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PRESTON North End youth team coach Jamie Hoyland admitted he had no hesitation in snapping up striker Rob Turner and defender Dean Stott following the duo's release from Burnley.
Chorley golfer Nick Dougherty's burning desire to make the Ryder Cup team in honour of his late mother brought him a hat-trick of birdies the moment he resumed the Italian Open in Milan today.
BURNLEY manager Owen Coyle has revealed he intends to make at least FIVE summer signings, regardless of whether the five players who have been offered new deals agree terms or not.
If Blackburn Rovers qualify for the Intertoto Cup then they will face either Lisburn Distillery from Northern Ireland, TPS Turku from Finland, or the team that finishes fourth in Denmark, which could be FC Copenhagen, OB Odense or FC Midtjylland.
CHORLEY'S Nick Dougherty tees off in the Italian Open later this morning among the favourites to clinch the title at the Castello di Tolcinasco course.
Duncan Park, of West Bradford and a member of the North Lancashire Road Club, was winner of his first ever League of Veteran Racing Cyclists event after he took the prologue of the four- Stage Tour of the Abberleys in Worcestershire over the May Day weekend.
THE Clarets Trust and the East Lancashire branch of CAMRA are holding their fourth Beer Festival at the 1882 Lounge, Burnley FC, tomorrow and Saturday.
