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Advertiser and 1 imes A The ditheroe ^Thursday, November 8th, 2001 ' No. 6,018 T , n e w s and views f r o m the Centre of the Kingdom


Gruelling Himalayan adventure


AT A GLANCE Concern over handling of


A West Bradford couple express their shock a t allegations th a t th e i r d a u g h te r killed for th e


Afghans. ' page 3


A £10,000 co n se rv a to ry on a housing estate has to be removed.


A container leaves th e Ribble Valley bound for a South Amer­ ican fire service.


A Clitheroe man is to become the chief of a health care trust.


. page 18


A top NFU official says he is appalled a t th e local h a n ­ dling of th e foot and mouth epidem-


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There is a big bonfire boost for the coffers of the East Lancashire


Hospice fund. — page 10


A Ribble Valley h e adte a che r sets his wheels in motion to help a pupil achieve her Christmas


wish. _____


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I been totally trashed I in an orgy of vandal­ ism which the hotel owner says has been carried out since the bars closed three


weeks ago. Mr Philip Pozzi,


owner of the Commer-


Icial Hotel, Whalley Road, was angry that much of the damage had been carried out


I since he called police and they had been [ unable to attend the


I scene. i He believes the dam­ age to the building on which he had spent


| £90,000 on a refurbish­ ment only six months ago would amount to at least £100,000.


stripped wallpaper off


walls. The damage includes: □ Radiators ripped off


walls.□ Dado rails, picture


rails, skirting boards, door architraves and seating ripped out and


taken. □ Bar ripped out and


stolen. □ Fitted carpets stol­


en.□ Baths and bath­ room fittings ripped out


and stolen. O Extractor fans and


hot water cyclinders


stolen. □ Victorian fireplaces


ripped out. O A complete fitted


kitchen ripped out. □ Toilet seats and lids


| The vandals left


| behind a scene of total mayhem inside the hotel, which has been


| empty since the eviction | of the last licensee who | had been operating the business since its refur­ bishment. They even


and toilet dividers stol­ en.□ Holes smashed in studded walls and ceil­ ings.□ Floorboards taken


up at intervals through­ out the building and power cables chopped. □ Racist insults left


scrawled on large pieces On T T cI X X Hold’s —


of coloured paper left around the former bar. Mr Pozzi, owner of Thorneyholme Proper­


ties, Barrow, was at the scene on Tuesday with


police. He said: "What can I


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gist carried out a post mortem exami­ nation at Blackburn. Mrs Forster, mother of children aged four and two, was married to Mr


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David Forster. Deep sympathy was expressed to tne


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week. Mrs Forster had attended a function at the White Bull Inn, Gis­ burn, on Friday night. A friendly, seemingly happy young mother, friends said that they were deeply shocked by the tragic incident. An inquest is being arranged.


whoever did this has got. "I am angry that we


got in touch with the police nearly three weeks ago when neighbours told us someone was trashing the place. They weren't bothered. They didn't take it seriously." Mr Pozzi's solicitor,


Mr Barry Dearing, said that after Mr Pozzi had been unsuccessful in


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alerting the police to the matter, he wrote a letter to Clitheroe Police Sta­


tion. "At first when Mr


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wrote to the chief officer at Clitheroe. Ittooksev- eral days for the message to get through. This is | just not good enough,"


Pozzi rang them they didn't do anything. They didn't take it seriously. "We knew the place


he added. ■ Mr Dearing com­


was being stripped. We rang the police, but they weren't bothered. They still didn't react after I


plained that on Tuesday of this week the audible alarms were set off on the front of the building, but the police did not


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THE historic railway viaduct at Whalley is to be waterproofed by Rail track North West at a cost ot £2m. in a mammoth nine-day oper­ ation that will help make sure the line stays open for many more years. The project will involve removing


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CRGS cannabis incident Up to 12 suspended after drugs bust at school ...


bv Julie Frankland


WORRIED parents are concerned about the lack of reassurance from Clith­ eroe Royal Grammar School following the sus­ pension of several pupils


after a cannabis incident. As the story went the


rounds of the country s national press this week, it was clear from investigations by the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times th a t there is increasing unease about the widespread use of cannabis by young members of the com­ munity as a whole. "This is not a Clitheroe


people. His health authority- funded organisation works with teachers, youth and social workers, as well as doctors and other health services to help young people with drugs prob-


lelybt Mr Owen added; "I deal with drugs misuse on a daily basis, but it is essential to sepa­ rate cannabis smoking from taking heroin or crack cocaine, which are drugs that can have a profound effect on users’ lives. At the same time, it is lmpor- tan t th a t schools tackle all issues relating to drugs just as they would teach geography, maths or some other subject. Police have confirmed an


Royal Grammar School prob­ lem; it's one for the whole com­ munity," said Mr Clive Owen, director of East Lancashire Lifeline, a drugs awareness and counselling service for young


supply- — ibn; service for young "We have haa an


headmaster Mr Stuart Holt gave the following statement. "We have had an incident in


As far as CRGS is concerned, .


school where a number of stu dents have experimented with cannabis. We have suspended the students in line with school policy. When they return, they will receive counselling and sup­ port to try to ensure they do


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not do it again." Yet in Clitheroe, parents are particularly concerned over


issues of supervision, as all the children involved are believed to be just fourth-year pupils attending CRGS' lower school


in Chatburn Road. Parents parked outside the


school expressed worry at the handling of the situation by the


investigation stretching from the Ribble Valley to Preston in their bid to tackle the line of


school.One told us that she was dis­ appointed th a t CRGS had appeared to have chosen not to contact parents by letter. “We shouldn’t have to learn


about it through the press,” she said. “I thought I was sending my son to a much better school. He earned his place here and


things.” -v*’


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about it through the press. I thought I was sending my son to a much better school ^


now we are getting increasingly worried. Pupils have been dealt with more severely for lesser I


Another parent commented: | <**■**> s'v « jw


“We are worried by this inci­ dent as it involves so many pupils and we all know the impact peer pressure can exert.’ According to the police, a 1


member of staff first reported a drug problem at CRGS on October 18th after a fourth- year boy collapsed in school after allegedly smoking l cannabis. He was taken to hos­


pital.


A Valley police inquiry was I O continued on page 2


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j Quite a picnic for Lindsey THE bedroom of Lindsey Holden is packed


to overflowing with her dear friends. There are somany, that they even overflow into


the loft. She has never counted them, but believes there are several hundred always there to keep her company. Her collection of Teddy bears has been


1 growing since she was a small girl.


"She is absolutely obsessed wltb her collection I said her mother, Mrs Maureen Holden, who is


happy to put up with the huge collection m the home they share at M o o r la n d Road Langho^ There


could be anything between 500 and 1,000 bears, it mast be onlo! the biggest Teddy bear collections in


IMIS's" Holden, who works at Ultraframe in Clitheroe, said: "I haven't got a favourite. I just love


them all. I have never counted them. I have just sort of accumulated them over the years. "Their little faces are all different, she added. The collection will be going on a little journey on


November 24th. Each Teddy bear will go on show to the public at the Langho 'Community Centre dur­ ing the village Christmas Fair. (J061101/5)


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