THREE times in a week Mr Alex Neave swilled the walkway of his Trafalgar Garden's flat, in Burnley, with hot water in an attempt to rid the area of maggots.
But efforts to exterminate the pests came to nothing.
A sigh of relief from Thwaites brewery echoed throughout Blackburn that an injury to Major the dray horse's foot would not end his career.
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