t , Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, August 5th, 1999 • Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified)


IT was tea-time for mem bers of Clitheroe After­ noon Townswomen's Guild, when they held a tea party in the Parish Church Hall. The event was opened by


Parish haiii Memories of the last eclipse ...now for next


tea party for guild


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READERS of at least some national newspapers have this week been treated to 1927 eclipse


flashbacks. People following the columns of


the chairman, Mrs Evelyn Spain, who thanked guests for their support during her hospital stay and con­ valescence a t home. She also thanked vice-chair­ man Mrs M. Christy for performing her duties in her absence. Minutes of the last


meeting were read by secre ta ry Miss Doris Yates, while a financial report was


: presented by the treasurer, I Miss M. Campbell, and a federation report by the ’ federation delegate, Miss


E. Hook. An impromptu game of


bingo was organised as substitute entertainment for a performance which was to have been given by pupils from Clitheroe's Sut cliffe School of Dance. I t was cancelled because of injury to one of the princi­


pal dancers. A raffle followed tea


which was organised and served by the committee. Mrs Spain then closed the meeting. New members are welcome.


Bridge drive winners


WINNERS at the Pendle Club bridge drive were Mrs D. Farnsworth and Mrs J. Walmsley, Mrs S. Reiersen and Mrs A. Taylor. At the solo whist drive,


also held a t the Pendle Club, winners were Mr D. Grant, Mrs M. Holding, Mr


R. Knight. New members are wel­


come to the solo whist drive each Monday at 7-30 p.m.


Transfusion service visit


THE National Blood Trans­ fusion Service visits Clitheroe a week today, Thursday, August 12th. Venue as usual is the large


hall of the parish church school in Church Street and ' the times are 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. ana O-OU p.m. W


d 5-30 p.m. to 7-30 p.m. J ‘


the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, however, have a sense of being there before - entirely correctly, as we have featured the eclipse several times. Now everyone is waiting to see if Wednesday brings crowds to vantage points, or at least to works’ doors. The previous eclipse was total, but this 80+ per cent one may not create as much interest. Clearly a great deal depends weather.


on the weather.


in finding any Ribble Valley pictures from 1927. But interestingly enough we were loaned one taken in Gig- gleswick and printed it fairly big last week. Lo and behold, similar views have since been appearing in the


We have - so far - been unsuccessful


national press. The Press camera spotlight was on


the village because thousands of peo­ ple, including Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, were there Newspapers have been quoting their


own reporters, and the memories of people from about the late seventies upwards, just as we did several weeks


ago. _ _ And, like our contributors, everyone


was impressed by the cold and the way the world went dark and then lit up again. "In 23 pregnant seconds, the universe unfolded its beauty and mys­ tery and terror before the humbled awestruck gaze of thousands," was one


impression. We mentioned the disappointment


felt at Stonyhurst when a cloud robbed observatory viewers of the full specta­ cle. One newspaper has a picture of a priest with an elaborate camera - no matter that it has put an "e" in Stony­


Local band will be flown into site ol Cornwall concert held to mark event


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ALL roads lead to Cornwall this weekend for the first total eclipse of the sun from the British mainland for 72 years. A local blues band will not be joining the motorists, but will be airlifted on to one of the


prestige sites. A week-long blues festival is taking


place near Launceston, with East Lancashire blues band Slack Alice top


of the bill on Monday night. Said lead singer and Clitheroe busi­


nessman Cliff Stocker: "We are meet­


A RESIDENT a t the Manor House, Chatburn, celebrated her 90th birth­ day there on Saturday. Mrs Dorothy Oddie lived


in Grindleton and Clitheroe before moving to the Chat- burn residential home. She enjoys reading, sewing and chatting with


friends. Among the visitors for


Mrs Oddie's big occasion were the Mayor and May­ oress of the Ribble Valley, Coun. and Mrs Brian Col- lis. She is pictured here with them.


TH E Ribble Valley Liberal Democrats have again chosen for­ mer MP Mr Michael Carr as their prospective parliamentary candi­


date.


At the last General Election, Mr Carr came second in Ribble Valley,


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cashire, is a well-known campaigner in the county and won the Ribble


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with Labour trailing a poor third. Mr Carr, a teacher in East Lan­


M ich a e l ch o sen as Lib D em candidate again Valley by-election in March, 1991,


seeing off the poll tax. He said: "I am proud to have been


selected again to fight the con­


stituency in which I grew up. "Two years into a Labour Govern­


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ment and people are asking what has changed. The gap between the rich­ est and poorest in'the country is as wide as ever. Hospital waiting lists are still far too long arid the over­


Blair.


with Chris Davies, Liberal Democrat Euro MP for the North West, and


"I look forward to campaigning . .


with Liberal Democrat councillors, in Ribble yalley and Fulwopd. to make Ribble,Vaney aLiberal Democrat, gain at the next General Election.


development of greenfield sites, begun by the Tories under Margaret Thatcher, continues under Tony


ing the concert organisers at a pre­ arranged point on the mainland and will then be flown in by helicopter, appearing on stage at 9-30 p.m. The Cornish Eclipse Stone Festival,


at Roscarrek Farm, Bolventor, runs for seven days from Saturday and fea­ tures Connie Lush, voted best female blues singer last year, Aynsley Lister, John Martyn, Colin John and Ian Sie- gal, among a line-up already set to


attract thousands to the site. Slack Alice, who celebrated 25 years in the business last year, comprises


guitarists Chris Preston and Colin Redmond, of Burnley; keyboard play­ er Paul Lucker, of Huddersfield; Cliff Stocker; bassist Male Crossley who | has a music shop in Clitheroe's Swan Courtyard and ex-professional drum­ mer Chris Tattersall, of Roughlee. On the band's return to the area, it


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will be featuring in Barnoldswick's Rock in the Park on Sunday August 15th, then at the Colne Blues Festival on the British Stage at Pendle Leisure Centre at the end of the month.


Civic guests call in at party for Dorothy (90)


Model milkmaid name guess contest boosts church funds


A CONTEST to guess the name of this model milkmaid


helped swell profits for a church event in Read. Mr and Mrs Allan Sharp hosted afternoon tea at their


| home, and more than £400 was raised towards the fund for


Millennium kneelers at St John's Church. The couple are very grateful for all the support received


| from church people and visitors. Mrs Sharp is pictured with the maid. ( 3 0 0 7 9 9 / 2 / 1 4 ) ____________


Man’s ‘life in turmoil’ after brother’s murder


THE life of a former Clitheroe man had been "in turmoil" since the mur­ der of his brother, magis­ trates at Blackburn were


told. Darren David Vincent


Leecy (30), of the Salva­ tion Army Hostel, Black­ burn, admitted receiving a pair of spectacles worth £119, and the case was adjourned for pre-sentence


IK--,Mr Tom Snape (prose- Lcuting) said thatthe/spec- tacles had been-stolen


reports.


from Specsave, and Leecy had told police he bought them for £7.50 from a town centre "wino." He had tried to sell them to Maxideals for £10, but the police had been called. Mrs Debbie Jameson


(defending) said th a t Leecy had taken a drugs overdose a t a time when everything was getting on top of him. His life had been in turmoil following the-murder of his brother and. a split, with his preg­ nant girlfriend.


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roof tiles to turfing the gar­ dens of the homes. This means that while Fairclough Homes takes care of the hard work, including the installa­ tion of your choice of bath­ room and kitchen, you are left to enjoy your life. Jackie Matheson, sales and


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LINDEN Homes and Age Concern have launched a national competition named "Horizons for Housing . 1 he competition has two entry categories, the first to design a home in which the occupier can live for the whole of their life span and the second to design a housing development of 5,000 homes. The competition is open to individuals or a group of people attending full or part-time school, college or organised youth


group, aged between 16 and 23. The last date for submissions is November 30 th, with judging in March. Students should be able to incorporate the work for the


competition into their A-level coursework as it demonstrates coursework-relevant skills.


Government initiative co-ordinated by Age Concern to raise awareness of the implications of demographic changes in soci­


The competition is part of the. Millennium Debate of Age, a . . ety.


a summer of easy living, we have a range of offers to enable homebuyers to move quickly and easily, including part exchange. Our sales con­ sultants are on hand to ensure homebuyers are given all the assistance they need


every step of the way." Visitors to Fairclough’s


developments can pick up a special invitation, valid until the end of August, entitling them to two free mugs of cof­ fee in Bridgemore Garden World's coffee shop and Rec­ ently to the award-winning Bridgcmere Gardens. A trip to Bridgemere Gul ­


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A ONE-YEAR-OLD child died suddenly after develop­ ing a fast-acting form of


blood poisoning. An inquest into the death


of Calum Rain heard that he was perfectly formed in every way and all his sys­ tems were normal. Paediatric consultant Dr


Melanie Newbold had been unable to find anything to suggest that death had been caused by anything other


A SUMMER drink driving clampdown has been launched by Lancashire Constabulary. Roadside checkpoints will


be set up at specific points across the county, supported by a media and poster cam­ paign, to drive home the message not to drink and


drive. There will also be intelli­


gence-led targeted enforce­


A VALEDICTORY service takes place on Sunday evening for a couple well known in local Methodism. Mr and Mrs Tim and


Lyndsey Perkins have worked all over the area since arriving three years ago. They are leaving because Mr Perkins is going


| to Wesley House, Cam- I bridge, to complete his training for the Methodist


ministry. Mr Perkins has had pas­


A MAN from Clitheroe faces four badger baiting allega­


tions. Gary Lee Ilaslam (28), of


Moor End, pleaded not guilty to all of them when he appeared before magistrates


at Burnley. The hearing was


FORWARD at Clitheroe Auction Mart's weekly sale of primestock and calves were 42 prime cattle, 1,701 prime lambs, ewes and rams


and 20 calves. Prime bulls made to 102 per kg


(average 98.02p); commercial to


91p (87.07p). Prime steers made to 93p (93p)


and commercial to 80p (77,50p). Premium heifers made tp Hop


(115p), prime to lOGp (98.11p) and commercial to 91p (82.20p). Premium lambs (25.5 kg-


than natural causes. She gave the medical cause of death as streptococcal scep- ticaemia, a form of blood poisoning, which can lead to death in a matter of hours. Calum lived with his par­


ents, John and Susan Rain, of Corporation Street,


Clitheroe. Assistant deputy coroner


Mr John Birch recorded a verdict of natural causes.


Drink-driving crackdown


ment with members of the public encouraged to tele­ phone the Drink Link hot­ line on the Freephone Crimestoppers number, 0800


555111. In recent years, the police


have combined to reduce the number of people risking drink driving at Christmas and now feel it is time to con­ centrate efforts on other high risk periods, such as summer.


Church couple’s farewell


toral care of the chapels at Waddington and West Bradford, and been respon­ sible for developing and supporting youth work in the circuit. His wife has been developing pastoral care in residential homes. The couple have


appeared in various pan­ tomimes and plays present­ ed at Trinity Methodist Church, Clitheroe. The ser­ vice is there on Sunday evening.


Badger baiting charges


adjourned until September 8th, when a pre-trial review will take place. There are two counts of


interfering with a badger sett, one of digging for bad­ gers and one alleging an act resulting in an animal suffer­ ing unnecessarily.


Auction mart prices


35.9kg) made to 71.90p (71.70p), premium (36kg-45kg) to 77.78p (73.04p), prime (25.5kg-35.9kg) to 70.40p (G7.16p), prime (3Gkg- 45.5kg) 70.91p (66.65p), prime (45.6kg-52kg) to 73.21p (G9.10p), others to 62.70p (G0.08p) Cast ewes were to £23 per head. Friesian bull calves were £5, Simm. bull calves to £87, Hereford


, bull calves to £6G, Simm hfr calves to £44. and Friesian hfr calves to


£22. , . One-year-old killed | !"{ A


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- o, V- V' I JB As well as valuable work experience with Linden Homes,


there is a prize of £500 for individual or group entry (judged by age group) linked to another prize allocation of £500 for the school, college or organisation the winners come from. Mr Philip Davies, chief executive of Linden Homes, says.


"We are very pleased by the interest we have received con­ cerning the ‘Horizons for Housing’ competition. We believe that encouraging young designers is a paramount issue arid we are proud to give them a chance to have their own house design developed at Catcrham Barracks.


, Inquiries and application forms should be submitted to


Tracy De Boorder, at Linden Homes South-East Limited, Linden House, The Village at Caterham Barracks, Coulsdon Road, Caterham-on-the Hill, Surrey CR3 5YB, tel. 01883


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