A 22-YEAR-OLD man appeared in court charged with supplying ecstasy tablets at a Blackburn town centre nightclub.

Michael Anthony Wilkinson, of Whitehall Road, Darwen, is charged with supplying 40 ecstasy tablets in Utopia nightclub, possession of 21 ecstasy tablets with intent to supply and possession of cannabis.

Blackburn magistrates directed all matters to be heard at Preston Crown Court and Wilkinson was remanded on bail until March 23 for the preparation of committal papers.

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