SEVEN people have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder after a shooting incident in February.

The six males and one female, all aged between 21 and 30-years-old, were arrested in a 7am swoop in an operation involving more than 100 police officers from Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Northampton forces.

The incident at the rear of Accrington Road, Blackburn, occured on February 15 this year when a number of gunshots were fired in an alleyway behind terraced houses, one penetrating the rear of a small hatchback car.