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Clillierue Advertiser & Times, March 30tli, 1994
Tireless worker for the Royal British Legion
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A WELL-KNOWN former C lith e ro e butcher and tireless worker for the Royal British Legion died suddenly at the week
dington branch of the
tion of France and the Low Countries and attain ing the rank of Company
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Sergeant Major. Demobilisation brought
a major career change
end, aged 81. Mr James Parkinson, of
Riverside, Low Moor, was the president of the Wad-
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James’s School, before tra in in g locally as a butcher and working in London and Cardiff, until the second world war interrupted his career. During the war, he served in the Royal Artil
organisation. e He was born in Clith
roe and attended a t
Drove on A59 at 90 m.p.h.
I A TIMBER compam director was caught driv
I trates heard.
ing his car at more than 90 m.p.h. on the A59 at Chat- burn, Clitheroe mag
Blackburn Road, Chorley, pleaded guilty at Reedlcv to driving his Volvo in excess of 60 m.p.h. o., a single carriageway. A police patrol on the
Alan Fillingham (39), of
mitigation, th a t Fil lingham had learned his lesson and was ashamed of
The court heard, in .
what he had done. Magistrates fined him
Director post
I A MAN who has recently I made his home in Clith- 1 eroc, Mr Charles Millar, has been appointed finan cial director at John Wil- man Ltd, of Nelson, a leading textile and wallco
vering company. A former financial con
I nave responsibility for both tlie finance sector and data processing
sultant with Coopers and Lybrand in London, Glas gow-born Mr Millar will
£200, with £25 costs, and endorsed his licence with six penalty points.
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MEMBERS of the Clitheroe Community Group have taken another step towards their forthcoming French camping holiday with a 10-mile sponsored walk alo g
thThc'group,'base(l at Trinity Youth and Community Centre, raised £100 (luring the walk from Clitheroe to Grindleton and back. A dozen members, aged -) to 60,
and take part in some of
“ “t o S T c S S S r l l t Geoff Jackson explained that some Community Group members were disabled and had never taken a holiday ill tills comiU y ct alone abroad. Getting involved in the D-Day observance would fill thei w iden tilt
horizons and add an important cultural element to the trip. '°TheirS experience J i t be further heightened thanks to French lessons from group member Mr Brian Fitzpatrick, who holds a degree in the subject. Our photograph shows members befoic they set off on the walk.
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and, instead of becoming a butcher, he took the Dog and Partridge Hotel in Wellgate, which he ran with his wife, Anne, whom he married at St James’s Church, in 1940. He ran the Dog and
main interests was the Waddington branch of the Royal British Legion, with which he was associated from 1901. He was cur rently the branch presi dent and was preparing for the annual dinner on Friday when he became
However, one of his
Partridge for seven years, before returning to the meat trad e , when he bought what used to be F red H ouldsw or th’s
lery and the Royal Army Service Corps, seeing action during the libera-
r \ ~ n i n e o ft v rt c
ill.Mr Harry Ramsbottom, the secretary of Wadding ton RBL, praised the “tireless work” under taken by Mr Parkinson and his wife for the organisation. He said: “Jim will be
butcher’s at Waterloo. Mr Parkinson was both
a member and past presi dent of the Clitheroe Chamber of Trade and a
member of the Royal 1 or- est Lodge, Waddington.
sadly missed, having been cheerfully and actively involved in all aspects of the branch over a period of
many years. He was well-
known and respected in Royal British Legion cir-
c l e s a c r o s s E a s t Lancashire.”
In his spare time, Mr Parkinson enjoyed garden
ing and the company of his six grandchildren. He is survived by his wife,
son Edward and daughters Anne and Pauline. His funeral will be held
at St James’s Church tomorrow, at 11-30 a.m., followed by burial at Clitheroe Cemetery.
Actor on tour
A WADDINGTON thes- pian is touring in a produc tion of Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” with television stars Brian Glover and I m o g e n
Stubbs. F ra z e r Hoyle (25) can
Step nearer French holiday JM
f ^ m k
currently be seen in the play at the C h a r te r Theatre, Preston. A former pupil of Bow-
yr
land High School and Accrington College, he
Misleading warnings to parents
ALARMIST notices warn ing parents about so-called “drug-laced tattoos” are misleading and inaccurate, the police have stated. The notices, which have
circulated at nursery and primary schools in the area, are targeted at anx ious parents.
A59 saw the ear driving at an excessive speed and used a speed check device to register the car driving at 91 m.p.h.
soaked tabs, resembling postage stamps, whicn contain pictures of charac ters such as Superman, Mickey Mouse and Bart Simpson. LSD can be absorbed through the skin, claims the notice, causing hallucinations, severe vomiting and even death.
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Joyce Weldon, of the Lan cashire Drugs Squad, said the notices are totally unfounded.
But detective sergeant
two years ago, there was a similar scare. Confusion
She commented: “About
arose because the tattoos and LSD tabs sometimes contained the same pic ture. We carried out extensive research at the time and discovered that the drug-laced tattoos did
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OVER 80% of people in the Ribble Valley
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want the area to be a unitary authority, a
survey has revealed. The survey, of over 200 people, was conducted in
the town centre by politics students from Clitheroe
Royal Grammar School. They asked a series of
I aware of the on-going Local G o v e rnm e n t Review, with 85.39b well- informed about recent proposals to carve up the
questions, ranging from “Do you know that local authorities are being reviewed?" to “Do you think the Ribble Valley is special in any way?” The majority of respon dents said they were
turer at the school Mr John Wootton commented: “Obviously those charged with informing the local population about what is going on with regard to these matters, such as the ‘Clitheroe Advertiser and Times,’ the CARVE group and the Ribble Valley Council, have done a good
job.”
live in the Ribble Valley, 8-1.8% were satisfied with current provision of local
Of those surveyed who , .
services, while 81% were opposed to services being provided from outside the
area.
tle support for suggested mergers in the event of
The survey revealed lit
CARVE’s fight against the dissolution of the Rib ble Valley in the forthcoming review of local govern
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ment is hitting home, it has been revealed. Lead commissioner Ann Levick is on record as hav
ing said that the response to the review from the Ribble Valley public has been very good.
the Tickled Trout, Samlesbury, to gauge the response of the general public in Lancashire to the review. She reportedly replied that it had been poor,
She was asked at a special media briefing, held at . . . .
“except for the Ribble Valley!” Mrs Levick was recently presented by Ribble \ al
ley MP Mr Nigel Evans with a Valentine card, signed by hundreds of local people opposing a carve-up of the
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