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A village is to debate whether divorcees should be able to remarry in church.


There is a record Kibble Valley entry for this year’s Best- Kept Village com­ petition.


Safety is a major concern at the fami­ ly music festival planned for August Bank Holiday, writes the organiser.


Four pubs are to roll out the barrel this weekend to swell the funds of a Whalley church.


The lease, fixtures and f ittings at Jimmy Clitheroe’s market cafe are up for auction.


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Wild West tactics are used by hotel to combat mobile phone menace


by Natalie Cox


A RIBBLE VALLEY hotel pro­ prietor is taking a lesson from the Wild West to help cure a modern- day menace - the trilling mobile telephone and the earnest chat of


its users! While it may be good to talk most of


the time, Stirk House Hotel’s Mr Mal­ colm Weaving (pictured) wants to stop diners having their mobile to hand while


they are eating. As cowboys drinking in saloons once


handed their six-shooters over for behind-the-bar safe-keeping, so mobile telephone users patronising the restau­


rant at the prestigious hotel will be asked to take advantage of a new per­ sonal "we’ve intercepted your call" mes­ saging service. Having heard that etiquette special­


ists Debrett’s may be producing a book aimed specifically at mobile telephone users, Mr Weaving has decided to jump the gun and produce his own set of rules. From Monday, his diners will be the


first in the country to be asked to hand in their instruments. "The whole issue of ringing mobiles


and conversations from the table encroaches on people's private bit of time," says Mr Weaving. "Not everyone realises how obtrusive those telephones are, ringing when people are dining. If we can avoid it we will.


to turn off their phones, as much as we deplore the nuisance caused to other diners. However, we believe our solution is a unique way of ensuring that people can stay in touch while at the same time enabling us to retain the elegance of our


"It is not realistic to ask all our guests


dining room." Mobiles will be tagged with the


owner's name and placed in a pigeon hole. Any calls will be answered by the maitre d’, who will explain to the caller that the person they are ringing is din­ ing and then ask whether a message can be taken or whether the owner should be disturbed. "If it is urgent the maitre d' will go discreetly to the table, explain who is on the telephone and ask the diner if they would care to answer the call in a telephone booth where there


Government cash sought to provide


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Moves for Home Office assistance despite apathy by town council


A BID for funding for a new closed-circuit television system for Clitheroe, Whalley and Longridge is likely to be put to the Home Office, despite an apathetic reaction from Clitheroe Town Council. At a meeting of the


Crime and Disorder CCTV sub-group last week, the chairman and Chief Execu­ tive of Kibble Valley Bor-


report by Vivien Mason


ough Council, Mr David Morris, said the town coun­ cil was the only official body which had been nega­ tive about the scheme. The existing CCTV sys­


tem in Clithcroe, installed around five years ago, has been criticised for being sub-standard, though sta­ tistically its presence has helped to reduce crime in the town. A new system, which will


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be greatly improved will cost around 33d ,300, though it is believed the chances of getting a 100 per cent grant from the Home Office is a possibility. This could be aided greatly by making car parks in the area more secure by reduc­ ing some of the foliage planted in them, making sure the lighting is up to British standards, etc. Running costs once the


system is installed and which include staffing of monitors, rental, mainte­ nance and insurance are estimated a t around £64,000 per year for all three areas and would be borne by the council. "Clitheroe Town Council


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has said such schemes should be up to the Home Office or the police to fund. I t also suggested it was unlikely the scheme will be successful in Clitheroe," said Mr Morris. On the other hand,


reports from both Lon­ gridge and Whalley were favourable, with the Cham­ ber of Trade and parish councils very keen to be linked to the scheme. It is


ty safety officer, from Blackburn, said she had received a positive response from people involved in neighbourhood watch schemes after sending out questionnaires to scheme leaders. From the 64 she had received back, 61 were in favour of updating the CCTV system, two were against and one was "sitting on the fence". Though revenue costs are


a cause for concern, it is hoped that businesses with­ in the towns who are likely to benefit from a reduction in crime will come forward with an offer of help. Mr Morris is to approach the supermarkets in Clitheroe with the suggestion and hopes to have a report for the next meeting in June. Elsewhere, the police


have promised £2,000 annually, provided other


partners contribute a fur­ ther £8,000. The committee has now


(will be put together and carried out by Sgt. Paul Elms, community safety officer. The next meeting of the


decided that one of the best ways forward will be to hold public consultations in all three areas to discuss the scheme. Dates for these will be decided later, though it was noted it was hoped a bid for grant aid would be lodged by September. This


Positive vibes for festival


ORGANISERS of the family music festival cancelled in May, but now scheduled for the August Bank Holiday weekend, had what they describe as a "positive" meeting with Clitheroe's police chiefs. A festival management team, working with police offi­


cers, is now finalising plans for traffic, parking and crowd management, which should achieve a stamp of approval to qualify the event for a public entertainment licence.


TWO of the best-known shop faces in Clitheroe have decided to close the till on a career which spanned 15


years. On Saturday afternoon, customers said


their goodbyes to Mr Ted and Mrs Ann Duffin (pictured) as they retired from their shop in Shawbridge Street. During his time there, Mr Duffin became a familiar figure with many Ribble Valley residents as he completed his early morning rural delivery run, which took him on a 40-mile round trip. Carrying on that tradition will be new


owner Mr Grenville Wood, who has taken over the business with his wife, Beverly.


They have three children, Ben (17), Elliott (15) and Charlotte (13). Last year Mr Duffin was named as one


of 15 runners-up out of the 750 entries in a Newsagent of the Year competition. The couple’s shop became a place of pil­


grimage for those chancing their luck on the lottery, according to the Duffins. At the time Mr Duffin claimed that their store was the luckiest around for winning tickets. The couple, who are retiring to Wales to


pursue their hobby of walking, said they had enjoyed the 15 years they had spent working in Clitheroe. They also thanked the staff and newspaper boys and girls who had worked for them over the years. (K300500/6/14)


Town’s Millennium music and fireworks spectacular turns into a damp squib


BRASSED-OFF town councillors have brought the curtain down on their plans for a Saturday night Millennium music and fireworks spectacular in


group will take place on Wednesday, August 23rd.


stirring sounds of Slaidburn Silver Band in "Last Night of the Proms" style to entertain families, picnick­ ing on the castle field as dusk turned to a nightfall lit up by the sparks from hundreds of fireworks. But they have decided now that meeting Ribble Valley Bor­ ough Council's stringent safety criteria, combined with set-up costs, robs the event of its viability. Explained a council


the grounds of Clitheroe Castle. They had wanted the cial risks associated with staging a large event of this


kind, it has been decided to revert back to something on a much smaller scale. "Our intention was to


spokesperson: "In view of the problems encountered by the organisers of the May Bank Holiday family music festival, which had to he cancelled, and the finan-


have brought to Clitheroe and the Castle field as a one-off, an event like the summer concerts with fire­ works staged annually at Broughton Hall but, with an anticipated audience of approximately 3,000 peo­ ple, we would have encountered many of the same problems which faced the music festival organisers. Yet as we are an ac countable public body, we felt we could not afford to tak e the same


financial risks as them." Instead, while sparks will


not fly, Slaidburn Silver Band will play on the same night - Saturday, August 19th - at the castle band­ stand, performing a set, which will include the likes of "Rule Britannia" and other Prom favourites, from


7-30 p.m. The concert will be free,


but a collection will be taken for a charity to be nominated by the Mayor of Clitheroe, Coun. Alan Year- ing. Although a scaled down event, town council­ lors are hoping th a t the concert will still attract in the region of 1,500 people.


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will be paper and a pen," explained Mr Weaving. If the new scheme proves to be suc­


cessful Mr Weaving says he will extend it to cover other functions. "You don’t want the disturbance either if there is a speaker or lecturer. I don't think it would be obtrusive at a dinner dance, just when people want a bit of peace and quiet." And, according to Mr Weaving, there


is no reason why other organisations could not set up similar schemes. "There is a market for someone to make pigeon holes and labels. Maybe in churches or other places it would not be as easy to guarantee that people would not mess with the telephones. In a hotel of our calibre we can guarantee that they will be where people left them."


Yesterday another top-flight ladies'


lunch was held at the hotel and Mr Weaving was hoping th a t the redoubtable Mrs Christine Hamilton would endorse his idea.


Well-known traders say farewell


No end in sight for flood


worries


NO end is in s ig h t to th e f lood worries repeatedly experienced by people in Sawley and


in both villages at the week- end, although there was only slight damage to prop­ erties. But this week the Envi­


Ribchester. Roads wore again awash


ronment Agency was keen only to stress the emphasis it is putting on flood warn­ ing systems. "We have a programme of


remedial works to prevent flooding, but it does not include Sawley or Ribch­ ester," said a spokesman for the agency. "We are improv­ ing our flood warning sys­ tem all the time." It appears that the two


villages are not a high enough priority either in population or flood level terms to qualify for the extensive engineering pro­ jects likely to he needed to safeguard them from river- hank bursts. Saturday night's heavy


rain led to road closures in both villages and flooding fears in Chatburn too.


Injured in A59 crash


A WOMAN motorist


received chest injuries in a crash at the A59-Clitheroe


Road junction on Monday afternoon. Mrs Maureen Berry (55),


of Waiverden Road, Brier- field, was taken to hospital. The driver of the other car, Mr Mark Griffiths (31), of Whalley Road, Sabden, escaped injury. There have been several


accidents at the junction since it was widened and improved last year.


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