PEOPLE queued from the early hours to snap up bargains of colour televisions at £45 and sets of furniture down to £150 at Blackburn Co-operative Society's New Year Sale.
The man who had been organist and choirmaster at St James Parish Church, Accrington, for 25 years was to retire.
Edward Griffiths had been in the role since 1953.
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