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MEMBEKS of Edisford Ladies’ Club held their Christmas party in St Paul’s Parish Hall. A competition was won by Mrs Brooks and raffle prizes went to Mrs Chatbum and Mrs Davis. Mrs Kosemary Lancaster sang and played the guitar. The party ended with carol s in ^g .


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Holiday buses


during the Christmas holi­ day are being suspended, apart from the slightly m o d e ra ted Clitheroe- Manchester run. People intending to travel by bus should contact their local Kibble office for further details.'


December 27th and Friday, December 30th, most services will continue to operate, although there will be some timetable changes. All express services


Year’s Eve services will be slightly moderated for C h i p p i n g - P r e s t o n , C l i t n e r o e - P r e s t o n , C l i th e r o e -B u r n l e y , Blackburn-Downham and Clitheroe Centre link. B e tw e e n T u e sd a y ,


restricted on -Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, op era tin g only on the Clitheroe-Bumley, Whalley- Accrington and hospital routes. C h r is tm as and New


THE- only Kibble bus services to run on Christmas Day will cover Calderstones and Brockhall Hospitals and the Whalley-Accrington route. Services will also be


SEVENTY TWO residents and guests attended Henth- om sheltered accommoda­


tion’s Christmas .mrty at St Paul’s Parish Hall, Low Moor, on Friday.


five helpers, a bouquet of flowers was presented to the oldest resident. Miss Lizzie Wells (89).


was . organised by warden Mrs Dorothy Thobum and


Rating charge


‘a to unity ^


THE introduction of special rating in parishes with facilities such as public baths, a civic hall, parks and recreation ground or where there was industrial development would do nothing for the unity of the borough, Coun. Tom Kobinson (Clitheroe) told the Ribble Valley Policy and Resources Committee this v/eek.


Busy week


variops charities. The final event of a busy week was the Christmas party at the Sun Inn, Waddington. Mrs D. Dent was, hostess and Mrs'M. Barrow and Mrs K Hanson organised the social events, including the singing of carols.


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MP brings news from Ireland


CLITHEROE widow Mrs Lucy Lyne had an unex­ pected visitor on Saturday — Clitheroe Division MP Mr David Walder.


Walder was in the Province last week and the MP prom­ ised to call on Mrs Ljme and let her know-how her son was going on. Mr Walder was visiting


house in West View to give her news of her son, Edwin, who is serving as a Company Sergeant Major with the Coldstream Guards in Northern Ireland. The pair met while Mr


He called specially at her


Northern Ireland in his capacity as vice-chairman of th e Services Defence Committee. He makes two fact-finding


some room for cautious optimism in the Northen


living conditions and morale. On last week’s visit he was c e n tred mainly in the Londonderry area visiting the Grenadier and Cold­ stream Guards. “I think that there is now


reduction in the number of te r ro r is ts and terrorist activity and the level of bombing has fallen. “However, the firemen’s


Ireland situation,” he said. “There seems to be a


visits a year to get first­ hand accounts of troops’


Stirrup gave a talk entitled “Quest of the Far East,” illustrated by slides, at the club meeting. President Mrs Dorothy Dent thanked her. Donations were sent to


CLITHEKOE Soroptimist Club members attended an International Day service at S t Thomas’s Church, Barrowford, where they met other members from the North West. President-elect Mrs M.


position when the authority was set up. “They chose to put up with it rather than go under places like Blackburn or Buniley. They had then- eyes wide open.’’


the argument was really aimed at Clitheroe and to a lesser.-^extent against Longridge. But parishes knew the


taking part in a debate on the question of what some parish councils regard as “double rating” — they pay for their own expenditure and also, through the general rate , subsidise facilities in the valley gener­ ally. Coun. Kobinson felt that


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some parishes the borough council ought to spend more money than it had done. Coun. Bill Fleming


However, he added, in


(Billington) chairman, reminded parishes that the Kibble Valley rate was lower than in neighbouring large towns. They had come into the


borough because of the advantages but he realised there was some concern. The council would have to re-examine its allocation to parishes without creating worse problems. . Mr Gordon Onslow,


Borough Treasurer, said that counciL policy was to deal wath rating as simply as possible.


some practical difficulties and it was in an effort to overcome these that the Borough Council offered to parishes and organisations grants equal to half the cost of recreational schemes, subject to certain limits. The council also paid the cost of maintaining footpath light­ ing in the parishes.


He agreed there were


strike has brought added hazards for our soldiers because the IK A have, started to booby-trap fire engines.” Mr Walder said that he found British servicemen


complaints about the level of pay.


u t he received some


number of hours a private soldier was on duty he received only 33p an hour.


Carols


•Brownies from the James’s pack perform a nativity play. A film strip of “Little Donkey’ ’was shown during the evenmg and gifts from all the packs for the Save the Children Fund Were handed in . . The s e rv ic e was conducted by-the Kector of S t James’s, th e ' Kev. ; Kenneth Broadhurst.


joined in the singing of trad­ itional carols and watched


Village crib


■Whalley. these dark mAts has a distmctly festive glow, for it comes from the village cnb.. The wooden crib was put


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up’next to the newsagent’s on Kmg Street on Saturday m o rn in g by a dozen members of the inter­ denominational Whalley Chnstian Action Group.


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A-COFFEE evening in aid of the Queen’s Silver


Jubilee fund, at . Whalley Abbey, arranged by the


. Lancashire Youth Clubs’ Cottam, of Church Lanej on January 21st. . . Association, attracted only Whalley, was disappointed - . . a handful of people.


Or g a n i s e r Mr P h i l similar event in the abbey Cottam on the far left..


with the response and Visitors are pictured at hopes for more support at a the wine wheel, with Mr


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ST JAMES’S Church, Clitherbe, was crowded on Thursday for the annual carol service for Clitheroe Brownies and Guides. Children and their parents


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have not had a great response from parishes and individuals. The total money allocated has not been taken up.


Of grants he said: “We feneraliy in “good heart”'


Onslow is to be further discussed.


.A detailed report by Mr


NEWLY-WEDS ‘STEAM’ TO RECEPTION


the coimle travelled m style to their reception at Stirk House on a steam engine.


IT was full steam ahead after the wedding at Gisbum Parish Church, on Saturday, of Thomas David Varley and Beverley Alison Lunt. For instead of using the more conventional taxi,


showman’s engine was driven by its owner, brideg­ room’s fa th e r Mr Tom


The gleaming 1913 Burrell


"Yarley, who collects and renovates antique engines at Todber Carayan Park, Gisbum.


eldest son of Mr and Mrs The bridegroom, the


ness. The bride, the only daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Lunt, of Hatton Hill Road, Litherland, Liverpool, is a former tax officer.


gown, with a short veil and


CLITHEROE Inner Wheel Club entertained 70 senior citizens at Trinity School.


club president Mrs Mary McCou, magician Mr John Pye and his wife Carol put on a show. Following supper, Father


After a welcome from the


her father, wore a long white Empire-line chiffon


. The bride, given away by


Varley, is. the trainee manager jn his father’s busi­


Catherine Varley, the bridegroom’s sister. Miss Sheila Bond and Miss Jane Sherrington, the bride’s cousin. They wore long floral cotton dresses with floral headdresses and carried posies of carnations and freesia. Mr Alan Bolland was best


honeymoon in the L ^ e District. Photograph: Westminster Stu^os, Langho. ■


Magician at party


Christmas distributed gifts from the tree, and everyone joined in carol singing, accompanied by pianist A& E. Lofthouse. M is s I . T y e rm a n


expressed thanks on behalf of the guests, and Mrs McColl wished everyone a happy Christmas.


man and ushers were Mr Terence Varley, the brideg­ room’s brother, Mr Michael Lunt, the bride’s brother and 1^ David Chapman. The couple are sMnding a


headdress and carried red roses and freesia. Bridesmaids were Miss


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78,000 sq. ft. animal food factory at Salthill Quany, by Clitheroe commiUer B. Dugdale and Sons, has been' approved by Kibble Valley Council’s Development Sul>- Committee.


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' The application will now go to the County Council for final approval. The sub-committee later


approved the council’s plan to build the first part of an access road to the industrial area from the Pimlico link road.


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George’s answer to messy


problem WHALLEY man George, Reynolds has a bone to pick, with the village’s dog owners — they keep allow­ ing their pets to foul the fo o tp a th ou ts id e his Accrington Road home. So now George' (29) has


has set tongues wagging George reckons it has done the trick. “There’s been hardly any mess since I put it up — people just keep wallong wnen they see it,” he said. “I was thinking of making it mush ruder but I d id n ’t want to' offend anyone.” George, an upholsterer,


put up a notice in his garden co n ta in in g ' th is b lu n t message: “Exercise your furry f riend’s backside elsewhere.” And although the notice


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said he was “sick and tired” of the mess .being left by pets outside his front gate. “I came down one morning and it was really bad so I decided to put up the notice,” he said. “Since then a lot of people have said they agree with me and quite a few have had'a good'laugh about it. I’ll probably take it down in about a week or so because I think everyone’s got the message now.” George, who is . married


with two young children, said that if the situation became bad again he would take up the matter with the


in 'Whalley about tidying up litter for the Best Kept Village competition but tms kind of thing is dangerous to health. There are other parts of the village affected as well as ours and I think we should concentrate on this problem first,” he added.


Place at Cambridge


is at present studying A- level biology, chemistry and physics.


Robert (1® will be studying for six years for a degree in v e t in ^ science. Robert, of Knowle Green,


CLITHEROE Royal Gram­ mar School student Robert Paul has been offered a place at Trinity Clollege, Cambridge. Starting next October,


A DISAPPOINTING TURN OUT ' i '".'I I vr - 1


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