SOCCER star Alan Shearer is unique ... but not on Accrington market.

Stallholder Roger Allison managed to get his hands on half a dozen cardboard replicas of the Rovers and England star to raffle for charity, and now he has just three left.

Roger, who runs Cliff's menswear stall at the Victorian market, was given one of the cut-outs to publicise a new style of jeans.

But he got so many requests from people who wanted to take the life-size size replica home that he decided to organise the raffle.

And Falmers, the company behind the promotion, managed to find five more models to be raffled.

Roger now hopes the real Alan Shearer, pictured above right, will come to pull out the winning ticket in the final draw.

Roger, 46, who has run the stall for the last 17 years, said: "We were getting literally dozens and dozens and dozens of people asking about the cut-out.

"We decided to organise the raffle because it seemed the fairest way of doing things and that way we have also managed to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute.

"The first chap to win was lost for words when he found out he was the winner. The way he went on you would have though he had won the Lottery. He wanted to give the cut-out to his grandson."

"We have been in touch with Falmers and asked them if the real Shearer could come along for the last one. I know he is a very busy man, but you never know, he could just turn up."

The raffles have made £120 for the RNLI in the first three weeks.

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