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Teenagers are asked to come up with ideas as to how £170,000
of
National Lottery cash can be used to educate them against the dangers of drugs.
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Two local primary schools have passed
the Government’s vetting procedures with flying colours.
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Six days of battle over the future use of the Calderstones Hospital site has drawn to a close as the public inquiry ends.
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Jobs are safe after a buyer has been found forContrast Upholstery Ltd.
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Residents of Chat- burn say their vil lage will not be fit to live in if Castle Cement gets the goahead to re-open Bellman quarry.
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Man nearly loses thumb in homemade bomb drama
YOUNGSTERS who experiment with bomb-making are experi menting with their lives, a local
police officer has warned. PC David Smith, of Clitheroe
Police, is warning youngsters not to dabble with explosives after a local man suffered a serious injury to his hand. The 25-year-old, who is not being named,
The so-called bolt bomb was a rudimentary
device and very easy to make, explained PC Smith. He commented: “Certain devices do not require chemicals. The components for this par ticular bomb are easy to come by and could be assembled by anyone.” PC Smith described youngsters who experi
ment in bomb-making as dangerous and irre sponsible. He said: “They are risking their lives and pos
nearly lost his thumb when a bomb he was making in his home exploded prematurely.
sibly the lives of others. This particular individ ual should have known better. He sustained a serious injury to his hand when the bomb he was making exploded prematurely. He nearly lost his thumb, but is lucky not to have lost his
Rare blood disease child is denied new drug lifeline
by Stewart Pimbley
THE parents of Clitheroe’s four-year-old Benjamin Briscoe, who suffers from a rare blood disease, believe a revolution ary new drug could be a lifeline.
to pay for th is new, more expensive haemophilia treatment — and Benjamin’s parents are spearheading a campaign to get health chiefs to put their hands in their pock ets.
But the local health authority does not want
Parents Simon and Angela Briscoe have had to live with the worry of their son’s severe haemophilia, and the fear tha t his current treatment could be
Health Authority believes the treatment now being used is safe and that there is no need to pay out for the more expensive drug. The new tre a tm en t —
putting him at risk. However, East Lancashire
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Recombinant Factor VIII — costs two to three times more than the drug used at present. Mr Briscoe believes this
new drug is a breakthrough for the treatment of a con dition which stops his son’s blood clotting if he cuts himself. He claims: “The reason we
want the new treatment is th a t i t is not a human- derived drug and, there fore, the risk of human- borne viruses is eliminated. The current treatment is from human plasma, but Recombinant Factor VIII is a genetically-engineered product. “ I t would cut out the
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worry th a t , while he is being helped, he could also be a t risk from unknown viruses.” The call for the new blood
clotting drug was made after three children con
tracted hepatitis A in
August, which was believed to have been caused by the blood-derived Factor VIII treatment. Mr Briscoe, a commercial
manager, and his wife, who runs a dance school, trav elled from their home in
Mearley Syke to join other parents to protest at Royal
FIGHTING for (he right to have (he new haemophilia treatment — Benjaminwith his parents, Simon and Angela Briscoe, and his baby sister, Brittany.(CAT 2582)
Manchester Children’s Hospital on Monday. The parents are part of a
haemophilia support group which is working with the
Manchester hospital to persuade local health authorities to pay for the new treatment. Specialists at the hospital are current ly treating seven children who are considered to be in urgent need of help. Mr Briscoe has also writ
ten to Ribble Valley MP Mr Nigel Evans to ask him for support. The new treatment would
ease some of the worries of Benjamin’s parents, who already have to cope with the day-to-day problems of haemophilia. Benjamin has just started
his first year at Oakhill College, Whalley, and does not let his condition get in
the way of a normal life. His father said: “He copes
very well. He has had it all his life so he doesn’t know any better.” However, Benjamin, who
has a seven-month-old sis ter, Brittany, sometimes
has to have three injections of his treatment a week if he cuts himself. The director of public
undergoes heat and solvent treatment and is screened before being used. Dr Morton said th a t
viruses, such as hepatitis A, affect children in gener al, not just haemophiliacs, and can be vaccinated against. The authority does not
believe it is necessary to pay out for the new treat ment at this stage. Dr Morton added: “ If
health for East Lancashire Health Authority, Dr Stephen Morton, said the authority is quite happy that existing treatment is safe and it has been tried and tested. He explained th a t the blood-derived Factor VIII
PC SMITH with the homemade bolt bomb which nearly cost a 25-ycar-old man his thumb (CAT 2573)
Fifteen minutes of radio fame for apprentice
joiner Matthew APPRENTICE joiner Matthew Day landed himself an afternoon off work after “15 minutes” of
fame on BBC Radio One. The Clitheroe teenager (pictured)was
the phone-in s ta r for top DJ Simon Mayo’s mid-morning competition, “Knocking Off”, on Friday. Millions of listeners heard Matthew
(18), of Shireburn Avenue, answer five quick-fire questions on his work and general knowl edge and win himself the afternoon off. The fun occurred at Pitch
Design Joiners in Colne, where former Ribblesdale High School pupil Matthew has worked for the last yean And as soon as he had
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answered the final question correctly he dropped the telephone and ran out of the door before boss Colin Marsh could change his mind. “I had rung the show with out telling him, but he was
happy to play along,” said Matthew, the son of Mr and Mrs Michael Day. “I t was just a bit of fun
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and I wasn’t going to hang around when I knew I had won.” Mr Marsh, who runs the
clear-cut evidence came to light th a t this treatment was better, then the authority would have to open the debate on paying for it. I don’t think we are at this level of debate and we may never reach this level.”
Colne company, added: “It gave us a free plug on national radio and it’s just a shame that Matthew got all the questions right. “If he had got any wrong
he would have had to work all Saturday morning for free." And Matthew made good
use of his free time — he was s tra ig h t out of the door and into the publ
Bullying battle takes off
A CONCERNED Clitheroe mum says she has been inun dated with phone calls since launching an anti-bullying
campaign. As reported in the Clitheroe
Advertiser and Times last week, Mrs Carolyn Reed, of Tower Hill, is prepared to go to court rather than send her daughter back to Bowland High School, where she claims she has been bullied. Twelve-year-old Charlotte’s life is
said to have been made hell by the bullies, in a grim diary of events that has included breaking down the door as she has been in the
school toilet and name-calling. Mrs Reed claims the school failed
to implement its anti-bullying pol icy and said her daughter had been left psychologically scarred. She said she had been inundated
with phone calls from concerned parents a t schools all over East Lancashire whose children had also experienced bullying. These included calls about children going home with their clothes torn, beat ings and, in one case, even a bro ken arm. “Many of these parents are fright
ened of joining the campaign, in case they or their children are fur ther targeted. I have received calls
• Mrs Reed still hasn’t found a replacement school for Charlotte, but said she will face prosecution rather than send her back to Bow- land High School. She said: “Charlotte feels vic
timised and traumatised by her ordeal, and has been left with a permanent scar. Through no fault of her own, she is no longer receiv ing an education, but I will not consider sending her back to the school. I would rather go to court." Staff a t Bowland High School have been quick to refute Mrs
from all over East Lancashire. This is obviously a widespread problem.”
Reed’s claims, which they described as exaggerated, and said they did all in their power to solve the problem. Head teacher Mr Steve Colling
said he had received offers of sup port from other parents and would love to have Charlotte back a t school. Government inspectors recently
described the school as a haven of peace and tranquillity, and this year the school saw a 107 increase in its exam pass rate. Mrs Reed says th a t if anyone
would like further information about ABC (Anti-Bullying Cam paign), they can contact her on
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life.” Two years ago, a computer programme con
taining hundreds of potentially lethal recipes for making bombs and drugs was discovered in a Clitheroe school. Police issued a red alert after the discovery of the disc, which contained instructions for creating fertiliser bombs and Molotov cocktails. The macabre recipes were accompanied by a grim narrative detailing pos sible uses for the explosives and the injuries that could be inflicted. The disc, which was believed to have come
from America, was handed to the Special Branch.
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