A STEADY stream of calls are continuing to be made to the Citizen-backed Drive Out Drugs Campaign Hotline.

Since the campaign was launched just over a month ago by the Citizen's sister publication the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, more than 50 calls have been logged by the hotline.

The calls have all come from people living in the Blackburn, Darwen, Rossendale, Ribble Valley and Pendle areas.

The hotline, which gives advice about drug abuse and offer callers the chance to 'shop' dealers, are made anonymously and in confidence.

DC Charlie Sykes, who oversees the lines from Lancashire Police's HQ in Hutton, said: "All the information received is being investigated as we speak."

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