HOUSING Minister John Healey is the latest politician to visit East Lancashire during the election campaign.

Mr Healey followed in former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott’s footsteps with a visit to Burnley yesterday.

He met Labour’s candidate in Burnley Julie Cooper and Labour’s Burnley Wood ward candidate Paul Campbell.

They visited the Branch Road housing estate and the site at Gannow Top where the Derby Hotel stood until a few weeks ago.