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THERE was the best swimming ever at the fourth gala of Ribbles- dale Masters Swimming Club at the Ribblesdale Pool on Saturday.


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peted, several records were broken and overall the standard of swim­ ming was higher than it has ever been,” said coach Dave Slinger.


“Fifty people com­


was Sheila Dixon, Mick Schofield triumphed in the men’s section and • Jimmy Robertson in the veterans.


L a d ie s ’ champion


welcome for an action- packed programme in 1988. The club meets four nights weekly and further inquiries at the pool are welcome.


New members are


Good results in busy year


THIS year has been one of intense activity for the careers service with some good results achieved, the Ribble Valley District Liaison Committee for Education was told.


ley schools will have had the chance to see a careers officer by next February, according to Miss Rose­ mary Matthews, acting district careers officer.


All pupils in Ribble Val­


March 1st in Clitheroe Parish Hall.


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figures showed that of 259 school leavers in 1987 who left to seek work, 103 were now in work, a fur­ ther 128 were on the YTS and just 20 were regis­ tered as unemployed with the careers office. Infor­ mation on the remaining eight was unknown.


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610 school leavers in the Ribble Valley, with the majority going on to fur­ ther education.


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to play a large part in employing school leavers. Of 45 youngsters who completed YTS during the summer, the majority have either been retained by their sponsors or have obtained trained work elsewhere.


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CHAIRMAN of the Clith­ eroe Civic Society, Mr John Chew, cast his net somewhat wider this year for the Christmas slide quiz.


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showed how familiar land­ marks and b uildings looked different when photographs were taken a few yards from the tradi­ tional viewpoint.


Many of th e slid es


appears there is plenty of work for members to do in 1988!


Top score was 33 — it


February 2nd, the subject will be architecture.


At the next meeting on


by Ribblc Valley Scanner Appeal chairman Mr Roy Dcwhurst. The senior citizens raised £200 by afternoon socials and a coffee evening. Over the past three years they have raised money for various charities,


PROUDLY: display­ ing a Scanner appeal gold award: are Mrs Karen Walker and- Mrs Eileen Wilson, of Downhain.' The ladies, pic­


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THE widow of a Hurst Green soldier who collapsed and died on a training run told an inquest of a letter he had written which hinted that there might have been some “bullying” going on in his platoon.


S u r re y C o ro n e r Mr Michael .Burgess: “I am wondering if they pushed him too far.” Her husband, Private


Mrs Mary Marsh told


Warren Fold, in the village.


Sean Marsh, collapsed after running up a hill. He was based with Malta Pla­ toon, Royal Army Ord­ nance Corps, Deepcut, Surrey, and was in his fourth week of training — although he had served in the Territorial Army for four years. Pte Marsh (23), a 6ft.


tall father of two, was a fit man — apart from a brain injury which had occurred in childhood, the inquest heard.


b rought up in H u rs t Green. His father is for­ mer Warrant Officer (2nd class) Mr Ted Marsh, of


had overslept one morning and were getting ribbed. It was some corporal doing it. They were getting pushed hard because they had overslept.” Pte Marsh was born and


elled from her home in Scotland .to attend the inquest in Chertsey, said that two weeks after her husband died, his father had telephonedher to say he had received a letter f rom h is so n a n d “apparently there had been a bit of bullying going on.” She explained: “They


Mrs Marsh, who trav­


that Pte Marsh died from natural causes and said that despite the second­ hand information about him possibly being picked on, there was no doubt he enjoyed his time in the Army and was very fit until immediately before his death.


The coroner recorded


physical training instruc­ tor Cpl Joanne Morrison


The inquest heard from


that on the afternoon of his death Pte Marsh was


Ainsworth said he was puzzled by what caused an apparently fit man to col­ lapse and die and admitted that he could find no sa t is fa c to ry cause of death. The only abnormal­ ity he found were small haemorrhages — some­ times seen in cases of


steep hill when he began to run very awkwardly and stumbled, falling to his hands and knees and ap p e a r in g ex trem e ly dazed. He managed to stand and started walking but then fell on his back and she gave mouth-to- mouth resuscitation until a medical team arrived about 10 minutes later.. Pathologist Dr Roger


on a three to four-mile walk and .run, involving hill training. He was tackling a fairly


heatstroke — round the small blood vessels, espe­ cially round those of the old brain injury. The coroner concluded


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excessive exercise, but the run did not seem to come in that category. It was possible that the childhood brain injury might have made some contribution to the death. Capt. John Morrison


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told the coroner that a Board of Inquiry into Pri­ vate Marsh’s death was convened by the Army. “ O b v io u s ly in th e


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at least 12 witnesses had been called and though Pte Marsh’s full history as a recruit was investigated, no-one gave any evidence of mistreatment. The coroner added:


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