Police are looking for five men who racially abused and assaulted a taxi driver.

The taxi driver was subjected to abuse and then hit on the back of his head with a four-foot piece of fence panelling at 5.15pm on Friday in the Bank Lane area of Blackburn.

The driver was not badly injured and police said he was reluctant to report the offence.

Two men were seen on foot, with three others driving off in a white Transit van.