SCHOOLS in East Lancashire were poised on the brink of chaos with the second-largest teaching union set to join the teacher's pay war. The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers planned to introduce a strict five-hour day.
And youngsters in the Mill Hill area of Blackburn danced around a maypole to raise cash for a heart fund at a hospital.
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