MEMBERS of the Burnley and Pendle Anti-Nazi league are to go ahead with a leaflet hand-out in Burnley.

The event will take place on Saturday, September 1, the day of a planned demonstration and carnival which was banned following the granting of an order by the Home Secretary.

Assemblies involving the gathering of 20 or more people are banned within five miles of Towneley Park, Burnley, for four days.

An earlier ban banning marches in the town is still in force.

Both were granted to the police and council following the nights of racial disorder and violence in the town in June. In a statement the Anti Nazi League say they are now cowed by the Home Office ban on the carnival.

Supporters, they say, were now in their hundreds following petitions and meetings throughout the summer.

At the same time as other ANL supporters in Bradford, Oldham, Dewsbury, Barking and Dagenham, they would be taking part in a national day of action leafletting large areas of the towns.

The purpose was to get across the message that there was no place for the British national Party in those towns.

A spokesman said: "Now that people have seen the poison that a BNP presence spreads in towns like Burnley and the damage that was done after the election it is even more vital that they join together to ensure there is a continued resistance to them and their attempts to get council seats next May."

The spokesman added: "There has been massive support for the ANL's call for a multi-racial carnival in Burnley and we are delighted that there is to be such an event in Oldham in October.

"Anti Nazi league supporters are not going away. More people than ever before have become involved and we have support from all sections of the community."

A police spokesman said the ANL were aware of the order banning assemblies and that any gathering had to kept to under 19 people.