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  Alan Shearer
  Alan Shearer OBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is a retired English footballer, a TV pundit and a currently out of work football manager. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and for the England national team. He is widely considered as one of the greatest strikers of all time, being both Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. After retiring as a player, Shearer now works as a television pundit for the BBC. Toward the end of his playing career, Shearer worked towards gaining the UEFA Pro Licence, and expressed a desire to eventually become a manager. In 2009 he briefly left his BBC role to become Newcastle United's manager in the last eight games of their 2008–09 season, in an unsuccessful attempt to save them from relegation.
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  Anglo-Saxons
  Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading Germanic tribes in the south and east of Great Britain from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, to the Norman conquest of 1066. The Benedictine monk, Bede, writing three centuries later, identified them as the descendants of three Germanic tribes:
  http://wn.com/Anglo-Saxons
• Anthony Valentine
  Anthony Valentine (born 17 August 1939) is an English actor.
  http://wn.com/Anthony_Valentine
• Barbara Castle
  http://wn.com/Barbara_Castle
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  Carl Fogarty
  '''Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty''' (born July 1, 1965 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is the most successful World Superbike racer of all time in terms of the number of championships and number of race wins. Now retired, he is renowned for his high corner speed riding style, combined with an aggressive competitiveness, which netted him 59 victories and four World Superbike Championships (1994, 1995, 1998 and 1999). His greatest success came with the factory Ducati team.
  http://wn.com/Carl_Fogarty
• Diana Vickers
  Diana Vickers (born 30 July 1991) is an English singer-songwriter and stage actress who initially came to public attention as a semi-finalist on the fifth series of British talent show The X Factor in 2008. In January 2009, Vickers signed a record deal with RCA Records and immediately began work on her debut album, Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree, from January to September 2009.
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  Edward the Confessor
  Edward the Confessor (; ; c. 1003 – 5 January 1066), son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066 (technically the last was Edgar the Ætheling, who was proclaimed king briefly in late 1066, but was deposed after about eight weeks). His reign marked the continuing disintegration of royal power in England and the advancement in power of the earls. It foreshadowed the country's domination by the Normans, whose Duke William of Normandy was to defeat Edward's successor, Harold Godwinson, and seize the crown.
  http://wn.com/Edward_the_Confessor
• Gandhi
  http://wn.com/Gandhi
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  Jack Straw
  John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946), commonly known as "Jack Straw", is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn since 1979. He served as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 and Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons from 2006 to 2007 under Tony Blair. From 2007-2010 he was the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and the Secretary of State for Justice, appointed as part of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's first Cabinet. Straw is one of only three people to have served in Cabinet continuously from 1997 to 2010 (the others being Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling).
  http://wn.com/Jack_Straw
• Jack Walker
  Jack Walker (19 May 1929 – 17 August 2000) was a British industrialist and businessman from Little Harwood in the English town of Blackburn, Lancashire. Making a fortune in the steel industry, Walker's name is popularly associated with Blackburn Rovers, the local football club in which he invested tens of millions of pounds. The airline industry and Jersey football club First Tower United were also amongst his other interests. Jack Walker was reported to have amassed a personal fortune of £600 million and in 1999 he was listed as Britain's 30th richest man. He moved to St Helier, Jersey to become a tax exile in 1974 but his love for Rovers never diminished.
  http://wn.com/Jack_Walker
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  James Hargreaves
  James Hargreaves (1720 – 22 April 1778),, was a weaver, carpenter and an inventor in Lancashire, England. He is credited with inventing the Spinning Jennifer (shortened to spinning Jenny in 1768) in 1764.
  http://wn.com/James_Hargreaves
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  John Lennon
  John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles and, with Paul McCartney, formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
  http://wn.com/John_Lennon
• Jon Walmsley
  Jon Walmsley (born February 6, 1956 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England) is an actor best known for his role of "Jason Walton" in the series The Waltons. He has played many other roles in a career going back to 1966, although most people would probably be hard pressed to think of him as anyone other than Jason Walton. Since The Waltons ended he has concentrated on his musical and production careers rather than his acting career, although he has appeared in all of the "reunion" movies.
  http://wn.com/Jon_Walmsley
• Josephine Cox
  Josephine Cox, born Blackburn, Lancashire in 1941, is an English author. Her annual sales in Britain total nearly one million copies.
  http://wn.com/Josephine_Cox
• Kathleen Ferrier
  Kathleen Mary Ferrier CBE (22 April 19128 October 1953) was an English contralto. She came to prominence as a singer during and immediately after the Second World War, and was especially remembered for her courageous performances during her final illness.
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  Kathleen Harrison
  Kathleen Harrison (23 February 1892 – 7 December 1995) was a prolific English character actress best remembered for her role as Mrs. Huggett (opposite Jack Warner and Petula Clark) in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working class family's misadventures. However, to modern viewers she is better remembered as Mrs. Dilber, Scrooge's charwoman, opposite Alastair Sim in the 1951 film A Christmas Carol.
  http://wn.com/Kathleen_Harrison
• Keith Duckworth
  David Keith Duckworth, (August 10, 1933 – December 19, 2005), was an English mechanical engineer. He is most famous for designing the Cosworth DFV (Double Four Valve) engine, an engine that revolutionised the sport of Formula One.
  http://wn.com/Keith_Duckworth
• Kenny Dalglish
  Kenneth Mathieson "Kenny" Dalglish MBE (born 4 March 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland), is a former Scottish footballer. Throughout his 20-year career, he played for just two teams, Scottish Premier League club Celtic for eight years and English Premier League side Liverpool for twelve years. Dalglish is known for his successes at both teams; most notably winning the UEFA Champions League with Liverpool on four occassions, in 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1984. In 2009, he was named by FourFourTwo football magazine as the greatest post-war British striker, and he was placed first in Liverpool's list of "100 Players Who Shook the Kop". Having made 102 appearances, Dalglish is both the most capped player in the history of the Scottish national team. He and Denis Law also share the record for most goals for Scotland, with 30 strikes each.
  http://wn.com/Kenny_Dalglish
• Lee Mack
  Lee Gordon McKillop (born 4 August 1968) is an English stand-up comedian and actor, known by the stage name Lee Mack. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom Not Going Out, and for being a team captain on Would I Lie To You?.
  http://wn.com/Lee_Mack
• Mark Cotterill
  Mark Adrian Cotterill (born 1960) is a far right political figure who has been involved in a number of movements throughout his career. He is noted for activity to establish links between the far right in Britain and America, by founding the American Friends of the British National Party.
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  Michael Winterbottom
  Michael Winterbottom (born 29 March 1961) is a prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films — Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People — have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
  http://wn.com/Michael_Winterbottom
• Mohandas Gandhi
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  Ross Eccles
  Ross Eccles, born November 13, 1937, is a contemporary English artist and painter. He has been based in Dublin, Ireland since 1971, and exhibts there regularly. He has also exhibited his work in the UK, France and the US.
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  Russell Harty
  Russell Harty (5 September 1934 – 8 June 1988) was an English television presenter of arts programmes and chat shows.
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  Tony Ashton
  Tony Ashton (1 March 1946, Blackburn, Lancashire - 28 May 2001, London) was an English rock pianist, keyboardist, singer, composer, producer and artist.
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• Tony O'Neill
  '''Tony O'Neill''' is a New-York-based author. A one time musician with Kenickie (1997–98), Marc Almond (1997–98), The Brian Jonestown Massacre (2000) and Kelli Ali (2001–04), O'Neill is also the author of several books including Digging The Vein 2006, Down and Out on Murder Mile 2008 and Sick City 2010.
  http://wn.com/Tony_O'Neill
• Wendi Peters
  Wendi Louise Peters (born 29 February 1968 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English actress best known for playing the infamous Cilla Battersby-Brown in the hit ITV soap opera Coronation Street. In 2006, she finished runner-up to Paul Ross in a celebrity edition of the BBC's Mastermind. Wendi has also played character 'Podger' Pam Jolly in the hit ITV series Bad Girls. She also appeared in ITV's Soapstar Superstar and on a celebrity version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with Jamie Theakston. In December 2006 she spent a week alongside resident lexicographer Susie Dent in 'Dictionary Corner' on Countdown.
  http://wn.com/Wendi_Peters
• Will Greenwood
  William John Heaton "Will" Greenwood, MBE (born 20 October 1972 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English former rugby union footballer of the 1990s and 2000s.
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  World War I
  World War I was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.
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  A666 road
  The A666 is a major road in Greater Manchester and Lancashire, England. Known as Manchester Road, Bolton Road, or Blackburn Road, depending on which area it is in, it runs from its junction with A6 and A580 at the Irlams o' th' Height boundary with Pendlebury near Manchester, through Pendlebury, Clifton, Kearsley, Farnworth, Bolton, Darwen and Blackburn before meeting the A59 at Langho. Along the route are the West Pennine Moors, the Turton and Entwistle reservoir and the Entwistle reservoir forest.
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  Accrington
  Accrington is a town in Lancashire, within the borough of Hyndburn. It lies about west of Burnley, north of Manchester city centre and north of the border of Greater Manchester, and is situated on the mostly culverted River Hyndburn. The town has a population of 35,203 according to the 2001 census and the urban area has a population of over 70,000.
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  BAE Systems
  BAE Systems plc () is a British defence, security and aerospace company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire, England, that has global interests, particularly in North America through its subsidiary BAE Systems Inc. BAE is the world's largest defence contractor as of 2008. It was formed on 30 November 1999 by the £7.7 billion merger of two British companies, Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), the defence electronics and naval shipbuilding subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc (GEC), and aircraft, munitions and naval systems manufacturer British Aerospace (BAe).
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  Blackburn
  Blackburn () is a large industrial town in Lancashire, England. It lies to the north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of the city of Preston, north-northwest of the city of Manchester. and is north of the border with Greater Manchester. Blackburn is bounded to the south by Darwen, with which it forms the unitary authority area of Blackburn with Darwen, Blackburn being the administrative centre. At the time of the UK Government's 2001 census, Blackburn had a population of 105,085, whilst the wider borough of Blackburn with Darwen had a population of 137,470.
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  Blackburn Arena
  Blackburn Arena is an Olympic size ice arena in Blackburn, England, and the home of Blackburn Hawks and Lancashire Raptors ice hockey clubs. The arena, which opened in 1991, holds 3,200 people and has an ice pad of .
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  Blackburn Cathedral
  Blackburn Cathedral, officially known as the Cathedral Church of Blackburn Saint Mary the Virgin, is a cathedral situated in the heart of Blackburn town centre, in Lancashire, England. The cathedral site has been home to a church for over a thousand years and the first stone church was built on there in Norman times.
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  Blackburnshire
  Blackburnshire was a hundred, or ancient division of the county of Lancashire, in northern England. It was centred on Blackburn, and covered an area approximately equal to modern day East Lancashire.
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  Castlefield
  :Or see Castlefields.
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  Clitheroe
  Clitheroe () is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. It lies on the southern edge of the Forest of Bowland and is often used as a base for tourists in the area. The most notable building in the town is a Norman keep, suggested to be one of the smallest in the country. It has a population of 14,697.
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  Colne
  Colne is the second largest town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 20,118. It lies at the end of the M65, 6 miles north-east of Burnley, with Nelson immediately adjacent, in the Aire Gap with two main roads leading into the Yorkshire towns of Skipton and Keighley. It is 25 miles east of Preston, 25 miles north of Manchester and 30 miles west of Leeds.
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  Darwen
  Darwen is a market town and civil parish in Lancashire, England, extending onto the West Pennine Moors. Along with its northerly neighbour, Blackburn, it forms the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen — a unitary authority area. The town is spread along the route of the A666 road, with Blackburn to the north, and Bolton to the south.
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  Diocese of Blackburn
  The Diocese of Blackburn is a Church of England diocese, covering much of Lancashire, created in 1926 from part of the Diocese of Manchester. The Diocese includes the towns of Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, and the cities of Lancaster, and Preston, as well as a large part of the Ribble Valley. The cathedral is Blackburn Cathedral and the Diocesan Bishop is The Rt. Revd. Nicholas Stewart Reade, Bishop of Blackburn, appointed in 2004.
  http://wn.com/Diocese_of_Blackburn
• Feniscowles
  Feniscowles is a village in the unitary authority of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is situated approximately west of Blackburn. Part of the village is in the civil parish of Livesey.
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• Furness
  Furness () is a peninsula in south Cumbria, England. At its widest extent, it is considered to cover the whole of North Lonsdale, that part of the Lonsdale hundred that is an exclave of the historic county of Lancashire, lying to the north of Morecambe Bay.
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  Great Harwood
  Great Harwood is a small town in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England. It lies northeast of Blackburn.
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• Great Hill
  Great Hill is a hill in Lancashire on Anglezarke Moor, between the towns of Chorley and Darwen. It is part of the West Pennine Moors and lies approximately 3 miles north of Winter Hill, which is the highest point in the area at 456 m (1,498 ft).
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  Greater Manchester
  Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester and Salford. Greater Manchester was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972.
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• Guide, Lancashire
  Guide is a village on the edge of Blackburn, in Lancashire. It is located south of the town centre, and the M65 motorway passes around the south and east of the village with junction five situated immediately to the southwest of the village.
  http://wn.com/Guide_Lancashire
• Hyndburn
  Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Accrington. The district is named after the River Hyndburn.
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  India
  India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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  Lancashire
  Lancashire ( or, less commonly, ) is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston. Lancashire is sometimes referred to by the abbreviation Lancs, originally used by the Royal Mail. The population of the county is 1,449,700. People from the county are known as Lancastrians.
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• Livesey
  Livesey is a civil parish in the unitary borough of Blackburn with Darwen, in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England.
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  Lostock Hall
  Lostock Hall () is a small suburban village within the South Ribble borough of Lancashire, England. It is located on the south side of the River Ribble, some south of Preston and north of Leyland. It is bordered on its southeastern side by the interchange for the M6, M61 and M65 motorways. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Lostock Hall had a population of 3,948.
  http://wn.com/Lostock_Hall
• Lower Darwen
  Lower Darwen is a village in the unitary borough of Blackburn with Darwen, in the town of Darwen, in the county of Lancashire. It is located between the towns of Blackburn and Darwen. Nearby places include Ewood and Blackamoor. It is situated in the valley of the River Darwen. The former township of Lower Darwen, abolished in the 1890s, extended south to Earnsdale Brook, and included areas now in the town of Darwen.
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  M61 motorway
  The M61 motorway is a motorway in North West England. It runs from the M60 motorway northwest of Manchester, heading northwest past Bolton and Chorley to join the M6 just north of the junction between the M6 and M65 motorways to the south of Preston.
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  M65 motorway
  The M65 is a motorway in Lancashire, England. It runs from just south of Preston through the major junction of the M6 and M61 motorways, east past Darwen, Blackburn, Accrington and Burnley, to end at Colne.
  http://wn.com/M65_motorway
• Manchester
  Manchester () is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. In 2009, the population of the city was estimated to be 483,800, making it the seventh-most populous local authority district in England. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas; the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester had an estimated population of 2,600,100, the Greater Manchester Urban Area a population of 2,240,230, and the Larger Urban Zone around Manchester, the second-most-populous in the UK, had an estimated population in the 2004 Urban Audit of 2,539,100. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian.
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  Manchester Airport
  Manchester Airport is a major airport located at Ringway in the City of Manchester within Greater Manchester, UK, and is the busiest airport in the country outside the London region making it the 4th busiest airport in the United Kingdom in terms of passenger numbers, 3rd in terms of total aircraft movements and overall the 17th busiest airport in Europe as of 2009.
  http://wn.com/Manchester_Airport
• Mellor Brook
  Mellor Brook is a village which straddles the borders of the Boroughs of Ribble Valley and South Ribble in Lancashire, England.
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• Mellor, Lancashire
  Mellor is a village situated in the Borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. It is reasonably large in size for a village, with two churches, one Church of England Parish Church (St Mary's) and one Methodist, as well as a primary school, three public houses and a hotel. In addition to this there is a post office and general store, several shops, a pharmacy and a private hire company. There are also three disused quarries and the remains of an eel farm that was destroyed by fire in the 1990s.
  http://wn.com/Mellor_Lancashire
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  Northern England
  Northern England, also known as the North of England, or as the North, is a cultural region of England. It is not a government administrative region, but rather an informal amalgamation of counties. The southern extent of the region is roughly the River Trent, while the north is bordered by Scotland. At times in history the Isle of Man, today a Crown dependency, has been geopolitically linked with the region and for some cultural aspects remains so. The counties of Northern England combined have a population of around 14.5 million covering an area of 37,331 km2 (14,414 sq mi).
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  Northumbria
  Northumbria or Northhumbria () was a medieval kingdom of the Angles, in what is now Northern England and South-East Scotland, becoming subsequently an earldom in a united Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England. The name reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory, the Humber Estuary.
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  Ormskirk
  Ormskirk is a market town in West Lancashire, England. It is situated north of Liverpool city centre, northwest of St Helens, southeast of Southport and southwest of Preston.
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  Oswaldtwistle
  Oswaldtwistle ( "ozzel-twizzel") is a town within the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England. It lies on the course of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, east-southeast of Blackburn. Oswaldtwistle is also close to Accrington
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  Pakistan
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  Preston, Lancashire
  Preston () is the administrative centre of Lancashire, England, located on the north bank of the River Ribble. It is an urban settlement and unparished area that, when combined with its surrounding suburban and rural hinterland, forms part of the City of Preston local government district of Lancashire, which obtained city status in 2002, becoming England's 50th city in the 50th year of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. The settlement, or unparished area, of Preston has a population of 114,300, and the whole City of Preston district has a population of 132,000.City of Preston: 132,000 [http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do;jsessionid=ac1f930d30d899479cecf37043e19d7a8d3fa6304509?a=7&b;=277022&c;=Preston&d;=13&e;=13&g;=463253&i;=1001x1003x1004&o;=280&m;=0&r;=1&s;=1282408183176&enc;=1&nsjs;=true&nsck;=true&nssvg;=false&nswid;=108 Preston (Local Authority): Key Figures for People and Society: Population and Migration], Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 August 2010. The population for the unparished area of Preston is calculated by subtracting the populations of the three rural Middle Layer Super Output Areas, Preston 001 (5,185), Preston 002 (6,417) and Preston 010 (6,134).
  http://wn.com/Preston_Lancashire
• Ribble Valley
  Ribble Valley is a local government district with borough status within the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Clitheroe. Other places include Whalley, Longridge and Ribchester. The area is so called due to the River Ribble which flows in its final stages towards its estuary near Preston. The area is popular with tourists who enjoy the area's natural unspoilt beauty, much of which lies within the Forest of Bowland.
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  Ribchester
  Ribchester is a village and civil parish within the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Ribble, northwest of Blackburn and east of Preston.
  http://wn.com/Ribchester
• Rishton
  Rishton is a small town in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England, about west of Clayton-le-Moors and north-east of Blackburn. It was an urban district from 1894 to 1974.
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• River Darwen
  The River Darwen is a river running through Darwen and Blackburn in Lancashire.
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  River Ribble
  The River Ribble is a river that runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire, in the North of England. The river's drainage basin also includes parts of Greater Manchester around Wigan.
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• Samlesbury Aerodrome
  Samlesbury Aerodrome is a disused airfield at Balderstone near Samlesbury, in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire. The aerodrome is owned by defence company BAE Systems who use the site for manufacturing of several aircraft types. currently BAE employ 3,000 people at the site but this is set to increase in the next 5 years.
  http://wn.com/Samlesbury_Aerodrome
• Stanlow Abbey
  Stanlow Abbey (or Stanlaw Abbey) was a Cistercian abbey situated on Stanlow Point on the banks of the River Mersey in the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, England ().
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• The Mall Blackburn
  The Mall Blackburn is a Shopping Centre that serves the town of Blackburn, Lancashire England and is owned by the The Mall Company.
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  Thwaites Brewery
  Thwaites Brewery is a regional brewery founded in 1807 by Daniel Thwaites in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The firm still operates from its original town centre site. A variety of cask ales, draught beers, lagers and ciders are produced in Blackburn or imported from Europe by Thwaites. In 1999, the Mitchell brewery in Lancaster closed down, and was bought in part by Thwaites. Lancaster Bomber has since been available from Thwaites public houses after being acquired in the takeover. Thwaites also has a hotels division, which is called Shire Hotels.
  http://wn.com/Thwaites_Brewery
• Tockholes
  Tockholes is a village and civil parish which forms part of the Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority in the North west of England. Tockholes consists of the village of Tockholes itself and the Hamlet of Ryal Fold, and has a population of 454. It lies on the West Pennine Moors and is surrounded by the towns of Blackburn to the North and Darwen to the East and by the villages of Belmont to the south and Withnell to the West. Darwen Tower is a prominent local landmark that lies to the east of Tockholes and The and Tockholes forest plantation lie to the south with the M65 passing to the north and the A675 to the south.
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  Ulverston
  Ulverston is a market town in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria in north-west England. Historically part of Lancashire, the town is located in the Furness area, close to the Lake District, and just north of Morecambe Bay.
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  West Pennine Moors
  The West Pennine Moors cover an area of approximately of moorland and reservoirs in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England.
  http://wn.com/West_Pennine_Moors
• Whitebirk
  Whitebirk is a suburb in the east of Blackburn, in Lancashire, England. Most of the suburb is in Blackburn with Darwen, a unitary area, with the east of the suburb being in the borough of Hyndburn. Whitebirk is part of the Blackburn urban area.
  http://wn.com/Whitebirk
• Wilpshire
  Wilpshire is a village and civil parish in the county of Lancashire, England. It is north of Blackburn, and forms part of the town's urban area, although it is in the Ribble Valley local government district.
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• BBC
• BBC News
• BBC Radio Lancashire
• Beacon Council
• Blackburn
• Blackburn Arena
• Blackburn Cathedral
• Blackburn Hawks
• Blackburnshire
• blazon
• Bolton
• Bolton Wanderers
• boomtown
• bowling green
• Boxing the compass
• Bremetennacum
• British Asian
• British Bronze Age
• British Iron Age
• Burnley
• Burnley F.C.
• Calico (fabric)
• Carl Fogarty
• cask ale
• Castlefield
• Chamber of Commerce
• Channel Islands
• Christianity
• cinerary urn
• Clitheroe
• Coal Measures
• coal seam
• coat of arms
• Colne
• Commonwealth
• contralto
• cotton
• cotton mill
• Council housing
• Crest (heraldry)
• culvert
• Daily Mail
• Darwen
• Debbie Travis
• deindustrialisation
• Diana Vickers
• Diocese of Blackburn
• Domesday Book
• domestic system
• East Lancashire Line
• Edward the Confessor
• Engage
• England and Wales
• England First
• ethnic minorities
• European Union
• Ewood Park
• FA Cup
• FA Premier League
• fanzine
• far-right
• Feniscowles
• Financial Times
• Flemish people
• Football (soccer)
• Football League Cup
• For Darwen
• Fortification
• frieze
• Furness
• further education
• gable
• Gandhi
• GCSE
• glacial deposit
• Glacial outwash
• glaciation
• Google Maps
• Grade II listed
• granite
• Great Depression
• Great Harwood
• Great Hill
• Greater Manchester
• Green Flag award
• Guide, Lancashire
• higher education
• Holy well
• Hyndburn
• Iain Balshaw
• Ian McShane
• ice hockey
• ice rink
• Immigration
• India
• Industrialisation
• iron ore
• ironmonger
• Islam
• Jack Straw
• Jack Walker
• James Hargreaves
• John Lennon
• Jon Walmsley
• Josephine Cox
• Kathleen Ferrier
• Kathleen Harrison
• Keith Duckworth
• Kenny Dalglish
• Labour Party (UK)
• Lancashire
• Lancashire Raptors
• Lancashire Telegraph
• Landsat 7
• Langho
• Late 2000s recession
• Latin
• Lee Mack
• legatus
• Legio VI Victrix
• Liberal Democrats
• Liberal Party (UK)
• limestone
• listed building
• Liverpool F.C.
• Livesey
• loom
• Lostock Hall
• Love + Hate
• Lower Darwen
• M6 motorway
• M61 motorway
• M65 motorway
• Mamucium
• Manchester
• Manchester Airport
• Manchester City F.C.
• Manchester United
• marble
• Mark Cotterill
• Mellor Brook
• Mellor, Lancashire
• Member of Parliament
• Michael Winterbottom
• mill town
• millstone
• Millstone Grit
• mining
• Mohandas Gandhi
• moiety title
• motto
• Muslim
• muslin
• Newsquest
• no overall control
• Northern England
• Northern Rail
• Northumbria
• NRS social grades
• Oceanic climate
• Old English
• Oldham
• Order of Merit
• Ormskirk
• Oswaldtwistle
• Pakistan
• Peel Group
• Pendle Hill
• Pendlebury
• Penguin Books
• Pleasington
• Pleistocene
• plinth
• Preston, Lancashire
• Privy Council
• Péronne, Somme
• quarry
• race riots
• religion
• Ribble Valley
• Ribble Valley Line
• Ribchester
• Rishton
• River Blakewater
• River Darwen
• River Ribble
• Roman road
• Ross Eccles
• rugby union
• Russell Harty
• Samlesbury Aerodrome
• sandstone
• Sarsaparilla
• sea level
• Secondary education
• Serapis
• shale
• shopping centre
• special school
• Spindle (textiles)
• Spinning (textiles)
• spinning jenny
• Stanlow Abbey
• state school
• statesman
• steam engine
• Steve Pemberton
• temperate
• Terra cotta
• textile industry
• The Beatles
• The Football League
• The Guardian
• The Independent
• The Mall Blackburn
• Thwaites Brewery
• till
• Tockholes
• Tony Ashton
• Tony O'Neill
• tripe
• tumulus
• turret
• UFO (TV series)
• Ulverston
• unitary authority
• Walkersteel
• Walton-le-Dale
• weaving
• Wendi Peters
• West Coast Main Line
• West Pennine Moors
• Westholme School
• Whalley Abbey
• White British
• Whitebirk
• Will Greenwood
• Wilpshire
• Witton Country Park
• World Superbike
• World War I
• World War II
• Yate and Pickup Bank

Born: 1913-06-23

Died: 1992-08-02

Born: 1913-10-19

Died: 2006-11-15

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• Jean-Bleu
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• Secret Love
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• Grand Prix
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• Dear Old Stockholm
• Ode to Tarras

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