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Tiie tragic (loath of a young father, w h o b a t t l e d bravely against adversity, stuns the village he loved.
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Mud-slinging van dals are made to clean up the new Low Moor play ground in time for its official opening.
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Lollipop c a m - paigners say girl's accident on busy road proves the need to reinstate the school crossing warden.
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Local Legion pres- ident adds his weight to the D- Da.v v e te r a n s ’ national protest by explaining that t h e y w a n t to
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OMAR and Aysha were six and five when th e ir father snatched them
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Mr Evans said. "I hope that as many people as possible will back the charity. There must be few things more harrowing for a mother or father than having their children abducted to another country.”
Mrs Sulieman, whose ordeal has many similar-
to Mrs Denise Sulieman, who has founded a charity called Recovery, based on her own tragic experiences of child abduction. “1 support the initiative Mrs Sulieman has taken,”
THE plight of a Chipping mother, whose three children were abducted to Libya four years ago, has struck a chord with Ribble Valley MP Mr Nigel Evans. Mr Evans has given his heartfelt support
■ 0m mJ, •>*»• y -a V .ass SAPHIA was ju s t two years old when taken away from her mother
ities to tiie book and film, "Not without my daugh ter,” lost her children in the summer of 10!)0, while the family were on holiday in Tunisia. Her Libyan husband, Saloem, is believed to have
Smokes ban sparks row at hospital
Staff are told to stop — even though patients can light up
DOZENS of Calderstones NHS Trust employees are flee
ing the grounds of the Whalley hospital during breaks in their search lor a safe place to light up.
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Mr Ian Gallagher com mented: “ Previously, there was a no smoking policy on site, which allowed for a number of designated smoking areas. Tiie policy now basically says that there is no smok ing at all, except for resi dents and people who are tenants in accommodation on site.
stones Trust Hoard argue that they are responding positively to the Govern ment Health of the Nation initiative through intro ducing a s in o k e - f r e e environment for staff and visitors and actively encouraging employees, as well as residents, to break the habit. Unison branch secretary
bined with the free rein given to patients, has hun dreds of trust employees fuming. The hospital Uni son branch, with between 800 and 1,000 members, wants the union to con sider a ballot for industrial action against the trust. Members of the Calder
Meanwhile, Calderstones residents are free to puff away alongside staff mem bers, in designated patient smoking areas. The policy change, com
them from smoking in the open air or in their cars within hospital grounds.
month. Trust policy also forbids
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very difficult for somebody who is a smoker to be working in an environment
Unison members is the policy regarding holidays. M r G a l l a g h e r s a i d employees away with resi dents could only smoke when off duty.
smoke, but the visitor cannot. Another complaint of
to relatives and friends visiting residents. The person being visited can
very happily puffing away.” The policy also applies
where everyone else is
a smoke-free environment. We do feel, however, par ticularly in the sort of area where we work, where we have to work with people who are smoking, that it’s only reasonable to allow a degree of restricted areas for smoking," lie added. “It certainlv must be
going out to Milton Hoad to sit ill their cars and have a cigarette. We feel that it is only reasonable to retain a restricted num ber of areas where people who smoke can s t i l l retreat in terms of brew times and break times,” lie added. He explained th a t industrial action was a last resort, after the trust board rejected a report submitted through the internal grievance and dis pute procedure. "We support the idea of
“That is wiiy people are
FUMING over smoking policy: shop steward David Smith and Unison branch secretary Ian Gal higher with Ken Roney
the workforce. We have had a lot of non-smokers who think the situation is diabolical,” he said. “Our view basically is that a more balanced view could have been taken on the whole issue which would have saved a lot of argu ment and grief.” Trust chief executive James Abbott vigorously
ings on the matter within
defended the withdrawal of staff smoking areas. “We tried that policy for
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tions were raised as early as December, when the d r a f t p o I i c y w a s announced. A non-smok ing member of s ta f f launched a peitition which ultimately contained 350 signatures of both smokers and non-smokers opposing th e w i th d r aw a l of employee smoking areas. lere are strong feel
day with residents who smoke, those patients will be smoking whenever they get the chance. It strikes me as an absurd situa tion,” he said. Mr Gallagher said objec
"When staff are on holi
Thieves hitch up - and
caravan then drive off
A PONTEFRACT mtm’s caravanning holiday fell victim to Ribble Valley crime when his dog was caught short on the way to Blackpool.
and caravan on the A59, near the Chatham junc tion, to Id his dog relieve itself.
Mr Neil Gorthorpe was forced to [lull up his car
thieves had hitched up his caravan and driven off with it.
from walking the dog round nearby fields,
Hut when he returned
just stopped to exercise the dog oil the field and were only away from the caravan for 10 or 15 minutes.”
they returned was the liitc’
All that remained when h used to connect the
The unfortunate cara van owner said: “We had
afterwards 1 was so horri fied that thieves can prey on holiday visitors, it is getting like America,” Mr
caravan to the car their family car. ” 1 was shocked, but
Avondale Pearl four-berth model, registration G359 GFC, and was valued at i'-l,5U0. It was taken between 11 and 11-15 a.m. on Saturday.
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SORRY Bobby bids for top title
A HURST GREEN bobby will be plodding tiie beat with some of the country’s top community policeman as par t of a national competition. PC Ken Bayes, a police man for 20 years, has been nominate d by a fellow officer to represent Lanca s h i r e
competition, in
through of his nomination on Tuesday morning, PC Bayes was rather sur p r ised . “ I am o v e r whelmed and had no idea,” he said. “It is an honour to receive the nomination and I will continue to do my
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officers will come together for an award ceremony at Merchant Taylors’ Hall, London, on October 19th, and the winner will receive a bursary prize to travel abroad to view for eign community policing methods.
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to his family holiday, he explained that they would still return to the Ribble Valley and were deter mined not to be put off c a r a v a n n i n g b y t l i e incident. The caravan was an
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utterly devastated, but determined to get back Omar, Aysha and Saphia, then six, five and two. Her struggle has been in vain, mainly because there are no diplomatic relations between Britain and Libya.
has plunged Mrs Sulieman into the depths of despair on countless occasions. She has visited them 12 times, unable to stand the thought of never seeing them.
The failed attempts to recover her youngsters
with violence, locked her in a room and taken away her passport to try to keep her from leaving. Mrs
On these trips, her husband has threatened her
Sulieman, who covers herself from head to toe in the custom of Moslem women while visiting, has also been burgled and bedridden with dysentery.
her children, who only speak Arabic. As much as the language, the religious and cultural differences are creating a heartbreaking divide between them and have turned Omar against his mother. Mrs Sulieman lias met others like herself. In the desperate world of child abduction, parents have
his hope that the charity would make parents whose children have been abducted realise thev are not alone.
relations between governments, the children of the world should be put first.” Turn to page -1 for Mrs Sulieman’s storv.
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are going through the same thing,” he said. “The Government needs to bring as much pressure as possible to bear on these countries. Irrespective of
“It will give them reassurance that other people
measures and assist them in recovering their chil dren through legal channels. Mr Evans expressed
been known to try everything from bribing judges to (laying kidnappers. She founded Recovery to help them avoid such
Now, she has difficulty even communicating with
with them and that there was nothing the police could do to help. She returned to the family home in Manchester
ing they might have had an accident. Finally, she learned that her husband had crossed into 'Libya
drugged her coffee. Mrs Sulieman just remembers being thrown on to a bed, collapsing and waking 10 hours later, then listening intently for her son and two daughters. She combed the streets searching for them, think
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