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They will provide small firms with an electronic link with business world


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♦ FREE ENTERTAINM ♦ S t re e t E n te r ta inm en t


Thursday 12th December MARKET SQUARE


LATE NIGHT FAMILY


SHOPPING IN


BURNLEY P r om o t e d by


BURNLEY AND DISTRICT CHAMBER OF TRADE


conjunction with


BURNLEY tygjggff BOROUGH COUNCIL


Marks&Spencer & EH LEO’S


WHSMITH PiepteuAecne


Sainsburyts County apd District Properties Limited


♦ Rosehill , S ch o o l Choir


♦ P unch & Ju d y ♦ Kiddies R o u n d ab o u t


*SfiNTRS* * GROTTO *


(by Burnley Youth Theatre) FREE FLOATY BALLOONS & SWEETS


ICE PfiLRCE


♦ Burnley & District Scout and Guide Band Giant Inflatable Phantom Of The Opera


PEDESTRIAN AREA (Courtesy Will Dawson) (Subject To Dry Weather Conditions) a l l _


'♦ Disco Playbus


Street Collection in Aid of Burnley & District


Scout and Guide Band


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Windows smashed


WINDOWS were smashed in a number of Clitheroe premises at the weekend.


Monday morning, damage estimated at '£1,000 was caused to a window at Reidy’s Home of Music, Moor Lane, when a large


s to n e was th row n through.


A small window was smashed at the Rug Shop, Swan Courtyard, on Sun­ day night, and Clitheroe Motor Components, in Woone Lane, was broken into after thieves smashed a window valued at around £500 and stole a quartz halogen night beam worth £23.


In the early hours of


MONEY to buy more than seven special “survival boxes” to send to disasters anywhere in the world has been raised by the hard-working children of St James’s


School, Clitheroe. Pupils aged 7 to 11 years from the school’s


Scripture Union Group gave up their playtimes and stayed after school to make a variety of


youngest members, Joanne Wrathall and Hen Lomas, presenting the money to Mr Wightman.


Scripture Union: “We had hoped to raise enough money to buy one box — but the children worked so hard that we ended with enough money to buy more than seven!” Our picture shows the Union’s oldest and


Wightman, vice-president of the Rotary Club of Ribblcsdalc, who will put the money towards Rotary’s worldwide appeal to raise money for the boxes. Each box costs £21 and contains essentials like a polythene sheet, string, a torch and other essentials to help a family of four survive in an emergency until further help arrives. Said teacher Mrs Ruth Seed, who organises the


items, including Christmas crackers and mince pies for a mini-sale to raise the money. They were helped by parents and members of staff. On Thursday, they presented £153 to Mr Derek


THE Ribble Valley Mayor, Coun. Allan Kay, is appealing to residents in the area to help out with his Christmas toy appeal for needy local children.


every sort, shape and size are being sought for the annual appeal and will he distributed to families in the area by members of Clithcroe Round Table. Ribble Valley Council’s press officer, Mr Keith


Good-as-new toys of


Taylor, said: “Last year’s appeal was the most resounding success ever and we are hoping that local residents will be able to rise to the occasion and make this year’s as good. We have always had good s u p p o r t from local people.” The Mayor’s secretary,


Mrs Olwen Saunders, is busy collecting the toys, which can be handed in at the council offices, and she also keeps a list of local families who have asked for a helping hand with toys at Christmas time. Also needed are cash


leaving Manchester Polytechnic with a degree in biological sciences, he bought a window-cleaning round at Barnoldswick, which he sold at a profit, and then travelled widely, before joining the publica­ tions section of “The Financial Times,” learning how


Katie (nee James) is a Clitheronian, so the couple are glad to return to their grass roots now that they have a family. Mrs Capstick’s parents still live in Green Drive, Clitheroe. It is hoped that the contract will be signed with ELTEC tin's week.


computer techniques could open up the information market. Mr Capstick was born in Lancashire and his wife


vices — from colour photocopying to video-conferenc­ ing, computer translation to share portfolio calcula­ tions via Teletext, from computerised book-keeping to multi-person telephone calls, desk-top publishing to information retrieval through Instant Search, which Mr Capstick will be transferring to the Ribble Valley. There will also be training in computer awareness, word-processing, spreadsheets and databases. Mr Capstick has had a colourful career. After


he can tap into is the Companies House databank, which provides much of the substancee of his current workload, which is concerned with obtaining company reports and credit ratings. Most of his work is done over the phone, receiving payment by credit card and sending reports to companies by fax. Tlie telecottages will offer a wide range of ser­


chance to obtain information on other businesses without having to foot the costs of setting up their own on-line computer systems. Among the publicly-available information sources


eial Times” computer whizzkid Anthony Capstiek (33), of Cotton Street, Padiham, who spent four months devising the software to set up a business information bureau — the first of its kind in the area. His bureau, Instant Search, offers businesses the


is ELTEC — the East Lancashire Training and Enterprise Council. One of the centres will be at Rib­ ble Valley Enterprise Agency’s offices above the NatWest branch in Clitheroe town centre, the other at a village location yet to be decided, although Rib- ehester, VVhailey and Stonyhurst have been men­ tioned as possibilities, because they are part of the 0254 digital telephone exchange system which makes on-line computer link-ups possible. Project manager for the centres will he ex-“Finan-


and training in, the use of new technology. Spending the money on setting up the centres


centres which will have links with the outside world by telephone, fax and on-line com­ puters, an idea developed in Scandinavia in the mid-1980s to help small businesses in out­ lying rural areas by giving them access to,


TENS of thousands of pounds are being spent on setting up two “tele­ cottages” in the Ribble Valley. The telecottages are telecommunications,


by Clive Barnden


believe it’s going to revitalise the area and set exam­ ples for rural areas to follow nationally or even internationally.


Valley Enterprise Agency and now business research and project manager for ELTEC, hopes the two Ribble Valley telecottages will be the start of many. “This is a very exciting project,” she said. “We


January and it will be open to anybody — although it will be of greater interest to business people. “It’s a pilot project, but it could be the first of


“We hope to have the first telecottage set up by


Evans and agency chairman Mr Chris Lilburn taking an active part in its management.


involvement in the new project, with staff helping with the administration and director Mrs Aileen


“It’s a case, literally, of today the Ribble Valley, tomorrow the world.” Ribble Valley Enterprise Agency will have a major


Pupils raise cash for survival boxes to help needy around the world


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many. It’s part of a rural network, but there is no reason why it can’t be developed in urban conditions.


Mrs Chris Rawlinson, former director of Ribble r A f t


Clitheroc 22321, (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified)


Asking for priority lists on


spending


THE Ribble Valley Coun­ cil will have to reduce its sp e n d in g on cap ita l projects over the next two years because there is just not enough money avail­ able, warns the borough’s chief financial officer, Mr John Hunt. At the Policy and


Resources Committee, lie showed councillors that capital project spending plans for the next two years would need £2.8 mil­ lion more than the council had in available resources. C om m ittees could


reduce their draft pro­ grammes or restrict their capital programme to com­ mitted schemes only, or could look at other ways of generating income. The committees should


have listed only essential schemes, said Mr Hunt. They could, however, now be asked to identify schemes which were com­ mitted, mandatory or discretionary. It was decided to go


back to all the council com­ mittees to ask for priority lists for capital spending plans. Coun. II o w e I Jones


(Clithcroe) said that national G o v e r n m e n t should make the funds available for local govern­ ment plans. But chairman Conn. Bill Fleming (Bil- lington) reminded him that everybody was affected by the recession.


Winning ways at netball


THE “get-fit” Trinity Guides have continued their winning ways by car­ rying off the Clitheroe District Guides’ netball shield — a week after claiming the district swim­ ming title. They won the netball


just the tonic the girls needed. A spokesman explained: "Back in June, the ‘Advertiser and Times’ reported the disappoint­ ment of the Trinity team that a six-week sponsored get-fit event had not paid off in a win at the District Guide rounders’ match. “Perhaps this winning


shield in a competition held at Ribblesdale School on Friday, facing stiff opposition from three other teams, while the swimming success came the previous Saturday in a contest attracting four other teams. Their double triumph is


steak proves that the extra exercise has given them a long-term fitness bonus.” Tile sponsored get-fit


event raised more than £20 for tile Dorian House Hospice Appeal.


‘Despicable’ act


the Dorian House Chil­ dren’s Hospice were sick­ ened by tile theft. Said chairman of the Kibble Valley appeal, Mr John Clayton: “The box was apparently practically full. The theft of money which is going to help sick chil­ dren is despicable.” On a brighter note, Mr


HEARTLESS thieves took a charity collecting box from the bar of a Rib­ ble Valley public house. Local fund-raisers for


donations from the public or from local companies to help buy extra gifts for the children. If members of the public


hoping people will bring in the toys as soon as possi­ ble. There are only a cou­ ple of weeks to go and we don’t want any disap­ pointed children in the


hand in nearly new toys ready wrapped, they are asked to tie on a label say­ ing whether they would be suitable for boy or girl and roughly what age group. Said Mr Taylor: “We are


Clayton was pleased to accept the sum of £284.78 from the organisers of ;i ceilidh, held on Saturday at SS Michael and John's Parish Social Centre, Clitheroe.


Forger’s life


BLACKSMITH Ron Carter, of Trapp Forge, Simonstone, gave 83 mem­ bers of Clitheroe After­ noon Townswomen’s Guild a fascinating insight into “The luxurious life of a forger” at their meeting at Clitheroe Parish Hall. Sirs Mary Christie was in the chair.


Charging schools would be a


‘hatchet job’


A PROPOSAL from a former district edu­ cation officer to start charging- schools when


they wanted entertainment licences fell on stony ground at a meeting of Ribble Valley Council’s Finance and General Purposes Committee. Coun. Peter Evans (Wilpshire) had called for schools


to pay 20% towards licence costs. “Now that finances have been devolved from cen­ tral bodies to the governors themselves, I think it


should know these things cost money.” > However, Coun. Howel Jones (Clitheroe) called the


is important that the governors are mindful that noth­ ing comes totally free,” he said. “I don’t want to cane the schools, but I think they


proposal a “hatchet job.” “If we, as a council, cannot waive the cost of licences


for our schools, then we are in a poor state,” he said. ■ Coun. Evans’s proposal failed when a seconder could not be found and a proposal by Coun. Jones to leave


things as they were was supported. However, eoimcillors decided to increase the cost of


p u b l ic .e n te r tam m e n t l ic en re s f rom'£200 to £250; to be


more in line with the average1 Lancashire council charge of £203.84.


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