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7:39pm Thursday 29th May 2008
THE popular summer scheme returns to Blackburn RUFC in July and this time it is bigger and better than before.
5:42pm Tuesday 15th April 2008
BLACKBURN made it a perfect ten out of ten on home this season with another victory at Ramsgreave Drive.
6:16pm Tuesday 8th April 2008
BLACKBURN stormed into the semi finals of the Lancashire Trophy following a comprehensive victory over their Salford opponents.
6:43pm Thursday 3rd April 2008
BLACKBURN were made to work hard for victory against a determined Hutton side in this friendly game.
5:18pm Tuesday 18th March 2008
BLACKBURN secured the one point they needed to claim promotion and with it the North Lancashire/Cumbria league title.
6:23pm Tuesday 11th March 2008
BLACKBURN go to struggling De La Salle on Saturday knowing that a point is all they need to secure the league championship.
6:23pm Tuesday 4th March 2008
BLACKBURN stretched their remarkable unbeaten league record to 16 games which proved to be the perfect parting gift for Ferdie Naude.
6:46pm Tuesday 12th February 2008
BLACKBURN'S dreams of playing at Twickenham came to an end with an agonising four point defeat in the North East.
5:18pm Tuesday 12th February 2008
Blackburn return to league action on Saturday when they face Rossendale in a top of the table clash.
5:17pm Tuesday 12th February 2008
BLACKBURN'S dreams of playing at Twickenham came to an end with an agonising four point defeat in the North East.
7:43pm Tuesday 5th February 2008
UNDEFEATED Blackburn turn their attentions away from league duty as they attempt to move a step closer to a trip to Twickenham.
4:50pm Friday 25th January 2008
Captains and coaches, including former East Lancashire man Brian Ashton, look ahead to this year's RBS Six Nations.
12:27pm Tuesday 22nd January 2008
Burn moved six points clear at the head of the North Lancashire/ Cumbria league table following a scruffy win at Kirkby Lonsdale.
3:22pm Tuesday 15th January 2008
BLACKBURN marched triumphantly through to the last 16 of the EDF Senior Vase with a resounding victory over fellow league challengers Wigton.
1:28pm Tuesday 8th January 2008
BLACKBURN took on rock bottom St Benedicts and the class showed as the leaders cruised to a 10-try victory.
4:41pm Tuesday 18th December 2007
BLACKBURN have ended a hugely successful 2007 with a hard fought win at Didsbury Toc.
11:04am Tuesday 11th December 2007
IN conditions more akin to water polo, Burn and Wirral produced a high quality fourth round tie in the EDF Senior Vase.
7:21pm Tuesday 20th November 2007
RIBBLESDALE High School is planning on making its tag rugby festival an annual event after the inaugural competition proved to be a big hit.
4:05pm Friday 19th October 2007
ALMOST everyone in the county will be cheering on England tonight as they bid to retain the Rugby World Cup.
6:37pm Thursday 18th October 2007
THE stunning surroundings of Stonyhurst College can seem a million miles from the majority of East Lancashire, especially the industrial heartlands of Blackburn and Burnley, where football is the sporting religion.
3:52pm Thursday 18th October 2007
AS England bid to retain the Rugby World Cup in Paris this week, the national team's phenomenal achievement once again has strong links to an East Lancashire college.
8:16pm Thursday 11th October 2007
PAUL Grayson knows all about being brought up in a football heartland as he played for Accrington Stanley before becoming an England Rugby World Cup record-breaker.
7:35pm Thursday 11th October 2007
FIFA's head of artificial turf has told England's team psychologist the players need to overcome their mental fears of playing on a synthetic pitch in Russia next week.
6:16pm Thursday 11th October 2007
AS a member of England's East Lancs Four', Iain Balshaw can still barely believe he is the local boy who became a World Cup winner.
9:21am Thursday 11th October 2007
TRAINS, boats and planes making the journey across the Channel are set to be packed this weekend as rugby union fans snap up the last available travel places to Paris for the France-England World Cup semi-final.
4:26pm Tuesday 9th October 2007
YOUNGSTERS from across Burnley got their first taste of the oval ball game at a recent tag rugby open day.
3:33pm Tuesday 9th October 2007
COLNE and Nelson's match-winning skipper Paddy Smith is confident his side can build on their first victory of the season.
9:40pm Sunday 7th October 2007
England moved into World Cup semi-final mode, with head coach Brian Ashton claiming: "We have a team to trouble the French."
2:40pm Friday 5th October 2007
FORMER Stonyhurst College teacher Brian Ashton will be hoping history repeats itself as he plots another England victory over Australia in the Rugby World Cup.
6:30am Friday 7th September 2007
SHOULD England conjure up a Rugby World Cup winning move in France next month then it may well have been orchestrated on the pitches of Stonyhurst College.
Updated 11:22am Sunday 6th July 2008
A man has been charged with murdering his father after a body was discovered wrapped in bin bags in a field.
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