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Bomb scare at Blackburn College

3:11pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

OVER a thousand students have been evacuated from a college following a bomb scare.

Chlamydia screenings for 9,000 in East Lancashire

11:20am Tuesday 7th October 2008

THOUSANDS of young people in East Lancashire will be targeted for chlamydia screenings.

Darwen ex-con was mini bus driver for vulnerable people

CONVICTION: Mark Standring served a year in jail for assaulting three police officers

8:30am Tuesday 7th October 2008

A CONVICTED criminal worked with vulnerable people for five months before bosses completed background checks which revealed his past.

X Factor's Diana Vickers sadness at ‘selfish’ act

READY TO SING: But Diana is keeping her next X Factor song a secret

10:51am Tuesday 7th October 2008

EAST Lancashire X Factor hopeful Diana Vickers has revealed that her live debut on television this Saturday will be her first ever ‘gig’.

Farewell to team vicar

3:10pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

THE team vicar for St Peter’s Church, Darwen, and St Paul’s Church, Hoddlesden, is leaving next month after five years in the job.

Booze taken in smash and grab

2:10pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

A METAL grid was used to smash the front window of a supermarket before it was burgled.

New appeal over street attack

1:10pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

POLICE have issued a fresh appeal for information after a 25-year-old man was left with two cuts to his back when thieves tried to steal his phone.

First class Blackburn student has prize hopes

12:10pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

A FORMER Blackburn College student has been entered in a national history dissertation competition, which recognises outstanding historical scholarship and achievement.


UK News

Prisons facing 'violence risk'

A hard-drive containing the personal details of 5,000 prison officers is missing

Updated 3:37pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

A prison governors' leader warned of a "serious risk" of disturbances in jails in England and Wales because of a shortage of funding.


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