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Sophie and her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, were attacked in Bacup on August 11 last year.
UK: Goths march for tolerance in memory of hate crime victim Sophie Lancaster 2008
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Robert survived, but was mentally and physically scarred by the attack in Bacup, Lancashire, last August.
UK: Goths march for tolerance in memory of hate crime victim Sophie Lancaster 2008
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'Bacup' (the town where Judith was born and bred).
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Stephenson is a career policeman who was brought up in the Lancashire town of Bacup.
How Sir Paul Stephenson's £12,000 spa break triggered downfall 2011
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Sophie Lancaster, 20, was kicked and stamped to death by Brendan Harris, 15, and Ryan Herbert, 16, in Stubbylee Park in Bacup, Lancashire, last summer.
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Brendan Harris, 15, and Ryan Herbert, 16, were jailed for life for killing Sophie Lancaster in Stubbylee Park, Bacup, Lancashire, last August.
UK: Goths march for tolerance in memory of hate crime victim Sophie Lancaster 2008
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Bacup end of the Division; Pat Murphy took Rawtenstall; and I made my headquarters at Haslingden, for I had a _grah_ for the place, on account of its connection with my old friend, Michael Davitt.
The Life Story of an Old Rebel John Denvir
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Ireland was expressed in a speech at Bacup, in which he declared that it would be "madness to give Ireland more extended self-government" unless they could "receive from the Irish people some assurance that this boon would not be used for the purposes of agitation."
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907
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And later on, when the light mists of evening descended and bore away the landscape, the phantom shapes of the wolds took on a strange appearance, producing in Kate a sensation of mobility, which to escape from, for it frightened her, she turned to Dick and asked how far they were from Bacup.
A Mummer's Wife 1892
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From Bacup they went to Whitworth, a town in such immediate neighbourhood that it might be called a suburb of the former place, and there they played in the Co-operative Hall to an audience consisting of a factory man, two children, and a postman who came in on the free list.
A Mummer's Wife 1892
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