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AN ATTACK victim who was "inches from death" after being stabbed with a knife has spoken of his trauma.
17-year-old charged over knife attack 10:50am Friday 24th August 2007A TEENAGER has been charged with wounding over a knife attack which left a man with permanent scarring.

Knife attack: Man bailed 12:59pm Sunday 29th July 2007POLICE have arrested a man following a knife attack at the bus station in Rawtenstall.

Knife embedded in thigh after ‘attack’ 9:04am Friday 6th January 2006A MUM today told of her horror after her son was "attacked" and left lying in a hospital bed with a knife sticking out of his leg.
Knife attack on ‘mob’ 6:24pm Tuesday 6th February 2007


A man who killed a friend in a drunken knife attack at his Darwen home has been jailed for two years.
Woman’s Stanley knife attack 7:00pm Saturday 14th October 2006A WOMAN lashed out at a man's face with a Stanley knife, leaving him needing 22 stitches.

Knife-attack mother loses prison appeal 7:00pm Saturday 8th July 2006A MOTHER jailed for plunging a knife into her boyfriend's neck on an Accrington bridle path has failed in an Appeal Court bid to clear her name.
'Attack victim was convicted murderer' 5:17pm Tuesday 24th April 2007THE victim of a knife attack was a convicted murderer once sentenced to death, a jury was told.

Knife attack teen, 16, jailed 7:38pm Saturday 13th October 2007A 16-year-old boy who stabbed a man twice in the head and once in the chest has been sent to custody for three years and four months.

A knife offence every 24 minutes 10:19am Monday 29th October 2007THE Government's record on knife crime has come under fresh scrutiny after new statistics revealed one offence involving a knife is committed every 24 minutes of the day.

Knife robbery stooge jailed 3:59pm Tuesday 12th June 2007A RAIDER who took part in an attack during which a man was stabbed three times in his own home has been jailed indefinitely.

Knifing man locked up 2:22pm Tuesday 26th June 2007AN Accrington man has been sentenced to 10 months youth custody for his part in a knife attack on a schoolboy.

Knife attack woman spared prison 5:28pm Thursday 12th July 2007AN ALCOHOLIC who knifed her partner in the back during a row was spared jail after a judge said she needed help.

Seconds from terror 7:00pm Thursday 20th April 2006THIS shocking picture captures the seconds before an ex-soldier carried out a vicious knife attack which left his victim a millimetre from death.
Fresh appeal over slashing 11:25am Tuesday 24th July 2007Police have made a renewed appeal for witnesses following a knife attack which left a man with permanent facial scarring.

Binge drinker's attack on wife 2:10pm Saturday 27th October 2007A FATHER of two who attacked his pertrified wife and her brother had armed himself with a knife and a baseball bat, a court was told.