DETECTIVES were called in to probe a possible "Friday the 13th" computer virus at a Rossendale company.

It was feared the Good Friday bug -- the first of its kind in Lancashire -- had been fed into the system at a bailiff's firm.

But baffled detectives interviewed a recently sacked employee several times and said he denied the allegation.

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