ACID House revellers pelted police with bricks and bottles and set a police car ablaze in a midnight riot.
Police officers in riot gear were set upon with metal bars, fire extinguishers, bricks and bottles as they tried to prevent 2,000 revellers from taking over a semi-derelict factory in Blackburn.
A police chief later called it "a sustained, unprovoked attack".
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