IT WAS a long and hungry night for 40 fasting pupils at Our Lady and St John High School, Blackburn, who were sent to bed without any supper.
But the 36-hour fast and sleep-in raised £500 for a Kenyan mission run school run by ex-Blackburn man Father Fred Heptonstall.
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