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A reader writes to express her con cern over having to ring Colne to cal l - th e local police.
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“I’ve had enough.” says a Clitheroe
t r a d e r , whose shop has been van dalised again.
campaigned for the release of Pte. Clegg have wel comed his release f r o m a l i f e sentence.
There is good news at an over c rowded local school.
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Queen Christine I is forming her own Rib b l emin s t e r Parliament, com- p 1 e t e w i t h “ k n ig h t s ” and
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FOGGITT’S WEEKEND WEATHER: Occasional show
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BUTCHERED BODY -MAN IN COURT
A 26-YEAR-OLD taxi driver, Javed Iqbal, appeared before a special weekend s ittin g a t
Burnley Magistrates’ Court to answer a charge of murdering
spoke only to confirm his name, age and address.
his heavily-pregnant wife. Crown Prosecution Service solicitor
He showed no emotion as the
Mr Michael Travers said that 22- year-old Shaheeda Bi’s dismembered
body was found at four sites in the Kibble Valley on Thursday.
Iqbal, who lived with his wife
and their two young children in Milner Street, Burnley, was remanded in custody for a week. There was no application for bail by defence solicitor Mr Roger Baldwin.
No emotion During the six-minute hearing
on Saturday morning, Iqbal stood handcuffed in the dock and was flanked by two police officers. He
charge was read — on or about June 28nd in the county of Lan caster he did murder Shaheeda Bi
(pictured left). Mr Travers told magistrate Mrs
Margaret Tomlinson how the charred remains of a head were found in a car near the A59 Barrow roundabout and other p a r ts of Iqbal’s wife’s body were also later identified, having been found in other locations.
for his client’s legal aid to cover the costs of chief counsel and counsel, and the crown court committal was provisionally fixed for July 28th.
Mr Baldwin successfully applied THE house in Whalley Road, Clitheroe, where police and forensic scientists have been working The trail of human remains -Page ‘ 6
ers will provide temporary relief for scorched gar dens and fields.
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AN EXCITING film. ARTS CENTRE PLAN
Backing for huge Brockhall Village study
THE Ribble Valley is fast becoming a mecca for the visual and performing arts — and plans for a new £ l lm . centre at Brockhall Village will put the area firm
ly bn-the art’ worldmap. : .m
Already, thousands of visitors have been attract ed to see world renowned performers at Ribch- ester’s Festival of Music and Art and Stony- hurst’s Centenaries Theatre International Piano Week.
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But an Arts Council
announcement today, giv ing the go-ahead to a feasi bility study for an £llm. arts centre at Brockhall Village, will permanently switch the national and international arts focus on the Ribble Valley.
Mr Gerald Hitman con firmed that the Arts Coun cil was funding the man agement consultants, KPMG, to carry out a £40,000 study into the. project, which will have a huge sculptures studio at its centre. Mr Hitman explained
Brockhall Village owner
the nature of the project, which has received support
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from Ribble Valley Bor ough Council and Ribble Valley Partnership and is expected to attract around 25,000 people weekly dur ing the peak summer sea son.
very important national centre for sculptors. There
“The aim is to have a
Sculp ting Brockhall V i l l a g e ’s
future (from the left) are Helen Pem berton, arts project co ordinator Gerald Hit man, village owner; and Don Wilson Ribble Valley Partnership chairman.
will be established sculp tors working here and they will bring the public in to see their work,” said Mr
Hitman. If the plans are given
the green light by KPMG, the building design, under the guidance of former borough council chief offi cer Mr Philip Bailey, will then take place, before the final bid for Arts Council full funding is submitted. Provided full approval
ed to be completed by April, 1998.
£ l lm . price tag will be paid by the Arts Council, while the rest needed to pay for the shops and other facilities planned for the site will be funded by Brockhall Village. Providing facilities for
Around half of the
is given, work will start in April, 1997, and is expect
Brockhall’s woodland and open spaces will also be used to exhibit the sculp tors’ work.
100 sculptors, the centre will have a major studio, with a public viewing gallery, and individual stu dios for sculptors. More than 50 acres of
ject co-ordinator, Ms Helen Pemberton, said “Opening up sculpture to people like my mum and persuading sculptors to come down from their ivory towers is a herculean task, but I feel sure we have developed the right
The village’s arts pro Continued bn page 15.
strength TWO Ribble Valley companies made their mark during Granada TV’s “Flying S ta r t” special awards. John Foley, of Black-
Going from strength to
bum Controls, Whalley, was joint winner of the Eltec-sponsored Train ing Award, sharing the honour with Taylors Mustard. A new award for the
“Flying Start” Business Personality of the Year was presented to Lee C arter Health Studio proprietor Vicky Lee. Described as a “vision ary”, Vicky received the prize donated by Allied Dunbar. Presenting the award,
judges referred to Vicky’s entrepreneurial spirit and said th a t she had shown the impor tance of an individual in driving a company and had the strength of per sonality to have devel oped a company with a strong culture and strong set of values.
The Training Award
was presented for the development of staff in terms of training and to companies planning growth over the next few years.
offers a complete electri cal service to industry,
Blackburn Controls
and staff were shown carrying out various aspects of the company’s work. Are there more to come?
"Flying Start’s” awards night is screened tonight.
Profile on Vicky—page 4.
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dian Phil Cool make histo- pr this month by marrying in the area’s first new-style wedding ceremony at the Gibbon Bridge Country House Hotel? Wedding nerves have
set in with a vengeance, as both the Chipping couple and the hotel’s staff have . been on tenterhooks as they wait to hear whether the Gibbon Bridge’s appli cation for a special licence to hold wedding cere monies has been approved.
cials give the go-ahead,, then the wedding of the . zany impressionist will not only he the first of its kind in the Ribble Valley, but the first in the whole of Lancashire. Earlier this week, the
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cashire County Council, Mr John Ashcroft, who is responsible for deciding whether to grant the spe cial three-year licences, said that he was still wait ing to receive reports from inspectors who have been checking facilities at the hotel.
confirmed that the celebri ty, whose real name is Philip Joseph Martin, and his fiancee, Miss Beverley Jill Angus, had applied for a wedding certificate to be issued there, just in case the Gibbon Bridge did not receive approval in time.
Clitheroe register office Mrs Valerie Crookes,
. who has been Clitheroe’s superintendent registrar for the last 20 years, said th a t both she and her deputies were very excited to be on the verge of per-
r
forming wedding cere monies at newly-approved
venues. But, ironically, Mrs
Crookes will miss out on performing the first cere
mony, as she will be away on holiday in her native country of Belgium.
second marriage, but it is the f irs t time for his fiancee, Miss Angus, who • comes from Rochdale,- where she has spent 18 years working in the; Health Service, firstly as a nurse, then as a midwife, later as a health visitor ■ and most recently as a r Health Service manager.
This will he Phil Cool’s At present she is taking
a break from her career to look afte r th e ir n in e - ' month-old son, Joe. The couple met when Phil performed in a charity con-
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cert, which raised'£3,000 in aid of the Birch Hill Hospital, Rochdale,-where :
, Miss Angus worked; ' Although there have been rumours
' tha t other famous celebrities will be., attending the wedding, according to
• Miss Angus it will be a small occasion: ; with family and close friends only. ,.
- Miss Angus said that they had no l plans for a honeymoon, as they had
just returned to their home a t Chip ping after a family holiday in Spain.
' In addition, Phil Cool has a busy
:■ schedule ahead of him — including a . star performance a t Burnley Meehan-,
ics on September 9th. *2 '
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