The Clitheroe . .G Thursday, March 8th, 2001 No. 5,983 L i f i t
Tearful farewell to Marlin
Some people wanti ng to settle in the Ribble Valley can buy a half-million pound house with out needing to sell their own.
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Councillors are rec ommending a mod est council tax increase of 3% for the coming year.
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The diaries of a his torical Valley figure from the 18th Cen tury are featured in a BBC2 documen
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A stone is used to smash a window during a break-in at a Clitheroe printers.
Grindleton’s web site hits the nation al headlines.
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The Advertiser and Times comes to the aid of a couple who had an unsolved problem with Nor thwest Water.
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THE Clitheroe man driving this bus escaped injury when the upper deck was sliced off under a noto rious bridge in Burnley.
The 74-seater vehicle
was not in service at the time and so had no passen gers. Mr Roy Harris (43), of Bowland Close, Clitheroe, was driving the bus back to the depot in
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Clitheroe when the acci dent happened at the nar row, 12ft. headroom bridge in Barden Lane, Burnley. I t is understood the bus
had just been repaired at the Stagecoach workshops
at Queensgate, only a few hundred yards away. The top metalwork was
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totally removed by the impact, and the safety glass windows shattered into tiny fragments.
Mr Harris was taken to TT___;_____
hospital suffering from shock, but released after treatment. Stagecoach officials
started an inquiry into the accident and emphasised that drivers did receive route training. The road concerned is a
single deck bus route, but at least one double decker has been damaged by the bridge previously. There have also been lorry-load
impacts. Saturday morning's inci
dent resulted in immediate closure of both the road and of the railway line above. A major clear-up operation was launched to remove debris from the road and specialist engi neers were called by Rail- track. They found there was no significant damage to the bridge, so the line was reopened. • Yesterday, talks were
still going on which could result in Stagecoach - including the Clitheroe depot - being taken over by Ilarrogate-based Blaze-
field. I t is promising new- style buses on some routes.
Valley’s battle to keep out foot and mouth disease
Usual welcome turns to ‘no entry’
A qtfce mentality has taken over the Ribble Valley, with vast sections of f t f b o S u g K S l e r c o r d o n e d off in the fight against the spread of foot fe, v is i t o r s the taming community he, put .M l i.lo . isolation, with No L n t r y -----------■
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signs now a t most local farm gates as p ar t of its exile. Straw, doused in disin fectant, is also being used as
with agriculture. Even mail deliveries and
rubbish collections are being refused, with Clitheroe's North East Lancashire Area NFU office advising mem bers to dispose of their own refuse and employ milk churns, sited as far away as possible from farmsteads, to be used as temporary collec
tion boxes for any post. Children are also being
kept home from school, according to NFU assistant group secretary Mr Colin Metcalfe, who has been
I fielding hundreds of calls daily from farming families anxious to prevent the dis ease from tearing into their livelihood.
by Julie Frankland Said Mr Metcalfe: "I am
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aware that after last Sun day, when a number of new outbreaks of foot and mouth disease were announced, some families in the Ribble Valley's rural heartland around Dunsop Bridge were preparing to keep their children home from school. They are basi cally anxious to limit con tact with the outside world
as far as possible." Although no notable
absenteeism has yet occurred, the parents of a number of children attend ing Slaidburn's Brennands Endowed School this week banned their youngsters from joining classmates on a trip to Preston for a con cert performance by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
ing, which is jamming the Clitheroe NFU telephone lines. I t is that of shifting , sheep into holdings for
mary School, Chipping, staff are preparing to organise lesson envelope drops to farms should the foot and mouth problem escalate, although its regis ter has also not yet been sig nificantly hit by the crisis. But a new issue is loom
■restrictions on moving farm animals, which is in place to try to limit the spread of infection. We are campaign ing to have these restric tions lifted with regard to lambing, but we fear that the Ribble Valley may be one of the last areas to be granted a relaxation. This is because we fall into a
restricted area. "We have been designat
\lambing.Explained Mr Metcalfe: "Many local farmers winter their sheep away from the farm'. Their, ewes are now either'iambing or will short ly lamb and for the animals') welfare, farmers are anxious to bring them into holdings. "At the moment, they are
prevented from doing this because of the Government
ed a restricted area because of the confirmed cases of foot and mouth in Great Harwood, Chorley and to the north of Lancaster. Yet farmers are becoming dis tressed over this particular
aspect of the crisis." Mr Metcalfe also expects
th a t there will be no licences granted to local farms to take their animals • continued on page 2
Charlie really is m’darling
j RIBBLE VALLEY model Charlie. Weaving has become the darling of the
fashion set! The 18-year-old, whose par
ents Mr and Mrs Malcolm and Karen Weaving are proprietors of Gisburn’s Stirk House Hotel, ■
1 was selected from 1,500 male models working the catwalks of Milan to feature in an Italian television documentary. The programme, which has
just been screened throughout Italy, charted a typical day’s activity. It showed Charlie, who
was sent to Italy by his agency Storm on modelling assignments for the likes of Prada and
I Valentino. Said Mrs Weaving: “We are very proud that Charlie
was picked by the programme s directors, yet it came as a sur prise, not only to us, but to
Charlie. “He doesn’t speak a word ot
Italian, so his interviews had to be dubbed. You would have thought the programme makers would have been better off with an Italian model, but Charlie is so down to earth, he comes
across very well.” Having worked also for Mis
soni, Andrew McKenzie, Frankie Morrellq and American design company D Squared, Charlie returned briefly to Lon don, where he again found him self in the TV spotlight. For Charlie, who, like super model Kate Moss, was
approached by a representative of Storm, having never consid ered modelling as a career option, came under the glare of cameras when he paraded the catwalk for Polish designer
Arkadius. In a show at the Victoria and . . ,
Albert Museum, Arkadius’ elab orate “bubble” creations and single suits worn simultaneously by two female models, stole Lon don Fashion Week for their out rageousness. The outfits were featured on all television chan nels’ ncw.s bulletins, but Sky News once again decided to focus on Charlie for another “day in the life of” feature. Yet despite having such suc- • continued on page 2
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