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, putting their feet up and taking things easy, pen­ sioner Maurice Wilson is using his for a good cause in Whalley.


AT an age when most people are thinking of


Road, is training for a gruell­ ing triathlon which would put


For Maurice (74), of Mitton


many a man half his age to shame.


to swim 10 lengths in the Ribblesdale Pool, walk 10


Fighting fit Maurice plans


miles via Whalley Nab and then cycle a fu r th e r 10 miles . . . all in under six hours.


The faster he completes the feati the more money he


members of the church, but Maurice, a retired auditor, is much more modest about his goals. He said: “ If I raise only £100, I will be content. Whal­


stands to raise for the roof fund at Whalley Methodist Church, where £5,000 is needed to pay for the cost of repairs. His move has inspired other


ley Methodist Church pro­ vides a focal point for many local organisations. It fills many social uses and deserves all the support we can give


it.”


- also in her seventies, are keen fell walkers and he is confi­


little bit of training,” but he and his wife, Kathleen, who is


He will admit to doing “a


dent of success. The triathlon in June is a


challenge he has never under­ taken before. But he will be in good company, for. going with him on the walk will be his daughter, Kate, who is also something of a lover of the great outdoors, being a long distance walker, runner, potholer, mountaineer and, at work, a qualified nurse.


Referee ready to quit over bloodshed at soccer match


bloody violence on Saturday. The man who tried to restore calm as players


SHOCKED spectators walked away sickened after a Ribble Valley football match ended in


and spectators battled, long-standing referee John Swayne, eventually could only stand back and leave them to it because the trouble was so bad. He says he has now “lost all interest in foot­


the incident wrote to the “Advertiser and Times” on Monday morning to tell us how saddened he was to see “two separate groups rolling about on the ground fighting like animals.” Low Moor was leading 3-1 against Ribchester when


ball” and is considering giving up refereeing. A disgusted Clitheroe pensioner who witnessed


fighting erupted between two players halfway through the second half. As they fell struggling to the ground, spectators


became embroiled in a separate battle of their own. More and more players became involved in the


melee, with Mr Swayne, of Corporation Street, Clith­ eroe, desperately appealing for calm. As fighting continued, Mr Swayne 'called off the


have caused the incident. Although .play had been “niggly,” there had been no sign of what was to come.


the referee for remaining cool in the face of such an unprecedented outburst and promptly abandoning the game. Onlookers say fighting went on for two minutes


One-spectator who witnessed the fighting praised .


before order was restored and it was fortunate that nobody needed hospital treatment. The pensioner told us: “It started when one player


thing in the Ribble Vajley like this as far as I am con­ cerned. Normally a referee can go in and try to sort out the trouble. Rut here it was so bad I just had to stand back. “There was blood about and it seemed that the majority of players and spectators ended up in the fighting. I walked off feeling sick and absolutely dis­ gusted. I have lost all interest in football now.” Mr Swayne was reluctant to discuss what might


Times” that in all his years as a referee he had never seen anything so bad and he is considering giving up refereeing. He said: “In 24 years, there has never been any­


match and is now busy compiling a detailed report of the incident for the Ribble Valley League and Lancashire Football Association. Mr Swayne told the “Clitheroe Advertiser and


by JOHN DOVER


viciously punched another in the face three or four times. They started rolling on the ground and then the spectators started punching each other. “In no time you had two separate groups rolling


about on the ground fighting like animals. “More players came up, but it was hard to see


whether they were trying to restrain the others or getting a crafty punch in themselves. “Police will have to patrol even local matches


the spectators, who were not young people but mature people old enough to' know better. Some of their language was very inflammatory.


“The worst offenders were not the players but


disgusting spectacle and one wonders what lasting effect it' will have on him. For myself, it is the last visit I shall make to the pitches at Roefield.


“At least one small boy was present to see this


human beings act in such a manner at a football match?”


if it carries on like this. I walked away feeling sad that, in all my years watching local football, I would ever have to witness anything like this.


Football League, said he had been told about the incident, but could not comment until he had seen'a copy of the report.


“What state have we reached in this country when Mr Ralph Aspinwall, chairman of the Ribble Valley


are planning a poll tax p ro te s t for the town c en tre on Sa tu rd ay , because they feel the new charge is “so unfair,” and nearly-400 I petition’ orgamsea "by


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the peaceful protest are Pam Hudson, of Wilson Street, who works as a loose covers machinist at Co-ordination Clitheroe, and her friend, Christine Howell, also of Wilson Street, a part-time' cafe assistant at Roefield Nurs­ ing and Rest Home. Both will be in Clitheroe


growing. Two Clitheroe women


Ribbfe Valley’s com­ mu n i ty c h a rg e is


POLL TAX protestors are to take to the streets of Clitheroe this weekend — b u t i t wi l l b e a p e a c e f u l demonstration. Opposition to the


by — CLIVE


BARNDEN night. Anyone who wants to add their name to the list can contact Pam (Clitheroe 26821) or Chris­ tine (28311):- - • Th'e p e titio n being


Poll tax street protest


^ We don’t want any


aggro, but we do


want to


organised by a group of 3M Neotechnic employees is being led by quality con­ trol worker Michelle Czar- nogrebel, of Peel Street, ana her colleague, Sarah Briggs.


town centre on Saturday morning, bearing banners under the town clock from 10 a.m., and they hope that as many local people as possible will show their, support for the protest, which the two women want to be peaceful and orderly — neither wants to encourage violence, abuse or disruption.


aggro, but we do want to stand up for our rights,” said Pam. “It’s unfair that I should pay the same poll tax as Prince Charles and Lady Di, when you con­ sider what they’re earning and what I’m earning.


“We don’t want any


than that, though. In my father’s house there are three people each having to pay the tax and yet he’s the only one earning — so that’s over £1,000 coming out of ju s t one man’s wages.


“It’s even more unfair


answer is, but I feel that we musn’t just sit back and let this happen — we must make a stand. Even if it doesn’t get us any­ where, we will at least have tried.”


“I don’t know what the


just “making the rich r ich e r and the poor poorer.”


Christine feels the tax is


one night a week, as she has three young children to look after, and has cal­ culated that it will take her four months’ earnings just to pay her tax. Yet her application for Family Income Support failed be c au se th e family finances were 72p over the allowable limit.


She usually works only


also toured Clitheroe’s streets during the week to canvass support for their Saturday protest, as well as to collect names for a petition, which they plan to hand in at the'Ribble Valley Council’s full coun­ cil meeting on Tuesday


The two campaigners Hoax call


TWO fire engines, an ambulance and police cars rushed to Clitheroe’s King Street on Monday^morn­ ing,after a telephone call advised them or a'fire at number 14, with one per­ son trapped. However, the call turned out to be a hoax.,1 / •


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lected over 100 signatures from workmates — all the workforce bar half-a-dozen who did not want to sign — before setting off round Clitheroe on Saturday night to find more names, bringing the total to nearly 400. The petition could swell to over 400, however, as more people have promised to'sign. At the" time of going to


due to pay more than one lot of poll tax, yet, once again, she is the only worker — her husband Peter has suffered a heart attack and her daughter Susan has a two-year-old baby to look after.


shiftworkers, Mrs Carol Cliffe, of Kirkmoor Road, Clitheroe, feels strongly that the poll tax is particu­ larly hard on young cou­ ples starting up in their first homes. Why, also, should “old age pensioners who have been through the war” have to suffer it, she asks. Her own household is


press, Michelle was plan­ ning to give the petition to county councillors in Pres­ ton, but may take it to the Ribble Valley Council instead. One of the Neotechnic


A group has already col­


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— Poll tax protester Pam Hudson


READY for their public protest on Saturday. . . Pam Hudson (left) and Christine Howell A .


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Ju-jitsu champ Elisabeth in a tight corner


COME on, Ribble Valley! We have the British Women’s Ju-Jitsu Champion in Clitheroe, representing Great Britain in the world cham­ pionships in North Carolina in Septem­ ber . . . and she cannot raise the money to get there.


SHIFTWORKER Mrs Carol Cliffe*, who thinks the poll tax is particularly Jiard on young couples and pensioners


Get rail plan right scrap it, BR is


THE man who has led the fight to return trains to the Ribble


chairman Mr Peter Moore and colleagues have demanded a top-level meeting with thejrrovin- cial manager for BR North West Services on Monday. Accusing BR of “closure


been asked'to buy a train — a diesel multiple unit — at an approximate cost of £200,000-plus to ensure


by stealth before the line even reopens,” Mr-Moore described-thelatest series of events as “diabolical.”.' County councillors have


that British Rail wants Lancashire County Coun­ cil to buy its own train to run on the reopened local line. Ribble Valley Rail


T lPhis follows the news by VIVIEN MEATH


Valley : told us in an ihere is a regdiar service exclusive interview 0n the local line nex* year this week: If British after BR, in a last-minute Rail can’t get it right blow, said it could not — scrap it!”


that its: own' research tain the unit.


‘ 'cover the cost. This is despite the fact-


shows that a daily service could meet operational' costs. BR has offered to main­ > ;


- be concentrating on taking passengers out of Clith­ eroe, rather than bringing


cerned th a t the tr ia l Saturday service, sche­ duled to start in May, will


Rail enthusiasts are con­


pick- up passengers.' The perceived ;d demand foi for the service has been from the people of Clitheroe," who want to get out of the area to places like1 Blackburn andManchester to do their, shopping./There has not been a demand from peo­ ple . outside ;tKe ; area to come in.”'


. them in. ■ ' BR press .officer Mr-.


’Keith Lumley added fur-, ther substance, to those fears this week when .he isaid: “As fa r ,a s ,I"am ‘


aware, it was: never, envi- * Chester.: From, a tourism i saged that the train on its point of view, I had hoped way to Clitheroe would: that British Rail would' ’


struck, discord with local trad e rs '— chief among them Chamber of .Trade president Mr Barry Ste- y e n s , . -w h o to ld us: “Always my idea was that,, if there was going to be a service from Clitherde, the Settle-Carlisle line should have .been extended ftol s t a r t h e re . . .I n e v e r . expected' trains, running from' Clitheroe to Man-,


As expected, his words ;:. - i .. '


worry that I may not even be able to go,” said a dis-


or


. extend, the Settle-Carlisle line to Clitheroe so that journeys would, start and terminate here, with a newly-titled < Clitheroe to Carlisle line.” ■ . \


i seems to -be many people who wish to visit the Rib­ ble Valley and-come .to Clitheroe. What is now being envisaged, when the Saturday service starts, is not exactly what-the Chamber of Trade had in mind for the line.”


Mr Stevens believes BR has got it wrong. “There


. v County::, councillors' ' ® continued on page 7


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suggestion .on the agenda at County Hall last Thurs­ day, members of the Pub­ lic Transport Sub-commit- tee were told that the cost' of a six or seven-year-old,- two-coach -.“Pacer” - unit would be around £200,000. Sucha unit would have , a life-expectancy of between 10 and 15 years.


With the train'purchase


ship a fortnight ago in our week, pages by Elisabeth Hodg­ son (19), of Montague Street, brought only two replies, which go nowhere near meeting the hundreds of pounds, she has to raise to cover her trip. “ I am beginning to


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A SIGNAL beamed out from Waddington to a communications satellite 23,600 miles above the earth and back this week paved the way for the his: toric debut of Granada’s “ te lev is io n v i l lag e ’7 experiment. Tne big switch-ontakes place on Saturday, after which residents will be able to choose from at least 25 different channels and tune in to their own village channel for local news and features.


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duled for two o’clock and the occasion will .be marked during the after­ noon by the arrival of the Home Secretary, Ribble Valley MP Mr David Wad­ dington, who will be ques­ tioned by village inter­ viewers in the temporary studio set up in St Helen’s Sunday School.


been linked by cable to; receive programmes through the satellite link,; a further eight have been given Astra sate llite dishes and 10 will be' linked to British Telecom’s microwave distribution system.


Thirty-two homes have


far in setting up the home; viewing experiment have not come from the hi-tech; side of the installation, but from the villagers them-, selves, some of whom have, found operating the equip-' ment in their homes a lit­ tle puzzling, said Granada TV’s man on the spot, Mark Gorton, who is based in offices above Vladimir’s Restaurant.


The biggest problems so


by local volunteers with • continued on page 8


come from operating Channel 6, which switches sets to a decoder linked to 29 satellite channels. The village channel, run


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“Driver s of the Year” event,- there:will-be a separate ^contest. exclusi­ vely for women. ■ For any further infor­ mation, contact Mr Walter Hounslo.w. (Blackburn 53518).


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