_4 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, December 7th, 1989 _______ .i •- ' . . . 1
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who owns and runs F. A. Allen’s wallpaper and paint shop in Wes leyan Row, is one of a team of town criers chosen to appear in th e n ex t Granada series of “Busman’s
For Roland (45),
occupations they will have, but we know the 39 teams taking part include fencing masters, ballet teachers and tra in e rs of Arab horses,” said Roland. “What on earth would you ask a ballet teacher?” Roland, of Kirkmoor
there to win, but whatever happens it’s the spirit in which we play the game that counts,” he said. Roland has no idea how
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PUPILS at Thomeyholme- RC Primary School, Dun- sop Bridge, have amazed the judges by winning a prize in a competition for collecting milk bottle tops. . . because many o f . the children live on farms and never see a milk bottle! Teacher Mrs Sheila
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Rushton said: “The chil dren managed it by visit ing aunts, cousins and grandparents and collect ing over a wide area.” Between them, the 35
pupils collected more than 22,500 tops in the four- week competition, organ ised by the National Dairy Council. Another Ribble Valley
THESE unlikely lads and lasses have “just” finished cleaning up the brook in Pendle Road, Clitheroe — and they look as though they are mighty pleased with themselves.
Award
MAGICIAN Shaun McCree was in London a t th e w e e k e n d , impressing judges with his dexterity during the International Close-up M a g i c C o m p e t ition.
school which proved it was the tops when it comes to collecting is St Mary’s RC Primary School, Chipping, where the 37 pupils col lected 20,002 tops. Both schools are among
audiences in Waldo Pep per’s American Diner in Burnley, Shaun will be recording an item for a Welsh-speaking magic programme for HTV in Cardiff during Christmas week.
Waddington home with third place, having com peted against 20 magi cians from countries including France, Ger many and Sweden. The contest was held in the Kennedy Hotel. Currently delighting
Shaun returned to his
contact scores of for mer pupils and invite them to a reunion at the Swan and Royal H o te l , C l i th e ro e . Anyone req u e s t in g information can con tact her direct (Clith eroe 28276).
for pupils who attended the school between 1972 and 1977 to put the date of May 12th, 1990, pro- m in e n t ly in th e i r diaries. Mrs Devine hopes to
taken in 1976, when th e s e R ib b le sd a le School fourth years were on an environmen tal clean up. Now one of their number, Mrs Jackie Devine.(nee Wil kinson) is wanting everyone to get back together again, not to clean the brook this time, but for a reunion. She has put out a call
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L a n c a s h i re Co u n ty Library have all tried to find out about past town criers here, but the his tory is very sketchy. Cer tainly the town probably had a town sergeant as far back as about 600 years ago, who would have informed the illiterate public at the time by call ing out information,” he said. “ However, no-one
knows when ithis post changed into, that of town crier. . . so I’m counting myself the first!” If the team wins the contest on the night, the
many predecessors have held his unusual post in Clitheroe. “Local historians and
Road, Clitheroe, and his team-mates, from Dorset and H a r row , w e re selected by the Town Criers’ Guild from a short list of hopefuls. “We will be going out
don his black and gold coat, knee breeches and tricorn hat for the rec ording of the programme, when his team will com pete against two others and fire questions about their jobs. “We don’t know what
Holiday.” In a few weeks, he will
members will be treated to a “Busman’s Holiday,” seeing the life of a town crier in Europe. However, if they were to win the entire 13-week series, their worldwide choice of a holiday would be limited.
are only town criers in Australia, Bermuda and North America,” said Roland.
highlight of a career as Clitheroe Town Crier which began six years ago and has seen Roland in serious mood at civic occa sions and in jocular vein at fetes and festivities. His ea sy r e p a r te e soon e n d e a r s him to an audience, and Roland, who
But it’s certainly the “Outside Europe, there
has taken part in town crier competitions all over the world, is already looking forward to next year’s world championships in Canada. But first comes that
represent Clitheroe in the programme, whatever happens,” he said. And we’ll be jolly proud of you, Roland!
a busman’s
ROLAND'gets in fine voice for his TV date on quiz challenge
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of officers at the AGM of Slaidbum Village Hall Committee, with Mr Wil liam Brown remaining chairman, Coun. Mrs Dorothy Pearson secre-. tary and Mrs Myra Briggs Th| treasurer. Arrangements will were made for the Christ- hall mas whist drive on wherl Wednesday in the village will hall.
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important television date. “I shall be jolly proud to
. her of class awards, an overall winner’s prize and a best turned-out craft section, the chances of claiming glory are not so remote. Any schools, youth
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the 200 winners,, out of 2,250 primary and middle schools countrywide which entered the competition. They receive a £25 sports voucher as a prize. Money raised by reprocessing the aluminium tops has been donated to the Save the- Children Fund.
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. lot of energy simply to keep warm. Unless they have existing fat reserves, the food they eat during daylight hours must be sufficient to keep them alive until the next morning.
AS we approach the shortest days and coldest nights of the year, how do birds cope? Even with the efficient insulation provided by feathers, they need a
weather, many small birds lose up to 15% of their body weight overnight. This is the equivalent of a 10 stone person losing one-and-a-half stones between” teatime and breakfast. “Chance would be a fine thing” some of you are probably thinking.
Careful measurements have shown that, in cold
with this problem. Large members of the family, • such as great and blue, tits, eat food as soon as they find it and hopefully put on the 15% necessary for night-time survival. However, they do have the dis advantage ofcarrying around a lot of extra weight for most of the day. •
Tits adopt two quite different strategies to pope /
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•The smaller coal, marsh and willow tit do not eat ' '
can remember the location of a large number of hid den food items and, also, which of. them have already been retrieved — a memory feat I doubt most- humans would be capable of:
, Experiments on marsh tits have shown that they
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