A STONE sculpture of Blackburn's famous crest is the centrepiece of a new landscape scheme on the fringe of Blackburn town centre.

The one-and-a-half metre high crest has been carved by Whitworth-based artist David Cudworth and incorporates the main elements of the borough's coat of arms.

The £10,000 project on the corner of Preston New Road and Adelaide Terrace also includes major landscaping and environmental work with an improved path and a new stone wall, trees and shrubs.

Development services committee chairman Coun Gail Barton said: "This is an important improvement scheme which will complement the other environmental enhancement work which is taking place throughout the borough

"It will provide a pleasant urban space for this part of the town."

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