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Times Traders bring out the Royal bunting]-


CLITHEROE trad­ ers are planning a colourful red, white and blue welcome for Prince Charles when he passes through the town on his way to Calderstones a week tomorrow.


The Prince will ar­


rive in the Royal Train at Clitheroe Station and be driven through the town centre, which will be decked with bunting from Castlegate to the Library clock.


Individual shopkeep­


ers are also expected to decorate their windows on a Royal theme.


The bunting will be


erected by a team of Chamber of Trade vol­ unteers, led by vice-


president Mr Geoff Cross. He said: “We asked each trader in the main street for a £5 do­ nation towards the £300 cost of the bunting.”


corations were a last- minute idea, so there has only been time to cover this area. How­ ever, the bunting will be brought out again for the Royal wedding in July when i t . is hoped other areas of town will join in.


Any trad e r s in ­


terested in taking part in the July .celebrations are asked to contact Mr Cross at Penthouse Pot­ tery (Tel. 23244) or Mr Barry Stevens at Out of Doors (Tel. 24246). When Prince Charles


Unfortunately, the de­


" arrives at Calderstones, a group of youngsters from Trinity Youth Centre, Clitheroe, are among those hoping to have a chat with him. About 20 club mem­


' past and present connec­ tions with Galderstones and those lining the route to the hospital. v But Calderstones’ ad­


bers regularly give up their free time in the evenings to help run — with leader Mr Geoff Jackson and members of the hospital staff — ac­ tivities at the hospital children’s club. That is one of a number of nursing and ancillary departments the Prince will visit during a three-and-a-half hour stay, at the invita­ tion of the 1,200 resi­ dents, to mark the hos­ pital’s diamond jubilee. And he is sure of a


warm welcome from thousands of people with


ministrator Mr Frank Pope stresses that the Prince 'will see Calder­ stones as it is every day. “There will be nothing


special. Prince Charles will see the residents either at work or at home,” he says. ’ Officials from the reg­


ional and area health au­ thorities, together with the district management team and hospital staff, will be presented to the Prince. A keen horseman, the


Prince will no doubt take great interest in th r e e ponies being brought into Calder­ stones for the day.


These are -used by dis­ abled children from the hospital when they pay


weekly visits to the home o f . the Lord Lieutenant of Lanca­ shire, Mr Simon Tow- neley.


. A f te r lunch, the


Prince will unveil a plaque commemorating his visit, during which he will receive the gift of a rug from one of the residents.


His. last duty will be


to sign the visitors’ book before leaving for a number of engagements in Preston and Black­ pool.


Hundreds of personal


invitations have been sent to relatives of resi­ dents, retired staff and


voluntary groups or indi­ viduals connected with Calderstones.. In addi­ tion, Mr Pope extends an'“open house” invita­ tion to villagers in Whalley.


. says. • •Far from relaxing


to the big day, the at­ mosphere a t . Calder­ stones is “simmering”, according to Mr Pope. “I expect bunting and pic­ tures of the Prince and Lady Diana to appear shortly everywhere,” he


With just over a week


after the Royal visit, staff at Calderstones. will then be concentrating on the hospital’s gala day on June 27th — the cen­ trepiece of celebrations to mark its diamond jubilee.


right to vote’ appeal


. . . but fight to go on


THE mental health action group MIND is to appeal against this week’s further refusal by the Ribble Valley Council’s


Chief Executive, Mr Michael Jackson, to overturn his deci­ sion to refuse 618 Calderstones patients the right to vote. Mr Jackson, who is


Dance to help others


friends to an evening of entertainment and


PUPILS of the Mar­ garet Sandham'School of Dancing treated th eir parents and


raised £50 Denys Clitheroe. The display, in Wad-


fo r St Home,


dington Methodist Schoolroom, included


tap dancing, sketches, songs and ballet. About 60 youngsters took oart.


ganised by a committee of parents of the Wad- dington children.


Well, fancy that!


AN uninvited French vis­ itor has outstayed her welcome at a Clitheroe mill and is threatened with eviction. But workers at F. W.


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Bramwell’s Greenacre Street premises are reluc­ tant to oust a blue racing pigeon and her' two youngsters from a second floor nest. Now they are appealing


to local fanciers to take the feathered trio off their hands. The pigeon, along with a number of others, took up residence at Holmes Mill after vandals broke some windows. The rest left, but the


French visitor (identified from the ring) stayed on and is raising her second pair of youngsters in a nest on top of a carton of yarn cones. “We want to clean up


the mess left by the birds and replace the broken windows, but can’t do anything because of the hen bird coming in and out to feed her young,” said an employee. “We would be very


pleased if someone would take them off our hands.” Any fancier with a


spare place in his loft should contact the mill (Clitheroe 26011).


Injured at mill


A DESPATCH supervisor wa^ “quite comfortable” in Blackburn Royal Infir­ mary yesterday, following an accident at Smith and Nephew’s Chatburn mill. Mr Alexander Stuart


Rotherham (3 8 ) , of Latham Street, Preston, was climbing a ladder with a bale of cloth when he slipped and fell to the floor. The roll landed on top of him and he re­ ceived minor back in­ juries.


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F IFTEEN Clitheroe teenagers were among 12,000 young people who attended the Methodist Association of Youth Clubs’ annual weekend conference in London.


The youngsters, of


Trinity Sunday School Youth Group, travelled down by coach under the


, supervision of leader Mick Coles and his wife Helen and'attended a number of events which- had peace, unemployment and dis­ ablement as their themes.


It was the second year


in.: succession that the Trinity Group has at­ tended the. conference.'


given to teenagers when they misbehave them­ selves that it is very en­


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couraging to see 12,000 youngsters taking part so enthusiastically in some­ thing worthwhile,” said Mr Coles.


outside the church before setting off for London;'


The party is pictured The evening teas or­


electoral, registration of­ ficer for the Clitheroe constituency, said that unless staff are prepared to give certificates to the effect .that residents of the hospital are not, in fact, patients, he had no alternative. He said that he was


legally obliged to refuse the vote to people in an establishment for the treatment of mental disor­ ders, adding that the question of whether the 618 who were applying for the vote had the mental capacity to vote was not something he could take into consideration.


Incapable


at Calderstones for 44 years before retirement in 1976, believed that 90 per cent of the patients were illiterate and “totally in­ capable of understanding the political scene.” “During all my years at Calderstones, hardly any


by former Ribble Valley Mayor Coun. Jimmy Fell, of Whalley, who made a private submission to the hearing in the interests of “the good and sensible ad- minist'ration of this country.” Coun. Fell, who worked


His view was supported


patients expressed a desire to vote,” he said. Monday's public hear­


ing, filmed by a BBC documentary unit, was the first stage of a nation-, al test case which MIND claims will affect the status of 120,000 people living in mental health in­ st itu t ion s across the country. MIND’s legal director,


Mr Larry Gostin, called five residents as witnes­ ses, all of whom, he claimed, were of “average or above average intelli­ gence”, despite some of them having physical dis­ abilities.


' Mr Gostin described the


legal anomaly which guided Mr Jackson’s deci­ sion, under the terms of the 1949 Representation of the People Act,' as a “monstrous injustice” and stressed MIND’s determi­ nation to take the case “as far as it needs to go”.


The next step will be to


take it to the county court and, if necessary, to the House of Lords, with the European Commission of Human Rights as a furth­ er possibility. At the Clitheroe hear­


ing, Mr Gostin argued that the 618 were “resi­ dents” rather than “pa­ tients” and that 'Calder­


stones was a home rather than a hospital.


He said that up to half


of the residents who had applied for the right to vote were in Calderstones not because of any need for medical treatment, but simply because they had nowhere else to go.


Angry One of them, Mr Harold


Poynor (64), who has been at Calderstones since 1933, said he was “angry and sad” that his name was no longer on the elec­ toral roll.


Mr Poynor was one of


the 110 patients entered on the roll at the request of staff in October 1978.


the local and general elec­ tions of May 1979. Mr Poynor said that he wanted to cast his vote so much that he reached the polling station despite col­ lapsing on the way be­ cause of a heart condition.


Many of them voted in Miss Irene McCabe


(56), who left the hospital last year, said: “I have a right to vote. I am just as intelligent as the people outside. The people in Calderstones watch the


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PUPILS of Downham School had a bird’s eye view of the village on Tuesday when they were treated to a flight in a plane. One of the children’s


port where he is manag­ ing director of a com­ pany and showed them the fire engines and the control tower. 1 But the highlight of


parents, Mr David But- terworth, took 20 junior pupils to Blackpool Air­


the trip was a flight in a l ig h t a ir c ra f t from Blackpool to the Ribble Valley where they had a


Stained glass window stolen from church


THIEVES who broke into Whalley’s English Martyrs’ Roman Catholic Church on Saturday


morning escaped ■ with an unusual haul — a complete stained glass window.


It is believed they used the sacristy beside the


a screwdriver to remove the 5ft. by 2ft. 6in. window from its frame in


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vered by parish priest Fr Thomas Murray on Satur­ day morning. “At first I thought it


might have been blown out by the wind, but there .was no sign of glass anywhere,” he said. “The window was do­


scene of the Resurrection with the figures of Mary, Mary Magdalene and Salome. Police are also inves­


nated by a parishioner when the church was built in 1929 and the theft could upset relatives.” The window depicts the


tigating another spate of thefts in the Clitheroe area. A shed was entered at


green Viking Jubilee gent’s cycle, valued at £50, was taken from the rear of 52 Kenilworth Drive. Ah incident in which a


number of 'television aerial cables were cut at St James’s CE School, Greenacre Street, is .also being investigated.


the rear of 8 Fairfield Close and beef valued at £150 taken from a deep freeze. . Thieves also removed a red Raleigh . sports cycle from a shed at the rear of 46 Turner Street. The cycle carried the serial number HEO 128295 and is valued at £130. In a similar theft, a


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they had lunch and re­ turned to the school by coach to talk about their adventure.


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also joined by the two Clitheroe sisters Mrs Esther" Clark and Mrs Margaret McKenna who recently led a sponsored walk in aid of the disabled. The party took a


the walk in fine style, including the two youngest tr ek k e r s Laura Cook. (5) .and Rachel Thompson '(6), but it will he some time before all the sponsorship money is collected. The walkers were


M E M B E R S a n d friends of the Clitheroe One Parent Group are pictured at the start of a 10-mile fund-raising walk on Sunday. Everyone finished


routebeginning at Wal­ loper well on Wadding- ton Fell and going to Grindleton, West Brad­ ford and along the riverbank to Edisford. Their next fund-rais­


ing event is a disco at the Pendle Hotel, Chatburn, on June 18th.


Better road


LANCASHIRE County Council is to improve the A59 at Gisburn by build­ ing a new stretch of road to bypass Greengates Farm, the Ribble Valley Public Works and Health Committee was told on Tuesday.


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