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Housing benefit fraud is in the news at the moment, but council staff are geared up to handle
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A party of visiting Japanese tourists enjoy a conducted tour of Downham church from Lord Clitheroe himself.
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Local student is a hero after rescuing a baby from a blaze.
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The Platform Gall ery could soon be upgraded to a regional centre attracting visitors from all over the country.
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Guitar legend Hank Marvin is coming
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Massive fire guts derelict warehouse as one man is evac uated from his home.
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redundancies will be kept to a minimum 'as 100 jobs are shed, Castle Cement
pledged this week. It will be two or
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three years before the full effect on local employment is felt but,
starting very soon, local companies could have chances to pick up worthwhile con tracts. Some already
work for Castle. A £15m. investment
programme at the Ribbles dale Works will mean a 320 instead of 420 workforce by the year 2001, slightly trimmed production levels, lower costs - and, hopeful ly, fewer air-quality com
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plaints.All the emissions will go through the new scrubber, which is confidently expected to make a signifi cant difference to air quali ty with a cleaner, purer
plume. A pledge has been given
that the upgrading money will be spent with local companies where possible, and the plans cater for only brief periods without pro
duction. The move has come
rather unexpectedly fol lowing a decision by parent company Scancem to con solidate its position in the cement industry. The two wet kilns at
ing a large investment pro
gramme there. The wet kilns could be
brought back into use if there were a sudden upsurge in demand' for
cement. By the time the scheme
is completed, and the dry kiln's output has gone up by just over a third to 1.05m. tons a year, 100 fewer workers will be need ed, with the losses spread across all departments including transport. But this week the company pledged to do all it could to help those displaced - at least some of whom may be able to retire either fully or partially due to golden handshakes. Three unions are active at the complex, and negotiations are pro
ceeding.General manager Mr Ian Sutheran says they very much regret the job losses, but the scheme will mean long-term security of employment for 300 people at the complex and proba bly three times tha t in
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IT was congratulations all round after Bowland High School head teacher Mr Stephen Colling was named in the Queens Birthday Honours List at the weekend. Mr Colling, head at the Grindleton
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makes many demands on his time, he often takes RE, geography, history and
Although his role as a head teacher
PE at the 340-pupil school. Mr Colling's career began at Ormskirk
School for three and a half years, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to education. He described his CBE award as recog
nition not for himself alone but also for his school and the teaching profession as
whole."I am very proud for the school, ne declared. "I also see the award as recogni tion for teachers and recognition that edu cation is becoming a priority with this pre sent Government.”
Lancashire for 27 years and he has also served the profession in a variety of other ways. At present, he is an appraisal con sultant for the county, offering advice to members of the profession who need help in solving appraisal problems. He is also on the NUT executive committee and serves on the Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education and is a member of the Christian Education Movement.
Mr Colling (48) has been a teacher in .
Secondary Modern School, where he taught religious education between 1971 and 1973 • He became head of the RE department after the school became a comprehensive and changed its name to
Cross Hall High.
In 1977, he was appointed head oi humanities at Skelmersdale Tawd Vale
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High School, now Lathom High. From there, he went to Rhyddings High
School, Oswaldtwistle, as deputy head. Mr Colling, who is a lay preacher with
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DEDICATED swim- . mine coach Alan Moor-
DEDICATED swim
ming coach Alan Moor- house has finally been able to reveal one of his best-kept secrets - in the form of an MBE. Mr Moorhouse (60), of
Singleton Avenue, Read, was even embargoed from telling his children of his great news, after receiving official notification last
month. He joked: "Only my wife,
the Great Harwood Methodist Circuit, lives in Rishton. His wife, Ruth, is a recep tion class teacher at Peel Park Primary School, Accrington. They have three children: Paul (22), who has recently completed a degree in
Sallie, knew, as she opened the letter, but I initially thought it was a tax demand because it was in such an official envelope." The waiting was finally
MR MOORHOUSE (140698/24/17
computer science at Aberystwyth; Sarah (19) who is at Northampton studying sports science; and Rachel (17), an A-level student at Blackburn College.
Ribblesdale students
top business suprejnos — and that’s official
over at midnight on Friday and Mr Moorhouse cele brated with his wife and three children, Angela (33), Rosemary (32), and Ian (28) at the Wellsprings
Inn, at Sabden. Mr Moorhouse was hon
oured with an MBE fol lowing 22 years' service as a swimming coach and he has taught a whole host of swimmers, including a number of international competitors. His dedica tion stretches to coaching six mornings and five evenings a week, as well as travelling with the com petitors to weekend events. Already this year he has attended competitions in Glasgow, Liverpool, Sheffield, North Wales and
Salford. He began coaching when
Training Squad and trains with the Bobcats at the Thompson Centre, Burn-
Mr Moorhouse enjoys playing a round of golf at Whalley where lie is a member. He was there on Saturday when the news of his MBE was announced, but admits he did not play too well. He laughed: "It was a bad game, but I think it was just the signifi cance of the day that had something to do with it.” Mr Moorhouse is not the
^When he is not coaching,
, competitors from various countries- in th e , 800m;
freestyle.Mr Moorhouse has been chief coach and secretary of the Borough of Burnley Competition Amateur
his daughters were young and his interest has carried on from there. His latest prodigy is 17-year-old Stacey Holdsworth, who recently swam for Britain in the World Cup, coming third out of more than 25
only family member to be honoured for achievements. His brother, Derek, received an OBE six years ago for his long career in the Diplomatic Service mid has been able to give him some advice on the eti quette required when he receives his medal from the
Queen. He is looking forward to
his big day at Buckingham Palace and will turn out in top hat and tails. The date has not yet been set, as he will be given a list to choose
••• Mr Moorhouse. is .the, managing'director of AD
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Magnetics, of Huncoat, an electrical engineering prod ucts manufacturer, which
he set up in 1991. ____ Injured farmer’s wife conscious
THERE was good news yesterday about the local fanner's wife injured in a fall 13 days ago. Mrs Elsie Moorhouse, of Great Todber, Gisbum, is
now fully conscious and said to be recovering well. However, she is still in intensive care at Leeds Infir mary, but was to be transferred to Airedaleyesterday.. A well-known figure in local church circles, Mrs
Moorhouse sustained a fractured skull “ ^broken n s when she fell 20 feet from a path to a ledge at Bolton
YOUNG Enterprise winners at Ribblesdalc High School in Clithcroc. (160698/18/4a)
ENTERPRISING youngsters from Clitheroe's Ribblesdale High School have the best busi ness brains in the North-West
and that's official! A unanimous verdict made them
associated jobs. "Our workforce has
Clitheroe are to be put into mothballs and the much more economical dry one - recently fitted with the £5m. scrubber - expanded. In total, there will be slightly less tonnage from Clitheroe, but the group will still keep up a one- quarter share of the British market. Its Mold plant will produce more, follow
helped us through some difficult times in recent years and we will approach this overall reduction in numbers in the most posi tive way we can," said Mr Sutheran. Although jobs at Castle are highly sought- after, natural wastage is inevitable and non-replace ment of leavers over three years will help balance the
figures.Mr Sutheran and Castle colleagues are optimistic that the reorganisation will put the works into a new
era. But it’s not all gloom-
THE prospect of at least 30 more jobs within a few months at Ultraframc was confirmed on Tuesday evening when planning permission was granted for its new warehouse. The company overtook Castle Cement ns the area's largest employer some time ago and is now within sight of a 700 workforce. And, although building work has not yet started, J. Sainsbury is mak ing a start on recruiting staff for its new store m
Clithcroc
clear winners of the regional final of the National Young Enterprise Companies' Competition, held at the University of Central Lan
cashire, Preston, last weekend. Their in-school company, Infinity,
launched last July, returned dividends to beat off competition from 371 other pupil-run firms from schools in Mersey side, Greater Manchester, Pendle, Cheshire and Eas t and West Lan
cashire. Now it will represent the North-West , ,, ... .
in UK finals to be held in London next month, where the honours at stake are to take on the British mantle in the compe tition's August European finals in
Malta. What makes the Clitheroe students , ,
achievement all the more spectacular is not only a company turnover that out performed those operated by, among others, leading independent schools, hut that they were the "babies" of the com- petition, which is open to Years 10, 11
and lower sixth forms. As Year 11 pupils (fifth years), the
Infinity team, which is the first ever local team to represent the region in the competition's history, had to pitch pre
dominantly against sixth-formers. tv, m m t heir nlnrp in Preston, the 25
students making up the team had already taken the Hyndbum and Ribble Valley young enterprise title, as well as winning the East Lancashire area final. In Preston, the team were represented
by the Infinity hoard,‘consisting of man aging director Louise Brennan.(16), marketing director Andrew Yates (15), finance director Matthew Robinson (16), design director Adam Cockman (16) and personnel director Sally-Ann
Gruszka (16). Andrew has won a £1,500 Dale .
Carnegie award, referred to further on page 11, for his part in Ribblesdale High School’s Young Enterprise triumph. The school team had to organise an
Infinity exhibition, face a grilling from judges drawn from the Department of Trade and Industry, British Aerospace and North West Water, as well as give a company presentation pitch before a 500-strong audience. Cheering them on were parents, Rib
blesdale headmistress Ms Glynne Ward, the school's enterprise link teachers, Mr Neil Ashworth and Mrs Alison Parrott, and outside business advisers Ian Pendlebury, Tina Carswell and Steve Pattison,
of Rectella, plus Clitheroe businessman Mr
Matthew Parrott. Together with the pupils, they have
devoted their free time to making Infim- ty, which produces and markets wooden mobiles and American-style high school year books, in addition to promoting and organising school discos, an unequalled
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