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Farming community shocked by death of popular Valerie
THE village of Bolton-by-Bowland was brought to a standstill on Tues day when a shocked farming com munity met to both mourn and cel ebrate the life of a young woman, known for her love of animals and willingness to help others. It was estimated that as many as
600 people paying their respects packed the church and grounds of St Peter and St Paul, where Miss Valerie Pickard (32) had served as a member of its parochial council. The service was relayed to those outside the church by specially erected speakers. Valerie, of Broxup Cottage, Holden,
regional sheep-shearing competition, and she worked to pass on her skills - gleaned from both home and the classroom of the Lancashire College of Agriculture at Myerscough, which she had attended as a part-time student and which had present ed her with its top accolade as best final year student on its farm management course - through becoming secretary of the Bowland Agricultural Training Group. She took up this post after serving as
secretary and then chairman of the Bow- land region of the Young Farmers' Club movement. Prior to that, she had been secretary, chairman and leader of the Bolton-by-Bowland branch. While farming was her life, Valerie had
died a week ago today, after doctors at Blackburn Royal Infirmary lost a three- day battle to save her life. She had been rushed to its intensive
also been bitten by the travel bug, after winning a place on a Young Farmers' Clubs' exchange visit to Australia. She had back-packed around New
care unit at the end of a spring evening stroll near her home, which she had taken with a friend. Said her devastated father, Mr Hedley
"Valerie gave 100 per cent to everything she did. She never said no to anyone. She was always willing to help." Last weekend, Valerie, a former pupil of
Gindleton's Riversmeade School, had been due to judge the sheep classes at a county Young Farmers' Club rally in Lancaster. She had been looking forward to the
Pickard, of Green Ford Farm, Bolton-by- Bowland: "She was such a healthy and active girl, but the doctors told us she had been born with a defective valve, which caused a blood clot, and she died of a stroke. You ask yourself why, after she put all that effort in, did this have to happen now?" Added her mother, Mrs Alice Pickard:
Zealand, taking time out to visit her uncle and former Bolton-by-Bowland farmer, Mr Donald Crossley. She had also trav elled extensively in Kenya, America and Canada, where she visited her aunt, Olwen Pickard, a former Blackburn-based nurse. Valerie had been planning her next trip - a visit to China. Added Mr Pickard: "She was so full of
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Steven (36), a sister, Alison (28), a sister- in-law, two nephews and a niece, had com pleted sheepdog training courses and was hoping eventually to enter her own dogs in trial competitions. An inquest was opened last week and
tion technician for Genus and cared for her own flock of Swaledale sheep. She was the first woman to win a
task, after coming to the end of what for her was her busiest time of year - lambing. Valerie worked as an artificial insemina
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adjourned until September. Police appealed for witnesses following
the incident, in which Miss Pickard sus tained injuries after colliding with a trac tor while she was walking with a friend along an unlit section of Main Street, Bolton-by-Bowland. Sgt Nigel Walker, of Lancashire Con-
stabulary's Road Safety East Division, said this week that police inquiries into the matter were continuing. Until all the witnesses had been interviewed and police had completed their investigation, no fur ther comment would be made.
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Jail for pair who set skunk farm’ in Burnley house
Drugs would have had street value of around £100,000
POLICE vowed to continue their war on drugs as two men cannabis farm,
were sent to jail for their part in a Burnley S t i l l proclaiming in n o c en c e ,
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A n th o n y P e te r L ew is Lockwood (37), of Stocks Lane, Middop, was sen tenced to three years in prison for conspir ing w ith o th e r s to su p p ly the c la s s B co n tr o l led drug cannabis at Burnley M o to r Spares, in Cobden Street. John England, (50)
CANNABIS plants seized in the police raid
of Cog Lane, Burnley, who had pleaded guilty to the same charge and also a charge of cultivating cannabis plants, was sentenced to an 18- month concurrent jail
term. A jury reached a unani
THE cannabis farm in Cobden Street, Burnley
mous guilty verdict follow ing a week-long trial at Burnley Crown Court. The court heard that
police had come across the "skunk farm" after raiding the property on April 16th, 1997, looking for stolen computers. More than 600 plants
were being cultivated by sophisticated hydroponic irrigation equipment and a feeding system and were due to be harvested. Sold on the street the drugs would have been worth in the region of £100,000. The Burnley CID offi
involves themselves in this type of criminal activity. If it does not then the police will continue to target these people" Defending Lockwood,
Mr David Sumner told Judge Raymond Bennett his client's greatest concern about being remanded in custody was missing his four-year-old son's birth
day. Mr Andrew Nuttall,
cer leading the case, Det. Sgt Tony Hilton, said: "These people have been sentenced to substantial terms of imprisonment. I hope it serves as a deter rent to anybody else who
defending England, appealed for his immediate guilty plea to be taken into consideration arid said his bosses at North West Water had offered to hold his job as a manager open for as long as possible. He said England had
been at "a low ebb” at the time of the offences and had successfully battled
England
against a heroin addiction. Sentencing, Judge Ben
nett said: "When the police discovered what was going on at the premises, it turned out to be one of the largest growings of cannabis in the area. Dif ferent people have different views about cannabis, but I have to apply the law."
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A WHALLEY land lord who sponsored a Ribblesdale League cup match was so "bowled over" by his team's performance
that he fainted. Mr Norman Atty,
licensee of the Dog Inn, Whalley, along with other local landlords, is a regu lar sponsor of match-balls used by the village's crick et team in Ribblesdale League and cup matches. On Saturday, he and his
so-called "three-to-four club," a group of devoted Dog regulars, clubbed together to pay for the match-ball for the Whal ley versus Settle game. Having been in the field
first, Whalley skipper Mark Fallon, impatient to
get away to a business engagement in Leeds, pro ceeded to crash the Settle bowling all around the ground. Perhaps, overcome with joy at seeing his team playing so well, Mr Atty made his way into the
pavilion feeling somewhat dizzy. Minutes later he blacked out. He came to surrounded by spectators fanning him and asking him if he was all right. Mr Atty refuted suggestions made by one particularly cynical club member that the reason he passed out was on account of being presented with the hospi tality bill for some of the spectators and players. Mr Atty said: "I hadn't
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been feeling too well in the morning, but I went to the
for six, Mr Atty showed his devotion to his club by staying on to watch the rest of the game, which Whalley resoundingly won by 10 wickets.
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