A TEXTILE firm has made a double transfer swoop.

Gaskell Textiles of Accrington has signed up rugby scrum half Neil O'Rourke and football club chairman Danny Besley for their sales team from a rival East Lancshire firm.

Neil and Danny, 35, will head up Gaskell's new-look rubber underlay department .

Neil plays for Clevedon RFC in Bristol and Danny chairs Orwell FC in Cambridgeshire.

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