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Former Clitheroe soccer s ta r Carlo Nash is linked to a £ lm . transfer to Leeds United.


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Election drama is captured in a full- colour special fea­


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• A Clitheroe shop has been voted a top national outlet.


I t is crunch time again for Trinity Skillshare, as it announces


results. I page 3


Health bosses refute growing rumours of an influx of Kosovo refugees.


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A parish council chairman is cen­ sured over a pre­ election leaflet.


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Ultraframe chief r e s ig n s m a


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'Not right person to head next development stage'


THE man personally chosen by Ultraframe founder Mr John Lancaster to steer the company through the turbulence of the stock market flota­ tion has dropped a resignation bombshell. Managing director Mr


Ian Robinson(45) is to leave the company after just three years. The surprise announcement was made to the employees at 4 p.m. last


Thursday. A resident of Hurst


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I next stage, following the staggering growth of the


Green, Mr Robinson (pic­ tured) feels that the time is right for someone else to take Ultraframe on to its


past two years. “I have achieved every­


thing, and more, that I set


out to achieve. The shares have gone over £4, the


turnover has doubled, profit quintupled and we have embarked on a joint ven­


ture in Canada. “I felt it needed a fresh


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set of eyes to look at it and take it to the next stage. I didn’t think I was the right person for that. It needed someone new.” Mr Robinson, who owns


the 92.774 million shares in Ultraframe, his holding cur­ rently valued a t around £6m., is to take six months


off. lA'.' “I am fortunate to have


I enough money behind me to do that. The bulk of my


I capital is very much tied up in the company and I have a major stake in seeing the company develop.” Initially, Mr Lancaster


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1 Mr Andrew Moore. Yet I despite local speculation that former finance director Mr Moore might be high on I the list of candidates to suc-


er praised Mr Robinson for "doing a wonderful job" with the flotation, alongside deputy managing director


School pupil is currently by Vivien Meath


undertaking regarding busi­ ness development overseas and said that the company would be actively looking tor "someone from outside." He stressed that he and Mr Robinson would remain friends. "He is a personal friend and still is," said Mr Lancaster, adding that the former managing director was leaving the company "in really good shape.” "We are on record sales and a big, new factory is due to open on Lincoln Way in a


month's time offering 80,000sq. ft. of space. Busi­


ness is good." Mr Robinson, recently


licensed as a church reader, was a chartered engineer living in Chipping when he was first approached by Mr Lancaster. Extremely per­ sonable and with lashings of enthusiasm, combined with a sincere belief in the people employed, as well as the product, he was quickly accepted by the expanding


workforce. With Mr Lancaster and


his co-directors, he success­ fully led Ultraframe through the intricate web of flotation, all those involved spending many months working almost around the clock. Employee participa­ tion in the business and expanding the export mar­ ket were two of his personal missions, both of which have been well and truly achieved. A lover of the outdoors,


his wife is head teacher of St Wilfrid's CE School, Black­ burn, and the couple moved to Hurst Green shortly after he took over the Ultra- frame reins. News of Mr Robinson's


I of the role the former Clitheroe Royal Grammar


ceed Mr Robinson, Mr Lancaster was keen to emphasise the importance


departure does not seem to have affected company share prices, which are run ning at an all-time high, going up to 435p last week, prior to dropping back to 419p on Tuesday.


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THIS week is Local News­ paper Week and offers pub­ lications, such as ours, an opportunity to reflect on the past and look forward to the future. The Clitheroe Advertiser


and Times has been at the heart of the local community since 1885. Highly regarded by the


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industry and, we hope, by you, our readers, we are con­ tinually working to ensure that you share the pride we take in producing "your product". Our circulation fig­ ures (a recent week showed a three per cent increase) indi­ cate that you like what we are delivering every week. To mark Local Newspa­


per Week, we are inviting anyone whose picture appears in this week's news­ paper to call in at our office, 3 King Street, Clitheroe. Bring a copy of the newspa­ per with you and show our front counter staff your pho­ tograph. In return, there will be free CAT goody b a^ and a special commemorative leaflet for the first 50 readers. We firmly believe that


local newspapers have a vital role to play-a view endors^ by HRH The Prince of Wales and the Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, who both emphasised the community role played by Britain's regional and local newspapers this week. In special messages. The


whole, I have found that local newspapers are more free of the debilitating cyni­ cism which often seems to be all-pervading in the nationa


media.” Mr Blair added: "Local


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parties have never underesti­ mated. For an MP, and not just at election time, their local newspaper is of crucial importance. "We know the role they


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All adds up to quite a remarkable talent


GIFTED student Rebecca Palmer has won top national accolades in


maths and physics. The modest 17-year-old Clitheroe


Royal Grammar School student com­ peted against the country's "creme-de- la-creme" of sixth-formers when she sat papers in the Mathematics and


Physics Olympiads. She ended b o th contes ts with top


marks, a £300 prize and the possibility of representing England in an interna­


tional competition. Following the Physics Olympiad, which


took place at Harrow public school, Rebec­ ca, who lives in Sabden, was awarded the national laboratory theoretical prize at a presentation in London, where she received the cash award and a selection of books. Later, in the Mathematics Olympiad,


sponsored by Cambridge University, she reached the last eight and is soon to find out whether she is to be invited to join the national squad to compete in Romania in


July. Said Rebecca: "I've already been told


that I obtained the highest mark, but this has stiil to be officially confirmed." Deputy Head Mrs Frances Clisham


added: "It's a very remarkable achieve­ ment and the school is absolutely delight­ ed with her success." Rebecca is the daughter of Mr and Mrs


Eric and Mary Palmer. Her father is an electrician and her mother, a librarian at


Clitheroe Library. Her genius tor maths was discovered at .


an early age at Sabden County Primary School, where she moved up a year, and left for CRGS a year early. As a gifted pupil, she was encouraged to


take the fast track towards her A-level and gained grade As in both maths and further maths a t 15 - three years earlier than


usual. "I actually took my A-level maths before


my GCSE maths," she remarked. Rebecca, who also gained nine GCSEs


(four starred A grades and four As and one B) ahead of her age, has already been offered a place to read maths at Trinity College, Cambridge, one of the foremost academic institutions for maths in the world. (100599/7/9)


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