HOME Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw got the lowdown on a high technology firm in his constituency.

Mr Straw performed the official opening of Cad-Capture's new building at the Greenbank Technology Park in Blackburn.

Cad-Capture has outgrown its previous site on the Whitebirk Industrial Estate and a satellite unit at Daisyfield Business Centre.

The company was launched in 1987 to provide electronic document management services to many of Britain's biggest companies.

Cad-Capture convert large drawings and plans on paper and microfilm into a computer format.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.