HEART-stopping statistics showed Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale were still death blackspots - and things were not improving, said the district's medical officer Dr Peter Grime.
More than 900 people died from acute coronary heart disease - nearly 30 per cent of all deaths - giving the area the highest death rate from that cause in the North West, he said in his annual report.
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