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Richard’s gift of iHlito brother >v.


WHEN 21-year-old Billmgton man Mr Bernard Martin was told he must have a kidney transplant or die, his nine brothers


tests over two years,


all volunteered to be the donor. But after exhaustive


- only one brother — 30- year-old Low Moor lorry d r iv e r Mr Richard Martin — was consi­ dered to have a perfect­ ly-matching kidney. On T u e sd ay th e


BERNARD (left) and Richard, hoping that the operation will be successful


brothers go to Dulwich Hospital, London, to prepare for the life­ saving operation four days later.


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HUNDREDS of women in the Ribble Valley are missing out That is the view of Mr


Claude Brun, consultant surgeon to the Blackburn Health District, who is


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women checked must be’ “While we are having a over 40, though Mr Brun good response in other says there is a.possibility p la c e s , th in g s have b


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C l i th e ro e ,” he said. “There is no reason for this and there must be hundreds of women in the Ribble Valley who have not come forward to be examined.”


ecome really slack in


p a t te rn changes very quickly, the second cara­ van could be shifted to another location where it would be more readily used.


Unless the Clitheroe


November the unit has been stationed in the tow n ’s New Ma rk e t Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It works-in conjunc­ tion with the first cara­ van, which caters for women having th e i r yearly checks following their original screenings.


Each Tuesday since Fall-off The service operated by


Blackburn Health District is the only one in the country and Mr Brun feels this makes the Clitheroe trend especially sad.


matter of minutes and ap­ pointments can be ar­ ranged for callers to return later the same day.


Screening takes only a


with up to 25 appoint­ ments each day. While the number of women re­ turning to the original


Both caravans can deal


unit has maintained a steady-high level, staff at the second van have been virtually unemployed in Clitheroe in recent weeks, as a result of the fall-off in callers.


the caravan on the past four Tuesdays have been: five, six, three and three again.


The numbers visiting -


gures are disastrous and we could just as well deal with all the callers, in one


Said Mr Br.un: "These fi­ unit. Talk •’


or two, we will be review­ ing the figures for, the' second • c a ra v a n . in Clitheroe. 'At. the irioment, we are wasting time'-arid money sending it there and unless we see a sig­ nificant .increase, its trips to the town will finish.


“Over the next: month


HELPERS are pictured at Clitheroe Flower - . Club’s coffee morning, which made £64 for club - funds.


, - > It was held in the Clitheroe Mayor’s parlour,


The Mayoress, Mrs Doris Ainsworth, was^ay guest and won one of the raffle. prizes:(Mrs Mattie Dugdale was another winner. .


.


is the club’s only male member - and a very keen one. He serves, on the committee a . attends evening classes in flower arrangement. The club’s membership is growing. It noia


in which the visitors, many from outside the. , , monthly demonstrations, by experts, m tne district, took much interest.]


■ > l Ambulance room, j Afr, Norman Newby, of, Sabden (seen centre) - Mrs Edith Baldwin, is arranging. _ i - i ';1' “ ' T?ngho Church in August, which the presiaen ,


The next.meeting.is on.April 11th- Ano important diary date, i s ’a ftowervesaval


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first-time check-ups is so The distribution of .the severe th a t , Mr .Brun ase. group is: ,the .same warns there - w illb e no' throughout the>area,. but alternative but to lcahceL Mr Brun says the propor-


breast screening unit on its visits to Clitheroe. The drop in the num­ bers of women calling for


alarmed at the drastic fall in the number of women visiting the second mobile


on the chance to save their own lives. “We e s tim a te th a t


have seen about 7,000,” he said.


Yearly


throughout the Blackburn health district there, must be about 65,000 women who would qualify to be examined and so far we


“The situation is now entirely in the hands of


down tne appalling mor­ tality rate is to treat the disease in its early stages.


he only way' of cutting Depressing;


the only hope of doing this,”'said Mr Brun. “We have tried to make the process as simple as poss­ ible and have bent over backwards to encourage women to use the service. “But in Clitheroe the


.“These;mobile units are


ii .Breast 'cancer.'- claims 15,000 lives- in “England t and Wales each year and;


urn up. -


a talk at Clitheroe Health Centre about the import­ ance of the scheme and how it, works — yet only t 12 women bothered to


the women of the Ribble Valley.” Mr Brun recently gave


. PET poodle. "Spring? ■}


gang of workers at-ysg Clitheroe’s TGB Motor,


:


threatened to steal the ’ show when thia.hardyhxi set off on a five-mile ■


■ u p s e t sponsored run.


“Spring” hared off with the leading bunch of two-leggea athletes, but it was obvious he would not last the pace and he was rescued to await the return of the runners to the Woone Lane works.


situation is both disap­ pointing and depressing." The breast screening


project starterdin Sep­ tember, 1978, and in the first year, 5,250 women were examined through­ out the area. Nineteen cases were discovered and of these, 13 were only in the early stages and ap­ propriate treatment was undertaken. Since then, another 11


More than 20 employees donned running gear and pumps as part of a . campaign to raise money for a powered wheelchair for a local ' handicapped child.


Their efforts paid off, with an estimated £300 in sponsorship cash rolling in.


joggers completed the course, including 11-


Every one of the


cases have been detected — two from Clitheroe. “The odds on a woman


year-old Simon Pickles, ofBeechwood Avenue, ■


being treated and found to actually have the dis­ ease are very slim,” said Mr Brun. “But if the symptoms are picked up early enough, the result should not be viewed as an invitation to go and see the underfaker. “Instead of panicking,


Clitheroe, who went with his father, Mr John Pickles.


' Workshop manager


Mr John Zamorski kept, tabs on all the runners to see that no-one lagged too far behind.


With this success


woman should thank her lucky stars that there is still time for her to be successfully treated.”


under their belts, the workers hope to reach their target by holding several other fund­ raising functions.


m a r k e t t e n a n t s


CLITHEROE market trad e rs and footballers are angry, a t having to .


?ay higher charges for a c i l i t i e s f rom


Tuesday. The Ribbl e -VaUey


Council is doubling’the' rent of a market cabin from £5 to £10 a week, and stalls will cost £3.50 ’and £3 a day instead of £1.75 and £1.50. According to some trad­


ers, these cnarges will kill the Tuesday market. Following a meeting of


traders on Tuesday, their chairman, Mr Eric Kent, of Darwen, met Borough


Black and x told i him the; increases, were., unaccept- ■ able. . The traders also pro- • tested -about not being given , time to. negotiate with the council. .


E n g in e er ; ick


. Mr Dennis


now more expensive to s tand the market at Clitheroe than at Black- ■ burn covered market, which also had a better customer flow. At Clitheroe it was


Mr Kent claimed it was


necessary to rent two stalls to make a good dis­ play, and on Saturdays he had to have three. It would now cost him £27.50 in rent alone to


■ New venue for Sawley races


SAWLEY races are to have a new home. This year’s meeting on Satur­ day, May 3rd, will be at


- Westby Hall Farm, Gis- burn, part of the Gisburne- Park estate, half a mile from the village on the Burnley road. . Apart from a break


during the war, the Pendle Forest and Craven Hunt steeplechases have been held at Sawley on land near the top of


ricultural change, the far­ mers concerned are now unable to give up the land. Work is well under way


Sawley Brow. But following an ag­


on preparing the new course, which will also be about three miles long. Clerk of the course Mr F. I. Haighton, of Wadding- ton, said that the Gisburn site should provide better parking and access.


FLOWER CLUB RAISES £64 f


[ / ,


• -Mr Kent . agreed that: Clitheroe . charges had been-on the low side;: but. this had enabled a well-'’ balanced market to be built up.


come to Clitheroe twice a week. , ■ ' . -


leader Mr Geoff Jackson described the increased fees at Roefield, from £4.20 a match to £6, as “extraordinary.” He feared that Trinity


was not sufficiently at­ tractive to make increased trade possible, he said. Ribble Valley youth


However, the market Renewals


'WORK to. renew gas mains: in Clitheroe town


■ months, the Ribble Valley Council’s Public Works and Health Committee was told. - ,


centre will be carried out d u r i n g t h e c omi n g


It was three years ago


that Bernard learned he was suffering from a rare type of jaundice and had only three months to live. But then came the dis­


y e a r s , B e rn a rd ’s brothers all undenvent tests in case a transplant became necessary — but in the end only Richard ' was considered suitable.


covery of a wonder drug and since then Bernard has been kept alive by regular injections. A few weeks ago, however, doctors told him the treatment was no longer suitable and that he must have a transplant. During the three


P°,t1


wHV, nl r-d’ who llves hl~ widowed


W m e d by bis br°“;er s sacrifice.


As the illness has


her> Catherine, at ir Av®


nue> is over-


Bernard, a member of the Lancashire Caving and Climbing Club, has been having treatment at a special unit at Well­ ington Hospital, Man­ chester.


closure. Since becoming ill,


dent Richard’s kidney is a perfect match and say there is no danger of rejection by my body,” said Bernard, who worked at Abbey Mill, ,i‘hngton, before its


, |h e doctors are confi­


gradually rendered his kidneys useless, he has been'unable to find a job and forced to give up his strenuous activities.


Richard, of Nelson


S t r e e t , Low. Moor, admits he is a little nervous about the opera­ tion. He plans to keep in touch by telephone from London with his wife Moira and children Sher­ man (9), Reece (4) and Clint (2).


worried arid will be keeping their fingers crossed that all goes well,” he said. “But when your brother’s life


“All the'"'family are


is at stake you can hardly say ‘no’ to a transplant.”


brothers, both married, also live in Clitheroe: Steven in Tower Hill and Timothy in Woone Lane.


Two of the other


dence is that Timothy and his mother have contracted and reco­ vered naturally from the disease — a type of hepatitis — that now threatens Bernard’s life.


Provided all goes well,


Richard and Bernard will be home to lead normal lives two weeks a f te r the operation.


A remarkable coinci­


Then there will be celeb­ rations for all the Mar­ tins, especially Ber­ nard’s mother.


help, although I’m wor­ r ied for nis young family. But obviously I do not want to lose a son,” she said.


“I’m glad Richard can


that her late husband, Kenneth, is not here to see the results of the transplant. On Saturday it will be exactly a year since he died of a heart attack, aged 55.


given anything for Ber­ nard’s chances two years ago,” she added. Her only regret is


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Village bank closure blow


THE decision of Barclays Bank to pull out of Gis­ burn has come as a blow to many villagers.


.lack of success in finding alternative property.


take over the ground floor of Ribblesdale House, across the road. But the scheme was turned down by the Ribble Valley Council, because it was felt it would cause traffic problems. Now customers will have to go to the Clitheroe or Bamoldswick branches.


The bank wanted to


sure is being sent to the parish council by Gisburn garage proprietor Mr Kenneth Hodson.


A protest about the clo­


opened for a few hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays, closes down from today. This follows expiration of the lease for the bank’s Main Street offices and


The sub-branch, which


the bank, especially far­ mers who use the Auction Mart. Many of them have been complaining to me about the closure,” he said.


“A lot of folk rely on


of Church View, could not see why the bank should not be allowed to operate from Ribblesdale House.


Mrs Margaret Storey,


to park and, anyway, a lot of people simply walk there,” she said. ,


“If anything it is easier


Clitheroe branch, Mr Terry Mills, said that be­ cause no other site was available they had no al­ ternative but to leave the village.


Manager of Barclays


to all our customers advis­ ing them what to do,” said Mr Mills, “but many of them will be inconveni­ enced.”


“We have sent letters


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