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and Times Third chance for say on schools’ issue
THE Ribble Valley’s g r e a t ed u cat ion debate continues . on Wednesday with a third public meeting on the highly con troversial proposal to reorganise secondary education in the Clitheroe area. Parents who have not
“We don’t want anyone to be able to say in six months’ time that they
have.not had an adequ ate chance to air their views.” A c co rd in g to Mr
tee, by Mr W. A. Finch, and jointly by Messrs Malcolm Blackburn and David King. Mr Blackburn and Mr
yet had a chance to air their views at either of the two previous meet ings are urged by Dis trict Education Officer Mr David Staton to attend at the Ribbles- dale School sports hall (7-30 p.m.). “Everyone is welcome
Staton, letters are con tinuing to pour into county hall and the local education offices, the vast majority of them calling for the retention of the current selective education system.
to come but in particular we would like to see those who have not been to either of the two ear lier meetings,” he said.
sion the county outlined four options and a furth er three have since been proposed by members of the public. All seven will be under the spotlight at Wednesday’s meeting.
As a basis for discus
The three additional proposals have been sub
mitted by the Save Our Schools action commit
King’s scheme is a varia tion of the county’s orig inal option number four and calls for one 11-18 school with upper and lower schools, as origi nally suggested by the education committee. But it suggests basing the first two years at the Girls’ Grammar School and the following three at Ribblesdale. All sixth-form teach
ing ■ would be at the Boys’ School premises, eventually transferring to Ribblesdale.
vocates the retention of the principle of selection at the age of 11, the
Mr Finch’s scheme ad
• for the iieeds of the 16- 19 age group on the
. sion of such an all-em bracing institution is
■ meet the specific needs of the district,” says Mr Finch. “I feel that the inclu-
should provide not only, academic A-level courses but should, also cater for the wider needs of that age group by providing other general education, business and vocational courses in’ Clitheroe to
York Street site. “This latter component
formation of a coeduca tional grammar school on the. Chatburn Road site, the retention of Ribblesdale and Bow- land Schools in their present form and ■ the setting up of a separate establishment to cater
particularly appropriate at a time of high unem ployment among young people and when the nearest available courses. a re a t p re se 'n t a ' minimum of 11 miles from Clitheroe.”
by th e “ Save Our Schools” action group currently compiling a petition, basically prop oses that all four schools should continue as at present on four separate sites with greater flexi bility for interchange and transfers where necessary after annual reviews of pupils’ work. Details of these three
options were sent by letter to parents before Easter, but due to a misunderstanding the letter stated that Messrs
Scheme six, submitted ■
King, Blackburn 'and Finch advocated closing Bowland.
on our part,” said Mr Staton, “and will be re ctified before the Rib blesdale meeting starts. None of these gentlemen have in fact suggested closure of Bowland.”
“This was a mistake
Schools” action group le ad e r Mrs Pauline Brown said this week that the gathering of signatures for a petition calling for the retention of the present selective education system was going very well.
The “ Save Our
presented at the meet ing a t R ib b le sd a le School.
The petition is to be
New company’s bright future at Sal thill
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MR COWLING (left) and Mr Cowell watch as an engineer puts the finishing touches to a gritting machine manufactured at the Burnley works.
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A THREE-DAY festival of Village life at Bolton- by-Bo\Vland started in fine fashion on Sunday with more than £400 being taken for the church roof fund.
raised. Mrs Nancy Corn-
Altogether £1,145 was
thwaite, who organ ised it, on behalf of SS Peter and Paul’s Church, said that they were de lighted by the- whole effort, considering that it was a village first. “Crowds flocked to see
to tne. local' employment front could be in the offing by 1984, for the directors of Transport En gineering, which begins operations at the Up- brooks Industrial Estate next week, are already p lan n in g a move to bigger, purpose-built pre mises on the same site. Transport Engineering
And an even bigger boost
work for our machines to firms in the Clitheroe area and we will continue to do so.” But Mr Cowling sees.
the-new premises, one of the four advanced fac tories leased by English ■ Industrial Estates, as only a “starting point.” "Within a year, this fac
was formed last De cember by two former di rectors of Atkinson’s of> Clitheroe — Mr Tony Humphreys and Mr Jeff Cowling, together with Mr Rodney S ed d o n , whose Burnley company Custom Steel has pro vided a base, for the new firm since its formation.
Specialised
gineering is all set to switch operations to Clitheroe, which, Mr Cowling told the Adver tiser and Times, has always been its intention. “The Ribble Valley is -
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the traditional home of winter maintenance machinery and we wanted to make sure we kept up that tradition,” he said. “Even while we have
the displays of flowers, crafts and activities of 13 local organisations,” she said.
Pensioner’s
home raid THIEVES broke ot^n the front door of a Clitheroe pensioner’s home in broad
been based at Burnley, we have sub-contracted much of the specialised
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daylight while she was in town shopping. They used a crowbar to
A BOTTLE bank should be in operation in the centre of Clitheroe by the beginning of June. Preston grocery firm E.
en ter the Hawthorne Place home of Miss Kath leen Hargreaves (78), and took £20 in cash. The intruders went
making inquiries into the raid, which happened on th e T u esd ay b efo re Easter. Anyone who saw anything suspicious should contact them on Clitheroe
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Ribblesdale . reunion
FORMER students of Ribblesdale School in
Mr Chris Roberts, who is organising the reunion as part of the school’s golden jubilee celebrations, said the- response so far had been “most encouraging.”
terested in helping to or ganise a reunion of the first pupils in 1932 are to meet at Ribblesdale a week tonight.' Head of mathematics,
H. Booth! which is build-, ing a £lm. supermarket on the old railway sidings, has agreed to sponsor a bank to be positioned on the store’s car park. One condition, the
tory will be too small for us,” he said, “but we had to start off with the right overheads. The 3,000 sq. ft. here will be sufficient space for the first 12 months’ operation.
Help
tually is to move to a much larger, purpose- built factory elsewhere on the estate and use the original premises as a repair and service depot.” Transport Engineering,
“But the intention even Ambitious
set up with . the help of the Department of Indus t r y ’s loan guarantee scheme and the National Westminster Bank, has already built up a>number of lucrative contracts. Within the next few
weeks, Mr Cowling hopes to announce the acquisi tion of an agency for snow-blowing equipment which will take the firm into the “big league” of w in te r m ai n t e na nce machinery manufacturers. “ If we obtain tha t
who lives at Grindleton, has 25 years experience in the engineering industry. He was technical and pro duction director at Atkin son’s for two-arid-a-half years until the company’s merger with Econ in November.A native of Skipton, he was general manager under the new set-up when he tendered his res ignation less than a week later. He is director and general manager of Trans port Engineering and the. only executive director. Technical manager of
ager is Mr Alistair- Kerr, who formerly held the same, title with Atkin son’s/ He is one of a number of former Atkin son’s employees joining Mr Cowling and his fellow directors in the ambitious new project. Mr Cowling himself,
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agency, -it should really enable us to offer a full range of ■ winter mainte- nance machinery and ensure a sound future,” . said Mr Cowling. “Once we become established, it is hoped to branch out. into other fields.” The firm, which has
been using Custom Steel’s workforce for the three months or so it has been based at Burnley, also in tends to widen its hori
Ribble Valley Council’s Public Works and Health Committee was told, is that any profit from the sale of the glass goes to the funds of the Council for the Protection of Rural England,
-.based at Samlesbury Hall.
Century ■ of sound
DON’T fo rg e t our Century of Sound evening next Wednes day at the Civic Hall, Clitheroe. ' - Free tickets are still
. bility of former .Atkinson’s draughtsman Mr Alan Hargreaves ■ and sales manager will be Mr Jack TKickett, who was region al manager for Atkinson’s' until he left' the firm in February.
the firm is former chief draughtsman at Atkin son’s, Mr John Cowell, who served his engineer ing apprenticeship with Mr Cowling at .Rolls Royce, Barnoldswiek. Born at Grindleton, he lives at Moorland Cres cent, Clitheroe. Service and demonstra tions will be the responsi-
JUNIOR children \ from Brabin’s Endowed School, Chipping, made their annual trek to Lumpy Hill just out of the village for the Easter egg rolling contest. The hill was -
selected six years ago because the lumps and bumps sorted out the real eggs from the soggy ones! Winners were those
whose eggs rolled the furthest and still remained intact. The children
enjoyed a picnic lunch at the end of the contest, and of course,
ate.their hard- boiled eggs.
AN ambitious new firm specialising in the manufacture of gritters, snowploughs and other winter maintenance equip ment is set to bring 20 new jobs to Clitheroe during the next year.
zons further with the opening of a Scottish ser vice and repair depot on May 1st. The firm’s machines have, already successfully operated in Scotland through the winter.
Bob's date in Hong Kong
TOP CLASS moto-cross scrambler Bob Wright, of Sabden, jets out to Hong Kong at the weekend in an England team taking part in an international in vitation race, and a sport- and-trade boosting enter prise.
Bob, of Wesley Street, has gone so far East, al though he has raced in Amer ica’, C a n a d a . • Czechoslovakia and most European countries in his career.
It is the first time that
three children said: .“I’m looking forward to the trip. We will be there for 10 days and, as well as the race and pre-race pre paration, there will be other functions to attend such as a motorcycle show and probably trade-boost ing events.
Bob (33), married with
been organised by the Hong Kong motorcycle union,” said Bob, who will be riding a 250 cc. Arm strong CCM bike.
“The whole thing has
fully recovered from a serious dislocation injury
He is expecting to be
to his right shoulder, re ceived three weeks ago in a'Somerset race, which t put him out of, action during what would have been a busy Easter.
Sign of history
THE Ribble Valley Coun cil’s Public Works and Health Committee has agreed to help meet the cost of erecting two “His toric Clitheroe” signs on the Clitheroe-Whalley bypass. The idea has been put forward by Clitheroe and District' Chamber of Trade. ’
Hospital work lags behind schedule
FEARS have been ex
pressed this week that the , op en in g of C l i th e r o e ’s -' long awaited community hospital could be de-’ layed even further.
According to Mr Ralph Berry,- secretary of the
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Blackburn, - Hyndburn and ' Ribble Valley Community
schedule. Together with an appa
rent lack of, back up ser vic es , such as. pny-
Health Council,' upgrading; work at the hospital is five weeks behind
siotherapistsj and a geii-
eral need for more staff, Mr Berry’s organisation believes it could be another 12 months before the community hospital is fully operational.
.
i He was speaking after a seven-strong working party from the ,CHC had toured the hospital to see how the conversion work ' was progressing.
:• Although, the party were “fairly happy” with the situation, they., were planning to seek some as surance on a completion date..
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about a community hospi tal in Clitheroe for years,, and it’s still not open. We have been told th a t money is no problem, so all we want is a firm date from the health authori ty,” he said. It was hoped to com
“We haye been talking
plete the work, to make the hospital the first com munity facility of its'kind in the North West, by June. The total cost of the
Stricter parking
A CRACK-DOWN is planned on motorists who exceed the two-hour limit on Clitheroe’s short-stay car parks. '
Council’s Planning and Transportation Committee- is recommending the sett
ing.aside of £2,000 for the supervision of the car parks as .well as cleaning and snow clearance during 1982-83. . The supervision will be carried out by pensioners
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or council: employees working a' 'split-liour day.
Help for Tonga
THE congregations at the 10 Methodist churches in the Clitheroe circuit have raised £320 for the Pacific islands of Tonga recently devastated by a cyclone. Collections were taken in the churches following
project is about £170,000 and eventually the build ing will house a total of 66 beds.
’Dr John Hardy thanks the churches‘ for their gener ous response.
an app e al from the Methodist Relief Fund in London. Local, appeal organiser
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Valley goes to town for arts festival
CLITHEROE will be bringing out the bunt ing and putting on its best face during the next ' few weeks as focal point for an arts and shopping festival the like of which the area has not seen before.
Festival opens on Monday with a fortnight of con certs, ballet and drama, to be followed by a prog ramme of music presented by the Rotary Club of Clitheroe and an open ex-'
The Ribble Valley Arts
Dame Judith on quiz
panel THE Clitheroe Gram mar School head girl who became a Cabinet' minister, Dame Judith Hart, will be one of' the panellists on the BBC ra d io “ Any Questions?” session to be broadcast from Clitheroe a week to morrow. With' Dame Judith,
order will be David Jacobs. All t ic k e ts have
the Labour Party, will be Sir Monty Fin- . n i s to n , . a fo rm e r chairman of the Brit ish Steel Corporation, P r o f e s s o r L a u r i e Taylor, professor of sociology at Ydrk U n iv e r s i ty , a p d Marcus Fox, MP for Shipley. Keeping them in
who is chairman of
been snapped up and there is a waiting list. Anyone unable to attend at the last minute is asked to return their ticket to Pendle Junior School or Clitheroe library.
corating their windows, bringing out the “Royal” bunting, running competi tions and putting on spe cial offers to cater for the many hundreds of extra visitors the festival is ex pected to draw. The largely “cultural”
interlude is being staged around the annual drama festival at the Civic Hall. The cinema screen will
hibition of paintings at the' Trinity Youth and Com munity Centre (May 1st to 3rd). Shopkeepers wall be de
burn Silver Band. They will take over the stage from young people par ticipating during the day in a festival of ballet and dance w’hich also con tinues on Friday and Saturday. The following Monday
(April 26th) sees the start of the drama festival, which has a reputation of being one of the finest in the country. Plays will be presented
be put aside for the next two weeks and on Monday the fe s t iv a l will be launched with a council- sponsored concert by two Rossendale choirs. The following evening there is a big bands con
cert and on Wednesday there will be sounds of a d i f fe r e n t kind — memories and reminisc ences from the tapes of the NW Sound Archive. On Thursday night it will be the turn of Slaid-
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