TEN children were drowned in Lancashire and four were in a serious condition after falling through ice.
A Blackburn boy lost his life, two boys were drowned in Penwortham and four children were drowned near Wigan.
Twelve-year-old Colin Lockley of Nook Terrace drowned in Spencer's Lodge near Cherry Tree when he went to get a stick thrown by a friend.
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