| Right way to tackle terror | | 4:32pm Thursday 3rd April 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: The threat of terrorism is one of the biggest issues facing our communities. |
| Tell people what they should do | | 9:28am Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: The argument over whether staff at the former A and E department at Burnley General Hospital, now called the Urgent Care Centre, should be able to administer a potentially life-saving treatment called thrombolysis highlights the dilemma facing people in the town. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Don’t give up on rail battle | | 11:40am Monday 31st March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: It is disappointing to hear that three East Lancashire Labour MPs, including Justice Minister Jack Straw, have failed to reverse Railway Minister Tom Harris’s decision to refuse the £8million that is so sorely needed to give East Lancashire something approaching an acceptable rail link with Manchester.
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| Turning ideas into businesses | | 3:34pm Saturday 29th March 2008 | | Telegraph comment: It all started with the sub-prime mortgage scandal in the United States but the shock waves of the so-called credit crunch are now definitely with us. |
| Parents have to be blamed too | | 12:13pm Friday 28th March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: Taking life is THE most serious offence and sadly East Lancashire does seem to get more than its fair share of gruesome murders. | | Reader comment (1) |
| The government is to blame | | 11:26am Thursday 27th March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: There are many low-paid people whose wages are a long way from accurately reflecting the qualities, dedication and responsibility they show in their jobs. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Don’t forget the rural poor | | 10:46am Wednesday 26th March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: It’s comparatively easy to understand what unemployment means in urban areas because there is plenty of visual evidence of deprivation in the form of dilapidated housing and empty industrial and commercial buildings. |
| Return to the ‘good old days’ | | 9:55am Tuesday 25th March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: How sad to see a dedicated primary school head with 25 years experience moving into retirement so depressed about much that has been happening in the educational world. | | Reader comments (2) |
| Seize family’s ill-gotten gains | | 11:18am Wednesday 19th March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: The sentence handed out to the Hudson family who conned hundreds of vulnerable people by selling bogus damp-proofing is to be welcomed. |
| Short-sighted cash savings | | 9:54am Tuesday 18th March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: There has been plenty of debate about the need for people who come to this country as immigrants to learn English at the first possible opportunity. |
| Find the cash for rail revamp | | 9:34am Saturday 15th March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: The decision of the Department of Transport not to come up with the £8m needed to bring railway services between East Lancashire and Manchester into the 21st century is a huge let-down for the area.
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| Parents act to stop the yobs | | 10:43am Friday 14th March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: We have said before that there is only so much police and other professionals can do to combat the enormous scourge of anti-social behaviour. |
| Abuse fight must go on | | 11:48am Wednesday 12th March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: Yesterday, a multi-agency group was launched to tackle the problem of older men targeting girls for sex.
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| Post office idea is good | | 2:23pm Monday 10th March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: Judging by the attitude of Post Office bosses, the campaign to save 24 threatened Lancashire branches looks doomed. |
| We want proof that it’s better | | 4:14pm Saturday 8th March 2008 | | Lancashire Telegraph comment: Few issues have caused more public anger in East Lancashire in the past decade than the decision to close Burnley General Hospital’s accident and emergency department. |
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