Columns and blogs from the Lancashire Telegraph

Review: Eurovision Song Contest

4:38pm Friday 24th May 2013

AND so one of the great annual highlights on the TV calendar has been and gone.

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Comment: Unity is key to beating terrorism

3:28pm Friday 24th May 2013

OVER the centuries, unfortunately the name of religion has been hijacked on a number of occasions in perverted attempts to justify outrageous criminal acts.

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Letter: One bedroom homes needed

3:27pm Friday 24th May 2013

RE: ‘35 rental homes for Darwen mill site’, this is proper use of a brownfield site.

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Letter: Social housing idea no good

3:28pm Friday 24th May 2013

HAVING read about ‘35 homes plan for Darwen mill site’, I am struggling to see any positives in the site being developed for social housing and what good it will bring to Whitehall.

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Letter: Speed bumps are crumbling

3:26pm Friday 24th May 2013

Can someone explain why Darwen has so many patched-up speed bumps on Olive Lane?

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Letter: Politicians failed us over A&E

3:27pm Friday 24th May 2013

Increasingly, our councillors and MPs appear to be – how can I put this? – at best party clones and in truth little more than our ceremonial representatives.

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Letter: Labour the best power option

3:25pm Friday 24th May 2013

IT was right that Labour should make the minority administration at County Hall but I was hoping they wouldn’t do any deal with the Lib Dems.

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Letter: We shouldn't get involved

3:25pm Friday 24th May 2013

RE: ‘Blackburn MP Jack Straw questions lifting of Syria arms embargo’, we don’t know who’s using chemical warfare.

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Letter: Marriage in jeopardy

3:24pm Friday 24th May 2013

The Government is in disarray.

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Blog: Why would anyone say 'chillax'?

1:19pm Friday 24th May 2013

WHAT on earth does one do when one wants to ‘chillax’?

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Letter: Snouts in the trough again

4:13pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

MPs are once again demanding a massive increase to their already generous salaries, on top of their lavish perks and pension entitlements.

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Comment: Grave yobs ignore hurt they cause

4:14pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

SADLY these days it seems there is someone, somewhere who will steal almost anything without any scruples whatsoever.

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Letter: Troops fighting for democracy

4:12pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

THE soldiers’ parade in Burnley was to celebrate and acknowledge the contribution made by our troops in an extremely hostile environment, trying to create an environment whereby democracy can help to create a country where the whole population have a say in their future. Our troops’ presence in Afghanistan has gone some way towards restricting the influence of the Taliban and has helped to allow the establishment of schools where girls are educated, something which the Taliban object to on the basis that women should not be educated.

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Letter: Camels coming to county hall

4:12pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

Someone once said that a camel was a horse designed by a committee. If Labour and the Lib-Dems join forces to run Lancashire, then prepare for a whole herd of camels!

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Letter: They could end up with tenants

4:11pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

IF this site was developed as private housing, who is to say that some wouldn’t be bought as investments and let out by landlords who do not care to tenants who do not care?

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Letter: Fitting tribute to Wainwright

4:10pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

After hearing an interview on local radio with John Dryden, I decided to see the memorial in Blackburn to Alfred Wainwright.

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Letter: Why spoil a nice residential area?

4:11pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

RE: ‘35 rental homes for Darwen mill site’, building social housing is all well and good but it only takes a few bad tenants to bring a nice area down.

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Letter: Appeal ffrom the heart

4:10pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

I AM asking people to donate any unwanted household goods to the Blackburn and Burnley British Heart Foundation (BHF) Furniture & Electrical Stores.

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Blog: The difference was quality head teacher and staff

1:17pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

THE constant refrain to any who challenged the performance of primary or secondary schools in so-called “deprived areas” was: “It’s a deprived area – what do you expect?”

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Shane’s film coming up Roses at premiere

10:22am Thursday 23rd May 2013

LAST summer, a resurrection no one thought possible took place in Heaton Park.

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