BLACKBURN Mayor Coun Bill Taylor urged people to get out and give Prince Charles a rousing Northern welcome on his route through Blackburn and Darwen.

The Prince was on a whistle-stop tour of Lancashire and spent almost two hours in Blackburn and Darwen, and his first port of call was the Roman Road estate.

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