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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, July 6th, 1995 3 WHY BUY A LEMON Report by Stewart Pimbley
Photographs by John Barry THE shock discovery of a bur ned severed head in a roadside ditch triggered a major police search throughout the Kibble
Valley for human remains. Botn national and local media focused
on the area last Thursday, after Clith eroe fire officers answered reports of a
grass fire on a bank of the A59 dual carriageway at 3 p.m. However, when the officers arrived
ditch. Within 30 minutes, a burning
at the scene (pictured top) they disco vered a burned head in the roadside
severed leg was discovered near the
Blackhill picnic site in Sabden at another grass fire. The badly charred slopes, once covered in grass and heather, were still smouldering the fol lowing morning (left). As a Home Office pathologist and a
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Bi (22), of Milner Street, Burnley, and a post-mortem revealed she had been strangled.
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AN exciting accolade has been achieved by a Clitheroe husband and wife team in a competi tion which attracted 500 companies.
A fashionable accolade for clothes firm
Hotel, finishing as one of. new range of girls’ wear at the runners-up in the East the “Mode Enfantine” Lancashire small business- of-the-year section. The firm was awarded a highly commended certificate for its achievement.
Limited was among 28 finalists at a gala dinner held at the Dunkenhalgh
members of staff were receiving their award, the company was launching its
quality classic and casual. • v Trailing for nearly six wear for boys and girls. years B]JR Clothing sup- under the brand name. £lements its domestic
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eroe in 1989 the company moved to Gisburn and, due to its continued success and expansion, has had to relocate to a new factory and showroom at Earby. .
rown into a flourishing usiness. From its start in Clith
A CYCLE has been stolen from a house in Talbot Close, Clitheroe. The silver and black
market with exports to the Middle East, Europe and USA. These sales account for 40% of its business. The six members of
to receive their award and are now busy preparing
Cycle theft
coloured Protean pedal cycle, valued at £200, was stolen between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Monday.
BHR Clothing Company At the same time as,
exhibition in Paris. The girls’ wear collec tion is a new venture this
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Campaigners welcome Pte Clegg release from life sentence
THE release of jailed Pte Lee Clegg, the paratrooper convicted of murder, has been welcomed in the Kibble Valley after many residents supported national calls to give him back his freedom.
w r i te r Martin James sparked local calls for his release, back in January, when he appeared on the “Advertiser and Times” front page to condemn the soldier’s life imprisonment for shooting a Belfast joyrider. Mr James said the 26-
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pleased to learn of his release." Mrs James explained
dier’s release. Mr Evans said: “This is
that she would tell her husband about Pte Clegg’s release from Wakefield Prison — at 6-30 a.m. on Monday — as soon as she could contact him. Mr James’s call for Pte
year-old soldier was being made a “sacrificial lamb" and he bad only been doing his job in Northern Ireland. U n fo r tu n a te ly , Mr
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James was in America as news of P te Clegg’s
release broke, so his wife, Mr^Kate James, spoke on She said: “Martin has
Clegg’s release was regis tered with the highest Government authority when his letter to Ribble Valley MP Mr Nigel Evans was handed to Northern Ireland Secre tary Sir Patrick Mayhew. The se c re ta ry la te r
always felt strongly that Pte Clegg was only doing what he was trained to do. He felt Pte Clegg was unfairly tre a te a and I know he will be very
people felt he should never have been put in pnson in the first place and it is pointless Sinn Fein or the IRA complaining about his release, because the grea te s t injustice was the length of time he spent behind bars. “ There is a world of dif
wrote to Mr James inform ing him that Pte Clegg’s
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Survey into children’s health
A SURVEY of children’s health in the Ribble Valley is being undertaken as part of a postgraduate research project at Lancaster University. ■
local primary schools have filled in a questionnaire, which was approved by East Lancashire Health Authority’s
The parents of children from three
Ethical Committee. ■ :n I t is expected that more than 300
reuonses will be received and; these wul be compared with the responses of a control survey in another, part of Lancashire with similar socio-economic conditions to Clitheroe. ........ The questions take .into account the
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