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Page last updated at 19:45 GMT, Friday, 27 November 2009

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A 34-year-old former soldier is jailed for seven years for raping a woman outside a Preston nightclub in 1998.

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Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce is having surgery on a coronary artery on Friday, assistant manager Neil McDonald confirms.
Jail boss scuppers freedom raffle
Inmates at open prison HMP Kirkham are being offered a day out as a raffle prize as part of an incentive scheme.
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