A BLAST ripped through a bedroom at the Blackburn and District Children's Home, Wilpshire.

A radiator exploded, but the three girls who lived in the room had gone off for an Easter Monday outing and no one was injured.

Meanwhile Clitheroe Morris Men dressed in full costume toured the town giving morris dancing displays on the forecourts of the New Inn, The White Lion and The Dog and Parrot ending up at Clitheroe Castle.