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Mature riders of powerful motor cycles are warned of the dangers a t an inquest.


page 14 A local girl is placed


at Wembley’s Horse of the Year Show.


An inques t hears i how hotel chiefs tried to save a man who had taken a lethal drug cocktail.


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A war veteran’s sil­ ver coin discovery


I sparks off echoes of | the past.


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A knock on the door reunited a Clitheroe woman with her long-lost American godfather.


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tragedy.


(42), commanding _0^ ' papen UieClitheroe Adver- cer of th e Queen's L an -


L t Col D a v id Jam e s th e bomb. vjui


. Sneaking to his local an(j Times, at the regi-


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cashire Regiment, faced ment's base in Omagh, Lt believed his men had done a


his 18-year a rm y career jQ t


. He also pledged that the I regiment would continue assisting the community in whatever way possible dur­ ing the remaining 14 months of its Northern Ire­


iniured hundreds of others 1 . _1_J___i


land posting. "I wouldn't say I was


pleased with the way things have gone, because we all wish the tragedy had never happened. But I do take a


great deal of pride from the efforts made by the boys,"


he said. "I think it has been wide­


ly acknowledged that using the regiment and the heli­ copters helped save lives, as i t meant over 150 of the injured could be transport­ ed to hospitals in other parts of the province." The efforts of everyone


I connected to the Queens Lancashire Regiment have certainly not gone unno­ ticed. Mr Paddy Cullen, editor of the local newspa­ per, the "Ulster Herald", said: "The people do appre-


I d a te the role the army played and their opinions towards the regiment may well have changed.


" But things are still at an early stage and people need


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I to be given time to take everything in." Lt Col James promised


that his troops would con­ tinue to do everything pos­ sible to continue helping the


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I people of Omagh. He said: "I would like to


think we could offer some assistance. We have facili­ ties and resources here


I which can be put at the dis­ posal of the council and I I have informed the Chief


I Executive of that." Already th e Omagh


I appeal has been set up by I the regiment and i t has raised almost £7,000 to help


th e biggest challenge of Col James told how he ° °


goocj following the


w h en h e h e a rd a b o u t atrocity, which killed 29 and fVi


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the bereaved families. Other plans to help are in the


pipeline. "In a way, the bomb has


had the effect of bringing the community, of which the regiment is a part, clos­ er together. I t may just be th a t the bomb had the reverse effect of what the bombers intended," said Lt


Col James. I t was announced-last


week th a t the Highland Regiment was being with­ drawn from Northern Ire­ land, which was seen by many as a sign of the reduc­ ing threat of terrorism. Lt Col James said he hoped that the QLR could be flex­ ible and respond to any future th re a t which pre­ sented itself. He said: "The bomb was


quite different from any­ thing else th a t had gone before. I would like to think it has changed the way peo­ ple look a t the use of vio­ lence and that we have now turned a corner." Lt Col James is married


to Caroline, who lives in Omagh with him. The cou­ ple have two children, Charles (10) and Hannah (eight), who go to school in England. He appreciates


the role the wives played


after the bomb. "We were all humbled


and heartened by the atti­ tude of the wives in sup­ porting us. They should not have needed to be involved but were," he said. L t Col James was


brought up in Clitheroe attending Pendle Junior school before going to Lan­ caster Grammar School and Cambridge University.


The family is still very


attached to this area and get back as often as possi­ ble. Lt Col James’s parents live in Clitheroe, his sister in Downham and his broth­ er in Barrow. He contacted home soon after the bomb to let everyone know they


were safe.


More vital life-saving equipment for doctors


DOCTORS at Clitheroe Health Centre have been presented with a


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new emergency equip­ ment trolley for their


treatment room. ■ The trolley was paid for


by donations to the Clitheroc Heart Machine Fund, a charity established over 20 years ago to ensure that health centres in


Clitheroe, Whallcy, Sab- den and other Ribble Val­ ley villages had the latest in emergency care equip­


ment on their premises. Since its foundation, the


HIGH praise for his soldiers from Ribblc Valley man Lt Col David James


fund has supplied heart- start machines, nebulisers,


ECG and pulse monitors to


Mercy mission takes Darren back to desert


F I R E - F I G H T E R a c t io n m a n D a r r e n H u d s o n is sw a p p in g local "hotspots" for th e b u r n in g W e s te rn


S ah a ra desert. Mr Hudson (29), of Wes­


leyan Row, Clitheroe, will leave on Sunday to spend a week working a t the Tin- dous refugee camp for the charity War on Want. He will be working in day-time temperatures in excess of


100F, His task is to build and •■■■■■ ,


install giant fans in food stores, which stock dona­ tions of tinned and dried provisions. Living in such harsh climatic conditions, these supplies are a vital lifeline for the camp s 150,000 inhabitants. Like them, Mr Hudson’s


"home" will be a desert tent and he has been warned of frequent sand storms, which rage over the Western Sahara, a former Spanish


Darren Hudson


colony which, on gaining independence, was invaded


by Morocco in the 1970s. Said Mr Hudson, who for


to the camp from Algiers, but we have been told that if we go out in Algiers, we should have an armed


guard." Mr Hudson’s fellow aid


workers will be three fire


service colleagues from Accrington and Blackburn. Their work will continue


that of a previous team of Lancashire fire-fighters,


who devoted time last year to constructing the stores. For Mr Hudson, working


in the Western Sahara will be a return to the desert. A Royal Marine for seven years, he served in Iraq. He


the p a s t 18 months has been based a t Accrington Fire Station, but was a. member of Clitheroe s fire crew for three years: "We have been warned of the heat and that this is still a volatile region. We will fly


' is also prepared for the desert's cold nights, having endured "cold war" training exercises in Norway. In addition, Mr Hudson; is an experienced member ,


of Clitheroe Mountaineer­ ing Club and leader of the winning Clitheroe team in the Top Town Outward Bound Challenge competi­


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H A R V E S T fe s t iv a l c e leb ra ­ t io n s a t S t H e le n 's C h u rch , W a d d in g to n , w i l l h a v e a


p o ig nan t high note. At Sunday's 6-30 p.m. service,


the choir will give the first perfor­ mance of a cantata composed by


member Mrs Janet Holland. The performance, under the


direction of choir mistress Mrs Jean


Hartley, has been in rehearsal for a month, but the cantata itself has been almost a year's work for part- time Moorland School teacher Mrs


Holland, of Knuck Knowles Drive, Clitheroe.


performance, there will be a collec­ tion for the charity Support for Families with Trisomy (SOFT), of which Mrs Holland is North-West regional co-ordinator. In 1990, Mrs Holland and her


To add extra poignancy to its / .,


husband, John, lost their three-day- old daughter, Caroline Emily, to tri­ somy a rare chromosomal disorder similar to Down's Syndrome and also known as Edward’s Syndrome. The couple became involved in


helping SOFT in its work to raise money for research into the disease and to support young patients and


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Teacher’s cantata will help other families struck by rare disorder


their families. Sunday's service with i ts SOFT collection, to whicn everyone is invited alongside regu­ lar members of the congregation, is part of their efforts.


■ ■ Entitled "Ruth" and based on the


Old Testament story of Ruth, the cantata represents Mrs Holland s f irs t venture into sacred vocal music, although she hMJUst fin­ ished a second work, entitled Wis­


dom", and is preparing a third. A pian ist and former choir-


mistress of a Blackburn church, Mrs Holland has also written a chil­


dren's song book and a book of French nursery rhymes set to Eng­ lish tunes. French, alongside reli­


C!„^.„'««.rvicewith K10US gious studies and history, are her studies and history, are !


specialist classroom subjects. In the performance, Mrs Holland


will sing the solo part of Naomi, while her daughter Ruth (11), a pupil at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, will take on the title role. The vicar, the Rev. Alan Badey,


will sing the p art of Boaz, while other soloists are Lucie Jones and Kate Gooding. Supporting from the pews will be John and the couple s other children Stephen (25) and Richard (sue). Mrs Holland will be happy to


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