Burnley and Pendle's only youth hostel has been saved from the axe.

The Youth Hostel Association put the building in Earby up for sale earlier this year because of dwindling visitor numbers.

But Pendle Council bought the building after a huge campaign by users to save it.

The council is leasing the building back to the YHA and will be spending £20,000 on refurbishment.

Community engagement officer Vaughan Jones said the council would be working out the best way to spend the money on the building, which it bought for around £180,000.

The building has strong connections to a founder member of the Independent Labour Party, Katharine Bruce Glasier, who lived there from 1922 until her death in 1950.