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. did not believe her son took his own life


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A new-look Rotary designed to cater for thirtysomethings is launched in Simon, stone.


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,-i i ii i 11 i— page 10 A former lawyer loses


: his appeal against a prison sentence


■m b w m i page 2 I t is still not too late


to stop the felling of the Castle trees -


| Letters. a s n w a a n page 12


A project to develop good citizenship among young people has been launched in Clitheroe.


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Row brews as elderly charity shop workers have their cars clamped.


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Ex-Stonyhurst pupil in the spotlight after controversial TV pro- ■ gramme.


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TH E owners of pet ani­ mals culled during foot arid mouth s lau g h te r operat ions in B o l to n - by-Bowland have been notified th a t their ani­ m a ls m ig h t n o t have


had the disease. Mrs Alison Grimshaw


and her husband, Angus, of Hungrill Farm, Holden, received a letter from DEFRA two months after their seven sheep, three of them rare breeds, and two goats were killed by lethal


injection. The vet found a blister in the mouth of their ewe and after a long discus­ sion with Mrs Grimshaw convinced her that'that the animal was infected and that all their pets would


have to be killed. However, the letter states


that the animals were slaughtered "on the suspi­ cion that they were infected with foot and mouth dis­


ease". Mrs Grimshaw, who was


impressed by the vet's effi- ciency and caring approach to her task, said: "The lady vet told us that in her opin­ ion we had foot and mouth disease. I wasn't convinced


by the marks she found on the goats' feet. We treated foot-rot regularly, but she said she had seen FMD before and was sure the blis­ ter in the ewe's mouth was the disease. "I was happy about the


goats' feet, but had to accept what the vet said about the ewe’s mouth. She was very specific with us. If she had not been I wouldn't have let her take them." The vet issued an A notice, confirming the pres­


ence of FMD on the premises, but shortly after­ wards a B notice was


received in the mail. Mrs Grimshaw said: "I


was very worried about this as a B notice is only issued after premises are cleaned up and checked and we had­ n't been./I was worried about spread and reinfect­ ing neighbouring farms." She described how she


had bumped into the DEFRA case officer for neighbouring Wycongill farm who told her that the premises were being cleansed by the farmer and his family, and that they were arranging sentinel ani­ mals to test the farm was clear of FMD. This would, he told her, lift the A notice at Wycongill and replace it


with a form B.


‘New . back in TV time to 1950s


by John Turner" THE picture postcard vil-


VILLAGERS in'Chipping


I are waiting to see how it | fares in a national poll. There were 80 nomina-


I tions for a Woman's Weekly "Prettiest Village" competi­ tion and Chipping got to


the last 10. One of the, most visited


I places on the tourist route, steeped in history and a reg­ ular prizewinner in the


I annual Best-Kept Village Competition, Chipping is now hoping readers will "chip-in" with lots of votes. The magazine asked its readers to nominate their


.lage of Downham, near Clitheroe, has a new shop and a new garage - both without planning permis­


sion., But there is little fear of , , .


enforcement action from Ribble Valley Borough Council, because both new structures will be coming down again once the BBC has finished filming a new six-part drama series des­ tined for the Sunday evening slot. "Heart of the Valley


I favourite.village.in a cele­ bration of Britain's beauti­


ful countryside and its gradual reopening in the wake of foot and mouth.


I The final 10 nominations, from all over the UK, were


I pictured in the July 24th | issue of the magazine, with the Chipping photograph showing St Bartholomew's Church and the Cobbled


| Corner Cafe. The other villages in the


I contest are Chilham in Kent, Wherewell in Hamp­ shire, Burnsall in North Yorkshire, Lustleigh in Devon, Godshill in the Isle of Wight, Cheswardine in Shropshire, Aberfoyle in the Trossachs, Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, and Bour- ton-on-the-Water


in


Gloucestershire. Written votes for the top


places were invited by the magazine, to be received by Tuesday this week. I t will anounce the win-


I ner on August 22nd


stars former James Bolam, who started his long acting career in "The Likely Lads and who plays Doctor Gilder, and Michael French (David Wicks from "East- enders") who plays his son. There are also guest


D E S P IT E the odds stacked against him, a young Sawley canoeist has won two gold medals for Great


Britain. . Jonathan Schofield (16) put in a fantastic performance a t this year's wild water racing pre-world champi­ onships on the river Tryweryn at Bala, North Wales.


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Champagne pops for medal-winning rower by Vivien Meath


He overcame strong


opposition from both the Czech Republic and Ger­ many to win gold in both the classic long distance


and sprint races. To underline his perfor­


mance, Jonathan, pictured right in full flow, beat all the senior men in both international races, apart from Tomas Slovak, one of the Czech Republic's top paddlers, and Pete Keron, the current GB champion. Jonathan, a pupil of


Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and previously Pen-


dle Primary School, has been sponsored by Ribble Valley Borough Council and Castle Cement. This year he has encoun­


tered great difficulty obtaining any training on the water because of foot and mouth restrictions, but has utilised his training time swimming and using Lee Carter's gym in Clitheroe. Once the restric­ tions were lifted, he and his family made numerous extra training trips to


Wales. . The medals at the pre-


world championships were presented by Lord David Ellis Thomas, leader of the Welsh Assembly and hon­ orary patron of the games, and Jon Royle, Great Britain's junior coach. The junior team put in an excel­ lent performance overall and is hoping to win more medals at next year's junior world championships at


_-1,, ^TYminnshios were His next plans are to paddled' with another member of the team, Edward Dean, at the Jamieson Liffey race, near Dublin, in September, before starting preparations for next year’s world cham­ pionships.


The junior world champi­


Bala on July 20th-21st. Jonathan has also com­


peted at the senior world cup race at Lofer, Austria, where he was the fastest British senior on the sprint.


onships have increased interest in wild water racing and, in November, there will be a regional develop­ ment event at the Burrs Activity Centre in Bury. Details will be published on www.wildwater.org.uk


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I could restock and he said it would be months. He said: 'Don't even think about it.’ Yet we are sup­ posed to be clear of the dis­ ease. They must have known we weren't infected or they wouldn't have issued a B notice. None of


it makes sense." The letter also informed


the Grimshaws that the blood tests are not neces­ sarily accurate. I t read: "The fact that the laborato­ ry results are negative does not, however, mean that foot and mouth disease was not present in the stock on your premises. There are a


number of reasons why samples.submi.tted from ,


c l in ica lly infected animals may - r e tu rn n e g a t iv e .


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results." Mrs Grimshaw said:


"There are a lot of issues in what that letter says, about animals, money and people. The blood tests are a con if what it says is true. It does­


n't answer anything for me. If it wasn’t so laughable we would just sit down and


weep. "Think of all those fann­


ers waiting for results, lives and livelihoods dependent on these tests. Then they get a letter like that. .The agony, waiting for. a letter that means nothing. It's


• terrible." She said she had talked a


lot about her situation and that of her neighbours. She said: "I think they chose


‘ the vet to send to us. I won­ der about the tactics. If we'd had a big bossy person it would have been differ­ ent. Even the delays and


: stop the disease, then that's got to be, but it isn't work­ ing. It's made no difference. It's going On and on, for more and more people and the sacrifice is-no use, it's


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moved in this week to begin building the village within


a village.


"Boynton's Groceries and Hardware Store" appeared


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as if by magic not far from Downham's much-pho­ tographed bridge. Across the road a vil­ lager's home was disguised


as a hospital. Another property was


turned into a 1950s garage with the help of ancient signs and petrol pumps. Nearby, a new war


plete. Filming will take place in and around Down- ham and interior shots, will be filmed at Rawtenstall. A crew totalling 70 will be involved, with between 30 and 40 of them staying in


DOWNHAM’S “new” shop proves a talking point Written by Chris Chip-


nall, the series tells of life in a north country valley m


1955. And like the ITV Sunday evening offering, "Heartbeat", it features a


scrap dealer. One of the crew suggest­


the Clitheroe area. The series is not expected


to be broadcast until next year.


Greengrass.


SCHOOLBOY Michael Carr was expecting to be sporting a very strange haircut this


week. He had a date on Monday _ , ,


with a BBC stylist connected, with the new drama series


"Heart of the Valley". Michael, aged 10, of Sab­


den, who starts at Whalley CE Primary School in Sep­ tember, has been chosen as one of the children in the


• The six episodes will take until November to com-


memorial and horse trough had appeared overnight.


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Mrs Julie Carr, have been told he will be busy before the cameras until November.


ed the BBC scrap dealer would be more sophisticat­ ed than "Heartbeat s


The project means a wel­


come job on his doorstep for properties buyer Mr Paul


Boyle who has lived in Waddington for three


years. "It is wonderful to be able


to live and work in the same glorious area for a change"


he said.


And a local schoolboy will be the star The stylist was expected to


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give him a haircut which would have been "the in thing"


in the early '50s. Michael is no stranger to


the camera or stage. Only last week he was hopeful after^giv­ ing an audition for a television commercial for crispy pan­ cakes - even though his mum


said: "He is a fussy eater." Michael also sings, haying


gained the Dean's Chorister Award of the Bradford Dio­ cese while singing in the choir of St Helen’s Church, Waddington.


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