EIGHT people were evacuated from their homes in a Blackburn street when the back yard of one of the houses fell 20ft into the canal during a landslide.
Residents of five other houses in Primrose Hill were told to stay in their front rooms in case other properties followed.
Arrangements were being made meanwhile for the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to play a series of promenade concerts in Blackburn.
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