[jaysay]

There's a TV program on tonight at 10-35pm called true crime, its about the Black Panther, Donald Neilson, who killed Baxenden postmaster Derek Astin in 1975, and went onto kill other postmasters and heiress Lesley Whittle. I remember that day, I was working for Arnold Rileys Joiners behind the Victoria Pub on Manchester Road, the road was blocked of most of the day, well there were road blocks and you had to stop every time you went up Manchester road. My local pub at the time was Hargreaves Arms and the police used to use it as well so we got to know how the investigation was going. When they eventually caught Neilson there was one hell of a party