A SCHOOL has raised money for a teaching assistant who lost her life to melanoma this year. Longshaw Junior School in Blackburn asked the children to dress in white or something shiny last Friday to honour the memory of Lynn White, who was a teaching assistant for year six. The school raised £750 for East Lancashire Hospice, where Miss White was cared for. She diagnosed with melanoma in October and died on February 17. Deputy Headteacher at the school, Jonathan Berry said: “She was the beating heart of our school. “She changed a lot of children’s lives for the better and was a great example to all of us.
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Park Lee Road. A MOTORIST who crashed into a parked car in Blackburn on New Year s Day ran away when he heard police sirens approaching. Blackburn magistrates heard Kaspar Folkmanis was arrested after a brief chase and was found to be over the drink-drive limit. Folkmanis, 37, of Tiber Avenue, Burnley, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol. He was fined £369 with £85 costs and £37 victim surcharge and banned from driving for 17 months. Diane Jackson, prosecuting, a man in his house on Park Lee Road heard a loud bang and went out to see his neighbour s car had been shunted onto the pavement.