POLICE were planning to raid shops throughout Lancashire in a crackdown on the teeny trade of computer porn. The move followed an investigation by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph and demands for action by Rossendale and Darwen MP David Trippier.

Faults were shown-up in the £3.4 million renovation contract on Blackburn's town hall tower block and the building company responsible had crashed.

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