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KOSOVARS ON LATEST PEACE DEAL


Contracts are about to be signed to expand one of Clitheroe’s premier retail outlets.


Sainsbury’s deny there wiU be any job losses as company , makes cuts.


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A blacksmith and local character with a real zest for life dies at the age of


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A landlord with a winning streak has decided to pull his last pint.


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A newsagent clainM that the local rail line has suffered five years of stagnation and unfulfilled potential.


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A world race yachtsman returns home with some exciting, salty tales to tell.


FOGGITT’S WEEKEND


WEATHER: Remaining blustery and cool, but drier with sunny spells.


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f » s 1 i ‘ ■' p a g e s Channel 4 TV cameras zoom


in on wedding with difference Ttyp-npp era theme will feature in documentar


WEDDING bells have rung for a nibble Valley couple whose big day is to feature as a Channel 4 docu­


mentary.


roaster Miss Grace Stephenson made their marriage vows on Saturday before family, friends, television cameras and production crew in St Andrew's Church, Slaidburn. Now they are waiting for the national


Farmer Mr Francis Howard and coffw j


screening of their wedding vidw with a difference, which is due some time in the


autumn. fame.


from local farming families, whose ties to the land go back generations, and it vvas for this reason that they were chosen for


Both the bride and bndegroom hail . ,


As our front page report in February detailed, London production company


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Maya Vision International Ltd signed up the pair, former pupils of Bowland Coun­ ty High School, after scouring the country for a couple willing to have their wedding


themed to a bygone era. Mr Howard (25) and Miss Stephenson


(21) were deemed naturals after being put in touch with programme producers by the Rev. Mark Russell-Smith, vicar of St Andrew's Church. He was approached by researchers visiting the village and on Sat­ urday, conducted the ceremony, alongside the Rev. John Birbeck, of St John's


gramme by giving away too many details, there was a distinctly Victorian chyacter to the couple's outfits, those of their guests, the service and reception, which was held at the Chilsey Green Farm home of Miss Stephenson's parents, Mr and


Family fury over cruel decision on school place


A SAWLEY mother has slammed Lancastee Coun­ ty Council for its "inhu­ mane" decision to send her daughter to a secondary school 12 miles away from


home.


‘Hell will have to freeze over' before mother will comply report by Vicky Carlin


Sawley Road, is furious that, following an appeal considered by an indepen­ dent panel set up by the council, officials have said there is no way her daugh­ ter, Katy, will have a place at Ribblesdale in time for September, with only Accrington's Moorhead High School as an alterna­


Mrs Carol Osborn, of


tive.Now MP Nigel Evans has stepped into the contro­ versy as families - 201 appeals against school place decisions have been made - threaten to call in the Local Authority Ombudsman to


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help.Meanwhile, an action group — the Ribble Valley Schools for Ribble Valley Children - has been formed to fight alleged injustices. Currently a pupil at Gis-


mar School and, as a single parent, I have to juggle my work around taking Katy to and from school." No public buses are avail­


able from Katy's home to Accrington, so Mrs Osborn would have to take her daughter on the 24-mile


round trip herself. An estimated 16 young­


sters were initially refused places at Ribblesdale High School, but their appeals have also been turned down. Mrs Maureen Tattersall,


Church, Hurst Green. Under contract not to pre-empt the pro­


Mrs Jim and Marion Stephenson, in


Hurst Green. Given away by her father, M'ss


Stephenson wore a gown of gold silk and carried a bouQuet of fresh field flow^s. She was attended by her sisters, Mrs


Broadley.


groomsman was Mr Ian MeVety and the ushers were Messrs Duncan Cowking and James Stephenson.


Best man was Mr Geordie Parker, the , ,,


Hydes Farm, Newton, home to Mr Howard's parents Mr and Mrs Jean and Martin Howard, are currently planning


their honeymoon. Photo: John Pye.


M en give


chase after daylight robbery


TWO men gave chase after a youth was seen near a burglary in Gis- burn late on Tuesday


afternoon. Entry was gained


through a bedroom win­ dow to a bungalow off the main street, and rings and cash to a total value of £921 were


another man saw the youth nearby, but he ran off and soon got away, although they gave chase. He is described as aged about 17, 5ft. 6in. tall, of slim build with medium length dark hair. Any information can 1 be given to the police on


stolen. The householder and


01200 443344. The couple, who will live in a cottage at ^


Laura Smith and Miss Dawn Stephenson, the bridegroom's sister. Miss Wendy


Howard, Miss Fiona Stewart, flower ^rl Elizabeth Parsons and page boy Daniel


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Nuisance is dealt with


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SWIFT action was taken over ground- pluming at Castle


Cement this week. An enforcement notice


was served on the coni- pany in a bid to curtail haze and r odours. Adverse weather condi­ tions" were blamed by Castle Cement for Tues­ day’s ground-pluming


problems. Complaints from local


people alleging persistent haze and odour were sup­ ported by the Environ­ ment Agency. I t found th a t the company was either in breach, or likely to be in breach, of an oper­ ating condition saying tha t it should not cause offence beyond its site


boundary. An enforcement notice


was issued by the agency at 10-45 a.m. on Tuesday ordering Castle Cement to review the operation of all its kilns and make any nec­ essary alterations to stop the haze and odours con­


tinuing. A spokesman for the com­


pany said that action was taken to reduce throughput of the kilns. "The situation was closely monitored throughout the day until weather conditions had improved." 'The notice was lifted at 4


p.m.Air quality campaipurs see the issue of the notice as another victory, if an over­ due one, after a long cam­ paign. But they are now seeking a way of getting Castle Cement to act quick­ ly in the event of adverse weather, rather than after the inevitable time it takes to get a notice issued.


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of Showley Road, Clayton- le-Dale, had appealed to the council after learning her daughter, Sara, would have to catch two buses each way, the first at 6-15 a.m., to Moorhead High School. She said her daughter


burn County Primary School, Katy has slight learning difficulties and Mrs Osborn, along with Katy's present head teacher, is adamant that Ribblesdale is the best school for her. Mrs Osborn said: "There


was very upset at the thought of having to go to a school without her friends and get up at 5-30 a.m. to catch two buses to Accring­ ton every day. Mrs Tattersall, who has


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is no way Katy is going to Moorhead. Hell will have to freeze over before I send her to that school. Each child is individually suited to a par­ ticular school and Ribbles­ dale is the best school, in my opinion, for Katy. "The decision to send a


also refused to send her daughter to Moorhead, says she has been in touch with Lancashire County Council to find out why Sara's appeal was turned down. A spokesman for the


young Barrow schoolgirl a seaside star. Bubbly Kirsty Walmsley


child from a rural school to a different one 12 miles away can only be described


as inhumane." After Katy's appeal was


refused, Mrs Osborn said: "I just don't know what to do, or what the future will hold for Katy. I'm sure that if we re-applied to Ribblesdale next year it would be the same story. "The family moved to the


campaign group, Mr Stuart Finch, said it would like to hear from anyone in the area who is having similar problems with secondary school allocations for their child and can be contacted on 01254 249297. In response, a spokesman


(seven), of Ash Close, is the toast of Southport, and with parents Peter and Adele and baby sister Katie, nearly two, was given the red carpet treatment on a return visit to the resort, where she had some very unusual lost prop­


erty to collect. For Kirsty, a pupil at Bar-


for Lancashire County Council said: "Parents who failed to get their first choice of school, were enti­ tled to appeal to an inde­ pendent panel, who looked at each case individually. "Of the 201 appeals made


Ribble Valley from Liver­ pool because of the good quality schools here. My two elder children are pupils at Clitheroe Royal (Jram


1 tallest and fastest suspended looping roller-coaster. Being no bigger than a


row CE Primary School, has a false right eye, which on an earlier visit to the town's Pleasureland amusement park, had dislodged while the thrill-seeking pungster was riding the white-knuck­ le Traumatizer, the country's


to the council from the Hyndburn and Ribble Val­ ley area, 67 have been allowed, 70 are still waiting to be heard, 25 have been withdrawn and 39 turned


down." vniiiHi^tttiVERtiSEB


thumb nail, the family believed the £750 silicone eye had disappeared for good and, as Kirsty (pic­ tured) was due to have a replacement, continued with their day out with


report by Julie Frankland


Kirsty wearing sunglasses. But, in a rivist which took


their breath away just as much as the ride, they were stunned to hear that the eye had been found - news given to them by Kirsty's doctor at Manchester's specialist eye hospital. Explained Mr Walmsley, a sales manager: "We knew the eye had become lost while Kirsty was riding the Traumatizer, but being so small and the ride so big, it could have been anywhere. We were telling the doctor how the eye had become dislodged, when he suddenly said he thought he knew where it was. "Unbeknown to us, the


eye had been found on the ride's exit platform and Plea­ sureland staff had appealed through the local newspaper for its owner to come for­


ward. The doctor had then treated a patient from the Southport area, who had read the story, and men­ tioned it to him. Mnding the eye and the sequence of events leading to our collect­ ing it has been a million to | one chance. It's phenome­


nal." Now re-united with her


precious property, Kirsty, who has had a false eye since she was 10-months-old, remains as eager as ever for ] excitement and wants to re­ ride the Traumatizer, but wearing a pair of swimming gogglesl Said an ingenious Kirsty: "I have never had this happen to my eye before, but the ride was very good and fast, and if I wear my goggles, my eye cannot


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