FOURTEEN new policemen will be patrolling Burnley within the next two weeks as part of moves to prevent a repeat of the racial unrest which rocked the town.

And a questionnaire will be sent to every household to give everyone the opportunity to highlight concerns and comment on possible solutions.

Chief Supt of Burnley Police John Knowles has told the Task Force set up to examine the causes of June disturbances, that the new officers will begin patrolling neighbourhood beats.

Details of where they will be posted and how they will be financed have not yet been revealed, although it is believed they will focus on areas such as Daneshouse and Stoneyholme which were most affected.

Stuart Caddy, leader of Burnley Borough Council said that the format for the questionnaires had not been finalised, but he thought it would be around a dozen questions with an opportunity for people to comment on what happened.

The moves were revealed when more than 50 people crowded into a room at the south-west Burnley Enterprise Centre, Valley Street, last night for the second meeting of the Task Force.

A similar meeting was held at Worsthorne parish rooms later in the evening.

During the meetings, Lord Clarke made it clear that he did not consider what happened in Burnley to be a riot, preferring instead to use the word "disturbances."

"I have not used the word, 'riot' for four weeks and will not be doing so. What happened in Burnley were disturbances, very serious disturbances," he said."

At the Burnley Enterprise Centre, Barbara Isherwood, a community worker for Daneshouse Economic Development Trust said that the current system of funding for individual areas of Burnley set those areas in competition against each other and asked what the Task Force would be doing to address that problem.