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Youth hurt in freak wind
accident
HIGH winds on Tuesday caused an accident at Salt hill industrial estate when an apprentice elec trician was struck on the head by aluminium sheeting.
Pimlico Hoad. Glitheroe an employee of Dtigdale and Son, animal and pet food suppliers. Heilman Mill, was struck by the 12ft hv 2ft din. sheeting as it was blown from the ground.
Ralph Haines (Hi), of
_after suffering, from eon cussion for a short period.
lance to Hlackburn Royal Infirmary for observation
Martin Shepherd said: "The wind disturbed a piece of sheeting from it anchorage to the ground It was a pure accident.”
Plant manager Mr He was taken by ambu Fair looks set to be ‘smash’ hit
SOMETHING special . . .
Clitheroe Lions and Clitheroe Round Table hope that Sunday’s third annual Heritage Fayre will be remem
t h a t ’s how
bered. Even if it is just a
treat. But the chances are
shade like the previous two. it will po down a
that the special Clitheroe S00 Heritage Fayre is
uoing to be bigger and aetter than its predeces
sors. For there are to be
more stalls than before, more entertainment and hopefullv more people, thanks to the splendid reputation built up from tile successes of the favres held last year and
about 30.000 people packed into Clitlieroe
by Alan Barnes
Mayor Coun. Jim McGhie, at noon, townsfolk and visitors will witness a truly colourful and enjoy able spectacular. Said Mr Lloyd, who
lives and to say this alter only two years means a lot.
shared the idea of having the first fayre two years ago: "Prospects are shap ing up very
Lions and Tablcrs are proud to provide once
the town and everybody benefits because it at tracts tourists who will
"The fayre is good for
return again.” Indeed, the Clitheroe
well and the
again the vehicle which many local charities can use to raise funds. "It’s nice to know that
former Round Table and Heritage Fayre chairman
the people of the town recognise the fayre as an important part of their
a fairy story since its in ception in late 1082. Then Mr Lloyd and
Heritage Fayre has been
Bill Barker discussed the idea of having a few stalls in the town centre as a one-off.
would grow to the size it is now,” said Mr Lloyd. But expand it has and
"We never thought it
the fayre has been recog nised,’ in both the previ ous years, by the British Tourist Authority.
family event in England” award and last year the regional award for the North West in the "Eng land Entertains” best promotion awards. Mr Lloyd added: “With
In 198*1 it won the "best
good weather this Sun day’s fayre could be really
fantastic and wouldn’t it
be great to make it a hat- trick of wins from the tourist board?"
in' 10S-1. Last vear police said
town c e n t r e , on a scorcher of a day. for the most colourful single char ity event in the Kibble
Valley.More than £25,000 was made for 75 local charities — £10,000 more than in 108-1 — and now with 120 stalls instead of last years 100, the record looks set to be smashed once again. Chairman of the Herit
age Havre Committee is Round table chairman Mr Tony Spencer. With him on the committee from the Round Table are .John Roberts. Peter McKenna.
Action call to stamp
out rowdies
CLITHEROE newcomers Roy and Barbara Wickiup were delighted when they took charge of their town centre pub.
.John Spedding. Hill Barker and .John Evans. Representing the Lions are SOU chairman lan
Lloyd, who chaired the favre committee last year.
Robin Spedding. Alan Hollingsworth. Colin Underwood, the current Lions president, Tony Smith and Advertiser and Times photographer Jack
Lions have spent £1.000 to pay for a circus. Com plete’ with a number of acts — but no big top — it will be situated near the bus terminus in York
Harry. The Tablcrs and the
Street. After the fayre is
opened bv Clitheroe
come true, a lovely hotel of their own in what they thought was a quiet, idyllic market town. But their dream was li
It was like a dream
have complained to the police and want action to stamp out the nuisance. "We love the town and
terally shattered and turned into a nightmare within hours of arriving in Clitheroe by youths who gather nightly outside their pub — the White Lion — and create a rowdy scene more re miniscent of a rough city centre. Foul language flows,
the noise problem is the only b lo t ,” said Mr Widdup. Insp. Ian Hartley of
from the general nui sance. youngsters were performing "wheelies" — lifting the front wheel of their motor bikes oft the road and riding along on the back wheel. "The situation is getting
motor cycle stunts are performed on both road and pavement and the town's main street is often used like a race track bv young riders and motorists alike as they roar through the centre. The problem is nothing
Clitheroe police told us the matter would be looked
into.Mr Widdup added: "The teenagers are there every night from 7 o’lock until midnight and if it isn’t the noise of motor cyclists using the streets like a race track, it’s bad lan guage heard by customers in our dining room and front bedrooms." He claimed that apart
Theft from parked car
out of hand. The youths are not only using the road as a race track hut are also riding up and down the pedestrian alley connecting Market Place and the Kibble Valley
more than £-10 was^ stolon from a car parked in Peel
PROPERTY valued at
Council offices." Mrs Widdup added:
again."
"Roy has. been out to quieten them occasionally but after five minutes things are just as bad
cheque book and card, a leather handbag, n radio cassette player and four Tsle of Man* ferry tickets
Street. Clitheroe. bet ween S a tu rd a y and Monday morning. Thieves broke a near side window and took a
which are valid from today until a week to morrow.
new. of course. Immediate past Mayor
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Coun. Howel .Jones told us: "We are only too aware of the noise prob lems caused by motor cyc lists racing along York Street and youths con gregating in the town centre. At times we cannot hear what anyone is saying at council meet ings because of the noise. We have made represen
, the problem." Mr and Mrs Widdup
tations to the police about
Three Peaks walk for charity
| their walking boots to raise more than £-100 for Guide Dogs for the Blind. Simon Chippendale, of
TWO local men pulled on
TH E N BR ING IT TO U S FOR R E P A IR S
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I successfully completed a I Three Peaks sponsored
Drake House Stables and Hoarding Kennels. Eaves Hall Lane. West Brad ford. and David Pickles, of The Grove. Gisbtirn.
I walk. The monev will go to
I Simon and David are grateful to all those who sponsored them.
wards a £1.000 target which will buy. feed and train a guide dog.
A RUNAWAY SUCCESS
A "KUNAWAY" success . . that's Sunday's Sport
Aid effort when hundreds of Kibble Valley iolk gave their time, energy and money for thousands of starving African people.
From races and sport
ing e v e n t s h eld i n Ulitheroe and surrounding
villages. Sport Aid will b en e f i t by se v e ra l thousand pounds.
lecting cash was the "Copy Nook A-Team. from ’ Bollon-by-Bowland. who raised more than £700. The 10-strong crack outfit enjoyed the fun in fancy dress — one lad even dressed as a sexy policewoman and brought traffic to a halt, asking drivers for money before letting them off on their
Top of the tree at col
wav. L a te r t he A-tea m
stormed Clitheroe in a huge army vehicle and finished off with a tour of the pubs, for a well-de served drink, and one last
plea for donations. "Flabbergasted" was
Toddlers race to £1,000
TODDLEKS from Clithcroo’s Kibblesdale Nursery School made almost £1.000 for Sport Aid through
two race sessions last week. In a splendid effort for the charity, about JO
youngsters took part in a variety of races in the morning, and in the afternoon a similar number enjoyed games. Attractions also included a tombo la and cake stall.
now Lee Carter Health Studio proprietor Vicky Lee summed up her reac tion after seeing some 250 runners waiting for her and health studio mem bers, before their six-mile run from the Castle Gate. Many chose to run the
old and young jogged, walked, roller-skated and cycled along. ’ A f te rw a rd s , many
"Race ’ Against Time" in fancy dress and families
joined Vicky lor a drink at her studio . . . and the thirsty lot drank more than 20 gallons of orange juice and 10 gallons of
grapefruit juice! Vicky, who hopes to
SOCCER BOSS QUITS
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I sion after his team’s last I match of the season on I Monday at Shawbridge. bringing to an end a four-
their history. He announced his deci-
I and-a-half year spell | which has taken Clitheroe from obscurity to the top
a good offer about three weeks ago and 1 finally decided to go at the weekend." Accrington, a club
steeped in football tradi tion are regarded as "sleeping giants". Their attractions are
j of the North West Coun- I ties Football League. Mr Whalle.v moves on
fully u n d e rs to o d by Clitheroe chairman Mr Cyril Whiteside, who holds no bitterness to wards Mr Whalley. "Eric owes the dub no
to take the reins at former Football League club Accrington Stanley. "I’ve been proud to be
send in excess of i’-l00 u Sport Aid sail!: "It was an emotional day. the enor mity of it did not register and* I just wish we could have done more." Clitheroe runner Hris Rorison. of Kendal Street, returned from an official run at Holton, tired, but on cloud nine.
take part in something that was happening all over the world." said Brian, who. through spoil sorship. has made £200
"It was marvellous to
for Sport Aid. At the Kibble Valley
sport centre at Lon- gridge. 200 toddlers and children took to a muddy athletics track to run a mile. Inside the centn 100 women st ret died their way through a spe cial "Starlight Express" aerobics session with as sistant manager Ham Duncanson. while boys and men played a five-a side soccer tournament. With a generous anony
TOWN Crier Mr Hailwood and Mayoress Mrs McGhie mark the start of the festival.
Festival opens with a feast
iT WAS back to the old tradition of the Cockle and Mussel feast to herald the start of the Clitheroe Shopping Festival on Saturday.
marked the beginning of the Chamber of Trade’s
week-long occasion. Town C r ie r a nd
A stall in the Market celebrating other great Place selling the delicacies
Clitheroe Chamber of Trade p re s id en t Mr
Clitheroe’s traditional way of merry making was to send someone to Sunder land Point on Morecambe Hay to find the best cock les’and mussels. On their return the town clerk would provide a barrel ot local brewed beer and the town would enjoy a cockle and mussel feast. It was an event for mavor making and for
In days gone by.
events in the town. May making has continued to eniov a type of cockle and mussel feast, but these have not been occasions for the whole town to join
in.
Kolanfl Hailwood was on hand with Clitheroe May oress Mrs Hilda McGhie to start the celebrations.
tion in Market Place is on the very spot of the .great feasts of the past.
The revival of the tradi
been planned throughout the week to show shop pers and visitors what life is like in h is to r ic Clitheroe.
Various events have
ficent shire horses from Thwaites’ brewc ry were on show and tomorrow there is an open-air show by the Lancashire Puppet Theatre.
On Tuesday, the magni
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MOTHERS’ DAY RAIDERS
ARE JAILED Tip-off foils masked gang
A PLANNED masked raid on a Clitheroe restaurant to steal the Mother’s Day takings oi several thousand pounds was foiled by armed police who received a tip-off and wore lying in wait when the burglars broke in, Preston Crown Court was told.
s e c u t in g . said th a t Clitheroe police thought
Mr Peter White, pro
the burglars would be armed with a shotgun,
on the 10th century Milton Hall, now the Old Stonehouse Restaurant, had succeeded, the haul would have been £10.000. Preparations started at least two weeks before, involving locating the safe and storing a sledgeham mer. axe and crowbar in an outhouse.
but this was not the case. He said that if the raid
Carlton Place. Clitheroe. Peter Masters. (-IS), of no
Michele Gareffa (2o), of
fixed address, Carl Owen (22). of King Street.
Whallev, and Gavin Par kinson'(22). of St Paul's Street. Low Moor, all
pleaded guilty to burglary with intent to steal.
handling stolen drugs and possessing drugs, includ ing heroin. Gareffa was jailed for 30 months, with
Owen also admitted
an extra nine months as a suspended sentence for handling stolen property
applied. Masters was jailed for 30 months, plus 12 months with the appli
cation of a suspended sentence for theft.
12 months and Owen for two years.
Parkinson was jailed for
on the night before the burglary. Gareffa, Mas ters and Owen met at a house in Clitheroe where Gareffa and Masters were living. Thev donned over alls and gloves and walked along the railway line close to the hall, where Parkinson was waiting by a bridge.
The court was told that
broke into the restaurant shortly after 2 a.m. to be confronted by police. The
Mr White said the men
men ran off. Masters was caught nearby. Owen ar
rested next morning and Parkinson and Gareffa
gave themselves up. Mr' Tim Whittingham.
defending Gareffa. said he had not been involved in the planning and had ex pected that he and Mas ters would make £2,000 between them. Mr Kevin Talbot, for Masters, said his client
denied any part in the advance planning. Mas ters. who only had a torch in his possession, helped the police recover a
shotgun. Mr John Jackson, for
Owen, said he had been tempted to take money to feed his drug-taking
habit.Mr Whittingham. for Parkinson, said he had ex pected to get £200 for keeping watch.
IN JUNE
15th_North West Area Sea Cadet Corps Hand Com petition. Castle Field 1
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15th—Medieval Fayre. Whatley Abbey. 22nd—Ill-mile Road Race — Koefield Barn Appeal.
th_Super Teams $00. arranged hv Kibble \ aiU> Sports Council.
Handstand. permitting).
25tb-29th_"Merrie England." hv Castle theatre Edisfard Recreation Area. . , .
2Sth-Jidv0,';lth—Exhibition of Old Clitheroe Pocu- ni’enls bv the Lancashire Record Office at M Paul's Church. Low Moor. Clitheroe.
2Sth—Annual Pay of Dance, arranged by Loaatry 2 Havre Ladies Morris Dancers. C
Kull detail* from Kibble Valiev donnish Council Toun*t Information Office
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9th—Clitherne Lions Club Gala at IWnham Hall, bv kind permission of Lord and Lad>
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Tth-Sth—Young Farmers Club Agricultural show. l tth—Corunna Hand of the Light Infantry — Castle
lst_Heritnee Knvre. arranged by Clilheroe Kound Tabic and LTilhcroc Linns Club, noun to n P-ni.
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here the last four years, but I fancy the challenge at Accrington." said Mr Whalley. "They made me
th in g .” said Mr Whiteside. "The last three seasons have been abso lutely fantastic and 1 wish him all the best. Accring ton have more potential than Clitheroe and if anyone can make ^them successful it is Eric.”
Full storv Paire 19 Mr Whnlley
mous donation of £H>0 from one woman, the sports centre will be send ing about £*100 to Sport
Aid.The g i r ls from Clitheroe’s National and Provincial Building Socie ty have cashed in £200 — interest free! — thanks to a series of jogs and three- legged sprints through the Castle Grounds. Branch manager Ian
PICTURED with the grand Shire horses on their visit to Clitheroe are Chamber members Frank Barnes (left) ami Harry Stevens with artist Adrienne Walsh (centre).
‘No’ to dog warden
A MOVE to employ a (log warden in the Kibble
Thomson set the girls oft every time a customer called at the Castle Street office, and was on hand with welcome refresh ments on their return.
Valley was defeated when members of the coimcil s Public Works and Health Committee met. After examining a simi
ty look into employing a dog warden. Instead, the council is
lar scheme in Hyndbnrn at a cost of £1S,500 a year. Conn. Bert Jones m-onosed that the authori-
to mount a concerted poster campaign and hopes to enlist the help of Clitheroe Civic Society and the many organisa tions which took part in the recent successful clean-up campaign.
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