Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, September 20th, 2001
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Look w hat there is in The Valley!
TWO social events involving many people throughout the Ribble Valley are featured promi nently in the pages of our October edition of The
Valley. Clitheroe's "Last Night of the Proms," held m
the grounds of the town's Castle, is recaptured in pictures.
Also featured is the the annual senior citizens . .
t was planted in Street East, and Parish Council
tea party, organised by members of the Rotary Club of Clitheroe and held at the Stirk House
, several other plant around it. at missing earlier nth, coinciding ibden's annual arket. The neat lied in the hole rooting the tree, aque sited at the he tree had been further up the
the parish council funds he will pay imself.
. Frank Goss said
imanded A of "not guilty" en entered by a oe man accused of ing his wife, ben Alan Blenkin- 35), of Pimlico Clitheroe, was ded on bail by
Hotel, Gisburn. We visit the flower festival at St Nicholas s
Church, Sabden, where our photographer cap tured many of the stunning arrangements on
film. Ribble Valley entrepreneur John Wilman i s ,
interviewed at home by reporter Julie Frankland. And we tnke a walk around the tiny village of
Wiswell, where John Turner uncovers some fasci nating facts.
Our popular Valley Gardens pages unearth a ■
rural paradise on the edge of Knowle Green, and Meet the Chef sees Marcia Morris popping into the Hark to Bounty Inn where she meets the fam ily behind the popular village hostelry. Rebecca Smith recalls a memorable trip to
Greenland and offers readers the chance to win the Lonely Planet’s Guide to that country, Iceland
and the Faroe Isles, while Tim Pr° ctc^ 'a"nCJr a new series, taking a look back at the Ribble Val
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ley of old with pictures from our own archives. There is something for everyone in our award winning monthly magazine, produced by the same
• editorial team as your weekly Clitheroe Adverti - cr and Times.
ed conditions that ifendant must not ct his wife, Mrs lenkinship, and
trates at Black- magistrates
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ndle Club
GE winners at the > Club on Monday loon were: Mrs Hadfield and Mrs
rolvick, Mrs Bar^ largreaves and Mrs ;n Marston. New >ers welcome each ay at 1-30 p.m. 3 whist winners at indie Club were: Mr mard, Mr D. Grant, Oddie. New players me every Monday 0 p.m.
ridge club NERS at Clitheroe
>lden, Mr J. Renton Vlr J. Pawlicki. On sday, winners were*. Mr C. Pollard and J. Pollard, Mr and
e Club on Monday NS, Mr and Mrs
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R. Ward. EW, Mr P. he and Mrs E'. d, Mr J. Renton and B. Wilson.
son blaze N is suspected timber shed in the ds of the CRGS im Road site was yed early on Sun- ening. ire was little of inside the shed.,
The October edition is on sale now at .
newsagents, priced just 50p. Order your copy today.
Talk on South Africa
THERE were 27 members present at the meeting of Clitheroe and District Masonic Fellowship, held a
West Bradford Village Hall. Guest speaker Mr P. Houldsworth gave a very
interesting talk and slide show entitled South A f r i c a
received by the members.
30 p.m., guest speaker will be Mr Short, of Wyco Country Park.
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Prospects bleak, says county NFU official
THE prospects for live stock farmers in Lan cashire are now extreme ly bleak, says Mr Thomas Binns, NFU county vice-chairman. Commenting on last
the county, movements will not be allowed in or out of the infected area, which covers a large por tion of the central and northern part of the
week's announcement of new arrangements for
the movement of live stock due to foot and mouth disease, the Downham farmer said it 'would be a further brutal
county.Sheep movements within the county will only be allowed to take place after blood testing has been completed, and it will be another 10 days
blow to the local farming community. • "Farmers face the
d a u n t i n g p r o s p e c t o f winter approaching with depleted feed supplies, increased stock numbers and severe lack of cash flow because they have had no income for months," he added. "The type of move
i was valued at 0. Police are mak- luirics.
dust go change ;
id I waited with hun- crs. I didn’t want to is it was much closer , also everyone want- ill buildings. I p.m., I walked a few •iend’s house on the Side. It was too hor- i watch the TV, so we ound Central Park in /one was quiet, as was ire was a sense of fear. iy was a strange day •sday people tried to some sort of routine.
At next month's meeting at the same venue at 2- W°A nine-inch pipe at the back of King Street became blocked,
Yesterday and Today”, which was well- _
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Great things have come from m
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by Julie Frankland
PROOF tha t good things come in ismall packages is rising track star Nathan Riding. When he was born 11 weeks prematurely, the now strapping 1 2 -year-old barely tipped the
scales.He weighed just 21b. 3oz. and had to spend the first nine weeks of his life in hospital.
Yet despite some ini tial health hiccups and
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suffering from the skin condition psoriasis, Nathan has gone from
strength to strength. Last weekend, he com
pleted the children s course of the Great North Run for the fifth time, finishing its three- mile route in a credible
22 minutes. A pupil at St Augus
tine’s RC High School, Billington, Nathan is the school’s junior cross country team captain and was ranked the country’s 11th best 1500 metre runner for his age. He also plays soccer for Whalley Boys’FC.
/Vhauey nuya His proud mum, Mrs
Liona Riding, ran the 13 miles of the adult Great North Run in 2hr 14mm. to raise more than £20 U for research into Alzheimer’s disease. She said “When
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Nathan was born, we were scared - he was so tiny. Yet looking at him now, I hope the parents of other premature babies
can perhaps take heart. Children born early can make good progress.”
lands Drive, Billington, Nathan does not have it all his own way, as younger brother Tom (nine) is chasing hot on
At home in Pasture
his heels. Tom also completed
his third Great North Run children’s challenge,
covering the same course as big brother in 30 min
utes. “
H o m e s w e r e THOUSANDS of gallons of
raw sewage threatened homes in Whalley on Saturday. Only hours of hard work by
two contractors and two teams of fire-fighters with specialist equipment and numerous pow erful vehicles saved a nasty sit uation at the village end of Mitton Road from being much
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so sewageh boacked up tion Officer Dave house yard and the basemen of the adult education centre at the old grammar school.
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d a n g e r o i into a
nto a Gratings at the homes for
the elderly across the road threatened flooding there too. "We never thought our
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machines would be used to pump raw sewage, but we are here to do anything necessary and there was no choice," said the Clitheroe fire chief, bta-
There’s still no sign of our footpaths being reopened
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THERE is increasing con cern th a t no date has y e t been given for the reopening of footpaths in the Ribble Valley which have been sub ject to closure, orders as a result of foot and mouth dis- 033Q It is now 11 weeks since the
before this starts. Arrangements for cattle movements will s ta r t from
Monday.NFU Lancashire poli cy adviser Mr Rodney Bacon said: "We were always afraid that Lan cashire would be defined as a high risk county. We understand that eradica tion of the disease is paramount, but we are
ments they would nor mally make at this time of year are for the most part no longer available to them. Farmers feel a sense of desperation and helplessness in a regula tory environment, which does not offer them any practical solutions." The county has been
now faced with some of the tightest restrictions since the start of the cri-
Many farmers in the * ,,
Ribble Valley tradition ally overwinter a propor
classified "high risk" and no animal movements will be allowed outside Lancashire, except for 'slaughter. Even within
tion of their flock in counties such as Cheshire, and a signifi cant proportion of the sales of breeding and animals for further fat tening would be sold nor mally to buyers from outside the county.
Your chance to have say on future of countryside
-PEOPLE from Clitheroe and across the Ribble 'Valley are being invited to share their views about the future of our
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countryside. A special public con
was brought to its her day, but immedi- ted to straighten up. ne said: "They chose ty to pick on". MER pupil of Stony-
,'ork, but by lunch the idtown Manhattan icuated due to endless s.
e is among the Britons ead in the trade centre
hool from 1965 to 1968, ew Jersey and worked on floor of the second tower
hristoph'er Newton- ho was at the Hurst
by terrorists. OOK of condolence has
ned for Ribble Valley res- anting to express their y for the families of the
efore being forwarded to rican Embassy.
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sultation exercise is to take place next Thurs
day. From noon until 9 p.m., researchers will be
. at Ribble Valley Borough Council's Church Street
/ has been rearranged fol- 7 -lowing its postponement
"premises and would wel- -jcoine a visit from anyone who would like to discuss .-rural issues. The event
- last month. The consultation has
•been organised on behalf ■ of the Countryside •Agency, which wishes to
revise the current Coun tryside Code and to launch it along with information regarding new access areas. One of the key areas for consid eration is around the
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Forest of Bowland. The agency will be
gathering information from members of the public, farmers and landowners and, in par ticular, children about their perceptions of the
countryside. Anyone interested in
becoming involved can call at the council cham bers on September 27th. For more information,
contact the Volunteering Development Project,
tel. 01200 422721. t t t t v d t p 1 c Inerpasine con- Ij-rimTOMllfinilTlI ' / ]
the North of England, DEF!RA did not appear willing to review the situation in the county, adding, "this is unfair on our
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farmers and businesses . “Other parts of the country
last confirmed case of foot and mouth in the Valley. Twenty four hours after the
nesses as they try to recover from the restrictions imposed on them
by the disease. Planned changes to the live
A d v e r t i s e r a n d Times received a rather pessimistic response to the
question: "When are paths likely to reopen," Lancashire County Council announced that it had written to the Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs over the classification ol the county as an "infected area . The county council said that,
despite being free of cases since the end of June, much of Lan cashire remains classified by DEFRA as an infected area, which has had an adverse impact on many farmers and rural busi
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stock movement scheme this autumn could result in an exten sion of the current "infected area status to include Fylde, West Lancashire and Rossendale,
despite these areas never having
had an outbreak. County Coun. Tim Ormrod,
Cabinet Member for Public Pro tection and Rural Affairs and chairman of Lancashire s Foot and Mouth Taskforce, said it seemed that, due to outbreaks in surrounding areas, such as Wigan, Warrington and Yorkshire, and delays in blood testing flocks in
____* Abattoir falls victim to the crisis
THE Ribble Valley's only small, pri vately- owned abattoir had a bright future ahead before the foot and mouth epidemic hit the area. Now it is closed as a direct conse
quence of the area's "foot and mouth protection zone status". Previously, the EC-approved abat
toir in Wiswell employed three people and carried out work for local farm ers and butchers, as well as supplying owner Mr Ian Hey wood with meat for his retail business, based m Wilp-
shire.
shire and were about to launch a mail order and Internet service," said Mr
"We have a butcher s shop in W up- , . ,,,,,
Heywood (pictured). However, since foot and mouth ais-
ease struck, plans for the new retail venture, "Ribblevale Meat and Poul try", have been shelved. The expansion into new markets,
reformulate our business and " iar' keting plans to take accountofthe
including the creation of a Ribblevale website, was being developed with assistance from a Business Link per sonal business adviser. "We were very much looking forward to launching a successful Internet business, creating new jobs and extra demand for local ly-produced meat products, said Mr
Heywood.Now, assistance from Business Link has taken on a new and more urgent twist. "It is all about survival. Business Link has been helping us
current crisis," explained Mr Hey W
°°We are still planning to launch
Ribblevale on the Internet but cer tainly in the short term, it wiUbe sell ing produce sourced from other
ar<The assistance programme for Heywood Butchers is under the
Rural Business Rec.°fv1
gramme, created to assist local bus. nesses suffering as a result of the foot and mouth epidemic.
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have already been put into a lower risk category, but farmers in Lan cashire could face even more restrictions this autumn with the introduction of the new system. They will face increased restric tions and costs when trying to move animals between farms or
send them for slaughter. “While Lancashire remains tree
of outbreaks, DEFRA should be actively seeking to remove the current restrictions similar to
other areas, instead of imposing
wider controls”. The last outbreak in Lancashire
was in the Clitheroe area on June 28th. The county council points out that an outbreak on a farm in Wigan on July 17th was incor rectly recorded on the DEFRA website as being in the county of
Lancashire.
Call to back petition to Parliament
THE help of people in
the Ribble Valley has been requested in the campaign for a full pub lic inquiry into the foot and mouth disease crisis. Clitheroe man Mr
David Robinson is vice- chairman of the West Craven Foot and Mouth Action Group, which is helping to produce a nationwide five million signature petition. He said: "There are
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tion Officer Dave McGrath. "If we hadn't, the sewage
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would have got into the houses. Naturally enough we .took all the personal health precautions we could and everything, equipment and clothing, was thoroughly cleaned and disin
fected afterwards." The fire-fighters, from Great
Harwood and Clitheroe, used the pumps on two machines plus a portable pump. They
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bers of Hyndburn Ath letic Club, while mum is a member of Blackburn Road Runners, leaving dad Mr Alan Riding to
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moved the ,
l h e slurry-like materis ial
from the surface into alternans tive drains, while contractors
drained tankerfuls from the
sewer.Eventually, after more than seven hours, the blockage was found and cleared. There were numerous traffic problems. Now the system is to be
examined with a TV camera to see if anything needs to be done to prevent a recurrence.
bring up the rear with the occasional jog! Our picture shows Mrs Riding with sons Nathan
(left) and Thomas. (P180901/3)
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| More Valley success in best-kept
competition
THE village of Knowle Green pipped Walker Fold to the winning post in this year's Best Kept Village Competition. Knowle Green wins
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the Granada TV Trophy and a wayside seat and plaque for taking the title I
in the Hamlet Class. In the section for best
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kept church or chapel, St Peter and St Paul's RC Church, Stydd, Ribch- ester, took first place. St | Bartholomew's and the Congregational Chapel, Chipping; Whalley Abbey and St Leonard’s Church, Old Langho were all highly com mended.
West Bradford's village
hall won the section for best kept village hall, with Bashall Eaves Vil lage Hall highly com
mended. The village toilets in ^ Sabden were judged to be , the best kept toilets, with Hurst Green and Waddington both highly commended. St Mary's RC School,
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| Restrictions are lifted in some areas
FARMERS on almost 7,000 premises in North Yorkshire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Lancashire had foot and ^ mouth disease restrictions lifted at the weekend. ' The restrictions in the Ribble Valley remain.
restrictions means that the areas affected are now "at risk” instead of "high- risk", and farmers will have more options to move livestock. DEFRA Minister Lord
The lifting of the
Whitty said : "I'm glad our campaign against FMD is continuing to bring relief to Briain s farming industry."
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