SHOPPERS in Darwen had a grandstand view of a Starsky and Hutch-style chase in which two Manchester conmen were hotly pursued through the streets by a couple in a milk van.
Eddie and Brenda Brandon of Duckworth Street chased the two men after they realised they had tried to con them with false cheques.
Former Blackburn Rovers winger Gordon Taylor became chairman of the Professional Footballer's Association.
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