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Page last updated at 12:25 GMT, Thursday, 5 November 2009

Mark Ward
Detectives tie up literary ends
The Lancashire Reading Detectives have spent the summer uncovering the county's literary gems. They will be revealing their findings in a special 'who wrote it' exhibition at Chorley Library this weekend.

View up the chimney from the base India Mill still standing tall
Journalist Harold Heys tells us more about the history of Darwen's famous landmark ahead of a talk he'll be giving in November...

Joan with her father during the war In pictures: A Blackburn childhood
Joan Potter had such a happy childhood growing up in Blackburn in the 1940s and 50s, that she wrote a book about it!


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