Through-ticketing scheme Wolves supporters 'score’ for club funds


T H E co s t of tra v e l is coming down - if you use Clitheroe's awa rd­ w in n in g b u s a n d r a i l interchange.


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Gome and visit our new premises and we will help you find a new carpet/wood flooring. We are suppliers of all leading makes. •


Work has been taking


place behind the scenes to develop multi-operator


through-ticketing schemes covering the Ribble Valley. Agreement has now been


reached with the bus opera­ tors serving the area for the introduction of the ticket to be called the Ribble Valley Day Ranger. It is intended to launch it


on February 5th, and the ticket will then be available all day, every day, priced at £3 for an adult,,£1.50 for children and senior citizens and £7 for a family or small group ticket of up to five people travelling together, of which no more than two can be adults. ■ Advertisements for the


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Affray charge


CLITHEROE man And­ rew Ian Hamilton Gower (34), of Peel Street, was remanded on bail until Monday by Blackburn magistrates after pleading not guilty to a charge of affray.


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the conditions of the Arable Area Payments scheme has been approved by the Min-- istry of Agriculture and EU, following talks led by the National Union of Farmers (NFU). The concessions are outlined in a new NFU briefing document, which’! > available from NFU office i and via the internet»a; www.nfu.org.uk. Comment • ed union president Mr Bei Gill: "The. NFU has been desperately concerned about the effect of t h : appalling weather on th : industry and the! grim con- ditions and prospects they pose for many in the new year.


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offer many farmers, who would have been preparing for huge losses, to get ajt least some sort of return on their land."


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SUP PORTERS of Clitheroe Wolves swopped football boots for walking shoes to help raise


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money for th e club. The annual sponsored


walk took place over the festive season on a bright and snowy morn­ ing. Young and not-so- young walkers set out on a nine-mile trip and a route which took them through Brungerley, West Bradford and Chatburn. Walkers finished the


stroll at the Royal British Legion where hot soup and rolls were


served. Our photograph


shows some of the par­ ticipants with manager Mr Ian Charlton who runs under eight boys, and under-12s girls’ teams.


AN appeal for spectacles to send to the Third World has had an amazing response. More than 500 pairs have


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been donated at the various collection points set up by the Rotary Club of Clitheroe. Now club officials have


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thanked the various church­ es and other places which offered their facilities. Booth's


supermarket


allowed a collection at the same time as the Rotary one for the Mayor's parcel fund and international charities.


High-flying plan


HIGH-FLIERS in the Rib­ ble Valley have submitted plans to erect a helicopter storage building at a farm in Chipping. Mr M. Parker, of Har­


bour Lane, Salwick, has applied to Ribble Valley Borough Council for per­ mission to retain an existing hardstanding in the garden of Wardsley Farm Barn, Little Bowland Road, and erect a building to store a helicopter.


Old Clitheroe slide show results in


friendly argument


T H E R E w a s some good-natured argument a t Clitheroe Civic Soci­ e ty 's D ec em b e r m e e t­


ing. Members and guests


enjoyed lantern slides of old Clitheroe, shown by Messrs Stephen and Mark


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T H E R E was a br illiant s ta r t to th e New Year for W h a lle y re s id e n ts M r a n d M r s Mel a n d K ay


Gordon. The couple won our reader competition, featured last , .


month, for two tickets for the New Year's Eve gala dinner and dance at the Shireburn Arms in Ilurst Green. _ Mr and Mrs Gordon certainly had an evening.to


remember. "This was the first prize I had ever won," com­ mented Mrs Gordon. "We had a tremendous meal and enjoyed our New Year's bash at the Shireburn."


Pictured is hotel proprielor'Mr Steve Alcock, right, with | Mr and Mrs Gordon. ‘ _


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Thornber. The slides mainly dated


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| Good-natured argument ensued as to the identity of some of the scenes. The locations had been altered and were hardly recognis­


to their grandfather.


able today. The scenes included some


inside the old gasworks, the laying of the electricity cables in the centre of town in 1928, Tuckers' pleasure ground at Brungerley, the 1911 Coronation celebra­ tions and the 1920s visit of the Princess Royal, St John's Military Hospital at the site of the since demol­ ished St Denys home, Crab­ trees' Brewery a t Shaw- bridge, the soldiers' dinner held at the former Preston Farmers' premises - now R.


E. Dawson's, th e opening o f the Post Office in King • Street in 1927, local charac­ ters including "Pea Harry" on Clitheroe market, an early slide of a view from Clitheroe Castle Keep in 1890 and views of workers at Thornber's Mill and of the Thornber family attending public functions in the early 1900s. A vote of thanks was


given by chairman Mrs Jean Entwistle and mem­ bers continued to reminisce over tea and hot mince pies. The next meeting will be held on February 5th at St


^ Mary's Parish Hall mutual room at 7-30 p.m., when the speaker will be Mr Bob Jones on Clitheroe's land­ marks. The following meetings


will be on March. 5th, with a speaker from the Council for the Protection of Rural England and April 2nd, when the meeting will take place at Clitheroe Castle Museum with a talk on


' local geology. New mem­ bers and visitors will be wel­ come to attend.


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Chatbu new vil


by Natalie Cox


IM P R O V IN G t r a n s p o jlinks between Ribble Valle villages is th e aim of a ne‘ community bus service whic was o f f ic ia l ly la u n c h e d o


-Thursday. ■"' The Rib b le Valley Rid scheme has been set up as pa of th e "E n te rp r is in g R u r


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SH E E P farmers are being


rivers from pollutionby spe In the last 10 years, fa


• 'Compounds, including those (made from organophos- phates. 1 Although spent sheep dip


1 may be disposed of to land, mew groundwater regula­ tions designed to prevent pollution of groundwater require that such disposal must be authorised by the Environment Agency. To ensure rules are adhered to,


' agency staff Mil this month be writing to more than 300


' Lancashire farmers, includ­ ing members of the farming


- Community in the Ribble Valley, who they believe l may require an authorisa-


i tion. ; ■ Explained agency protec- ar,


. worth: "We would appreci- Ei ate the assistance of local st


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FORWARD in the fatstock 1 sale a t Gisburn Auction '


nMart on Monday were 58 ..cattle (six young bulls, 52 steers and heifers) and 186 sheep (168 hoggs, 18 ewes


was 475kg at 117.5p (£558.13) from H. Alderson to Ross. Young bulls: Premium made to 114.5p (average 110.6p), prime to 99.5p (89.5p). Steers: Prime to 89.5p (86.4p), others to 85.5p r (85p). Heifers: Premium to


and rams). The top kilo price for bulls


- been polluted by the uncon­ trolled release of toxic dip


stretches of the Ribble, Hodder, as well as the Lune and Pendle Water, have all


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L(89.9p), others to 85p (82.1p). ! .Top sale price for sheep was


117.5p (110.4p), prime to 98.5p


I £36.50 from D. Lavin to Shan. I - Hoggs: Premium (36-45.5kg) | ' made to 121.6p (118.6p), prime


ri (36-45.5kg) to 112p (106.9p), prime to 108.3p, others to 98.1p and horned ewes to £36.50


hoggs, 91 were forward making


(£22.80). In the sale of lightweight


to 108.7p (85.1p). Saturday's fortnightly sale of


r £200, homebred heifers to £170 L(£130), store sheep made to


store cattle and sheep saw 42 cattle and 50 sheep forward. Continental bulls made to £452 (£280), Continental bullocks to £428, Continental bullocks to £328, Continental heifers to £425, homebred bulls to £222 (£201), homebred bullocks to


,-£15. iijV, At the mart's Thursday sale,


/ heifers were forward. First-qual- / it'y cows made to £760 >(£615.29) and first-quality - heifers to £790 (£640.63). Sec- ond-quality cows made to £500 -


-59 newly-calved dairy cows and


■M*£480) and second-quality heifers to £505. Top prices were


-„L£790 from R. H. Drinkall and -,,£760 from R. Falshaw to J. C.


./ Young. i , Eight in-calf dairy cows and 0 heifers were forward, where ?trc'dws in calf made to £660 : bi(£585) and heifers in calf to - £680. Top price was £680 from ' ,


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.lUR and G. A. Parker. / . . VS:' . Forward .were 156 rearing ,


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