FORMER Blackburn teacher Miss Dorothy Spencer has died at her home in Nefyn, Wales.

Miss Spencer had lived in Wales since her retirement and used to teach at the former Blackburn High School for Girls for more than 20 years.

Miss Spencer died on January 22 aged 86 following an earlier fall.

At the girls' high school she taught biology and was also an enthusiastic leader of the Girl Guides and used to take the girls on camps when school trips were a rarity.