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School rallies to dig for national gardening competition


by Helene Leeming


CHILDREN, parents and governors have begun digging for vic­ tory in a national gar­ dening competition a t Thorneyholme RC Pri­ mary School, Dunsop


plots, which are to be entered in the Green Fingers Challenge, a national com­ petition for under-18s, organised jointly by the Royal Horticultural Society and the organisers of Britain in Bloom. The competition is designed to


Bridge. Work has started on three


are involved in the project and separate activities have been arranged for the infants and juniors. The entries will be sent in for June 1st. The judges will assess the work, using report books kept by the children and photographs taken using the Klick camera provided by the organisers. The gardens will be judged both regionally and nationally, with the national win­ ners displaying their garden at the 1999 Hampton Court Flower Show. The children are making the


All the children in the school


butterfly garden competion, with shrubs and scented plants and will tend the surrounding trees to attract birds and insects. A shaded boggy area will be


promote awareness of plants and the environment among young people, and to solve the problems of eyesore areas in inner cities, although this hardly applies to Thomeyholme school.


most of an unfortunate act of nature by recycling a pine tree brought down by the Christmas Eve gales. The felled tree will be used by the infants to make win­ dow boxes for annuals and also the two-foot wide trunk will be made into stepping stones and seats for the garden. The infants will also make


arrangements with summer plants inside motor tyres. The juniors will fill a plot, once used successfully in a Yorkshire Bank


revitalised with moisture-loving plants. Both infants and juniors will be working on a vegetable patch which will have a sturdy fence around it to keep rabbits out, its necessity learnt from past experiences. The gardeners are hopeful because the school is for­ tunate to have rich, dark soil resulting from the River Hodder flooding in the Ice Age. Whalley radio broadcaster Ali­


son Brown will be making a series of monthly reports for Radio Lancashire once work is fully


under way. The school (seen here busy at


work on the garden) will be draw­ ing on the expertise and experi­ ence of governor co-ordinator Mr Peter Foley, of Holden Clough Nursery, Bolton-by-Bowland, and the school staff would wel­ come anyone with spare time or plants who wishes to be involved.


Wedding couples are spurning


walk down aisle Choosing hotels instead to tie knot


Rev. Roland Philpott gen­ erally has a diary of around 12 marriage services to conduct, but this year, his pages are totally blank. His colleague, the Rev.


churches have reported a drop in the average number of yearly weddings usually booked by now. At St James' Church, the


CUPID might be on the prowl this coming Valentine's weekend, but Clitheroe's kissing couples are spuming the romance of a walk down the aisle - in favour of hotels licensed for weddings.___________ All but one of the town's


by Julie Frankland


groom must generally be resident locally and a mem­ ber of the church commu­ nity.” She continued: "Alth­


Rodney Nicholson, at St Paul's Church, Low Moor, is usually making provision for between six and eight ceremonies, but is down to two, while the parish church has just sue couples planning their, walk.to the altar.


Church, the Rev. Michael Fielding has just half his average quota of wedding bookings, although at St Michael and St John's RC Church, Lowergate, Father Joseph Wareing will marry six couples in 1998 - one up on his count for last year. However, just a few years back, his tally would have been nearer double this. Said the Rev. Nicholson


of England, other denomi­ nations are not faring any better. At Trinity Methodist


Aside from the Church .. ;


ough special permission can sometimes be granted, couples who were maybe born here but have moved away to work or, who have fallen in love with the area after a holiday, often do not qualify for a church service. In the case of register office or hotel ceremonies, there are no such restrictions." To support her views,


Mrs Cross, whose base is the register office in Pimli­ co Road, has 100 bookings for 1998 weddings at local licensed hotels, o: which there are currently nine in the Ribble Valley. Traditionally popular


Stirk House Hotel, Gis- bum, now also licensed for civil ceremonies, report that one in 10 of all couples now booking wedding breakfasts and parties, also want to marry on the premises, regardless of whether the marriage is a first or second time around event. And, with romance in the


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air, Lancashire County Council has chosen this weekend to launch its wed­ ding guide, "A Lancashire Wedding",, which, gives • information on ceremony planning, whether in church or otherwise. It lists licensed premises


and details the costs of mar­ riage licences and registrar fees, which go up in April. The guide is available free


venues for receptions such as Foxfields Country Hotel, Billington, and the


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(pictured right), who high­ lights the decline in his parish magazine,: "The two factors that I think are behind the fall in the num­ ber of church weddings are the practice of couples liv­ ing together without mar­ riage, and the licensing of hotels for marriages. Of the two, I think the latter has probably made the biggest impact." Agreeing with him,


Near-death para-glider is planning to fly again


He’s heading back to Pendle — and says thanks to rescuers by Tim Procter


THE man who could have died in a ter­ rifying para-gliding accident on Pendle


Clitheroe's Superintendent Registrar Mrs Joanne Cross, who arranges mar­ riage certificates, licences and conducts civil cere­ monies for approximately 200 couples who opt to marry locally each year, added: "I do not think the number of people actually choosing to get married is falling. Rather they are now deciding to marry in a register office or at approved premises, such as


hotels. "In some cases, they


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have no choice but to select a register office or hotel over a church. To marry in the Church of England or at another place of wor­ ship, the bride or bride-


Hill is going back to the sport soon. "I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat thinking


about it all," says Mr Peter Wright, from Ingol near Preston. "But I have deciuded not to let it


put me off." This week Mr Wright again expressed his gratitude


to everyone who helped save him. He sustained numer­ ous severe injuries including fractures to his pelvis, four ribs and his wrist and a collapsed lung when he crashed 20 feet to the rocky summit of Pendle one Sun­


day afternoon two months ago. Clitheroe paramedic Bob Massey and colleague, ambu­


lance technician Mark Adamson, ran up a long, steep path right to the summit of Pendle Hill to treat Mr Wright before he was taken to the Royal Preston Hospital in the Lancashire Constabulary helicopter. Mr Wright told us this week: "I am very grateful to


everyone who helped; my paragliding friends, the ambu­ lance team, the helicopter crew and the consultant and staff at the hospital." He has already written to the vari­ ous authorities to express his gratitude. A technician in the joinery workshops of Preston Col­ lege, Mr Wright is keen on wind surfing and mountain


Mercy duo scale Pendle to aid para-glider in near-fatal fall


Help swoops from the skies as rescue team battles in


the freezing cold TIM PROCTER REPORTS


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started to spin, perhaps because of a shortage of wind. "I cannot remember much about it, but should perhaps have made for the landing ground sooner," Mr Wright told us. He hopes to be back on the north facing slope of Pendle


soon, and also flies in the Lake District. "I shall never forget the speed and skills shown by


everyone involved after the accident, and will always be very grateful," says Mr Wright.


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