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A baby named after his parents’ sports hero is the winner of our Christmas Che­ rubs contest.


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A village school heads for the Year 2000 on a high with a glowing OFSTED report.


I t i s decision day next week for the future of the town’s civic hall.


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There have been parties galore - and our photographers were there to cap­ ture the fun.


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Stalemate has halt­ ed the county coun­ cil’s efforts on sch­ ool platings.


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The borough coun­ cil’s chief executive says there has been a significant impr­ ovement in plume dispersal at Castle Cement.


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FOGGITT’S WEEKEND


WEATHER: Continuing cold and frosty with foggy mornings.


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A MARVELLOUS way to mark the Mil­


lennium! That’s the general ver­


dict on the impressive five-foot diameter clock installed on the frontage of CRGS Sixth Form Centre in York Street,


Clitheroe. The blue face and hand­


some gold lettering reflect the colours of the school, and are expected to remain bright for several decades


! at least. "The CRGS Foundation


has given the clock to mark the Millennium," says its clerk, Mr Anthony Cooper. "Everyone felt it was a


suitable gesture and although a four-foot face


was considered, we believe the larger one was the cor­ rect choice. It can be seen from all around and fits in well with the building." William Potts and Sons,


a famous Leeds firm, has supplied and fitted the


clock, which adjusts auto­ matically to summer time. A plaque inside the


matters. It made a large grant towards the exten­


school will commemorate the gift. The foundation is in charge of the school’s investments and keeps an eye on heritage and similar


sions to the centre last year. A few of the centre’s


pupils are pictured under their timely new sentinel. (171299/13/13a)


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moroseness may mean that there is no place like home to ring in the New Year for those in


the Ribble Valley. Grand plans by some of


the area's top hotels to cele­ brate the dawn of the 21st Century in style have already been scrapped or down-sized, while tickets for


others are unsold. To compound Millenni­


up closed signs, while rev­ ellers still planning to ven­ ture out are already being warned that they may have | to make their own way


um misery, many popular local venues will be hanging


home. A spokesman for the


ranks of Clitheroe cabbies explained: "We are antici­ pating a quieter than usual New Year's Eve. Many dri­ vers have already decided it is not worth their while working. We have all asked our regular passengers what


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they are planning to do and there seems to be a general apathy and uncertainty. Those that have plans seem to be giving or attending house parties." What promised, at the


start of this year, to be the Ribble Valley's glitziest event, a £2,000-per-head,


three day, two night feast of a celebration at Chipping's Gibbon Bridge Hotel, was abandoned due to poor tick­


et sales. Down-sized to a dinner


dance, less than 100 guests paying £150 per head, or to include a double room - between £540 to £700, will now see in the New Year at the luxury location. Over at Gisburn's Stirk


cabaret, free drinks, break­ fast or brunch for overnight guests at an additional £45 per person, and £5 home drop-off for anyone living within a 15 mile radius of the venue. Said proprietor Mr Malcolm Weaving: "We have capacity for up to 300 guests, but it would seem many people are still unsure of how to spend the evening and are perhaps worried about the cost of drinks and


of getting home." Fears of being "ripped-


House Hotel, a gala ball and six course banquet at £108.75 per person has just half the number of antici­ pated revellers. It includes a


off" are keeping people at home, according to Mr Lee Bentley, co-proprietor of Sabden's Wellsprings Inn. He is hosting a £135 per person "house party" with dancing, drinks, buffet, fire­ works and breakfast: Said Mr Bentley: "We were going to close for the evening, but had a number of regulars request that we do some­


thing to mark the Millenni­ um. We now have 65 guests


coming, but we will not make any great profits on the event. People have been slow to decide what they are going to do on New Year's Eve because of all the sto­ ries in the media about being ripped-off." While the likes of


Waddington's Moorcock Inn and Hurst Green's Shireburn Arms Hotel will be shut, a number of Clitheroe town centre pubs will be open. Both the Dog Inn Music and Sports Bar and Keystreet Music Bar will admit only patrons holding their special party tickets. At £20 per head, the Dog's event is a sell-out, but of 250 tickets for Keystreet's revels, priced £15 each, 100 are unsold. Other venues, such as the


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CLITHEROE has seen a reversal in shopping trends — thanks to Father Christmas and members of Ribble Val­


ley Raill City dwellers from Man­


chester and their neigh­ bours in Bolton have been swapping their big depart­ ment stores for Clitheroe's quainter shops. Having left their cars at


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home, they have travelled to Clitheroe by train on Ribble Valley Rail's Satur­ day Santa Specials, which have been in operation since the last weekend in Novem­ ber. Departing- from Clitheroe, the service has been calling via Blackburn and commuter stations in


Greater Manchester to ter­ minate at the city's Victoria


Station. Explained Mr Peter Moore, chairman of the rail enthusiasts’ group: "This has been our most successful year yet for Santa specials. "The service has always


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been popular locally, but we have had a fantastic response from people out­ side the area. In talking to them, they have been choosing to shop in Clitheroe for its traditional atmosphere and to enjoy the views of our beautiful countryside on their way


in." The town's independent


retail outlets have proved to be quite a draw, with many visitors throughout the Christmas period comment- ing favourably, on the vari- ■


ety of different goods they ho/1 epan The Platform Gallery's


Christmas exhibition, always a crowd-puller, suf­ fered somewhat during the latter stages due to work on the new transport inter­ change, but was again voted a huge hit. Figures, which are still


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being finalised, show that more than 1,000 adult pas­ sengers have boarded the Santa Specials, with Ribble Valley Rail members hand­ ing out more than 350 goody bags, donated by Booth’s, to junior travellers. For adults, there was sherry on the train donated by


Byrne’s.


Thieves in a £20,000 haul


MEMBERS of a local family had an unseasonal shock when they returned home from their Christmas Day celebrations. They found their house in


Whalley Road, Read, ran­ sacked and £20,000 in cash


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and jewellery missing. Burglars had entered the


Victoria, Swan and Royal and Whalley's The Swan will open as usual, with no entrance charge and drinks at regular bar prices.


premises through the cellar, although they left by the back door. The raid was some time before 1-45 a.m. on Boxing Day, and police | making inquiries ask any­ one who saw anything sus­ picious near the terraced property in Read to contact them.


Area one of worst for road casualties Partnership action over ‘top twenty’ placing for local accidents


TI-IE Ribble Valley has just been named in a "top 20" list it would be better out of. Latest figures show that for


every 1,000 residents, there are eight people injured - some fatally - on the roads every


year.


which the recently formed Ribble Valley Crime and Disorder Part­


The situation is one of several . , .


nership is keen to help tackle. The partnership naturally has a


major input from the police, which has increased patrols in recent times, and concentrated especially on motor cycle accidents. Now the borough, county and parish coun­ cils and the local magistrates are


involved too. Many of the accidents are on the


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main roads which carry traffic from long distances away. But although


this means that a proportion of the casualties are not local people, injury and tragedy has struck for some of the area's families in recent


times. The Chief Executive of the Rib­


ble Valley Borough Council, part­ nership member Mr David Morris, says: "The A59, which runs through the Ribble Valley, is one of the area's most popular routes to the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake Dis­


trict. There are already a number of initiatives in place to reduce acci­ dents, including spot checks, speed controls, leaf leting of motorists and road improvements at busy juncti­


ons. "These preventive measures will . ...


continue and the road safety group will he implementing their action plans, approved by the Crime and Disorder Partnership, to help make our roads safer."


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