Clitheroe Advertiser & Times. November 18th. 1993 13 Clitheroe 2: 232Jt (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 422331 (Classified) Poignant services honour war dead


A COLD and bitter Novembe r wind failed to cool the spir­ its of townspeople on Sunday, as they joined hundreds of thousands country­ wide in honouring the nat ion’s war dead. In every comer of the


Ribble Valley, villagers, e x -s e rv ic em en and


women, Royal British Legion members, uni­ formed organisations and civic le a d e r s came


together to mark the


75th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice — the official ending of the Great War.


occasion proud, with a packed procession from St James’s Church to a wreath-laying ceremony at the Castle cenotaph.


Clitheronians did the


was conducted by the vicar of St Jam e s ’s Church, the Rev. Ronald P h i lp o t t , and th e wreath-laying took place, as in previous years, at


The 10-30 a.m. service


noon. The ceremony was


attended by Clitheroe Mayor Coun. Howel Jones, who laid a wreath on behalf of townspeople, amid the poignant echoes


of Last Post. Coun. Jones thanked


th e a s s em b ly and prayers were offered by mayoral chaplain the Rev. Michael Fielding, of T r in i ty M e th o d is t Church. A procession to Clitheroe Town Hall


Paul’s Church, Low Moor, on S u n d ay afternoon.


of St Paul’s, the Rev. Rodney Nicholson, and Fr. Joseph Wareing, of St Michael and St Johns RC Church, Lowergate,


It was led by the vicar


mony followed at Low Moor cenotaph, attended by members and former members of the Royal


was the preacher. A wreath-laying cere­


followed.A Remembrance Day service was held at St


Whalley families


in fear after 200% rent rise shock


MORE than 30 Whalley families fear they could a Calderstones Trust move to put up their rents Residents of Queen like herself, who were


Mary and Bridge Terraces retired due to ill health, claim that new tenancy She claimed that the agreements with the trust new six-month tenancy could force them out of agreements stemmed from their homes.


and Mr David Wynne, mill Avenue and The Cres- both former Calderstones cent — formerly the other nurses, who live with their half of the Calderstones


Miss Christine Thomas during the sale of Kings- financial lessons learned


respective families in estate. Queen Mary Terrace, are When those properties just two of the residents were sold.existingrcsi- up in arms over the plans, dents qualified


is retired due to ill fiealth length of their tenancies, and lives with her 72-year- Selling Queen Mary and old mother, said her rent Bridge Terraces ' a t ' 1'3 would be increased by £40, same fashion would not be from £117 to £157 a month, as profitable as evicting on January 1st and a fur- long-standing tenants and ther £70 over the next finding new buyers, Miss


Miss Thomas (35), who discounts based on the g three years under the new Th° ^ asaa^ del[’hat before


aSInTddit'ion, there was the trust came iInto effect the possibility of further Celderstones Hospita bail annual increases in line promised that ‘ es‘(lents


with inflation. She esti- would be. f mated that could u ti- to buy then piopeities


to encourage us to move Miss Thomas questioned by increasing our rents so why they could not be sold much that we can’t afford now, since the hospital


“We feel they are trying the health authority,


m a te ly am o u n t to a when they became “sur- monthlv rent of £280.


plus to requirements of


to nav them I’m on a fixed was no longei a part of the income, which doesn’t go health uuthority and was up at the same rate my supposed to be closing in


rent is intended to. I can’t the year-0 . afford to move,” she said. Mr Wy™ * n; also


Miss Thomas said many retired due tc l residents were in her pre- a"^


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lose their homes under as much as 200%.


Bridge Terraces to house more patients for whom Calderstones was paid


lucrative fees. “There are a lot of pen­


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sioners and one parent families here and they are not going to be able to pay the rises. We do have low rents and have all said that we don’t mind paying a reasonable amount like a council house rent. But this is too much,” he said. Trust chief executive


THERE was a good demand for cattle during Monday’s sale at


Excellent trade in store cattle


Clitheroe Auction Mart. Forward were 140, with only


Mr James Abbott vehe­ mently denied there were plans afoot to “get rid’ of residents and sell their homes to new buyers or replace ten an ts with


patients.He added th a t the houses could not be sold because they were not surplus to requirement and were needed for the future. Although some of the hospital would be clos­ ing in seven years, part would remain open. He further said that, by


bulls showing an increase, nsing by an average of 4p. Young bulls: Light made to


145p (122.73p). (112.07p).


(114.89p), medium to 118p (112.28p), heavy to llOp (109.82p), overall to 12bp


Steers: Light made to 120p , 4 lo|.


133p (110.91p), heavy to 118.50p (108.42p), overall to 13dp (109.79p). Cows overall made to 104p (85.03p).


Heifers: Medium made to . .


offer, but an increased demand was apparent, with the average


There were fewer lambs on , . S i d 5Sr3 w ^ L m b s


' i f r A t - d ; to 83.7ap (75.93p), standard to


law, the trust had to give residents the option of signing new tenancy agreements and noted that the district valuer had recommended the new


87.18p (79.08p), medium to 83.75p (79.92p), heavy to 81.29p (77.07p), overall to 87.lop (78.91p). Ewes overall made to


rent levels after assessing the properties. “There is no intention to


get rid of residents so the trust can make money. We realise it is a very large rise, but the rents hadnt been reviewed for seven years,” Mr Abbott said. “Consequently people


£32.At Friday’s sale, there was a smaller entry than of late in the dairy section, but plenty ol interest and health returns were achieved. Beef cows and cows and calves had a slower enquiry as a result of the ending of the beef quota transfer. Store cattle of all sizes and


121p (average U4.28p), medium to 145p (130.12p), overall to


Engineers. Mr Brinley Joynson, who is vice-president of


the Clitheroe branch of th e Royal B r i t is h Legion, later commented that the services had been “exceptional and absolutely superb.”


Coun. Tony Jackson attended services at Wis well in the morning and Billington in the after­


Ribble Valley Mayor


area’s other Remcm brance Day services can be found in our “News from the Villages” fea­ ture on pages 5 and 20.


noon. 9 R e p o r ts of th e


Reaches finals of national awards


A CLITHEROE chil­ dren’s boutique owner is dressing for a glamorous London awards luncheon today, after reaching the finals of a national compe­ tition for the second year


running. Mrs Sara Collinge is one


Saw car crime as easy way


to pay off debt


A FORMER public schoolboy who was strug­ gling to pay off a £6,000 debt went on a car Irime escapade as a way of making easy money, Clitheroe magistrates were told on


Tuesday.


(19), of Whalley Old Road, Y o rk , L an g h o , had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to breaking into a Jaguar car, parked If1 a locked garage in Whalley, and stealing a radio cas­ sette recorder, and to attempting to steal prop­ erty from a car left parked and locked on The Sands,


Kurt Dominic Gillibrand Whalley.


The case had been adjourned for pre-sen­


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tence reports. Gillibrand, who asked


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WINNERS at Clitheroe Bridge Club on Wednesday were: NS


of three finalists in the children’s wear section of the National Retailer of the Year contest. Last year, Mrs Collinge (30) carried off a £400 runner- up prize from the pres­ tigious presentation cere­ mony, which is being hosted today by “Clothes Show” personality Jeff Banks at the luxurious Four Seasons Hotel. Not only does Mrs Col­


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linge, who opened her King Street shop, “Sara,” just two years ago, have a shot at winning her sec­ tion, which is sponsored by the National Children’s Wear Association, but a victory would qualify her for the final round, along with the other six section winners.Competition judges, headed by award organ­ isers “Drapers Record, were looking for attrac­ tive, well-stocked chil­ dren’s wear specialists offering exceptional ser­ vice to their customers. Mrs Collinge, of R o ­


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relief when south made his con­ tract of three no trumps with two tricks to spare. North’s replay at the two


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level guaranteed at least nine high card points. Although not too happy about his holding in the majors, south felt too strong iust to repeat his diamonds, so he showed 15 or 16 high card points by bidding two no trumps aid and north raised to game. West led a small heart, taken


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for six other offences to be taken into consideration, was placed on probation for 12 months and ordered to pay £682 compensation


and £35 costs. The court heard that the offences were committed with five other youths — three having been given a caution and the other, a juvenile, having been sent


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brand, Mr David Parkin­ son said his client came from a good home. His father had his own general | building firm and Gilli­ brand had been educated at a public school in West] Yorkshire, which he had left without formal qualifi­ cations. For the past three years he had worked for his father, although there had been a brief spell around the time of the offences when he was laid


off.Gillibrand was £6,000 in debt to a bank, in respect of a loan for a car, which had since been damaged] and would be worth only £3,000 when repaired.


decided to go on a “joint escapade” in Whalley as an easy-way of making money. The idea appealed to him, as he was out ol work at the time and had no money coming in. Gillibrand now said he


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chester, who started her business with the help of the Ribble Valley Enter­ prise Agency, specialises in custom-made garments, as well as a wide selection


of brand ranges.


breeds met an excellent trade, with only one consignment


returning nome, Seven in-calf dairy cows made


had been receiving tenan­ cies at very low costs. This came as a great shock. We are not out to make prof­ its, but we have got to cover costs,” he added.


to £1,230 (£971.50), beef and m-


calf cows with calves to £070. Store bulls made to £4jz , Continental steers to £500, heif­


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ers to £490, Friesian steers to £512, Hereford heifers to £455. There were 90 store lambs


forward of varying quality, with some Texel X mixed store lambs making over £31, mules to £23.80 and Suffolks to £30.


PUPILS of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School are getting their voices in order for a top speech


competition. The East Lancashire


Newpapers’ School Speech Contest, now in its 17th year, will take place on November 29th.


secondary schools will be taking part in the Sil­ verman Hall, Nelson, com­ mencing at 7-30 p.m. A trophy will be awarded for the best team performance and a shield for the best


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individual. The judging panel will


include Mrs Elizabeth Laws, area speakers’ club president, and Mrs Pau­ line Anforth, president of Burnley Speakers’ Club.


Fork- lif t tru ck accident


I A SIMONSTONE worker was taken to Burnley Gen­ eral Hospital on Tuesday morning, after an accident involving a fork-lift truck. Mr Simon Roberts (19)


with the jack. South cashed ace and king of clubs and considered how he could get to dummy to I enjoy the long clubs. If he I forced out the ace of hearts, the opponents were unlikely to help him by leading a third round, so he tried a different line — he leu a small diamond towards the jack and, as he hoped, west put


up the queen. If west had realised the pur­


pose of this manoeuvre, he


would have switched to a spade to defeat the contract, but he continued diamonds, taken with


the jack. Then all south’s spades went away on the clubs and he still had three good diamonds in


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hand to make 11 tricks in all. The winning team in Mon­ day’s competition for the Brown Cow trophy was Mr L. Garner, Mr G. Capstick, Mrs J. btub-


second place were Mr and Mrs Holden, Mrs Heyworth and Mrs


bens and Mr J . CowlingT. Tooley.


Mrs F. Wilson and Mr R. Bau- lev. Mrs E. Boothman and Mr F. Greenwood; EW Mr W. Wot-1 stenholme and Mr W. Barnsley, Mrs J . Stubbens and Mr H.


Thursday’s winners were: Wa . Fielding. u .M .S .| Distilling


WHISKY distilling was the subject of a talk given


to Clitheroe Young Farm­ ers by Mr Tony Flitcroft. Mr F l i tc ro f t ’s talk]


centred on the use in agn- culture of the by-products


of whisky distilling. He was thanked by Helen Montgomery and Robert


Whitwell. At the group’s next


meeting, at Pendleton Vil­ lage Hall, there will be a Silver Jubilee talk, start­ ing at 7-30 p.m.


Chemists’ ro ta


I occurred. He was detained in hospital for observation


was working in the store room at Vita-Achter, on the Simonstone Business Park, when the incident


TODAY and tomorrow. Boots Chemist, of Castle Street, will be open until 6-30 p.m.P e te r Buckley Ltd, Railway View: Sunday, noon to' 1 p.m. Monday to Friday until 6-30 p.m.


VC’s sword will cut 400th birthday cake


day, at the celebration of its 400th birthday. A sword presented to an top of a house. He contin-


old pupil,, when he was ued fighting until his awarded the Victoria ammunition^ had been


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sented by Col Harold Er- vine-Andrews VC to the school’s cadet corps as a reminder of its military past. There have been seven Victoria Crosses awarded to former pupils of the school in just under 100 years.Col Ervine-Andrews was awarded the VC while serving in the East Lanca­ shire Regiment during the second world war. The award was for his gallant service in Dunkirk, when he fought off a fierce enemy attack and led his


men to safety. There had been a dan­


ger of one of his platoons being driven into enemy f ire , so Col Ervine- Andrews single-handedly d eed ed his men from the


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exhausted and then, when his company was almost surrounded, he led them to safety through water


for over a mile. More than 700 guests,


consisting of teachers and pupils from the college and neighouring St Mary s Hall, will be attending the afternoon birthday party. There are to be sporting competitions am} party games during the after­ noon, with the cake being cut in the early evening. Due to the vast size of


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