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This ‘political lightweight' has put some weight on now !


by Tim Procter


e a r s ago the D aily Telegraph called him a "polit­


ical lightweight", b u t is hardly likely to do so now in view of his vice-chair­ man of the party status. Some 216 other people


wondered how on earth it was that no one nearer the stereotype - no disrespect to Lord Waddington, David Walder, et al - had earned


the blue rosette. Well, Mr Evans has


fancied their chances of the Tory nomination when he first came on the scene, but no voices of opposition were heard before he was re­ selected recently for the next election. And some local Tories


tried to get rid of him in his early days here, perhaps because they wanted a true blue steeped in rural lore professional man, not a gro­ cer from Swansea. But Nigel Evans has


proved to be a political salmon, swimming success­ fully and faster than most against the tide, homing unerringly and loyally on his birthplace and yet glint­ ing eye-catchingly in what might seem at first to be the foreign waters of the Ribblc Valley. The Tory party might


just rise up from its current knocked out position on the canvas one day and Nigel Evans could bo a major fig­ ure nationally then. Just about a decade ago,


people such as this writer, observing from a distance,


spent the past decade show­ ing why. the Tory P ar ty may not be what it was, but for Mr Evans to be one of three vice-chairman, official spokesman on Wales, and one of its IT specialists is not bad. The grocery shop in


Swansea featured strongly and almost slightingly in Press comment when Mr Evans came, but lie lurns it to advantage now. The shop, which has a staff of eight, is run by his sister Mrs Louise Collins, but Mr Evans is still involved on the accounting and admin­ istrative side. He was behind the


counter on Boxing Day, not a bad way of keeping in touch with Welsh opinion! "My connection with the shop helps me appreciate the problems of small busi­ ness at first hand and gives me background knowledge of the wider picture. Natu­ rally I know what goes on in the Ribble Valley and Ful- wood because of what con­ stituents tell me.” Mr Evans has been criti­


cised for jumping on band­ wagons, and this column certainly felt he overdid the


"building on green fields"


issue. Some people think he is on too many regional television programmes, but can a politician ever be over-exposed? And if people ask for his help, he can hardly do anything other than give it. If an issue involves a Labour county council working under a Labour government, a Tory MP would be very stupid not to air it!


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RIBBLE VALLEY run­ ner Richard Pissochet, r ig h t, will be making a marathon effort for a local suppor t group when he tak es to the s tre e ts of


Paris in April. On April 9th, Mr Pisso­ chet, of Clitheroe, together


with his twin brother, Syl- vain, will be tackling the 26 miles 385 yards of the Paris Marathon. He will be running the


race on behalf of the Ribble Valley Dyslexia Support Group and is currently try­ ing to find sponsors. Mr Pissochet's wife, Lisa, said: "As he was going to do the race anyway, we thought tha t if he could get some publicity for the support group and raise money at the same time that would be great." Although Mr Pissochet (37) ran for many of the 16 years he was with r


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back home in the Valley will be his wife, together with children Lauren (11) and Luke (eight).


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HALLEY'S historic abbey provided the base for talks between delegates from the Church of England and representa­ tives from the Evangelical Church in Germany.


Translating faith into church and school teaching


was one of the themes of the six-day v is i t which focused on the title "The Passing on of the Faith to the


Next Generation". As well as holding numerous talks a t the abbey, dele­


gates also visited schools and churches across Lan-


cashire The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev. Dr David


Hope, hosted the event on behalf of the Church of England, together with the Bishop of Blackburn, the R t Rev. Alan Chesters, while the conference was led by the Most Rev. Manfred Kock, the chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church.


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Alexandria, Egypt. His nickname came through his concern for people to get themselves right with God to be ready


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for eternity. He related the following incident which had


occurred when he had been master of The Rid­


ley Castle' some years previously. A man was reported mssing, presumably


overboard. The lost man was well known to Capt. Brown because on the previous evening he had sought an interview regarding spiritual enlightenment as a response to the captain's plea to the crew to be prepared for eternity, so near to many of us in those days. The man's name was Tony, he recalled, describing how he and his trimmer had prayed together and Tony had received tha t night, through his simple


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mon.A report will go to the two churches with recommen­ dations for further practical action and an English del­ egation will v is i t Germany in a follow-up to this


I month's visit.


of York and other conference delegates a t Whalley Abbey.


Chairman Mr Kock is pictured with the Archbishop ,


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T H O U CS-ifTT for th e w e e k


MET Captain 'Eternity' Brown of


the Merchant Navy at an informal after-church meeting in war blasted


faith, forgiveness of sins, hope of heaven and the presence of Jesus in his heart and life. Now he was lost again, in a different way. It


was feared that he must have drowned already. The ship was turned round and steamed back to the place where Tony might still be floating in the water. I t seemed hopeless to try to calculate, on the little they had to go by, just when he might have gone over the side and where he


might be now. Realising the poor chance they had of finding


the lost man in those vast and swelling seas, Capt. Brown had prayed; "Lord, this is an impossible situation. We cannot know where he is. But You know. Lead us to him, Lord. Help us


to find Tony." Impossible with men, but surely possible with


God. The whole ship's company was ordered to join in this prayer for God's help. I t was an order and crew members and passengers who had not prayed for a long time prayed and waited.


The ship was stopped after 40 minutes and


the lifeboats were lowered. In one of them was Capt. Brown, praying. Some of the sailors straining on the oars muttered at the madness of hope under such conditions. They rowed around in circles and shouted. "Glory be to God," cried Capt. Brown as he told us his story. "We suddenly saw Tony's head bobbing up and down, and we pulled him out of the water into my boat." I wonder what Tony did with his life, twice


saved, spiritually and then physically. Surely he must have had grateful memories of the concern of his captain and friend, even as I have after sharing his life for a brief hour. Somehow, I felt th a t he reminded me of someone. L ater I realised that it was Jesus - another captain and friend, who to this day never hesitates to go out with great concern to seek and to save tha t which is lost.


Early cuttings in our


library excitedly chronicle gossip about young ladies seen on Mr Evans' arm. However, like more and more professional politi­ cians, he remains a bache­ lor, pointing out the num­ ber of marriages ended by the pressure of the House of


Commons. Matrimonial freedom has


enabled Mr Evans to live in the constituency and he has


had several homes. Now he is looking forward to the next election, by which time he will be approaching his mid-forties. The real ques­ tion is whether there is any chance of Tory fortunes in the rest of the country giv­ ing him actual power as dis­ tin c t from the power of protest he so actively excer- cises today!


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years is on the table to fund up to 15 appropriate pro­ jects in Lancashire, part of a national £7.9m. scheme which is being administered by the Countryside Agency for the Heritage Lottery fund. It is hoped that the money will support about 3,000 different ideas across the country in the next decade. Susannah England, the Countryside Agency s co­


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ordinator for the scheme in this area, says: Small grants can make a vital difference to our local commu- nities and a large number will have the opportunity to


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