A BLACKBURN pub has just finished its six month refurbishment and the new landlords are over the moon with the results.

The Clifton Arms, on Grimshaw Park, had the spruce-up after Jeanette Fell and Louis Durkin took over the pub at the beginning of the year.

The pub has had a thorough clean, painted inside and out and new furnishings and carpets.

Jeanette said that the refit has proved popular with the area's residents and the pub has got steadily busier.

She said: "Where people used to walk past they now come in. The darts teams come back now and say they can't move.

"All the pub needed was a bit of love and attention, it's now a nice clean place for people to come."

She said the pub was so popular that they were adopted by one punter -- a small kitten that walked through the door one day.

Jeanette said: "She liked it so much she decided to stay. She was so popular with everyone that we thought we'd run a competition to give her a name.

"It costs a pound to enter and the winner gets a bottle of bubbly and a cash prize."

The proceeds of the competition will go to the Helen Rollason Cancer Appeal -- the late BBC sports presenter.