A NUCLEAR bunker under an East Lancashire Cinema was the subject of plans to create an emergency centre in case of a Lockerbie or Hillsborough-type tragedy.

The bunker, below Clitheroe's historic Civic Hall Cinema, was built as a precaution against a nuclear attack.

But council chiefs agreed to spend £10,000 on converting the bunker, as the end of the Cold War meant the precaution against nuclear attack was no longer needed.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.