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THE Ion? wait for a vicar for of


is the Mr Cave


but brought up in Brigh­ ton, Mr Cave (43) trained for the ministry


two years after the Rev. Arthur Higginson re­ tired as priest-in-charge of St John’s, Hurst Green, and the ancient All Hallows’ Church, ■ Mitton, the Rev. Brian Cave will take charge of the two parishes. Born in Blackburn,


churches. Later


two Ribble Valley this


summer, inally n t over parishioners


at Oak Hill Theological College, London, and was vicar of Bootle from 1973 to 1977.


.


he has been living 'at Nailsea, Bristol, as area secretary for the Lep­ rosy Mission.


For the last four years


family were in Hurst Green for two days to­ wards the end of last week, arranging school


erie have three children, Sarah (16), Andrew (15) and eleven-year-old Timothy. Mr Cave and his


He and his wife Val­


places for the children, but they returned south on Friday to finalise ar­ rangements for selling their home in Bristol.


John’s, Mr John Peel and Mr Reg Coupe, said • they were delighted that a vicar had finally been found after two years of relying on retired and part-tune clergymen and lay readers to keep going.


Churchwardens at St


Craven brought Mr Cave along to look over the parishes a couple of


“The Archdeacon of weeks ago, he liked the


area and decided to make the move,” said Mr Peel.


very pleased and look forward to him taking over , hopefully on August 29th.”


churches, however, are still without v ic a rs ,’ many of them after, months of searching for suitable candidates.


Four Ribble Valley


Church was left without a vicar when the Rev. J.


Round the world to find a


TWO Ribble Valley girls are among a party, of 17 young people who are all set to go job-hunting — anywhere in the world!


Warwick Drive, Clitheroe and 20-year-old. Jeanette Bliss, of Mitton Road, Whalley, and the rest of the party — aged bet­ ween 19 and 26 — set off in mid-September on a three-year round-the- world trip whith will take in 18 countries.


Jill Burgess (21), of


employed, seven are cur­ r e n t ly on short-time working and three plan to give up what they con­ sider to be “dead end” jobs to make the trip. For Jeanette, a former


pupil of Ribblesdale School, it will be her first trip abroad. After holding


men and one girl are from th e Ros sendale and Nelson and Colne areas. Seven of them are un­


The other 14 young


down various jobs since leaving school, she has been unemployed since Christmas and sees little prospect of finding work in this area.


stranger to foreign travel. A former pupil of Rivers- mead School, Grindleton, she has visited a number of European countries. Last week she gave up her job at Whiteside's wine merchants, Clitheroe and on Tuesday flew to New York City to start a 10-week summer job as a counsellor at a children's camp.


Jill, however, is no /


from America, . the job­ hunters will be all set to make the world their oyster.


By the time Jill returns


an opportunity to see more of the world and this seems the ideal op­ portunity,” said Jill before flying to the States. “Unless you are going


“I had been looking for


enough money to get us to Spain and, hopefully, then we will find jobs and become totally self-suffi­ cient.”


to work, as I am in New York, it is difficult for a girl to go on her own. So a group is the answer. “We will all be taking


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YOUNG Gary Miller (13) was left “holding the baby” when he took part in Ribblesdale School’s gala day on Saturday.,- Gary’s over­ grown charge, complete with nappy and


dummy, was Stephen Worthington, also 13, and. the unlikely couple were taking part in the best-dressed mother and baby contest. For a full report of the gala fun see page 7-


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to make the trip in two Land-Rovers but after a film about the venture ap­ peared on television last week, a man offered the group a £32,000 army desert vehicle with .only 6,000 miles on the clock, for just £7,000.


mediately and said how much he admired our de­ termination and enter­ prise,” said Jeanette, “We are now saving to buy the army vehicle, which would suit our needs ide­ ally.” In charge of fund-rais- ■


“He contacted us im­


ing for the vehicle is Nelson woman Mrs Jean Burrows, whose 19-year-


P a lm e r and David Jonathan, who first had the idea of working their way around the world. They originally planned


the planned trip through an advertisement placed in a local newspaper by Rossendale youtns Brian


been looking for a job since Christmas without any success. At least abroad we will have a chance of work.” Both girls heard about


Said Jeanette: “I have Last October, Tosside “Naturally, we are all


Salisbury left the area, and priest-m-charge the Rev. George Parker is still looking after Whal- ley Parish Church six months after the Rev. Alec Harpur retired.


John William Winder re­ tired as vicar of St Peter and Paul’s, Bolton-by- Bowland, and earlier this month, St Am­ brose’s, ■ Grindleton, joined the growing list of vacant parishes when th e R e v . E r n e s t Sidebottom retired to Grassington.


In April, the Rev.


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Jobless


THE jobless total in the Clitheroe area during June rose slightly com­ pared with last month, ac­ cording to figures issued bv the town’s employment office on Tuesday.


JEANETTE (left) and Jill discuss their world tour.


Mr David Waddington and his Nelson arid Colne counterpart Mr John Lee have already pledged


taking the Prime Minister at her word and going out to look for work,” said Mrs Burrows, “I am full of admiration for them. I believe they are going into this with plenty or ambition and common- sense and I think they will make a success of it." Clitheroe Division MP


old daughter Helen is the third girl making the trip. “The young people are


route has already been mapped out and will take in Spain, Africa, the Sahara Desert, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Malaya, Australia and North and South America.


300 letters of appeal at the weekend ana has al­ ready had some positive response. The young people’s


their support for the young people’s trip and Mrs Burrows said she be­ lieved that Mrs Thatcher had been told about it. Mrs Burrows sent out


women are seeking work — an increase of 53.


A total of 531 men and


centage now stands at 4.5 compared with 4.1 in May and 2.4 in June, 1980.


Concert profit


A CHEQUE for £230, the proceeds of a concert and sale at English Martyrs RC Church, Whalley, on May 30th, was presented to Coun. Jimmy Fell, chairman of the Ribble Valley committee for the International Year of Dis­ abled People, by parish priest Fr Thomas Murray.


Gary’s left holding the baby A rare


so they thought


W EST B R AD FO RD water bailiff Colin Mar- ginson thought that it was a typical fishing tale when an angler phoned to say that he had landed a lobster from the Ribble.


when Mr Peter Baker, of Kay Street, Clitheroe, handed in his “catch."


But his doubts faded


long and had the charac­ teristic colour, tail and pincers of the' sea-going gourmet’s delight.


It was over four inches


from the sea," said Mr Marginson. “However, it looked like


handed the crayfish to the North West. Water Au­ thority Fisheries’ Division for examination.


the real thing until it changed colour. It is the largest crayfish I have ever seen ana must be the grandfather of them all.” Mr Marginson has


joking when he phoned be­ cause he caught the thing at Grindleton bridae which is about 40 mites


the . s.hell changed to brown to reveal that the. “lobster” teas in fact a giant freshwater crayfish. "7 thought Mr Baker ivas


the mystery unfolded. The blue-black sheen on


But a few hours later Mayor


to visit doomed schools


nally planned to start touring schools in the autumn b u t , decided to advance the programme to take in the two schools which are due to close at the summer holidays,” said a Ribble Valley coun­ cil official. Other schools which wilt


will be made later in the year. ■,


For NSPCC


A FLAG day for the NSPCC in Clitheroe and Chatburn on Saturday realised £328.39. Commit­ tee members of the Clitheroe. branch, of the society thank everyone who supported .them.


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HIGH standards, with some excellent costume details, were set at Clitheroe’s first-ever dance fe s t iv a l on- Saturday. Some 320 entrants


danced th e i r way through a full day’s programme of competi­ tions with 15 trophies at stake. One youngster to


Civic Hall — the venue for the festival — are pupils from other local dancing schools who did well. They are (back, from


shine was Alison War- burton (5), of Simon- stone Road, Sabden. She is pictured (front)


proudly trophy and medal “she won along with second and third placings. With her outside the


. into a unit to be used to reintroduce patients to normal community life. Health district adminis­


.deinstitutionalised before -being given some inde­ pendence.


trator Mr Joseph Hester has given an assurance that patients would be carefully selected and


S tep h e n is to p s


the left): Je an e tte H a r t le y , Michelle Jones, Louise Topham and Zoey Hacking- Front: Tania Lambert and Stephanie Mitchell.


year to become an ap­ prentice with Electronic Developments in Burnley. He-is. the only son of Mr an d Mrs Raymond Sweeney of Park Street, Clitheroe.


his award at a presenta­ tion evening at the Silver- man Hall, Nelson, on Friday. . He left Ribblesdale last


Prentice of the year at the Stephen (17) received


endle Training Centre, Burnley.


FORMER Ribblesdale School pupil Stephen Sweeney has become ap-


points against the scheme in a letter to the council’s Borough Planning and Technical Officer Mr Philip Bailey. • Though the applica­


tion says that the first patients are to be chil­ dren, there is no guaran­ tee that the centre will not be used eventually by adults. O There is extreme ap­


prehension because the extent of day and night su p e rv is io n is not* known.


• Disappointment has Continued on page 14.


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the Eshton Terrace site is unsuitable for such a centre, according to the collectors of the petition Mrs Elizabeth Hulland and Mrs Linda Bolton.. They list a number of


sort of half-way house for these people,” he ex­ plained. But the residents feel


‘The centre would be a


Health Authority wants to convert 8 and 10 Eshton Terrace — for­ merly a children’s clinic —


test petition, containing more than:250 signatures, to the Ribble Valley Council, expressing great anxiety over the proposed unit. The Lancashire Area


A SCHEME to provide a rehabilitation centre for patients from Brockhall Hospital in Eshton Ter­ race, Clitheroe, is worry­ ing local residents. They have sent a pro­


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