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Clitlieroe Advertiser & Times, February 20th, 1997 13 Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising)- Burnley 422331 (Classi


Venture Scouts scale heights for investiture


SIX young people formally joined Olitheroe D is tr ic t Ventur e Scouts in an investiture cere­ mony 80 metres up one of the


g r e a t chimneys at Ca s t l e Cement. The ceremony had initially been


planned to take place on the summit of Pendle Hill, but strong winds and rain meant an alternative location was needed and Castle Cement came up with the answer, offering the Scouts the chance of staging the occasion on the platform of the company’s pre­ heater tower. The award of the membership badge means the six have now joined the


Clitheroe District Venture Scout unit “Valley Ventures” after taking part in a number of activities with other Ven­ ture Scouts. They will now be able to join in an exciting programme, includ­ ing hill walking, climbing, caving and expeditions by canoe and mountain


bike. The photograph shows, from the left,


Theresa Alty, Graham Hampshire, Chris Burgess, Robert Fenton, David


Barker and Graham Holt. If any read­ ers aged between 15 and 20 and living in the Clitheroe area, would like to join them, they should ring Venture Scout Leader Paul Stevens on 01200


425765.


J ok e ’s on her — as Audrey w in s Valentine meal prize


joke on her husband led to a phone call which she thought was someone playing


of Middle Knotts Farm, Tosside, said: “My husband, Martin, is a bit of a practical joker, so I thought I’d give him a surprise for a change. I put a Valentine message in the paper — ‘Roses are red, Violets are blue, after all this time, I still love you’ — and I signed it Audi, which is what our grandchildren call me. “Then the phone rang


a trick on her. Mrs Audrey Leverton,


first, but she convinced me.


and it was this lady telling me I’d won a prize! I’ve never won anything in my life and I thought it was a joke at


the prizewinner, and our photograph shows her


at random to make her


MrsYiCv sston’ sN idan- tine message was chosen


success — dinner for two at Gisburn’s Stirk House Hotel*Mrs Leverton said: “I t was a lovely meal and the management really looked after us.” The couple will be


and husband, Martin, enjoying the fruits of her


celebrating their 29th- wedding anniversary in May. (CAT 6874)


A VALENTINE message placed in the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times by a wife as a loving practical


Ribble Valley is healthy


place to live


THE Ribble Valley is one of the best places to live in North East Lancashire, according to figures in the E a s t Lancashire Health


Authority’s annual report. There are fewer chil- lowest levels of dental


dren with decayed teeth, decay, with an index less people homeless—. figure of 1.14 against a and fewer people crowding high of 2.67 in Burnley, dentists’ waiting rooms! And no dentists had more The report also shows than 3,000 patients, with


that the area has fewer nursing mothers. It gives 1994 figures, which show that the Ribble Valley’s 502 births represented an average of 53 per 1,000 fertile women, by far the lowest in the health authority’s area. Black­ burn had most with 77, and next to the lowest was Rossendale with 65. When it came to teeth, Ribble Valley had.the


Busy year ahead for talking newspaper winners managed 3.1 eorreet


committee ana friends held thevc


&vnner at the


Mr Geoff Holmes paid particular trlhnte to Mr "David and Mrs Nancy Comthwaite, of Bolton-by- Bolton, who have recently retired from the committee. In almost 20 years that the


Bolton-by-Bowland. During the evening chairman


C o p y N o o t H o t e l ,


Talking Newspaper has been in operation, Nancy has held various


positions in the group. She has


MEMBERS of the Ribhte Valley Talking Newspaper


along with her husband David, has read, co-ordinated teams o f read­ ers and carried out various admin- Istratw e to&Vs. bh present wished


been chairman aud treasurer and,


newspaper, the evening’s enter­ tainment was In the form of a news quiz. This comprised 30 headlines taken from the front pages of the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times during 1996, each hav­ ing had par t of the wording removed. Teams had to guess the missing word or words and the


the couple well for the future. Appropriately for the talking


bus^ seal ahead aa members are y Vm^OTtant for ft, to give\ Valley Talking Newspaper has a


i are outside the health authority's control. This makes it all the more


headlines. The committee o f the Ribble


major influences on peo- ple’s h ea lth , such as poverty and deprivation,


ley is owner occupied, and the level of homelessness is relatively low. But the affordability of housing, especially for the elderly and disabled, is the main problem. The report says that the


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9th. "Plans In the pipeline are for a


planning to celebrate them \,hhwh 1 \eadershlp In promoting edition which will go out to its I and protecting health, regular 120 listeners on October j


involved in the production of the paper over the past 20 years and a special tape looking hack over the years that the talking newspaper has been in existence.


i tea for Its listeners, a grand reun­ on of people who have been


money wisely. “The inten­ tion is to purchase those, services which are clini­ ically effective, rather than


i t must use its


unproven or doubtful benefit,” says Dr Stephen Morton, Director of Public


Health.


three quarters having less than 1,500 and the rest between the two. In Burn­ ley, half the dentists have more than 1,500 patients, and it was more than that in Hyndbum. Some 91 per cent of housing in the Ribble Val­


Salary deal rumours


answered


RUMOURS tha t a new system of pay for Castle Cement work­ ers would result in them losing money have been answered by the company.


General manager of the Ribblesdale works Mr Ian Sutheran emphasised that workers had agreed to the company’s new deal, vot­ ing to accept i t by a majority of two to one.


sees employees trans­ ferred from payment by weekly wage to monthly salary, was negotiated between Castle and unions r e p r e s e n t i n g i t s employees and came into force in January.


The new pay deal, which


been completed on a nationwide basis over a


He said that talks had


commented: “It incorpo­ rates an annual salary, providing a stable income, less working hours, in most cases, improved holi­ days, more training to .Increase personal stabs, ) improved pensions and increased job security. ”


period of 18 months. Speaking of the deal, he


out tha t the agreement ■ introduced common terms


Mr Sutheran pointed


and conditions, which would apply at all of Cas­ tle’s works.


nterventions which are ofj


GMB. Their represents- [ tives declined to comment ^ on the new deal.


lesdale "Works, excluding^ the drivei-s, belong to two j unions, the AEEU and the <


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