More charges after Lancashire football derby violence

Blackburn won the match 3-2

Nine more people have been charged by police investigating what was described as a large-scale battle after the east Lancashire football derby.

Groups of Blackburn Rovers and Burnley fans were involved in the violence at the Station Pub, Blackburn.

Fighting broke out a few hours after the Premier League game on 18 October.

Seven men and a boy have been charged with violent disorder and one man with a public order offence. On Friday 19 people were charged over the violence.

Seventeen men and two boys were charged with conspiracy to commit violent disorder.

They are all due to appear before Blackburn Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, along with two others previously charged in the inquiry.

The nine people most recently charged are due before the same court on Friday.

One man remains on police bail.

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