ANTI-SATANIST campaigners claimed that towns like Blackburn, Burnley and Accrington were being targeted by the Satanism and witchcraft fanatics as the 1990s began.

Reformed cult member Ian Haworth, a former Chorley man who ran a national cult monitoring group, said that the cults were to trying to set up bases.

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