APPALLING weather caused East Lancashire to drift to a chaotic standstill.
Villages were cut off, hundreds of motorists stranded and transport services decimated as blizzards swept across the county.
And council bosses pledged £4 million to the major modernisation of Blackburn's 3 and 5 day markets to make them the best in the region.
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