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We just have to grab hold of God’s rescue rope

8:00am Saturday 20th March 2010

Rev Kevin Logan column: As you crunch the cornflakes this morning, consider little old Moi jumping backwards off a 100ft church tower in Accrington.

I admit it! I’m a charlatan of the curry world

3:02pm Friday 19th March 2010

I think it’s time I confessed to something.

Cleaning the streets should be team effort

11:37am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Nick Nunn column: If Darwen student Elliott Gazdula was a typical British teenager what a great future this country would have.

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Conference a pleasant eye-opener

11:40am Tuesday 16th March 2010

Lord Greaves column: Shirley Williams once said that our party conferences were my ‘natural habitat’ but I’ve not been to many recently.

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Why our town centre needs a vibrant market

11:23am Tuesday 16th March 2010

Margo Grimshaw column: I DESPAIR, I really do. Our Lancashire market is now to be transformed into a Harrods-type food hall, and what was a mixed goods market is now to be ‘mainly food’ and housed in the shopping mall.

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Fulmar follows new flight path

12:09pm Monday 15th March 2010

Ron Freethy's nature column: Some years ago I was asked by the publishers Collins to plan a history of new naturalist series of books along with the photographer Eric Hosking.

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Women, don’t set your art on a creative man

11:49am Monday 15th March 2010

Helen Mead column: My husband is in demand. As an artist, he belongs to a profession that a third of British women love in a man.

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Thankfully my mum applied wisdom forcefully

3:00pm Saturday 13th March 2010

Rev Kevin Logan: A friend’ll be digesting Proverbs 13 with his bacon butties as you read this.

I’ve got my suspicions about hotline

11:07am Friday 12th March 2010

Shuiab Khan column: So, exactly how suspicious do you have to be to get reported on this new anti-terror hotline?

The Apathy Party won and it’s so wrong

10:01am Thursday 11th March 2010

Clive Balchin column: Call me a saddo (‘Saddo’ echoes around the Valley), but I am really excited about April 13 and, no, it’s not my birthday (that’s July 22nd and cards with cheques enclosed will be gratefully received).

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Wheelie bin claims are a load of rubbish

11:39am Wednesday 10th March 2010

Nick Nunn column: Last week I expressed surprise at just how worked up many people have been getting about the prospect of identity cards.

Peer who’s a waste of space

10:59am Tuesday 9th March 2010

Lord Greaves column: It’s all been about Lord Ashcroft again this past week, with calls for action by everyone from the Electoral Commission to the Queen.

How much does the Government snatch back?

9:47am Tuesday 9th March 2010

Margo Grimshaw column: With all this talk about tax and so-called ‘non doms’, it made me think just how much tax, direct and indirect, we really do pay.

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A higher court has ruled civil partnerships are incorrect

3:50pm Monday 8th March 2010

Rev Kevin Logan column: I’m glad I’m no longer a vicar after this week.

Snipe spring into action to beat ice

2:04pm Monday 8th March 2010

Ron Freethy's nature column: During the cold spell in January I risked the frost and visited an area of Pendle which is always damp but which was seemingly frozen solid.