HOUSING Minister William Waldegrave was set to give the green light to a £500,000 improvement scheme to Blackburn's Shadsworth housing estate.

He was to confirm that the estate had been accepted for the Government's Priority Estates Project, which was set to boost council housing coffers, during a visit to the town.

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