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Stonyhurst lady spearheads £lm hospice appeal


HEADING a new North West charity appeal for a £lnrt. children’s hospice is Stonyhurst nursing: home proprietor Miss Margaret Vinten.


traumatic experience suffered by a Lancashire family whose son died of leukaemia. Miss Vinten discovered that there are only four


She volunteered her help after hearing of the


children’s hospices in England, situated in Leeds, Oxford, Birmingham and Cambridge, and decided there was a real need for one in the north west. As a result, an appeal for the £lm. building


costs has been launched this month. The site of the hospice will be at Euxton, near


Chorley, and it will be named “Dcrian House,” in memory of the Leyland fumily’s son. Miss Vinten says the hospice will be an eight-bedded unit with four flats for respite care, offering support for families and children where a child is suffering a life-threatening or degenerative disease. Miss Vinten has assembled a committee


including a bank manager, accountant, solicitor, consultants and celebrities such as Tom Finney and Dora Bryan. Ribblc Valley MP and Home Secretary Mr


established, which huve raised a substantial amount in a short time. Now Miss Vinten hopes Kibble Valley people


David Waddington has pledged his support, along with the Bishop of Blackburn. Five appeals committees have already been


will offer their support in setting up a local appeal committee for fund-raising. Already, Clithcroe veterinary surgeon’s wife Mrs P. Tindall hus offered her help and anyone interested should contact her (Clitheroc 27102). Miss Vinten, the chairman of Vinten Nursing


Homes pic, said a fund had been started three years ago by the family of the Leyland child, in the hope of raising enough money to build a small hospice.


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a small amount of money had been raised and the appeal was obviously not making the progress required for a project of this nature,” explained Miss Vinten. “They said the months prior to their child’s


“They contacted me a few months ago, as just


death were horrific and something like this would have been wonderful.” Previously involved with a rescue respite care


MISS VINTEN__and how the new hospice will look She now has two remaining', having devoted


much of her time in recent years to charitable work. “1 hope that within the next 18 months we will


centre for abused children on a charitable basis, Miss Vinten, of Winkley Hall, who is by profession a registered nurse, started in private enterprise 26 years ago and at one stage had nine, nursing homes, including one in Waddington.


House Hospice in Lccdp, a lot of them from the north west. It is full to the brim and they are desperate. This project is a mammoth task, but having worked with the staff at both the Leeds and Birmingham hospices, I feel very strongly that this money must be raised.”


have raised enough money to start building — I have already had promises of £300,000,” added Miss Vinten. “There arc 200 families on the books of Martin


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Violent attack on pet upsets local family


A SAVAGE attack on a cat in Clitheroe on Friday evening has led its distressed owner to warn other pet-owners that a maniac is at large.


black-and-white tom belonging to the Eaton family, of Walker Street, was almost drowned in Jeves’ fluid, and kicked about the head. Later, a neighbour said


“Poos,” an 11-year-old


mals and cannot under­ stand why someone would hurt one," said Mrs Eaton. The family took the cat


men Eaton, said: “Who­ ever did this is a maniac. I just want to warn other pet owners so they know what has happened." Mrs Eaton said she put


her cat had also been doused in the fluid. Poos’ owner, Mrs Car­


he returned in a terrible state. I am sure someone tried to drown him. He stunk of fluid, his gums were cut and had a cut over his eye.” Mrs Eaton’s husband,


her cat out at about 10-30 p.m. "About 10 minutes later


to a Clitheroe vet who had to sedate it before it could be bathed and treated. It is only a few weeks since they “adopted” another cat, called Felix, which was to be put down if a new home had not been found.


‘Use rail service’ is call


SIX years after a nr gr< -


operation in Blackburn Royal Infirmary restored llitheroe


whose son-in-law and d au g h te r Brian and Doreen Laycock are local licensees, cuddled Kirsty,.


Mrs Nora "Walton,


the three-year-old great g ran d -d au g h te r she thought she would never


THE architect of the Clitheroe mart site scheme currently at the bottom of the


Town will wither s and die unless


cheme succeeds


popularity stakes met Properties Ltd, whose reaction, met the Chamber' ®P°*e -— - of Trade, market traders V .


m e u u u um ui iu c London-based Millara ~..T T ~ r


the people on Friday.


of opportunity to explain their ideas to local resi­ dents, company director Mr Anthony Bull travelled north with Penrith-based scheme architect, Mr Brian Lowe — a former Clitheroe resident, who was also an official of the town’s Civic Society. Following the meeting,


Society representatives. Frustrated by the lack


Mr Bull expressed sur­ prise that all three parties present thought the plans displayed to the public last month represented final proposals. “We accept that there is


by VIVIEN MEATH concept of a market hall


see, and said: "Aren’t you beautiful?” There was joy at the


Station Hotel, where Brian and Doreen’s son David (22), a partner in the business, could hardly believe his gran will now be able to watch his wed­ ding next month to Miss Susan Winchester, of Washam, near Kirkham. David said: “I t ’s the


Chamber of Trade press officer Mr Barry Stevens said it made sense for developers to meet and


•back again.” In the mugging,' which


Rrinkp in local neonle to wh a t th e v


and Clitheroe Civic wanted‘ ■ “We met Mr Gerald; Allison, of consultants Debenham Tewson and


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Chinnocks, two weeks ago, at long last — too late in the day to do anything about it. We found Millard Properties’ representa­ tives very informative and are only sorry we didn’t meet them earlier.


great concern and debate as to whether there should be a market hall building,” said Mr Bull. “There does not have to


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be one. This was a concept showing how things could be put together. If, after consultation, there are changes needed, they can be discussed and done. “What is needed is to


usually, when involved in a development, they meet local interested parties before submitting a plan — but all three developers were embargoed by the council from meeting us. “We would welcome,


“Mr Bull suggested that


best wedding present we could have. My gran is a plucky lady. In the mug­ ging, she beat off two teenage attackers with her handbag, but we never thought she’d get her sight


happened in Blackburn, where Mrs Walton was then living, she was knocked down, striking her head on a fence and then the ground. Her attackers were never caught. Immediately after the at tack her sight started to dim. Her daughter, Mrs


Peter, and their two sons Jay, aged seven, and Jack, two-and-a-half, were all shocked at the extent of Poos’ injury. ’'Jay7 especially is very upset. He cares for all ani­


Vandals stop charity aid


VANDALISM has led to a waste paper collection being discontinued in Whalley. The paper has been


She came to live with the family after the mugging, when they were running the Red Lion Hotel in Preston. It was on Monday last


week th a t she was wheeled down to the operating th e a tre in' Blackburn for her third eye operation in recent years . . . but this time, when she came round, she could see shadows. ___. Explained Mrs Tomlin­


son: “My mother is getting blurred pictures and, as yet, cannot see as we can. In fact we don’t know whether her sight will ever be normal, but she told me I had a striped jumper on and she could see Kirsty’s face and ponytail.” The surgeons relieved


will always be blind. Now she is being "filled "for glasses and has been told she must learn to focus her eye all over again. She came out of hospital


placed in a skip behind the post office and proceeds from the collections used to boost the funds of Whalley Age Concern. Difficulties in access and


glaucoma and removed a cataract in Mrs Walton’s left eye, though she has been told her right eye


on Monday and, after staying at Mrs Tomlinson’s home until Tuesday eve­ ning, was back in Clith­ eroe at The Station Hotel, whose regulars have sent her get well cards and even v is i te d her hospital.


even at this late stage, an opportunity to meet and discuss plans with the other two developers in the same way.”


Anne Tomlinson, of Black­ burn, told us: "Very soon, my mother could not see where the edge of the pavement was when she w a lk e d . H e r s ig h t deteriorated until she was completely blind and although she had glaucoma and cataracts, she blamed her loss of vision entirely on the terrific bang she got on her head during the mugging." Mrs Walton has become


very popular with regulars at The Station during the three years that it has been run by the Laycocks.


Now only Secretary of State can save Bramley Meade


THE only hope of saving Bramley Meade Maternity Home now rests with the Secretary of State, following a vote by tne Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Authority to close it.


that the £272,000 a year saving will be used to finance the new temporary unit at Queen’s Park Hospital, Blackburn. The “new” unit is almost


The authority has said


facility. * He a c c u s e d th e


complete. Committee member Mr Bruce Dowles believes there is a real danger of it becoming a long-term “temporary”


authority of breaking promises to keep the home open and suggested that the reg io n a l h e a lth authority may not build the promised new unit before the 21st century. District chairman Mr


have a shopping centre or new shopping area, which will stop the 50,000 Ribble Valley inhabitants doing a large amount of their shopping outside the borough. “How can we respond if


Area’s Romanian aid on its way


we can’t get to the peo­ ple?” he asked. Describing the deve­


lopers’ proposals as three “pretty’’ schemes at the moment, he said his com­ pany’s proposal dealt with the differential in site levels, pedestrian flow and integration with existing buildings and had tackled the question of flexibility. “You have to get the


THE Ribble Val- le y Roma n i a n Appeal is on the road.


Miss Jenny Riley and a lorry-load of goods lef t Clitheroe on Wednesday morning, bound for the stricken


Cli the roe nur s e


position of the market and shops correct. Who would want to live overlooking a market being set up at 6 a.m.?”


from the market traders, Mr Bull said the scheme allowed for a continuation of the market during building, strong links wit! Castle Street and maxi mum car parking. “If the scheme does not


In response to questions i


country. “There has been a won­


derful response from local people,” said Mrs Sheila Berry, the Clitheroe resi­ dent who instigated a cam­ paign in the town three weeks ago. “We never envisaged so


much. We filled the garage and really do need larger premises if we are to carry on.”


succeed, Clitheroe will wither and die,” claimed Mr Bull, following the meeting.


the Angel Centre at Penrith, which has been a lifesaver. We hope this will be a lifesaver too.”


“Our architect designed


owns a former shoe shop in Castle S tre e t and hopes, if successful, to incorporate that property within the development. Following the meeting,


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tons of items have been donated, from canned soup to syringes, and all are now on their way to help children in the country’s . orphanages. Jenny (24), of De Lacy


Around one and a half


Street, Clitheroe, a nurse at Roefield Nursing Home, joined the Cum­ brian Appeal for the Romanian Emergency’s lorry during its stop in Clitneroe. Included among the


Boothi, household’ equip­ ment, clothing, bedding, nursery furniture and toiletries. Cheques for a total of


goods were boxes of gro­ ceries donated by custom­ ers of Kwik Save and


£250 have been presented to Jenny to offset her die­ sel costs by the Mayor of Clitheroe, Coun. Pat Shepherd (£50), Clitheroe Round Table (£100) and Clitheroe Lions (£100). The CARE wagon is heading, for the moun­


tainous north eastern side of the country, as opposed to the western side, where most of the relief has been going. Mrs Berry is still col­


a rota system of voluntary helpers in the Ribble Valley.


lecting items at her Pim­ lico Road home, but asks any company or church with spare storage space which could be used until the next lorry leaves, in August, to contact her. She also hopes to establish


CARE lorry in Pimlico Road are Mrs Berry, her husband Clive and sons Stephen (22) and Chris­ topher (21), helper Mrs Margaret Thompson, of Waddington Road, Clith­ eroe, and lorry driver Mr Bemie Davies, of Carlisle.


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reason to believe that, with money earmarked for next year, a start would not be made on the’ building. The campaign to save


Ian Woolley disagreed, stating that there was no


Bramley Meade has won the support of thousands of residents who, along with doctors, the Commu­ nity Health Council, Family Practitioner Com­ mittee and the local medi­ cal committee, have aired their views vociferously. Mr Dowles, a Ribble


Valley Council employee who represents the trade union movement on the d i s t r i c t a u th o r i ty , expressed surprise, after last Wednesday’s meeting, at the number of health authority members who live in the Ribble Valley and yet voted to close Bramley Meade. “One-third live in the


A FOUNDER member of Ribble Valley Rail this', week called for more pas­ sengers to use the town’s month-old railway service. Mr Peter Brass said


that a total of 70 passen­ gers had travelled on the two Saturday morning trains to Blackburn and Preston and he hoped numbers would grow as people got usecl to the service. “The times do not suit


everybody, with trains leaving at 8-17 and 9-14 a.m., but we are having to use. British Rail’s spare capacity, which later in the day goes on to other journeys, he said. Mr Brass also reminded


persistent vandalism have led to the end of the project, which has raised a substantial amount for funds. Members of Age Con­


cern expressed their thanks to local residents for supporting the scheme and a spokesman added that, despite repeated efforts, no suitable site had been forthcoming.


passengers of the Sunday service to Carlisle, calling at the main Dales stations, leaving Clitheroe at 10-65 a.m. and returning at 8-27. p.m.


e The present service will


winter break through to next May, when plans are still afoot to start a regu­ lar hourly service from 6- 50 a.m. to 9-50 p.m. to . Blackburn or Manches­ ter . . . with two of the hourly services going in the other direction to Hel- lifield for a Leeds or Car­ lisle connection.


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POLICE have arrested a third man in connection with the armed robbery at Clitheroe Sorting Office in February.


Third man arrested


Regional and Serious Crime Squads, together with armed police from Lancashire, visited a house in Lytham St Annes


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