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THURSDAY, MAY 12th, 1983 No. 5,054 Price 19p


HIGH HOPES OF 200 NEW JOBS


THERE was a jobs boost for Clitheroe this week as a local businessman announced plans which could create up to 200 jobs over the next 12 months.


Michael may be


back soon WADDINGTON athlete Michael Morton is recov­ ering in ah Edinburgh hospital today after a foot operation which he hopes could signal his return to competitive athletics.' Michael (23), a former


lives in Sawley, has just purchased over 30,000 square feet of factory space from engineering firm Econ Atkinson and intends' to convert it into 22 industrial units.


Mr David Webb, who


from a Blackburn ware- t r a c t iv e to small house.


through a small mound of rent older units than ones — — i-—


applications for the re­ mainder of the units, which range in size from 500 sq. ft. to 5,000 so. ft. “This has proved my


. have been let, employing up to 27 people. Mr Webb is using a fourth for his own machine tool busi­ ness, which he is moving


Already, three units


He is also s if ting “It’s much cheaper to have just been


businesses.


which built.” For the three busines­


theory that there was a crying need for low cost in d u s t r ia l u n i ts in Clitheroe,” he said. Mr Webb believes the rental charges will be at-


world junior cross country champion, has been pla­ gued with a tendon injury for the last three years. He has had four opera


tions on the foot during that time, all unsuccess­ ful. Attempts at a come­ back each time have ended in failure, and Michael, of Queensway, Waddington, has not run competitively since 1980. Before leaving for Edin­


burgh. Michael said: “I’m hoping this will be the


Three years is a long time, but if the operation is a success, I could be competing by the end of the track season.” The injury came about


end of my troubles.


simply through over-use, at a time when Michael was establishing himself as one of the most promis­ ing young athletes in the country. .


DURING Christian Aid Week, Ribble Valley branch members will be staging a house-to-house collection starting on Monday and ending on Saturday with a coffee morning in the Town


A POLICEMAN who was involved in a stabbing in­ cident while trying to arre s t two youths in Reading last week, is a former Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil. PC Francis Richley (21)


Stab PC is from Clitheroe


cused of causing grievous bodily harm.


days in a local hospital and is now resting at his parents’ home.


PC Richley spent three


attended the grammar school until 14-years-old. His parents, Roy and Marjorie Richley, ran Chipping post office for five years. While a youngster,


Francis attended Brabin’s Endowed School. His family later moved


Confidence


ses already on site, busi­ ness is thriving. A pack­ aging company has won a contract from the well- known Ronco company for its latest product and is employing about 20 people. A concrete screen fenc­


dence that the council will move fast on this one, for everyone’s sake.” He added that once the


“But I have every confi­


ing firm has moved in, under Mr Edward Haugh- ton, who is using a new idea from Italy for his product. A small forklift com­


pany, Sherpa Stackers, is also in operation. One problem, however,


jointly with Econ Atkin­ son for planning permis­ sion to build a bridge over


Whalley fun and games


to Buckinghamshire where he joined the Thames Valley police. The incident followed a


remanded in custody by Reading magistrates ac­


Christian Aid


Mayor’s parlour.' Also during the week


there are coffee evenings at Langho Vicarage from 7-30 p.m. (Tuesday), and on Thursday at Wadding­ ton Vicarage from 7 p.m.


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disturbance in a suburb of Reading. Two youths have been


PLANS are well in hand for a two-day holiday bonanza in Whalley which will follow the official opening of the Queen Elizabeth II playing fields by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, Mr Simon Towneley.


expected in the. village on May 28th — 29th for the biggest event of its kind . ever staged in Whalley.


Thousands of people are


a free fall skydiving dis­ play, a 10-mile run with 1,000 competitors, a fireball display by stunt­ man Mike Falcon and a Woman’s World presenta­ tion for the ladies.


Attractions will include Thieves strike


THIEVES stole £20 in cash from Twiston Mill House, Twiston, between 9 a.m. on Wednesday last and 9-30 a.m. on Friday. The raiders entered by


Re-elected


AT the annual Wadding­ ton Parish Council meet­ ing, Coun. Eric Edmond­ son was re-elected chair­ man. Coun. John Watson was re-elected vice-chair-


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will be kiddies’ motor bikes, pony rides and fun inflatables, majorettes and morris dancing.


For youngsters, there


ject was led by former parish councillor 'Mr


culmination of five years of hard work by local people for better recrea­ tional facilities. The playing fields pro­


The opening will be the '


Michael Green, chairman of the playing fields man­ agement committee. A massive drainage and


lies in the access to the- site as traffic builds up. Mr Webb has applied


by-pass road linking the Pimlico estate with Up- brook Road is finished, then virtually all present and future heavy traffic will avoid both the Salthill View and Brook Street residential areas. “As we can see up­


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Mearley Brook at the rear of the site.


there is a disproportionate amount of traffic using the Salthill side of the Brook.


He said: “Even now i fh


liamentary Candidate for the old Clitheroe Division eight months ago and was expected to re-apply when details of the new consti­ tuency were announced by the Boundaries Com­ mission. However, on Monday,


wards of 200 jobs being created on this site in the next 12 months, both the bridge and the finished road are very important.” Mr Webb formerly


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owned an engineering firm in Blackburn, em­ ploying 60 people. When this was taken over by a larger company, it left him free to explore new avenues.


Drive


for a Clitheroe base for his machine tool business that he came up with the idea of taking over the space at Econ Atkinson’s. " The space had been cre­


It was while searching


Econ Atkinson, Mr Don Taylor, said he was


the site more buoyant, and we are happy with the space we have.”


C h a tb u rn ’s T V b o o s t


levelling operation is now almost finished and has involved the laying of 800 tons of limestone. A “dished” and drained


all-weather court will cater for netball, basket­ ball, volleyball and in winter can be flooded for ice-skating. Thanks to volunteer


b re ak in g a kitchen window.' Clitheroe CID are investigating.


ABOUT 430 people living in Chatburn will be able to enjoy better television reception when a new local relay station begins transmissions of all four programme channels in a few weeks. The new station, built


help, part of the develop­ ment costs have been halved to £16,000 with money coming from local


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only hours before the final nomination meeting in Longridge, constituency party secretary Mrs Sue Denmark received a letter from Mr Devaney stating that he was no longer in­ terested in the Ribble Valley seat. Instead, he was apply­


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Candidate shock for Labour


IN a last-minute' move, college lecturer Kevin Devaney has withdrawn from the contest for the new Ribble Valley constituency at the General Election on June 9th. He was chosen as Division was dissolved Mr


Labour’s Prospective Par- Devaney was


apply to a constituency where there was no Labour candidate and he has decided to do this,” said Mrs Denmark. She added that follow­


free to


nation procedure. Originally, they were to


hold an inaugural meeting tomorrow night at Hurst Green to elect officials for the new constituency and nominate Clitheroe MP Mr David Waddington as Prospective Parliamen­ tary Candidate. However, it was now


ing Monday’s meeting the party nomination had gone to Mr Edward Savil- le (35), deputy Labour le ad e r of Hyndburn Borough Council and a lecturer in maths and computing at Accrington and Rossendale College. He is married with two sons and lives in Church. Meanwhile there ap­


ing for nomination for a seat in Bury where he works at a college of further education. “When the Clitheroe


almost certain that it would be a full nomination meeting. Similarly, members of


the constituency SDP party will meet at Lon­ gridge on Tuesday and formally adopt ex-Kibble Valley councillor Michael Carr as their candidate for the election. He has been prospec­


pear to be no technical hitches in the Conserva­ tive and SDP camps, al­ though Monday’s election day announcement will speed up the Tory nomi­


Council’s first woman leader


WHALLEY councillor Mrs Sheila Maw has been chosen as the first woman leader of the Ribble Valley Council. Ribble Valley Conser­


ated during an efficiency drive by the engineering- firm some months ago. Managing director at


happy the transaction was now complete. “We feel this will make


CLITHEROE g ir l Susan Bowe was glad for the day she took up yoga lessons. For Susan, who is


jump last Saturday to raise money for Trini­ ty Youth Centre. B u t bad weather


25, has only once been up in an aeroplane and was due to make her first parachute


and mentally p re ­ pared, so it came as a big disappointment,” said Susan, who lives


meant cancellation-of the jump from 2,500ft. over the sands of Morecambe Bay near Lancaster. “I was all keyed up


jointly by the IBA and the BBC, is on the hill just to the north of the village. Viewers with Teletext receivers or adaptors will


councils and being raised by villagers. The possibility of build­


ing a sports hall is now being examined and a 48- page souvenir brochure being published. Mr Green commented:


in Waterloo Road, and I is a chef at Clitheroe \ Hospital. “Fortunately, I ’ve I


been taking lessons in I yoga and how to relax so that has saved the [ day,” Susan said. She’s taking it all \


vatives, who retained con­ trol of the council with a substantially increased majority at last Thurs­ day’s elections, chose her as their group leader on Monday night. She takes over from Mr


tive candidate for a number of months.


Sarah will be busy!


IT ’S been q u ite a weekend for Clitheroe Young Conservative Sarah Wilkie. For Sarah, who lives in


Ribblesdale Avenue, was elected secretary of the North West Area Young C o n se rv a tiv e s la s t weekend, only a day before her 20th birthday. Then on Monday came the news of the General Elec­ tion. “I expect to be swept


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off my feet now,” said Sarah, a former pupil of Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar School. She will be responsible


in her, stride, in fact, and now hopes to | make the jump, this time from Blackpool, ori June llth i - — Her sponsors have


been very understand­ ing at Hie delay and she hopes to raise more than £200 for ex­ tensions at Trinity. Our photo shows


H a r ry Riding (Lon­ gridge), who decided not to seek re-election to the council. Mrs Maw, who has


been deputy Conservative leader for four years, said: “I feel deeply hon­ oured that the group has elected me as the first woman leader. I see it as a tremendous challenge.” Wilpshire councillor


Susan ready to prac­ tise safe landing;


Fred Green, a former leader of the council and a past Mayor of Ribble Valley, is the Tories’ new deputy leader. Coun. Mrs Maw feels the Conservatives, who


be able to obtain Ceefax services on BBC 1 and BBC 2 and the Oracle services on ITV and Channel 4. To take advantage of


“The response of the villa­ gers has been magnifi­ cent. We are two thirds of the way there and the sports hall is no pipe- dream.”


Luncheon club will not close now


the new "service viewers will need Group A ae­ rials directed towards th e new r e la y and mounted with the rods upright. Set-top aerials are not


THE luncheon club for el­ derly in Low Moor, based at St Ann’s Court, has been saved from closure.


recommended, and sets will need re-tuning to the new frequency chan­ nels. Viewers with good pic­


club follows an interven­ tion by the Ribble Valley Council’s Deputy Chief Executive and Treasurer Mr Gordon Onslow.


The good news for the


tu re s need ta k e no action, but BBC en­ gineers will be in Chat- burn monitoring the sta­ t io n and will o ffer advice.


Out to grass


WADDINGTON Parish Council is to consider esti­ mates for levelling and re­ seeding the area on the recreation field that was going to be used as a hard play area. It has been decided that


county council to recon­ sider a decision that it could no .longer provide staff- for the club because of increased pressure of work on the home help service.


He had asked the


county, Ribble Valley and the WRVS followed. The outcome is that the home help service will continue to-prepare the meals. But WRVS officers will give a helping hand, by collect­ ing the meals-cash and carrying out clerical duties.


A meeting between


the area should be used as a grassed- spot suitable for ball.games. One • estimate has al­


two-course . meal for 5.0p on Mondays and Thurs­ days. An average of 30 people attend.


The club provides a


ready been received and two more are to be ob­ tained before a decision is made.


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THE way the Ribble Valley Hospice Fund has been shaping, it is going to. have raised £50,000 shortly . . . £10,000 more than expected.


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for the extra money, raised by. the fund. — in aid of the East Lancs; Hospice — is the generos­ ity shown by the Mayor of the Ribble Valley and the local authority itself.


And one of the reasons


Myra ;Clegg; handed to Ribble. .Valley Hospice Fund chairman Mr. Stan­ ley ' Westhead; a cheque from, the Ribble. Valley Mayor’s account for


On Monday, Coiin. Mrs £ 1,


■ of the Ribble Valley for all their generosity.” • Coun. Mrs Clegg is pic tured presenting the che­ ques to Mr Westhead. Looking on1 are, from the left, Mrs • Joyce Kenyon, Ribble ' Valley Hospice Fund secretary, and .Mr Ernest Tolson, treasurer.


“This money will help us to ’ surpass the £40,000 target which was se t. at the start of the appeal. We are very grateful to the Mayor and the people


Ribble Valley Borough Council she handed him another cheque for £5,000. Said Mr Westhead:


100. ■ ' - And on behalf of the


scribed as a boon socially for elderly people in. Low Moor and tenants of St


The club has been de­


Ann’s sheltered accommo­ dation. Warden Mrs Marjorie


Hollywood said the club was now carrying on as


normal. “ I am very pleased, so is everyone else. I cannot thank Mr Onslow enough for his


help.”


Churches join to say ‘thanks’


ST HELEN’S Church, Waddington, joined with East Yorkshire Church, Howden Minster, to give thanks to Mr Victor Wad­ dington for his generosity towards both parishes.


present in St Helen’s to listen to a celebration con­ cert given by the choir of Howden Minster, under the direction of organist and choirmaster Mr Leslie Ridgeway.


A large audience was


pay for the new lighting at St Helen’s and Howden Minster has also benefited g re a t ly from his generosity.


Mr Waddington helped . ,


Howden churchwardens how they could thank


When asked by the


him, Mr Waddington sug­ gested a concert at St Helen’s.


hymns and classical works by such composers as Mozart, Bach and Haydn.


The concert included


ramme of church music was interspersed with organ recitals by Mr Ridgway. .


Canon C. F. Goodchild, thanked the Howden choir for an enjoyable evening and also thanked Mr .Wad­ dington for his interest in St Helen’s "Church.


At the close, the vicar,


Swinton, is the owner of E. V. Waddington, a well- known firm of boatbuil- ders.


Mr Waddington, of - DRAMA FESTI VAL TRIUMPH


'Marshall said the play, “The Accrington Pals” made great demands on a. company, blessed with an. enormous store of talent who rarely failed to meet, those demands. Mr ’ Marshall said -the


A CROWDED house saw the Anonymous Players, of Blackpool, win the championship trophy at Saturday’s Ribble Valley , Drama Festival. Adjudicator Mr Scott


rate acting and sets. He had p a r t ic u la r


praise for the resident staff in a very beautiful theatre.


-Valley Mayor, Goun. Mrs Myra Clegg,. Clitheroe Mayor, Coun. John Cow-:; gill and Mr Marshall.


, The trophies were pre­ sented by the Ribble.


, Winners


festival was a tremendous credit to all concerned;, audiences had been tre­ ated to a week of im­ mense dramatic variety and had seen some first-


•McDonald, of the Brough­ ton Players and Simon Hudson, of the Anonym- - ous Players. Individual award — Shirley Jones, of the Anonymous Players.


Adjudicator’s Cup — jointly between Anona


• were: , , , K


Alan Mathews, of 'th e , Lancaster Footli'ght’s ' Club, for his direction of “The Wild Duck”.


Production shield —


The Broughton Players. “Wait .Until Dark”.'


Runners-up trophy ;—


onship tro p h y , the Anonymous Players, will be invited : to appear in the national finals at 'Newport, Gwent, in. July..


i Winners °f the Champ­


were: Blackpool Dramatic Society “ The Liver Birds”; Take One, Settle “The Rape of the. Belt”; • Otley Little Theatre'“Pull


Other comp e tito rs The choir’s varied prog­


now hold all but six seats on the council, have been given a man­ date to keep to their policies of the past term. “I feel that the policies


for an area extending from Cheshire to Cumbria in the election campaign, but is looking forward to every minute of it. A secretary with a firm


of our previous leader and group had a lot to do with the large number of Con­ servative councillors being returned, I would like to' do my best to continue these policies in the same way.” 9 For full results see


Page 7.


will do in the coming weeks is expected to cul­ minate in a national rally of Young Conservatives to be addressed by Mrs Thatcher in June.


of solicitors in Clitheroe, she is used to organisation work and helped set up Clitheroe Young Conser­ vatives when she was 16. All the travelling she


ly fell, Festival chairman, Jimmy Fell, thanked everyone'involved in the organisation — the Ribble Valley Council and civic heads, members of the NIDFA council, -and the representatives of the Post Office, who had sponsored the week^s


the Other One”. Before the curtain'final­


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