PEOPLE were having to wait longer for new homes as the rainy summer put a stop to building work in East Lancashire. A council's engineering department official said that he had never seen building sites so empty in the summer months. Building work throughout the area had been seriously delayed by the rain and many contractors faced a loss.
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