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A company boss buys his wife a dou­ ble decker bus for her birthday!


The town’s first youth shelter is planned for a Clitheroe park.


A classroom compa­ ny has scooped a to]) award .


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A Clilheroe sixth- former slams uni­ form snipes - Let­ ters.


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A teenage drink- driver walks into a police station after crashing his mum’s


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A WALK on the wild side awaits a Ribchester woman who is trekking to the Himalayas in aid of Deaf way. Mrs Hilda Bentley (55), of


all her own expenses so the maxi­ mum amount of money can be given to aid the deaf. Half the money raised will go to help deaf people in Nepal. The trek, the likes of which she


Church Street, is awaiting the October 20th expedition with eager anticipation and hopes to raise much-needed funds for the charity, which provides support services for deaf children and


adults. It is an issue which is close to


Mrs Bentley's heart as her grand­ son, Joshua, who is nine-and-a-


half, is profoundly deaf. Though he is a bright child in


every other respect and can read and write perfectly well, Mrs Bentley has learned first hand the difficulties people with no hearing have in society. She is now busy raising the


has never experienced before, will begin and end in relative comfort with the first and last night being spent in Katmandu. The six days between these will see her walk­ ing around 100 kilometres or 11 miles a day up to 10,000ft., fol­ lowed by six nights in a tent. "One of the most important


items we are to be provided with are earplugs in case someone is a loud snorer," Mrs Bentley mused. Already £520 towards the


event has been raised from a cheese and wine evening held at the village home of Mr and Mrs Roger Forrest, and support has also come from a poverty lunch


held during Lent. Mrs Bentley has also arranged


funds needed to complete the 10- day gruelling trek. A minimum of .02,200 is required to fund the expedition and she aims to cover


to have a stall selling a variety of items on the village market on Bank Holiday Monday. A ladies' lunch incorporating all things


It’s no-go for weekend’s pop festival


But hopes are high for future extravanganza


C L IT H E R O E ’S week­


end pop festival is off. Eleventh hour meetings between organiser Mr Phil


by Julie Frankland


Knight, Ribble Valley Bor­ ough Council officials and representatives from the emergency services failed to reach agreement on public safety issues. Although Mr Knight had


feminine - make-up, flower arranging etc, is also being looked at as a possible future fund-rais­


ing event. One major event which began


last Saturday was the provision of sign language classes at the vil­ lage's Ribchester Arms. Her fam­ ily all learned to sign in order to communicate with Joshua though the idea of the classes came from a totally different


source. "I was at church one morning


when a young boy came to me and suggested he and his friends could give us some money towards the trek in exchange for signing lessons so they could talk to Joshua. I was really moved by this gesture," she said. If plenty of interest is generat­


ed then Mrs Bentley will see about arranging for an experi­ enced teacher to give more


advanced tuition. Our picture shows Mrs Bentley


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Train buffs set to steam into town


T R A IN b u f f s g a lo re a r e e x p e c te d to c o n ­ verge on C l i th e ro e on Sunday to join in cele­ b r a t io n s to m a rk 150 years of th e train. I t was, in fact, June


20th 1850 when the "iron horse" began its journey from Blackburn to Clitheroe. Much cheering and


waving of handkerchiefs met the puffing, whistling, hissing locomotive with its b r ig h t red p a in t and gleaming b rass funnel hauling a procession of carriages. The train continued to


Chatburn, then back to Whalley where a sumptu­ ous buffet was prepared for the travellers in a large mar­ quee in a field next to the station. On Sunday, Ribble Valley


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been granted borough coun­ cil permission in principle to stage this weekend's event, unresolved concerns centred on policing a festi­ val of its size, with antici­ pated daily crowds of 8,000, leading officials to refuse a public entertainment licence — an act which has forced the abandonment of the planned Bank Holiday weekender, which was to have featured Lindisfarne, Dr and the Medics, the Bay City Rollers, Herman’s Hermits and a line-up of


local and tribute bands. Yet a disappointed Mr


Knight, of Clitheroe’s Keystreet Music and Dance Bar, remained unbowed. Although he says he is facing “substantial” financial losses on the planned festival, he speaks confidently of resurrecting his dream of bringing such an event to Clitheroe’s cas­ tle fields in the near future. Said Mr Knight: “I am 100 per cent certain th a t my family music festival will happen in the castle grounds as planned, with pretty much the same line­ up of acts as advertised for the cancelled event.


Bank Holiday weekend has been chosen as the most suitable date for the cele­ brations, which will see the final journey for both her­ itage units before they go into well-earned retirement. The units will carry com­


memorative name boards celebrating the 1501b anniversary and journeys will terminate at Clitheroe. Civic visitors and guests


will travel on one of the morning's trains from Blackburn, prior to a recep­ tion in Clilheroe, and then board a vintage bus for a


tour of the nibble Valley. For more details of Lite


weekend celebration and history of the local railway line throughout the last 150 years, see our special sup­


plement inside your Clitheroc Advertiser and


Times today. The supplement gives


fascinating details of the construction of the line and its bridges and viaducts, but makes it very clear that local enthusiasts keenly antiepate expansion of the


line's use.


A BANDSTAND which will remain empty this weekend and (right) event organiser Mr Phil Knight


staging the festival over the August Bank Holiday weekend, which gives us 12 weeks to resolve any out­ standing concerns and to sell tickets. I know I can make such a festival a great success, but I appreciate that because of its scale and the fact that nothing like this has ever been held before in Clitheroe, the authorities had to err on the side of caution.” Continued Mr Knight:


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“We must all now work together to respect each other’s standpoints. The emergency services such as the police are there to pro­ tect the public and its safe­ ty, which is obviously a great concern of mine also.” Mr Knight is now seek­


ing a minuted assurance or “contract” from Ribble Val­ ley Borough Council that it will continue to support him in his efforts to stage the festival, providing all necessary safety checks are


in place. Confidence was expressed in an August event at a meeting of the borough council’s Commu­ nity Committee on Tues­


day night. Mr John Heap, Director


of Commercial Services at the borough council, said: “This is an event tha t we are happy to see staged in the Castle grounds, provid­ ed that people can attend safely. We are now working towards the August Bank Holiday and we are confi­ dent that we will be able to make it work." Yet Insp. Les Martin, of


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Clitheroe police, still sound­ ed a cautionary note. He warned: “Policing events of this size requires a great deal of resources. Bank Hol­ idays are always busy peri­ ods for us, as there are usu­ ally a variety of public events being staged. “Manpower often has to


be drafted in from outside the area, but that available is not infinite. What must


be appreciated by people is that large scale events do require a lot of forward planning. To put this into perspective, I am already talking to the organisers of Clitheroe’s planned 2002 Torchlight procession, whereas it was only earlier this month th a t I first became involved in meet­ ings on policing the now cancelled pop festival.” O Anyone who has


already bought or won tick­ ets for the family pop fest can either hold on to them,


as Mr Knight guarantees that they will be valid for the August event, or they can apply to him for a full


refund. Mr Knight is also plan­


ning to feature a line-up of several local bands th a t were due to play the can­ celled festival in Keystreet on Sunday from 3p.m. onwards. Entry to his “mini” musical event is free and, weather permitting, there will also be a barbe­ cue.


‘New mum’ to greet pupils at No. 10


TOPICAL trip s to London are b e com in g a fea tu r e for p u p i ls a t S t M a ry 's H a l l ,


Stonyhurst. In four weeks' time a group of


them have an appointment outside her house with new mother and Prime Minister's wife Mrs Cherie


Blair! Earlier in the year, St Mary's


Hall was able to arrange a preview


ride on the London Eye. Purely by coincidence the youngsters and accompanying staff stepped on just as the Duke of York and his family stepped off, yards away! Now St Mary Hall Figures form


master Mr Jonathan Hewat - who has previous experience of school tourism - has arranged a political rather than royal coup. Some 40 boys and girls will be


going through the iron gates lead­ ing to No 10, meeting Mrs Blair outside, and chatting to her. "If Mr Blair is there, he will be happy to appear also," says Mr Hewat. "We will be getting some historic pho­ tographs." The invitation has not come out


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chance of baby Leo Blair being involved in the meeting. But whether or not, the trip to London will offer plenty of experiences for the pupils, as they will be touring the Houses of Parliament and rid­ ing on the London Eye.


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