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Prison sentence for man who stabbed wife


A MAN who stabbed his wife in the stomach told her he was going to “stay and watch her die,” Preston Crown Court was told on Tuesday.


Planning in the pipeline


THE following applica­ tions have been received by the Ribble Valley Council’s planning depart­ ment.


sign for Lee Carter Health Studio, 4 Castle Street, and also sign at Lowergate Car Park (0191). Illuminated signs at the Starkie Inn, Castle Street (0201 and 0202).


Clitheroe: Blind and


at East View (0203). Ex­ tension to dwelling at 4 Patrick Avenue (0197). Consent renewal for pri­ vate drive sign at Read Hall Lodge, Whalley Road (0192).


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residence on land at corner of Calder Avenue


Billington: Detached


(0198). Bedroom and kitchen extension at 17 Wahliey Old Road, York,


Gisburn: Single storey


(30), of Water Street, Ac­ crington, denied unlawful­ ly wounding his wife, Christine, at her home in Tower Hill, Clitheroe, on January 20th, but was found guilty by a jury. A formal not guilty ver­


blood with a dishcloth and put a sticking plaster over the wound. Robert David Martin


He then wiped up her


dict of wounding with intent was returned after a direction by Judge Alis­ tair Bell. Martin was sentenced


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leford, began work as a weaver at Jubilee Mill, Clitheroe, at the tender age of 13 and remained until she mamed in 1921. She then lived for four


A TELEVISION appear­ ance 22 years ago is still one of the favourite memories of old Clithero- nian Mrs Elizabeth Strat­ ton, who celebrated her 90th birthday on Tuesday. Mrs Stratton, of Cast-


years at Calderstones, fol­ lowed by 26 years at Brockhall, where her hus­ band Bill worked as a gar­


dren, she says she now thrives on her memories. Pride of place on her


to 12 months, imprsion- ment, four of them sus­ pended. Mr John McNeil, . pro­


secuting, told the court that the couple were leg­ ally separated after a three-year marriage and they had a two-year-old daughter. Martin had arranged to


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go round to his wife’s home with a birthday pre­ sent for his daughter, but he did not call until the child was in bed. He had been drinking. After a conversation


about their separation, Martin asked his wife to find a taxi as he was going back to Accrington. “He suddenly grabbed


Labour THE inaugural meeting to form the new Ribble Valley Constituency


Labour Party was held in Longridge under the


barn to dwellinghouse ad­ jacent to Cockshutts Farmhouse (0200).


land at Whalley Road (0196).


Pendleton: Dwelling on


garage on land at Moor- side Lane (0187).


Wiswell: House and


ment to previous approval for Mitton Green Barn (0184).


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Langho (0204). Sabden: Conversion of


her by the hair, pushed her to the floor and put a kitchen knife to her throat,” said Mr'McNeil. “He said she had taken


his daughter from him and he stabbed her in the abdomen. When she started to moan in pain he told her to shut up.” Mr McNeil said that


Desmond Balding (Lon­ gridge) chairman; Paul Jackson (Fulwood) vice- chairman; David Roebuck (Longridge) treasurer;


chairmanship of regional organiser Ray Gill. Officers elected were:


R o u n d T a b le ’s


dener. A widow, with no chil­


bedroom wall is a photo­ graph taken after she had


won £60 on the TV prog­ ramme “Take Your Pick”. Mrs Stratton explains


C L I T H E R O E Amateur Swimming Club tested the poten­ tial of budding youngs­ ters rvhen they held trials at the Ribbles­ dale Pool on Monday.


mers were being tested to see i f they could fill


The young swim­


any of the club’s pre­ sent vacancies.


turnout than expected, with 39 swimmers aged between five and 14 at­ tending. The children must be


There was a smaller


able to sivim one length of two different strokes to be classed as swimmers fo r the trials. I f successful,


they will join the club’s training programme.


rangements will be made for a meeting in early May to consider applic­ ants for prospective par­ liamentary candidate.


Sue Denmark (Fulwood) secretary; Clarie Gerrard (Longridge) press officer. A week on Monday ar­


burn Royal Infirmary, where she had an opera­ tion and it was discovered that the knife had scraped her liver. Mrs Martin told the


maintained that his wife had stabbed herself and undressed herself before knocking on the wall to get her neighbour’s help. In reply to his counsel,


court: “He grabbed me and pushed a knife to my throat. He said he was going to make it look like an accident in order to get custody of the child. I thought he was going to kill me.” Martin, in evidence,


Martin then ripped her clothes off and started to wipe up the blood with a dishcloth, but when next door neighbour Mrs Ver­ onica Heaton came round, Mrs Martin escaped through the living room window. She was taken to Black­


headmaster THERE will be a rare chance on Saturday for past pupils of Bowland County Secondary School to meet their former headmaster, Mr Edward Nicholson. Mr Nicholson was the


Chance to meet first


Fighting message from primary


schools’ parents


A MEETING of 60 parents at Grindleton on Monday night made it clear to education offi­ cials that they want to keep the village’s CE school open.


cials at the meeting con­ ceded that a disused room at the school, known as the parish room, could not be classed as a classroom. “This helps us in our


ganiser of the campaign to save the school, said after the meeting: “We will not give up hope and we will go on fighting.” She said education offi­


first headmaster when the school opened in 1949 and became a popular figure locally, retiring in 1971. He and his wife, Phyl­


lis, now live in Ripon. His visit to open the school’s spring fair will be his first for many years. School secretary Mrs


point over pupil ratios, but the officials still say that transferring Grindle- ton’s pupils would help to fill another school,” she said. “We made the point


Mrs Olga Leach, an or­


Plea from Nadine’s heart


A HEARTFELT plea from a seven-year-old girl not to close her village school may be sent to county education officials to consider. . It comes from Nadine


that to close our school would be a death knell to the village,” she added. Results of a poll in the


Mr Roger Brown, he had only made a statement admitting the stabbing be­ cause he thought that was the only way he was going to be released on bail after 17 hours at Clitheroe police station.


Elizabeth Jackson said: “He did all the work in the early years and I’m sure many former pupils will want to come along and see him again.”


Theft of case


THIEVES removed the rear window of a BMW cai- in Rimington and stole a briefcase containing documents and a camera.


Herd, of Nether Carr, Harrop Fold, who has at­ tended the 33-pupil Grind­ leton CE Primary School since 1981. Her teacher, Miss Kat­


village show that the school can go on maintain­ ing virtually the same numbers on its rolls until at least 1987. At Chatburn, Mrs


hryn Drinkall, had the job of breaking the news of the threatened' closure to the. children, who were very disappointed, and then they were asked to set out their thoughts on it.


Christine Entwistle, of the school steering com­ mittee, said that 300 let­ ters have been received from local people support­ ing the fight to keep open Chatburn CE Primary School. Some will be sent to the


the h e admaster , Mr Stuart Lievesley, because of her appreciation of the school’s country setting. She writes of the joys


Nadine’s plea impressed


collect bus tokens


Where to BUS tokens for the Ribble


Valley's senior citizens are now being distributed. Today they are available for


people with surnames from A to M at Clitheroe’s Civic Hall from 10 a.m. to 12-30 p.m. and 1-45 to 4-30 p.m. Tomorrow, the surnames N


to Z are being catered for at the same place at the same times. Monday (April 18th). Whal­


ley — Methodist School, 9-15 to noon. Billington — 8 Bonnyg-


lage Hall, 9-30 to 12 noon. Sabden — County Primary School, 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday. Mobile office.


rass Terrace, 1-30 to'4-30 p.m. Tuesday. Chatburn — Vil­


Worston, 9-15 to 9-45. Pendle­ ton, 10 to 10-30. Barrow, 10-45 to 11-30. Wiswell, 11-45 to 12- 15. Read, 1-30 to 3-30 p.m. Monday (April 25th). Langho


— Methodist Church, 1-30 to 4- 30 p.m. Wednesday. Mobile office.


Hurst Green, 9-15 to 10 a.m. Chipping, 10-30 to 11-15 a.m. Waddington 12-30 to 2 p.m. Grindleton, 2-15 to 3-15 p.m. West Bradford, 3-30 to 4-30 p.m.


Longer lease


CLITHEROE Army cadets have been granted a 21-year lease on the town’s Salthill Barn. The cadets, who use the


barn as a meeting place, asked the Ribble Valley, Council’s Planning and Transportation Committee for an extension of their present one-year licence so that' they- can spend money on the premises.


W a d d in g to n w in le a g u e c u p g am e


of working out of doors in the summer, surrounded by fields and trees. Mr Lievesley said: “The


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THE police are ready to prosecute people caught cycling through Clitheroe Castle grounds, the Ribble Valley Council’s Recreation and Leisure Committee has been told.


AT recent internal exami­ nations held by Clitheroe Guitar Studio, Michael Sharp passed stage two, classical. In stage one, classical, Gerwyn Rees obtained a merit.


A MOTOR cyclist who had no L-plates on her machine was fined £20, with £5 co s ts , at Clitheroe. Caroline Susan Blackwell (17), of the Copy Nook Hotel, Bolton- by-Bowland, had not real­ ised that the L-plates were missing.


WORK has started at last to repair the boundary wall in Clitheroe between the Castle Field and the


British Rail sidings, Ribble Valley Council’s Recreation and Leisure Committee has heard.


NORWEB has introduced a new telephone answer­ ing bureau at Preston to in c re a se e fficiency. Emergency calls, no elec­ tricity supply and ap­ pliance repair calls should now be made to Preston 54888. Inquiries regarding bills, new supplies or meter fixing should still be made to the local dis­ trict office.


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APPLICATIONS to use part of two private houses in the Ribble Valley as bed and breakfast accom­ modation — at 8 Pendle View, .Grindleton, and Lower Standen Farm, Whalley Road, Pendleton — have been granted.


FURTHER talks are to be held on an idea to con­ vert surplus space at Stal­ wart Dyeing’s Primrose Mill and Coffin Lodge into craft workshops, parking, recreation and retail sales areas. The Ribble Valley


Council’s Development Sub-Committee is in favour of the plan but felt further discussions were needed.


THREE Sabden youngs­ ters were given their first taste of mountaineering when a party organised by the Rev. Denis McWil- liam, of St Nicholas’s Church set up an Easter camp at a disused chapel in Snowdonia.


EIGHT Old English game cocks kept for show pur­ poses were removed from a hut at the rear of Pendle Road, Clitheroe. They were valued at £160.


THIEVES left empty


handed after breaking into Ribblesdale School, Clitheroe, last week by smashing a window.


AN exhibition of water­ colours at Whalley Lib­ rary, starting on Satur­ day, features the work of a woman who was em­ ployed at the studios of English Calico, Barrow, for several years after leaving school. ‘ Adrienne Walsh, a


specialist in all equine studies, now living in Darwen, will be showing her work until April 30th.


PERMISSION has been given for the building of


an agricultural worker’s dwelling at’ Lowcocks Farm, West Bradford.


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ed u c a tion office in Clitheroe, while on May 5th parents will put their feelings to members of the county council’s Edu­ cation Sub-Committee at a special meeting at the school. Its report will go to a full meeting of the Education Committee on June 7th.Mr David Waddington, MP for the Clitheroe Divi­ sion, said he was very impressed by the parents he had met so far. “These people are very


proud of their schools and I heartily dislike the prop­ osals to close them,” he said. “In the. case of Chat-


IN the E’a s t Lancs League cup match on Saturday, Waddington beat Barrowford United by four goals to one. League results included:


letter has a sincerity about it and is obviously written from the heart.” Nadine says that if the


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school closes, “I will cry and cry and cry until my heart is broken. Please, please, think about us and don’t close the school.”


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AN attempt by two men to waken a friend in a flat in King Street, Clitheroe, created so much noise that a policeman went to investigate, Clitheroe Magistrates were told. ' For shouting repeatedly


bum, it would be an ex­ traordinary decision to close a school with such strong historical associa­ tions with the village. “To close Barrow CE


School would be a breach of faith, because when Pendleton School was closed, parents were told they could take their chil­ dren to Barrow.” Mr Waddington added


and continuously between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. John Robert Birtwis­ tle (19), of Mitton Hall Cottage, Mitton, and Michael Harrison (23), of Greenfield Avenue, Low Moor, were each fined) £5 with £5 costs. In letter to the court,


the defendants said they had been trying to waken a friend. When they next saw him, he said he had not heard anything.


that he would make a direct approach to the Government/if the parents requested it.


Faulty tyre offence


garage endorsing the ap­ pointment to carry, out the work was ' also re­ ceived by the court. The defendant was fined £20 with £5 costs.


Sheila Margaret Holgate (40), of Sawley Road, Grindleton, said she had parked in King Street, Clitheroe, to pick up her wage to enable her to pay’ for the tyre. A le t te r from the


A MOTORIST who .had an appointment to have a new tyre fitted to her car was stopped earlier the same day by a policeman for having a defective tyre, Clitheroe magis­ trates were told. In a letter to the court,


Dies after collision


THE driver of a van which, was in collision with a lorry on Gisbum Road, Rimington, died in hospital on Tuesday: ■Mr James Bleasdale


. The lorry driver, Mr David , Brown (41), of Keighley Road, Colne, broke both legs. The men were taken to Burnley General Hospital..............


(40), of Hobstones Farm, Colne, received serious multiple injuries in the crash, which happened last Thursday.


ONE of the most chilling stories of a man hunt “First Blood”, starring Sylvester Stallone, begins its week-long run at the. Clither.oe1’ Civic Hall tonight.


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Trawden Celtic 2, Padiham Wanderers 4; Whalley Arms Celtic 2, Great Harwood 1; Baxenden 1, Clitheroe Res 3; Chatbum 2, Mansfield 0. League points including re­


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sults of matches played on Saturday, April 9th are: Bacup Borough 38, Baxenden 35, Altham 34, Great Harwood 27, Mansfield 26, Padiham Wander­ ers 25, Whalley AC 23, Clitheroe Res 23, Trawden Celtic 22, Waddington 22, Chatbum 20, Pendle Forest 20, Oswaldtwistle Immanuel 16, Barrowford Utd 15, Whalley 14, Colne Legion 7.


Ladies lose at hockey


CLITHEROE Ladies’ Hockey


Club lost 3-1 when they played a postponed game against/Lon- gndge. Chtheroe’s goal was scored


with a welUtaken shot by Clare Mortimer. Paddy Rouse was very impressive in goal for Clitheroe.


TEAMS


East Lancs, a, Sat.): D. Cottam, M. Dennett, J. Ains­ worth, P. Seedle, R. Birch, M. Walker, K. Proctor, A'. Hol­ gate, A. Parker, S. Kerr, J.


Ribblesdale Wanderers (v


Seedle. Ribblesdale Wanderers (v


, P. Atkinson, S. Kerr, K. Fel­ lows. Res. D. O’Niell.


Barrow, a, Sun.): D. Cottam, M. Dennett,, A. Parker, T. Braithwaite, G. Leech, M. Walker, I. Threlfall, C. Monk,


Fine start


EMPRESS Squash Club Ladies’ summer, team had a fine start in their first game of the season{ winning. 4-1 at home to Springers, Nelson. . Dorothy Aspin and Tina Ashley won 3-0, Daphne Herd and Jean Halsall won 3-1 and Anne Cowking was unlucky to lose 2-3.


Linda fourth


CLITHEROE-..cyclist Linda Gornall, racing for Clayton Velo, Whitehead and Wood came fourth out of a field of 58 in the Tour de Bumpstead when -she t r a v e l l e d to Haverhill, Suffolk; at the weekend.


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Humour


“A SENSE of humour” was the title of Mrs Joan B e n n e t t ’s ta lk to Clitheroe Evening Town­ swomen’s Guild. With monologues and


verse on subjects ranging from baldness and mar­ riage to health foods, she explained how humour is a shared experience. Mrs M. Ireland gave the vote of thanks. The Easter biscuit stall


that she was celebrating her ruby wedding an­ niversary when she ap­ peared. Reading is now Mrs


le a d e r NEW cha irman of Clitheroe Round Table is Mr Geoffrey Tennant, headmaster of Avondale County Primary School, Darwen. Mr Tennant (39), of


Langshaw D r iv e , Clitheroe, took over the post from Mr Roland Hailwood on Monday. A former teacher at


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