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Hyndburn New Year's Eve party organiser fined £10k

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New Year's Eve is often the busiest night for police forces

A New Year's Eve party organiser has been fined £10,000, police have said.

Officers found about 80 people at the event in Hyndburn, described as a "shocker" by Lancashire Deputy Chief Constable Terry Woods.

He said it was a "very different" New Year's Eve - usually the force's busiest night - as the county faces a ban on parties under tier four rules.

He tweeted that officers had been "predictably seeing an increase in reports from public of house parties".

In a series of posts on his 16th consecutive New Year's Eve shift, he said they had received reports of "assaults, house party fights, sadly domestic abuse and people reaching crisis".

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The Hyndburn party followed another event on Christmas Day in the area in which 100 people gathered under a motorway bridge in Huncoat.

The event was filmed and shared on social media, before police traced the DJ and gave him a £200 fine.

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