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PIAGGIO TYPHOON 50 Cash Price £1499


Full Comp. Insurance for 1 year £99 inclusive


Deposit £25 plus 60 payments at £35.72 per month or £0.24 per week. APR 14.9 A,


Total Amount Payable £2200.20 (Finance & Insurance Subject lu Status)


Offer from 1st April to End June 1999


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001 Burnley Road, Crawshawbooth


01706 226910 OPENING HOURS:


Monday-Friday 9am to 6pm Saturday 1()am to 5pm Closed Sunday


Closed Easter Weekend Thursday 6pm to Tuesday 9am


Sainsbury’s contest is a


A little extra help.


From top selling Minivalor Stairlifts to a wide range of Scooters all with lull service back up, to Wheelchairs, Riser Reclincrs, Adjustable Beds & Walking Aids... talk Lo professional, friendly people who understand your needs. Ring us now or call in to our showroom.


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big winner WINNERS in a painting competition run by Sains- bury's received their prizes in the first event at its new


Clitheroe store. As previously reported,


the winner was Sophie le Breton (seven), a pupil at Brookside County Primary School, Clithcroe. Her painting about the


store was chosen to lie used for a large advertisement and those of five other youngsters for smaller ones. The store manager, Mr


Ivor Davies, gave out thou­ sands of pounds in prizes for the winners' schools. Our picture shows him


with the winners, parents and school representatives.


Spring flowers


SIXTEEN members of the Clithoroe Naturalists' Soci­ ety enjoyed a winter walk via Primrose Mills and Standen Hall to Wiswell and Barrow. They returned by Lower


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and Higher Standen Hey farms, back to Primrose and


Clitheroe. A few of the first spring


flowers were noted, includ­ ing celandine and shepherd's purse. Oyster catchers were also seen in the fields near the sewage works.


Local employer pays for staff nights out! EXCLUSIVE!!! Back in the eariy V V" srf» M b n wm Eileen Baron - Assistant Principal


“ It is vital for the future of the area that individuals to continue developing new skills and we are delighted to have worked in partnership with Park Online on their Employee Development Scheme”.


Steve Marr - Managing Director


“ Here at Park Online we recognise that our people are the key to the continued success of our company. I am delighted that our Employment Development Scheme, in


partnership with Burnley College, has been a tremendous success in supporting and encouraging our people to develop new skills” .


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Employee Development Schemes address personal needs. Research has shown that a successful scheme • Improves loyalty


• Reduces staff turnover • Improves employee relations • Individuals are far more adaptable to change


If an individual is learning new skills, then they are developing and as their employer you will benefit


Burnley College has introduced an initiative allowing employers to make


available to their workforce over 300 part time courses for which the College will charge the employer a small annual fee.


Find out how for as little as only £5 per employee you,can introduce an Employee Development Scheme within your organisation.


So there it is - your opportunity to encourage your employees to continue learning and reap the rewards ... and here’s how. Just attend our Briefing Seminar,Wednesday,April 14th,


5.30 p.m.- 7 p.m., Burnley College Business Centre, Bank Parade, Burnley.


Come along and listen to how Burnley College’s initiative will benefit your organisation by ringing Fiona Donaldson on


0 B 282 7 I f 335. This is for you! 1) A motivated workforce can improve our business


2) It will improve staff relationships and morale 3) We can create a‘learning’ culture throughout our entire workforce


4) We’ll enhance our reputation with our customers 5) Our staff’s adaptability to change will increase


Get it in your diary now! Briefing Seminar - Wednesday, April 14th, 5.30 p.m. - 7 p.m.


Burnley College


Burnley College, Shorey Bank, Ormerod Road, Burnley BB I I 2RX Burnley College is an educational charitable institution providing quality education and training for individuals and organisations


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FULL of bounce, energetic pupils from Billington’s St Augustine’s RC High School jumped to it for chari­


The youngsters raised over £80 for the


Breakthrough Breast Cancer Appeal in a sponsored inflatable castle bounce at


Clitheroe's Trinity Centre, which lasted two and a half hours.


The exercise was the brainchild of 11-


year-old Rachel Humphreys, a member of Trinity Youth Club, who together with her classmates Nadine Harrison, Rachel Lath­ am, Sarah Lofthouse, Katie McGlynn, Sofie Nedeljkovic, Amy Roberts, Lizzie Wiggin and Charlotte Wood organised the whole event. Our photo shows the girls in action. (210399/16/23)


View of the Rowland Fells


AFTER a misty morning s ta r t , 21 members of Clitheroe Ramblers' Asso­ ciation enjoyed an eight- and-a-half mile walk from Hurst Green.


They passed through


S tonyhurs t College to Kemple End, through the Longridge Fell forest plan­ ta tio n to Spire Hill, for views to the Bowland Fells,


and returned via Crowshaw House and Green Gore. The day become a lovely,


warm spring occasion, which was appreciated by


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Incompetent bunch who led the Brussels gravy train


THANK goodness they've gonel And not before time. The overblown President of the European Commission and his incompetent bunch of allies leading the gravy train have resigned amidst chaos in Brussels. The one question remaining is what took them so long?


"T n izW P 0 SNTA , M f ’BB with Ribblc Valley MPNigcl Evans.


The instant smiles which appeared on the faces of the "told you so" brigade (me and others at West­ minster) are slowly turn­ ing into concern that a long-awaited opportuni­ ty might be lost.


There is little doubt that most of the commission­ ers will receive an exten­ sion on their luxury lifestyles, as they will bo


i reappointed into their old posts.


i showered themselves in the culture of cronyism, will lose the tenuous hold they had on any of our


The most culpable of the commissioners, those who ignored the fraud or


memories. They are face­ less holders of enormous privileged positions of power. Many of them are retired domestic politi­ cians who have risen, Phoenix-like, from the ashes. The opulence of their lifestyles is exceed­ ed only by their incomes. They are the builders of the European dream, except that the dream is restricted property - the rest have to suffice with the nightmare.


The budget of the Euro­ pean Union is £65 billion per annum. It is an enor­ mous sum intended for the common good. Recent investigations by independent "wise men", aided arid abetted by a brave whistleblower working a t the highest level within the mighty bureaucracy, has lifted the veil on corruption and cronyism, ignored and prospering for far too long.


ment. Even they - the MEPs - voted against transparency and hon­ esty in their own finan­ cial arrangements allow­ ing MEPs to claim busi­ ness class fares to Brus­ sels, but refusing any proper audit to prove they had spent the money in that way. Open to abuse, it is, and was, abused. Any normal business would not have gone through with that sort of lack of account­ ability.


The democratic element of the whole Lego operation is the European Parlia-


The European Union is shakily embarking on a single currency experi­ ment th a t leaves me cold. The s ta te of the European Union is not strong as directive upon regulation heaps extra costs on businesses. Every new right - dreamed up by officials and bureaucrats who have no experience of running a business them­ selves - means more hours spent on paper­ work, less time spent on making profit, and more


of the profits diverted away from fresh money­ making investment.


Alarm bells have been ring­ ing loud and clear at Westminster for ages that the King of Europe has no clothes. While fraud flourishes, and our taxes are wasted, the real problems of Europe (ie unemployment) at crisis levels, are ignored. Per­ haps, the sudden and bit­ ter taste of unemploy­ ment for our commis­ sioners will come as a refreshing wake-up call for the European Union.


I want to see all the peoples of Europe benefiting from a successful trading policy, releasing enor­ mous potential from the 15 nation states. I despise the lies, deceit and downright open fraud which personifies the current shambles. Let's hope th a t last week's mass suicide of political careers will do some lasting good before it's too late!


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