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A proud school answers closure pes­ simists with a “we’re not finished yet” message.


A village mourns a tiny tot with a big heart.


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Vicar gets hot under the collar about the early appearance of hot cross buns.


Torchlight Proces­ sion excitement mounts - as Percy the Pig is brought out of retirement.


There is a spooky happening as a teenager sees a ghostly huntsman.


The council steps in with a subsidy to help with recycling as waste paper mar­ ket crashes. .


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Katie steps in with petition to save town’s civic cinema


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T H E power of th e pen is a fo r c e to b e r e c k ­ oned w ith - e sp e c ia lly w h e r e n in e - y e a r -o ld K a t ie Sm it to n is con ­


cerned. Katie, a pupil a t Pendle


C o u n ty P r im a ry School, has collected a 173-name petition in just over a week


to save C lith e ro e 's Civic Hall Cinema from closure. The young campaigner,


who says going to the cinema is one of her favourite hob­ bies, has enlisted the help of several friends and has man­ aged to get nearly every pupil in the school to sign her peti­ tion, which she hopes to pre­ sent, in person, to Ribble Val­


ley Borough Council. Katie, who lives in Buccleuch


Avenue, with her parents, Mr and Mrs Bob and Christine


Smitton, and older siblings Laura and Paul, said she would not want to have to go to Burnley, Blackburn or Preston to see a new film. She said: "I did not want the cinema to close as I enjoy going there with my friends, so I decided to start a petition. "I did not think many people


would sign it, but I got lots more names than I thought." The majority of those who


signed the petition are young, said Katie, who also canvassed her pals from the swimming and


Residents’ pay parking plan causes furore


Proposals branded as ‘ridiculous’ as neighbourhood is declared war zone


A CLITHEROE neighbourhood is about to become a war zone, with coun­ cil officials caught in the crossfire. They believe they are b y v ic k y C a r i in


trapped in a no-win situa­ tion in a row over on-street parking. While many resi­ dents of Chester Avenue, St Mary's Street and Bren- nand Street claim an urgent need for the creation of resi- dents-only parking zones around their homes, those in nearby Cowper Avenue and Milton Avenue, who


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according to a county coun­ cil blueprint would also have to be party to the scheme, have branded the proposals as ridiculous. Letters from Lancashire


and someone took your space there would be dag­ gers drawn. In any case, paying for a permit does not guarantee a space outside


County Council detailing plans to impose a £20 to £25 per year home parking permit scheme have been received by 300 household­ ers in the area this week. They represent the sec­


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nine months ago, the major­ ity supported the home per­ mit proposal, but, fearing a knock-on effect of displaced traffic spilling into Cowper Avenue and Milton Avenue, county council engineers decided to include these two rows of terraces within their earmarked permit zone. Experiencing no obvious


nand Street, another home owner, whose comments echoed many others, said: "We are quite happy to pay for a parking permit. It is infuriating when you go out during the day and find nowhere to park when you come back, especially on a Saturday. There's a large car park with plenty of space round the corner, which people choose not to use because they have to pay. Something has to be done about the problem." Many residents in both


drama clubs she attends. Katie's mother said her daugh­


ter had used her initiative after hearing the cinema might close. She said: "Katie and her friends have regular outings to the cine­ ma, and they would all be quite upset if they could not go any­


more." Now Katie is hoping to get as


side the Civic Hall Cinema. (090399/23/19a)


many more signatures as possible before presenting the petition to


the council. Our picture shows Katie out­


CONSIDERING him­ self lo be on the first steps to stardom, a summer on stage is beckoning for eight- year-old Michael Carr. The talented youngster,


who lives with parents Mr and Mrs David and Julie Carr, in Browgate, Sawley, out-performed hundreds of other junior hopefuls to win through to the final cast list of the musical "Oliver", which is about to go into production at Brad­ ford's Alhambra Theatre. Set for a six-week run from June 29th to August


14th, it will star Gary Wilmott as Fagan, with i-v Michael (pictured) hoping he will make his professional ■ debut as one of the rogue character's urchin gang of pick-pockets. Said Mrs Carr: "Michael


really could sing before he could talk and he just loves to perform. For the casting, he had to dance and he has never had a dancing lesson in his life. He also had to sing 'Consider Yourself, which he learned more or less on the way to the audi­


tion!" Now Michael, a pupil at


Bolton-by-Bowland Primary School, is on the understudy list, waiting to be called to rehearsals. Yet he is keeping his talents honed with piano


sections of the area say they would feel more positive about the scheme if they were guaranteed a parking space outside their homes, including one Chester Avenue resident, who is having to give up his nearby garage after 30 years to make way for the new bus- rail interchange. The row has put two bor­


and voice coaching by Clitheroe's Mrs Jean Hart­ ley. He is also a member of Waddington's St Helen's Church Choir and Bolton- by-Bowland Drama Group. Added Mrs Carr:


"Michael is a very good


young actor and wants to audition for advertisements, TV and film work. For that, I think he would need to be represented by an agent and I would appreciate any advice on how to find some­ one locally." (1G0399/29/20)


Frustrated councillors shelve Lottery bids


TH E Edisford and Castle Grounds L o t te ry bids have officially been shelved.


parking upheavals, one resi­ dent of Milton Avenue said: "We are dead against it and several residents are up in arms. Why should we have to pay £25 a year when it is quiet during the day and everybody manages to get a space during the evening? It is just ridiculous. "At the moment, if some­


ough council colleagues, council leader Coun. Howel Jones and Coun. Frank Dyson, who represent the different factions of the area, which falls into .the Grammar School ward; at loggerheads with one another. The former has received a plethora of adverse reactions to the scheme, while the latter says he has been inundated with support. Said Coun. Jones: "At the


one has visitors and they park outside our house, we just go elsewhere. But if there were parking permits


by councillors as a result of increasing frustration with the Lottery Board's shifting


The move has been made


goalposts. Instead, development


moment we are at a consul­ tation stage, so those with opinions must contact either myself, my council colleague, or Lancashire County Council with their 9 Continued on page 2


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plans for the two sites are to be drawn up by the council independently. Ribble Val­ ley Borough Council's Com­ munity Committee heard that there is increasing pres­ sure on schemes subject to lottery bids over £lm. to demonstrate regional or national importance. Smaller "bite-size" appli­


cations are looked upon more favourably. Council­ lors were asked to decide how they wanted to advance the bids. The meeting heard that,


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between borough council officers and the County Museum Service, it had been learned that, with the exception of the Keep, much of the site could only be viewed as being of local interest, ruling it out of the Lottery Board's criteria for


funding. A number of options were presented to the councillors. They could press ahead with the bids as they stood; they could develop a phased scheme involving a number of smaller bids, coupled with some council-funded aspects or they could aban­ don the bids altogether and start to draw up develop­ ment plans for the sites to


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be undertaken by the coun­ cil independently. The latter option was


overwhelmingly favoured by the councillors, who expressed considerable irri­ tation at the way they felt bids from rural parts of East Lancashire seemed to have been shunned by the


Lottery Board. Coun. Frank Dyson


(Clitheroe) fumed: "I think it is absolute nonsense to talk about possible Lottery funding in the future. It is


'high time we stopped dreaming of pie in the sky Lottery bids small or large. We need to get down to a 9 Continued on page 2.


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