has launched a pioneering new section on its web site where businesses can learn about taking payment for goods and services online.
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A YEAR on from the introduction of the final phase of the late payment legislation, the Better Payment Practice Group (BPPG) is keen to ensure businesses are making the best use of their rights.
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MORE than 70 per cent of North-west businesses are much more optimistic about the economic outlook than they were this time last year, a new poll shows.
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Bolton Education
TOP o'th' Brow Primary School will be welcoming back a very special former pupil on Wednesday -- the Mayor of Bolton, Cllr Cliff Morris.
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PUPILS will next week move into Bolton's newest school, built with funds from a controversial private finance scheme.
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A WESTHOUGHTON school has received a special award from the Bishop of Manchester for its delivery of religious education.
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Bolton Leisure
FANS of the big screen archeological action hero Indiana Jones will recall a scene in which their hero hides the remains of the all-powerful ark among the seemingly endless corridors of a forgotten warehouse.
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IF all pan-European relations were this harmonious, referendums would be redundant.
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BOLTON comic Peter Kay is set to go to number one in the video bestseller charts when the second series of his sitcom Phoenix Nights is released on DVD and video.
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Bolton News
A PETROL tanker collided with a car on the M61at Chorley on Tuesday morning causing traffic chaos across the region.
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SHOPPERS in Farnworth's "forgotten" precinct were today celebrating the multi-million pound news they have waited years to hear.
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DOCTORS have admitted mistakes were made in the case of a Bury patient who killed his housemate six months after being discharged from a psychiatric ward.
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THE congregation of a Horwich church are pulling together to raise £100,000 for a major restoration of the building.
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BOLTON comic Peter Kay is set to go to number one in the video bestseller charts when the second series of his sitcom Phoenix Nights is released on DVD and video.
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MEMBERS of the Bolton branch of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain held a special service on Sunday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of an artificial famine which killed between seven and ten million people in the Ukraine.
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STAR Wars legend Kenny Baker was the guest of honour at Leigh Model Railway Society's annual exhibition.
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CHILDREN were being warned to be extra vigilant after a spate of bike thefts on the same day in Whitefield.
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MEMBERS of the Bolton branch of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain held a special service to commemorate the 70th anniversary of an artificial famine which killed between seven and ten million people in the Ukraine.
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CHILDREN across Bolton have entered a competition to find the best ways the town can celebrate its 750th birthday.
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A BOLTON MP has hit out at a shock postcard campaign by dentists who want to add fluoride to water.
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BOLTON'S weekend of Charter celebrations was hailed a huge success.
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FLOWER power added to the Charter celebrations. Dedicated flower arrangers from Bolton, Horwich and Harwood floral arts groups spent months designing 7ft-high displays depicting town organisations and significant events of the last 750 years in the town.
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A GIANT celebration cake was cut during the ball Mayor's Grand Charity Ball at the Reebok Stadium which was attended by 750 guests.
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A LANTERN and candlelit procession through the town centre brought the weekend of Charter celebrations to an end.
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AN early start on Friday out of bed, as Sky Television flew me to Heathrow and then took me on by car to Brunel University for a film shoot lasting a day. Arriving home at 11.15pm!.
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I ALWAYS know when the football season is about to start as the Sven jobs start to roll in.
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TROUBLE TV the German television channel that filmed me earlier in the year for "Britain's Most Embarrassing Parents" have now completed post production and have brought the date forward to September for its broadcast.
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OUR man Colin Lyne is set to become a pin-up -- alongside Sean Connery, David and Victoria Beckham, Marilyn Monroe and Hannibal Lecter!
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SPENT yesterday in Ramsbottom, Lancashire, at the World Black Pudding throwing event!
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LAST minute news for those of you who are interested in popping down to the Town Hall Square on Saturday.
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AS money continues to pour in for the Bolton Coronary Care Appeal, organisers have thanked the people of Bolton for taking it past the £1million mark.
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THOSE of you in the working world will be deliriously happy to note that this year's National Meetings Week will be from October 6 to 11.
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IT won't be long before Comic Relief, or Red Nose Day as it is known, is upon us and with it the marathon telecast which features legions of showbiz personalities doing their bit in the name of fund-raising.
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EMPLOYMENT trends are a source of great fascination for me.
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I WENT on a demo last Friday, the first time I had done so. It was never intended to be a VERY public protest, more peaceful than vengeful or malignant. But the reaction it triggered was astonishing. I still can't believe it.
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YOU cannot beat a sheep and fiddles weekend if you want to get away from it all.
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THE other day I found myself contemplating one of the world's most famous paintings -- "The Scream" by Norwegian miserablist Edvard Munch.
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THE Anglo-American poet, critic and dramatist T S Eliot wrote in 1925: 'This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper'. I haven't read 'The Hollow Men', from which those words are taken, but they seem to be ominously prophetic.
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IT never fails to amaze me that even in the midst of events as dreadful as those in Iraq, something comes along to make people laugh.
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DOES anyone out there still cling to the belief that President George W Bush has sent thousands of American service personnel to the Gulf to get some much-needed R and R?
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JUST to prove I don't just make things up for the sake of my column, and that all my mates actually are getting hitched, I went to my first hen do last weekend.
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HOW many mums and dads reading these words know exactly what their children are doing at this moment? I'm not compiling a list of accountable parents here. It's just that I always assumed that anyone who took on the job did so in the knowledge that they had certain responsibilities, such as the supervision and control of their offspring.
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STOP any dozen "average" people in the street and ask them what action should be taken about Monrovia and they'll probably reply that, whoever he is, Bolton Wanderers should sign him!
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IT was intense. The rain. The ragged clothing. The humiliating duties. Not knowing when they were going to be set free. No. Not I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. I'm talking about the DVD box set of Tenko!
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OKAY. So here's the thing. I'm on a train. It is the 11.15pm from Manchester to Blackpool via Bolton on a Friday night. I've had more than a few glasses of white wine and want my bed.
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ANY hope the present Labour administration had of justifying its oft-repeated but tarnished pledge to be tough on crime has been scuppered by Home Office lawyers who are trying to persuade the judiciary to review laws giving burglars and other criminals the right to sue in cases where they have been injured committing an offence.
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SO the credibility of the UN is under threat, Saddam Hussein is in breach of their requests and last weekend one million people took to the streets of London to march against the prospect of war. Fine. Great. So, what time's Hollyoaks on?
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ONCE upon a time a "geezer" was a southern chap familiar to us northerners through television and film references. Not any more.
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OOORRWWF huuu twwooo detffffssht. Sorry, I've just been to the dentist and am speaking like Chewbacca after a heavy drinking session. I'd not been for a while (the kind of 'while' during which you can get a degree and move home three or four times) so the prospect was foreboding.
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A NEW all-weather pitch at Bury's Walshaw Sports Club was opened by Sam Allardyce watched by more than 300 people.
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A GANG of masked carjackers dragged a woman out of her car then stole it from her driveway.
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TOP o'th' Brow Primary School will be welcoming back a very special former pupil on Wednesday -- the Mayor of Bolton, Cllr Cliff Morris.
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BOLTON Primary Health Care Trust has joined forces with Age Concern, Bolton Hindu Forum and the Bolton Council of Mosques to promote healthcare for people from ethnic minorities.
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BOLTON North-east MP David Crausby has welcomed a clampdown on road tax cheats.
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A 48-YEAR-OLD man suffered neck and back injuries in an accident involving two vans in Kearsley.
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TEA-SHOP manager at the Macdonald Last Drop Village Hotel, Beryl McNaught, is celebrating 21 years at the company.
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A 15-YEAR-OLD Bolton schoolgirl who sparked a major police search after running away from home was back with her parents on Tuesday.
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FIREFIGHTERS fought a fire in a waste compactor at a factory in Great Lever last night.
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BOLTON'S once-prestigious Water Place will close in 10 days time, even though council chiefs may be forced to pay back more than £1 million to the Government.
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BOLTON'S closed down Water Place swimming complex looks set to be bulldozed in May.
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A CORONER issued has a nationwide alert after a Westhoughton woman with a peanut allergy died after eating a curry she bought from a takeaway.
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IFEEL I must again respond to a letter ("Getting rid of green spaces", September 23) that may give a misleading impression to your readers. The letter asks why the planning committee is "so determined to rid our town of valuable and irreplaceable green spaces". Nothing could be further from the truth.
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PARENTS want their children to go to Canon Slade because, generally speaking, the pupils there get good examination results.
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IHAVE been reading about the controversy at Canon Slade School, about children going to church.
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ANYONE who shops at Asda will have read the badges worn by all staff, "Always happy to help", and they most certainly are.
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IWAS one of the carers who looked after, and cared for, the 25 residents at Seymour House, Astley Bridge, and I am sure I speak for all the carers and staff who worked there.
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WHAT an ideal opportunity it is now for our anti-social gangs and vandals to enrol in the Forces.
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INOTE that Mr Titley continues ad nauseum to dole out his weekly dose of EU propaganda.
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IWAS stunned to read that Cllr Bob Howarth (£28,641.28) considers that councillors are well worth their money.
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WORK to build a state-of-the art new cardiac support unit for heart patients at the Royal Bolton Hospital is due to start in April.
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LIFE-SIZED oddities Sully and Mike caused a monster of a commotion at Bolton's giant coffee morning.
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THE Bolton Coronary Care Appeal 2002 now stands at a staggering £800,000.
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Bolton Sport
ASTLEY Miners remain top of the Premier Division of the Pioneer Sunday League after a 5-1 home victory against Royal Hotel.
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AN EDGWORTH lad could be on his way to becoming the new Owen Hargreaves.
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A MASS of injuries meant Blackrod had to promote Neil Poster and Carl McKnight from the Reserves to complete their squad against Wyre Villa.
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Monton stun below par Atherton
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Leigh Athletic 1 Collegiate 0
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LITTLE Lever went joint top of the LAL Premier Division after demolishing a poor Hesketh Casuals 5-0.
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LEIGH RMI Ladies lost 3-2 away to league newcomers Bolton Wanderers Reserves.
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THE Winter Season starts week of Monday, October 27.
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THE Bolton and Bury Mini Soccer League are staging an under 10s girls' football tournament at Ladybridge FC on Saturday, starting at 2pm.
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HORWICH RMI had a hard-fought 2-0 win at home to Bolton Wyresdale.
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HINDLEY Juniors have some places available for youngsters aged 10, 11, and 12, to play in an exciting new league. Anyone interested phone Brian Lee on 07951256318. more...
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DOBBIES A remain top of the BSF Over 35's Division One Football League after a crushing 5-1 away win at Breightmet United.
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Premier Division
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Premier Division: Old Blackburnians 1 Bolton County 2; Prairie United 0 Rochdale St.Clements 1; Little Lever SC 5 Hesketh Casuals 0.
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BURY Under 15s are through to the 2nd Round of the English Schools' Trophy after beating Wigan 5-3 in their 1st Round clash.
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THE divisional singles started on Monday night at the Hilton Centre.
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SHAKERS manager Andy Preece is hoping new signing Glenn Whelan can kick start Bury's struggling season on Tuesday night.
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LEIGH Centurions stars Paul Rowley and Ricky Bibey will both plead for leniency when they appear before disciplinary chiefs in Leeds.
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BOLTON RUFC got their first league points of the season with a hard earned 11-3 victory over Ashton at Avenue Street.
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TYLDESLEY sent visitors Windermere back up to The Lakes with a resounding 36-3 defeat after the home side destroyed them with some explosive back play.
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SYDNEY'S restaurants, mauled by the fall in tourism, are looking to score an injury-time victory when thousands of cashed-up rugby fans come to town.
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Bolton Wanderers
SHELL-shocked Wolves arrived at the Reebok on Saturday defending a terrible Premiership record of one point, one goal scored and 17 conceded.
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SAM Allardyce could be close to solving his centre-half problems after taking the 27-year-old Chile international Jorge Varga on trial.
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MARIO Jardel has stepped up his claim for a first Premiership start with his second "double" in the space of six days.
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Aston Villa v Wanderers, Sunday, October 5, 4.05pm, Sky Sports
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MIKE Whitlow has warned his old Reebok pal Dean Holdsworth that friendships will count for nothing with First Division points at stake.
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Burnley News
BURNLEY MP Peter Pike has welcomed the announcement by Gordon Brown that the minimum wage will break the £5-an-hour barrier within two years as goods news for East Lancashire.
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LABOUR party leaders in Burnley are to take legal advice over claims that a rival party's election leaflet defames their candidate.
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TWO new police community support officers (PCSOs) have taken to the streets of Burnley.
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AN investigation has been launched after scaffolding along a row of terrace houses in Burnley collapsed causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to parked cars.
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BURNLEY'S new green champion today pledged she would ensure people in the borough learnt more about environmental issues.
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THE government is considering a crackdown against British National Party activists trying to use trade unions to spread race hate.
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CLIVIGER Guides held a coffee evening on Thursday in support of the Macmillan Nurses appeal.
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THE new boss of a Burnley pub says he is detemined to make a go of the role after spending years as a relief manager in the Midlands.
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BURNLEY police are warning people to be on their guard when using cash dispensers after thieves used a device called a Lebanese Hook to steal a bank card.
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AN EX-HEROIN addict helped himself to petrol to the tune of £41 using his former bosses' credit card, a court was told.
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COMEDY legends Cannon and Ball are heading to Burnley to help raise money to support terminaly-ill people and their families.
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Bury Business
RESIDENTS banking on a better environment will have their wishes granted by Barclays.
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Bury Education
STUDENTS who lost out on a university place because they did not get their expected A-level grades have another option.
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Bury News
DOCTORS have admitted mistakes were made in the case of a Bury patient who killed his housemate six months after being discharged from a psychiatric ward.
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A PLAN to give pensions to Bury councillors has been turned down by members of the council's standards committee.
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A DRUGS project will pioneer new ways of reaching young people, thanks to a £166,633 windfall.
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RESIDENTS banking on a better environment will have their wishes granted by Barclays.
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CHILDREN were being warned to be extra vigilant after a spate of bike thefts on the same day in Whitefield.
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A CAR turned into a fireball when it crashed into a parked vehicle.
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A RAMBOTTOM pub hosted a revival of the War of the Roses on Sunday (Sep 28), with the official world black pudding throwing contest!
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Bury Sport
SHAKERS manager Andy Preece is hoping new signing Glenn Whelan can kick start Bury's struggling season on Tuesday night.
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INJURY-PLAGUED midfield star Terry Dunfield reckons he is finally ready for a return to action this weekend.
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SHAKERS' away clash with Cambridge United will be a 'Family Day,' with reduced prices on all tickets sold prior to match day.
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Chorley Sport
CHORLEY could hardly have had an easier passage into the third qualifying round of the FA Cup than the stroll in the sun at Victory Park.
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CHORLEY are going for points, not cup prizes when the take on UniBond First Division newcomers Prescot Cables at Victory Park tonight.
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Clarets Sport
DELROY Facey is looking to kick off the second month of his loan spell at Burnley by keeping up his 100 per cent Vicarage Road record tonight.
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A VISIT to Vicarage Road might seem a sobering thought for many Burnley fans tonight, but for Stan Ternent the hangover has long since cleared.
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"IT'S wrong" fumed Stan Ternent at Saturday's post-match press conference. "You know it and I know it."
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Clitheroe News
AN award-winning head teacher who failed her 11-plus has told how she was invited to meet Prince Charles to discuss excellence in education.
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FIVE members of the same family have appeared before Blackburn magistrates following an incident in Longridge on September 7.
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Colne News
A TEENAGER has died from stab wounds after a street fight in Colne.
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A COLNE woman who filled in a council survey has landed a £200 prize.
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ARTISTS in Pendle are putting the finishing touches to their masterpieces as the closing date for this year's Pendle in Paint competition approaches.
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Darwen News
WORKERS at Darwen's Crown Wallcoverings received the news they have been dreading today -- Belgrave Mills will close by the end of the year.
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WAR veterans are to present the the campaign medals of a teenage soldier killed in World War Two to his relatives.
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DARWEN'S St Barnabas' School is taking a pro-active approach and going out looking for customers.
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DARWEN Tower Credit Union is going from strength to strength and recently recruited its 500th member.
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DARWEN police are appealing for information about three teenagers who broke into a house in St Cuthbert's Close over the weekend.
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Lancashire Business
WORKERS at Darwen's Crown Wallcoverings received the news they have been dreading today -- Belgrave Mills will close by the end of the year.
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A COMPANY controlled by the trustees of the late Jack Walker has closed down with the loss of more than 70 jobs.
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Lancashire Leisure
BURNLEY Garrick Club will delve into the supernatural in Laying the Ghost. The Simon Williams-penned play will run from tomorrow until October 4 at Burnley Mechanics at 7.30pm. Tickets can be purchased from the Mechanics box office.
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A NAKED Gun-type spoof awaits theatre lovers in Blackburn Arts Club's Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime by David Tristram, which runs from tonight until October 4.
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FIVE times NODA award-winning society the Oswaldtwistle Players are on the look-out for a new director for their next production.
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AN accident with a garden rake sets the scene in Rossendale Players' Woman In Mind by Alan Ayckbourn at the New Millennium Theatre, which runs until October 4.
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A LOOK at events, from amateur theatre to rambles through our beautiful countryside.
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Lancashire News
EVERYTHING was beautiful in John and Barbara Maudsley's garden as it won first prize in a national competition.
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ROY Hodgson's brave boys gave the blue and white army plenty to cheer in the UEFA Cup.
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A GIRL who lost her right eye and was "millimetres from death" after being kicked by a horse today vowed to get back in the saddle.
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WORKERS at Darwen's Crown Wallcoverings received the news they have been dreading today -- Belgrave Mills will close by the end of the year.
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A TEENAGER has died from stab wounds after a street fight in Colne.
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I HAVE read many views in Your Letters about speed cameras and would like to give my fellow drivers some hope.
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REGARDING the decision to ban bonfires in the Audley area of Blackburn (LET, September 24), I support the comments that organised bonfires are the only way to a safer future.
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I SHARE the frustration felt by Pendle MP Gordon Prentice (LET, September 20) and those who wish to see the houses in Nelson's Whitefield ward demolished. In fact, I wouldn't stop there. Why not demolish another eyesore -- Bradley?
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VIRTUALLY every year an appeal goes out from Blackburn for it to be considered for city status.
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REGARDING your 'Looking Back' feature about Home Guard exercises during the Second World War (LET, September 18), I was in the Accrington Home Guard and was "blown up" at Skew Bridge in Blackburn and "machine gunned" at Portfield Bar at Great Harwood.
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PATIENTS in East Lancashire waiting more than six months for an operation will soon be given the option to have it earlier at a hospital elsewhere in the country.
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AS 2,500 workers from factories across the country -- representing the number of industrial jobs lost every week -- were protesting at the Labour Party conference at huge cuts in manufacturing, the grim reality of the haemorrhage was again felt in East Lancashire.
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Lancashire Sport
TOP of the table Clitheroe look to stretch their lead in the North West Counties League Division One - and quickly put a disappointing performance behind them.
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GREAT Harwood Town moved into the next round of the Division Two Trophy
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BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness is ready to send an SOS to on-loan defender Andy Todd as he attempts to solve his deepening defensive crisis.
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DELROY Facey is looking to kick off the second month of his loan spell at Burnley by keeping up his 100 per cent Vicarage Road record tonight.
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Leigh News
STAR Wars legend Kenny Baker was the guest of honour at Leigh Model Railway Society's annual exhibition.
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Leigh Sport
LEIGH Centurions stars Paul Rowley and Ricky Bibey will both plead for leniency when they appear before disciplinary chiefs in Leeds.
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Nelson News
POLICE in Nelson are appealing to people who live in and around nursing homes to be vigilant after a string of break-ins.
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POLICE are appealing to people who live in and around nursing homes to be vigilant after a string of break-ins.
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Rawtenstall News
PLANS for a new health centre in Stacksteads have been deferred after concerns were raised over access to the proposed site.
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POLICE in Rossendale are warning the public to be on their guard following a spate of "sneak in" burglaries.
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A MAN was arrested today after a blaze gutted a town centre flat.
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Rovers Sport
AT about 6pm on Wednesday evening I was expecting to write this week's column in two parts.
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BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness is ready to send an SOS to on-loan defender Andy Todd as he attempts to solve his deepening defensive crisis.
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HENNING Berg plans to stay at Rangers until the end of the season, despite the prospect of managerial jobs in Norway.
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Stanley Sport
ACCRINGTON Stanley defender Jonathan Smith is enlisting the help of a specialist in an effort to cure a long-standing neck problem.
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