The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Lancashire libraries are attempting to get as many people as possible to simultaneously read the same book
Keep Tony Blair For PM (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Home Al Qaeda & Tory Hug a Terrorist Away Days Read the response of a senior Tory on Newsnight when this story broke, 16th January 2008 Three terror suspects from Blackburn, Lancashire arrested - 14th August The Guardian - The Enemy Within? And here, Muslims Against Sharia awards The Guardian the latest Dhimmi Award (21st August). Guardian writers [...]
Timpu (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
London: Yorkshire will have to travel to Old Trafford, the home of arch-rivals Lancashire, on Thursday for a disciplinary hearing over allegations they fielded an ineligible player in a Twenty20 Cup tie. Click Here To Read the Full Post
Timpu (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
London: Andrew Flintoff’s long-awaited return from injury ended in dismal disappointment on Friday when he was out for a first ball duck in Lancashire’s Twenty20 Cup defeat by Yorkshire at Old Trafford. Click Here To Read the Full Post
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Filed under: Wacked News Spinner.com : Police in Lancashire, England, are being accused of widespread corruption: They've been playing the radio.The Performing Right Society, the British licensing organization in charge of collecting royalties on behalf of songwriters and musicians, is... Read more
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Read this and weep for a fallen nation, a nation where workers can not cope without a teddy bear! In one HRMC office in the north west of England, local management established what the workers there have labelled a " Guanteddymo Bay". All staff's teddy bears were removed, staff said, by "dawn raids" and "special rendition" from their desks and placed in a locked glass case so the workers can still...
ECB (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Chris Read steered Nottinghamshire to a comfortable draw against Lancashire at Old Trafford after a burst of three wickets in four balls from Dominic Cork had given the hosts hope of winning.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Cork took three for 60, dismissing Chris Read and Graeme Swann for ducks in consecutive overs shortly after forcing Voges to retire hurt with a bruised wrist, as Notts slumped from 172 for two to 234 for seven in reply to Lancashire’s 384.
Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
This is the saddest story I've read in a long time. An eight-year-old boy has been found hanged in his bedroom in Lancashire. Joshua Aldred was found unconscious by his grandmother in Lytham on Thursday night. He was taken to hospital in Blackpool but died a short time later. Joshua's mother and grandfather had recently died from cancer [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
Chris Read took six catches for Notts as Lancashire improved on their paultry first innings total in testing conditions
The Independent (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
The news that Chris Read's England prospects are not consigned to history after all will not go down well among Nottinghamshire supporters, much as they feel their wicketkeeper's talents have been undervalued by the national selectors, particularly during Duncan Fletcher's reign as coach.
openPR.com Newsfeed (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Major pilot of a telemedical ECG service carried out by the LSC Cardiac Network shows national savings of 45,000 hospital admissions and £46M per year in NHS costs 06 May, 2008 – The Lancashire ... read more
Blue Crab Boulevard (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
What does that Beatles lyric have to do with this rather odd story from Britain? Nothing whatsoever other than location, but it came to mind when I read about the battling brothers and a Shepherd's pie. After a day spent drinking, Michael Garvin cooked his brother John the traditional English dish [...]
Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 13/03/2008
Image by Flickr user Paintlab, used under Creative Commons License I read the news today oh boy Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire And though the holes were rather small They had to count them all Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall. I'd love to turn you on... [from A Day in the Life , by John Lennon and Paul McCartney] If Lennon and McCartney had substituted the...
Home of the Green Arrow (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
I just read over on Simon Darbys site the following: News comes in of an event on a bus in Lancashire in which a young woman was overheard by the bus driver to say the word " P*ki " on her mobile phone. The bus was immediately brought to a shuddering halt by the driver,the woman arrested by the police and held in a cell for five hours. She was eventually released on the basis that she attends a series...
