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JULY
BLACKBURN overtook Leicester with the highest coronavirus infection rate in England in July. Blackburn with Darwen had a rate of 79.2 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 in the seven days to July 17, according to data from Public Health England (PHE). Leicester had a rate of 77.7 per 100,000 people over the same period. A HUGE tunnel is being created under East Lancashire s largest motorway as part of a £150million upgrade to the area s wastewater network. In July, a 23 tonne tunnel boring machine, which goes by the name of Sandy, was lifted by a crane into the bottom of a shaft just off the M65 - ready to begin an epic tunnelling journey 16 metres underneath the motorway.