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Big clean-up campaign for Chatburn
CHATBURN'S rubber- gloved litter pickers, in the guise of members of the parish council, are gearing themselves up for a massive clean-up campaign in the village on the longest day of
the year. All residents are being
urged to make themselves available on June 21st, with everyone meeting in the centre of the village at 6-30 p.m. A dry evening is being
hoped for to encourage as many helping hands as pos sible gather up the urban flotsam, much of which lit ters the brook side of the Brown Cow car park. Members of the jackdaw
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family have also been seen adding their 10 penn’orth by emptying the litter bins of their contents in search of scraps. Because the litter bin in
the car park is constantly overflowing, the parish
council has discussed requesting a second bin. However, many people have complained that the one there is not emptied regu larly enough. Ribble Valley Borough Council is acting on the complaint and is cur rently monitoring the situa tion.
Cash machine
INSTALLATION of a hole-in-the-wall cash mach ine, formation of a secure room and an external sur round has been approved for Booth's store in Clitheroe. Plans submitted by Halifax pic were dealt with by offi cials of Ribble Valley Bor ough Council, acting under their delegated powers.
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Modern-day Nurse Nightingale
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE she may not be, but nurse Leslie Gaw was just as caring as she bandaged heads and administered other forms of first aid and check-ups at
Gisburn Primary School.
in need of medical assistance. Instead they were being treated to an insight into the work of modern nurses m cel ebration of Miss Nightingale's birthday. Nurses' Day is an annual event held on May 12th. 1 nis
But no accident had happened and the pupils were not , , ,
year, to mark the occasion of the Millennium, around 2,000 schools across the country were visited by midwives, health visitors and male and female nurses to explain what
their work involves. NHS Trust chose Gisburn School to visit in the Ribble Hornby, (9). (120500/6/9). Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Care , _
Musicians from around world for folk festival
Valley The school was given an educational resource pack which included an activity pack and pupils were encour aged to ask questions and take part in interactive presen tations. It was designed to fit in with the national curncu-
want children to be aware of the vital role nurses play in all our lives and to recognise nursing as a rewarding and challenging career.”
Health Minister Lord Philip Hunt commented: We
"patients" clockwise from centre back: Anna Woodruff, (11) Clitheroe Royal Grammar School work experience student Susie Wilson, (14), Sapphire Brash, (10), Jack Bannister, (10, Shaun Hartley, (10), and centre, Sophie
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MUSICIANS from across the world are tak ing part in the fifth annu al Great Days of Folk
Festival. From June 9th to 11th
the streets of Chtheroe will be alive to the sounds of music and much more. As well as a variety of musi cians, special street enter tainment is also being pro vided on the 10th. One of the highlights of
steel band will provide a taste of the Carribbean, while Moon De Lune and the Bradshaw Mummers will keep everyone on their
toes. Money from the Millen
nium Festival Awards has enabled organisers to pro vide entertainment from around the world on the Saturday afternoon of the
festival weekend. Poetry and storytelling
the weekend looks set to be the Chinese Lion Dancers who will bring a 2,000-year -old tradition from the east bringing good luck and for tune to the Ribble Valley in a ceremony which is part performing art, part martial art and not for the faint of
heart! Other acts lined up
include the 10-piece female percussion group Bang On, who will play a range of tra ditional African and Brazil ian rhythms, while morris dancers, dance sides, jug gling and magic will also help entertain the crowds. A
events, a youth stage and various festival fringe events are also being held to support three major con certs headlined by the world-renowned group Show of Hands plus the Old String Band, Derek Brim stone and many more besides. Concert tickets are avail
able from Clitheroe Tourist Information Centre on 01200 425566 or at the festi val website on
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days.freeserve.co.uk. Members of the Old
Lottery bid goes in for the town’s Platform Gallery
THE lottery bid to help with the £178,000 cost of buying and refurbishing the Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, has now
bCRibble™alley Borough Council has, in fact, bought the building for £60,000, and is seeking about £99,000 from the Lottery and the balance from other sources or its own
^A total of £106,000 is to be spent on consolidating the gallery's place in the North-West arts scene.
The actual display and retail space is to be improved,
and an information and education area created. Paint stripper poured down car door
VANDALS poured paint stripper down the driver’s door I of a white Peugeot 205 car on Thursday afternoon caus-
inThe w hL kw S p a r S n St Maiy's Street, Clitheroe and the incident is believed to have occurred between 2
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A WHITE plastic sun lounger, valued at £50, has been stolen from a house in Riverside, Low Moor, Clitheroe.
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