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Welcome end to work on 'most polluted' road
Accrington Observer
|January 23, 2026
Fed-up residents complain of hour-long journeys
Blackburn Road in Clayton-le-Moors. Inset, local resident June Christian
RESIDENTS have welcomed the end of "nightmare roadworks" on a road in Clayton-le-Moors described as "the most polluted in Lancashire
Temporary traffic lights went up in Blackburn Road, close to the crossroads junction by the Hare & Hounds pub in Whalley Road, on Monday this week (January 19).
Motorists and local residents were then hit by a second set of lights at Hyndburn Bridge which created lengthy tailbacks and heavy congestion.
This story is from the January 23, 2026 edition of Accrington Observer.
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