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It’s anybody's guess — as Sheila Nixon reports on page 6 Petition calls for store boycott as trading row flares


LET US KEEP OUR SUNDAY SACRED


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MORE than a dozen prominent local people are going to boycott Clitheroe’s branch of Tesco Stores because of the company’s Sunday opening policy — and are inviting others to do the same. As the row flared over the store’s Sunday


shopping at the weekend, the objectors — district councillors and local church leaders — signed a petition drawn up by a Liberal Demo­ crat councillor, the Rev. Denis McWilliam, a


former vicar of Sabden, now retired. The petition, which was brought into the “Adver­


tiser and Times" office, states: “We greatly regret Tesco’s decision to open on the three Sundays before Christmas throughout the country. “By making this decision, Tesco (and other firms) are putting themselves above the law and seem to be trying to pre-empt the


waited until Parliament revises the law — in what­ ever way it sees best — instead of going it alone now for a quick profit.


filial decision. They would Clive Barnden have done better to have


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_ f t ■ Coun. Fat Shepherd with the boycott petition


by Tesco nationally and while we have no complaint against the local branch, we feel that as a way of expressing our opposition to this decision we should remove our custom elsewhere. “We invite all who agree with us to do the same.” The objectors who put their name to the petition


“While we realise that this decision has been made


Jones — also a local lay preacher for Trinity Methodist Church — Stephen Holt, Mrs Eileen Lowe and


included the Rev. McWilliam’s fellow Liberal Democrat district councillors, Mrs Catherine Hooper, Howel


Andrew Metcalf. Other district councillors who have signed are


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Labour’s Bert Jones and Tories Pat Shepherd, Peter Evans, Michael Gastrell and John Richardson. Three other members of local churches have added


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Couple tell of gun terror at farm


HELD at gunpoint in a terrifying ordeal at a


Ribble Valley farm­ house, a local builder’s merchant and his wife were trying to put t h e i r n i g h tm a r e behind them th is


week. Mr Eric Dugdale and his


wife, Dorothy, were praised by police for their courageous behaviour dur- i n g ■' a n a p p a l l i n g experience. It began early on Friday


by VIVIEN MEATH


night when Mr Dugdale (55) returned to his home at Calder Farm, Bolton- by-Bowland. He opened the door and left it ajar while he went into the kit­ chen to unpack shopping. Hearing a noise in the


sawn-off shotguns in his direction. They demanded to know


hallway, he thought it was Mrs Dugdale and, turning round, was confronted by two men wearing bala­ clava masks and pointing


where the safe was and when Mr Dugdale denied h av in g one he was grabbed by the intruders, who began hitting him round the face in an


were warned by a third


man of the impending arrival of a woman in a


vehicle. The men waited for Mrs


Dugdale in the hallway and, as she entered the house, dragged her inside, threatening her with a shotgun. Fearing for her life and that of her hus­ band, she disclosed the whereabouts of the safe. Taking a bunch of keys


attempt to make him dis­ close its whereabouts. At this point the pair


from Mr Dugdale, the two men inadvertently put the wrong key in the safe and it broke in the lock. They returned to Mr


Dugdale demanding money and took approxi­ mately £1,000 comprised of used £20 notes. The couple were then


their names: the Rev. Hugh Clark, vicar of St James’s, Clitheroe; the Rev. Jim Needham, Clitheroe superin­ tendent for the Methodist Church; and the Rev. Rod­ ney Nicholson, vicar of St Paul’s, Low Moor. Tesco’s manager Mr Peter Hampson said the


branch’s Sunday opening had been “very successful.” He added: “We were very pleased with how the


day went.” Tesco’s would continue to open, he said, on the remaining Sundays before Christmas, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with wines and spirits on sale only between noon and 3 p.m. A press statement issued nationally by Tesco’s said:


business on the Pernlle Trading Estate, in Chat- burn, had to be freed with the assistance of police. Clitheroe Fire Brigade was called to the scene to release the handcuffs from the couple. The men involved are


“All the signs are that Tesco customers have welcomed the opportunity to shop with us on Sunday. At some of the 350 stores, queues formed before the doors opened at 10 a.m. "Whilst it is difficult to give a detailed assessment


because of the spread of stores trading across England and Wales, customers have given us a thumbs-up verdict. “People we have spoken to have been delighted to


shop with us. They have literally voted with their feet.” Booth’s, in Station Road, Clitheroe, is opening two


• continued on page 17 RECOVERING from their ordeal. . . Mr and Mrs Dugdale


How grey is our valley?


As residents collect bags of Castle Cement dust


STILL wind and no rain left a fine layer of dusty cement particles on several Clitheroe residents’ cars on Tuesday morning — the result of a mistake made at the plant, admitted Castle Cement.


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Ribblesdale Avenue, was one of several people who complained both to the district council and to Cas­ tle Cement. He( was so surprised by the volume of dust lying on his BMW that he swept the dust into a bag to snow how much had been deposited in just one night. Mr Taylor, the manag­


Mr Geoff Taylor, of


and nothing ever seems to get done about it.” Castle Cement wanted


to collect his dust sample, but Mr Taylor was loathe to let it go at the time. The cement dust emis­


sions cause erosion to car bodies, he added. “Rain washes the particles down


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ing director of Capri Elec­ trical Developments Ltd, of Whalley Road, Clith­ eroe, said: “This shouldn’t happen — but it does, all too frequently. “When I rang Castle Cement, they did at least admit that they had had some major emissions last night. But this has been going on for far too long


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the bodywork in certain places and on my BMW it affects the bumpers most of all — there is noticeable corrosion over a three- year period.” Equally surprised was


Mr Joseph Lund, who • continued on page 17


Mr Lund with the dust Sub-post office raiders take £6,300


POLICE are hunting raiders who made off with £6,300 after breaking into the Whalley Road sub­ post office in Clitheroe on Monday. The alarm was raised about 8 p.m. by a passer-by


who saw two men leaving the rear of the shop, which is situated near the junction with Moor Lane. Relief sub-postmaster Mr Mike Whcater was not


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on the premises at the time and had locked up at about 5-30 p.m.


a ground-floor window at the rear of the shop and a safe had been emptied of notes and coins. Detective Frank Moran, of the Post Office Inves­


Police arrived to find that the raiders had forced


tigations department, said: “There has been an amount of cash stolen from the safe, but nothing else was disturbed.” On Tuesday morning he, was at the premises


advising the public to return later in the day, when business would be back to normal.


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handcuffed separately to the stair railings and the men left the house. Mr Dugdale managed to break the stair rail which was securing his wife and she alerted the police. Mr Dugdale, who is in


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THERE’S plenty of C h r i s tm a s fu n p la n n ed fo r th e streets of Clithcroe and W h a l lc y — thanks to the local Chamber of Trade. At Clitheroe, two


special shopping days, packed with festive en te r ta in ­ ment and train trips into the town, take place on December


15th and Kith. Whnl- lcy’s “ Dickensian Night” is planned for next Thursday. All the details can


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THE election of Clith­ eroe’s Ron Pickup as


Labour’s Ron in voting slip-up


prospective Labour candidate for the Rib­ ble Valley in the Gen­ eral Election has been d e c l a r e d i n v a l id because of an adminis­


trative bungle. The whole selection pro­


will now take place at St James’s School, Clitheroe, on January Kith. But Mr Barrie Parker,


cedure is being under­ taken again by the party because more than 100 members of the Fuhvood branch were not given the chance to vote. A new selection meeting


County Coun. Pickup’s county council election agent, thought the mis­ take was unlikely to affect the final outcome. "The Fuhvood branch


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nominated County Conn. Pickup prior to the selec­ tion meeting, so I feel that it is likely they will vote for him on January 16th,” he said. The mix-up occurred


when the Fuhvood branch secretary went on holiday and some vital papers were overlooked until after the selection meet­ ing. As a result, Fuhvood members were not given the chance to vote for the t w o s h or tl is te d candidates. At the selection meeting


three weeks ago, County Coun. Pickup beat Mr Francis Chine, of Lon- gridge, by 16 votes. Following his election,


County Coun. Pickup expressed his confidence that he could cause a polit­ ical earthquake and win tlie Ribble Valley scat at Westminster from Liberal Democrat MP Mr Michael Carr.


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BURGLARS entered a house on Edisford Road, Clitheroe, and stole a Sony midi hi-fi system, valued at £450, £60 in cash and a number of store cards. The intruders entered


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