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  • Canals saviour immortalised in bronze

    Canals saviour immortalised in bronze

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    Colin Wareing

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    A STATUE commemorating Blackburn MP Barbara Castle has been unveiled in the Lancashire town’s Jubilee Square. She is portrayed holding a representation of a copy of the equal pay act from 1970. Barbara Castle was the Labour MP for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979 and from December 1965 until April 1968 was Minister for Transport…

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