Blackburn's new £60,000 logo almost same as Barrow ‘branding’

7:20pm Thursday 24th July 2008

THE CONSULTANTS who came up with Blackburn’s new logo are scratching their heads after an almost identical version was used to promote a town in Cumbria.

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Patient tells jury she was indecently touched by East Lancashire doctor

3:48pm Thursday 24th July 2008

A PREGNANT housewife admitted to hospital after a miscarriage told a jury she was indecently touched by a doctor as she lay in her hospital bed.

Nelson man hit by fireball

8:49am Thursday 24th July 2008

A NELSON man was hit by a fireball after an electrical explosion blasted out from under a pavement.

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Camera finally catches Blackburn serial speeder

8:10am Thursday 24th July 2008

A YOUNG driver has been jailed and branded a ‘menace on the roads’ after trying to lie his way out of a raft of speeding fines.

Burnley cafe not asked to pay business rates for eight years

7:20am Thursday 24th July 2008

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after it emerged a Burnley cafe has not been asked to pay thousands of pounds in business rates.

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Blackburn pavillion turned into art gallery

2:48pm Thursday 24th July 2008

A VACANT pavillion in central Blackburn has been transformed into a temporary art gallery.

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'Important step' for £4m Blackburn ring road

6:00am Thursday 24th July 2008

COUNCIL bosses said they had taken an “important step” towards clearing the way for a new £4million road around Blackburn.

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Bomb squad called to Padiham as ‘grenade’ is given to PC

4:25pm Thursday 24th July 2008

BOMB squad officers put up a 100-metre security cordon around a Padiham neighbourhood after a suspected grenade was reported to a town policeman.

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Smoking shelters to return to East Lancashire hospitals

9:39am Thursday 24th July 2008

SMOKING shelters are set to be rebuilt at East Lancashire’s hospitals, less than three years after they were torn down.

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Unprovoked assault on Nelson dad in Burnley street

7:50am Thursday 24th July 2008

A DAD-of-one has described a yob who broke his nose in an unprovoked attack as a “coward.”

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East Lancashire doctor's 'three hospital sex attacks in one day'

3:14pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

A DOCTOR sexually assaulted three gynaecology patients - including one who had miscarried - on the same day in hospital, a jury was told.

Trawden mural near completion

4:17pm Thursday 24th July 2008

A TRAWDEN artist bringing renaissance art to Colne is putting the finishing touches to his latest mural.

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Riding high at Blackburn’s cycling Grand Prix

3:22pm Thursday 24th July 2008

SOME of cycling’s top talent was in town for the Celebrate Blackburn cycle road race.

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Brown hails Anglican bishops' march

Updated 9:13pm Thursday 24th July 2008

Gordon Brown has hailed a march of hundreds of the world's religious leaders, calling for urgent action to tackle global poverty, as "the greatest public demonstration of faith" Britain has ever seen.

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