A MASSIVE campaign was due to be launched aimed at channelling private investment into East Lancashire.

The campaign would promote the £300 million Leeds and Liverpool canal project, which had already met with an overwhelming response from developers.

And the opening of a new restaurant at Eanam Wharf, Blackburn today, marked the first private venture along the canal banks.

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