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A Turning Mad Rally’ halts traffic in village
by Vivien Meath
TRAFFIC was brought to a halt in Billington on Saturday while protesters campaigned against
the loss of green field sites for homes. Saturday,” said Mrs Mills
Friends of the Earth, was a protest highlighting the importance of traffic reduc tion and investment in pub lic transport, rather than
was timed to coincide with a rally of the same name taking place in London’s Trafalgar Square. The latter, organised by
building new roads. “This doesn’t seem to be
happening in Billington,” claimed rally organiser Mrs Rosemary Mills, who is incensed by the recent planning decision to build more homes in the village. Holden Homes has applied successfully to build 57 new houses, subject to road calming measures, the lat te r to be paid for by the developers. Villagers, angered by the
prospect of more houses, signed a petition^against
the proposal, which ulti mately got the go-ahead. “New housing is supposed
to grow out of the needs of the community,” claimed Mrs Mills. “The quota for the number of new houses to be built in the Ribble Valley has already been
exceeded.” The rally was attended by
more th an 80 residents, including children. Demon- strators with placards high lighted not only the beauty and tranquillity of the area of land to be built on, but also their claim th a t the construction of an access road could be dangerous. “I t was a positive day on
Trio jumps to it
HAIRDRESSERS Julie Adcroft (23), of Clitheroe and Hannah Jacques (18) of Mitton, have achieved their hair-raising chtmty paracute jump for the East Lancs SuperScan Appeal. The brave pair, who work
“The Fuming Mad Rally”
“Four people stood in the middle of the road with placards, while drivers stopped.” Traffic was brought to a
halt for a few minutes and the demonstrators felt that they had made their point. Pictured are some of the
protesters a t the rally. (CAT 12866)
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Insurance man jailed for pocketing £33,000 of his clients’ money
A CLITHEROE insurance
firm bosswho pocketed more than £33,000 of his clients’ cash to save his ailing business has
been jailed for a year. David Walsh (39), of Sterling Close, who was described as “genuinely loved” by fellow parishoners from Lowergate’s St Michael and St John RC Church, invented a customer to claim £4,000 commission and obtained £10,000 by partly cashing in a client’s policy. He also “manicured” passbooks and
inflated withdrawals in a bid to get his business off the ground, Burnley
the Great Harwood office of Black- bum Insurance Services, persisted in his fraud for almost a year, during which time he ran up credit card debts of between £40-£50,000. In passing what he described as a
Crown Court heard. Walsh, who had been in charge of
described how Blackburn Insurance Services had acted as agents for the
a dying friend and her elderly parents and he did not tell her what was hap
Yorkshire Building Society. The building society terminated its
agreement and an audit was carried out, which resulted in some cus tomers leaving their passbooks in
Walsh’s care.
some of the figures going to head office in Bradford. He also created a stamp to give the “aura of authentic ity”, as if the books had been inde pendently checked. Walsh obtained £10,000 by the par
This enabled him to “manicure .
tial surrender of a policy with Scot tish Widows and had the cheque sent to his own home. The customer knew Walsh socially and “may have signed
something.” He also tried to obtain £17,000 from
Commercial Union, but the cheque was not dispatched. Walsh used forgery and false accounting to cover his tracks, but was "rumbled” before
a t Clitheroe’s Way Ahead Salon, took the plunge last weekend in Grange-over-
^ThtV touched down safely to raise more than £1,000
in sponsor money family, friends and clients for the appeal’s coffers
lenient sentence. Judge Ian Webster said he had been impressed by the m a n y testimonials outlining Walsh’s willingness to help others, but that he would be failing in his duty if he did not show the courts were against those, who extracted money in such a
way. Walsh admitted nine counts of theft,
two of attempted deception and one of deception, and asked for several other offences to be considered involving a total of £33,000. Mr Chris Knight (prosecuting)
the fraud went on further. Defending Walsh, Mr Andrew Nut-
tall told the court that, until March, his client had operated the business in partnership with Mr Peter Richardson, who was in charge of the
Rishton office. He described Walsh as the weaker
partner, unable to get business like Mr Richardson. The Great Harwood office was “dead on its feet” but expenses built up and Walsh was £40-£50,000 in debt. Walsh’s wife, a nurse, was caring for
pening out of love. Walsh’s mother had been domineer
ing and unloving. She had spoken to him only once since his marriage. Walsh had never been anything but
gentle and mild mannered, but he had had no one to talk to and, feeling ashamed that he had failed, plodded
on. Mr Nuttall said Walsh did not use t h e money for luxuries. His world had
crumbled and, on his arrest, Walsh | was a broken man. However, he had learned that a person need not be a success to be loved and respected. Mr Nuttall added that Mr Richard
son was now in the process of buying out Walsh, whose home was for sale. With Walsh now working for a carpet firm, Mr N u tta l l said th a t the money, stood by the building society,
could be paid back. He concluded: “This is a story with
an unhappy, tragic element, brought about by my client’s past and the recession. He is basically a decent
man.” In a character testimonial for Walsh,
JP Mr Patrick O’Donnell told the court th a t Walsh was “genuinely loved” by the parish of St Michael and St John and the whole communi
ty of Clitheroe. He added that Walsh was devastat
ed and full of remorse for what he had done.
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