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Loughborough
/ -brə; ˈlʌfbərə /
noun
- a town in central England, in N Leicestershire: university (1966). Pop: 55 258 (2001)
Example Sentences
Ms Cunningham was born in Nottingham and attended Loughborough University.
Buried in an unmarked pauper's grave in Loughborough Cemetery, more than 300 miles away from his family home in Ayr, his body would lie there anonymously for another 120 years until some Notts County fans launched a campaign to "put right the wrong".
Loughborough were playing a double-header against Crewe Alexandra and Newton Heath, but arrived in Manchester for the second of the two matches to discover the kit was not there with them – forcing them to play in the street clothes they had travelled in.
"I sent all the information I had to Professor Clyde Williams at Loughborough University, who specialises in sports science, and he said there were clearly a number of weaknesses in Jimmy's cardiovascular system."
Less than two years after being feted by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Logan was buried in an unmarked paupers' grave at Loughborough Cemetery in a low-key service, sharing the plot with a local man he had never met and who died 17 years earlier.
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