YOUNGSTERS at an East Lancashire school got the chance to become policemen - by computer.
Pupils at Our Lady and St John High School, Blackburn, acted as "guinea pigs" for a new hi-tech game which was launched by Shadow Education Minister Jack Straw, the town's MP.
The teenagers became police bosses for an eight hour shift at an urban police station - on a computer screen.
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