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These six people don't legally have to wear face masks amid new Covid rules Cumbria There are are small few who are exempt from the new rules on face masks. Top Stories. Salford gangs took control of the parties. Smith was kidnapped. Selling dodgy drugs, smashing buildings up. It was foul. The Sett End was closed in as a mood of anxiety descended regarding police infiltration and surveillance.

A party in nearby Nelson, in spring that year, proved climactic. Newsome and her friends tried to hide in the loos. There would be no more Blackburn parties. Smith was arrested on suspicion of supplying class A drugs and held on remand for a year until being found not guilty. He emigrated to India shortly after release.

Dance music became professionalised, but few in Blackburn — now without a club scene — went on that journey.