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The Clitheroe ^Thursday, November 22nd, 2001 |No. 6,020 ~iui


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Almost half the workforce at a Clitheroe firm have lost their jobs following the crash of its parent company.


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Police calm things down at a Stop the War protest gathering.


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A Clitheroe football coach is off to the Gambia to help a young footballer realise his dream.


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A rift is denied at the village school in Barrow.


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Toddler Taylor Linford, aged two, proves that he has a winning smile at a photo session in the town.


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Parents are circulating a petition to save a day nursery threatened with closure.


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An exciting new £500,000 build­ ing project, including a library, is to be unveiled at Whalley CE Primary School.


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VIP visitor for Valley I school


by John Turner


TH E picturesque Ribble Valley v il la g e of Wiswell was a key location for a dispute th a t could rock the game of football if play­ ers go through with their threat


to strike. The man in the hot seat, Gor­


don Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Asso­ ciation, lives close to the centre of


the village. His 4,000 players have turned


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Toast of the town


Valley’s Gordon Taylor blows the whistle in TV soccer row


down a three-year £50 million share of the revenue from the Football League's television deals and the association has called a strike on


December 1st and 2nd. Mr Taylor and his wife, Kath,


have lived in The Cloudings, a £400,000 detached house, for close to


five years. One villager said: "He is a regular . ,


sight in the village with his two little dogs, which yap every time they see


my dog."He and his wife play a full part in village life. Although their garden is a bit flash, with dragons and things in it


M an lay dead in his home for up to eight weeks


Angry neighbours hit back after being branded as uncaring by Julie Frankland


NEIGHBOURS on a Clitheroe housing e s ta te are an g ry th a t they have been branded uncar­


48-year-old man, Mr John McPhee, was found in his Henthorn Road semi. He may have been there, undiscov­


ing afte r a man lay dead in his home for up to eight weeks. Police revealed that the body of the


ered, for up to eight weeks. The most recent newspaper found


in the house, where he lived alone, was dated September 4th, yet it was last Friday afternoon when police officers, alerted by family and friends, broke into the house to make their grim dis­ covery. They found Mr McPhee’s


body in the kitchen. Although the results of a post­


'a


mortem were not available at the time of going to press, it is understood that there were no suspicious circumstances and Mr McPhee, a registered alco­ holic, is believed to have died from nat-


ursil causes. Yet insinuations that the communi­


ty had turned its back on Mr McPhee, a time-served joiner, were angrily denied. Said one neighbour: "Up until four years ago, John shared the house with his widower dad. They were both


company." holism."


that John's family spent both a lot of time and money trying to help him recover from his disease of alco­


Another friend added: 11 m aware ,


cousin of Mrs Rosemary Lancaster, whose husband Mr John Lancaster founded the multi-million-pound Ultraframe empire, had undergone treatment for his addiction at Gis- burne Park Hospital.


It is understood that Mr McPhee, a , J 4 CHARACTERS came Co life during a Ribble Valley


Evans has called for an inquiry into how social services and other support organisations linked to Mr McPhee could have failed to log him as missing for some many weeks. Said Mr Evans: "It is a tragedy and I think we need an inquiry to avoid anything like this happening again."


MP for the Ribble Valley Mr Nigel


pening in London, but I am bewil­ dered that it has happened in a com­ munity-spirited town like Clitheroe.


He added: “I could believe this hap­ . Murder hunt called off a a %


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A M U R D E R h u n t in C l i th e ro e was called off yesterday when experts identi­


fied remains dug up under a kitchen floor


as animal bones. The large bones were unearthed on Tuesday


by builders working on the house a t Pimlico. Work stopped, police were called and the house sealed off. Police stood guard on


nitely identified the large bones, which included a ball and socket joint, as not being human. I t was believed the


the building through the night, but during Wednesday morning anthropologists defi­


over them.


bones had been buried in the garden before the kitchen had been built


er picture can be found on page 7.


Council in moves to I ban street drinking


PAVEMENTS and s tre e ts in Clitheroe and Longridge town c e n t re s a n d in th e c e n t re of W h a l le y co u ld soon b e off


limits for drinkers. Ribble Valley Bor­


ough Council is set to start the ball rolling to bring in a ban on drink­ ing in the streets of all


three areas. The move has been


prompted by new laws


which came into force earlier this year giving local authorities power to restrict anti-social drinking in public places. An order can be put in


force giving police pow­ ers to require people not to drink alcohol in desig­ nated town centre areas and to give up opened drink containers. Mr Paul Timson, the


Inspector Bob Ford. Police have written to I


the council supporting the move which, they said, would "support ongoing crime and disor­ der initiatives, particu­ larly in relation to town centre disorder and anti­ social behaviour." The council's Policy |


and Finance Committee this week approved tak-


council's Director of Legal Services, has been in talks with


ing the proposal out for public consultation to include town and parish | councils and licensees.


Queen’s Award on way for business which began in a back bedroom


I A H U R S T G R E E N man, whose school report described him as "only fit for m a n u a l la b o u r " , is preparing for a Bucking­ h am P a la c e re c e p t io n a f te r th e com p an y he launched in his back bed­ room is now a g lo b a lly recognised operation with a Q u een's Award for


Enterprise. Former labourer and


exhaust fitter Mr Richard Bailey (45), an old boy of what is now Clitheroe's Rib-


blesdale High School Tech­ nology College, is recognised worldwide as the 999 indus­ try's emergency service provider. This is because Mr Bailey's company, Aireshelta, founded 11 years ago, was the first to pioneer and man­ ufacture inflatable buildings, designed exclusively for police, ambulance and fire


use.His inflatable units, which can be erected in minutes, are now used to screen and pro­ tect those involved in rescue operations throughout the world and his latest innova­


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tion, an inflatable decontami­ nation unit called an Aireshower, is being used by those clearing debris at Ground Zero, New York, to rid themselves of asbestos and carbon fibres from the crashed planes, as well as other poten­ tially harmful constituents resulting from the September 11th terror attacks. Mr Bailey, who received his


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and Paddington rail disasters and the Windsor Castle blaze. They are also being used now


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Queen's Award for Enterprise from HRH the Duke of Kent, said: "We supply inflatable shelters to all the UK's police and ambulance services. They have been used at incidents such as the Selby, Hatfield


bank manager about launch­ ing my company, initial plans for which I drew up on the back of a cigarette packet, he told me he thought that I had good idea, but that he had seen a lot of good ideas go nowhere. Luckily, we've gone global and, at the moment, we are working 24-hours-a- day, seven-days-a-week as we manufacture to order." Mr Bailey, who is married to Andrea and has daughters


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produced initial shelter designs, which he decided to market to the emergency services. Mr Bailey said: "Before I launched Aireshelta, I was working as a salesman for Iveco, the truck arm of Ford Motors, and we were always told sales


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always well turned out and very pleas­ ant. When his dad died, John became more reclusive. People tried, but he didn't always want to be bothered with them and you have to respect someone's wish to be alone if that's what they choose. Yet when he did decide to go out, he was never short of


they have been accepted as villagers,


she added.On behalf of the players, Mr Taylor (pictured) is fighting for a bigger slice of the revenue from televising match­ es. The strike he is proposing would affect matches which would have tele­ vision cameras at the ground. The Premier League has raised its


offer from £10 million to £17 million, but the players claim they are entitled to five per cent of the revenue — £27.5 million. No doubt the telephone lines from the world of football into Wiswell will be buzzing while a solution to the


dispute is worked out. The Ribble Valley is a popular bolt­


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‘Madam Cyn’ would like to live in Valley


Cynthia likes friendliness, shops and countryside


RUMOURS th a t an o th e r c e leb r ity was moving to Clitheroe were dashed this week by the woman herself. But Cynthia Payne


hole for professional footballers. Brockhall, for instance, has more


than its fair share of players and Blackburn's Martin Taylor lives at


Sabden.


- dubbed “Madam Cyn” - admitted that, if she did decide to buy a house in the North, then it would be in the Ribble Valley.


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She said Clitheroe


would be the place for her because she likes to be where the shops are and not in the country. "If I did buy a house, it would be in Clitheroe,"


she said. Moving to the North


I ted that someone had I been trying to tempt her to buy a particular house in the Valley and that she had talked about purchasing it. She said that had she been "a bit younger” she may have been more keen, but added: "I have decided that it has got to be Lon­ don to be among every­


is an idea she has toyed with before, but one she has never made a defi­ nite decision about. However, she admit-


thing." She said: "If I had pots and pots of money I


would buy it as an investment and it is already there if I did want to move up north." She added tha t she


I would be nice to live here, as she has a lot of friends "up north". She said she was


may regret her decision not to move, saying it


always travelling to these parts and now feels more a northerner than a southener: "I never dis­ covered the North until about 12 years ago, and then I thought'what have I missed all my life?' I like Newcastle, too, there is the same kind of friendliness."


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