LITTLE Billy Davis was laid to rest yesterday surrounded by his family and friends wearing the shirts of his parents’ rival East Lancashire football clubs.

The funeral of the 13-day-old baby was held at St Joseph’s RC Church on Audley Range.

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Almost 100 mourners attended with some sporting Blackburn Rovers and some in Burnley FC soccer shirts.

They joined Billy’s devastated parents, Jade Hudson from Shadsworth and Gary Davis from Burnley, to remember their son who was diagnosed with a heart defect soon after birth, before succumbing to multiple organ failure.

The funeral followed a balloon launch in Billy’s memory on Sunday on fields next to Shadsworth Junior School, which mum Jade attended.

On Tuesday, April 5, a standing ovation took place at Turf Moor during the 13th minute of Burnley’s match against Cardiff City, where Clarets midfielder Joey Barton ran to the family to hand them his number 13 shirt.

Blackburn Rovers supplied the shirt of their number 13, worn by goalkeeper Simon Eastwood, to the family.

Jade revealed she and Clarets fan Gary intend to frame the two shirts with a photograph of their son as a permanent memorial to his brief life, the numbers on the back signifying each day he fought to survive.

This month, Jade, of Tarbert Crescent, told how she and her fiancé Gary from Chelburn Grove, were forced to turn off Billy’s life support on Saturday, April 2. She described him as "‘a real battler who fought to the end"’.

Billy,. born at Blackburn Birth Centre, weighing 8lb 4oz, before being transferred to the main maternity unit at Burnley, St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool where his parents made their agonising decision.

He leaves brothers Adam, 12, Ellis, six and Alex, four.