THE rush for Madonna's latest outburst of sleaze seemed to have gone almost unnoticed in Blackburn.

National news bulletins showed snaking queues outside respectable bookshops in anticipation of her volume, Sex.

But in Blackburn there was more interest at the bacon butty shops.

Only one town centre shop had copies on sale at opening time.

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