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Lottery’s £27,000 award will help to start Roefield Saturday play scheme


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in over the world lo f educational, [ religious change, I of various sorts Tably arise, rblip in general [ boarding educa- Jbers are going up, the school has


T importance for Es. Many attend local area. Tis of pounds are [it on work to pre-


by Julie Frankland


CLITHEROE'S working par­ ents may soon feel as if they ' have won the Lottery when it


comes to childcare! For a one-off award of £27,000 is to be made by the National


: Lotteries Board in July to Roe- field Leisure Centre to help i t


• develop a children's Saturday play scheme and extend its school holiday provision.


J college's fabric, Iducational facili- Ter and provide lodation for the t number of girls, htly some 15 per I leavers obtain I places.


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lich has various such as excluding I from a particular


[places," says Insp. I young people are


|y being proceeded In this way, and we [hesitate to use this | in other cases." jior local police re­ lation means that les can be flexibly licross the Valley to [articular problems luvenile nuisance.


Farmer is banned


and fined


' FARMER James Ha- . eking was breathalysed • on a remote country lane as he drove home from the pub after a


game of dominoes. Blackburn magistrates


. Stopper Lane, Rimington, and a subsequent police sta- tion breath test reading was 89 against the legal limit of


heard that police were wait­ ing for him at 11-50 p.m. on


' with excess alcohol. He was disqualified from driving for two years and fined £100


35.Hacking (46), of Mead- owbank, Stopper Lane,- ' pleaded guilty to driving


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: client. This is a one-vehicle : road with passing places and not somewhere a police


, Mr Richard Prew (defending), said that in 20 years of driving, Hacking had never had so much as a parking ticket. "Quite obvi­ ously, the police officer was tipped off by someonejn the village," said Mr Prew. "He was waiting for my


with £55 costs. Delighted centre manager Mr „ .. , ; \ ' _______ 0cbeme. which he introduced in local parents, who fmd themselvc:


Tony Rodia will use the money to recruit extra staff to enable him to launch a 60-place Saturday club for youngsters, whose parents must


work. His plan is to create 30 places for ,


children aged five to seven and 30 for those aged eight and over. “ programme of sports and other activities will keep them enter­ tained between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. for a £9 day fee. With his larger team, Mr Kodia


scheme, which he introduced in 1995. I t currently provides day- long care for children aged eight and over during the 13 holiday weeks of the school year, but has only ever been able to cater for five to seven-year-olds during the sum­ mer break. Now the lottery cash will enable the centre, which is a registered charity, to provide 50 five to seven-year-old places over the


full 13 out-of-school weeks. Said Mr Rodia: "We are thrilled


is also planning to grow Roefields over-subscribed school holiday p ay


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to have been given this financial assistance. Childcare provision is very much in demand by many


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; officer would normally be." > He said father of three ! Hacking worked on his ’ father’s beef farm and some — ! of the land was only acces- A WELL-KNOWN na- ; sible from the public road. ^ wiJ1 soon be disap


Viaduct is a Millennium building


A PLAQUE has been unveiled on Whalley Viaduct to mark its local "Millenium building" title


accolade. The 28-arch brick struc­


RUSH i r io n a n d [G e o rg e


i won the title in Ribble Val- i ley 'Borough Council's design and conservation


ture dates back to 1850 and


competition. The plaque was unveiled


by the Mayor of the Ribble Valley, Coun. Chris


. Holtom. Among the guests was


the director of Railtrack's North-West zone, Mr Mike Cowman, who said: "Rail- track owns many railway buildings of great historic


me will soon be disap­ pearing from outside a


Clitheroe shop front. But the Southworth fam­


ily will remain in the furni­


ture business. William and Ann South-


worth are closing their fur­ niture showroom in York Street to end a Clitheroe connection going back more


than 30 years. Their son, William - the


fifth generation of William Southworths in the same


business — will continue the family skills of making tra­ ditional hand-made furni­ ture to order from a work­ shop at the rear of the shop. Southworths first went into business in Montague


in iviuhw^ by John Turner


Street, Blackburn, in 1914. As well as making domes­


tic furniture like elegant desks and bookcases, they also sold things like man­ gles, washing aids which no self-respecting home of the early 1900s would be with­


out. The Clitheroe shop was


an expansion of the Black­ burn business. I t remained in business when the Black­ burn operation closed on the redevelopment of Mon­


tague Street. The original Southworths


was on a site now occupied


by Debenhams. Mr Southworth senior


said the family history was a lit tle cloudy, but, was believed to go back(many generations in cabinet mak-


ing. They had documents


showing they were in busi­ ness in Blackburn in 1914,


went back long before that. His father bought the


demolished," he added. The la tes t William


Southworth (35) chose to join the family firm after first studying electronic engineering at university. Both he and his father


ers.


Clitheroe shop 35 years ago. "That was a t the .time


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when they were redevelop­ ing Blackburn, and my fa th e r d id n 't like what was happening. I t was vandalism. There was a beautiful old arcade and a fish market and it was all


interest, but not many pro­ vide the beautiful landscape


views that can be had from Whalley Viaduct. We are delighted that it has been


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recognised." Mr Richard Kirby, the


council's design and conser- vation officer, says that the viaduct was felt to be the local structure which had


most impact. I t contains nine million


bricks and has a decorative central feature sympathetic to the design of the abbey in its shadow.


Clitheroe could scoop honours - in best-kept village contest


GLITHEROE is to be entered in this year's Lancashire Best-Kept


Village Competition. Members of the town


council have decided that its clean streets, general tidiness and overall attrac­ tiveness could give it a com­ petitive edge over other communities of a similar


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in the castle grounds and town hall notice-board have also been forwarded for sep­ arate certificates of merit and councillors are hoping tha t the keepers of other "special features" will also want to chance recognition. Explained town clerk Mr


John Wells: "The best-kept village competition has a number of certificate of merit categories. These


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include awards for youth buildings, sheltered accom­ modation and residential homes, sports grounds, bowling greens and cricket fields, retail, industrial and commercial premises, schools, farms, pubs, inns, hotels and restaurants, as well as public toilets. There is also a poster and report competition for primary


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schools. "If any school, club or


organisation would like fur­


ther details of these, can they please contact me as


soon as possible." Mr Wells can be phoned


a t Clitheroe Town Hall between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Monday to Friday, on


01200 424722. Judging of the competi­


tion, organised by the Ful- wood-based Community


Council of Lancashire, will take place between June 1st


and July 14th.


Liberal group’s new leader aims to improve the Valley


A MEMBER of Ribble Valley Bor­ ough Council for 10 years is the new


leader of its Liberal group. Coun. F ra n k D y so n s i ts for th e


Grammar School Ward of Clitheroe. He took a leading p a r t in the Liberal administration which ran the council until the elections two years ago, and was chairman of the Planning Com­


mittee. Renowned for his to-the-point contri­ , . , , .


bution to debates and also for his often witty asides, Coun. Dyson says that the Liberals will go on co-operating with the


Conservative administration to continu­ ____i fn pnnt.imi


ally improve the Ribble Valley. "Where we disagree, we shall continue to


say so, and sharply," said Coun. Dyson. The forthcoming county council election


will see the Liberals pushing for the re-elec­ tion of County Coun. Stephen Sutcliffe. "At the General Election, we will be


working hard in support of our candidate, Mr Michael Carr," promised Coun. Dyson. "I believe he has an even chance of winning


The Ribble Valley council will face elec-


tions in 2003, and Coun. Dyson promises a | big push then to unseat the Conservatives.


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local parents, who find themselves working on Saturdays and experi­ encing difficulties in finding a safe but entertaining environment for their children during the school hol­


"Roefield is doing all it can to „ ,


assist in this problem, but has been limited by resources. The award is therefore very welcome." The award will lead to a new full­


time position for a children's activi­ ty co-ordinator to be complement­ ed by two modern apprenticeships and possibly a third support role from a childcare/leisure assistant.


Causing death by dangerous driving trial is delayed


A CHARGE against a local man of causing death by dangerous driving last April will not be heard until November, 20 months after the date m ques­


tion Lengthy police inquiries


and legal consultations involving th ree other defendants have been pro­ ceeding for some time. Oliver Lomas (21), of


course of justice by provid­ ing a false statement in an attem p t to mislead an investigation into a fatal road accident. Also facing this allega-


Peel Park Avenue, Clitheroe, is charged with causing the death of Thomas Iletherington-


Fogg (17) by driving a Vauxhall Corsa car danger­ ously in Whalley Road, Pendleton. The dead youth and a


tion are Dorian Tulloch (22), of Chester Avenue, Clitheroe and Mark Brown (22) and David Brown (18), both of Cockerill Terrace,


Whalley. All four defendants


friend were travelling in a Nissan Primera saloon at


the time. Lomas is also accused of conspiring to pervert the


appeared before Preston | Crown Court last week, and were remanded on bail until the trial date, November 5th. I t is expected that the case will take seven or eight | days to hear.


Drink-drive company boss hit sign on traffic island


A COMPANY chief failed the breathalyser after hit­ ting a road sign on Petre Island, Langho. Eric Jones (53), the


treated in the back of an ambulance for a minor head injury. He gave a test read­ ing of 52 against the legal


founder and chairman of a steel company, of Wiswell Lane, Whalley, was fined £400 with a year's driving ban by Blackburn magis­ trates for driving when over


1 the limit. He agreed to be referred


to the drink driving rehabil­ itation programme, giving a


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pleted. The court heard th a t


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