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17. A recent Government report stated that too many teenagers leave school without being able to write intelligble messages. The Evening Post put this group of fourth formers at Walton-le-Dale High School, near Preston, to the test - they had to write a letter to Miss Marilyn Smith, training officer in the personnel department at Preston Council. Pictured are some of the participants: Julie Caldwell, Louise Plumbley, Michael Potter, Julian Knowles, Jill Rigby, Timothy Worsley, Paul Marshall, Eleanor Thorpe and Ian Roberts
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18. Doctors Andre Acebo, Gareth Jones and Jeff Schurr, and patients John McMenemy, Peter Cunliffe, David Thomas, Gillian Buck and Meriel Nutter, not forgetting Mr Bones, prepare to leave the Preston Health Surgery at Walton-le-Dale, as they took to the roads to support the cause of chiropractic care for back problems on the National Health Service
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19. Friends and neighbours from Queen's Road and Prince's Road, Walton-le-Dale, watch the children perform their version of Aladdin. The performances have become something of a tradition in the area following the success in past years of The Wombles and Rumpelstiltskin
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20. Mature "students" took to the streets of Bamber Bridge and Walton-le-Dale for a fancy dress pub crawl to raise money for a child with cerebral palsy. Dressed as pupils of the legendary St Trinian's, the football team of Walton-le-Dale's Sir Robert Peel pub, plus the parents of wheelchair-bound Joshua Newsham and frends, toured the area's pubs to boost an appeal to send the seven-year-old to Hungary's Peto Institute so he can receive their revolutionary intensive physiotherapy treatment
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