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The young widow of a soldier killed in a tank accident sets about rebuilding her life.


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Councillors hear that the bill for van­ dalism in the Castle grounds has topped £10,000 over the past 15 months.


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There is heartbreak for a couple whose puppy is poisoned at a lakeside beauty


spot. page 19 Reduction in dem­


and has led to redundancies at a Clitheroe firm.


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Concerns are raised over claims th a t children are “swim­ ming in raw sewage” a t Hen- thorn.


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A mother arid daughter were “sec­ onds from death” when a skip lorry collided with a rail­ way bridge.


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■ ■ ..... , b y Tim Procter PLANNING permission


has now been granted for this futuristic bridge cross­ ing the confluence of the Rivers Ribble and Calder at


. Mitton. , It is certain to become an


' B u t the big question is : where is the money to meet the £600,000 cost going to come


using it. from? Lancashire County Council is ' ...


responsible for the bridge and will be putting up some of the money from its right-of-way


funds. But this week the county ■ .


either had no idea where it is going to get the rest of the


. money or did not want to say. - I t is actively pursuing sources


Family A FAMILY h a s b e en


re tu rn ed money raised as a .thank you to a hos­ p i t a l fo r s a v in g th e i r son’s life a f te r m o n th s of suspicious wrangling a n d d e la y s in b u y in g equipment. Now th e D ix o n s , of Park Avenue, Clitheroe,


of finance, some of which will almost certainly be from various


European Union funds. Landowners involved who still


oppose the project believe that Lottery funding will not be available. Total agreement


among all parties is needed for a project to be considered, they


say.


However, the county council has never indicated that the Lot­


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tery may be involved. The bridge is at the site of the


Hacking ferry, which ran until 1955. Since then, walkers have had to get round the spot by


road. A county council survey has


shown th a t there is a strong demand for bet ter access to


country footpath routes. Some 66% of those questioned


said they visited the countryside at least once a month, but this figure rises to 85% for Clitheore


. The survey will certainly be people. ,


used by the county as it seeks grants. Even when the money is found, the construction of the bridge will be delayed by the need to time it with bird nesting and fish spawning, key features of the area's wildlife year.


over a charity cash delay


‘Munros for Miracles’ donation raised as thank you for saving son’s life is returned bv Julie Frankland


are urging people who give money to good caus­ es to check where it is


being spent. The family wanted to


thank staff on Blackburn Royal Infirmary's inten­ sive care unit (ICU), who looked after son Christo­


pher. Christopher (18), an ICi


apprentice, spent seven days in ICU, following a car accident last year. For the first three days, parents Paul and Christine, sister


Joanne and her fiance, Phillip Birch, kept a round- the-clock vigil after being told that it was touch and go whether Christopher


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would pull through. Following his transfer to


an ordinary ward, the fami­ ly decided they would pay tribute to the ICU team and asked if they could donate a piece of equip-


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in Scotland's Munros. Our picture shows them setting


off- They called their hike •


"Munros for Miracles" and secured funding not only from family and friends but


local firms such as ICI, Neotechnic, Clitheroe Light Engineering, Whalley's Abbey Promotions and Clitheroe's Tesco store. Having collected all the


We revealed true cost of farm clean-up


TWO weeks ago th e Advertiser and Times exclu­ sively rev e aled th e co s t of clean in g th e a re a s


farms a f te r culling. This week, Prime Min­


ister Tony Blair ordered a spending clampdown on disinfecting farms affect­ ed by foot and mouth dis­ ease amid fears that-the total bill may top £800m. Now, scores of Ribble


Valley farmers are left with no stock, no money and wondering when they are going to be able to return to work. In many cases, a month after they lost their stock, farmers are still awaiting primary disinfec­


tion of their farms. Referring to the decision


money in, they presented it in two cheques to the hospi­ tal in January. Said Mrs Dixon: "We wanted to have a plaque on the equipment reading 'Chistopher Dixon — Many Thanks 2000' so we stayed in touch with the


hospital. "We were told the pumps


had been ordered, but, as months passed, I decided to check with Alaris, their manufacturer. The compa­ ny's customer relations offi­ cer said no order had been


were request«u, so Mr Paul 1999. Dixon and fitness instructor


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Mr Birch decided to raise the £2,217 needed to buy them on a sponsored walk


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"We were all upset and annoyed. In speaking to the hospital, we were told the


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order had been delayed because the cheques had accidentally been left in the ICU. We were then told that, because of their cost, the purchase of the pumps had to be approved by a committee, which only meets once a month. “Apparently, their pur­


chase had been mistakenly left off the committee's


agenda. In the end, we


w e r e r e q u e s t e d ,J S S p W S B B - S S S Continued Mrs Dixon:


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wait for our money as a cheque had to be raised." Added Mrs Dixon: "Peo­


ple give money in good faith. I t is hard enough for them to spare the cash. I t is therefore important tha t donations go where their givers believe it is going." Now the Dixons intend


to donate the money to a cause nearer to home in the


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on Tuesday, NFU chairman Mr Ben Gill said: "We thought, the situation was bad enough yesterday when we understood all new work was being suspended, but this is quite shambolic. "Thousands of farmers


who are halfway through the clean-up process will not be able to believe their ears when they are told it will all have to stop. To halt work in mid-flow does not seem to make any financial sense


either." He added that, although


it was right to review costs paid to contractors, it made no sense to halt all opera-


t S S Z & £ 2 Z carried out into the Dixons' I twns while work was taking said that we would have to complaint.


1 P Shock for return-to-work nurse


I A WADD INGTON nurse is challenging health officials to help her get back to work.


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Single mother Mrs Cath Shiel, who trained as a Reg­ istered


(RGN) at Leeds' famous St James' ("Jimmy's") Hospital,


General Nurse


wants to return to the profes- S i u n o n e


health nurse, but cannot afford the £3,000 she has been told she will have to pay


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for retraining. According to Mrs Shiel, who nursed on wards and then in the community for


morel than a decade before taking a career break to have children Rebecca (11) and Ben (eight), there are no bur­ n


saries available to help her


by the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. This is despite much of the


training being hospital- based, which effectively means that Mrs Shiel (pic­ tured) and her fellow stu­ dents would be paying to nurse patients for free on


shifts totalling 37 and a half hours a week.


sion she loves as a mental Explained Mrs Shiek "I


always intended going back to nursing and, during my time with the children, I


trained as a therapist and counsellor as I felt I would like to work in mental health. "There is a great shortage


of mental health nurses, even though mental health ser­ vices have been made a gov­ ernment priority. When I passed my three-month


pay for the 14-month mental ' 'Return to Nursing' course health nursing course, offered earlier this year, I had hoped


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Delight as otters make


a comeback OTTERS have return­ ed to live in a brook close to the centre of


resident has captured the historic event on videotape. The local resident, who


Clitheroe. And, to prove it, a local


has asked not to be identi­ fied, has the Mearley Brook in her garden, and was first alerted to the exciting pres­ ence in the brook by a com­ motion on Saturday week. On the first occasion she


saw the otter with a large fish in its mouth and it dived into a hole in the


bank. She said: "The brook is a , .


lot cleaner than it used to be. They have stopped a lot of the diesel fuel washing down with the surface water from the industrial units


1 "It is nice to see, and it is upstream. .


wonderful to think^ th a t there are otters back in the


brook. "We have been feeding


the trout in the brook for some time and there are fish up to a foot long. As well as the otters we now have herons visiting, looking for


fish."The sighting was wel­ comed by Clitheroe natural­ ist Mr Tony Cooper..


He said: "This is extreme­


ly unusual and great news. Otters have been sadly depleted for a long time. "One of the problems is,


though, that otters wander a lot and they have become victims after trying to cross


roads." Bush meeting


ONE of the first British people to meet the Presi­ dent of the United States of


cleaning during a visit to i America in the UK was the Ribble Valley to meet. Ribble Valley MP Nigel [arnTers and promote the C overnment's


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Evans. His invitation came as a result of his conducting a tour for m i t e


cials around the House oi | Commons.


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