Loughborough

/ -brə, ˈlʌfbərə /

noun

1. a town in central England, in N Leicestershire: university (1966). Pop: 55 258 (2001)

Example Sentences

Kildunne is currently contracted to Premiership Women's Rugby side Harlequins, who open the league season on Friday, 24 October against Loughborough Lightening at the Twickenham Stoop.

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Ellie Kildunne's Harlequins take on Sadia Kabeya's Loughborough Lightning in the first weekly game of BBC Sport's new expanded deal with the league.

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Researchers at Loughborough University, writing in the Association of Internet Researchers, found that women often cast male Replika companions as ideal “nurturing” partners—a dynamic that can be “therapeutic” and validating in the short-term but tends to have little lasting emotional benefit.

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Hartpury College, where Waterman ran the best programme for teenage girls in the UK, then Loughborough University, which offered youngsters a direct route to the top of women's club rugby, and finally England, second only to New Zealand in the women's Test game at the time.

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She is also alert in the backfield and, in contrast to last week where Australia poked holes with kicks, Rowland ably fielded whatever Loughborough Lightning team-mate Helen Nelson pinged her way.

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