Clitlieroe Advertiser & Times, January 18th, 1996


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A CLITHEROE woman who devoted her ____ to the Scout and Guide movement has died suddenly at the age of 80. Mrs Helen Crompton, who lived in Park Avenue,


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George’s Day service and parade at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, at which the Queen was present. At the time, she said that this was one of tne proudest moments in her Scouting career. Mrs Crompton was born into a Scouting family, her


father, Mr Sam Walmsley, being one of the pioneers of Scouting in Clitheroe and the first chairman of- the Clitheroe Boy Scouts’ Association.


She was educated at Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar


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Guides to help him with his work by becoming leader of the Loyola Cubs at St Michael and St John’s in 1948. In 1959, she became


liam, was active in the Scouting movement and she switched from the


the Brownies when she was eight and was a Dis­ trict Commissioner for the Guides before the last war. Her late husband, Wil­


was music. Mrs Crompton taught the piano at her home in Park Avenue and, since the 1940s, played the organ at St Michael and S t J o h n ’s C h u rc h , Clitheroe. Mrs Crompton joined


School and lived in the town all her life. Her other interest in life


was awarded the Silver Acorn in 1982, in recognition of her services to the Scout and Guide movement. ^ Shortly after receiving the award, she attended a St


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Mrs Helen Crompton


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eroe Scout Council, Mr Simon Nanson, said: “Mrs Crompton was a person who gave so much of her life to Scouting, so she w‘“ be extremely difficult to replace. We will all miss her a lot.” Her musical interest consumed a great deal of


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her time. She was a found­ i n g im -m l i i - r o f < ‘li t h o m e


Concerts Society, as well as being an active member of several choirs over the years. Mrs Crompton died in


today pay th e ir final repects at a funeral set- vice at St Michael and St John’s Church. The set- vice will be conducted by Fr Joseph Wareing. Mrs Crompton leaves


a motor cycle accident in 1976. She also leaves nine grandchildren.


three sons, Michael, John and Christopher. Another son, Patrick, was killed in


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Devizes, Wiltshire, when visiting her son, Chris­ topher, for the Christmas and New Year holiday. Family and friends will


locally for British Rail and died in 1970, the year he was awarded a Silver Acorn. The secretary of Clith­


position of Assistant Dis­ trict Commissioner, Mrs Crompton was District Badge Secretary until her death. Her husband worked


D is t r ic t Cubmas ter before taking up the post of Assistant District Com missioner for the Cubs in 1963. Two years later, she; was awarded the medal of merit, with an additional bar in 1971. After retiring from the


Butcher finds ‘new concept in eating’


A CLITHEROE firm of butchers has sent its customers hopping mad with excitement by selling the latest


delicacy from Down Under — kangaroo


rison and Kerr, said: “It is a new concept in eating. It is very nutritious, lean, low in cholesterol and tender. “We are always looking


for new ideas and we thought this was definitely something different.”


brought in from Australia and is being sold in steaks: and diced form. It has a game flavour, similar to venison. For customers who have wondered how to cook the


The meat has been


the meat are kangaroo and mushroom casserole, kan­ garoo tail soup, kangaroo stir fry, roast kangaroo leg with sour cherry sauce and


meat, Mr Kerr has been providing them with recipe suggestions. Among the recipes for


kangaroo burgers. Not content with intro­ ducing kangaroo meat, Mr Kerr (pictured with part­ ner Brian Hodges) is plan­ ning to sell more exotic and unusual meats over the next few months.


Plea made to area’s farmers


FARMERS and landown­ ers in the Ribble Valley have been urged to keep public rights of way open to the public.


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sage to its members, the Country Landowners’ Association has said that the Rights of Way Act 1990 places a clear duty on farmers and landowners not to obstruct footpaths and bridleways.


In a countywide mes­


Dodgson said: “We repea­ tedly warn members of their responsibilities, but this time they need to make a firm New Year •esolution. Depite all the warnings, some members are breaking the law and, if they don’t put matters r ig h t, they will face prosecution."


Secretary Mr Jolyon


latest range of Australian meat is selling well and customers have been skip­ ping into the King Street shop in their droves to snap up the kangaroo steaks. Mr Stuart Kerr, of Har­


meat. Harrison and Kerr’s


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LONGRIDGE travel enthusiasts can enjoy


a tour of the wilds of North America with­ out leaving the com­ fort of th eir local libra ry when Pat Isherwood gives her lecture, “Back-pack­ ing Grandma in the Canadian Rockies and beyond.” The talk, illus­


are on sale now lor the lecture, which is on Janua ry 22nd, starting at 7-30 p.m.


Camping site ‘no’ because of Cemfuel


A SITES officer for the Camping and Caravanning Club has turned down a chance to camp in the Clitheroe area, after seeing a plume of smoke rising from the Castle Cement works.


Mr Kevin Downing, a volunteer sites officer for


the club’s North West Folk Section, spoke this week about his disappoint­ ment at rejecting the field because of the Cemfuel controversy.


Mr Downing, who inspected the site with a colleague, said he had been hoping to list the Clitheroe area site as a suitable weekend venue for members, who combine camping with folk dancing at village halls.


a Ribble Valley site at Chipping and we felt another in the Clitheroe


“The group already has


area would be perfect, especially as there was a village hall close at hand,” he explained.


smoke and said we would have to think about it. On arriving home, I switched


“ Then we saw the


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WISWELL student Jonathan Bungard has won a choral scholarship to St John’s College,


are set. He plans to spend a year working in business before he goes to university. First he has to pass his A levels at the necessary grades and he is tak­ ing not music but maths, further maths, physics and economics.


singing in the choir at St John’s as a condition of his scholarship. The choir has only one serious rival in the university, its better-known counterpart just up the road at King’s College. But the economic field is where Jonathan’s sights


Uppingham, Rutland. He is a music scholar at the school and, as well as singing as a tenor, he plays the piano, ’cello, recorder and bagpipes. He began play­ ing the national instrument of Scotland when he was 13 as the result of holidays in the Hebrides. When Jonathan begins at Cambridge, he will be


Cambridge, but he is going there to study economics, not music. Jonathan, who was 18 last week, is at school at


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on the TV to watch ‘Gran­ ada Reports’ and the sub­ ject was about the burning of Cemfuel a t Castle Cement. That put the cap on it and we turned down the site.”


wants to remain anony­ mous and has asked us not to identify the site, has expressed her concern about the matter in a let­ ter to the “Advertiser and Times”, published in full on page 12.


The site owner, who


mitted to promoting tour­ ism, yet the controversy is obviously deterring tour­ ists. She asks: “How much longer will this adverse publicity continue to deter potential visitors to the area? How much longer


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will the Cemfuel and the plume-grounding argu­ ments rage? How much longer before something appears to be done? How much longer do Ribble Valley residents have to feel embarrassed by the never-ending blot on our landscape?”


t ise r and Times” has already reported that the testing of emissions from Castle Cement has now been completed and that


She points out that Rib- , only authority with the ble Valley Council is com


power to ban the burning of Cemfuel — is still con­ sidering the results before making a decision.


cated that, so far, it has found no reason to intro­ duce a ban.


HMIP has already indi­ Meanwhile, the “Adver­


trated with slides taken during her back-packing tour around the world, is part of Lancashire County L ib ra ry ’s winter lecture series. Tickets, price £1.


SH A K E -A -L EG is th e r e s id e n t c e i l id h b a n d en tic in g people to Clith- e ro e ’s C a th o l ic S o c ia l C en tre , o n th e f i r s t F r i ­ d ay in every m o n th , to d an c e th e n ig h t aw ay.


tu r n e d u p w h e n t h e c a l le r— th e p e rso n who ex p la in s th e d an c e an d in i tia lly w a lk s th e p a r ­ tic ip a n ts th ro u g h i t — w as S h e ila M a inw a rin g from S h ro p sh ire .


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leg a r e p ic tu re d b eh in d some o f th e d an c e r s .


THIEVES stole a Yamaha 3S0cc Quadbike, valued at


Bike stolen


£1,200, from a stable yard at a house on Port field Lane, Whalley, between 11 p.m. on Sunday and 9 a.m. on Monday.


Lorry raided


THIEVES raided a lorry parked on Lincoln Way, Clitheroe, stealing a Uni- den CB radio, valued at £60, between Friday night and Sunday morning.


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or former teachers who could loan photographs depicting pupils or events held at the school, or mementoes and souvenirs: •of any kind relating to school life, should contact Mrs Timson at the school


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place during the summer term, when the children will learn about the his­ tory of the school and per­ form a play relating to this. An exhibition will also be mounted in the school during the summer and, with this in mind, teacher Mrs Jennifer Tim- son is casting her eyes and


Celebrations will take


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