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t o go? THE controversial direct services board which pre pares Kibble Valley Coun cil contracts for tender and includes non-elected mem bers looks se t to be scrapped — much tq the delight of former borough councillor, Ron Pickup, its biggest critic. Action was set in motion
at the council’s annual meeting this week to replace the board with an ordinary committee of the council. Now the Policy and Resources Committee is being asked to ratify the proposal at its next meet ing in.June. c The former borough
county councillor has cam paigned against the consti tution and “secret ses sions" of the board for the past two years. The three officers who
ouncillor and current
sit on the board will cease to be members and all the councillors will be enti
tled as of right to attend its meetings should they wish.
publish the dates and details of the new commit tee meetings and indicate the agenda, with the access to information rules to apply. County Conn. Pickup
'I'he council will have to
A DEFIANT local lawyer who htts “declared war” on the Kibble Valley Council has brought in the hardware — a
beautiful bluebell wood at the centre of a bitter wrangle over pipe-laying operations aimed at improving Sabdcn’s sew erage system. And as Clitheroe solici
Russian T34 tank. The battleground is a
tor Mr Harry Dearing moved the tank into position, he vowed: “The council ignores me at its peril.” The site is near an his
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collection of vintage vehicles at Hanson’s and came complete with driver, Stuart Crossland, of Hapton, who manoeuvred the hardware into position with the skill of a Bcsert Rat. Mr Hearing, who has
practised in Clithoroe for the past 20 years, lives at Brookside, Read Old Bridge, with his wife and three children. He says the tank
toric battleground — Read Bridge, on the back road from Read to Sabden, where the Roundheads and Cavaliers fought it out during the Civil War. The tank, with gun
unplanned assault, with an excavator digging off from the mill site through the trees and a bluebell wood, and also digging through the ancient roadway. “My next-door
protest follows “endless correspondence” between himself and council officers over how the pipe-laying operations should proceed. “They couldn’t
has persistently chal lenged the legality of the operation of the board and he still awaits a determi nation by the district auditor of his objection to the financial accounts.
some irony I was regularly ignored by the Conserva tives and Liberal Demo crat on my pleadings to bring the decisions of the board before the council and to have its operations open to proper public scrutiny. "My "defeat at the May
He declared: “With
poised, stands guard on Mr Hearing’s thrcc-and-half-aere site next to his luxury detached home in what, until now, has been a forgotten backwater. The tactics succeeded in blocking the access to the excavation site and brought the bulldozers and diggers to a sudden halt. Mr Hearing says he is
organise a Mad Hatter’s tea party,” he declared. “The council is tearing up my land in an area of outstanding natural beauty where there arc tree preservation orders and it is coming within feet of my home. “It is also the site of
the historic Read Mill, the site of an historic road, possibly Roman, and, not least, the site of the Civil War Battle of Read Bridge. “There has been an
own land and I have chosen to put the tank here so that it can’t proceed with the pipe laying.
done under statutory powers, but not under the code of practice required by the Water Act 11)89, as it has not yet been finalised. No standards appear to apply and the council feels it can literally go anywhere and do anything.”
“The works are being
failed to do what it has said it would for me, I have declared war. It has the statutory right to come through my land, but it can’t stop me from placing vehicles on my
neighbour, an elderly farmer, refused access and was taken to the magistrates’ court by the council to enable it to obtain a warranty for entry. “As the council has
council’s chief technical officer, who is managing the work with his team of engineers, said: “Our priority is to finish this work as quickly and efficiently as possible, with minimum disruption for local residents.
Mr Jon Dunn, the
contact with Mr Hearing and I am sure that, at the end of the day, we will
“We are in regular £ continued on page 3 P H O T O : J O H N B A R R Y
absolutely furious with the council for how it has “ridden roughshod” over his land, causing endless problems in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
polls’is worthwhile com pensation to have brought this new council back to representative democracy and to have restored to all
the councillors a duty and responsibility for these important contracting functions — with the members once again fully accountable for their actions."
operation, which he has dubbed the “Battle of Read Bridge II,” began with a communication on Thursday morning: “The first tank is now in position and I await any further movement by the enemy. The bridgehead was regained without casualties.” The tank, painted
His military-style
white, with the Soviet Union’s hammer and sickle emblem on the front, was hired from Hanson’s Trucks at Great Harwood and conveyed on a flatbed wagon to Read Bridge. It belongs to a
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LOCAL JOBS SAFE, SAY GIANT FIRMS
TWO giant Clitheroe companies — Castle Cement and ICI — this week reassured employees that their jobs are safe after both firms hit the headlines Castle Cement’s 630
employees were left wondering about their futures when their p a r e n t c o m p a n y A k e r / E u r o c announced the closure in August of its Pit- stone Works, near Leighton Buzzard, in Buckinghamshir e , with the loss of 300
jobs. Meanwhile, ICI’s 155
employees were reading, that the national company faces a possible takeover by Lord Hanson, whose previous takeovers — including firms like Imperial Tobacco.— have c o s t th o u s a n d s of employees their jobs. Castle Cement chairman
Mr Bernard Coleman said: “Our parent company has to look after the viability and profitability of the group and no one can give
A MISSING 48-year-old male resident from Cal- derstones Hospital, Whal ley, reported to be in a “very confused mental state,” was found safe and well on Monday afternoon, after an exhaustive 24- hour police search. The man, whose mother
cast iron guarantees about the future in this economic climate. "Having said that, we
will remain running at full capacity and the efficiency of our plant has to be a measure of our future viability.”
Aker/Euroc confirmed that the Pitstone Works was to close because of “the continued downturn in demand for cement in the UK and the availabil ity of more economically, produced material else where within Castle’s par ent Aker/Euroe group.” Production now will
A press statement from
press officer, Mr John Edgar, said: “There’s really no comment we can make at this stage other than it’s business as usual at the moment.”
a 2.8% stake in ICI, lead ing to speculation that he will mount a multi-billion pound bid for control of the industrial giant. The Government has- assured MPs that any takeover will be considered by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission or the Euro pean Commission.
Lord Hanson has taken
centre on the Ribble Val ley and works at Ketton, Lincolnshire, and Pades- wood, Clwyd. I f UK demand improves, Castle says it will reactivate propositions for a new one million tonnes a year kiln at Padeswood. Meanwhile, an ICI
top entrance. Said Insp. Philip McEn-
ICI closed up 48p at £12.66, which earned Han son £20 million profit. The Manufacturing Science Finance Union, which represents 11,000 ICI employees, is enlisting the help of 35 MPs and MEPs and seeking public support to f ig h t a p o s s ib le takeover.
On Friday, shares in
tee, of Clitheroe police: “We" were delighted to find
the man, who could only shuffle along and wasn’t
tpany yard off Mitton Road, about a quarter-of- a-mile from the hospital’s
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and step-father live in Newton-le-Willows, was discovered at the Barnes and Tipping haulage com-
very, mobile^ He was wearing only a jumper and trousers, so he must have spent a cool night, pro bably at the yard. He was in such a confused mental state that he wouldn’t have realised if he had been on one side of a bush while we were on the other side — so it was up
■to us to find him.” The resident was last
Police step up armed bank robbers hunt
the two raiders near the bank in King Street, Whalley, said Supt Wynne Darwin, of Clitheroe police. But there was some doubt as to whether one of the raiders was a woman or a man
dressed as a woman. People also saw the
Several people saw by. C L I V E
B A R N D E N made the women open the safe, helped themselves to £11,000 in £20, £10 and £5
getaway ear, an old broum Cortina, which was later found abandoned at the Spring Wood picnic site, where police presume the raiders swapped cars — although they cannot rule out the possibility that they escaped on foot. Since then, police effort
notes and left the girls tied up with black plastic ra- chet-type security ties. Fortunately, one was able to free herself and raise the alarm soon after the robbers had gone. One of the robbers was
has been concentrated on house-to-house enquiries in 'Whalley, trying to find more local witnesses who may have seen the robbers outside the bank before or after the robbery, driving into the picnic site early that morning or swapping ears there later.
b ein g co n d u c ted in Greater Manchester, par ticularly in the Stockport area, where the robbers’ getaway car was last registered.
But enquiries are also
that the robbers were pro fessionals, said Supt Darwin.
So far, the signs are
The robbery happened just before the bank was
opened to the public. Two female staff turning up for work as usual were going through the main door of the bank, at 9-20 a.m., when they were followed and bundled inside, the male robber pointing a long-barrelled black hand gun at them. Whether this was a real
gun or an imitation is not yet known, say police, although it looked real enough to the terrified
staff. Inside, the robbers
Patient found after search
seen by hospital staff at about 2-30 p.m. on Sunday and the police were called in when he failed to report back to his ward at tea time. About 30 members of
,on Monday about 20 officers were drafted in, with two police horses and
staff and 10 police officers searched the grounds, and
' dogs from various parts of the Pennine Division. The deputy general
manager at Calderstones, Mr Graham Jowett, said: “The man will be seen by our doctor, but seems none the worse for his experience. He has been with us since 1958 when he transferred from Brock- hall Hospital, and has never absconded before. He is like most of our resi dents, free to wander around the grounds when he pleases.” The hospital will hold an
informal enquiry into the incident.
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POLICE are appealing for help tracking down the two armed robbers who held terrified Barclays Bank staff at gun-point on Monday and made off with £11,000 in cash.
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MP acts to end dangerous
dog menace RIBBLE VALLEY MP Mr Michael Carr has wel comed action to end the menace of dangerous dogs.
described on Tuesday as a white male with a north ern accent, 5ft Jin to 5ft 8in tall, about JO years old, plump or stocky in build and with short brown hair. He was wear ing a check-patterned fiat cap and metal-framed spectacles and was seen carrying a burgundy-co loured briefcase. A police description on
Monday also said he had a ruddy complexion and was wearing a green wax jacket. The second robber
Secretary Mr Kenneth B a k e r o n M o n d a y , requesting tough new laws.
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appeared to be a white male disguised as a female, dark-skinned to h e a v i ly ta n n e d in appearance, said police. He was also described
seven, has two dogs: “ P a t c h , ” w h i c h h e describes as “a Wensley- dale tripe hound" — a bea gle cross which came from a friend in Wensleydale 11 years ago — and “Camp bell,” a cairn terrier pup.
pit bull terrier. Mr Carr, a father of
as 5ft 5in to 5ft Sin tall, of stocky build, wearing a dark brown shoulder- length wig and dark sun glasses, a calf-length red mackintosh, dark blue or black stockings or tights and black high-heeled shoes. They may be violent,
are an animal-loving family," says Mr Carr. “Some of these dogs are bred for aggression and there are some owners who see their dogs as an extension of themselves.”
warned Supt Darwin. “Anyone who threatens staff with a gun, real or imitation, must be of a vio lent disposition as far as I am concerned,” she said. In charge of the investi gation is Det. Insp. John
Fryer and anyone with any information should contact him or his'col
against two members of staff,” said a spokesman at Barclays Bank’s London headquarters. He added: “The bank, which comes under Clitheroe branch, is manned by two full- timers, who were opening up when th e y were approached by. a man and a woman, who left them tied up. One member of staff managed to free her self and raise the alarm.
leagues at Clitheroe Police Station (Tei. 23818). “It was a vicious attack
hurt, although the staff were obviously very shaken and in distress.” The bank spokesman
“Fortunately no one was • continued on page 16
Home Secretary, Mr Carr requests a change in the law to subject breeds like pit bull terriers and rot- w eilers to the same restrictions as dangerous wild animals.
In his le tte r to the
Minister Mr John Major announced a complete ban on the import of dogs bred for fighting.
On Tuesday, the. Prime
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which has 87.86 acres of land, made £285,000. Auc tioneers were Richard T u rn e r and Son, of Clitheroe.
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