SAUSAGES containing lengths of rubber tubing turned up in dinners at two Hyndburn schools. They came from an Ashton-under-Lyne firm which has a contract to supply £600,000-worth of meat a year to Lancashire Education Authority.

Burnley consultants defied the district health authority over a plan to make them hold ante-natal clinics in Rossendale by refusing to meet and discuss the issue.

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