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W'ADDINGTON athle te Michael Morton is now the E n g lish n at iona l youth cross-country champion. He won the title at Parliament Hill Fields, London, on Sat­ urday, romping home 35 seconds ahead of his nearest rival in the race — Welsh c h a m p i o n Al wy n Cummings, o f Cardiff. And the star quality of his


victory has earned Michael (17) a place in the English


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four-mile hilly and muddy course took Michael’ just 22 m in u t e s 25 s e c o n d s . National coach Denis Watts sa id he “ made it lo ok easy” . . . although Michael himself said afterwards he had never run harder. Michael is now one o f the


few runners to have iachieved the grand slam of county,


northern, inter-counties and national championships. Next he moves on to


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Dusseldorf (West Germany) with the English junior team


to compete in the Interna­ t ion a l Amateur Athletic Federation Championship on March 20th. Running in the junior


team (age group 17 to 20) will in itself be a great achievement for Michael — fo r the n at ional youth champion is picked for the junior team only when the s e le c to r s fe e l he is an outstanding athlete.


M i c h a e l w i l l f ly to


Germany from Heathrow with Brendan Foster and the rest of the English team on the Thursday before the meeting.


He was also invited to


train with the Olympic squad at San Sebastian in


Spain, but had to decline the offer because he is already committed to run for Lanca­ shire schools, in the English schools’ championship at Redditch, Worcestershire. I n th e m e a n t im e ,


Michael’ s national trophy will be on display in the window of Clitheroe sports outfitters Richard Turner and ^ n , who are sponsoring him. A second Clitheroe runner


in the national youth champ­ ionships, Duncan Fielding (16), of Peel Park Avenue, finished a creditable 377th out of the 1,100 field. Picture: Michael shows off


his national championship trophy and international vest.


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2 2 6 1 1 . The recommendation was


accepted by Burnley Health District Management Team on


Monday. The L an ca shire Area


Health Authority (LAHA) 1 ^ agreed to call in a specialist review team to help manage­ ment and staff organisations to examine manning levels at Calderstones. ■ Area personnel officer Mr


Paul W h it f ie ld said he expected final details of the review to be work^ out this week between the authority and staff organisations. Meanwhile trade unions at Calderstones have cut back


their industrial action over staff shortages. The hospital’s


biggest union, COHSE, was this week taking only one measure — the refusal by night staff to cover more than one ward.


Area administrator Mr H. . -


Harding said this week that the big problem at Calder­ stones ■ was one of finding fuUy-trmed staff. There had never been a higher number of staff at the hospital, blit it was difficult to recruit fully- trained people for mental


hospitals. (Commenting on complamts


by Whalley Parish Council that patients were inade­ quately supervised when they v is its the village, Mr Hard­ ing said the patients could not just be shut away. The hospi­ tal staff were doing all that they could in the - circumst­ ances, he added.,


The Lancashire Association _


of ,Tiwles Councils is to make representations to the LAHA to secure a thorough and inde- spendent investigation of the entire situation ■' at (Calder-


stbhes.- At a meetmg in Preston on . „ . ■


Saturday, the association, which comprises .16 trades c ou n c i ls in the county, pledged its full support for the industrial action being taken by unions at the hospital.


A reminder on street parties


ORGANISATIONS wanting


to hold street parties to cele­ brate the Queen’ s silver jubilee are asked to contact the Ribble Valley Council as


I soon as possible. : C h ie f -E x e cu t iv e Mr M ich a e l J a ck s o n to ld


1 members o f the Parish (Councils’ Liaison Conimit- tee that the council had to


I approach the county high­ ways department and the


I police before closing a road 1 fo r a street party.;'


WINGS and feet of birds were on display at Whalley Old Grammar School on Friday when the village’s branch of the Young Ornithologists’ Club held an open meeting to publicise its activities.


A, full house saw slides and sound recordings made last year by members on a two-ddy visit to the West


coast of Ciimbriai to the Walney Island, Ravensglass and St Bees reserves.


The youngsters had designed and painted posters in . . . all this week, and prizes Mil be awarded for the best. The posters will remain on show at . '


support of conservation and bird protection societies and there was also a display of books onbimwawning^


heUcopter to aid survivors in the wreckage, which was on the edge of a ravine. ; '. ' ‘This week he travelled from


his home in Panama, near Sydney, to Canberra for the R o j^ investiture. Sgt Waddington, whose


parents Mr and Mrs Wadding­ ton live in Taylor Street, Clitheroe, left England in 1964. He is married to. an Australian, Leonie, and they have two sons, David (5) aiid Michael (3).


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A LETTER eimressing the “ strongest possible concern” over the proposed open-type c r o s s in g a t -L ow -M o o r Sidings, Eshton Terrace,is to be sent to British Rail by Clitheroe Town CounciL At Tuesday’ s meeting.


Deputy Mayor ebun. Leo Wells said he-.was dead against the plan to have the crossing governed solely by f la sh in g l igh ts and an audible warning. T h e crossing was the scene


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him in hole


AFTER being held at gunpoint, a salesman was bound and gagged, and imprisoned underground for nine hours in a disused Clitheroe laundry, it was stated at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday.


His captor, 39-year-old


self-employed builder, Philip Charles Cusack, of Highfield Road, Clitheroe, was sent to prison for thr^ years for inflicting what Mr Justice Hollings described as the- ‘most dreadful anxiety and


suspense” on his victim. Cusack admitted three


offences involving Mr David Hepworth Brown, a sales


representative for Blackburn builders’ suppliers Sankey Jonchu — a firm he owed more than £4,000. The court was told how Mr


‘produced ,a'shotgun,, dem^ritL ded Mr Brown sigh a receipt for £5,000 and then impris-' ■ oned him vn a, hole coyerM by' building materials^ . Mr Brown escaped by , gnawing through his bonds.


Charges Cusack was sentenced to 18


months for making an unwar­ ranted demand with menaces of Mr Brown for a receipt for £5,000; six months for posses­ sing a loaded double-barrelled shotgun while making the demand; and 12 months for assaulting and imprisoning Mr Brown in a secret and private


place. The sentences are to run


consecutively. Mr J u s t i c e H o l l in g s


directed that a plea of not guilty be entered on a fourth charge alleging that Cusack inflicted grievous bodily harm


on Mr Brown. Mr Raymond Bennett


(prosecuting) said that Cusack had known Mr Brown for some time in his dealings with Sankey Jonchu from whom he had purchased materials over the past nine years. Cusack had accumulated a debt of £4,513.


Full


Brown went to the laundry hoping Cusack would pay off- . some of .the debL But C u s ^ i ,


No malice


MR BROWN, o f Welling­ ton Street,-St John’s, Blackburn, who was not in court for the hearing, told our reporter, that he fe lt no malice towards Cusack, and sympathised with his wife and chil­ dren. Mr Brown, father of


V, He said: “ It was Jfrpez-U ing'arid pitch'black and ' niy-' hanibrwere: swollen


- and' niimb. After ' I ' had'; -push^ the gag-out o f my ; mouth, I kept working on the rope with my. teeth an d f in a l ly ch ew ed through it. “Then I pushed all the


rubbish of f a piece of felt blanket which had been put over the hole. My watch was in my pocket, so I had no idea of the time,” said Mr Brown, who is chairman o f the Blackburn Greys Bound


Table. On January 11th this year,


he telephoned Mr Brown and arranged a meeting at the old laundry in Pimlico Road. Cusack had bought the laun­ dry with a view to developing the site for housing. Mr Brown arrived for the


meeting at 2 p.m. with his pet dog hoping some money would be paid to help clear the debt.


At first nothing happened


to put Mr Brown on his ^ard. But once inside the laundry basement, Cusack produced a shotgun, broke it to show it


three, said that he had been very frightened while tied up in the hole, and he was also scared . that the gun might have beeii fired accidently.;. >


m MR BROWN shows how he was tied in the hole g


was loaded, and demanded Mr Brown sign a receipt for


£5,000, said Mr Bennett. Mr Brown explained that


the receipt book -was in his


car. Cusack tied him up and went for the book;-Mr Brown


signed the receipt. ; > -i-a-: - Leayjng-;Mr Broym tiOT up,-: 'S'CuRa.'Jt-^'d .hei.was going'out


for awhile. About 10 minutes lateri Jfi:..Brown,f6uhd-a'piece:


i of brbken'glass and managed- ‘■;(o cut his bonds. ‘‘But when he ' broke down the door to escape ' he fou n d ,'to his dismay, Cusack was waiting outside,” said Mr. Bennett. Brown was overpowered


and made to climb into a pit in the centre of the main floor.


Cusack tied Mr Brown’s


hands together over a joist lying across the cavity. The hole was about two feet stjuare and the cavity iLself was 20 feet by five feet and about five feet in height. “Cusack put building mate­


rials over the top of the hole and left Mr Brown tied up in total darkness,” said Mr


Bennett. About half an hour later,


Cusack returned and :dlowed Mr Brown to relieve himself, before tying him up again and gagging him. Cu^ck then left and did not return again. Mr Bennett continued:


“ A f te r what Mr Brown, described as an eternity, he decided he would have to find his own salvation and was able to push out the and gnaw through the rope.


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I ijasted-for. about nine hours.’ ■:!; "Mr-Bennett;said-the-police


materials and climbed out of the hole. He managed to get . out o f the building by break­ ing a window, ana then went to a nearby householder .for assistance, his ordeal haying


, y went.to Cusack’s-home.where -


: thdy--fpund a-shotgun and ■’ some ammunition. ; . .. - .


f o l lo w in g m o rn in g Mr .' Brown’s car was discovered,


In the early hours of the


near CUtheroe town centre. His dog was later-found wandering around the streets.


only speculate as to what the defendant had'in mind for Mr


Mr Bennett said: “One can London-born Cusack had.'


Brown if he had not escaped.” DC- ian Hartley, said that


QUEEN HANDS LEONARD MEDAl FOR BRAVERY


A FORMER Caitheroe man was due to be present^ -with a bravery med^ by the Queen yesterday -r- in Australia.


------------ — ------------------------- - Leonard Waddington (39), a former Ribblesdale School pupil, was awarded the Australian Medal for his part in a daring rescue of men from a crashed aeroplane in the highlands of New Guinea.


GRANTS


CLITHEROE Town Council is to give a eyant of £50 to the Ribble Valley Sports and Recreational Advisory Coun- cU towards running expenses. Members also proposed a similar grant of £20 for the Clitheroe Concerts Society. Applications for grants


from the West Bradford Ladies’ Hockey Club and the Lancashire Youth Clubs’ Association were turned down at Tuesday’s meeting.


A sergeant in the AustraUan


Army, Leonard was one of those -winched down from a


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come to aitheroe 18 years ago and started as a labourer with a cement manufacturer. About 10 years ago he started his own building business.


Dr Hugo Milne, a psychiat­


rist, said that for some weeks before the incident Ousack


had been in a state of anxiety and depression because of financial stress caused by the gravity of. his financial situa­ tion, his inability to discuss problems and his low level of intelligence....


In Dr Milne’ s opinion


Cusack was unlikely to commit a simDar offence.


Assiduous


Giving evidence as to Cusack’s character, Mr Eric


■W a lm s ley , an e s ta te s manager fo r Thwaites’ s Brewery, Blackburn, said he was “one of the best" workers and tr^esmen he knew. He had done regular work for the brewery over the past 10 years and was “very assidu­ ous and willing to turn out at


: all times and under very difficult circumstances.”


.'But. Mr Walmsley, o f


“ Brookside,” Holden, said Cusack was “very naive” in .business matters and “happy- . go-lucky.”


. Cusack never appeared


• aggressive and seemM to be a . happy family man. “The men who worked for him worship-


*rino work av^able. I would have no hesitation in employ­ ing him as-a.tradesman,” sad Mr Walmsley: ‘ ■ .. Mr Richard Hehriques,


’ p ^ him and it -was probably one of his problems that he kept bn men -when there was


representing Cusack, subiriit- that the shptgim -was not


O Continued bn page. 6^


Glitheroe’s next ' '


Mayor


NEWSAGENT Qiun. Robert Ainsworth is to be the next


Mayor of Clitheroe.


C o u n . A in sw o r th , o f Goosebutts Lane, was appointed Mayor.elect at a meeting of Clitheroe Town (joundl on Tuesday.


He will be installed on May 10th in succession to (3qun. John Blackburn. Ckiun Ains-. worth’ s deputy will be Coun. Tom Robinson.


On Monday, (joun. Edward Newhouse, of Robinson’s Farm, Slaidburn, was nam^ as next Mayor of the


■Coun. Harry Riding o f Longridge will be his deputy.


Ribble Valiev.


A profile and picture of (joun. Newhouse and his wife appears on page 4.


Eating out in style


REGULAR reader o f the Advertiser and Times, Mrs Nancy Campbell, of Y-Wurry, Whalley Road, L a n gh o , is the lucky winner o f last week’s eating out competition. Mrs Campbell does not make a regular practice o f entering competitions but said: “ I entered this one because we do like eating out.” ’Turn to Page 5 if you


would like to win a free meal in another easy


competition.


FIRE ESCAPE PLANS to erect a drcular


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