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and On your bikes with Ben! TIRED of sitting at
• home twiddling his thumbs, out-of-work second world war vet eran Ben Harris has decided to channel his frustration into some th in g wo r thwh i l e . . . raising funds for th e Royal Br i t i sh Legion.
For Ben (58), of Well
Terrace, Clitheroe, is in the middle of organising a sponsored 550-mile bicycle ride from Glasgow to London and is looking for others to join him.
A member of the Chat-
burn and District branch of the Legion, he saw action aboard minesweep ers in the European. theatre and in South East ’ Asia. On demobilisation he
spent several years in Scotland where he ran a leisure company and was, at one stage, president of the South West Scotland Tourist Board. ^'Following a h ea r t
attack in 1971, Ben took things a little easier, re turning to Clitheroe — his wife Marilyn’s home town — four years ago,
since when he has been in and out of work, although quite able and fit. “I am sick 'of having
nothing to do so I decided to heed Norman Tebbitt’s advice and get on my bike,” said Ben. At the1 moment Ben is
training in a gym and pedalling along the coun try lanes, clocking up 40 miles a week.
Ben is prepared to go it
alone, but would welcome others to join him on the ride and anyone in terested should contact him on Clitheroe 25332. On October 24th Ben
will be given a grand send-off by the Lord Pro vost of Glasgow and take with him a message to the Lord - Mayor of London. The" ride is due to finish on November 9th, the eve o f R em em b ran c e weekend. Ben will be helped in
his fund-raising by a friend, Irish comedian Clem Dane, who will give shows at each overnight halt on the journey. Chatburn’s Miss UK
Royal British Legion, Ann Jackson, hopes to cycle part of the journey with Ben.
MEMBERS
Clitheroe’s One Parent Individual Needs Group (COPING) are on the look-out for families to help swell their ranks.
to save
Spectacular shows at ——the Castle
THE Cas t le Theatre Group is keeping a close eye on the weather for this weekend.
If it stays fine, audi
ences will be treated to a further three spectacular performances of the Gil bert and Sullivan opera “Iolanthe” in the Castle grounds.
The outdoor setting adds an attractive dimen
sion to this type of pro-: duction, asATolanthe” can be played on a much gran der scale, with" an au gmented chorus and or chestra.
Full stage lighting has
been installed and as the evenings darken the stage will take on a magical quality.
REGULARS at a Clitheroe public house have started a desperate last minute attempt to halt its closure a week on Monday. A petition has al
- ------------------ The accoustics of the
Castle arena are outstand ingly good and hi-fi am plification will make every word and note audible . . . even up to the Castle Keep. Performances are being
given tomorrow and on Saturday, starting at 7-45 p.m. There will also be a matinee on Sunday, be- ginning'at 2-30 p.m. The group believes that the Sunday afternoon per-
, formance will' attract' a large audience from out of town and suggests that local people might prefer to attend the previous evenings. In the event of bad
weather- .the productions wilKbe transferred to the Parish Hall.
ready raised 200 sig natures and regulars of the Joiners Arms, Whalley Road , — in cluding an 84-year-old lady — have sent a plea in Lancashire dialect prose to the brewery in the hope of a reprieve. The pub is owned by
Lion Brewery, which is hoping that the licence will be transferred' to its Castle Diner Restaurant in " “ S ta t io n ' .R o a d , C l i th e ro e , when the Ribble Valley Licensing-
In court
UNEMPLOYED labourer Robert Frederick Clint w i l l a p p ea r b e fo r e Clitheroe Magistrates today charged with the attempted murder of his ex-wife, Jean, at Barrow.
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Sessions meet, a week on Monday. The Castle Diner at
present only holds a re staurant licence, which means that customers must have a meal there if they want a drink on the premises.
No quarrel Regulars say the bre
wery has promised to tran s fe r Joiners Arms landlord David Cooper to another hotel -* but they add that he is so popular and highly thought of that they do not want to lose him.
Mr Cooper and his wife,
Ann, and family took the hotel four years ago, when he left his job as an industrial training officer. , Mr Cooper said: “The
brewery is wanting to transfer my
licence.to ,the Castle Diner and I have no quarrel with that. My regulars are getting up a petition to try and save the Joiners Arms, and I have no quarrel with that either.” Officials at the bre
wery’s head office de clined to offer any com ments on the matter.
Family
Regular Mrs Janet Car- ro ll , of Kay S tr e e t ,
Clitheroe, said: “We have heard the brewery plans to modernise its Craven Heifer Hotel on the oppo
site side of the road, in the hope that the Joiners clientele will all go there. “But we don’t want a
fancy modem, pub . . . we like the character of the Joiners, where we’re l ik e one b ig , happy family.” Mr Carroll, a nurse at
Calderstones Hospital, added' that the hotel — the smallest of the four Lion hotels in Clitheroe — boasts a fine array of trophies and cups won by its darts and pool teams. “Our team members are
anxiously watching the situation,” she said.
Dialect The pool teams are pre-’
sent winners and runners- up in the Ribble Valley
.Pool, League. .There are; also darts summer aiid' winter league teams and a successful ladies’ darts team. Mrs Carroll added:
“There are quiet nights on Tuesdays and Wednes days, and not much lun chtime trade, but you could say that of 70% of Clitheroe pubs.” Mrs C a r r o l l , who
penned the dialect lines herself,-said regulars had approached the local Licensed Victuallers As sociation /or help. “They are not very in
terested in helping us, as they don’t want another full licence in Clitheroe if
the Castle Diner one is granted,” she said.
tuallers secretary Mrs Muriel Thome, said: “Al though there are too many pubs for customers, this is a national problem.
Proud “I think it is a wonder
ful gesture that the Join ers Arms -regulars are prepared to put up such a fight. The pub is a sport ing centre — and the lads are proud to be called the Joiners Arms team.” The Joiners Arms also
boasts a history of charity work. Some of the items purchased on an impres sive list include tricycles for spina bifida children and a kiss-of-life doll for local . ambulance per-'
' sonnel.""-— r . ' ~ " T ’j •'"Meanwhile themanager of the Castle Diner Re staurant, Mr Juan Mar- tinez-Perez, said that he had only found out a few days ago about the prop osed transfer, of licence. He and his wife, Kerry,
and children moved from Cheshire to manage the restaurant — which used to be the old Railway View Inn — two months ago'.
“I don’t know why the
brewery is wanting to transfer Mr Cooper’s li cence, but we are hoping for increased trade if it is granted to us,” he said.
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CASH FLOWS IN AT VICAR’S VIGIL
THE cash was flowing-at St Paul’s Church, Low Moor, on Saturday at the rate of almost £3 per minute as the vicar, the Rev. Brian Stevenson, spent a seven-hour vigil in tne porch to raise funds for the organ.
T h e church n e ed s
£6,000 to carry out re pairs which have been; needed for some years. There was a steady stream . of parishioners
.
arid visitors through the church and over £1,200 had been donated by the end of the day. The fund was boosted
by a n o th e r £200 on Sunday during the ser vices. Mr Stevenson said he was delighted with the response. Our picture shows Miss
Ann Smith, of St Ann’s Court, Low Moor, adding her donation to the appeal b o x , watched by Mr Stevenson.
CONSERVATIVE candi d a te Michae l Welsh stormed into Europe in Thursday’s voting in Lan cashire Central (which stretches from the Ribble Valley to the Fylde) . . . polling more than his two opponents put together.
And the new Euro MP
pledged this week that the top of his list of priorities for the near future will be local daily farmers and Clitheroe Au ction Mart.
News of Mr Welsh’s victory was announced
jus t after 11 p.m. on Sunday, when his delight ed followers cheered his 82,370 votes. Mis s H e len J o n e s
(Labour) polled 56,175 and Mr Michael Gallagher (Liberai/SDP) 24,936. The Ribble Valley turn
out of voters at 35.33% was the highest in the constituency, with the other seven areas drop ping as low as 27%.
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vative victory was tinged with a little sadness for supporters when they heard that the MP for the old Lancashire East Con stituency which used to include the Ribble Valley, Edward Kellett-Bowman, had lo s t his -seat to Labour’s Michael Hindley. Former Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil Mr Hindley (37), of Great H a rw o od , has b e en Labour , group leader on
OUTLINE' planning per-, mission for the building, of a bungalow adjoining Holly Bank,. Main Street, Grindleton,, for Mrs A. Towler, has been recom mended for refhsal by the Kibble. Valley Council’s •
MR WILKINSON (left) with the ill-fated Jessie.and her calf
Hyndburn Council since 1981. His parents live in Bil-
lington and his father, Jack, of Billington ;Gar dens, is the only Labour member of the -parish council.
; The election brought
disappointment for the Ribble Valley Farming Action Group, which took a cow and calf through. Clitheroe in protest at
Bungalow refused
Development Sub-Com mittee.
scheme would lead to un desirable back-land de velopment and result in more. applications, , 4?
Planners considered the
EEC'milk'quotas and af terwards slammed reac tion from the public as “unfair and very unsup- portive.” The 25 farmers, led b y 1
spokesman Richard Wil kinson, of Hurst Green, and Clitheroe NFU vice- chairman Stanley Bullock, - of Chaigley, handed out otest leaf!lets at the pol at Clitheroe
fing booth irro
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Royal Grammar School. They
ree Freisian
had walked pedig- dairy cow
“Jessie” and her four- week-old calf “Dolly” to the booth along the pave ments in .Clitheroe’s town centre — after being warned by local police not to obstruct the roadway. Sa id Mr B u l lo c k : , “Ribble .Valley farmers'
are'just beginning to face a terrible struggle with these quotas . . . I would have thought Clithero- nians would have sup ported them wholehear tedly.” Farmers faced <
cat-calls
and je e r s from some voters and many said they felt very despondent. Mr Wilkinson said: “The
public will support us when the price of food rockets because of these, q u o ta s . . . b'ut we thought at least that Clitheroe would have been with us." He added that farmers-
were infuriated that the' MMB had shelved a £12m, export order to Japan be cause ■ the quotas has slashed the -UK milk
supply. “People do not realise
that we are only receiving about six pence a pint for our milk now,” said Mr Wilkinson. However Mr Welsh
(41), of .Whittle-le-Woods, Chorley, forecast that after “three difficult years ahead,” • the farming In dustry would emerge stronger. “It shall be my priority
try and help'. Clitheroe Auction Mart, . which has applied to the EEC Farm Fund for a grant, .but added that he thought it would be late' next year before it was settled." ■ '
to make-things as smooth as possible • tor. the far-1 mers,” he pledged. He also said he would
Mick joins Olympic shooting squad
LOOKING' forward to taking part in this year’s Olympic Games is former Clitheroe rifle shooting expert Mick'Meggison. After taking part in a
competition in Finland, at the weekend, Mick (34), of Great Harwood, was told of his selection. • It is the second time
that Mick — who owns a gun shop in Blackburn and a shooting range at Kelbrook —' has been chosen for the Olympics.
' Last time was in 1980 when the Olympics were
.held in Moscow. Sadly; Mick never got to pull a trigger as the shooting squad was not allowed to t r a v e l fo r ' p o l i t ic a l reasons. • • A former British Pistol Champion, Mick has won championships in'a varie ty of shooting disciplines over the years. Now he uses a rifle,
built from . “bits . and pieces” by ■ his father, gunsmith Mr Leslie Meg- gison,. of Bolton-by-Bow- land. ■ Said Mr Meggison of his
son: “There’s no. doubt that Mick is 'dedicated and who knows, if he can get h is ' act together . on: the day, he could return home with a gold medal.”
Vases
i bought with the proceeds of the Circle’s stall at the ClitheroetHeritage Fair.
Jirct
A SMALL party from Clitheroe Ladies Circle visited the new-East Lan cashire Hospice yesterday to. present eignt; vases,
However, Licensed Vic of
Mrs Sandra Baldwin said: “We are a small but very active and friendly group and any body interested in join ing can contact us through Clitheroe Health Centre."
Committee member
are pictured on Satur day outside the centre, ready to set off for their annual .trip to Alton Towers, Staffordshire.
Members of the group
fund-raising activities, took the party of 34 adults and children.
A coach, paid for by
between three and 15 y ear s , voted,
joyed a picnic lunch in the gardens.
Popular event
AN estimated 10,000 people attended, Clitheroe Heritage Fair; arid its 70 stalls raised about £15,000. for the participating clubs and charities; . • . The organising commit
tee was delighted with the planning behind this first joint event and in tends to hold a similar event next year.
Corkscrew and Magic, Carpet rides the best attractions and all en
The children, aged the
Staff training means later opening for Post Office
CLITHEROE’S main post office in King Street will be opening 30 minutes later than normal on Friday mornings from now on.
All main post offices in
the area are now holding staff training sessions for half-an-hour on one day of each week.
The sessions are de
signed to improve work knowledge, so that staff can deal more promptly with customers and be more ready to offer advice about Post Office ser vices.
The Clitheroe office will
now open at 9-30 a.m. on Fridays, because it was felt this was the day which would cause least inconvenience to cus tomers.
-.Head postmaster Mr
Leslie Thornton said it was not expected that extra counter staff would be needed when the office opened late, but admitted: “We will respond to any situation where it may need adjustment.”
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