A MAJOR disaster loomed when a chemical tanker was involved in a crash on the main Darwen to Bolton road.

Two men were trapped in the accident but fears of a massive explosion were averted.

Stuart Holt, head of Clitheroe Royal Grammar school, praised his pupils after his school squeezed into the top 100 schools nationally for five or more GCSE passes at grades A to C.

Ex-policeman Brian Foley was distraught after his British Empire Medal was stolen during a break-in at his Pendle home.