ARMED police laid siege to a pub after a man was shot dead. Police sealed off a wide area of Accrington and surrounded the Britannia pub in Nuttall Street.

A mother and her five children were left homeless after fire swept through their home.

Susan Bretherton, 29, returned to her council home in Florence Avenue, Burnley, after making an errand to find it badly damaged by the blaze.

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