A BOMB scare brought chaos to Blackburn town centre as police cordoned off a large area around the cathedral.
An army bomb disposal team were called in from Liverpool to examine a car parked on the cathedral car park after police became suspicious of the vehicle, belonging to a member of the nearby Army Careers Service.
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