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The Clitheroe ir.ehstlaricashiiconline.co.uk.; Price 48p news and views from the Centre of the Kingdom Thursday, Ju ne 28th, 2001 No. 5,999


Rolling in the aisles at Bard’s play


A retired undertak­ er is cleared of nine counts of indecent assault.


page 11


A man who insulted an assistant hotel, manageress by call­ ing her “a black bitch” is fined in a court case.


page 2


Clitheroe company Ultraframe is prep­ aring a £88.5m. bid for an American business.


page 11


Five people appear in court following a pollution incident which killed 2,700


fish. V page 2 Their daughter’s ill­


ness spurs on a cou­ ple to do a cycle marathon for chari­


ty.


, A new village police­ man gives a promise of 24-hour cover as he begins his beat.


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A BLUNDER by a DEFRA official was the last straw for a farmer who has suffered an amazing and catastrophic farm-


^A good turn one morning by his son, who helped farmer Mr David Coupland free a cow entangled in


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scaffolding, resulted m the stock on two farms being wiped out.


Coupland's farm at Grindleton were confirmed as having foot and mouth


For that afternoon, cows on Mr


^*This turned his son into a "danger­ ous contact", which meant the sons stock had to be culled. And because, on the way home, his


OuFfoot'a^ the father-in-law's stock had to go,


t0 And after all the 229 cattle on Mr Coupland's farm had been slaugh­ tered and removed andthe imtiai


son had called at the Dunsop Bridge farm belonging to his father-in-law, all


rm b e l o n g i n g to his father-m-.aw.au


shock had worn off, a DEFRA offi­ cial, who gave his name as Woody Butler, made a telephone call to Mr


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Son’s good turn brings loss of stock at tw o


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He became a dangerous contact after yisit to help free a cow trapped m scaffoldi g


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Coupland on the animal-free farm, asking if he could come and inspect


th"I have never known anything so inefficient and insensitive, said Mr


explained that he had only


been doing the job for a few days. But somebody must have given him this ^formation. What sort of an organi­


sation have they got running. "It is scandalous the way this job


has been handled." And Mr Coupland is also voicing


concerns that have been voiced by some of his neighbouring farmers about how the disease is being trans-


m "I am told it can take up to three weeks for this disease to incubate. My cattle were confirmed positive three weeks to the day from when a Min- istry vet came here to inspect them,


he said.


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Shock for tourism service as it gets a one-star rating^


l yTOLTRISM iii tbe Ribr ' ble Valley may be being


sold short by the bor­ ough council-run tour­ ism and tourist infor­


mation service. The service has been


given just a "one-star' rat­ ing by inspectors from the Government's Best Value Inspection Service, which is part of the National Audit Commission. According to the inspec­


tors' report, the service merited only a description of "fair" and was "unlikely to improve", despite its cur­ rent promotional budget of


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Gail had said she wanted to be taken to her wedding in a


tourism revenues. Yet borough tourism and


arts officer Jane Silvester, who was interviewed by inspectors, remained buoy­ ant, adding: "The report highlighted some positive points and provided goals which we can work towards. We were one of the^ first tourism and tourist infor­ mation service offices to go through inspection and so everyone was on a learning


curve. . "It is interesting that


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Ken Abram truck." She said her daughter had


made a model of a Ken Abram truck some years ago and the transport boss had wanted to buy it as a desk­ top ornament, but Gail


refused to sell. She was attended by three


bridesmaids, Miss Rachel Lambert, her best friend,


and nieces Laura and Rebec­ ca Roberts.


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saw a visit to Gisburn by the new Secretary of State for Environ­


ment, Food and Rural Affairs, Mrs Margaret Beckett.


She spoke to DEFRA ; ’


officials, farmers and business people before a ,


Press briefing and a visit ; to High Ground Farm,' '


• H e t l i f i e t d ^ i s ^ ^ ^ s And, speaking in the House of Commons.on Tuesday, Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans again called for the immediate


introduction of a v i ta l ‘


survival package to aid. , the Valley’s "crippled • farming and tourism


industries” (K250601/1) ■ N. fl ""C .***• \ M. ^U.eAJ.n i


Community worker’s date with the Queen


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