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WHEN it comes to keeping pets, young Sam Westhead is a few fe e t ahead of most people. For Sam (15) has a


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six-foot Indian python to look after. Not every­ one’s idea of the perfect pet, but in the six years of the reptile’s life, it has never caused anyone


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tained from a dealer when it was very young, with the result that it is now quite tame. Perhaps s u r p r i s in g ly , mo s t Indian pythons are now


reptile is quite valuable, Sam, of Shawbridge, Clitheroe, takes good care that there is no chance of it escaping. Perhaps just as well, otherwise one of the neighbours might get a shock! But Sam says the


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N.U.T. joins schools protest County lashed


Parishes’ new Rector is a familiar face


THE new Rector of the joint benefices of Bolton- by-Bowland with Grindle- ton is to be Fr Trevor Vaughan, who is at pre­ sent vicar of St George’s Church, Chorley.


The benefices of SS


P e te r and P au l’s at Bolton-by-Bowland and St Ambrose, Grindleton, were only united last November, following the retirement of their re­ spective vicars, the Rev. J. W. Winder and the Rev. E. M. Sidebottom.


Bradford Diocese and the installation and induction will be performed on July 15th at St Ambrose Church by the Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Rev. Geoffrey Paul, assisted by th e A r ch d ea con of


The benefices are in the


Craven, the Ven. David Rogers.


and married, with four children, was Vicar of Sabden for nearly four years, moving to Chorley in 1980.


Fr Vaughan, who is 41


rural and urban com­ munities, he feels his mis­ sion lies with a rural parish because he finds g r e a t in sp ir a t io n in nature.


After working in both


communities are the back­ bone of the Christian faith in England. People are closer to nature and it is easier to see God at work.”


He said: “Our rural


looking forward to meet­ ing local people and hear-


He and his family are


ing ideas for helping the villages.


with a pen and. has found that his cartoons and drawings illustrating the Christian message go down well with children.


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WHEN one of the cast of Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar School’s production “The thwarting of Baron Bolli- grew” had to pull out be­ cause of an accident, young Gillian Pendergrast bravely stepped in to fill the role.


Gillian (11) took the part of Magpie, to have been played by Tracy Rozee.


With just a day to go, And her performance


helped the colourful pro­ duction on its way to being a great success.


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□PEL v So it’s little wonder


that Anne Day antici­ pates problems in ful­ filling her ambition to coach a F o o tb a l l League side.


Soccer-mad Anne


(25), of Woodlands, Wiswell Lane, Whal­ ley, has already writ-' ten to a number of Fourth Division clubs


i looking for a job.. But being of. the fair


sex,, she realises she


. faces - a struggle. A female coach ■ to ■ a


Ann dreams of jbb as football coach


League side is unheard of, but Anne aims to change that.


However, first she "


must cross another hurdle — gaining her ,


full FA coaching li­ cence. She passed the


Ereliminary coaching adge three years ago,


and hopes, to take part in a- two-week course in July which leads to the full licence. . - , :


The only' snag, is a .


£230 fee for the course; which Anne is trying to raise at the moment.


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tunity to do the course, I’m sure . I would really


give it a go.” ' Anne attended a pre­ licence course in Black­


pool at Easter and was pleased with, her per­ formance.


“There are just one '


or two things I have to brush up on,” she said. " At the moment Anne


.years’ experience with; .them, but. I would like the chance to coach


coaches an under-15/; team. “I’ve had three


'adults.” ' ' - : . Perhaps Anne will


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’ make the breakthrough, for'women into what


has always been a man’s game.


’ by the school. The humorous play ap­


bara Bingham described the play as “a tremendous team effort.” She said it was one of the most suc­ cessful productions staged


Headmistress Miss Bar­


pealed to both young and old in the audiences and earned much praise.


performed on Thursday and Friday, was Miss Jane Eagland, head of English at the school.


Producer of the play, Fr Vaughan is skilful


for ‘erosion of standards’


ANGRY teachers have joined the clamour of protest against| countv plans to close or merge six Ribble Valley primary


schools


Teachers’ Ribble Valley Association this week con­ demned the county council proposals on grounds ranging from alleged lack of consultation to an ac­ cusation that the plans set school against school and village against village. The association’s com­


The National Union of


mittee has sent copies of a written protest to local MPs Mr David Wadding-


ton and Mr John Watson. Association secretary


Mrs Sylvia Malone de­ clared: “We feel that w h a tev e r the county council is trying to do to Ribble Valley, it has gone far enough. We will not tolerate any more. Heaven knows what will be next.”


Intervene The county council


proposals are to close, in summer 1984, the primary s ch o o ls at W isw e l l- Barrow, Balderstone and Hurst Green CE and one or two of those at Chat- burn, Downham and Grindleton, in what has been described as an at­ tempt to tackle the costly problem of too many places for too few chil­ dren. Mrs Malone said she


wants the MPs to directly intervene, if necessary, in the schools closure fight, with an approach to the Department of Education. She said members were


Mr Peter Evans, the as­ so c ia t io n com m it te e states: “We object to the completely inadequate amount of consultation which took place prior to the publication of the (Lancashire Education Authority) pink document and which has taken place


mands for further consul­ tation are repeatedly turned down.” The s ta tem en t d e - .


since. “We ask why any de­


scribes the county propos­ als as “divisive”, setting rural against urban com­ munity and religious de­ nominations against each other. And it continues: “We


believe that serious prob­ lems will arise when ‘bus­ sing’ primary school chil­ dren to other villages . . . that the whole process is inconvenient, expensive and dangerous.”


No initiative


is taking a short-sighted view on falling rolls, adds the association. The trend will be reversed in the next decade if previous experience is a guide. Also, the search for


The education authority


“economies” fails to con­ sider how possible savings could be re-channelled to­ wards improving the edu­ cation service.


angry at the Lancashire E d u ca tion A u th o r ity proposals. Education stan­ dards in the Ribble Valley were at stake. “We feel that they have


been eroded over the past few years and are con­ tinuing to be eroded,” she


said. The Ribble Valley As­


sociation of the NUT has about 202 members. It is estimated the majority are p r im a ry sch o o l toopnpv?


In its protest letter to district education officer


ment asks for a positive' approach to improving education facilities, the association says that the teaching profession “has never been allowed any initiative in this matter.” Copies of the statement


Although the pink docu­


have gone to Lancashire County Council Chief Education Officer Mr A. J. Collier, and chairman of the county’s Education Committee, Coun. Mrs Josephine Farrington.


A full meeting of the


Ribble Valley association next month is to discuss possible further action.


The closure recommen­


dations are due to be con­ sidered by the county’s Education Committee at


its July meeting. District education of­


ficer Mr Evans has ex- eing asked to cut about


.16,000 of its 40,000 sur­ plus primary school places by 1985-86. '


E lained that the county is


Discussion J Claims of a-lack'of con­


sultation by the county on the proposals were denied by Mr Evans.


there has been a lack of consultation,” he said.


“I do not accept that “At the start of the


whole exercise we had a meeting in Clitheroe to which all primary school teachers in the Ribble Valley were invited.”


think teachers have any extra right to consultation — which their statement implies — beyond that ex­ tending to parents and governors.”


He added: “I do not Governors, parents and


friends of Barrow School were told at a meeting with education officials that village schools were not being singled out in attempts to reduce sur- p lu s primary school places.


told them that large town schools are also being looked at closely. He also stated that the pink docu­ ment was “for discussion.”


An education officer


ford Diocese education committee, represented by the Archdeacon of Craven, the Ven. David Rogers, gave its support to the Grindleton action group fighting the closure plans. The diocesan commit­


On Monday, the Brad­


tee, whose area takes in Grindleton, is wilting to the county council oppos­ ing the proposals.


Sponsored reading


IF 11 people read 150 psalms in four-and-a-half hours, what is the result? The answer is a fine £100 contribution for


Christian Aid. N in e m em b e r s of


Clitheroe Parish Church Youth Group, together with the Rev. Peter Shepherd, who assists at the church, and his wife


Sue, took part in the psalm reading and were sp o n so r ed fo r th e ir


efforts. They were Pamela


Moore, Jane Scholes, Elizabeth Day, Hilary Croft, Wendy Hould- sworth, Martin and Craig Ashcroft and Ian and Mai-1 colm Parkinson.


Whalley church plan narrowly wins the vote


PARISHIONERS opposed to plans to reorder Whalley Parish Church lost out in a move, to block the controversial changes. A motion that the reor- create a narthex.


. Sandpiper on Monday. The consultation pro­


dering should not take place was narrowly defe­ ated by 73 votes to 70 at an open meeting in the


cess will now continue at a congregational meeting a week on. Monday, when the architect will be pre­ sent to discuss the plans in detail. The most controversial


The plans have bitterly


divided the village and Coun. Jimmy Fell pleaded with the 200 attending the meeting to seek a com-1 promise. However, he added:


“Whatever the outcome, do not d e s e r t y ou r l church." Mr Michael Green, who


ing it at the back of the all in a village church like church. It is also intended ' Whalley,” he added. to extend the balcony and


part of the proposals in­ volves dismantling an an­ cient caged pew and resit-


made the motion to block the reordering, admitted that a narthex was useful in a modern city church. “But it has no place at


Mr Jack Lingard ques­ tioned the final cost of the


plans. He said that a well- known Midlands architect |


had examined the plans carefully and quoted a figure of almost £180,000. V ica r ’s warden Mr


the Provost of Blackburn, the Very Rev. Lawrence Jackson. He said he came as a friend of,'Whalley and


Geoffrey Mitchell also suggested that a properly designed questionnaire may nave to be circulated in the village for a true account of public opinion. A surprise guest was


sti’essed that fie was riot- insensitive to the; issues


being discussed. . ; Mr Jackson asked the


parishioners to remember that the Church is a living body and to. find the best shape for their building by which they could wor­ ship God. Sir John Betjeman, an


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tumes, the youngsters did not spend the day looking round the his­ to r ic bu ild in g , but taking on the jobs that used to be done there in the days of Henry VIII. Some prepared food in


TOURIST interest in the Ribble Valley and district has shown a marked rise since those “Historic Clitheroe” signs went up along the town’s bypass. For the number of in­


the kitchens for a lun­ chtime banquet, while others tried their hand at archery and spin­ ning. The day was rounded


off in the perfect way loith some Tudor dancing.


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A CIVIL en g in e e r ’s th e o d o l ite valued at £1,000 was stolen from Ribble Cement Works be­ tw e en lu n ch t im e on Monday and Tuesday morning. It was a Kem ICI-A model and carried the serial number 259381.


quiries received by staff at Clitheroe Tourist Infor­ mation Office in a week has risen by about 100 since the signs appear­


ance. The signs, paid for by


Clitheroe and District Chamber of Trade,, were erected over Easter. A total of 237 inquiries were received from April 11th to 16th, which compares with 121 in the first week


of March. A Ribble Valley council


spokesman said: “Immedi­ ately after these signs went up, the increase was most marked.” He added: “It has made


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