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DO you have a nest box in your garden? Many birds prospect for suitable nest sites before the breeding season and you will have more chance of having nesting blue tits, for example, if you put the box up well in advance. However, even I must admit that January is rather on the- early side. There is another reason for having nest boxes
.*:%• Dedication pays eft
THE dedication and en deavour of three Clitheroe teenagers has earned them the Chief Scout’s award. Simon Pickles (14) and
Paul Taylor (15), both of the 1st Pendle Scouts and Alan Taylor (16), of the SS Michael and John group, will be presented with their certificates at a ceremony at Calderstones Hospital, on January 18th, by Mr Paul Millett, executive director of flight operations with B r i t i s h A e ro sp a c e , Warton. The Scouts have had to
At 14 he has done ex tremely well to gam the award, which is normally taken at 16. Simon is a keen sportsman, he plays football, badminton and volleyball for his school, table-tennis for his house and is also keen on running.
is a pupil of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. A scholar at the Blackburn School of Music, he, piays in the youth group at St James’s Church. Alan, of Pimlico Road,
Paul of Delacy Street,
complete a series of tasks and tests to qualify for the award, including com munity service, canoeing and mountaineering. Simon, of Beechwood
Top bird
FOR the second time in two seasons a homing pigeon owned by Sabden fancier Mr Colin Cooke has been named bird of the year by Great Har wood Homing Society. It was the only bird in
FWOKORTHB
Barry in line for company honour
.A CLITHEROE fitter is among 15 of Rolls-Royce’s
top craftsmen, Barry Townson (20),
who- works at the com pany’s Barnoldswick fac tory, has been nominated to receive a Hives Prize — the highest craft award the company can bestow.
to newly-qualified appren tices at all the company’s factories. Of the 40 at Barnoldswick who qual ified as skilled craftsmen during 1981, only Barry, of Peel Park Close, and
The competition is open
one other have been nomi nated. The award is given each
y e a r , in memory of former Rolls-Royce man aging d ire c to r Lord Hives, to the 15 leading Rolls-Royce, craftsmen who have been monitored for various qualities throughout, their four-year apprenticeship. They are assessed on
qualification as skilled .craftsmen, a final selec tion of the best two candi dates is made during in terviews by a panel of managers. Barry, a former pupil of
Colne College and is cur rently working towards his Higher Technician’s Certificate at Burnley College.
personality, craftsmanship initiative, effort and their technical college work until a. list emerges of eight leading candidates. Then, following their
Ribblesdale School, qual ified as a fitter on his 20th birthday in August and will receive £75 in- cash, as well as an. impressive scroll, when he,collects his award in Derby next month. During his apprentice
Certificate at Nelson and
A belated gift for Gillian
CLITHEROE woman Miss Gillian Cowell has received a belated Christ mas present in the shape of a d o c to ra te of philosophy. Miss Cowell (25), of
Buccleuch Avenue, studied biochemistry at Leeds. University -and w en t on. to gain a Bachelor of Education degree there before work ing for her Ph.D.
is a pupil of St Augus tine’s, Billington. A keen fisherman, he has just jo in e d th e V e n tu re Scouts.
Avenue, is a pupil of Rib blesdale School, Clitheroe.
ably very proud of his achievement, is also cur rently involved in the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme.
Barry, who is justifi
ship,' he studied for his Ordinary Technician’s
pleted a sponsored para chute jump to ra ise money for local particip ants and is now looking forward to qualifying for his own coveted “gold.”
. In spring, 1980, he com
Pasi begil foeai
THE year 1981 publicity about loc;| referendums, chang ing the rating systej
tors, the Ribble Val Council has made gl progress in furthering! policies and plans.
Despite- all these
WAREINGS PLAICE 6 WHALLEY ROAD, SABDEN
BARRIE and KATH ' are pleased to announce the OPENING of
Sabden’s New “ VILLAGE CHIPPY”
OPEN from LUNICH JANUARY 12th, 1982
Whalley scheme is \ j under way. The Salt| reclamation scheme been completed wi much of the preparat! work for industry eluded in it. The museum has hal
scheme at Ribchesterf now occupied, and
The sheltered housl I
successful season since! removal to Castle Ho| and the former museur in good use as a Heritl Centre run by the Cl Society, in addition f providing a home for N o rth West Sou| Archive. In the field of reci|
tion and leisure and sociated tourist proii tional work it is pleafj to see new initiatives. During the year
PAUL
' Since completing the course, she spent a year
writing her thesis and worked in the laboratories at Copenhagen University in Denmark. She has also done laboratory prepara tion work for a conference in East Germany.
the Blackburn Federation race to complete the 525- mile race from ’ Niort, in Northern France, last July. It was released at 6- 10 a.m. and Mr Cooke clocked it in at 9-04 p.m. that day. The Blackburn Federa
s tay in Denmark for another year and then hopes to gain employment with a university in this country, specialising in laboratory research work.
Miss Cowell intends to SIMON
tion includes Blackburn, Great Harwood, Oswald- twistle, Chatburn and Clitheroe. ' Mr Cooke’s bird of the year, a three-year-old pied cock, is as yet un named and he invites sug gestions for a name that will reflect the Sabden or Pendleside connection.
ALAN
Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar School and is the ' only daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Cowell. Her hob bies include fell walking.
She is a former pupil of
CTC Cruises. The Mikhail Lermontov refurbished, refitted and better than ever.
A CURIOUS CARVING
FUNNY, isn’t it, how you can walk past something, day after day, year after year, and never see it? Something that, when your attention is final-
ly drawn, to it, makes you say .“Good heavens. Why have I never seen that before?” Such an instance has oc
curred within the past few- days. A neighbour, one of my favourite neigh bours, said to me, “Mr Fell, that so-and-so out side the bank. Above the door. What is it?” I didn’t know; I couldn’t
Leaves Tilbury at 1600 Sunday, July 4th, calling at the following ports. OSLO, 1000, Tuesday, July 6th, 8 hours in port.
tell her; I’d never seen it. Or more accurately, I must have seen it — almost every day for 50 years — but it had never registered. I determined firstly to
up in the winter; small birds use them to roost in at night. Wrens have communal roosts in which they help keep one another warm. I saw three wrens enter a box the other evening. How many were already inside or yet to come, I do not know, but a friend found 15 in one last year. Apart from the cold, birds in winter face lack
of bloke and I know he’ll keep his word, so I look forward to our next meet ing with interest and, due course, will tell you 'all about it. Meantime, next time
help me. “I’ll look into the archives. Get in touch with our- buildings and maintenance department,” he promised.. “Perhaps they’ll be able to tell us something. I’ll let you know,” and he went inside to resume his duties. Well, he’s a decent sort
The official couldn’t
have a good look and sec ondly to find out. I went down the street and had my good look. There it
of food and, lack of daylight in which to find it. They must adapt or perish. Canada geese nor mally graze on fields, but the grass around Stocks Reservoir was under a thick blanket of
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snow when I was there. The geese were on one of the few ice-free patches and dipping their heads under water to feed on sumerged vegeta tion — a method normally only used by swans.- Other species adapt by coming into gardens.
Large numbers of blue and great tits and chaf finches have been coming to my garden, to- ’ gether with almost as many greenfinches. Starlings are .opportunists; they swoop down
when food is first put out and then disappear again, having gobbled it all up. Even the black headed gulls have descended occasionally, but the resident house sparrows are strangely de pleted.
TONY COOPER
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. to the length of asking a question'on the subject on a “Gardeners’ Question Time” programme. Even Fred Loades and Alan Gemmell couldn’t be very helpful and I resigned myself to a hollyless future. Then, earlier this week,
view, in years past I have planted two saplings. To no avail; my fingers are not green. ■ I even went
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might expect to see on an old cathedral or castle from the Middle Ages, but certainly not on a bus iness establishment that has never been used for any dther purpose and has been standing a mere 70 years. “Do you think it came
the bank I called an offi cial outside. He must have passed through the door hundreds of times; indeed at one. time’ lived almost next door to it. I pointed upwards.
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’ I was doing, a spot of weeding — a soul-des troying job — pulled out handfuls of some of the most luxuriant weeds in the village, and there was a little holly tree! It had planted itself or
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•some well-disposed bird had done it for me. Only eight or so inches tall, but
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worries. Firstly, dare I try to uproot arid trans plant the little thing, for it is growing in a very inconvenient- spot, or would I kill it in the process?
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“Ever seen that before?” I asked. He shook his head' wonderingly. “No,” he answered. “What on earth is it?” “You tell me," I said
and expou n d ed my theory. “Old so-and-so was the first manager,” I said. “He was a great man for collecting curios.' Perhaps he had it put there?”
Secondly, is it’a male or a female holly? Sorry to
get on the subject of sex, but only. • female bushes bear berries and there is no way an ig n o ran t amateur can tell the dif ference. So have' I got a he or a
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she? What does the future hold? Shall I have a holly tree and no berries, or will the little miracle real ise my fondest dreams? In
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justed to take advant! of potential econonl from the central off! and changed economic | cumstances. In all I would reg
council’s manageml structure has been I
, progress in the year b | believe that the fouif tion laid since 1974 already beginning to fruit. A considerable pari
some signs that the wf of the recession may| passing. National cumstances will hav-j strong influence on
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