MAJOR East Lancashire road schemes were being shelved because of Government cash cuts.

The cuts meant the start of work on the £3,628,000 Blackburn Eastern Radial Route and the £1,136,000 Accrington town centre relief road were certain to be put back a year. The 1988 start on the Chorley bypass also hung in the balance.

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