Forced marriages action welcome

2:45pm Friday 3rd July 2009

Lancashire Telegraph comment: Forced marriages are totally wrong. They have rightly been condemned by leaders of Lancashire’s various ethnic communities.

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Michael Jackson was, after all, only an entertainer

11:20am Friday 3rd July 2009

Shuiab Khan column: THE huge outpouring of grief following the death of Michael Jackson got me thinking.

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Raising the Wimbledon roof for drama

3:46pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

Jack Straw column: I didn't manage to see much of Andy Murray's amazing match at Wimbledon on Monday, but from what I did see there is no doubt that it was one of the great sporting occasions of our times.

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Will East Lancs go for ID cards?

1:54pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

Lancashire Telegraph comment: It will be interesting to see how many people sign up for the government’s new ID cards.

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Where have all the characters gone?

9:18am Thursday 2nd July 2009

Sir Bill Taylor blog: I bumped into a pal the other day. He’d similarly bumped into a mate of mine - clumsy, aren’t we - who’d described me as a 'character'.

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Inspiring tales left me feeling full of shame!

1:06pm Wednesday 1st July 2009

Nick Nunn column: It doesn’t take a genius to recognise that inaction is much easier than actually doing something.

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We owe him our gratitude

1:00pm Wednesday 1st July 2009

Lancashire Telegraph comment: The inquest into the death of Private Jason Lee Rawstron brings home the sacrifice our armed forces are making every day.

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No-one mentioned Pendle by name but everyone knew what it was about

4:57pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

Lord Greaves column: I don't think a lot happened in the Lords last week, and anyway I had to take a week off.

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Vigilance still key over swine flu

4:45pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

Lancashire Telegraph comment: It was only a matter of time before East Lancashire had its first case of swine flu.

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We don’t like to see people moving on and up

2:07pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

Margo Grimshaw column: Society is not static, but is constantly evolving and changing. Familiar things and events fade and it makes us a little uneasy.

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Kids need love, not mobile phones

3:41pm Monday 29th June 2009

Caroline Dutton column: I remember like it were yesterday being eight years old and wanting more than anything in the world to be the woman with the side ponytail in the Wrigley’s Spearmint advert.

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Religion and politics are equally about loving thy neighbour

3:06pm Monday 29th June 2009

Rev Kevin Logan column: Clergy should stick to religion! The cry echoed around the county after our bishops urged voters to ignore the BNP.

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Bring back the litter pickers

2:58pm Monday 29th June 2009

Lancashire Telegraph comment: Litter is a problem in most English towns.

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The dodo’s last relations - pigeons

12:18pm Monday 29th June 2009

Ron Freethy column: Pigeons and doves make up an order of birds called the Columbiformes and more than 250 species have been recorded world wide.

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Creatures of habit can also change

10:57am Monday 29th June 2009

Helen Mead column: The people at the takeaway were surprised. “Tuna?” one said, reaching for the container.

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Fundraisers a credit to East Lancashire

10:30am Monday 29th June 2009

Lancashire Telegraph comment: Thousands of women from across East Lancashire have reminded us about the meaning of self-sacrifice over the past fortnight.

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It’s up to us the motorists

2:59pm Friday 26th June 2009

Lancashire Telegraph comment: Our part of Lancashire has the dubious honour of having the most dangerous road in the country.

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This is the biggest lie ever invented

1:30pm Friday 26th June 2009

Shuiab Khan column: Society is unrecognisable now, but if you have nothing useful to say then it is best to say nothing at all.

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My tricorn hat got its first outing at last

10:52am Thursday 25th June 2009

Jack Straw column: Two officers in the Territorial Army unit based at the Canterbury Street barracks in Blackburn didn’t quite know what they had bargained for when they successfully bid in a charity auction held at the Mayor’s Ball in April.

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Crunch victim help welcome

1:57pm Wednesday 24th June 2009

Lancashire Telegraph comment: Help to prevent people from losing their homes is to be welcomed.

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They shield kids from life

5:22pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009

Caroline Dutton column: IT’S a wonder that any of us who were born before the ’80s are still here to tell the tale.

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What started breakdown of stable society?

11:38am Tuesday 23rd June 2009

Margo Grimshaw column: I was at Royal Ascot on Saturday and what struck me – after the hats, that is – was that everyone, all of the 75,000 that were there, folk from all over the world, lined up to watch the Queen enter.

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Time to look into cold-callers

10:23am Tuesday 23rd June 2009

Lancashire Telegraph comment: The attack on war veteran Bob Schofield was sickening.

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Why I feel sorry for Kitty Ussher

9:25am Tuesday 23rd June 2009

Lord Greaves column: It may surprise some people but I feel sorry for Kitty Ussher though I don’t agree with what she did and I think she is right to resign her post and not stand again.

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Falcons flying back into town

4:23pm Monday 22nd June 2009

Ron Freethy's nature column: In the 1960s and 1970s the peregrine falcon, one of our most graceful birds of prey, almost became extinct because of persecution but mainly as a result of the indiscriminate use of pesticides.

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Police bonuses hard to accept

4:09pm Monday 22nd June 2009

Lancashire Telegraph comment: No one can dispute that Lancashire Constabulary is hitting its Government targets.

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Are every-day bathers right or wasteful?

9:24am Monday 22nd June 2009

Helen Mead column: I was heartened to read, recently, that women wash their bras on average just six times a year. We are, it seems, a nation of grubby-bra wearers.

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Now’s the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the country

11:40am Saturday 20th June 2009

Rev Kevin Logan column: There comes a time when ‘Enough’s enough', as we say round here.

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