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Police are searching for two youths, one of whom threatened a young schoolboy with a knife.


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An unusual fossil, discovered on the banks of the Ribble, could be 400 million years old.


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An angry Nat West bank customer has moved his account in protest at the clo­ sure of the bank’s Whalley office.


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MP Nigel Evans says British beef is safe and feels Brus­ sels should spend more time looking a t science and less at politics.


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A Ribble Valley nursery has won a top French award for the second time in four months.


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A local woman is ready to cook up a treat in a national contest.


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One man dies and several others are injured


by Max Gardner


IT has been one of the blackest weeks on the area's roads for a long time. A Billington man has died following an horrific


early-morning, three- and face before rushing car crash in Wilpshire last Thursday. On Tuesday, there were


lengthy tail-backs on the


A59 as a man had to be cut from the wreckage of a Vauxhall Astra which col­ lided with an eight-wheeled heavy goods vehicle. He was rushed to hospital,


him to Blackburn Royal Infirmary. His passenger, Mrs Cath­


along with the passenger in the car. The accident occurred


ihrouprh Whalley and Billing Lon for mow than


between the Petre and Bramley Meade round­ abouts at 1-55 p.m. Traffic was diverted


two hours. Clitheroe fire-fighters cut


the roof and door off the mangled car to free Mr Dennis Wilson (58), of Clitheroe Place, Black­ pool. Paramedics took 10 minutes to stabilise him, treating wounds to his head


erine Wilson (56), of the same address, had already been transferred to BRI suffering from shock. She has a fractured sternum. Both are said to be stable. The driver of the lorry was Mr David Binks (58), of Masham, North Yorkshire, who was unhurt. On Thursday evening, a helicopter from Lancashire Constabulary’s Air Sup­


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port Unit illuminated the skies over a t raffic accident in Gisburn. At 6-50 p.m., a Toyota Hilux, pulling an agricul­ tural trailer, was involved in a collision with an oncoming Saab 9,000 turbo on the A682 near Todber Caravan Park, at Gisbum.


Gisburn farmer in the Toy­ ota, was later treated in hospital for a chipped col­ lar bone. Mr Peter Almond, of Colne, who was driving the Saab, was taken to Burnley General Hospital, with chest injuries. Both men were not


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detained. Police feared that others were involved after a large amount of blood was found at the scene. Consequently, the air sup­


por t unit was called to scour the local fields. After 40 minutes, during which search lights flooded a large area, the helicopter returned to its base. A police spokesman con­


firmed th a t no one had been found as a result of the search. In another incident this


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WEEK OF CARNAGE ON THE LOCAL ROADS


Cemfuel campaigner nominated for top


award AN environmental campaigner from Bo lton -b y -B ow - land has been nom­ inated for a top green” award.


Mrs Mary Horner, of Heights Farm, is one of 20 nominees for the Andrew Lees Memori­ al Award, which com­ mends dedicated research and investiga­ tion in environmental


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been invited to London to a tten d the prestigious British Environment and Media Awards, where she will learn if she is the win­ ner. The guest of honour at the


event, to be held a t the Mayfair Hotel, will be Environment Secretary


THE mangled car, unrecognisable as the Vauxhall Astra which was completely destroyed in Tuesday afternoon’s A59 crash (CAT 4336)


Grandad dies in three-car crash


by Stewart Pimbley


A BILLINGTON man who suffered serious head inj­ uries in a three-car smash has died. Heating engineer


week, a Ford Sierra was crushed by a tree when high winds blew i t on to the car. The car, which was parked in Slaidbum Road, in Newton, is owned by a man from Bucking­ hamshire. I t was extensive­ ly damaged.


Mr Peter Carlisle (54), of Chapel Rise, was in intensive car for three days after his car crashed into a lamp-post in Whal­ ley New Road, Wilp­


shire. He died in Royal Preston Hospital on Sunday from complications caused by his head injuries. Two other Ribble Valley


ving to Blackburn, where he worked as a foreman at E ast Lancashire Coach Builders. Insp. Wayne Howard, of


drivers suffered serious injuries in the crash around 7-15 a.m. on Thursday and are both in Blackburn Royal Infirmary. Mr Carlisle had been dri­


enjoyed fishing. Apart from his wife, he


leaves two grown-up chil­ dren, Mrs Susan Knowles and Mr Paul Carlisle, and two young granddaugh­ ters. An inquest into his death


Blackburn Police, said the incident involved a Peugeot 309, Mr Carlisle’s Nissan Sunny, and a Vauxhall Nova, with Mr Carlisle’s car then hitting a lamp- post. Mr Carlisle had lived with


his wife, Marlene, in Billington since 1982. They had previously lived in Zimbabwe, when i t was Rhodesia, and South Africa for many years. He was an accomplished yachtsman and also


Virginia Bateman, of Hen- thorn Close, Clitheroe, who suffered fractures to her arms, legs and pelvis. Her condition was described as "stable”. The Vauxhall Nova driver


was due to be opened yes­ terday morning at Preston Coroner’s Court. The Peugeot driver was


was David Walton (26), of Kenilworth Drive, Clitheroe, who suffered fractures to his hip, chest, knee-cap and cheek. His condition was described as satisfactory.


Paramedics and an emer­


gency medical team from Blackburn Royal Infir ­ mary treated the two dri­ vers in their vehicles, while fire-fighters worked for up to an hour to free them. Mr Carlisle was freed


within a short time. There were no passengers in the vehicles. All three drivers were


taken to Blackburn Royal Infirmary, but Mr Carlisle was later transferred to Royal Preston Hospital. The road was closed


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between the Wilpshire Hotel and Langho, while rush hour traffic was diverted on to the A59. Police are appealing for


witnesses to the crash. Anyone with information should contact Blackburn Police on 01254 51212.


Plea to help long-stay parkers by Sheila Nixon


TWO weeks after the introduc­ tion of car parking charges in Clitheroe and Longridge, a Rib­ ble Valley councillor has called for a review of longstay parking measures for drivers travelling into town to work. Gisburn representative Coun.


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Derek Waller has also urged the borough council to work towards the integration of transport poli­ cies in order to get people back on the buses. “Otherwise, we will simply have a


lop-sided and proscriptive policy which will continue to make a great many essential car users very unhappy,” he said. “I therefore look forward to hear­


ing a t a future meeting how the council proposes to deal with the wider aspect of its traffic manage­ ment problems.” His comments came at a meeting


of the full borough council on Tuesday, when members heard from Coun. Frank Dyson (Clitheroe), chairman of the Plan­ ning and Development Commit­ tee, that the intention was to con­ tinue to debate the issue, although


there was no easy answer. Coun. Dyson also reported on the


success of the scheme so far, saying that receipts for car parking for the f irs t two weeks had totalled £4,486, and that the sale of annual permits had, so far, raised £5,000. “We are getting greater use of car


parking slots — and people who come into the town to shop are saying that they are not having to drive round and round,” he said. On a lighter note, he pointed out


that there had been a number of “distinguished people” issued with penalty tickets for failing to pay charges, although he could not


“name any one of them — even if you asked me”. In his statement about traffic


management policy, Coun. Waller explained he had been “one of the much-maligned councillors who voted for the introduction of car parking charges.” He said that the catalyst for the


move was last year’s local budget problem, but the Government was also about to penalise the council for not charging and there were other longer-term reasons for what was an inevitability, including two overriding points:


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ial Award was launched last year in memory of the ardent Friends of the E a r th campaigner who died suddenly while on a fact-finding mission to Madagascar. Five years ago, Mrs


for her battle against Cas­ tle Cement’s use of contro­ versial Cemfuel which, she claims, is back door incin­ eration of toxic waste. The Andrew Lees Memor­


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Horner, a sheep-shearing expert, was awarded a trav­ el fellowship by the Win­ ston Churchill Memorial T ru s t and spent eight weeks in New-Zealand, where she studied hand­ shearing.


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