TERRIFIED shoppers watched in horror as scores of angry teenagers confronted each other outside Blackburn College. Seven youths, some students from the college, were arrested during the incident which began near Waves in Blackburn.

Three of the youths were detained at Blackburn Police Station to prevent a breach of the peace and were released.

The other four were released on bail

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