Tfee Clitheroe yThurs'day,'November 1st; 2001, No; 6,017 .


Peter is top in the country


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Witnesses tell how a mother of tw o m ig h t h av e d e l ib e ra te ly crashed her car into a tree.


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Plenty of fun is promised at the town’s bonfire on Saturday


night. page 2


Scrap tyres could be used as an alternative fuel a t Castle Cem­


en t next year. page 3


A vic ar ’s noise comments cause fury in his parish.


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Budding artist Olivia Fernandez has designed a new logo for sweatshirts for children at Whalley Pre-school.


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A man who has devoted a decade to the Scout Movement is hon­


oured. .... P


The first stage of the Castle tree fe ll in g is c om p le te - b u t n o t without protesters’ claims th a t


they have been misled. i ii i ..page 3 CALLUS


FOGGITT’S WEEKEND


WEATHER: A very blustery, but dry, weekend.


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On stage to help Children I in Need


Teenager with that millionaire touch


A TEENAGER who grew up in Clitheroe used her fingertip to make two people very


very rich. Miss Frances Hellewell


(19) was one of two people chosen last week to press the button and set the lottery balls tumbling in the Wednesday night jackpot


draw.The end result was two people sharing a jackpot of


£3.9 million. She was invited to the live


lottery show with Mr Chris Ford, a fellow volunteer at Keighley and Worth Valley


Railway.The appearance followed


the recent official opening of the railway's workshops and carriage sheds at Oxenhope. The scheme at the hve-


Lottery Fund. Frances' appearance


meant two trips to London, one on Saturday for record­


ing with the show's host, Philip Schofield, and anoth­ er on Wednesday to actually press the button during the


live lottery show. Her mother, Mrs Anne


Marie Hellewell, of Holden, Bolton-by-Bowland, went


with her on the Wednesday. She said: "I am still recov­


ering. It was an excellent day and a really good experi­


ence for both of us. Frances, who is studying


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mile line received a £600,000 grant from the Heritage


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physiotherapy at Bradford University, now lives at Haworth, to be near her


beloved railway line. Her father, Mr Nicholas


Hellewell, a driver and one of the railway's army of vol­ unteers, introduced her to the footplate at an early age. She recently qualified as


the railway's first woman fireman and now regularly shares footplate duties with her father (with whom she is pictured). He has been a volunteer for more than 30


years. Pictured is Frances with


her father.


County council not playing fair with little Jack


Mother’s campaign to gain fairer system for pre-school places


LITTLE Jack Rob­ inson is one of the children Lancashire County Council for­


got. He can only look


wistfully across the road while other tod­ dlers his age enter the local playgroup, paid for by the new vouch­ er scheme adminis­


Dawsons ^ / / ie ' & by John Turner


received it from the nurs­ ery, and well before the closing date for applica­


tions. Because her applica­


tion was unsuccessful, Jack can only go to the playgroup one day instead of three days a


tered by the county. His mother, Mrs Sus­


an Robinson, was one of the mothers in Lan­ cashire who failed to be allocated any places. And this week she


began a campaign with a letter to Ribble Valley MP Mr Nigel Evans. She wants a fairer sys­


tem put in place to allo­ cate the county's 5,008


places, rather than the first-come-first-served


basis it is at present. "I am very angry," she


said. "The system used by


Lancashire County Council is not fair. Why can't they allocate the places they have avail­ able fairly to each child?" She said she applied


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term in June, returning the form as soon as she


week. Yet she had heard of


other parents who had applied for three days a week who had received vouchers for five days a


week. "It is not fair that one


tot pays and another goes for free," said Mrs Robinson, who appealed for other parents who felt the same to contact her on 01995 61234. Lancashire County


"They were promised


a free place, only to be let down at the last moment. "Lancashire County


Council underestimated the number of places that would be needed. They acted in a rather cavalier fashion in draw­ ing forward the closure date for applications. "It has not been done


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RETIRING Whal­ ley sweet shop owner Coun. Mrs Joyce Holgate threw a party to thank her young customers. I t was an emotional


occasion as 80 young­ sters crowded into Whalley Village Hall with Coun. Mrs Hol­ gate, family members and a friend running the


event. There were games, a


tea and a bag of sweets each to take home, kept back from the last days of the Abbey Candy Store. At one time it stocked


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150 types of sweets, as well as ice cream, toys and similar items. Coun. Mrs Holgate,


who is. Deputy Mayor of the Ribble Valley, said: "I wanted to thank the children for their custom — I have watched many of them grow up, and a previous generation too. "It was an emotional


occasion for some of the children and certainly


for me. I will still see many of them about, but


there will be no more tra­ ditional sweet shops like mine. They have been a traditional part of shop­ ping in places such as Whalley for so long, and now there are hardly


any." The children have


thanked Coun. Mrs Hol­ gate with cards and let­ ters, expressing senti­ ments such as . . . "You had all kinds of sweets - the ones that me and my friend liked are penny sweets. I liked the leav­ ing party. I'm going to miss you and the candy store and all the sweets."


on a needs basis, it has been done on an ease basis. I consider it is appalling. It is shambol^, ic how this has been worked through," he


added. A spokesman for Lan­


Council firstly allocates places to priority cases, like parents on state ben­ efits and those with chil­ dren who have social or


welfare needs. MP Mr Evans, said


he had taken the matter up with the Minister but, sadly, there was nothing which could be done.


cashire County Council said it had approached the Department of Edu­ cation and Science to pursue the idea of shar­ ing out the vouchers, but they insisted it was a requirement of the grant that they should offer five two and a half hour


sessions. He added: "However,


alone. Many families in the Ribble Valley have been affected by this.


"Mrs Robinson is not


we have been listening to people's concerns and from next term all appli­ cations will be consid­ ered at a single cut-off


date."


Retired doctor ‘Eyes’ the world from the viewpoint of a popular centenarian


A RETIRED Clitheroe doctor will be making whoopee in Lon­ don at the weekend to celebrate


his 100th birthday. Members of his family are driving


mark the occasion. He will spend the night at the Royal


Society of Medicine. On Sunday he will be one of the old­


est people to have over travelled for a bird's eye view of London on the Mil­ lennium Wheel, and afterwards he will take tea with his family in the Ritz


Hotel. Dr Royle, a staunch Blackburn


Rovers supporter, has already paid a visit to Rovers' training ground to


meet star striker Matt Jansen, and he I watched Rovers 0-0 draw against


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Leicester at Ewood on Monday. A spokesman for the Millennium


Wheel said they had not heard of any- one aged 100 taking a trip on the |


Dr Cyril Royle down to London to wheel before. "We do get a lot of elderly people . . 1


riding the wheel. There is wheelchair access and we get something like 50


people in wheelchairs every day. The slowly-revolving wheel is 450ft.


high. On a clear day, passengers can see 25 miles across the capital in all


^Om-picture shows Dr Roy lc being j presented with a birthday cake by Blackburn striker Matt Jansen. • full story on page 5


Cheery news at last for Valley’s beleagured farming community


THERE was good news thi? week for more farmers who have been living under the cloud of foot and mouth precaution restrictions for many months. Officials from DEFRA made


____ , in-Craven, Skipton and Bracewell Skioton and Bracewell


were freed from the restrictions. Then, on Tuesday, a DEFRA


two back-to-back anouncements


on Monday and Tuesday, First, on Monday, they said they


| movements almost into Gisburn. Parts of Barnoldswick, Thornton-


had rolled back the borders inside which restrictions apply on cattle


spokesman added Sawley, Clitheroe, Bolton-by-Bowland, West Bradford, Grindleton and Twiston after, she said, advice from epidemiologists. In the two zones inside what they


call the Lower Ribblesdale Zone One, it cleared a total of 656 farms, but it does not necessarily mean an immedi­ ate opening up for walkers. Only ah area of nearly 50 square kilometres will have the paths re


opened within the next few days. Thiis involves an area north of the Slaid- burn to Tosside road to the county boundary, taking in the Gisburn For­


s est. DEFRA and Lancashire County


Council officers made the decision on Tuesday afternoon in conjunction with members of the Ramblers Asso­ ciation. They felt the situation was still too


immediately. And farms which may or may not be re-stocking further cloud­


eld ed the issues.


Mr Nick Osborne, of the county council's countryside section, said they


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had decided to keep the othff » w closed for the time being, but they would try to focus on the Pendle area | for an early opening.


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