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As town’s largest employer throws open its gate to visitors
Castle cements relations
CU TH E ROE'S lar gest employer — Cas tle Cement — opened its .u'ates to the public for the first time ever at the weekend to put minds at rest on two counts.
It will not turn its hack
mi the Itihble Valley when its present quarry stone is i* ,\ h a u s t e <l in 2 0 years . . . and it is rtnujig its utmost to avoid any pollution of the surround ing countryside.
Already the forward-
thinking “green” giant of local industry has com pleted sample drilling in .May and dune on two farms it bought about 20 years ago, intending to test in the future. The tenanted farms — Varley field and lloober, to the north east of Newsholme - would be near enough
to Clitheroe and on a direct rail link to make l rails porting limestone economic, should a supply lie feasible i f planning permission js granted. A spokesman for the
Lancashire County Coim- eil planning department.,
which has been kept fully i n fo r m e d by C a s 11 e ( Vmcnt of their test diall ing. told us: “ In view of (lie location being drilled, my department is very surprised that more people are not asking questions. Your newspaper is. in fact, the first." Other options being
explored to safe-guard the Ufa) jobs on site are the pos s ibility o f d ig g in g deeper into the present ( 'litheroe quarry. It is not known how much lime stone of good quality is left under the present quarry and, although the local water table has not yet been reached, pumping pockets of water out would add to costs.
by KAYE MOON I f the (|ti;iiT.y is aban
doned, a clause in previous planning permission states Castle Cement lias to land scape and Hood it to pro vide a massive leisure area for public use. Other sites within rea
sonable distance are also being considered. Said Mr
.lonalhan Dale, the area director (north) and head o f logistics for Castle Cement: "We have made an enormous investment in equipment here and would not throw that away lightly. The consequences for the Kibble Valley if we were ever to shut would be enormous . . . we both need each other."
Mr Dale added that one
option which had been con sidered many years ago was the Warsaw Hill area b e h i n d D o w n h a m , although Lord Clitheroe had turned down any plans to quarry out the scenic backcloth to his famous village. Meanwhile, members of
the public were clearly impressed when 1,000 of them poured through Cas tle Cement’s gates over the weekend to view its tremendous investment in to p r o t e c t in g the environment. About 200 dust collectors and electro filters on site, chimney alarms which detect the
slightest rise in dust emis sion, tree screens to stop dust and electric detona tors to reduce vibration are costing hundreds of thousands of pounds each year to maintain. Castle Cement has an
annual output o f 1.3m. tonnes of cement, pro duced with an annual elec tricity bill of i'fnn. — the equivalen t e le c tr ic ity which a town the size of Blackburn would use — and burning '1,000 tonnes of coal per week. Owned jointly by two Scandina vian companies, Aker and E uroc, it tran sp o r ts cement all over the coun try by rail and road and exported cement during the Falklands crisis to build a new a irp o r t runway.
b. • A * ' 4 f > ; " - . .Y ■ 0 L \ i' . f . t f i .W ; ■ ct • . . * A PANORAMIC view of Castle Cement's 200-acre quarry As phone rings from trouble-torn Baghdad .
Mum’s prayers are answered
her that he is still safe in trouble-torn Baghdad. Since the invasion of
Kuwait, Mrs Lena Morton i (7(1), of Beverley Drive, D j • • •
lias been receiving calls p i : v „ T t o r n r t fm every weekend from her L l l V e m i t T K i e n 44-year-old son,
David, a
diplomat in the commercial section of the British Embassy in Baghdad, who stayed behind after help ing his wife and 22-month-old son out of the country in a convoy two weeks ago. A former pupil of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School,
David joined the Foreign Office at the age of 17 and has already seen several of the world’s trouble-spots, including the Congo and Beirut. He told his mother only last weekend that although
A wedding day photograph o f David and Hovcrley
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TIIKKK were .several red faces at Clitheroe Fire Station on Friday, when retained firemen rushed in to answer an alarm call — and found tile fire was at the fire station!
A fireman entering the
bu i ld ing had smelled smoke in the appliance hay and pressed the alarm to call out colleagues. Said station officer Mr
Alan Clarke: “A search of the premises revealed an overheated wire on a bat tery charger. It was dis c on n e c ted and la t e r replaced by our transport department from brigade
headquarters in Preston. “The re was nothing
which would have pre vented us from responding to any fire call at the time and we just regarded it as i slightly embarrassing moment!’1 It was the first time
Clitheroe has had a fire in its fire station, but the e v en t is not unprece dented. About 15 years ago, there was an electri cal fault at Great Harwood Fire Station, when a room was completely gutted.
there is no work for him officially — he is second secre tary in the commercial section and normally helps Brit ish businessmen in Iraq — lie has 1 ecu busier than ever, working seven days a week to help deal with the problems of British people still in Iraq. “Naturally I am worried about him,” said Mrs Mor
ton, “ but 1 refuse to let it get me down. I’m not one to go about with a long face — I ’m still as cheerful as I ever was — hut I have been praying for him and hope he’ll come home.
“He's in the right place and he says he still goes
hack to his house for lunch — that’s a government house about four miles from the Embassy, so he can still drive about all right.
“He did say lie hadn’t come into contact with anyone
from Lancashire still out there: many of the people he's been dealing with are from Yorkshire.
“He said he would keep ringing me every weekend
to let me know how things are and there's someone from the Foreign Office who rings me, too. “No one knows what’s going to happen out there.
I just hope lie’ll be able to come homo soon." Mrs Morton is known to many in the Kibble Valley
because of the many years she ami her husband, the late Mr Stanley Morton, spent running a jeweller’s shop in Moor Lane, Clitheroe, from lltKI until retire ment in 11)77. Mrs Morton moved to Clitheroe after meeting and
marrying her husband in Birmingham. David was uncertain as to what he wanted to do for a career until he happened to be in the library one day and saw an advert for 30 vacancies in tile Foreign Office. He applied, was accepted and trained and then
worked in London until ho was 21 and allowed to he sent abroad. His first posting was to the Congo and lie then went to Cairo to do what he is now doing in Bagh dad — sorting out British people’s problems due to a state of emergency. Mis career has since taken him to New /.calami, Brussels at the headquarters of the European Economic Community, Washington and Bangladesh. Mrs Morton remembers the Bangladesh posting
well, as she went there to stay with him for"a while to celebrate her 70th birthday. “ I could have written a
• co nlim ie d on page 11 Mrs Morton
Appointing new head
T IIK identity of the new Clitheroe Loyal Grammar School headteacher should he r e v (ia led by th e weekend.
There were (>D appli
cants for the post and the rmal eight candidates are to be* interviewed at the school tomorrow.
The vacancy has arisen
due to the early retire ment of headmaster Mr Clive Darley, who lias suf fered ill health. He will he leaving next month,, after six years at the school.
THE Queen o f Hearts popped in for ten at Wnd- dington Methodist Church Hull on Tuesday. She was greeted hv u dormouse, n .Mud Uni
ter, the knave and, o f course. Alice, as Wad- dington \VI members celebrated the National Federation o f WIs’ 75(h anniversary in slyle, by inviting the whole village to attend. There wore ten parties throughout Lanca
shire and plenty o f novel ideas throughout the Kihhlc Valley, with money raised being donated to children's charities, coaimcmuraling the fact that the WI worldwide stalled as the result of the death o f a child. A loll report and more pictures will appear in next week's issue. I’ iclurcd arc Waddinglon members at Tues
day's Mad Haller's tea party: from the left, Mrs Doreen Underwood (Tweedledum), .Mrs Doreen Hammond (the White Rabbit), Mrs Margaret Holding (the Red Queen) and Mrs .Margaret Luptun (I lie Mad H a t te r ) . The hall was decorated with colourful "Alice in Wonderland’* cut-outs made liy the Waddinglon Brownies.
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The company, at
present producing 12,000 first aid boxes for British troops involved in the Iraq
crisis, is based in one of the village’s four original mills and is now the only surviving one still working.
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A NIGHT-LONG vigil paid dividends for bud ding young entrepreneur Duncan Weisters.
He returned home with
a substantial profit from Saturday’s Hodder Valley Show, after staying up all night to ensure that his 30 entries in the horticultural and confectionery sections were up to scratch. To his credit, Duncan
(14) took two rosebowls, a shield and £18 in prize money back to his Newton home! A hardy annual competi
tor, this year his exhibits ranged from roses to chut ney and fru it cake to photography and there was the annual rivalry w ith in the W e is t e r s ’ family, with his mother and sisters Anna and Mary also taking part. Due to the dry summer,
Duncan’s entries were down on last year, when he entered 43 classes and took £23 in prize money, p lu s an a r r a y o f silverware.
“ My pantry is full of
turnips, potatoes and cab bage,” said Mrs Weisters. “He’s dug up half the gar den and there’s jam and chutney everywhere. He loves cooking and he’s good at it, although he makes a frightful mess and says he has no intention of becoming a chef.” His mother still retains
the upper hand, however, as her rum truffles and tri fle left her son in second place. Back in control o f the
family kitchen again this week and surrounded by the. fruits of her family’s labours, she added that Duncan’s only regret was that he did not have an awful lot of competition. “When he was 10 years old, he ran in the junior fell race — he came last, but enjoyed it and went on to win the trophy for first local home!”
It employs nine people,
as well as sub-contracting work to seven local com panies, and its wide range of products includes dis play units for high street supermarkets. I nroads have been made into export in Holland and Fin land and, nearer to home, work has recently been c o m p I e t e d fo r t h e Matthew Brown Brewery.
Hurst Green Plasties
was formed in 1!)7!1, when the business was pur chased as a going concern from R. A. Cross and Jones, who first began producing wooden bobbins for the cotton industry in the 1850s. They moved into plastic processing 100 years later.
Announcement of the
o v e ra l l winner o f the £5,000 competition will be made by the Home Secre tary, Mr David Wadding- ton, MP for the Kibble Valley, at a ceremony ill Clitheroe Town Hall on September 29th. s a id M r S t e p h e n
Clarke, the managing director of Hurst Green Plasties: “This is the first time we have entered competition and we are delighted to have been selected for the final. It’s a great tribute to the small team we have working in the village.”
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