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n Whalley. The aim attract members


both sides of the ■hire and Yorkshire


■ group was launched e home of retired her Mrs Madge , of Denbigh Drive, •e people attended, er deciding on the of the group, found- embers discussed for future activities, ding tr ip s to res and restaurants. Sagar said that the was for single


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West Bradford sports day fun


RESIDENTS of West Bradford turned out in force for the annual vil­ lage sports day and bar­ becue on Saturday — de­ spite the weather.


Committee organised races and refreshments in the afternoon and a bar­ becue under a hastily- erected tarpaulin in the evening.


The Sports and Social


memorial prize for the best competitor was pre­ sented for the first time


The Guy Shorrock


and won by Richard Bater (8).


RESULTS


Jonathan Carter, Nicholas Potter, Steven Kempster. 6-7: Mixed — Chris Allison, Joanne Kempster, Emma Silcock. 8-9: Boys — Miles Baker, Daniel


■ with similar inter- ,vho wanted to meet single people. are hoping to ar-


Flat races. 4-5: Mixed —


Daniel Jones, Miles Baker, Richard Bater. 11-12: Richard Monks, P e te r Macdonald, Richard Baker. 8-12: Girls — Kirsti Shackleton, Catherine Procter, Susan Monks. 13-16: Boys — Paul Hargreaves, Garry Cottam, Chris Iphofen. Girls — Kirsty Sharp, Helen Wright, Sarah Penny. S a c k . 8-11: G i r ls —


Obstacle. 8-10: Bovs —


Elizabeth Bradshaw and Emma Silcock, Catherine Beggs and Joanne Procter, Christopher Allison and Ben Cross. 9-12: Miles and Richard Baker, Richard and Susan Monks, C a th e r in e W r ig h t and Catherine Procter. 12-16: Mixed — Edward Gretton and Chris Iphofen, Michael Baird and Ian Morris, Nicky Thomas and Graham Heanan. Egg and spoon. 4-5: Mixed


Catherine Procter, Rachael Dugdale, Susan Monks. 12-16: Kirsty Sharp, Kirsti Shackle­ ton, Helen Wright. Wheelbarrow. 6-8: Mixed —


our next meeting at in Whalley. but the md venue have still


fixed. lot more discussion take place before a


mime of events can lined."


emory Lane


iER Mayors of the Valley will be able


k about old times they get together meal at Wadding- Moorcock Inn, on


isday. mg those taking a iown memory lane ; Coun. Ted Boden, Mrs Myra Clegg, Fred Green and Bernard Thornton,


eal has been organ­ s' Coun. Ted New- who was Mayor in


dea came about at bble Valley mayor- g. We thought it be a nice idea and sponse has been ncouraging.


Coun. Newhouse: olley push


.OYEES at the oe branch of Hill- ave taken part in


ipermarket chain’s i y push mega- lion to raise ) for Mencap. •Sunday they took it pushing a trolley les to the Bolton


raise the target it is hoped that the will cover 700 between Hillard hes across the


.V. and time


EE groups will • at Clitheroe Castle tand a week on lay in the second oncert of 1985. afternoon of music e provided by the lool group The Mel- :s, who play blues- punk ami new-wave al; Race, who ap- ;d last year in •oe as Alto Stratus, one To Earth, for- known as Tobacco.


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Jones, Richard Bater. Girls — Susan Monks, Joanna Barkess, Elizabeth Bradshaw. 10-11: Girls — Claire Hargreaves, Rachael Dugdale, Catherine Procter. 10-11: Boys — Richard


Lining up to meet


Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, June Vfth, 198i. 11


the Queen LOOKING forward to the weekend and a meeting with the Queen is educa­ tion chief Mr P e te r Evans. Mr Evans, the educa­


The best on your doorstep


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tion officer for Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley, will be presented in his capacity as chair­ man of the Lancashire County Territorial Army advisory committee. He will meet the Queen


BUY BRITISH and g e t the be s t new wide-bodied commer­ cial vehicle on the market — right on your doorstep. For exciting things are


Monks, David Macdonald, Richard Baker. 12-13: Boys — P e te r Macdonald, Garry Cottam, Mark Whvbrow. Girls — Kirsty Sharp, Kirsti Shack- leton, Elizabeth Shepherd. 14- 16: Boys — Michael Baird, C h r is Ip h o fe n , E dw a rd Gretton. Three-legged. 12-15: Boys —


— Steven Kempster, Jonathan Carter, Steven Bishop. 6-7: Mixed — Emma Silcock, Emma Barkess, Ben Cross. 8-11: Girls — Claire Hargreaves, Rachael Dugdale, Helen Knight. 12-15: K irs ty Sh a rp , Elizabeth Shepherd, Kirsti Shackleton. Slow bicycle. Under 10:


during her visit to the Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry — her own re­ giment — at Altcar rifle range, near Formby. Mr Evans began his un­ iformed career with the Cambridge University OTC in 1942 and enlisted as a p r iv a te in the Queen’s Royal Regt, West Surrey, the following year. There then followed a


h ap p en in g down at Hebden Bros Ltd., the Freight Rover dealers, who have been specialis­ ing in the popular Sherpa range for many years.


gone one better, introduc­ ing the larger, wide-bodied Sherpa with up to 35cwt. capacity, and it is avail­ able at the Todmorden Road, Buimley, premises.


Now Hebden’s have


THE Hebden’s team (left to right). Peter Fitzgerald, Keith Bullock and Mike Stansfield


FABULOUS


Daniel Jones, Gavin Birkett, Miles Baker. 11-12: Andrew Bedford, Richard Baker, Claire Hargreaves. Over 13: Craig Lambert, Paul Hargreaves, Mark Thomton-Bryar. Cross-country. 8 and under:


Garry Cottam and Michael Baird, Chris Iphofen and Edward Gretton, Mark Whyb- row and Chris Baird. 8-plus: Girls — Kirsty Sharp and Sarah Penny, Clare Har­ greaves and Kirsti Shackleton, Ruth Bedford and Elizabeth Bradshaw.


commission to the Lanca­ shire Fusiliers and he served in this country and in Egypt until 1946. His part-time army


Mixed — Elizabeth Bradshaw, Gavin Birkett, Richard Bater. 9-11: Boys — David Macdonald, Richard Monks, Richard Baker. Girls — Susan Monks, Claire Hargreaves, Catherine Wright. 12-16: Boys — Michael Baird, Chris Iphofen, Peter Macdonald. Girls — Kirsty Sharp, Kirsti Shackleton. E g g -th row in g : Michael Baird and Shaun Lambert.


Sabden clean up flops


THE response to an appeal for volunteers for a Sabden clean-up campaign has left organisers disap­ pointed.


cated workers turned up on Saturday morning for I cleaning-up operations at the rose garden in the | centre of the village. The campaign was


Only a handful of dedi­


aimed at sprucing up Sabden for this year’s Lancashire Best-Kept Vil­ lage Competition. A spe­ cial com mittee was formed to organise the clean-up after Sabden pulled out of last year’s contest because of the untidy state of the village. Despite the small turn­


up, workers successfully cleaned up the rose garden and planted trees at the bottom of St Nicholas’s Avenue. Local builder Sam


career started with the Lancashire Fusiliers TA and he finished as a com­ mander of the Territorial Battalion.


Help for small


businesses


THE possibility of setting up an investment trust in Ribble Valley to help small businesses take off is being investigated by a team of “professionals”.


The group of six execu­


tives were chosen from around 20 representatives of industry and commerce who attended a meeting with Ribble Valley coun­ cillors and officials.


Mount, with helpers, con­ structed a wall around the landscaped area where the trees are sited. Pictured during the


clean-up operations are, from the left: deputy parish council chairman Mrs Marion Procter, Mr Colin Sager, Mrs Eileen Lowe and Simon Bywater.


Appointments ‘undemocratic’ claim


THE appointments proce­ dure of the Ribble Valley Council, under which councillors are chosen for committee, is most unde­ mocratic, Coun. Bert Jones (Clitheroe) claimed at a meeting of the council.


whose comment came when the appointments to committee were ap ­ proved, was particularly upset by the choice of councillors on the Person­ nel Committee.


Labour’s Coun. Jones,


wrong that this, one of the most important com­ mittees, should consist en­ tirely of Tory councillors. “It is most undemocra­


He said: “It is totally 0


resentatives of the Ros- sendale and Hyndburn en­ terprise trusts — bodies which give advice on the finance and running of small businesses.


Also present were rep­


Mayor Coun. Mrs Joyce Lilburn who chaired the meeting, said that the possibility of establishing the trust had been sug­ gested by council officials.


The Ribble Valley


su b -com m itte e of businessmen to find out if one was justified. It was expected that they would report back within four weeks.


It was now up to the


though the unemployment rate in the Clitheroe area was between six and seven per cent it had been


as low as 2.4% in 1978. They could not afford to be complacent.


ELECTED TO COUNCIL


RIBBLE VALLEY’S Coun. Eric Bracewell has been elected to the Coun­ cil of the Association of District Councils. Coun. Bracewell, of


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tic because this committee should contain all shades of opinion and it is by sitting on different com­ mittees that councillors will be able to increase their council experience to benefit the public.”


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tained by Mr Richard Cornish, who took over the presidency on Tues­ day. Despite the damp conditions, the match was enjoyed by all the members. The club is holding a


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P r im ro se S t r e e t , Clitheroe, who will attend, his first meeting oitf ie- association in London at the end of next month, was nominated by his col­ leagues on the Ribble Valley Borough Council.


Teams


XI (v Padiham, a, Sat.): D. Cottam, M. Dennett, I. John­ son, J. Ainsworth, R. Birch, P. Seedle, M. Walker, S. Kerr, G. Leach, R. Styles, Mason. Ribblcsdalc Wanderers 2nd


Ribblesdale Wanderers 1st


XI (v Padiham, h, Sat.): J. Hutchins, R. Driver, I. Threl- fall, N. Osliffe, K. Proctor, D. O'Neill, S. Proctor, K. Taylor, A. Holgate, W. Bradley, A. Parker. Ribblesdale Wanderers 3rd XI (v Salesbun', a, Sun): M,


Britcliffe, S. Farnsworth, P Spencer, R. Hargreaves, N Parker, I. Nuttall, S. Neild, J Renwick, D. O’Neill, M. Proc tor, I. Threlfall. Res: N. Oslif fe.


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Strawberry Fair a week tomorrow' at the home of David and Mary Brass, in Church Brow', Clitheroe.


Tory drive


WINNERS of the month­ ly whist and domino drive held at the Conservative Club by the Clitheroe Pol­ ling Branch were: Ladies — P. Adey, F. E. Quinn, C. Smith. Gents — A. Heaton, D. Robinson, T. Adey.


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CONTINUING for a second week at Clitheroe Civic Cinema is the star- studded award-winning “A Passage to India.”


Harwood, a, Sat.): W. Slinger, N. Duckworth, T. O'Connor, G. Sutcliffe, P. A. Hall, G. Katz, R. Booth, S. Blackburn, N. Ashworth, A. Henderson, Norman. Clitheroe 2nd XI (v Great


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Town snooker


CLITHEROE had a poor re su l t in the Inter-town Snooker League on Tuesday when they entertained Nelson A. Graham Ireland gave them a good start, winning the open­ ing frame 72-34, but then Brian Sims (36-62), Paul Clark (44-54) and Glen Pilkington (32-61) were all defeated. John Tit- terington won the final frame 57-43 to narrow the score to 2- 3.


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