PHYSIOTHERAPIST Jack Marshall usually tended to burly football players' injuries.

But he turned his hand to helping actor John Slater after a shoulder injury while playing Mother Goose in panto at Windsor Hall, Blackburn.

Meanwhile, 40 fireman fought a blaze which swept though a mill workshop of a glass company in Padiham.

The outbreak at Padiham Glass Company in Ribble Street badly damaged equipment and affected the garage.