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QUARRY workers at Castle Cement were horrified when the family of foxes they had been observing for weeks were shot dead — but the killing was part of a culling pro­ cess which resulted from tenant farmers’ com­ plaints, said the company.


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watched their fox family nest and produce a family, said a spokesman for the group, and the shooting of the animals was against everything the company has been saying about pro­


ble standards involved, said general manager Mr John Denton. “We had received a


petition from our tenant farmers about the number of foxes in the quarry, asking if we would do


tecting the environment. But there were no dou­


The w o rk e r s had something about reducing


the number of foxes there. t “We took advice and,


keeper, employed a pro­ fessional to reduce the number of foxes in the quarry." Quarry workers said the


hrough a local game-


county library service’s final at Preston in the New Year. “It was because she wrote from the heart —


Green, was.awarded a certificate and £25 for her recollections and now her story will go into the


district library service’s “I remember when” competition. Mrs Ann Duxbury, of Rose Cottage, Knowlc


AN 82-year-old Ribble Valley lady who recalled her days as a mill girl during the Lancashire cotton queen era has won the


Former mill girl’s memories


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


Poll tax figures


confusing RECENT national news­ paper stories about poll tax levels for next year are confusing, as they p re se n t an “ average, figure” already below the existing local community charge, Ribble Valley Council’s finance officer Mr John Hunt warned members of the Policy and Resources Committee. The forecast national


average was £257 for next year, while Ribble Valley’s community charge for this


year was already £273. And while the Govern­


with such feeling — that it caught the judges’ eye,” said district librarian Miss Barbara Snell, who along with “Clitheroe Advertiser and Times” representatives called at Mrs Duxbury’s home for an informal presentation of the award.


arranged by the county library service to celebrate the goiden jubilee of Age Concern in Lancashire.


The competition was one of several events


People over (id were invited to write about their memories of their 21st year and there were 15 entries from the Rihhlc Valley.


story I didn’t even know it was going into a competition,” said Mrs Duxbury, the widow of a former well-known Kibble Valley cattle dealer.


“I saw an invitation for people to write their recollections about their 21st year on the notice


“I didn't expect to win because when I wrote my MRS DUXBURY receives her certificate from Miss Snell


ment was talking of increasing local govern­ ment spending by 7.2%, the real figure was less than the percentages given, he added, and pro­ bably amounted to 4.8%. Worse, the increase was


limited because of the spending limits that were imposed on the council. It meant the council would have to look very


hard at ways of saving money — and would also have to consider extra ways of g e n e ra t in g income, said Mr Hunt.


Hospital says thanks to area


board at my over (ids club and I just put pen to paper because I could remember it very well.” Mrs Duxbury, who lived in Chipping and


Longridgc during her childhood, set up home in Knowle Green with her husband, Robert, on her marriage in 193-1 and has lived there ever since.


at a Longridgc Mill and the day she celebrated her 21st birthday by attending a cotton queen ball in the dress she had made herself from the cloth woven by her colleagues. Miss Snell said that all the entries were “most


Her winning story referred to her life as a weaver


interesting— fascinating records of the times, conditions and philosophies of those days” and that the judges — Colin. Ilowel Jones, Mr Edmond Cumbicn, Mr It. O. Jones and Mrs Bcnita Moore — had a very difficult task. The following are extracts from Mrs Duxbury’s


story: “It was July Kith, the time when the cotton mills of Lancashire were just beginnning to struggle to survive. Artificial silks were introduced and new looms were being installed into several mills. “It was the time when, to help promote cotton, a


mill girl was chosen each year as cotton queen. “What better way to celebrate my birthday than


to go to the hall! My boyfriend, Boh, was to pick me up about 7 p.m. Oh, how I was looking forward to


dancing from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. “At this particular cotton ball a competition was being held to promote cotton — the nicest and


professional with the shot­ gun was also seen to lay traps for grey squirrels. But Mr Denton had no


knowledge of that and said the company had made no request to reduce the squirrel population at the quarry.


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Gustonter package you can’t afford to ignore


CUSTOMER care is a well established tradition at Clitheroe’s Hair Company. Staff at the salon are proud to boast a regular clientele between the ages of 18 months


and 80 years! Proprietress Louise Fearnley


confesses to feeling very satisfied if : customer leaves the salon looking transformed and feeling confident. She said: “I enjoy nothing better


than restyling someone’s hair, then watching them leave the salon looking and feeling wonderful." Miss Fearnley has tune for all her


customers — from the workman who wants a quick dry cut (Hair Company is, in fact, one of the few remaining salons in town where you can still get a dry cut) to the woman who wants her weekly blow wave. She said: “I believe in giving my


Hair Company is now open until 8 p.m. three nights a week — on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays — and with a re-style starting from as little as £7.95 and perms from £20, it’s a package no working girl can alforil to ignore either!


customers exactly what they want. After all, they’re paying!” As part of that first class service,


CLITHEROE’S Hair Company is undoubtedly a centre of excellence w h e n i t c o m e s t o t r a i n i n g


Fearnley’s management so far, one went on to a top hairdressing job in Canada, another is pursuing a successful hairdress­ ing career in London, another has opened a salon of her own in the North West, while another — Angela — is currently senior


hairdressers. Of those who have trained under Louise


stylist at Hair Company itself. Two young Clitheroe women — Amanda


Haworth and Celina Bialcchi — recently gra­ duated to junior stylist status at the salon, in Peel Street, after two years’ training. Miss Fearnley believes in equipping her


An advertising feature by Theresa Robson


employees with an unbeatable package — exacting high standards from them in both professional competence and customer care. She said: “I like to think the trainees who pass


through Hair Company will go on to great things. I care about my employees and it makes me feel good to know that they’re doing well.” She regularly holds refresher courses in cut­ ting, colouring and perming for all her staff — her­


Johnson, is returning to Hair Company as one of the salon’s select team of evening stylists. With her help, Hair Company will undoubtedly be offering townspeople the benefit of a first-rate late-night service.


self included! . Another of Miss Fcarnley’s past trainees, Lynn


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Fearnley is pictured (foreground) with Hair Company staff (from the left) “Saturday girl” Amanda Garner, junior stylist Celina Bialccki, senior stylist Angela Davies, apprentice Jackie Brown and junior stylist Amanda Haworth


PROPRIETRESS Miss Louise


t X HAIR COMPANY IS A DREAM COME TRUE ;


EVERY child dreams of a chosen vocation, but only


IIAIR COMPANY proprietress Miss Louise Fcnrn- ley puts the finishing touches to senior stylist Angela’s fashionable “urchin” style hair cut. Angela’s new look, which was created by cutting her hair in wisps around her face and into her neck, is earmarked by a distinctive sloping fringe


dedicated realise their ambition in adult life. Louise Fearnley (2S) is one such person.


most steadfast and


A former pupil of Ribb- lesdale High School, Clith­


eroe, she knew she wanted to be a hairdresser from, she says, “the year dot.” Former pupils of the school remember her, scis­ sors in hand, laying down the sturdy foundations of her chosen' skill by setting up salon in the school’s playground!____________


H/I1R C O / t lP / lN / PROP. M. L. FEARNLEY


entirely different scenario — although it goes with­ out saying that many of her early customers still seek her out. Now she operates from her “Hair Company” salon of eight years standing, in Clith­ eroe’s Peel Street.


These days it is an


have produced a string of distinctions in a City and Guilds hairdressing certifi­ cate and a “Student of the Year award," both from Blackburn College, and fifth place in the British College’s Hairdressing Championship in 1981.____


The intervening years


Hair Company when she was 20, in partnership,


Miss Fearnley set up


and her recent hard- earned acquisition of the


business as sole owner is, she says, “just the next


part of the dream come true.”


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fourpcncc a yard, from the mill where 1 worked and where it was woven and from this I made a three-tier skirt from a dropped waistline, dipping at the hack. It had a round neckline and capped sleeves. The three frills, the neckline and the sleeves I rolled and oversewed all the edges with pink cotton. I was very pleased with my lovely dress. It cost me 3s J'/xd.”


cheapest dress made of cotton. “I bought seven yards of cotton voile, at


It lays on VIP visit for Ribble Valley fund-raisers


CHILDREN with rare bone diseases may have a brighter future thanks to money raised by huge- hearted residents of the Ribble Valley.


since Waddington mother Mrs Kathleen Woodruff, of Hilton Hey, launched a £5,000 appeal in the area


It is just over a year


in aid of St Mary’s Hospi­ tal for women and chil­ dren, Manchester.


te r Anna (2) receives treatment at the hospital for pseudohypopara­


Mrs Woodruffs daugh­


thyroidism, a rare disease. In order to see how the appeal funds are being


used, Mrs Woodruff and her husband David, together with Ribble Val­ ley Mayor and Mayoress Coun. and Mrs Allan Kay, visited the hospital, where they learned that £7,000 of the appeal’s anticipated £10,000 final total have so far been allocated for spe­ cial research and devel­ opment projects. The Ribble Valley group


was told by the hospital’s head of pediatric care, Dr Zulf Mughal, and head of


genetics Dr Dian Donnai, that tiio £7,000 has been invaluable in helping to establish a programme to


identify the genes respon­ sible for certain rare diseases. Research staff also hope


to develop both an index of calcium and mineral defi­ ciencies and a revolu­ t io n a ry u l tra -so u n d method of detecting bone weakness.


a further £040 has been raised for the appeal, which closes in January,


Mrs Woodruff said that


by Rathmcll Young Farm­ ers, Bolton-by-Bowland Young Farmers, Wad­ dington WI and Clitheroe Round Table.


tured (second from right) outside the hospital’s newly-built “Acorn” ward with (from the left) Mr David Woodruff, Dr Mughal, a young mother and her baby who are patients at the hospital, the Mayor and Mayoress and Mrs Edna Ashton- Mallins, who is the hospi­ tal’s fund-raiser.


Mrs Woodruff is pic­


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