WAVES, Blackburn's super new water fun centre, was opened with a splash today.
Recreation chairman Coun Bill Taylor, was set to perform the ceremony followed by a fun session for 80 local primary school children and their parents.
A brave teenager pulled off a daring canal rescue.
Plucky Chris Dickinson jumped into the Leeds to Liverpool canal to save the life of a drowning woman.
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