LABOUR councillors finally admitted defeat in the long-running battle to rename Blackburn's Market Avenue after African Nationalist leader Nelson Mandela.
Furious market traders took the council to court after protests failed to change councillors' minds.
Blackburn magistrates threw the plan out and the council's powerful policy committee, on a free votes, decided not to appeal to the high court.
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