THURSDAY, JULY 11th, 1996 No. 5,740 Price 42p


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_ ATA GLANCE


The former owner of a Rimington car­ avan park might have survived an accident with a lorry had he been wearing a seatbelt, an inquest hears.


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Should we really pay MPs what they are worth, asks Tony Cliff.


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A revolutionary doorbell answering machine has won a brainbox from Clitheroe Royal Grammar School a place in a regional engineering title.


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A local schoolgirl- cum-accountant has helped her class­ room company win the national final of a Young Enterprise contest and now heads for the inter­ national final in Israel.


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Another Rovers soccer star decides to make his home in the Ribble Valley.


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by Theresa Robson


A BRAVE Clitheroe baby who has bat­ tled through thick and thin celebrates a very special birthday this week. Plucky Joseph Leonard, who is one on Sunday,


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—Julie and Bob, of St Paul’s Street, Low Moor—did not announce his birth in the newspaper...just in case. Young Joseph — nick­


has fought more battles than many of us fight in a lifetime. Joseph was so poorly when he was born, that his parents


named Smiler — spent three weeks in intensive care, after being born a month early and weighing little over 41b. His mum suffered from pre-eclampsia during preg- nany, a condition causing high blood pressure and chronic swelling in the feet and body. Her condition was so seri­


BRAVE baby Joseph Leonard has battled through thick and thin, but still finds plenty of smiles for his proud parents, Julie and Bob


ed hernia. Subsequent examination revealed a


on the brave babe’s fighting spirit and, with the help of steroids and an incubator, Joseph was soon fighting back. Julie, herself recovering


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ous that the medical team at Edith Watson Materni­ ty Hospital, in Burnley, took the precarious decision to induce Joseph’s birth. The poor youngster entered the world with life- threatening respiratory dis­ tress syndrome and spent the first 72 hours of his life on the critical list. But fate hadn’t reckoned


and all the hospitals we have visited have been bril­


seven months, Joseph con­ tracted acute bronchiolitis and was admitted to Queen’s Park Hospital, Blackburn. The condition has left him with breathing difficulties, or a “happy wheeze as Julie puts it, and dependent on nebulisers, that is specialist breathing apparatus. As if that wasn't enough,


double-hernia and little Smiler duly found himself in the operating theatre. Then, in February, aged


from an awesome ordeal, joined her husband in a round-the-clock vigil at her son’s bedside. Their tender loving care paid dividends, for Joseph was soon able to return home. However, in September,


liant. I t was the least I could do, by way of a thank you. "We don’t know how long Joseph will need nebulisers. We hope he will eventually out-grow his breathing dif­ ficulties, but only time will tell.” Modest Julie, who works


aged two months, Joseph was admitted to Pendle- bury Children’s Hospital, in Manchester, with a suspect-


the intrepid youngster endured a heart murmur in April and found himself in Alderhey Hospital, Liver­ pool. A bout of gastro­ enteritis followed. The proud parents are so pleased with the help that they have received from Clitheroe Health Centre staff, that they have marked their son's birthday by presenting the centre with a nebuliser. Julie said: “The staff at Clitheroe Health Centre


at the Clitheroe branch of the Nat West bank, also praised family and friends, particularly her parents, Jean and Sid. She said: "Everyone has


CLITHEROE schoolgirl Sally Eaton is a step away from the international cat walk and she has been to Disneyland Paris to prove it. Sally, a 15-year-old Clitheroe Royal Grammar School stu­ dent fromWhitewell Road, Cow Ark, beat thousands of other girls from all over the UK to win a place in next week’s final of the 1996 Elite Model Look competition in London. The prize at stake next week is a £25,000 contract with


by Tony Cliff


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the Elite agency and a place in the international competi­ tion to be held in Monaco in September. The winner there gets a contract worth a quarter of a million pounds and is almost assured of international stardom. A national newspaper flew Sally and the other 13 final­


been wonderful. There is always someone worse off than you, but the first few days of Joseph’s life were a great worry. When your baby is so poorly, it is hard to take it all in.” On Sunday, Julie and Bob,


ists to Disneyland for a three-day photo shoot, staying in a top-class hotel and enjoying the attractions on offer at


the resort in the intervals of a demanding photographic schedule. To prove that Sally is really heading for a major model­


who works at Ultraframe, plan to treat their son — now a bouncing 201b. — to the best day of his life. One thing is for sure, with a smile like his, he is sure to have a great day!


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ling career, previous contestants in the competition include super-models Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford and Sally’s favourite, Karen Mulder, one of this year’s judges. The Elite Model Look competition is now one of the most important in the world and the Elite/Premier agency represents most of the world’s top models. Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer and Christie Turlington are all on their books. Our photograph shows Sally, on the right, with a fellow


contestant and a couple of Disneyland’s most famous characters. She says her favourite is Goofy.


Forced to pull out of the transplant ‘Olympics'


by Sheila Nixon


LOCAL kidney patient Saman­ tha Wright has been forced to pull out of the tra n sp la n t games at Cardiff because of a


her mother’s kidneys in a transplant operation more than a year ago, is said to be very disappointed at hav­ ing to withdraw from the mini-style Olympics after training hard for sev­


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Royal Preston Hospital recently it was discovered that she had a throat infection and was also suffering from anaemia. The games attracts more than 800


quite well in herself. "However, the anaemia is making


transplant patients from all parts of Britain, with gold, silver and bronze medals and a place in the British team for the 1997 world games in Sydney at stake. Her father, stock controller Tony Wright, who lives in Billington, said: “She is very disappointed, but doc­ tors told her that she just was not fit enough to compete. She has now been placed on the emergency waiting list for a tonsil operation.” Her mother, Helen Wright, of Craw­ ford Avenue, Preston, said: “After early snags, the transplant is now working very well and .Samantha is


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her tire very easily. She is hoping to regain her fitness for next year’s games and is intending to visit this year’s just to see what her opposition would have been.” The games, sponsored by Guardian


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A C L IT H E R O E football enthusiast has joined the annals of soccer history — thanks to a trip to a top fix­


ture 30 years ago. Mr Ian Thomson, of Moorland Crescent, has donated a rare Portugese newspaper report of Manchester United’s 5-1 trouncing of Benfica, in 1966, to


the club’s museum. Mr Thomson was one of a handful of United fans who travelled to Portugal for the landmark European Cup quar­ ter-final. He paid 33 guineas for the trip and,


at only 18 years old, it was consid­ ered a rare undertaking. He said: “There were 80,000 people in the Lisbon stadium, but only a few hundred of us were from Man­


chester. In those days, United included the likes of Denis Law, Nobby Stiles, Bobby Charlton and George Best. The team was absolutely invincible. “After the game, we went around


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the local bars. We were made very welcome by the Portugese and there was absolutely no animosity. Those were great days for football.” Mr Thomson said he recently visit­ ed the Manchester United Museum and discovered it had little by way of memorabilia of the match, although it is considered one of the team’s greatest performances. He continued: “I knew* I still had my match ticket and a copy of the Portugese newspaper match report somewhere in my garage. I spoke to the curator and offered them as a gift. He was absolutely delighted.” Mr Thomson, a former National


and Provincial Building Society manager, said he has followed the Red Devils for 40 years. He counts the Benflca win and, more recently, winning the league and cup double as high points in the club's history. Mr Mark Wylie, curator of the Manchester United Museum, said he was delighted with Mr Thom­ son’s donation, which would be acknowledged on a little card in the display. He commented: “Only a few hun­


dred Manchester fans attended the match and it is highly unlikely that many brought the newspaper back, let alone saved it for 30 years. The newspaper is obvioualy writ­


ten in Portugese and we intend to have it translated. This was a very important match and we are very pleased with this donation.”


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