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IT’S curtain up on an exciting static career for Clithcroc girl Sarah
C u r t a i n u p o n d a z z l i n g s t a g e c a r e e r After a short break
triumph at the start of what is .shaping up to he a dazzling theatrical future, combining a range of acting and performing talents. Sarah (21) has has won
Letrtr. She has scored a treble
the top I’clcr Ackerman Comedy Award, followed hv her graduation this week from the famous Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
back in Clitheroc, she will start a contract with an Essex repertory company in W eslcl iffc-on-Sca.
Brooke Ashton in the farce “Noises Off’ at Bristol’s Theatre Koyal drew rave revues from critics. The comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at
Her performance as S the actor’s lot and
was part of her three-year drama
arah’s performance in it
training and helped her to clinch the award.
already impressive. As well as playing a modern-day glamour girl, she has starred as Mrs Malaprop in “The Rivals,” Viola in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and Aunt Prue in “Salad Days.”
Her acting range is
months she will appear in plays by Jeffrey Archer and Alan Ayckbourn and hopes to
During the coming
round off the year playing the lead in a Christmas musical production of “Alice in Wonderland.”
Sarah because she wants to avoid becoming classed as a comedy stereotype.
The mixed range suits
Marian, explained: “The Old Vic has trained several of today’s top actors. Sarah wants to gain experience in every type of acting, which is
As her mother,
what she will get with this repertory company.”
graduate from drama college and go straight to the dole queues, so Sarah is fortunate to have been offered work straight away.
Many students
restricted to acting, for Sarah plays the violin and viola, is a soprano, a gymnast and an ace at accents, with Lancashire dialect a speciality. She can do tumbling, mime
Her ability is not S’V
and puppetry and, when not working, enjoys horse riding, swimming and cycling.
Marian, live in Kenilworth Drive and her mother works for Coneron and Lceming, the Moor Lane jewellery and china shop.
Her parents, David and
the Grammar School in Clitheroe, is a former drama pupil of Miss Annis Watson, of York Street.
Sarah, who attended m i'-Sw? m
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‘bury hatchet’ A PROPERTY developer is hoping that protesters will now “bury the hatchet” over plans for the former Barrow Print Works site. His call to the pro
testers follows Ribble Valley Council’s final go-ahead for an outline planning application for the redevelopment of the site for hous ing and industry.
C a l l t o c a t c h i t t e r l o u t s
Police chief sick o f sad scenes in town "I _ J '
outside Barclays Bank in the very centre of Clitheroe’s main street this week is, we feel,
This appalling scene by Kaye Moon
the last straw. But where does the fault
A m r f / lie? j* -
been words between Rib ble Valley Council officials responsible for the empty ing of litter bins and Lan cashire Qounty Council contract managers, who are faced with overflowing bins which in turn deposit litter on to roads and amenity areas they arc' paid £105,000 annually to clean in the valley. And can Ribble Valley
Already there have
A DISGUSTED Cuun. Cowgill inspects this week’s town centre litter
coverage of the problem, including last week’s story abort litter in Whalley, when he spoke at the bi monthly meeting of Clith eroe Town Council. “Whatever the system
WELCOME to the rubbish-strewn Ribble Valley . . . and in particular clogged-up Clitheroe.
Their visit is Yankee Doodle Bandy
aging director of London- based Pilot Properties,
Mr Hugh Geddes, man
whose associated com pany, North West Ltd, is carrying out tile project, said: "We have been the wrong target for these people all along."
come from the council. “It wasn’t my idea to
nal idea to earmark the and for development had
lie added that the origi
develop tiie land . . . but now that my company is entrusted with it. I’m con cerned to got the best pos sible scheme for the site. I only hope this outline per mission will finally leave us on a friendly basis with all the local people, and we can go on from there."
company, Mr Geddes said, was now to pay the £l.25m. to the Depart ment of Transport for the contraction of a dual car riage and roundabout where the site direct- access road joins the A5!) by-puss — one of the con ditions imposed on Pilot Properties before they were granted permission.
The next move for the
The scheme for an 80-plus housing devel
opment alongside an industrial commercial park is governed by strict sec
is, it is just not working,” he said.” I am fed up of coming down King Street after the weekend and seeing swirling litter in unacceptable quantities." Coun. Bracewell called
councillors be aware of public feeling when, at a Public Works and Health Committee meeting on ay 22nd, their officers —
tion 52 rules for the land use and planning issues, and section 278 rules regarding highway work.
fed up with letters of com plaint from the public — resented them with an
for a c o -o rd in a te d approach by all authorities involved in the area as the only answer to the prob lem, saying that members had to assist the police and magistrates who were already facing the problem “head-on” and had only recently imposed a £75 fine on one offender. For Clitheroe police,
.stimatc of £9,477 to empty the worst-affected bins more frequently dur ing the rest of this finan cial year . . . and council lors promptly deferred it?
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THE s ig h t s and sounds witnessed by Clitheroe nurse Miss Jenny Riley during her recent visit to Romania must have tugged at many Ribble
Valley heartstrings. In our report last week,
we told how the area’s own “angel of mercy” trav elled to the stricken coun try by lorry with CARE, the Cumbrian Appeal for the Romanian Emergency. She found orphanages which she described as
absolutely disgusting, chil dren desperately short of milk, old people lying in their own excrement — and was acutely aware of the presence of the state’s secret police throughout her visit. Ribble Valley residents
and appeaL helpers are now renewing th e i r request for supplies to take to the country. Ribble Valley represen
will be able to see and hear more about her visit during a film show at the Catholic Social Centre on Sunday afternoon. Another lorry with goods donated by the local
ing physiotherapy, is also on a long list of items desperately needed. Boxes are again to be
tatives will be travelling out with the lorry which, they hope, will carry medical items, milk — especially dried baby milk — and food. Ambulances and stret
community will leave P.HfrViornn on Alienist 19th
the Rotary structure and expertise could be put to best use.
placed in Kwik Save and Booths supermarkets and the voluntary organisers have stressed an urgent need for premises in which to store items. Clitheroe Rotary Club is
chers are urgently needed and the local fund-raisers say they would love to be able to take both. A large paddling pool, in Which to exercise children undergo
tonners from Preston to Romania some weeks ago and is planning heavy
Rotary sent two three- §
working with local appeal organisers to prevent a duplication of effort over deliveries to Romania. President Mr Howard
Spensley said the Rotary Club was looking into how
oods vehicle trips from eptember.
the "Ribble Valley Appeal for the Romanian Emer gency” has now been opened at the Halifax Building Society in King S t r e e t , C l l th e r o e (D/1779G75-7).
A deposit account for
Times” has been highlight- ing the problem for years . . . as has Clith eroe’s clean-up campaign champion for many years, Coun. Eric Braccwell. Last night he praised our
The “Advertiser and
Lucky escape
LUCK was on the side of young Clitheroe driver Karl Dugdale (20), of Rail way View Road, when the Morris Marina car he was driving careered 10ft. down an embankment on the A5(> at Huncoat during t h e M o n d a y e v e n i n g rush-hour.
from the crash without injury and there was very little damage to the car, which beiongs to his brother Garry.
For Karl walked away
on night duty, I can pick tip litter from bins emptied by drunks, only to find that next time I go round it has been done again — and frequently the bin is damaged.” Insp. Barlow called for
Insp. Roger Barlow said he was “sick of the sad scenes in town.” He added: “Often, if I’m
public co-operation in reporting culprits.
chairman of Clitheroe m ag is tra te s , Mr Jim Parker, who has served on the Bench for 30 years.
This was echoed by
about this problem as everybody else,” he said, “and if any more cases are brought, you can be sure we will take the necessary steps with any offenders.”
“We are as concerned
“ I feel lucky to be alive,” said Karl, who was
on his way home from Bol ton, where he works as a financial consultant.
Tools taken
TOOLS have been taken from a garage in Henthorn Close, Clitheroe. They include a Black and Decker hammer drill, paint stripper and jig-saw valued at £100.
bish to Ribble Valley councillor John Cowgill, who only recently led the staff of his Clitheroc new sagent’s shop around the centre on a Bank Holiday to empty the overflowing lit ter bins. On that day, Coun. Cowgill objected to paying trader’s refuse charges to have the rub bish removed . . . and the County Council took it
We pointed out the rub
said. “No wonder the county can’t keep the area clean when they won the contract for the amenity cleaning of the whole Rib ble Valley for just £(>0,000. Clitheroe Town Council spent nearly a third of that last year just to supple ment the town cleaning."
away. ’’It’s just atrocious,” he
An opt out poser soon for CRGS
CLITHEROE Royal Gram mar School could decide to opt out of the state educa tion system.
grant-maintained status, the school would receive its funds directly from the Department of Education instead of through the local authority.
By opting out and going for r
central resources fund which the county council would normally get and this sum would be deducted from the county bud g et, said a county spokesman.
It would also receive a portion of the *. 7. ■ W
schools in Lancashire to consider opt ing out. Bacup and Rawtenstall GS was the first, becoming grant-maintained last September, and Lancaster Royal (the boys’ school) recently joined the list.
Clitheroe is one of the last grammar
opt out and is due to make its case to the Secretary of State for Education
Lancaster Girls’ GS has decided to
for formal approval. So far CRGS is saying little on the
GOVERNORS’ chairman Mr Jim Parker
subject, beyond the brief statement issued by governors’ chairman Mr Jim Parker on Tuesday.
held on Monday, governors discussed the grant-maintained option and ' resolved that the process of eonsulta-
He said: ‘‘AVthe general meeting
with parents is to be convened in Sep tember, at which representatives of the Lancashire Education Authority and the grant-maintained trust will be able to give their respective views.”
tion should be extended to parents. “To that end, a governors’ meeting
majority of the parents, as well as from the governors.
Opting out will need approval from a : '
Eric hero of lift drama
THE quick action of a porter at Clithcroe Hospital saved a male patient from distress on Friday. The patient was in
the lift with porter Mr George Cowgill of West View, Clithcroe, when it jammed six to eight inches above the floor level and the doors would not open. As Mr C ow g il l
Gregg (51), of Clay- ton-le-Moors, who has worked at the hospital for six years. Eric managed to
pressed the emergency button, the office sent round porter Mr Eric
by Clive Barnden
VISITING Whalley Abbey on Monday were 40 American students on an exchange visit witli
Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. The s tudents, from hosting the visitors.
North F ay e t te High CRGS pupils get their School in West Union, chance to visit Iowa next Iowa, are spending three year, weeks in England and, have a number of sightsee ing and shopping trips arranged, including trips to Blackpool, Wigan, Liverpool, and four days in London. In charge of the group
are teachers Mr Eddie Murphy, Mr Mike Fielding and Mrs Val Fielding, who are all in our picture. Also in the picture is Whallev Abbey’s treasurer, Mr Bill Anderson (in the monk’s
was a welcome at the Rib ble Valley Mayor’s parlour on Monday morning. Also present were the 28 CRGS pupils whose families are
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just happy that work on the site will now start sooner rather than later, although I’m not giving any exact dates yet.”
Mr Geddes said: “I’m
pany’s next move will be to submit detailed plans of what it proposes to Kib ble Valiev Council.
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unit general manager for community ser vices in Blackburn Hyndburn and Ribblc Valley, said; “The hospital has one lift, which is very well maintained. This was just an unfortunate incident, but no doubt the quick action of the porter saved it from getting any vvorse." And the secret of
manipulate a release bar on the lift from sonic nearby stairs and then used his strength to force the doors open to a two- foot width through which the patient was passed. Mr John Thomas,
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