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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, November 5th, 1998 Clltheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified)


Arnhem landings veteran who became a valued community leader dies aged 77


A HERO of the Arnhem landings who adopted Clitheroe as his home after the war has died aged 77. A native of Wales brought


up in Doncaster, Mr Brinley Joynsori was one of the Royal Engineers quartered at Low Moor Mill who met and mar­ ried a local girl. Months later he was court


martialled by the Germans after being captured when he


parachuted into Arnhem before the main formations in


1944. Mr Joynson, a staff sergeant,


was sent to a punishment stalag but escaped during an air raid and with other men trekked through Poland and the Ukraine to reach Odessa.- There he was picked up by the first British ship to enter the Dardanelles after Turkey joined the Allies. Ever since the war Mr Joyn­


son had been a diligent servant both of the local community and


of ex-service personnel, taking part in a wide range of welfare work personally and as a mem­ ber of various committees. He worked for the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Associa­ tion, and missed no opportuni­ ties - and, indeed, he created many - to perpetuate the mem­ ory of the dead and advance the cause of the needy survivors of


war. Mr Joynson re-visited Arn- . . .


hem, and played a key role in establishing a Royal Engineers'


chapel in St Paul’s Church, Low Moor, with which he himself was


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closely connected. Personable Mr Joynson had


been involved in numerous other initiatives, including personally helping to clean the war memori­ al in Clitheroe Castle grounds. He was president of the Clitheroe Royal British Legion for some time, and had previous-- ly been a member at Wadding- ton. This time of the year was always an important time for Mr Joynson due to the poppy


Do daughter.


ntinrph. T/iw appeal. He was always keen to explain how the money was used


F O R B E S to help those who fought for the


country. . After being employed by ICI


on health and safety matters for many years, Mr Joynson was a county council educational social worker up to his retirement. The funeral is tomorrow


5. P A R T N E R S s o l i c i t o r s


morning, a service at St Paul's, Low Moor, being followed by cre­ mation at Skipton. Mr Joynson leaves his wife, a son and a


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Innovative design for wind turbines


BLIGHT caused by wind farms could be a thing of the past, thanks to a former head boy of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School.______ T


the backing of the Govern­ ment as clean, renewable sources of electricity for the Millennium, their oppo­ nents, including Ribble Val­ ley MP Nigel Evans, claim clusters of giant turbines are a blot on the landscape. Now an engineering team


While such farms have ”” ’ u,


led by Dr Andrew Pollard, CRGS head boy for the 1976-7 school year, has invented a new type of joint for the blade driveshaft to enable larger, more efficient turbines to be built. Rather than sited on land, these new mega-turbines can be constructed out-of-sight, up to five miles away at sea. Dr Pollard's "composite


disc joint", developed at the Wolverhampton laborato­


by Julie Frankland


ries of GKN Technology, is the size of a large dinner plate, but is capable of dri- ving blades 70 metres in


diameter. These blades can be


attached to turbines, tower­ ing up to 90 metres high, to produce enough electricity to power more than 1,000


homes. The invention has been awarded Millennium Prod­


uct status by the Design Council, an accolade just


announced by Governmentent Trade and Industry Secre-


ver


tary Peter Mandelson. ollard,


parents,


lard, live in Simonstone, this means his handiwork will now be displayed inside London's Millennium


Dome. Explained Dr Pollard:


"We are thrilled th a t the potential of this new, joint


has been recognised. Our breakthrough was to design


a coupling which remains cool even when transmitting 1.5 mega watts of electrici- . ty. It is this unique proper­ ty which has overcome a major obstacle in the design


of v „ ]arge> efficient tur- bl^ ‘ leaving CRGS, Dr |


Much to the delight of p0Uard joined British Aero- D r PnllarH. whose Darents,_/DA) of Satnlpshiirv Mr and Mrs George Pol-


space (BA) at Samlesbury as an apprentice technolo­ gist, which allowed him to study mechanical engineer­ ing at Bristol University. He graduated with a first class honours degree. In 1983, he left BA to


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Family hopes raised as review of stu d en t’s death gets go-ahead


afracas with another man nearly four


study for a PhD at Salford University. He then joined GKN Technology, which owns Westland Helicopters, and he is now the company's principal engineer. Dr Pollard lives in Bridg­


years ago, The news comes after


north with his wife Eliza­ beth, who also hails from Clitheroe, and their sons Adam (10) and Joseph (four). Mrs Pollard, whose parents, Mr and Mrs John Brown, live in Littlemoor Road, Clitheroe, owns a shop selling designer hats, period clothes and jewellery.


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a defiant battle for jus­ tice by the parents of Mr Mark Taylor, who are determined to bring the man once charged with their son's murder to


trial.


Clitheroe Advertiser and Times in April, Home Sec­ retary Jack Straw MP had ordered the CPS to send him a full case report into the circumstances sur­ rounding 29-year-old


As reported in the -i


Mark's death. Now the CPS has written


to solicitor Mr John Houldsworth, of Hould- sworth Taylor, who is acting for Mark's parents, Mr and Mrs Gordon Taylor, of Mytton View, to say it will look at the case again. The Taylors' ordeal


VICKY CARLIN REPORTS


involved in a fracas with a disbelief of Mr and Mrs second man following his Taylor.


return from a Christmas, . The couple say they were Dartv. Police reports say ^given dates for committal that 6ft. 4in. Mark fell to" proceedings against the the ground. He was taken ."man charged with killing


to hospital, but died soon Mark, only to be told later


afterwards, according to a later post-mortem examina­ tion, from internal bleeding. .,. I t was the afternoon of the next day before Mr and Mrs Taylor were told of Mark's death. They trav­ elled to the university cam­ pus town of Uxbridge, Mid­ dlesex, but, following for­ mal identification of their son they were denied access


to his body. Three days after the inci­


began in December, 1994, when their son, a Brunei University engineering sci­ ences student, became


dent, a man, said to be a martial arts expert, was arrested and charged with murder, but,- by the follow­ ing April, all charges against him had been dropped, to the anger and


the same day that, with charges being dropped on the grounds of self-defence, there would now be no trial. Welcoming the CPS's


Thefts warning


POLICE are warning resi­ dents and visitors to the I Ribble Valley not to leave any property in vehicles where it can be seen. The warning follows a sharp increase in thefts from j unattended vehicles.


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Houldsworth has been a tower of strength over the past four years and he, like us, cannot believe why this never went to court. Mark had as much right to live as the other man."


Peaceful fun for area’s Hallowe’en revellers


WARLOCKS, witches and other creatures belonging to the night joined thousands of others not in fancy dress for the traditional Hal­


lowe'en trip up Pendle Hill. Police, who set up road blocks in Sab-


den and Annel Cross, near Barley, to enforce a one-way traffic system over the hill, reported record numbers of family


visitors and revellers. Numbers were thought to be higher


because the festival fell on a Saturday and the night was dry and clear.


spokesman confirmed there were no acci­ dents and little trouble. Instead, a funfair atmosphere prevailed, with swingboats joining the Usual mobile burger and tea vans at the Nick o' Pendle.


Despite the heavy traffic, a police


Those out later in the evening were able | to catch a fireworks display, organised by


staff at the Wellsprings Hotel. Although closed to the public, the hotel,


bedecked in spooky cobwebs and other Hallowe'en paraphernalia, was open to guests who had booked in advance to attend ghostly themed parties, held both on the Friday and Saturday nights.


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