RESIDENTS are celebrating the final touches being made to a zebra crossing in Blackburn.

On Burnley Road, between Gore Street and Hereford Road, it has been funded by the Blackburn Regeneration Partnership through the Single Regeneration Budget and comes as part of a £155,000 project to refurbish the Bowling Green, in Whitebirk.

After years of campaigning, both residents and councillors welcomed it.

Jacqueline McGrew, chairman of Whitebirk and Intack Residents Association, said: "Burnley Road is a dangerous road and was almost impossible to cross before.

"It has taken a long time, but now we have the crossing, I am very proud."

It complements a wider traffic-calming project along Burnley Road.

This has provided two additional 'pedestrian refuges' which narrow the road to slow traffic and at the same time provide a safe area for pedestrians crossing the road in two stages.