SOCIAL security sleuths saved the taxpayer more than £5 million in bogus East Lancashire benefit claims.
The DSS fraud squads investigated almost 8,000 cases of benefit fraud in 1992-1993.
Staff at Blakey's cafe bar in Northgate, Blackburn, donned fishnet tights and frilled aprons to celebrate the arrival of the year's Beaujolais Nouveau.
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