Mrs Fernihough and Mrs Ennis.

Three couples are carrying on their fight to retain the spirit of Burnley's "Little Cornwall." In an effort to keep what is left of Little Cornwall together, they want, as they claim they were once promised, accommodation on the planned nearby Griffin Field Estate.

Their fight got off the ground in January 1977, with a public inquiry in Burnley, where residents objected to the Council's compulsory purchase order of their houses on the grounds that the Council had a duty to rehouse the residents in suitable alternative accommodation. They said that Griffin Field was the only suitable alternative because the community did not wish to be split up. But the group received a major blow last week when the Secretary of State for the Environment ruled against their objections, and said that Council was not obliged to rehouse them on Griffin Field.

Mrs Clarissa Fernihough, of Hapton Street, is incensed at what she calls "shabby treatment" from the council. "I am stopping here," she defiantly proclaimed. Mrs Fernihough and her husband James, and Mr and Mrs George Ennis, of Hapton Street along with Margaret and Bob Hargreaves of Valley Street, realise that the result of the public inquiry was probably their last hope of remaining in the area. "There are worse houses than this being kept up at the moment," she said. She also claimed "We were promised by Councillors that we would be rehoused on Griffin Field. Now the only time we see Councillors is when they are vote-catching."