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line 7.....Sid Parkinson, sportsman extraordinary, talks to


Day 6. Vivien Meath on the rebirth of the Ribble Valley rail


4,5 .... Tony Thorpe meets Titus Thornber.Earby May


Andrew Spencer 8Sue Ritchie finds her perfect colours,Home Brewing 9.............A walk with Paul Wilson,Collectors’ Corner


10,11..........At Home With Dick Chitty, by Tim Procter 12..............Gerry McCabe and the Pendle Grand Prix 13,14,15........................................ Gardeners’ special 16..................................... Angling with Mick Cookson 17. An amazing phone call,Rallying,The pelmet makes a comeback 18.................Murray Walker test drives the new Volvo 19,20................Sue Parish’s Artsoutlook,Steam up at Slaidburn.Vivien Meath reports


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DRESSING TO KILL


SPRING is the time when a woman’s thoughts turn to her wardrobe and her man to his d im inishing bank account. For 21-year-old law stu­


dent Emma Morrissey a tight budget curtails notions of reckless shopping sprees. Since leaving Edge End


High School, Nelson, five y e a r s ago, Em m a has assembled various outfits at a fraction of the cost of those worn by many of her colleagues. While friends browse in


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son and Colne College and colleagues at Leeds Law School cannot fail to be im p re s se d by Em m a ’ s ingenuity. Her outfits regularly turn


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heads in Yorkshire, as well as Nelson, B u rn le y and Clitheroe. “ O u t lo o k ” decided to


award Emma a special Eas­ ter bonus and test her suc­ cess among local second­ hand charity clothes shops. With £20 in her pocket,


Emma em b a rke d on a lengthy shopping spree. The r e s u l t s spe ak


volumes. Her mission was to obtain


both daytime and evening outfits and she succeeded with 60 pence change. Buying in second-hand


clothes shops has become something of a cult among students in the last decade. “ I have lots of friends


who go to Manchester regu-, larly, although I tend to


She hopes sh o r t ly to


VIVIEN MEATH learns the secrets of Oxfam shop fashion and how to dress to kill for as little as £20


shop in L e e d s and my favourite charity shops are in Clitheroe and Skipton,” says Emma, of Lane Ends, Nelson, who readily admits there is “a lot of rubbish,” but practise makes perfect and she has become quite an expert at hunting out the bargain buys. “ Sometimes people are


quite shocked when I tell them how much I paid for my clothes and where they came from,” she admits. “They don’t believe me. I have an eye for something a bit different and tend to choose things which are quite individual.” The result is often stunning and she r e c e i v e s l o t s compliments.


o f For daytime wear, Emma


stumbled across an item which w ill remain in her


wardrobe for years to come. A jacket bearing the hal­


lowed Harrods label was a snip at just £3. She teamed it with trousers by Dereta which cost her £2.50p, a white cotton sh ir t at £2 described as “ old man’s style,” and a bright yellow cravat at 90p. For evening she chose a


sleeveless lace, 60s style dress featuring a large bow at the front — price £4. Her coat was £4.50p and cream gloves a bargain at 50p. Fo r the future, Emma’s ambition is to specialise in


both public international and E E C law.


embark on articles in Lon­ don — where she admits she will have even more fun and scope extending her wardrobe.


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tempt you to follow her lead, be warned. Emma’s advice is: “You can get quite addicted. It’s easy to go into a shop, decide something’s a bargain because i t ’s only 70p and end up buying it. Before you know it, you have a wardrobe full of items which seemed a good idea at the time!”


I f that happens, they can


always go back on the sale r a i l . F o r w h e th e r i t ’ s Oxfam, the Imperial Cancel- Research Fund, the Salva­ t io n A rm y , L eu k a em ia Research or any one of the many others, your gift or purchase is ultimately con­


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Mad Hannah'


MAGGIE WATSON takes a look at a novel written by Barrowford man Tony Sullivan.


PENDLE man Tony Sul- l i va n h a s p r o d u c e d another “good read” with his second novel, “Mad Hannah Rafferty”. Mr Sullivan took early


retirement from his post as le c tu re r at Nelson and Colne College to concen­ trate on his new career as a novelist. His f irs t book, “ In the


Palm House” , was a prize winner in the Whitbread awards and his newly pub­ lished second novel, “Mad Hannah Rafferty” , is cur­ rently receiving favourable reviews in national newspa­ pers, monthly and glossy magazines. In the book we first meet


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the central character, Han­ nah, hands burned from set­ ting fire to a block of flats and interred in an asylum after wrecking a supermar­ ket. The chapters glide imperceptibly from present to past so we build up a pic­ ture of, and sympathy for, Hannah’s life over the past eleven years. The story tells of her


struggle to balance loyalty to the people she loves and their conflicting passions, her father’s fanatical social­ ism and her step-mother’s devout Catholicism. On an A ld e rm a s to n


march, Hannah has a brief- encounter with her real m o th e r , Emma, about whom she had previously only been able to dream. When her father, Jack, tells her he plans to return to Emma, Hannah’s loyalty to her step-mother, Stella, and their religion manage to


.prevent him. But she suf­ fers the C atho lic g u ilt , believing her refusal to sup­ port him causes the cancel-.


AUTHOR Tony Sullivan. Photo: Catherine Felicity.


Hannah tries to put some


order into her life. She gets her degree and forms a relationship with David, another revolutionary socia­ list. Her longing for “a nice home, pretty things” and a baby do not, however, lead to a “ happy ever a f te r” situation. Confused by a cruel turn


in events and David’s atti­ tude, she turns to her MP step-brother, Laurence, for support (his constituency may sound rather familiar!). Once again, things do not work out as Hannah hopes. In the asylum, Hannah


delights in obstructive word games with her therapist. Not so insane that she suc­ cumbs to the supposedly therapeutic group confes- ‘ sional sessions, Hannah works out her own road to recovery by hiding in the lavatory to write her life story on toilet rolls. She tries to make herself whole struggling “ to regain her sanity while retaining the best bits of her madness.” Hannah eventually realises it is the world, not she, that


is insane and she also sees the fu t i l ity of t ry in g to make others see that. Mr Sullivan hails origin­


a lly from L ive rp o o l and Scouse wit and a teacher’s eloquence blend together perfectly to give us a com­ passionate insight into Han­ nah’s life. His own observa­ tions on the North/South divide, the treatment of mental i lln e s s and the ambivalent state of contem­ porary British socialism are illustrated with subtlety and humour. You don’t have to agree


with his views to enjoy the amusing descriptions of the people, places and events in Hannah’s life. The author lives in Bar­


rowford and his wife, Ruth, works at Nelson and Colne College. Continuing to dedi­ cate h im se lf to his new career, Mr Sullivan is cur­ rently working on his third novel. “Mad Hannah Raffery”


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Cover photos: Emma’s fashion bargains by Jack Barry • *


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