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A LEEDS dance champion who coached Strictly Come Dancing stars Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova has died.

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JACK Straw has compared Laboura s current plight with the partya s split in 1981 when Michael Foot was leader.

A PARADE will commemorate the deaths of two would-be bombers on the eve of Prince Charles' investiture 40 years ago.

THE BISHOP of Blackburn has joined the debate on the future of politics by calling for a rethink of the voting system.

A FORMER vicar is bidding to become Hyndburn MP. Reverend Kevin Logan said he wanted to represent Christian policies.

GORDON Brown's Government is in near meltdown after a wave of ministers quit the Cabinet.

Alan Billings in last week's Church Times draws attention to a really excellent set of 'put downs' to some of the BNP's policies.

It is believed the tiny church of St. Andrew at Greensted, Essex is the oldest wooden church in the world.

MOURNERS packed St Ambrose's Church, Grindleton, for the funeral of former Ribble Valley Coun Mrs Patricia Hall, described as "a woman ahead of her time" by loved ones.

An international musical collaboration featuring the Westfield Symphony Orchestra, Bergen County's Pro Arte Chorale and the Liverpool Welsh Choral Union will take place on Saturday, May 30 at 8 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church on 140 Mountain Avenue in Westfield.

Yes: No: AWAZ hosts a lunch reception in honor of James Sheera Brampton: May 24, 2009.

HANDGUNS were seized and six people arrested when 80 police raided six houses across Blackburn and Hyndburn today.

AN HISTORIAN has claimed a preview list of Oswaldtwistlea s fallen is riddled with errors because information was taken from the internet.

CHURCH leaders across Lancashire have urged people to get out and vote - but not for the BNP or other far-right parties.

Story shorts - 13/05/08 A round-up of news in brief from across Lancashire. Customers evacuated from shop Customers were evacuated when fire broke out in a clothing shop.

Campaigners from the Lancashire Secular Humanists group had approached Lancashire United, the firm behind Spot On buses in Blackburn and Transdev routes in Burnley, asking to place a series of banners on single and double deckers.

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The Catholic Church in England and Wales has urged people not to vent their frustration on migrants during the recession as it gave its support to a rally calling for an earned amnesty for thousands of illegal immigrants in the UK.

Despite arguably putting more into the UKa s economy than they take out, immigrants remain a tempting target for those seeking a scapegoat for the countrya s financial problems.