IT WAS both a hair-raising and fund-raising experience when volunteer ghost hunters spent the night among the spooks.

The employees from the National Rivers Authority raised the money for Blackburn's Friends of Chernobyl's Children when they bedded down for the night at the haunted Chingle Hall, near Preston, in January.

They presented their cheque for £550 to David Gibson, chairman of the charity, at the NRA office at Walton Summit, near Preston.

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