A MAJOR investment programme by a pub group is under way.

Nelson-based Devonshire Pub Company has begun transforming a former derelict premises in Burnley town centre.

The Coal Street pub development is expected to take up to three months to complete.

Manchester interior design firm Maddocks Shelley has been brought in to oversee the project which will involve completely gutting the building.

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