FORMER Coronation Street star Pat Phoenix, known to millions of views as Elsie Tanner, lost her battle against lung cancer.
Burnley Labour councillors were planning to sell off council houses in a desperate bid to raise cash. It was part of a revolutionary new plan in their fight to save the area's trouble-torn council housing estates.
More than 700 workers at Padiham's Myson Heating Plant staged a 24-hour stoppage.
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