A TINY Christian bookshop in Blackburn is proving an international success - by supplying dog collars and communion wafers as far afield as the Isle of Skye and Spain!

The volunteers who staff the bookshop at St Barnabas Church, Johnston Street, every day from 9am to 5pm even count the Bishop of Burnley and the Bishop of Blackburn among their customers - even though most people don't know of the shop's existence.

Canon Herrick Daniel, who runs the shop, said: "We are the only place in this region that stocks shirts, collars, incense and altar bread and are the biggest Christian bookshop in the whole area but people don't realise that we are on their doorstep.

"I know people from Blackburn have travelled to Manchester to buy clerical items or Christian greeting cards simply because they didn't know about us."

The shop is packed from floor to ceiling with books, music, videos, gifts, cards, church stationery, Christian magazines, candles, calendars and a selection of different types of Bibles.

There is also plenty for children with Christian-themed cuddly toys and board games such as Bibleopoly, "a Biblical game of fun and faith."