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THURSDAY, JUNE 19th, 1986 No. 5,215 Price 20p
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page tabloid publica tion — 25p from your
local newsagent, the Ribble Valley Tourist Office or our office in King Street — is a comprehensive guide to the Clitheroe area. There is useful in
formation on where to go, where to stay and where to eat — plus articles and pictures which will be of great interest to lovers of the Ribble Valley.
Curtain-raiser for judo classes
A Clitheroe shopkeeper with a black belt in ju
jitsu is planning to start classes in the martial
art. Mr Les Petty, prop-
rieter of La Bedrooms, Shawbridge Street, who is a fully-qualified ju jitsu instructor, will stage a demonstration in the old Co-op build ings, Moor Lane, next Tuesday as a curtain raiser for the classes. Mr Petty, a membci
of Barnoldswick Ju jitsu Club, will be tak ing part, in the demon stration. along with visiting top black belt
instructors. He hopes it will help
recruitment for his clas ses, which begin on July 1st at the old Co-op buildings.
It’s fun down Mexico way
S TR O L L IN G along Acapulco's elegant and expensive promenade would lie many people's idea of a dream come true...and for Leading Marine Engineer Mrtin Hodges, of Derby Street, Clitheroe, it be came a reality. Martin (2:1) is with the
Iixocet-armed Royal
THE NEW VAUXIIALL ANTIBES RANGE
T H E D IS T IN C T IV E 'S P E C IA L E D I T IO N ' N EW LO O K OF T H E A N T IB E S R A N G E IS A C H IE V E D B Y S P E C IA L
W H E E L C O V E R S N E W B O D Y S T Y L IN G S T R IP E S A N D D R A M A T IC IN T E R IO R T R E A T M E N T
Navy friga te HMS
Beaver. Beaver is part of a Navy task group on a -12,000- mile deployment round the world and the mil lionaires'resort of Aea pulco is one of the place: she lias visited. Martin and his ship
mates are currently tak ing part in a major ex
ercise off Hawaii. He joined the Navy
six years ago after leav ing Ribblesdale School and took part in the Palklands conflict while se rv ing on hoard another frigate, HMS Brilliant.
The beautiful aroma of scented herbs drew large crowds to the stall ran by Whatley Playgroup members.
"GREETING and welcome to the fair " says Lion Peter Cotton (front, right) as he doffs his hat.
GADZOOKS! The vil Wendy Haworth Trust nears £10,000 mark
ON TARGET FOR LIFE- SAVER
AS T H E Wendy Haworth Asthma Trust nears the £10,000 mark, tlie call went out this week to double the effort to buy a vital piece of life-saving equipment in memory of tlie teenager who died
in 19S-I. Already, local people
have raided to raise £8,500 towards a "tread mill" machine, which can help save lives by diagnosing asthmatic ill ness at a very early stage. The trust — known as
W H A T — needs £20,000 to buy the machine for the chest clinic at Blackburn Royal Infirmary. Set up in January, the
trust has captured the imagination of fund raisers throughout the
Ribble Valiev. Organisers Alan and
Geraldine Woodworth are family friends of Wendy's pa rents , Michael and Marie Haworth, of Eastmoor
Spy drama man is going back to Zimbabwe
A SABDEN man. mistakenly arrested in Zim babwe as a South African spy, is to return to the
country to work. Mr Alun Parfitt. of Alston Close, was on holiday
with his wife Edna in Harare, the Zimbabwe capital, when lie was arrested and detained for
three (lavs. With a colleague from Gwent, also employed at
the Hwange power station for the British Electric ity International Company, he was suspected of providing support for South Africans who bombed the office of the African National Congress
Harare. Mr Parfitt, who has been in Zimbabwe for 14
months, said that someone had used his colleague’s
name to hire a car used in the raid. Back home for a week’s compassionate leave, Mr
A O
Parfitt has been able to spend some time with his three children, Lee, Tracey, and Mark, who heard of their father's arrest on the television news. Mrs Parfitt has been in Zimbabwe with her
husband since March. It was her first visit and. (lespite the ordeal which she says "just spoilt it a bit", is looking forward to another three-month
stay next year. SEE THE RANGE TODAY AT
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CLITHEROE woman Mrs Marilvn Wilkinson, of Whalley Road, is the lucky owner of a £100 holiday voucher, won through the official souvenir brochure of Clitheroe Heritage Havre. Hers was one of 302
forms from the brochure to be entered in a draw - and she was delight
ed with her win, cour tesy of Althams Travel, where she yesterday re ceived her prize.
Drive. Clitheroe. Wen dy died on New Year’s Eve in 19S4. She was 1G and had just started a YTS course after leav ing Ribblesdale School. “Local people have been superb^’ said Mrs Wood- worth, of Castle View, Clitheroe. “Now we want people all over the health authority area to organise events to give a big boost to the money alreadv raised in the K ibb le V a l ie v .”
Wendv’s father, Mr
Michael Haworth, is pleased with the way the appeal is going. “We didn’t really set out to meet the target within a year.but it might just happen.” Recent efforts for the
fund include a WHAT fun run by SO people and a stall at the Heritage Havre which raised £195. “We are grateful for
people’s generosity and hope everyone keeps it up,” said Mr Haworth.
BLOOMING CHEEK. . .
Gardens somewhere are blooming at the expense of tile town's beauty spots. Shrubs, bushes and flowers are continually d is ap pe a rin g from Brungerlev Park and the Castle grounds as thieves take advantage of tlie "free" supply to bolster their own range of plants The latest spot to suf
fer is the Chatburn Road roundabout where Clitheroe Town Council planted £400 of shrubs following complaints ab out the roundabout's appearance. Gaps appeared only
days after the planting at the end of May, says Town Clerk Mrs. Jill
Tomlinson. "it's just not mindless
vandalism by youngs ters," she said. "People with trowels are de liberately and carefully removing plants for their own gardens." The worst case of
theft occurred earlier this year in the Castle grounds when 40 rose bushes disappeared in one night.
“The problem is
ongoing one", said Rib ble Valley Council De putv Planning and Tech meal Officer Mr. Peter Nock. "A few plants might go one week and then a few more the next. The monetary value is not too great, lint replacement can be impossible if the thefts occur out of the growing season. "It badly affects dis
plays and is extremely disheartening." Mr. Nock appealed to
members of the public to contact the police if they see anything suspi cious in the parks.
Our paper
This week's “Advertis er and Times" has been published despite an industrial dispute with the print union, the NGA, at our produc tion centre in Burnley. We apologise to read ers. correspondents, advertisers and newsa gents i f our normal s e rvice lias b e e n affected in any way.
MANAGER MEETS THE PLAYERS
CLITHEROE Football Club's new manager met his players for the first time on Tuesday evening. Dave O’Neill (32) has
taken the reins at Shawbridge after lead ing Rossemlulc United In promotion from the North West Counties League Division Two
in his first full season
in charge. He was top of
Clitheroe's wanted list following the depar ture of Eric Whalley. who took the club to th re e s ue ce s s i v e N W C F L C h a m- pionships. O'Neill has been in volved in non-league
football since serving
his apprenticeship at Blackburn Rovers and
then spending a short spell at Huddersfield
Town. On T ucs d ay he
talked with the club’s players, several of whom have been offered places with other clubs.
Job not too big for O’Neill . . . Page 17~| -A
CLITHEROE FC Chairman Cyril (left) welcomes Dave to Shawbridge.
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lage of Whalley took a step back in time to the medieval age on Sunday when the village’s Linns organisation staged its biggest extravaganza in
brilliant J tine weather. The Medieval Kair
was a success all the way as Lion members and their wives made a special effort by dres sing in all kinds of cos tumes to set the atmos phere for tile day in the ruins of Whalley Abbey. No doubt many of the 10.000 visitors were
Full report and more
pictures on Page 8
glad they were similarly attired as tile tempera ture soared into the low SO's. with shorts. T- shirts and sunglasses the order of the day for manv who spent a total of £9,000 over five hours. The village came to a
standstill as traffic poured in. but nobody minded — summer mad ness prevailed and already plans are afoot for a n o t h e r * * t i m e travel" fair next year!
Her flower power — at 90
BROWSING... Mrs Christine Lang (front left), wife of Lions' social chairman John at the bric-brac stall.
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BLOOMS are bursting out all over at the home of Clitheronian Miss Margaret Bailey. For the nimble-
fingered nonagenarian has been busily at work making paper carna tions in answer to an appeal in the “Clitheroe Advertiser and Times"
for artificial flowers for the "Merrie England" production next week. in just three weeks.
Miss Bailey, of Eshton Ten-ace, h:u« completed some 200 blooms, which .11 be used to decorate tlie bower surrounding
the throne for the Tudor May Day celebrations in
tlie production. She has worked
steadily all day on her intricate creations and states that it has not been a bit of trouble. She first started making flowers as a young girl and has completed many over the years for va rious productions in the
town. Some of the Castle
Theatre Group staging the light opera are also making flowers. Miss Bailey hopes to
go along to one of the open-air performances
Programme live from castle
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CLITHEROE will be tile focal point of the North West on Wednes day. when a regional BBC programme will be transmitted live from the Castle.
The “ North West Tonight" programme is
coming direct from the Castle,where camera crews will be filming part of the Castle Theatre Group's 800 offering, "Merrie Eng land".
But it will also include
clips of film shot at the Bound Archive, an in terview with S00 Com mute chairman Ian Lloyd and some footage of last month's Mayor- making ceremony. Programme presen
ters will be John Mundy and Judy Carter and the programme goes out front 0445 until 7 p.m. The BBC originally
intended to cover the S00 committee's April
Fools's Day “plot" to blow up the Castle, but had to give backword at the last moment. But it did make
solemn promise to come to the town at some time during this special year and has now hon oured its word. S00 Press officer Bar
ry Stevens is delighted about the programme, "it will really put the town on the map and hopefully make many more people aware of the S00 celebrations", he said.
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“Merrie England" runs from next Wednesday to S a t u r d a y , w it h a matinee on the Sunday.
HONORARY CANON
THE Vicar of Downham and Rural Dean of Whalley, the Rev Eric Chard, has been made an honorary Canon of Blackburn Catbedr«il. As Diocesan Ecumenical Officer for the last 1-
vears, he has helped to develop the increasingly close relationships which exist between major Christian denominations across Lancashire.
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