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AGLANCE R ib b le V a l le y councillors have decided to allow 30 minutes of public participation in full council meetings.


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A local farmhouse has come out tops


again in the North .. e s t T o u r ism


Awards.


__wm^m page 14 Inventive pupils at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School scoop top prizes — and one of them now heads for a national contest.


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C a r in g C a s t le C em e n t q u a r - rymen have again mounted a vigil to safeguard p ere­ g r i n e f a l c o n chicks.


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Three long-stand­ ing masters are bidding Clitheroe Royal Grammar School farewell.


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Cash aid to monitor air quality at Castle Cement


ELEVEN families living in the vicinity of Castle Cement’s Ribblesdale ‘ aid to pay for air quality monitoring around the


plant have won legal aic works.


This initial environmen­


tal research, which is being carried out by an expert on environmental


issues, is on behalf of chil­ dren — all aged between


two and 11 — who, it is


.claimed, have asthma or unexplained skin rashes. This week, schools in


• and around Clitheroe told , - the “ A d v e r t i s e r and Times” that there has been a noticeable increase


by Max Gardner


a g e r M r P e t e r d e l Strother said: “W e would not, and could not, operate a plant at Ribblesdale if there was any danger from emissions, either to our w o rk fo rc e or to ou r


neighbours. “We are totally confi­


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dent about the safety of hich is


in .the number of children .borne out by independent^. using inhalers at school. . " tests,"showing'that'the


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_. Ca8tle -.Cementri.was: ‘ burning of Cemfuel has no '


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Cemfuel and an increase in .' ter environmental option • They are being repre- asthma.


: than burning coal alone.” > sented by Liverpool-based


Ribblesdale works man- An asthma specialist,.. solicitors Ord and Co. who has made a study of


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his findings show a 10% increase in the incidence of the illness in children since th e in t ro d u c t io n o f Cemfuel.


; ■ Dr Dick van Steenis, a


retired GP from Milford Haven in i S outh-West Wales; made his claims at a public meeting in Chat- burn School hall, which attracted television and radio news coverage, the regional press and around 100 guests, including local doctors and a representa­ tive of H e r M a je s ty ’s Inspectorate of Pollution


(HMIP). His study disclaimed


symptoms from allergies and car exhaust fumes, concentrating on industrial pollution and prevailing winds. Concerning the schools at Bolton-by-Bow-


. land and Slaidbum, which are both downwind of R ib b le s d a le , D r van Steenis said: “There was not a single asthmatic ever, until five years ago. Now 8% to 9% of children need inhalers. This can’t be just a coincidence.” . The schools at Gisbum


(1 0 .5 % ) , C h a t b u r n (1 0 ,8 % ) , B r o o k s id e


(15.3%), Edisford (9.6%) and St James’s (10.2%), which also contributed to D r van Steenis’s six- month study, also showed increases in children using


inhalers. • Waddington and West


Bradford School, on the other hand, is out of the prevailing winds and was said to h


rate of 2.9%.


i D r van Steenis re - i ­ terated his views on pollu­


tion-related asthma, which he put in a memorandum


I to last'month’s Select | Committee on the burning i of secondary liquid fuels,


j " He claimed that particu-. lates-of vanadium, nickel'


| and chromium, among other;heavy metals;-are


| re le a se d .from?C a stle Cement’s works, at -Ribb-


| lesdale and blown down- i wind. He told the meeting


i that he believed the, par- | ticulates could be linked


with cancers, an well as asthma. 1 He said that his studies


showed that pollution from industries- which burn


similar materials-to those burnt ■ atCastle;* Cement


| has caused a imassive increase in asthma in pri­ mary school children.


D r Stephen Morton; East Lancashire Health


K ID N E Y - transplant woman Samantha -Wright, of Billington, is leading a, campaign to encourage people to sign up on a national organ donor register..


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A N aerial picture from our files shows the Ribblesdale plant. Since it was taken, Castle Cement has spent a considerable amount of money on work to alleviate plume grounding ______ _______________- . ■


Simon misses death in missile drama


by Lynn Harrison L O C A L s tu d e n t


Simon Driver (22) nar­ rowly escaped death during a v is it to


China. The former Clitheroef


Royal Grammar School pupil was working in .the Holiday Inn’s Crowne Plaza Hotel when a missile attack, believed to have been launched from Tai­ wan, killed four people when, it exploded just yards away from where he was staying.


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ening moment in an^mfor- B. A . Hons d e g re e in gettable visit, as Simon explains: “It was only later, that I realised just what had happened. Relations between China and,Tai­ wan are'very volatile even though the Xiamen prov­ ince, where I stayed, is one of the country’s special economic zones which depends on trade with Taiwan.”


which he is studying at the U n iv e rs ity of Central


Lancashire.. • - He was one of only six western members of the


hotel staff'and, although he had come to China to


Simon has just returned


home; to Park Avenue, Clitheroe, after spending 11 months in China, where he gained valuable work


learn,"he found that teach­ ing English, was one of his most important duties. ; Even, as a management trainee Simon was respon­ sim i


ble for overseeing the and beverage outlets.


It was certainly a fright- experience as part of a hospitality management


.During his stay, he


g a in ed a fa s c in a t in g insight into the Chinese culture.


' He said: “The family is


more important than any­ thing else and older people are very much respected.” However^ even in the


most- prosperous areas poverty abounds, as Simon said: “I was amazed at the number o f beggars who


: line every street, most with dreadful; deformities,


and while sex is a taboo


work of over 200 s ta f f subject, you can find pros- working in the hotel’s food ! titutes in many of the bars


• and hotels. My overriding Brave Sam leads campaign


impression of the country is that it is a place of


1 extreme contradictions.” In the autumn, Simon


returns to college to com; plete his studies, then he hopes to work in Europe, but he is very keen to return to China one day, as he says:“Even though foreigners are regarded with suspicion, it is an amazing place and the peo­ ple are great.” Pictured with Simon are


Angela Li (left), and Alvin He (r igh t ) , two -of-the many friends he met dur- inghis memorable visit.


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C L ITH E R O E police are still appealing, for . further - witnesses .to help them -.in;.their: in q u i r ie s in t o ■ the- murder o f Shaheeda:


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Boy (15) supplies forged ID cards


to young drinkers PARENTS should look out for fake identity cards after a Clitheroe boy received a police caution for producing and supplying them to under-age drinkers in the Ribble Valley. The 15-year-old, along


with a Blackburn boy,


made around £1,600 after supplying the cards to 400 RibDle Valley and Black- bum teenagers. Police were alerted to


the boys’ activities, after catching an under-age drinker attempting to use a fake ID card at a pub in Blackburn. The boys will not face


prosecution, nor will they have to pay back the


money they made. Sgt Geoff Rowbottom,


who deals with licensing matters, said the forgeries


were based on cards intro­


duced by the Portman Group to combat under­


age drinking. He said the laminated


cards bear the red rose c r e s t o f L a n c a s h i r e County Council and the h o ld e r ’s p h o to g rap h , name, address and false date of birth. On the rear there is wording saying the card has been issued by the Portman Group.


There are believed to be


'two different types of cards in circulation, with the position of the red crest varying on each.


Sgt Rowbottom said the


cards were of a high stan-. dard and he had not seen anything of their kind


; The police discovered the names-and addresses of 400 youngsters, to whom the cards were sold, and their parents have mow been informed by post about the fake cards.


Sneak thief A SNEAK thief has gone


through the purses of staff in a Clitheroe shop and stolen £65 in cash. The money was stolen


from staff at Shoe-Bi-Doo in Castle Street, when the thief went upstairs, unob­ served. The incident took place between 2 D.m. and 4 p-m. on Tuesday last week.


Police appeal after


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POLICE are appeal­ ing for witnesses after a Holden man was seriously injured in a three-car crash in Gis- burn on Tuesday


evening. Mr Wayne Harding (26)


was taken to Airedale Hospital with facial, knee and chest injuries, after his Mercedes car was involved in the collision on the A59 at 10-30 p.m. A Vauxhall Astra driver


was also taken to Airedale Hospital, suffering from two broken ankles, and chest and head_ injuries. Police named him as Mr Raffaqat Chaudry (22), of A l b e r t R o a d , Bamoldswick. Insp. Stuart Boothman


described the condition of- both d r iv e rs as being


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‘serious.’’ ■ • Three ambulances and a


-short-distance, outside-the - village on the.Skipton stretch of road; after the alarm was raised at 10-23 p.m. Police also named a pas­


mobile doctor attended the crash on the.A59, only a


senger in the Mercedes car as Miss Antonia Collier (13), of the Coronation Hotel, Horton-in-Craven. She was taken to Airedale Hospital for treatment to a cut ear, but was released shortly afterwards. The third car, also a


V a u x h a l l A s t ra ', was driven by Mr Paul Grant (35), of Monk Street, Clitheroe, who . escaped iqjury. Anyone who witnessed


the accident should contact the police on 01282 863161.


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