Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified)
FRUSTRATED local taxi drivers are reaching boiling point, follow ing a police crackdown on them stopping to pick up passengers in undesignated parking areas in Glitheroe. Members of the Ribble Valley Taxi
'Over zealous9 police anger taxi firms Frustration leads to three-hour strike
Association claim over-zealous Clitheroe police officers have been preventing them from doing their job, by dishing out parking tickets or moving on taxi drivers trying to pick up passengers while parked on double yellow lines. The situation came to a head two weekends ago, when drivers staged a
three-hour-long taxi strike around pub closing time. Chaos ensued in Clitheroe, with weekend revellers stranded on the streets with no means of getting home. Drivers only returned to work around 1- 30 a.m., after they claimed police offi cers approached them and gave them reassurances they would be less strict in policing parking for taxis in the future. An uneasy peace has remained since,
but local taxi drivers say the situation is returning to what it was before, with drivers having to continuously circle the rank around King Lane, until they are
freed up, adding to their fuel costs. Clitheroe Police Sgt John Lindsey
said that a more vigorous policing strat egy towards parking at night had been pursued in response to "numerous com plaints from local residents". He added: "There are plans afoot to establish other taxi ranks, which should relieve the cur
rent problem." But Mr Mohammed Sarfraz, who
runs Clitheroe-based Euro cars, believes the police's approach is adding to the problem by effectively causing revellers
to wait longer for taxis.
en people hanging around waiting ages for taxis, and they start fighting, surely that's going to cause a lot more noise and disturbance to residents. "At the end of the day we care about
He said: "If you've got a lot of drunk
our customers. We did not want to take strike action, but we felt we were forced into it. It is in everyone's interest to sort this out, but the police have got to let us get on with our job." Now a meeting is to be held at the end
of the month between taxi drivers and representatives of the borough and
Our charity picture is snapped up as the bidding reaches a splendid £350
A QUICK look through the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times while visiting family and friends inspired former Clitheroe man Dr Stuart Bennett to bid £350 for our chari
ty auction picture. Dr Bennett, whose moth
er, Mrs Patricia Bennett, lives in Lancaster Drive, spotted the picture of the river near Brungerley Bridge, painted by local artist Mr Jim Hurley, which was donated to raise money for Holly House, in Rish- ton, a child development centre for youngsters with special needs. Young cerebal palsy suf
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county councils to discuss proposals fo: new ranks to be established on Wellgate, outside the Swan and Royal Hotel, Cas tle Street, and at the bus stop on Mar
ket Place. Forty-six Hackney carriage licence:
have been approved to date by Ribblc Valley Borough Council's Director ol Central Services, Mr Paul Timson, whe says the council cannot legally limit the number issued, unless an official survey of demand is conducted, costing an esti
while there are other ranks in town, they are situated in areas in which very few people seem to go out," he said.
mated £5,000. "It is a difficult situation because
£5,000 reward for briefcase holding secrets of stars
A REWARD of £5,000 is being offered by a Clitheroe businessman for the return of a brief case which he claims contains highly-sensitive details about the private lives of dozens of televi
sion and sports stars. He says the potentially
sensational information would cause great embar rassment to a number of household names if the briefcase was to get into the wrong hands. Mr Simon Campbell says
back for us and there would be severe embarrassment if the details ever leaked out. "There are a number of
ferer Jake Houghton (two), the son of Mr and Mrs Martin and Rachel Houghton, of Peel Street, Clitheroe, is one of several local children who attend Holly House. Mr Houghton commented: "Jake has been going to Holly House for about 18 months and we have seen a remarkable change in his playing habits and co-operative manner. We are very grateful to Dr Bennett for buying the painting and the money will hopefully go towards new equipment for the fibre optics room or the new toy library, which is currently being set up." Dr Bennett, who spe cialises in diabetes and is
based at a Newcastle hospi tal, is quite a fan of Mr Hurley's work and has a col lection of his paintings, including views of Pendle Hill and Longridge Fell. He said: "I last bought one of Mr Hurley's paintings about six years ago, so when I saw the article in the Advertiser and Times I decided to make a bid for this one. It's quite beauti
ful." The painting was given to
a family friend of the Houghtons, Mrs Pam Kent, of Clitheroe, by Mr Hurley several years ago, following a similar charity auction in 1993 to raise money for Brazilian street children.
A number of smaller bids
were also made for the painting. Our picture shows Dr
Bennett with his new paint ing alongside Mr Houghton and Jake. (010399/17/5)
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Bootleg booze man ordered to pay back £48,000 in duty
A RIBBLE VALLEY businessman caught red handed selling bottles of bootleg booze from his plant hire firm has been "billed" for his illegal profits.
In ground-breaking legal
manoeuvres at Preston Crown Court, Brie Dugdale (62), of Calder Farm, Set tle Road, Bolton-by-Bow- land, was ordered to pay back over £48,000 in unpaid duty to IIM Cus toms and Excise. Me is already serving a
September. Dugdale was trapped
The repayment order,
prison sentence for fraud, having pleaded guilty to selling imported d u ty free alcohol for profit last
after Customs and Excise investigators mounted a surveillance operation on his E and D Plant Hire business in Chatburn. Offi cers who arrested him found hundreds of litres of spirits, stashed both on the premis es and at his home. For a 14-month period, Dugdale had been buying bottles of spirits for £4 and selling them on for £5.
made by Judge John Apple- ton, who also presided at Dugdale’s earlier trial, was the first of its kind to be passed in the North-West, although similar cases are now set to follow. Given a year’s prison sen
tence at the earlier hearing, Dugdale, who was branded
a greedy man in court, is expected to be released next month.
Pleads guilty to illegal possession of methadone
FINANCED by his parents, a Ribble Val ley man fled to Spain in an attempt to overcome his heroin and alcohol
problems. But Blackburn magis
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parents' address of Ribble View, Brockhall Village, in court, pleaded guilty to stealing a bottle of Vodka from Asda and illegal pos session of methadone in January last year. He was fined a total of £125 and ordered to pay £15 compen sation and £50 costs.
ents, who have means, offered to pay for him to go to Spain, where he has been for the last 12 months. He spent some time in a pri vate rehabilitation centre in Benidorm and has rid him self of his habit, got himself a job and mot a young lady. "He has come back to
(defending) said his client had not appeared to answer the charges originally because of drugs and alco hol problems. He explained: "His par
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his Clitheroe-based compa ny, Centinal Health Care Ltd, has developed a herbal alternative to the sex drug Viagra, called Phyto 2000. Hundreds of people were interviewed about their pri vate lives for research into the product, including a number of celebrities, who were asked if they wanted to take part in the trials. All the details were
celebrities, and we are talk ing household names, who have given detailed accounts of their sex lives, I t is vital that I get the research data back as soon as possible for everyone con cerned." The theft is not the first
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time Mr Campbell's prod uct has hit the headlines. A London judge who tested the product as part of the trials revealed all about how Phyto 2000 had changed his life in a recent edition of the News of the World. Mr Campbell comment
only popped into the pub for a quick drink when the briefcase was taken. He said: "This is a major set
ed: "We have received a lot of publicity since the News of the World broke the judge's story, which has caused chaos. We can't seem to make the stuff fast enough." Anyone who knows the whereabouts of the brief
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visit his parents and because he knew these offences were outstanding. While he will be returning to Spain as soon as he can, he should be given credit for coming back to face the music."
Sell-out for Cannon and Ball
THE tears have flowed like the rain this week among Can non and Ball fans who failed to get tickets for their forth coming show at Clitheroc Civic Hall. But don't despairl The Clitheroe Advertiser and Times,
which publicised the show two weeks ago, has come to the rescue by securing the last four tickets on the planet. To win a pair of the most sought-after pieces of paper
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