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

Council dignitaries at the launch of the Blackburn logo by Creative Lynx

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.

Patient tells jury she was indecently touched by East Lancashire doctor

DENIAL: Mannan Masud is charged with sexual assault

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.

Famous Blackburn shoe store site snapped up

4:19pm Thursday 24th July 2008

THE former site of Tommy Ball’s shoe store has been sold to a mystery buyer.

Blackburn woman's 'incompetent' dentist keeps job

10:15pm Thursday 24th July 2008

A BUNGLING dentist who left a woman needing nine teeth extracted was incompetent but has kept his job.

Blackburn 'shop a vandal for £20' offer

8:50pm Thursday 24th July 2008

POLICE are offering £20 vouchers to anyone who can help catch the vandals responsible for a spate of criminal damage.

'Important step' for £4m Blackburn ring road

SELLING UP: Maralyn Rigby outside Byrom Supplies

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.

Boost for improving Mill Hill primary school

4:40pm Thursday 24th July 2008

A PRIMARY school is starting to make progress after being labelled inadequate by Government inspectors.

Smoking shelters to return to East Lancashire hospitals

Trust chief executive Marie Burnham

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.

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

DENIAL: Mannan Masud is charged with sexual assault

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.

Blackburn pavillion turned into art gallery

MICHAEL LAW-RIDING

2:48pm Thursday 24th July 2008

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


UK News

Brown hails Anglican bishops' march

Gordon Brown talks with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams

Updated 12:39am Friday 25th 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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