Hats off from luncheon club for the Hamiltons


IT was hats off to the ladies yet again at Gis- burn's Stirk House Hotel as £3,700 was added to the coffers of North West Cancer Research. The Ribble Valley Ladies'


Luncheon Club met to hear speaker Mrs Christine Hamilton. Accompanied by hus­


band Neil she proved to be one of the best speakers heard yet by the group. Mrs Hamilton, whose


steadfast support of her husband earned her the


label of "Britain's Number One Battleaxe," turned out to be nothing of the sort. Indeed, it was her sense of humour that most impressed. Upon watching the ladies arrive, she confid­ ed: "I was warned to wear a hat, but nobody told me it was a hat competition!" She went on to say that the


occasion had "out


Cheshired the Cheshire Set."


that hotel proprietor Mr Malcolm Weaving announced his intentions to curb the use of mobile tele­ phones in his dining room, Mrs Hamilton gave his campaign her blessing and handed her own mobile phone in to the reception desk. Said Mrs Karen Weav­


Arriving on the same day


F O R B E iS s o l i d t o r s


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ing: "She really enjoyed her visit, gave £220 from the sale of her book to our char­ ity and hopes to come back again in the future." The club is now finalising


arrangements with Martin Bell MP to address the next luncheon meeting. Pictured, from the left:


Mrs Weaving, Mrs Annie Farrimond, Mr Weaving, Mr and Mrs Hamilton, Mrs Penny Green, Mrs Dorothy Cosgrove and Mrs Liz Bell. (080600/1/13)


Mourning family says


‘learn from our lesson’ Cancer dad told it was only indigestion


AN anguished "be alert and be insistent" warn­ ing is being given to every family by the parents of a well- known former Ribble Valley man who has


died of cancer. The funeral of car


industry expert and for­ mer Ribblesdale High


special report by Tim Procter


School, Trinity Pan­ tomime and Parish Church AODS actor Mr Ken MacMillan took place in Surrey on Tues­


day. Aged 37, he left the area


stomach cancer. Through debilitating


treatment and body-wrack­


ing progression of the dis­ ease, Mr MacMillan brave­ ly held on to as normal a life as possible and despite being gravely ill was present at the birth of his second child eight weeks ago. Later he was brought


Ribblesdale High School and followed his flair with


ing nurses. Mr MacMillan attended


A STILL from the unfin­ ished 1985 film in which Mr MacMillan was cast as a Nazi officer


vehicles by working briefly as an HGV driver and then joining a car finance compa­ ny. He drove round the area in an eye-catching Lam­ borghini car before being promoted to a job in Lon­


don. This career move halted his acting hobby - earlier he


12 years ago, and was told last November that he was suffering from a rare form of


had been in several local shows and pantomimes. Mr MacMillan played the part of a Nazi officer in an unfin­ ished war film being made by keen amateurs in the


region. After his move south Mr


MacMillan went into the retail motor industry and for several years had been general sales manager of Cheyne BMW, a large BMW dealership in Ful­ ham. Warm tributes have been paid to him by col­ leagues and by former school friends. Some years ago, he trav­


north to spend a fortnight with his parents, looked after by them and by visit­


elled from his home in the south to attend a Ribbles­ dale High School reunion. Reunion organiser Miss


Theresa Robson said: "Ken was a great guy and extremely popular. We are all deeply saddened to hear of his death and our thoughts are with his young


family, as well as his parents and sister in Clitheroe." Mr MacMillan's parents,


retired painter and decora­ tor Mr Bill MacMillan and his wife, Mary, of Croasdale Drive, Clitheroe, say that the cancer diagnosis fol­ lowed several years of efforts by their son to get his stom­


ach problems taken serious- ly-


more money should be spent on cancer research, and that much more atten­ tion should be given to peo­ ple with recurring prob­ lems," says Mrs MacMil


"We believe that much I , lan.


Ken to get something tone, but he said he was told, over a period of years, that his pains, discomfort, diar-hoea and other symptoms were being put down to stress, or


"We continually Urged


indigestion. "He was only sent


MR MACMILLAN pictured with his son before the ill­ ness was diagnosed


scan after the symp went very much wor;


then the cancer had spread and it was incurabL. We will never know if anything could have been done by an earlier diagnosis, nor of course, will we ever know in detail just how strongly our son pushed his case for action to the dcctors because we were not present at the consultations. We do know that he was scanned after presenting a written list of his increasingly obvi­ ous problems."


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for a


they are well aware that doctors are faced by many patients unjustifiably wor­ ried about genuinely trivial symptoms. "So it can be dowffto sufferers and their


Mrs MacMillan says 1


families to insist absolutely- on a second opinion, on tests, and on a specialist - even if you've to pay for it. It is a fact that indigestion can have worse symptoms than cancer in the early


stages. "But for our son, it just


went on too long. The effects of the cancer on his body, quite a while before the end, were grotesque. It’s the sort of thing people don't talk about even with­ in the family, never mind in the papers and more's the pity. If these things were more widely known, people would make very sure they did far more to avoid them happening. "But what has happened


to our son and the effect on Accident fails to deter Mike in his


charity ride for Chernobyl children His courage and determination of partner could raise £3,000


A NASTY accident left chari­ ty cyclist Mr Mike Boult with


a deep gash and concussion. But, amazingly, it failed to end


his marathon mission to raise cash for the Friends of Chernobyl


Children. And the hope is that his courage,


together with the efforts of his fel­ low rider, Mr Brian Davies, will


notch up more than £3,000. Mr Boult (54), of Shays Drive,


Clitheroe, was half way through his Land's End to John o'Groats ride when he lost control of his bike and struck his head against a wall. The accident happened as Mr


at youth hostels, averaged 70 miles a day but, after Mr Boult's acci­ dent, the other rider clocked more than a 100 miles on one day to make up for lost time. The pair reached the finishing


line on Friday, two weeks after starting the 1,000-mile sponsored ride. On Monday, at the Clitheroe Mayor's Parlour, they were pre­ sented to the Mayor, Coun. Alan Yearing, who congratulated them on their courage and also handed over £150 from his charity fund


towards their efforts. Mrs Maureen Holt, the fund­


Boult and Mr Davies (53), also of Shays Drive, were riding through Ambleside in the Lake District. A passing doctor tended his wounds and then Mr Boult was taken to hospital in Kendal for stitches. "Mike had a 24-hour break at


raising co-ordinator for the Clitheroe group of the Friends of Chernobyl Children, said she hoped to be in a position to announce the pair's total amount when the group holds a farewell party for the youngsters on July 3rd. A party of 20 children, aged


home and then he was back in the saddle again," said Mr Davies's wife, Jean. "He was taken by car from Clitheroe to rejoin Brian on the road, at Loch Lomond. "Both Brian and Mike did well


his wife, his sister and our­ selves has made us deter­ mined to shout as loud as we can - 'Other people, take


this warning'." The support of relatives,


friends, and colleagues of their son has sustained the couple. Now they are won­ dering how best they can use the tragedy in a con­ structive way, and one hon­ ouring and illuminating their son's memory, to pre­


vent it happening to others. Mr MacMillan's new


baby is called Hope, in his memory. Her brother Con­ nor is aged three. The funeral service at a


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A H AIR-raising stunt by Billington man Chris Swain will raise money for sufferers of arthritis


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