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NEWSBRIEF FACTFILE
Police seek a
raid witness
POLICE are probing a ter-
rifying armed robbery at a
A tale of two towns,
one city and civil war
Lancashire building society.
Officers investigating the
raid last Thursday at
Garstang’s Nationwide
Building Society hope wit-
nesses will come forward.
Securicor staff taking
money to a cash machine on
site at 6.25pm were threat-
ened by three raiders with a
crowbar and a baseball bat.
Call police on 01524 A CIVIL war is raging
63333 or Crimestoppers,
anonymously, on 0800
555111.
in Lancashire over THE VIEW FROM BLACKBURN...
Preston’s £700m
Driver denies Tithebarn revamp
SHOPPERS and traders told
the Evening Post their
plans. Blackburn and views about Preston’s
role in collision Blackpool are opposing
£700m expansion.
Shopper Nahida Mahmood,
A DRIVER accused of a
hit-and-run accident involv-
it – but what do the 38, of Black-
burn, who also
ing a 13-year-old boy on a people of those towns works on a mar-
ket stall, said:
pavement in Kirkham has
appeared in court.
think? In the first of a “I think shop-
Darren Clarke, 36, of two-day special report, pers go out of
Blackburn any-
Hastings Road, Freckleton,
pleaded not guilty to driving CHRIS VISSER way – I go to
a Peugeot 306 without care crossed the battle-lines Preston.
“They (Preston leaders)
and attention in Old Row
on November 20 last year. to Blackburn to find have every right to expand
He also denied failing to out more and if Blackburn was a city,
it would do the same. I
stop after an accident and
failing to report the acci- think Blackburn should
start sorting its own town
dent to police. SORT out our own centre out before we look
The case was adjourned
until May 14 for trial by backyard first. at Preston.”
Blackpool magistrates. Blackburnshopmanagers, Blackburn market trader
market stall holders and Eileen Hargreaves, manag-
Dirty chimney shoppers issued a resound-
ing riposte to their local
er of Granny Buns, said of
Preston’s regen-