BLACKBURN Rovers star David Dunn officially opened a new factory in Huncoat which has created 30 new jobs.

The footballer, who started his career at Huncoat Juniors, opened Clayton Park Bakery’s new premises, off Bolton Avenue, yesterday afternoon.

The newly-converted food production unit will be used for baking bread, cakes, and other morning goods.

“I’m sure I’ll get a bit of stick off a few people for these photos,” said Dunn, who treats himself ‘to a pie every now and again, us-ually at Accrington Stanley’.

He said: “I’m certainly one for supporting local businesses. I think it’s great that a local fella opened up a business nearly 20 years ago and now he is nation-wide and he’s doing really well.

“I think the community should be very proud of the business he has produced here.”

The company’s pies – which are supplied to a number of football clubs, including Rovers – will continue to be made at the firm’s existing headquarters in Clayton-le-Moors.

The company has expanded after multi-million pound investment.

Managing director Barry Thomas said: “We are getting too big for one site and need to meet the future potential of the business.

“Expanding into a second unit will allow us to increase that capacity, and also widen our range of products, as well as increasing production in the existing factory.”

The seven-figure investment in the new unit, on the New House Road industrial estate, at Huncoat, includes the installation of new ovens, a bread plant, morning goods plant, and a wrapping line.

Clayton Park Bakery, which was formed in 1995, emp-loys more than 100 people and has a customer base across the north of England.