FUND-raisers were a step closer to buying a £16,000 minibus for children at White Ash special school, Oswaldtwistle.

A social evening at Oswaldtwistle Conservative Club raised £200.

Rockers Family Affair and the Blackburn School of Irish Dancing performed for free.

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