LILY Jane Southworth, from Gladstone Street, Blackburn, explained how she preferred writing to anything else.

The 41-year-old started writing in earnest four years ago and had since had 13 of her stories published in an Indian magazine.

And Tommy Briggs shone as Blackburn Rovers trounced Lincoln 6-0 in the FA Cup at a foggy Ewood. Briggs claimed a hat-trick.