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Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) Dream scheme for young skaters gets rolling


roller hockey on their minds now have a venue and a top-flight trainer of their own. The quest of a Clitheroe fire­


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fighter to form a roller-hock­ ey team in the town, and find a su i tab le venue for sk a te - cra zy y oungs te rs , li te ra l ly taking them off the streets, is over. Sub-officer Ronnie Eatough has


been told he can book the all- weather playing surface in the


grounds of Clitheroe Castle and he has done so for a training session on Saturday. As part of Mr Eatough’s cam­


■ Clitheroe and take charge of the new side.


youngsters into teams and give them more than the basics to form a top club. However, that is not the end of the story. An inside venue in the Rib- ble Valley could already be


, streets by offering them the oppor­ tunity to play the nation’s latest sporting craze — he has persuaded one of the country’s top profession­ al ice-hockey players to come to


paign — for months he has been working to keep teenagers off the


■ Blackburn Hawks’ goalminder Colin Downie will be present at


’ Saturday’s session and it is his intention to organise the yje jggj. few wee]£S and I am


booked. Yesterday afternoon, Mr Downie gave the surface of Roefield Leisure Centre’s gym an anti-scratch test. The pro swapped his ice


skates for roller blades and gave the surface a tough roller-blade ran out. If the surface passed the


test then scores of young­ sters could be descending on the centre on a regular basis, in the coming weeks, to receive top-class training and for forthcoming games.


with the developments. He said: “Over 100 young­ sters have contacted me in


Mr Eatough is very happy


confident that we will be able to set up three teams. The club will have boys and girls and anyone wishing to take part in the session on Saturday, will be accepted on a first come, first served


basis.” Speaking at the weekend,


Roefield Leisure Centre manager Mr Tony Rodia


said he was keen to give the roller-hockey players a home but the floor of the


gym had to be tested before he could definitely offer


them a place. Mr Downie, who was a


Super League champion last year with Manchester Storm, is a fully qualified


coach. He has trained children in


his native Scotland and nearer this area, in Dar-


wen. He is living in Langho and,


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along with other ice-hock- 1 ey pros, he is helping to create a number of roller- hockey teams in the region. He said: “These children


should need about two months before they will be able to play competitively and then I will organise some games for them. You just have to give children the basics and they take off themselves.” Mr Downie will be the


IT’S action time for these youngsters as they get expert tuition from roller hockey star Colin Downie (CAT 8324 and CAT 8325). Pictures by Dave Harwood____________


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club’s coach and each team will have its own manager. Mr Eatough wants all 10


to 18-year-olds interested in joining the new team to go to the Castle tennis courts on Saturday. All under-14s should be in


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time for a 10 a.m. start, with that session running until 11-30 a.m. The over-14s session will run from 11-30 until 1 p.m.


Former school governors explain reasons for their shock resignations


by Max Gardner


A DISASTROUS financial situation faces Whalley pr i­ mary school unless th e 1 au th o r i tie s address the problem


of the falling roll. This claim, made by


eight'former governors of the school, who held a p u b l ic m e e t in g on Friday to explain their


' re a so n s for re c e n t ly resigning, was read out to more than 100 peo­ ple in the village hall.


■ At the time of the resig- - nation, the governors issued a “no confidence” statement regarding the


! school’s head teacher. A statement from them


! ty of a failure to act effec- ' tively in resisting the


read: “We are no longer prepared to face the accu­ sations from the communi-


' falling mil: We feel that the local community has lost confidence in the head teacher and the governing


; body.” One of the governors, Mr ' Richard Maher, said at Fri-


day’s meeting: “The main reasons for our resignation


, are borne out of^a pro­ longed period of intense


, frustration at an inability • to address the problems ; causing the falling roll.’’ Emphasising that the situ­ ation showed no signs of


. abating, he said: “I t was < hoped, then, tha t the | authorities would finally > get the message, that there ! was a problem that must > be addressed, before the I school faced a disastrous 1 financial situation.’ I Mr Maher pointed out 1 tha t the school roll was ! critical to the finances of a


school. The number of chil­ dren determined the funds available and, last year, a


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child was worth £1,200 on average. He said that over 40 children had been lost to the school in the past 18 months, equating to an income loss of £50,000. With staffing costs


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accounting for over 85 per cent of expenditure, Mr Maher said: “The implica­ tions are obvious to all. Small class sizes cannot be sustained under the present system of funding. Repeat­ ed efforts to get to the bot­ tom of the cause of this falling roll were thwarted by an inflexible system and a diocesan attitude to keep a lid on the problem and trust it would go away.” In reply to questions, a


. ombudsman and the Gov­ ernment’s education secre­ tary, Gillian Shephard, have even been contacted.” Speaking after the meet­


the former governors, said: “The county council’s Director of Education has been contacted a number of times, the local MP, OFSTED, the local


tem “too long-winded.” Mr Glen Fendall, one of


Mr Maher called the sys­


matter for the governors and the local community. We have acted in the best interest of the pupils at all


times.” The meeting, which lasted


number of ex-governors said they had had letters of complaint dating back 18 months and the Diocese had been approached. However, they said, its advice was that there was no problem at the school.


Brassed off - but you can help young musicians


STUDENT musicians


preparing for a dream trip to America are reported to be feeling a little "brassed


off”. The Lancashire Students’


Concert Band, including three pupils from Clitheroe


Royal Grammar School and one from St Augus­ tine’s RC High School, Billington, will be jetting off for the States in July. But cash-strapped parents


pupil’s trip, after a number of sponsorship schemes fell


through. And now the musicians are


are struggling to find the £800-plus to pay for each


finding it hard going to raise cash for the presti­ gious two-week tour—and are hoping local folk will rally round with help for the fund-raising.


includes CRGS students James Johnson (trumpet), Adam Smith (clarinet) and Sophie Haworth (clarinet), and St Augustine’s student James Byrom (tuba). The tour includes concerts in the 1996 Olympic City of Atlanta and in various


The 66-strong band


' the band has been invited to play a concert in Disney World, in Florida, at the conclusion of the trip. Band director Geoff Bal- son said: “It is a fantastic


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ing, a spokesman from Blackburn Diocese, the Rev. Richard Steele, said: “Both the county and pur education advisers are clear tha t standards of education provided to the pupils is satisfactory and improving. The matter of the falling roll is a serious one, but is affecting other schools in the area as well.” He accepted that some


for over an hour, was chaired by Whalley Parish Council chairman Mr Nial MacFarlane. There was a uniting aspect within the whole debate and that was a desire to see the school succeed. In his opening statement,


Mr Maher said the former governors, who were k^gp- ing 11 of their children at the school, intended to give their wholehearted support to the new governing body. He said: “We have made our point by resigning; we are not abandoning a sink­


ing ship.” A vote brought the pro­


parents had withdrawn their children, but said the potential intake was lower this year. He said: “The Diocese has no power to address falling rolls; it is a


ceedings to an end. A proposition to support the staff of the school was passed unanimously. • Miss Hulse was this


week unavailable for com­ ment because of illness.


Wave of sorrow over Elizabeth’s death


. .Clitheroe, was only 43, and had received treatment at various hospitals since being taken ill just two


A PACKED funeral ser­ vice, nearly two hundred sympathy cards and well over £500 in memorial donations so far have mea­ sured the wave of sorrow at the death of a Clitheroe personality. Mrs Elizabeth Anne Smith, of Salthill Road,


years ago. Relatives and friends had


admired her courageous approach to life despite her worsening health problems. A former pupil at Edisford


and Ribblesdale Schools, Mrs Smith, nee Teasdale, had two spells as a machin­ ist at Trutex. In between she worked in the leisure industry in the Channel Islands and London, where she met her husband. The couple married 21 years ago. More recently Mrs Smith


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helped clean St Michael and St John’s Social Centre, Clitheroe, and also helped behind the bar. She worked at the club for about eight years up to her illness, and was well known to all its patrons. ;


Mrs Smith also had a wide circle of friends from her


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ing help nebulisers and other items for Clitheroe Health Centre have been invited in memory of Mrs Smith, who leaves her hus­ band, a son and daughter, her mother and a brother. The funeral service was at


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