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A former guards­ man is cleared of causing the death of a Clitheroe worker by dangerous dri­ ving.


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Ribble Valley’s new civic couple really do take over the reins.


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A teenage Whalley fencer has become the country’s sec­ ond seed.


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Close to 300 people celebrate a new- look Clitheroe


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Care home propri­ etors meet Ribble Valley’s MP to dis­ cuss their increasing concerns.


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Clitheroe is among the most profitable towns in the coun­


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Scarecrows pack a village’s sunshine


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*HK! ' .'.:ji';;:j ;• i-;- ;;« sac m Malcolm Weaving He is furious that £l2m. pot of aid


is earmarked for overseas market bv Julie Frankland


A R IB B L E Valley hotelier has won suppor t from h is M P a n d th e b a c k in g of th e N o r th -W e s t T o u r is t B o a rd for sco rn in g la te s t g o v ernm en t plans to t ry to boost Britain's foot and m o u th -h it


to u r is t industry. An angry Mr Malcolm


Weaving, p ro p r ie to r of Gisburn's S tirk House Hotel, believes th a t the Government has got its


policy wrong. He is furious th a t a


£l2m. pot of government money has been set aside to promote Britain overseas, while nothing has yet been made available to help the


domestic market. Explained Mr Weaving:


"Imagine the country's income from tourism as a bucket of water worth £64 billion. The foot and mouth crisis means it is not as full as it should be, so the Gov­ ernment is attempting to help top it up with a very slow running tap, represent­ ed by overseas tourists. "They account for only.


have a plague. We had a party of guests last week who visited Ribblehead to


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see the viaduct and scenery. On seeing smoke, members immediately assumed it was from a pyre of burning carcases. They were there­ fore shocked when the Set­ tle to Carlisle line train appeared on the horizon and they realised i t was


from thatl"


In backing Mr Weavings call for government fund­ ing, Mrs Dorothy Naylor, chief


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North-West Tourist Board, :


executive


out overseas


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said: "The decision t ro hand money to help with


recognise the importance of people who take holidays at hbme in England. "Nearly £4 out of very


seas promotion fails to


£16 billion of the industry's total value, yet nothing is being done to block the huge hole in the bottom of the bucket, which is the dis­ appearing £48 billion domestic tourist market. "Home tourists account


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for 75% of the industry's sum value. Surely, the quickest, most economical way of stabilising and then increasing the level of tourism is to plug the hole, which is far bigger than the trickle of foreign visitors." Mr Weaving believes that


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Desperate farmer culls his own flock as passing drivers look on in horror


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grim view from public sight- The scene caused anger in uie


A F IE L D b e s id e th e m a in and passing drivers. W h a l l e y t o R e a d r o a d nnp of them- loc b e c am e a k i l l in g f ield y e s ­


te rd ay . H eav y tra f f ic drove close


by as a flock of 80 sheep and 100 lambs were slaughtered.


Only a p a rk e d lo r ry a n d a f l im sy fen c e sh ie ld e d th e


Hotelier scorns i in iu c u ...... .......


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th Id pas sing UrJVBlO. | ; ; One of them; local fanner Mr


Hill Speak, said': "They were perfectly h ea lth y sheep and lambs and they have all been slaughtered right there, beside a main road. I t is deplorable. " I t was another farmer who


first saw what was happening. He told me, and we decided some-


a i iu v e i a u u -------------- , • all over and finished with, buUhis s ^ . ^ rented and the owner think thia f<«t


sort of thing is going to go on lor gThe owner of the sheep,


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farmer Mr Neil Caton, of Set­ tle, p u t the blame fairly and squarely on MAFF. He said he was.faced with no alternative


wanted the two fields back to put his own stock in. Because it is in a ’D” area, I had to get permission


to move them. ”1 only wanted to move them


down to Great Harwood, a couple body ought to know what is going


. ^ turned that, place .into a ( ‘ - a" p n £icks drove away with ' talking to them for five weeks and kiljing fieid for no damn reason. I


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e g n Z g g X S ' S * ; “‘"Tire sheep should have been S ” 'i“ ld S te rn a t iv o The taken out ot the field none time


ago. I just ran out of time. I couldn't take the sheep back home, I already have 1,000 there. "I suppose we should have slaugh­ tered them before the lambs were born, if the tru th be told," he


added.


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page M. service


resuming for bin collections


Foot and mouth suspension is set to end on Monday


I just'couldn’t get any sense out of AT leas t one crisis-hit service in th e Ribble Val­ XJ-V A J*


iev will he back to normal on Monday. •i,


Farms, and properties _ _ _ j bf T3„f nnw nfti


close by, will be having their dustbins collected


again. The service has been


suspended for some weeks because of the foot and mouth crisis.


Hi V AiVfcV But now, after talks with


MAFF, Ribble Valley Bor­ ough Council chiefs have decided the time is right to return the service to nor­


mal. The enforced reduction in


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the service hit more proper­ ties than usual in the Ribble Valley, where there are a


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P"l higher number of agricul- Q : | tural buildings converted to


O ^ domestic use. In some parts of the val­


ley, one farmhouse, its barns and shippons, have become as many as eight homes. Refuse vehicles would not


leave Tarmac surfaces or travel along unfenced roads to reach homes. Many peo­ ple have had to put their bins in the back of the car and drive them every week to the nearest main road. Ribble Valley Borough Council engineering manag­ er Mr Graham Whipp, who has been meeting MAFF officials twice a week during the crisis, said they had spo­ ken to MAFF's chief veteri­ nary surgeon about a return


to normal. We were told there was


no reason why we should not return to normal sevice, as it has been three weeks since the last outbreak at Clayton-le-Dale. "It was just that at some


stage we have to start creep­ ing back to normality. No one is suggesting we are going to do anything that is going to exacerbate the sit­ uation. The Government seems to think that the out­ break is pretty much under control now," he said.


TALKING was the way to a finals place in a nationwide public speak­ ing contest for a group of local


schoolgirls. The four Year 11 pupils from b t


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u i take part in the Knights of St Columba p ublic Speaking Competition,


Augustine's RC High School, Billington, travelled to the University of Keele to


£5 spent on tourism comes from Britons at home - it is the bread and butter of our industry. At a time when government support has never been more critical, it is outrageous to shun the tourism industry like this." Promising to fight for the Ribble Valley's


tourist


industry, borough MP Mr Nigel Evans added: "Mal­ colm is spot on. This Gov­ ernment


spending money, but not is excellent at


the Government should focus its funding and a pub­ lic relations initiative on areas such as the Ribble Valley, the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District, which have been particular­ ly hard hit by foot and


mouth. He added: "Some people


in towns and cities are unider the illusion that we


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directed towards the North- West' Tourist Board would have been far better spent promoting domestic attrac- tions.to British people. _ |


"The industry supports 7% of the region's work­ force. Manufacturing and farming we know are strug­ gling. We cannot afford to let the same thing happen


i to ouru tourist industry." o uinaa..iuU, . . J.


Catherine Humphreys (16) and Nicola Smith (15) had already won the area and regional contests and were well Prepared for the final with their speech: Ban the


Amy Nickson (16), Helen Flliatley (15),


Bari on Fox Hunting." ‘^However, on'the day, the more senior


THE "grossly overcrowd ed" h e a l th centre a t Clitheroe has been given


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five more years. Then it will have to be


hitting the target. The where else ‘is 'far fro,11® cer_ same''amount of money


offered a new lease of Hie, though whether this could be dn'the same site or some­


t‘am. ‘ ‘ V ... The range and quantity


of services provided from -s far greater


imagined when it little is


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now heard of moving the facilities to Clitheroe Com-


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because of its distance out of town.At the moment there are


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I TH E Ribble Valley was n o t expecting any shocks as general election fever gripped the nation


this week. MP Mr Nigel Evans bucked the


trend in 1997 when he was one of the few Conservatives to hold his


seat with an increased majonty. Johnstone for Labour. a m a S S w ^ M r S 2, On June 7th it looks like he will P°“ d, p“ er’


Mr Johnstone, for Labour, was a orthird pomng 9,013.


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girls from Chelmsford College for Young Ladies pipped the St Augustine's team for


first place. English teacher Mrs Anne-Marie Kee­


gan said: "They all did really well against a more experienced team composed of sixth formers and were delighted to have reached


the finals.". The girls all received an individual run-


ner's-up trophy and a certificate, presented by "Doctor Darren" from TV soap Brook-


Our photograph shows, from the left, Airiy, Helen, Catherine and Nicola with


their trophies at St Augustine's. ' (K010501/4)


Lengthy wait for health centre


no firm plans, although health chiefs say th a t options and opportunities for new development are being considered. In the meantime, the pre-


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viusly reported £17.0,000 improvements to the health centre are to go ahead later this year. They should be complete ly Feb­ ruary 2002.


The Ribble Valley Prima­ .....


ry Care Group and commu­ nity services provider Com- municare are putting money into what are described as first aid mea­


sures. The care group says;


"Services within the health centre have greatly out­


grown the building itself, and it can no longer accom­ modate all the doctors, nurses and administrative staff required to run an effective primary care ser­ vice, leading to grossly overcrowded working condi­


tions."1 . ' Each of the practices will .


have an additional consult­ ing room, treatment room patients will get a waiting room instead of having to line a corridor, the records and filing area will be improved, there will be dis­ abled parking and a small extension will be made to some of the office accom­ modation.


- -- Valiev’s election candidates are ready for battle endum P a r ty tQ y(jt&


In the last election, 78/o per cent of Ribble Valley people turned out


be faced ^ h^ h^ eCa“ nfo7 th e candidate polled 1,297 votes and a This time it will be easier for N.Wnl.lA* Party cand.daW people to vote by post. It


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