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Cancer Awareness Training Session

Published on Wednesday 28 January 2015 at 3:08 pm

A Cancer awareness training session is taking place in February.

Held at Darwen Town Hall on Tuesday, February 17 between 10am and 12 noon, the training will help residents learn about early detection, general signs and symptoms and screening programmes.

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Cancer awareness event

Published on Tuesday 27 January 2015 at 3:36 pm

King George’s Hall hosted a Pennine Lancashire cancer awareness session recently.

Run by the Healthy Communities Partnership, the workshop featured interactive and informative presentations and brought together volunteers and professionals to discuss how residents of Blackburn with Darwen can best be served by cancer awareness campaigns.

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Funds Help Rejuvenate Borough.

Published on Friday 19 December 2014 at 1:17 pm

Two areas of Blackburn have seen new improvements following investment of section 106 monies.

Approved by the Council six months ago, local communities have this month taken delivery of new improvements that have been funded from larger local developments in both Shear Brow and Bastwell respectively.

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Know a fresher? It’s not too late for their MenC vaccine

Published on Thursday 18 December 2014 at 11:37 am

All UK children are offered Meningococcal C (Men C) vaccine to protect against MenC infection but, as the protection offered by the vaccine in pre-school children can wane, a booster for teenagers at school was introduced and also offered to students from August this year.

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