Lancashire | Archive | 1999 | May | 28


10-YEARS-AGO: Town centre terror

From the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, first published Friday 28th May 1999.

CHANTING, bottle-throwing youths terrorised a town centre as a notorious gang raided pubs and clubs. It was Accrington's worst night of violence that year, and licensees said the trouble started when the "Burnley Suicide Squad" hit town. More than 60 youths were believed to have travelled into the area before causing trouble in a number of town centre pubs.

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