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A 75-ft link with past
WHAT must be Clitheroe’s biggest-ever banger was cooked by local Cub Scouts at the weekend and the 75-foot-long monster was done to a turn in just half an hour.
anniversary of Scouting, taking up a challenge^ in the movement’s magazine to troops to do something unusual connected with number 75.
The mammoth “eat-in” was to mark the 75th
Clitheroe, and to cook it the Cub Scouts dug a 15 foot trench at Crosshills, Clitheroe.
The sausage was made by Cowman’s butchers, of
said: “We made a mesh grill to go over the trench and it took us less time than we had expected to cook the sausage. It tasted marvellous.”
Assistant district commissioner Mr J. C. Dickinson The super sausage was followed by assorted de
licacies and washed down with large quantities of lemonade.
Bubbling with
pride
the directors of cham pagne-producing com p an ie s in E p e rn a y , France, and is given to people with outstanding knowledge and experience of champagne.
Pamela, holiday in France each year and have many top vintages in the cellar.
Mr Davis and his -wife,
receive the award,” said Mr Davis, “I was delight ed when I heard I had been nominated.”
“It is a great honour to
cellar he still has a bottle of Paul Roget 1947, the vintage specially released for the Royal Wedding last year, and some of the celebrated Dom Perignon 1971.
In his well-stocked a
THE owner of the. Calf s Head Hotel, Worston, Mr John Davis, this week re ceived the Grand Order de Cote Champagne, at The Grosvenor Hotel, London. The award is made by
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Villagers step up the fight against quarry extension
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VILLAGERS at Waddington are being invited' to attend a lublic meeting to discuss a plan to extend the working of the ocal fell quarry.
The meeting — on Two-month
delay at cement works
A MECHANICAL fault has delayed the “big switch-on” of the £22m. extension at Ribblesdale Cement’s Clitheroe plant.
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A CAKE weighed down by 100 candles was one of the features at a special birthday party in Waddington on Saturday.
At the centre of all the attention, and the reci pient of about 120 cards and presents, was Mrs Edna Bate son, a resident at Waddington Hall Nursing Home.
expanded works, /which will be the most modem in Europe, would be ready to come on stream this month.
It was planned that the But now managing di
rector Mr Alan Tetlow ex pects the plant to start operating sometime in De cember and hopes for a full t e s t run before Christmas.
The problem has arisen
with the motor which drives the roller mill where the limestone is crushed into dust.
After a luncheon party with relatives at the Spread Eagle Hotel, Sawley, Mrs Bateson returned to the home for “the time of her life,” according to head of administration Mrs Irene Chadwick.
be faulty during testing and has been sent away to be repaired. “This is a key motor without which we can’t operate and the project is going to be held up a few weeks. “It’s a nuisance, but not
The motor was found to
Monday at 7-30 p.m. in the Methodist schoolroom — has been called by Waddington Parish Coun cil, which has already made strong objections to the proposal. Members feel the plan
the county’s Mineral Officer. The' letter explains:
ning application, submit ted to the county council by Waddington Fell Quar ries, would only increase the problems of noise and pollution already caused by the quarry wagons p a s s in g through the village.
Shelved
opposes any extension of the workings because, it says, it would degrade the landscape to an unaccept able extent. A further application to
In addition, the council
“The purpose of the meet ing is to hear your views and discuss the matter with a county councjl rep resentative. “If you are concerned
about the quarry opera tion at present and in the future, it is crucial you attend to demonstrate the village’s concern.” Parish council chair
man, Eric Edmondson, hopes that as many villa gers as possible will attend the public meeting. He said: “If people
don’t show interest, then they can’t be concerned about the future of Wad dington.”
Decision
the county council by Waddington Fell Quarries to extract shale from its present workings has been shelved because of a technical hitch. Letters have gone out
meeting will be given to the Ribble Valley’s De velopment Sub-Committee on November 18th, when the extension application is due to be considered. A final decision will be
A report of the public
this week to all house holds in Waddington to publicise Monday’s meet ing, which will be at tended by county and borough councillors and
Edna received a huge card from the staff of the home and her cake was made by Mrs Ethel Underwood and decorated by Miss Sandra Moolgoaker.
Reward stays
RIBBLE Valley council lors are sticking by their £50 reward scheme to help combat vandalism.
cil’s Finance and General P u rpo ses Committee agreed to continue the scheme which offers a reward to people provid ing information which leads to the conviction of anyone responsible for vandalism.
Members of the coun Coun. Bill Fleming (Bil-
lington) ■ said any deter rent was useful, even if
there was only one claim a year.
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Town Clerk Mr Michael Jackson said additional possibilities were being investigated. He revealed that a £50 claim was cur rently being dealt with.
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a disaster by any means. We’ll just have to wait for the fault to be corrected,” said Mr Tetlow. On the bright side,
many of the other indi vidual sections of the plant have already been successfully tested. The project, which rep
made by the county coun cil later next month. The parish council’s letter urges villagers also to try to attend both of these meetings.
Willing, teachers needed
:women living in Clitheroe. Mr Mohammed Ali, a
resents the biggest step forward in Ribblesdale Cement’s 45-year-old his tory, was started over two years ago. It will make the works
the second largest in Bri tain and enable the com pany to eventually boost production by a third.
course tutor at Whalley, said: “Volunteers do not need formal qualifications in English, but a willing ness to teach.
training course in Whal- ley, starting in mid- November, they will be expected to spend one
“After a short evening
VOLUNT EERS are needed at the adult educa tion centre, Whalley, to teach English to Asian
hour a week going to the' homes of Asian women in Clitheroe.” These women have a
passing knowledge of En glish but need to practice conversation. Mr Ali said that similar
courses in the past have attracted many volunteers and fostered good com munity relations. Anyone in te r e s ted
COOLING their heels a f te r the Clitheroe Health Centre fun run on Sunday are, from the left, Brendan Pavey (9), of Knowle Green, and Andrew Jackson (9) and Simon Kay (10), both of Windsor A v en u e , Clitheroe. They had just com
pleted the three-mile children’s course in the event which was held to raise funds for the NSPCC.
part, including three ladies. More details and another picture appear on page 5.
Memorial fund to Bob will help young
THE Bob Ainsworth Memorial Fund is to be used each year to help further educate two young Clitheroe people.
tions, which now total about £1,100, is to be set up and it is hoped the interest will provide an annual scholarship for a boy and a ' girl living in Clitheroe.
A trust for all the dona
times Mayor of Clitheroe, was Deputy Mayor, when he died last month 'at the age of 65. A member of his family,
should contact the centre at. Whalley 2717, or Mr Ali at Clitheroe 27302 in the evenings.
Coun. Ainsworth, four
summer and applications will be invited from pupils at Clitheroe’s secondary s c h o o ls , as w e l l as youngsters from the town at St Augustine’s, Bil-- lington.
the Mayor of Clitheroe and Mr Harry Pearson will be among the trus tees. The first awards will probably be made next
Busy fin g e rs ra is e £ 1 0 0
formed Church. The minister, the Rev. John Salsbury, (left) was
A MUSICAL marathon is expected to have raised over £100 for the new h eatin g s y s t em at Clitheroe United Re
joined by organist Mrs Alice Kenyon and Mr Norman Clark, the or ganist from Bolton-by- Boivland Parish Church, for a non-stop 12-hour
for popidar music, clas sics and hymns through out the day and the last hour teas spent communi ty hymn singing. “I don’t think there was
session. The trio played requests
a request which we didn’t manage to play," said Mr Salsbury.
John Cowgill believes that the scholarships are the b e s t way which the money can be used at present. He said: “The money
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Prime Minister’s help is sought —and Ombudsman, too
A DOUBLE protest — to the Prime Minis te r and to the Local Ombudsman — went out this week against the county council’s plan to reorganise the Ribble Valley educa
Pauline Brown has ac cused the authority of maladministration. The Labour- controlled
tion district. Whaljey councillor Mrs
Sheila Maw wrote to Mrs Thatcher on Tuesday ex pressing great concern over the decision, and Tosside resident Mrs
authority is pressing ahead with its scheme to demote the Clitheroe office to a sub-office and split the area between Preston, Hyndburn and ' Blackburn.
op p o s it ion from the Ribble Valley Council, the local district education liaison committee and
This is despite strong
many sections of the com munity. Coun. Mrs Maw, of
Lower Clerkhill, says she does not normally believe in writing protest letters. “But I felt so concerned about the way this deci sion has come about that it was something I simply felt I ought to do. “I found it very upset
ting when I heard that the final vote had been taken on a volume of voices. That really moved me to do something,” she says. A copy of her letter to
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Downing Street has also been sent to Junior Edu cation Minister Dr Rhodes Boyson. In the letter, Coun.
Mrs Maw has outlined the way the decision to re shuffle the administration set up was made. She has sent Press cut
tings, including reports from the Advertiser and Times, and hopes she might receive a “construc t iv e ” reply from the Prime Minister. Mi’s Brown’s complaint
has been passed to the county council for its initi- ta l o b s e r v a t io n s by
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