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Two men are jailed for setting up a cannabis farm in a Burnley house.


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TV panellist and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop is in the area for a film to mark the 50th anniversary of the NHS.


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A dairy farmer makes his “mar­ que” as the quality of his milk wins top award.


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Police warn caution after two are killed in road accidents.


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Air quality cam­ paigners are disap­ pointed but not destroyed after High Court deci­ sion.


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One of the area’s best-known pubs is to re-open after it is bought by two sis­ ters.


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Lancasters buy plane for Sudan mercy run


by Vivien Meath


MILLIONS saw the heart-rending pictures of the starving children of Sudan on the nation's television


screens. The majority of those


watching were united by a sheer sense of hopelessness. The problem is vast, not


Rosemary Lancaster. Through their family


charitable foundation, they have bought a Pilatus PC12 aircraft for use by Mission' Aviation Fellow- ship. I t will be based in Nairobi and will take aid and supplies to emergency crises areas, as well as tak­ ing specialists out to per­ form emergency eye opera­ tions for hundreds. At the end of the year,


just in the Sudan, but throughout Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Northern Mozambique, Zambia, Rwanda and the former Zaire. One local couple who


encouraged to know that the partnership and sup­ port of the John and Rose­ mary Lancaster Founda­ tion will enable us to save lives that might otherwise be lost, and bring the Gospel of hope to some of the most remote areas of Africa," he says in a letter recording the gratitude of the staff and board of the fellowship. On Saturday, the Lan­


hope they can make a con­ tribution to the solution are Mr and Mrs John and


HIV scare as drug syringe is found in playground


Hospital blood test for boy (six) who made the find by Ben Carlish


THE anguished mother of a young Clitheroe schoolchild who pricked his finger on a hypoder­ mic needle dropped in a school playground has dubbed the drug addicts who carelessly discarded


and St John's RC Primary School, ClitheroeVtold the- Clitheroe Advertiser and Times of the family's agonising wait for blood test results to come through after she rushed her son to Clitheroe Health Centre. "It was terrible. I panicked. There were all sorts of


things going through our minds about what he might have caught," she said.


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the centre for their treat­ ment of her son. "They were fantastic. They have really helped put our minds at rest,” she said. While the family awaits the results, the youngster is to be given a series of vaccinations over three months as a precaution against hepatitis B. The risk of HIV is


She applauded staff at


it as "disgusting and thoughtless". The mother of the six-year-old pupil from St Michael.^


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the couple, whose success in building up Ultraframe has given them the finance to help, hope to travel to Africa to meet the pilot and staff and take to the air themselves to see just what kind of difference their contribution is mak­


ing.


for Mission Aviation Fel­ lowship UK, Mr Keith Jones, says the purchase of the plane will open up com­ pletely new areas of service to MAF, and enable staff to respond rapidly to med­ ical emergencies and disas­ ter situations, which previ­ ously could not have been reached. The long fuel range and


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so many of today's youth drift so easily. The basement of Text


House, formerly the under­ stairs kitchen, has been transformed into "The Cave", a meeting place for local young people. The ground floor houses


casters opened Text House, Bawdlands, to the commu­ nity to enable local people to see for themselves the work which has trans­ formed the neglected for­ mer holiday home for nuns


into a Christian base for young people, the office of the Lancaster Charitable Foundation and the north­ ern base for New Genera­ tion Ministries. The centre's aim is "to


the office base of NGM's northern branch and the J. and R. Lancaster Charita­ ble Foundation. Attached to the spacious property is a large conservatory which opens on to newly-land- scaped gardens, dominated by the statue of Christ which, to the Clitheroe community, has always been so much a part of


Text House. The Lancasters would


make a difference for good in the Ribble Valley" and, already, through work in Blackburn and Manches­ ter, the seeds are being sown. The home's new owners


the ability of the plane to land on very small strips will enable MAF to take the Gospel and much need­ ed practical help into some of the most remote and needy areas of Africa. "I hope you will be


dearly like to know the his­ tory of the statue and from where it originated. Any­ one who has information can pass it to the trust director, Jill Farthing, who will be based at Text


House. Pictured at Saturday's


are thrilled by the prospect of having a base from which NGM can reach out to bring a breath of fresh air into society and, by meeting young people in schools, pubs and clubs, provide them with a glimpse of a different lifestyle to that into which


opening are Jill Farthing, Mrs Lancaster with a pic­ ture of the aeroplane they have purchased, Mr Lan­ caster and TV presenter Eils, who has been in town this week supporting the Reality mission. (090598/22/37) © Special feature on the


Text House opening next week.


Clitheroe sisters plan somethingyfflOii®*’ down to earth to help


behalf of the people of Clitheroe. Mrs Maureen Mercer gt John,s RC Church, are


believed to be minimal because of the very small numbers of people with the virus in the Ribble Valley and the surrounding area. "You just don't think


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this sort of thing can hap­ pen around here, especially not in a school playground. I am disgusted by the peo­ ple who dropped the nee­ dle. They are so thought­ less. They don't think of anybody but themselves," added the mother, who has asked for the family's iden­ tity not to be disclosed. A horrified welfare assis­


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will rally round quickly to ensure tha t the cost of £420 for the truck and fuel is met within the next four weeks before the rain starts and the roads become impassable. The sisters, both wor­ shippers at St Michael and


Residents have say


on mosque


CLITHEROE resi­ dents are to have the opportunity to air their views about plans to build a mosque in


the town. At Monday's meeting


tant at the school raised the alarm when the boy handed over the needle, having found it beneath a step near the school entrance. At first he told school staff he had not been pricked by the needle. I t was only later he revealed what happened to his mother. "He thought he was in


A HYPODERMIC syringe and needle handed in at Clitheroe Police Station and the Sharpsafe box used to dispose of it (120598/10/0a)


the school premises. "A school can be as vigi­


trouble with the teachers, so he just sat there quietly. He had marks on his fin­ gers, though, and later he told me he had actually pricked his finger," she explained. The school's headmaster, Mr Vincent Murray, wrote to parents at the school to reassure them about the situation. He explained the needle had been overlooked ng


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lant as is realistically pos­ sible and may still miss finding hazardous objects,"


he said. He urged parents to


hammer the message home to their children that such items should not be touched and should be brought to the attention of


an adult. "Children do see more in


their environment than even the most vigilant


during a routine check of


adult, and it is vital they should know what to do


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when they find dangerous items lying about," he added. The possibility of fitting an additional gate to the Lowergate side of the school is being dis­ cussed by the school, and police have said they will watch the grounds more closely. Sgt Jean Sanderson, of


to carefully take them to a police station, doctor's surgery or health centre, where they can be disposed of safely in "sharps boxes" especially designed for the purpose. She said: "It is a very


Clitheroe police, urged children not to touch dis­ carded needles, which often have brightly-coloured


green and orange bases.


She advised any adults finding discarded needles


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dangerous problem. There are drug users in Clitheroe, just as there are in any other town. While I cer­ tainly don't condone the use of drugs, I would appeal to drug users to dis­ pose of their needles safe­


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of Clitheroe Town Coun­ cil's Planning and General Purposes Committee, the proposed mosque in Holden S treet will be under discussion. Because the town coun­


cil believed tha t Ribble Valley Borough Council


initially needed its com­ ments on the application by tomorrow, a special


meeting was held in Clitheroe Town Hall on


Monday morning. It was hoped that people


both in favour and against the mosque would attend the meeting. But when only members of the Asian community favouring the development attended, it was decided by the five town councillors present to postpone the discussion and place it on the agenda


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TWO sisters are appealing for help to fund a food truck into the Sudan on "Once more, with a


and her sister, Mrs Theresa hopeful that church mem- Mercer, hope that the town


bers will do what they can to support the appeal by CAFOD. A letter has been


received at CAFOD head­ quarters from the Apos­ tolic Administrator of Rumbek, who has spent three weeks visiting the Rumbek diocese.


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