SOCCER boss Don Mackay was booted out by Blackburn Rovers.
The Scotsman's four-and-a-half-year reign came to an end as he attended the press conference announcing his dismissal.
Police issued a warning about swimming in rivers and lakes after three young bathers needed hospital treatment. The children, aged six, 10 and 14, had gone swimming in Pendle Water, near Nelson.
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