DEVELOPERS trying to attract retailers to Blackburn's newest shopping park say they are no nearer filling empty units at the site.

Big name shops such as Blockbuster Video and Wickes Home Improvements have already moved on to the Towns Moor development off Russell Street to the south of the town centre.

And they have been followed by Car Phone Warehouse, What Everyone Wants Discount Stores and Brunswick Shoes who have all opened stores on the former gas filling station site.

But two units remain unoccupied and developers Ardwood, who are responsible for the site, say they are no nearer letting them.

Ardwood spokesman David Barlow said: "We do have something in the pipeline. But it is at the very start of the pipeline rather than the end. In other words there is nothing imminent."

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