A number of UK Banks have banded together to express their gratitude to the British people for helping them out in their time of need. They have commissioned a limited edition commemorative pencil sharpener which will be offered to selected customers in gratitude for the billions of pounds profit they got out of us last year. It's designed to remind us of the friendly and, even intimate relationship the banks have built up with the British public.
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Jack High. The Greyhound Ford Hyndburn & District Bowling League is now in its second month & the merit competition, sponsored by the Herald, is beginning to take shape. In the 1st Division, Bill Finn of the Globe and Craig Rammell of Rishton Free Gardeners are tied at the top closely followed by another Free Gardeners bowler, Stuart Gall. In the 2nd Division M. Saules and F. Franks both of Sydney St are separated by only one point whilst Sue Wood of Burnley Rd is a further three points behind. The 3rd Division is being led by J. Sumner of Whalley with V. Warburton of Sabden in second place. Harold Whyatt of Oakhill Park is way out in front in the 4th Division followed by D. Hales of Immanuel. I’m sure June will see more excellent bowling and the merit places change so lets all hope for some good weather to go with it! MERIT Div 1 W. FINN (Globe) 48 C. RAMMELL (Free Gardeners) 48 S. GALL (Free Gardeners) 47 P. JACKSON (Waddington) 41 D. BOND (Globe) 27 MERIT Div 2 M. SAULES (Sydney St) 50 F. FRANKS (Sydney St) 49 S. WOOD (Burnley Rd) 46 J. PALMER (Globe) 44 C. BROADHURST (Sydney St) 42 MERIT Div 3 J. SUMNER (Whalley) 40 V. WARBURTON (Sabden) 37 G. PARFITT (Sabden) 35 A. MERCER (Salesbury)29 P. BRADLEY (Rishton Con) 27 MERIT Div 4 H. WHYATT (Oakhill Pk) 57 D. HALES (Immanuel) 38 G. MOORES (Oakhill Beech) 32 J. HOGAN (Oakhill Beech) 32 B. BAINBRIDGE (Oakhill Pk) 31
Duxbury, Leslie John b. June 13, 1926 d. October 17, 2005 Television Writer. He was born and died in Clayton-le-Moors. He wrote an astounding 415 episodes for "Coronation Street" from 1966 to 1991. For a quarter of a century, Leslie Duxbury was one of the writers who made Coronation Street Britain's most successful television programme, admired by viewers and critics alike for its realistic dialogue and finely drawn characterisations. He joined the ITV serial, set in a North of England back street, when legends such as Elsie Tanner, Ena Sharples, Annie Walker and Albert Tatlock lit up the screen and he helped to craft a new generation when they finally left the programme two decades later. In the space of a few years in the early 1980s, the sudden exits of Pat Phoenix, Violet Carson, Doris Speed and Jack Howarth, who played those Street luminaries, provided the producer, Duxbury and other writers with one of the greatest challenges in the serial's long history. They rose to it, as they did to that presented by the arrival of the BBC's first serious rival, in the shape of Eastenders. Duxbury became a storyline writer on Coronation Street in January 1966 - little more than five years after its launch - when Peter Eckersley took over as producer and ushered in various changes. Over the next few months, the petty criminal Jed Stone returned as Minnie Caldwell's lodger, Ken Barlow cheated on his first wife, Valerie, by having an affair with a newspaper reporter, David and Irma Barlow bought the corner shop, the former Borstal boy Ray Langton arrived and stole £5 from the Barlows and whisky from the Rovers Return, and Brenda Riley was appointed relief manager at the pub, causing a sensation in her low-cut blouses and short skirts. Major Street events over the next 10 years included two Elsie Tanner weddings, the deaths of Jack Walker and Valerie Barlow, the building of the first outdoor set and the arrivals of Bet Lynch and colour television. Leslie Duxbury was born in Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire, in 1926, the son of a mechanic. He joined the Accrington Observer as a cub reporter on leaving St Mary's College, Blackburn, in 1942, but was called up for wartime service in the Royal Navy as a radar petty officer and arrived in the Far East just as Japan surrendered. After returning to his job in Accrington, he moved to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph in Blackburn and then to the Liverpool Post, before working in the Manchester offices of three national newspapers, the News Chronicle, Daily Express and Daily Sketch. Turning freelance and setting up his own agency in Blackburn, Star News - which numbered the future sports commentator Tony Gubba among its journalists - Duxbury also tried his hand at writing television scripts and pestered producers until he landed work at Granada Television on Coronation Street. Duxbury found plenty of opportunities to contribute to other television series. He and Peter Eckersley created Britain's first prison sitcom, Her Majesty's Pleasure (1968-69), and Duxbury wrote some scripts for A Sharp Intake of Breath (1978-81), one of the actor David Jason's first comedy successes. The writer's experience of reporting crime must have proved invaluable for scripting episodes of the classic police series Z Cars (1969-74), the courtroom drama Crown Court (1972, 1977) and Strangers (featuring Don Henderson as Detective Sergeant Bulman, 1978-79).
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