Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, April 26th, 2001 csnews.co.uk Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified)QtfiOT^


London Marathon runners raise thousands for charity


' . by Jo h n T u rn e r THE Monday morning


ays get people tin there is no >ut fire. This is es have to be


law." Ten, who has retirement and j-time not only--------- work, but as a


ison visitor and iththerehabili- . offenders, has ; leading lawyers hirley Williams iby MP Clare mas to win sup- e organisation's


lr O'Brien, who on at Stonyhurst "FACT is a


^founded group, led after 91 staff,


worked at a local , were accused of uses against resi- • a period dating e years. Among id staff was for- lampton football )ave Jones, whose s interrupted by hat were thrown rt. His family are


mbers. ing his arrest,


lated to alleged in the 1970s and


r O'Brien, who has aintained his inno- ited 14 months for


vhich took place in Crown Court in


, 2000. Initially ilty, he spent seven prison waiting for


. feeling meant aching limbs for a number, of


. people in the Kibble Valley this week. But their sacrifice in


. dener Mr Ian Poole (33), the race was the final chap­


months of hard training and an arduous Sunday, running the 21st London Marathon, will have resulted in several thou­ sands of pounds raised for good causes. For Downham head gar-


t e r in his own version of "A Tale of Two Cities”. Two weeks before, he had


run in the Paris Marathon and achieved a personal best time of 3hr. 28min., running past the Eiffel ; Tower, the Louvre and


down the Champs Elysees. In London on Sunday his


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French run had taken its toll and his time was extended by eight minutes. The Pendle Athletic Club


runner is still collecting in his sponsorship money in aid of a charity which sends seriously arid terminally-ill children on holidays and weekend breaks. "I have sponsor forms out all over the Ribble Valley," he said. His next projects include


a marathon in Blackpool in the summer and a half marathon between Bondi Beach and Sydney Opera House in Australia in


August. Further donations can be


made by phoning him on


01200 440005. Ribchester contracts


supervisor Mr Ron Smith


r decide parking fees are a small price to pay for nice village


(52), running in only his second marathon, came


b y Year 5 pupils


’ TICKET machines, road- ’ side parking, long-stay car


parks, parking restrictions ‘ _ do Whalley residents


il to be heard. His n included three i solitary confine- Pentonville Prison. Brien's conviction in quashed, his laving put forward ids for considering


yside, CH45 7WE, or .factnotfiction.org.uk.


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eighbour ves vivid i-raid


T ip t io n HBOUR has


jlic e a v iv id ion of a ram - i which a


e store lost its ock of mobile


iur in two estate only a matter of _


s woken by the watched as the


i enter the premis- leworks in Eshton iearch the premis- ,d at least £8,000's telephones into


works director Mr len said: "They hit ' right off its hinges, ent through the ;nt through all the ds and took every


raid happened a.m. on Monday,


phone. They even dummy telephones


play.whole thing was a lady living across .d. She called the Jut the thieves were out within a very me," he added, telephones were all , but they are partic- valuable to a thief 5e they were all ked", which meant ould be sold on by pulous dealers. Some .lued at as much as


ey are probably d already", said Mr who has been in busi-


>r five years, suffered from another ent at the shop in


st last year, when com­ ps were damaged, augh dispirited over itest raid, he plans to ck and carry on busi- He said: "You can't let ng like this stop, your


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! decided it was time they visited the village to find out the answers for them-


really want them? Pupils in Year 5 at fat Mary's RC School, Langho,


solves.In the pouring rain, with


parents in tow, they set off to ask local people for their


; views on the extremely top­ ical car parking issue. Ques-


‘ tionnaires were prepared lor visitors, residents and shop­ keepers and, despite the awful weather the children and staff encountered, peo­ ple took the time to offer their opinions and answer


the questions. The result of their survey


is reprinted below. “We found out that most


people park on the roadside (66% of visitors and bl /»


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of'shopkeepers) and that the pay and display car


- park is not being used as • much as we expected.


ing Fields and were given the clear message that peo­ ple would not use it. ■


"Shopkeepers said that it


was too far to walk at night and was unsafe; shoppers did not think they would want to walk there with their shopping and out of 44 people we asked, only 13 replied that they would use


it."Our papers were soggy, and we were even soggier by the time we got back to school, but we thought we had learned a lot. "We looked carefully at


home in 3hr. 37min. 58sec., 35 minutes quicker than his previous personal best. , The Autistics Society will


be £1,100 better off thanks to Mr Smith and his spon-


sors.Mr Andrew Mossop (37), son of Mr Peter and Mrs Alison Mossop, of Abbots Croft, Whalley, took plea­ sure, like most of the other Ribble Valley marathon-' eers, in crossing the line ahead of five-times rowing gold medallist Sir Steven Redgrave, who took just under five hours. Mr Mossop's first


marathon effort of 4hr. 2min. saw him pipped by a


’on^marathon, came B r i t i s h H e a r t h h m d _ _ _ - ^ ^ ------- --------------------- ----------------


couple of minutes by boxer and panto star Frank Bruno. His comment after­ wards, according to his mother, was "Never again. His run raised £300 for the British Heart Fund.


L o n d o n . • » - MM ACCIDENT a7min.58sec., Retired nurse super Retired nurse supervisor.


Miss Kitty Garnett (63), of Sabden, was running in her


14th marathon and came


home in 4hr. 19min. - She raised betweeni £350 and £400 for a children s hospice near Manchester. "f had a good day," she said. "Now I'll give my feet a rest before I think about next


year."Whalley was well repre­ sented on the streets of


London.Whalley businessman JV Andrew Ronnan and thri


friends, all mothers, mat the biggest single conti


gent from the Ribble Va • The quartet made it sa.w/ home within five hours and


made more than £3,000 for the National Asthma Cam-


P Mr Ronnan, Mrs Sue Brooks, Mrs Annie Parkin-


Angels" by the charity orgariisers. Mr Ronnan


im


Dublin, Berlin and Monaco this great day and ev y - said: "The team had mar- is proud of them.


(46), who has run seven -


marathons - fo ‘‘-lur times in in others


in Sue trained really hard for marathon.__________


Taste before you buy” at the WI Market


CLITHEROE’S WI market is always renowned for its high standards of home-cookmg and


CINow customers will be able to sample some of the


dav it will be blackcurrant jam and lemon curd. The market in Clitheroe Parish Church Lower Hal


eoods at taster sessions. g On the first Tuesday of each month, a. small sample of selected goods will be available for tasting. On Tu


is ooen from 10-30 to 11-45 a.m. for the sale of pro­ duce including pies, biscuits and preserves. Sale of


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our results and came to the conclusion that one of the biggest problems was the


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lack of cheap long-stay parking for shopkeepers. Many park on the road­


side at the moment and this means there are not as many spaces for shoppers. In addition, some residents are not happy with cars being parked outside their houses all day. Many people (especially shopkeepers) also told us that they would like roadside restrictions. "We think these would


* ,'!We asked’people What . they thought about the . machines and 58% said they disagreed with them, while 50% said that prices were fair. We also asked people what they thought about the proposed long- stay car park at QEII Play­


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Free warm-up gigs from the Animals


------ --- • by Julie Fran k lan d


SIXTIES band the Ani­ mals are to play two free "secret" warm-up gigs m . Clitheroe tonight and


tomorrow evening as a prelude to a major nation­


al tour.Chart-topping hits such as "House of the Rising Sun", "We Gotta Get Out of This Place” and "Don't Let


Me Be Misunderstood" are set to rock the town centres Swan and Royal from 8 p.m. this evening, with a repeat performance sched­ uled for Friday at the


Craven Heifer. The band, which still con­


tains original members John Steel and Dave Rowberry, is celebrating the release of a greatest hits album, "Inter­ esting Life"., and is playing in Clitheroe as a rehearsal to shows at London's Olympia


Natasha Neweus SCHOOL OF SWIMMING


_v/. A r e you going on holiday this year?


_j Is your child safe by


__ _ _____ ^ the water? Does your child fear the water?


come in to school and tell us


more."He explained that there could only be roadside restrictions if there was a long-stay car park in the village - which there is not. After much debate, we came to the following con­


only be useful if there was some extra long-stay, park­


dents.


hard about the things peo­ ple had told us and we invit­ ed Coun. Eric Ronnan to


"We thought long and ,


clusions: • The council should try


ing in the village. Without that, it would just make things worse for the resi­


,


to talk to the brewery and see if it would let them lease 20 spaces for long-stay parking for the local shop­


keepers. • A small long-stay car


park could be built at Vale Garden's; we think that it could still be an attractive


area if it was landscaped


carefully. • Roadside restrictions


could then be used to limit parking on King Street and


George Street. • A ‘Use public trans­


port’ campaign should be launched.


in Whalley is a problem at the moment, but not such a big problem that everybody needs to fall out about it. "Local trade is important


"We think that parking .


to the village, but so is an attractive environment. If only the borough council could get together with the brewery and sort something


out, then we think the prob­ lem could be solved easily. "In the meantime, we


think that we are lucky to live near such a lovely vil­ lage and if it means walking a few extra metres, or pay­ ing a few extra pence on parking machines, we think it is a small price to pay for keeping Whalley as nice as itisnow."


Our photograph shows '


Year 5 pupil Jamie Turner (10) showing his question­ naire to class teacher Mrs Catherine Keane, while Declan McCarthy works on the project at St Mary's


School. (K100401/2) A driver who


and a 46-date nationwide tour booked for next year, when the Spencer Davis Group and Georgie Fame will be the supporting acts. The band's Clitheroe gigs


drank 15 pints escapes jail


- has also just become the Animals' rhythm guitarist and vocalist, but will con­ tinue to play with Sounds of Smokie and Creedence Clearwater Revived, both of which have strong local fol­


have been arranged by the town’s Mr Pete Barton, who has managed the group through his Swan Court Yard Rock Artist Manage­ ment company since 1992. Musician Mr Barton, of Lieutenant Pigeon, and Swinging Blue Jeans fame,


A FORMER pupil of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School warned to expect prison after admitting drinking 15 pints of beer before crashing hi into a bus stop, hasescaped ]ail.


Although four times faanuerson _____


over the legal drink-drive limit when he collided his Skoda into the Low- ergate sh e lte r a t 3-50 a.m. one Sunday morn­ ing last month, Black­ burn magistrates heard th a t 33-year-old James Russell Sanderson had never been in trouble


before.


lowings.O To win one of six copies of the Animals' greatest hits album "Interesting Life", donated by Mr Barton, sim­ ply forward, on a postcard, the names of the two origi­ nal members still playing in the band's five-strong line­ up. Send your card to the Animals Competition, Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroe BB7 2EW to reach us by noon on Mon­


________________________________________________________j______ _____ _______ ___________ ______ day.


Sanderson, who lives in a room above the Starkie Arms, Castle Street, Clitheroe, was suffering from depression and had a drink problem, but was a man of "excellent charac­ ter” with nine O-levels and two A-levels to his credit and a work recordspanning


They were told that - - Kssssr ____ cord anning , ed to


join the police, but was turned down because he


was colour blind. At an earlier hearing,


adjourned for pre-sen fenc­ ing reports, the Bench had been told that Sanderson claimed no recollection oi getting into his car and dri­


d 7 years of creatine] - ' arc your-


highCy en g in e er ed windows & doors g u a ra n te e o f a jo b w ed done.


ving off on the morning ol the accident. Instead, it was suggested that Sanderson may have been driving in his sleep, since the collision happened several hours after he remembered going


to bed.


report recommendations and not jail Sanderson, magistrates banned him from driving for three years and ordered him to com-


In deciding to follow , ando th probation


( ja a s f f i f f i s a s t - j - » ~ «• that on leaving school, costs.


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