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and side stalls did brisk trade and committee members arc grateful for the local support they received. Their dinner dance is at the Brick House Restaurant on October 3rd.


A produce stall, draw, bar


Youth Guide Pauline Cookson read -


the lesson at a well-attended L youth service in Chipping f Parish Church on Sunday. *


Breakfast Twenty five members off


Preston Deanery Clergy held V their monthly meeting at;‘ Chipping, celebrating Com-' munion at the Parish Church., Breakfast at the Vicarage was'.-, followed by a business: meeting.


St Matthew’s Church, Pre-“ ston, spoke to members of Chipping Mothers’ Union,f about Holy Week and Easter in Cyprus, illustrating her, talk with photographs.-


Photos Miss Joan Tite, a worker at'


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the amazing experience of seeing spring flowers in J.anuary, ' when the season should have brought snow. And instead of April showers — the snow came! Add an Easter weekend


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coming' about the earliest possible date (it can fall five weeks later than it did this year) and it all means a frustrating time for weekend and amateur gardeners. It isn’t every' year we can


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people who have applied for allotments in the Pendle coun­ cil area (I understand there’s a waiting list); but alas (so I ’m told) ground at ■ Burnley’s Clifton and Springhill, which used to be allotments, is lying idle due to prospective use for new road works. '


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TWO Waddington Football Club, players, Trevor C h ew '-b n d Tommy Simpson, missed their matches


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been difficult for established amateur gardeners. Fuel costs for heating greenhouses have spared. And, just when it might be hoped that milder weather would reduce the costs, April temperatures have dropped to January levels. Gardeners who have to


This spring of 1975 has even


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SIMPSON—O’NEILL


Simpson married Miss Angela O’Neill at Sefton Road United R e f o r m e d C h u rc h , Morecambe. Tommy, a bricklayer, is the


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only son of Mr and Mrs T. Simpson, formerly of Beech Grove, Chatburn, and now of Vicarage Drive, Kendal. This is his 11th season with the club. The bride, who was a


and a white organza picture hat. She carried a bouquet of pink roses and white frecsia. Matron of honour was Mrs Marlene Ingham, the brideg­ room’s sister. She wore a pink and white floral dress and carried pink and white carna­ tions. The bridegroom's nephew, Jason Ingham, the page boy, wore a white shirt and navy blue velvet trousers. Best man was Mr John


clerical assistant at the tele­ phone manager’s office, Lan­ caster, is the only daughter of Mr F. Stafford, of, Cissbury Gardens, Worthing, and the late Mrs M. Stafford. Given away by her father,


she wore an Edwardian-style Italian model gown of white satin with a chiffon overskirt


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Lund and groomsman Mr Joe Holgate. Mr Tom Bentley was


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Mayfair Hotel, Morecambe, the couple left for a honey­ moon in Spain. They will live in Clitheroe. Photograph: Jim Costigane,


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