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  • JD Wetherspoons wants to invest in Accrington

    NATIONAL pub chain JD Wetherspoons has unveiled plans to invest £900,000 transforming three empty shops into a new pub. The company says the project in Accrington could create 25 new jobs. Eddie Gershon, a spokesman for the company, said Wetherspoons

  • Tight game but Burnley hold on

    BURNLEY notched their second success of the season but were made to sweat by a Dons outfit who enjoyed the better of the second half. The visitors took an early lead when, on 10 minutes, the Clarets defence waited for an offside flag that never came and

  • So close in first game back

    ROVERS' first game back in the Premiership ended in disappointment here at Pride Park -- but only after a spirited second half fightback from Graeme Souness's promotion heroes. Italian hot-shot Fabrizio Ravanelli had knocked the stuffing out of the visitors

  • JD Wetherspoons wants to invest in Accrington

    NATIONAL pub chain JD Wetherspoons has unveiled plans to invest £900,000 transforming three empty shops into a new pub. The company says the project in Accrington could create 25 new jobs. Eddie Gershon, a spokesman for the company, said Wetherspoons

  • Snooker cue attack mum outraged at sentence

    A MOTHER was angered after a man who assaulted her son with a snooker cue was given a conditional discharge and said: "He should never have taken the law into his own hands." The mother of the 15-year-old boy, who suffered a broken arm after being hit

  • It's one man and his dog with a difference

    WHEN farmer Bill Heslop visits local shows to demonstrate the art of sheepdog training he doesn't take his sheep -- he takes ducks or geese! On his farm in Baxenden, Bill, who trained his first sheepdog when he was just five, now has 12 working dogs,