AN EAST Lancashire veterans group will travel to France to visit the town they liberated in 1944, thanks to a grant from the Lottery's Awards for All programme.
The trip is one of 40 projects in Lancashire to benefit in the latest round of awards.
A total of £1,072,287 is being distributed to 165 groups across the North West.
The Queen's Lancashire Regimental Association Burnley and Pendle receives a grant of £10,000 to pay for the trip to Bois Halbout in Normandy.
The former World War II soldiers will also visit five cemeteries where their comrades are buried.
One of the wider aims of the visit is to ensure that the ties between this part of Lancashire and the French town continue into the future.
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