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A former retained fireman has been put on the sex offenders’ register after downloading child pornography from the Internet.
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Muslims claim a stitch-up as they prepare to appeal against mosque refusal.
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I t’s a case of reach for your Euros if you want a pint at a
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There is talent in abundance at the annual WI Show.
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The doors open on a new, £240,000 visi tor centre.
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Clitheroe’s town clerk is off to pas tures new.
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There is a big boost on the way for local tourism.
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THE Prince of Wales has given his seal of approval to a local hotelier's ideas for her own birthday celebra
tion. For at a time in life when most people
are content to celebrate with a few friends round a dinner table, Janet Simpson, of the Gibbon Bridge Hotel, near Chipping, is to throw a birthday party to highlight the two gruelling chanty missions she has set herself. She is intending to cycle 250 miles along
aged at the enthusiasm generated for the charity's support for disabled people by participants in its international sponsored events this year. May I commend my sup-. port to those who are participating and . hope that others will likewise give all the assistance they can to these enthusiastic . supporters of Leonard Cheshire." ; Janet, who has been proprietress of the. Gibbon Bridge for the past 16 years, is
hoping to raise £6,000 and this will be shared between the two chanties. She is already a keen cyclist and a keep-
the African Tracks Bike Ride m Uganda in October, m aid of the Leonard Cheshire Homes chanty, which creates opportuni
ties for disabled people. Then, in February, Janet and her estate
manager, Robert Lowe, are planning to trek 62 miles through the foothills of the Himalayas, in Nepal, in support of SCOPE, the cerebral palsy charity. As Janet, who says she is "47 going on
fit enthusiast, but it is the first time she . has been in training for long-distance charity events attracting participants, from around the world. She says the birthday party, on August*.
14th, will "commemorate a life-changing experience" both for herself and for those she hopes will benefit from the fund-rais-. mg.
The party also marks the beginning of a vital eight-week countdown for training,
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■ en jubilee this year, and in a message to Janet, he says: "I am enormously encour
51", sends out invitations to her birthday party at the Gibbon Bridge, Prince Charles adds his support to her efforts. The Prince is patron of the Leonard Cheshire chanty, which celebrates its gold-
fund-raising and acquiring sponsors. Said Janet: "I have pledged to raise over
£6,000, so there will be some unashamedly obvious fund-raising on the day, but should anyone wish to sponsor me, howev er large or small, it would be most wel
come." She plans to provide entertainment and
a barbecue with a salad table, including produce freshly grown for the day for her guests. Accommodation will be available on a first-come-first-served basis to those wishing to stay overnight. The accommodation charge will be £40
per person, based on;two people sharing, and half of this amount will be donated to the chanties. Our picture shows Janet, watched by
well-wishers, getting in trim for her birth day bash. (030898/10/36)
Motor cycle ‘killing ground’ causes mounting concern
' - job? Members of the emer gency services locally are ready to face anything - but dearly wish the summer Sunday toll could be cut. These vehicles and crews are just some of those which converged on Sunday morn ing’s accident on the A59 (020898/2/4a)
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TWO more deaths on Sunday have made the tragic ques tion in many local minds all the more urgent. Can anything be done, realisti
cally, to stem the increasing repu tation of the eastern side of the Ribble Valley as a killing ground for two-wheeler riders? As many as a dozen motor
cyclists, pillion passengers, and pedal bikers have died on the vari ous stretches of road radiating out just a few miles from Gisburn in the last two years. One cyclist and one motor cycle
rider lived in the Ribble Valley - other victims have been from as far away as Harrogate and various parts of the Manchester area. I t is not known if the total
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A SMASHED helmet on the grass verge says it all - as the picture shows, the A59 tragedy was near the turn-off into a field where a car boot sale was being held. (020898/2/1)
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amounts to any sort of a national record - whether or not, it is a situ ation everyone wants to see reversed, and soon. But the cost of action - a vastly
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increased police presence, video cameras at key speed spots, even signs big enough and frequent enough to have a chance of making an impact - would be enormous. "I am as shocked and horrified as anyone else at what is happen-;
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ing - we are stepping up our cam paign of enforcement and educa tion," says the local police chief, Insp. Les Martin. "In all my years of service I have
not heard of such a sequence of tragedies as this." Just before 10 a.m. on Sunday,
Mrs Linda Wheatcroft (45), from Darwen, received fatal injuries and her husband, Stanley (62), critical ones in an accident with a van on the A59 just on the Sawley side of Gisburn. Just over an hour later, Mr Paul
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detailed investigations straight away - two closed main routes with miles of diversions along country lanes inevitably led to near-chaos as people took to the roads for a trip out. Insp. Martin emphasises that
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page to an earlier, more prominent position on Page 2. Sport - with full colour to back up an unrivallcd ser* vice for the Ribble Valley- will have a new spot on Ihe
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