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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1986 No. 5,229 Price 20p


HEY PRESTO! AS MAGICIAN SHAUN MAKES BID FOR TOP TITLE


WADDINGTON magi­ cian Shaun McCree has a brand new trick up his sleeve to dazzle the International Brother­ hood of Magicians at their annual convention in Eastbourne, which begins n e x t Wed­ nesday.


He has been working


on his act, “The En­ chanted Garden,” for a year, and in depth of imagination it is like something out of the Arabian Nights.


Highlight of the 10-


minute performance will be the appearance from nowhere of a large jewel-like object which will appear to glow as it floats across the stage.


Shaun (23) is hoping


that his unique act, which also features rose petals appearing from thin air and a myriad of sparkling balls, will hold the


Jobs risk at Ribblesdale ?


JOBS may be at risk at R ib blesdale Cement, following the news that Greece is to s ta r t expo rting cement into Britain from next Wednesday. Mr Ken Marks, general


manager for production and development at the Clitheroe plant, said the firm was concerned at the move and was watching the situation closely. “It is too early yet to


start speculating about job losses or cutbacks, but this Greek move is a


threat that we will have to take very seriously," he said. “We are looking at


wavs of countering it and will continue to give our cu s tom e r s th e b e s t service. Two ships from Greece


have anchored in the Mersey and Thames and are believed to be carry­ ing thousands of tonnes of cement for Britain. The vessels have pack­


aging facilities on board and will stay in English waters, being resupplied bv smaller feeder vessels.


The Mersey distributor


is seen as a serious chal­ lenge to Ribblesdale’s market in the North. The Clitheroe operation em­ ploys 650 workers and produces 750,000 tonnes of cement a year.


British manufacturers


claim the Greek competi­ tion is unfair because of a 20 per cent subsidy from the Greek government.


They are demanding that the British Government makes representations to the European Parliament on their behalf.


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Better. By far.


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Appearing on TV


CLITHEROE'S Krypton Eactor contestant, Mike Nevins, will appear in the popular television series on October 6th. Teacher Mike, of Hay


hurst Street, is keeping the result of the pre-re­ corded contest a close secret. He competed in heat five of tho current ITV series.


A special pull-out feature


INSIDE this week — ii 12-page wed­ ding special, full of informative articles and features for th o s e g e t t in g married. It is an “Adver­


tiser and Times” pull-out " e x t ra ” , covering everything from compiling the guest list to plan­ ning the wedding ceremony, the re­ ception and honey­ moon. The free pull-out


feature is a must for anyone making plans for that big day.


judges spellbound and win for nim the Magi­ cian of the Year title in the British Ring Silver Shield contest.


Shaun, of Laneside,


is just starting out as a professional magician and the title would go a long way in helping him to make a success­ ful career in entertain­ ment.


But competition is


fierce at the convention with 1,000 magicians


A tranquil oasis in Whalley Centre


PEOPLE looking for an oasis of tranquility need go no further than the centre of Whalley, where a landscaped garden area with walkways and patio- style benches is being created.


Work on the project is


being carried out by a team of 23 workers from the Manpower Services Commission Agency of the Pendle He r itag e Centre, Barrowford.


The site, a grassed area


at Whalley bus station, is to be named Vale Gar­ dens. It has been de­ signed by Lancashire County Council. Part of old Whalley has


been incorporazd into the scheme, one of its main features being stone sets from the old station yard, given by English Estates, which recently launched a new commercial develop­ ment in the village.


THE pupils of Sloidburn’s Bren- nand's Endowed School have gone into print . . . well, their jokes have, to be more precise.


Several of the school's best joke


tellers have had their witty cracks published in a new Ladybird book, “You must be joking,” due in the


shops next month. Headmaster Mr Roger Cross re­


marked: “ I'm very pleased. Ours is one of only three schools through­ out Lancashire whose jokes have been included." A must for mirth-makers, the


side-splitting, rib-tickling collection of jokes is for a good cause — the proceeds are being forwarded to the Save the Children Fund. Meanwhile, this week the school


has been frantically searching for Union Jacks for 36 pupils to wave today for the visit of the Princess of Wales, who is visiting Settle at the suggestion of television celebrity Russell Harty. Pictured hnving a chuckle at one


of the jokes in the book are, from the left: Clare Slinger (9), Thomas Robinson (10), Snmnnthn Andrews (10) and Emma Cowking (10).


‘STOP AND RIDE’ BUS SETS OFF


THE new Saturday.


Ribble "Clitheroe Minilink” bus service slips into gear on The mini-buses, which


replace much of the Cen- trelink system, will run more often and give a ser-


Fatal accident: police appeal


A BLACKBURN man was killed and his Langho passenger injured in an accident on the Cow Ark to Easington Road, near Crimpton Fa rm, last Thursday. Simon Speight (18), of


Rosewood Avenue, was driving towards Newton between 11 a.m. and 12- 20 p.m. when his Fiat car hit a tree and overturned. He and p a s s en g e r


Robert Adams (19), of Hillcrest Road, had to be freed from the wreckage by ambulancemen, but Mr Speight was found to be dead on arrival at hos­ pital. Mr Adams received neck and back injuries


and was allowed home from hospital after treat­ ment. Clitheroe police are ap­


pealing for witnesses to the accident and can be contacted at Clitheroe 23818.


Missing part


A JCB digger stolen from Manchester Road, Whal­ ley, was found nearby several hours later — but a brand new £8,000 piece of equipment was missing


from it. The Mansi hydraulic


breaking hammer is about 4ft. long\ and green in colour.


vice to certain areas not previously covered.


Among the advantages


of the new system are: • A new sendee to the


Princess Avenue/Salthill Road area.


• Improved service to


Henthom and Low Moor. • More buses on the


Standen Road, Henthom and Low Moor sections of the route. The service will operate


largely on a "hail-and- ride” principle in the outer sections, involving the setting down and picking up of passengers where it is safe to stop. In the town centre


there will be conventional bus stops. A new one has been c reated outside ! Clitheroe's main post office in King Street and also one in Market Place. The Centrclink route,


which serves Waddington and West Bradford, wdll continue to be covered by conventional buses on ex­ isting frequencies, but wdll operate as an inde­ pendent route. On launch day this


A CRACK SHOT


CRACK shot Ian Peel has blasted his way to eighth place in the world elnv pigeon shooting championships at Suhl, in East Germany. Ian, who is 28 and lives at Brook


House Green, Slaidbum, was compet­ ing in his first world championships and hit 196 clays out of 200. The winner, from Czeehosolvakia, hit


199, but Ian is happy with his effort against the world's top shots.


His score was one better than the


195 in the recent Commonwealth Games which earned him a gold medal. Now he would like to compete in the Olympic Games at Seoul, South Korea, in'1988. In the meantime it is the dose


season for shooting. He has put his gun away for the next five months and intends to turn his hand to badminton over the winter.


Army cadets outshine the professionals


CLITHEROE Army Cadets, whose average age is 14, have outshone the professionals in an international four-day walk in mid-Wales.


Competing against reg­


ular servicemen, they walked off with the trophy for the best team in the section of military units.


When it came to the


presentation of awards at base camp in Llandwrtyd W e l ls . P ow y s , they elected their newest re­ cruit. Cadet Paul Atkin­ son (13) to collect the


trophy. "It was a great honour


for Paul and the other lads because they beat adult teams from both the Army and Navy,” said Sgt." David East, who trained the 10-strong


team. The walk was organised


by the Great Britain Fed­ eration of Popular Sports, with the Clitheroe team representing the Lanca­ shire Army Cadet Force. They were judged on


smartness, enthusiasm and endurance and scored over their rivals by decid­ ing to do an extra five mues on the last day of the walk. This meant that they


clocked up 45 miles in­ stead of the required minimum of 40. They also collected extra points by entering the largest team in their section, which re­ quired competitors to camp out at night.


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Saturday, all fares wdll be half-price and the day's takings are to be donated to the Clitheroe Mayor’s Welfare Fund.


Awaiting


conversion THE zebra crossing Clitheroe's inner bypass at the junction wdth Shawbridge Street is now- in line to be changed to a pelican crossing. County Council's High­


ways and Transportation Committee agreed to in­ clude the scheme in the 1986-87 small improve­ ments programme. The County Surveyor


received from the Ribble Valley Council an 800-sig­ nature petition urging the conversion. This followed the death of Maj James Whittaker, who was hit by a car while using the crossing.


Piggery fire


A BLAZE in a piggery’ at Crow T re e s F a rm , Oakenclough Lane, Chip ping, on Sunday night, killed 14 of the 60 store pigs housed there. Fire crews from Lon-


gridge and Garstang at­ tended, but the single­ storey corrugated asbes­ tos building, rented by Mr William Wood, was almost completely destroyed. About 100 bales of went up in


straw also flames.


The joke’s on us!


from' more’ than 20 countries attending. Among them will be American close-up wizard John Kennedy and B r i ta in ’s Paul Daniels. Shaun has just re­


turned from Dublin where he performed


before the Mystic C i r c le of Magic, watched by his father, Terry, a local GP, and mother Marje. Judges in the land of


the leprechauns were impressed at his deliv­ ery and he was asked to close the show.


He was able to swop


ideas ready for the big one at Eastbourne and has no illusions about the fierce competition ahead. "Perhaps I’ll be able


to take some of the luck of the Irish with me,” he said.


Death crash man was travelling at fast speed


A VERDICT of “accidental death” was re­ corded by East Lancs Coroner Mr David Smith at the inquest of Read motor cyclist Christ­ opher Davies.


The inquest heard that


Mr Dav ie s (2 0 ) , of Greenacres, was travel­ ling on the wrong side of the road and at a fast speed when his machine hit a tractor. Two witnesses to the


accident at the Whins Lane junction with High Lee Lane in July, said that Mr Davies was on the wrong side of the road and was travelling at speeds up to the lane's 60


Land bought


from Lord Clitheroe


LORD CLITHEROE has agreed to sell 916 acres of his land on Holcombe Moor to the Army. The sale will go ahead


subject to the Army, gain­ ing the necessary plan­ ning permission for the change of use of the land to a regular and Territo­ rial Army firing range. The Army already owns


a sizeable section of the Greater Manchester area moor, adjacent to Lord Clitheroe’s property, and the latest acquisition will more than double the size of the range.


m.p.h. limit. The tractor into which the machine ploughed had


just completed an over­ taking manoeuvre past several parked cars. If Mr Davies had been travel­ ling at a slower speed on the correct side of the road, he would have been able to pass the vehicle.


T ra c to r d r iv e r Mr


Jonathan Shorrocks told the inquest that he did everything he could, but the bike was going too fast to take the bend. Pathologist Dr W. D.


Salman, who earned out the post-mortem examina­ tion, gave the cause of death as multiple injuries. Tests revealed that Mr Davies, who was return­ ing to Read from ids brother Henry’s Sabden home, had about lOOmg of alcohol in 100ml of blood — just over the legal limit — at the time of the crash. The coroner said: “It


seems to be a case of a motor cyclist travelling in a position in the road and at a speed which made it impossible for him to avoid the tractor.” He expressed sympathy


to Mr Davies’ family, who had suffered their third tragedy. Mr and Mrs Harr}’ Davies' eldest son, Brian, died 15 years ago at the age of 19, and a year later their daugh te r , Patricia (5) was killed. The dav before the acei


dent Mr Davies had taken a job with a Clitheroe plant hire firm. He had attended Accrington Col­ lege and had ambitions to


become a chef. Mr Davies was a keen


sportsman and a commit­ tee member of Read and Simonstone Constitutional


Club.


NOWIT’S LOCAL FIRM’S QUAKE AID


YOU’VE heard all about Liv e Aid and Bob Geldof but what about Quake Aid — and Clitheroe company Re- etella?


Rectella chief, Mr Leon Eventhall, was reading about the recent Greek earthquakes when he realised that 1,000 of the firm's “ Bar-Be- Quick” barbecues, sent for sale in Greece, were at the port of Piraeus and could be used to help the thousands made homeless by the disaster.


He promptly told his Greek distributors to donate the disposable Bar-Be-Quicks to the local Mayor and this helped to cook hot meals for up to 10,000 people.


Said Mr Eventhall: “Our Bar-Be-Quicks are ideal­ ly suited for picnics on the beach, but I sudden­ ly realised their use as an emergency cooking method for people stranded or homeless after the disasters."


The B a r -B e -Q u ick , launched on the market by R e c te l la th re e months ago, lights in­ stantly, allows cooking to start within 10 to 15 minutes, and lasts for up to 90 minutes.


Kind-hearted Rectella showed other Clitheroe firms the way last year by sending out special PVC rubber sheets to re fu g e e camps in Ethiopia.


Schooling area


PERMISSION has been given by the Ribble Valley Council's Develop­ ment Sub-committee for the formation of an out­ side schooling area for horses at "Roscgrove", Hesketh Lane. Chipping.


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