THE Queen captured the hearts of East Lancashire folk as she and the Duke of Edinburgh paid a three-and-a-half-hour visit to Burnley and Blackburn.
It was sunshine all the way as the Royal couple arrived at Burnley's Manchester Road station to be greeted by hundreds of flag-waving children, before starting their whistle-stop tour of the town.
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