DEREK Wade, 13, of Witton Park High School, and Ian Shirer, of Shadsworth High School, were praised after helping a man they found wandering and confused on Darwen's moors. The pair had been walking to Darwen Tower when they helped the elderly man, from a local hostel, to a farmhouse.
Meanwhile, thieves struck at two houses on Blackburn's Roman Road Estate making off with seven gnomes.
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