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BUDDING young Ribble Valley well-known to the club, since 10- She is a former winner in the thespians are playing a key role in .year-old Helen and Jane Keagan, North West .Yamaha Clavmova


S ’ " * * When Blackburn Drama Cub « " = g at Blackhlun OoBege The-


thee^ dtingof thTif ^prodLtL iffi- Helen and Jane live in Wilpshire offering of the season, sheplays the cialsknew whereTo^ndThem! S e and attend St Mary’s RC Primary


stage version of the popular British : School at Langho, while their ards NudeWithViolm , and all film called for three voune children mother, Anne Mane, is an English her lines are in FrenchL a n d S S oTe o f Z miners’ teacher at St Augustine’s RC High Says Wilpshire resident Eric School, Billington. Their father, Peter, is headteacher at St Alban’s RC Primary School, Blackburn. Completing,the family, line-up


families. ... The baby, in the shape of a doll,


was soon acquired, and then the club turned to the Ribble Valley for


L the young children. The part of the eldest son, •Shane, went to 15-year-old Graeme , aramwen, wn


School


Bramwell, who lives in Langho, and attends Clitheroe Royal Grammar


are seven-year-old Christian and James Barsby, of Clitheroe,. whose father, Michael! is a GP in Burnley,


i,anKuu, auu while mother Susan runs the home and looks after two-year-old Oliver. The last two weeks have seen


Nolan, chairman and publicity sec­ retary of Blackburn Drama: "It really is quite remarkable that all this young talent is in our area. It is so encouraging to see such a wide range of artistic hobbies in drama and music, both singing and play­ ing instruments." Mr Nolan’s wife, Margaret, who works at St Augustine's RC High


Graeme was one of 100 talented . bothsetsof twins joining adult cast School, Billington, is also a keen


youngsters who gained places, members of Blackburn Drama amateur drama fan, but her mea of against considerable competition in Club rehearsing in the Capita Per- expertise ism props - finding the the North West, on Manchester forming Arts Centre at Ewood, various items the actors need op Youth Theatre's 2002 summer sea- next door to that ,other;"theatre of stage. In. the case of .. Brassed Off, son, and took part m performances dreams’”, ’the recently-opened this has included minersi helmets of "Arabian Nights" at Manches- > Thwaites-Theatre, where Brassed with lamps and beltsy overalls and ter's Royal Exchange Theatre.' Offals currently running until Sat- lockers, a hospital bed, and a 1984


•i>ly-gomg.to'theatre-schooL"'.*:.>::-v-..-’:-oFinch-,*:is*. headteacher.^at. St public of Blackburn and surroun ' His siblings . ^ ’Brassed Off”, . Leonard’s CE Primary School mg areas m the new theatre venue ‘include ayounger sister and brothiBalderstone, while* 15-year-old . at Ewood, ^ d j s encouraged by;


pairs of twins, one of girls and one does not end there because, like sold out., of bovs


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In fact the twin girls (who, like on the Manchester Youth Theatre, pram, with, from the left, Helen ^ interesting talk by - „


ottomot-o fun." ami hpr artistic talents include and Jane, and at the front, Christ- the RSPB. The county jhelped,maKe it an njoy


, Graeme, Natasha also won a place i Pictured is Graeme behind the and Mrs Hartley, as weu^to tnanK anyone, yno ^


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Blackburn Gilbert and Sullivan Also among the cast are mother Concludes Mr Nolao■ Society;for three'years,, and hopes and -daughter Catherine and . . i s ^ ^ m t o f p n t t^ o . 3 y { to continue hisrartistic aspirations Natasha Finch, of Langho. Mrs


Graeme has‘“been a member of urday.


^er,sanld Jiere the drama club was Natasha attends Clitheroe Royal fact that three of the five nights fdoubly?fortunate,in locating two- .Grammar School. The connection performances are already nearly,


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local authorities, has no recent experi­ ence of compulsory purchase, but a small and significant step forward was taken at a meeting of the Housing Committee on September 19th. This


I : They’tilight the’ immediate neighry tins problem as "tidiness" is in the eye of opportunities for building new proper- amended t te eo^ed? Houm« bourho'od;-',affect the value of'.neighri’^the beholder! One man’s "tidy state" ties when existing properties are not gy to include “se “ .


I bourrng properties and in some cases act;ymay be viewed by the neighbours as a fully utilised. This.is particularly, true m. purchase power (CPU) oraere 9 I as magnets for a small minontywho,use. i \C0Inplete mess and fencing, to prevent , the villages where the lack of previously and renovate empty properties w e them as a venue.for.ilhcit activities and^ sit.e; jgCess may t,e enough to satisfy: developed land, so called ."brown field appropriate . Significantly, this propo-


drug taking; They,are a constant irri-i!.:|,-eaiti1 and safety requirements. I tant to those wholiye nearby 1;; s


t ang .


same anti-social category. .Planning law.?:>a^d unfinished developments. Thisis m eiore.ma^ 1 specifies a date by which building work; must be started, otherwise planning


y UnfinisHedproperties'ean Minl^jaie.^ B s , ^ 0f long-term empty properties me ts


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permission lapses but there is no way to enforce a finish date. The consequence


■ is that buildings can be and sometimes are, left in various states of develop­ ment, as footings, a shell or partially | completed but without roof, doors and windows. The effect on the neighbour­ hood is equally damaging. Who wantsauw r-


to live next to a permanent building wards in the borough. site?


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. attempt was made to quantify the num­ ber through a survey initiated by Rib­ ble Valley Borough Council assisted by the parish councils. A clear majority of the parishes responding to this survey identified their own problem locations, •suggesting this is an issue affecting most


1 So what can be done and why should Providing the site is in "a tidy condi- we care? We should care because if left


tion" and does not comprise a health empty and neglected, properties quicldy threat, the owner is immune from deteriorate. This can reduce peoples


01 LegidaUoa provides few "teeth" to < located. T


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The Ribble Valley has a surprising building is possible. Utilising existing councillors representing all sides of the poUlklLCU UCUAvCi


sites", means that little or .no "new" sition was supported unanimously by empty and unfinished stock would


therefore .make a small, but positive ^uia.i


s -trariKe for an area of high property ; contribution towards meeting local demand and eacalatmg prmes. An


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believe, is compulsory purchase orders, but only as a "weapon of last resort". < Compulsory purchase is a legal process by which the council may, in defined circumstances, buy up land or empty property. It requires that the council first attempts this acquisition by agreement and is not a form of "offi­ cial” confiscation. Properties are acquired at a fair market price assessed by the district valuer. The whole process


The intention now is to select a single property forcompul^^pi^h^toact


litical debate, Theintentior


appropriate". The council will then have a duty to proceed "forthwith" with the renovation of the purchased properties. The council’s ability to use CPOs will .


send a powerful message to owners of unfinished and long-term empty prop­ erties and an incentive for them to bring such properties back into use them­ selves. If it does not, a remedy is now available to remove these blights from our beautiful valleyl Finally, if there is an unfinished or


RiOble Valley, lite many other somll veytesults! B la s t s


lassassas™ LOOKING


* X I i • BACK A & 100 years ago


THE'Guardians intended that the workhouse should be fully prepared for an outbreak of fire and accepted an estimate for hose-piping.


• . ’As it seemed probable that it would seldom, if


ever, be used for that purpose and hose-piping was very liable to deterioration if .not used occasionally, it was asked if it would not be a good plan to sub­ mit the large, number of vagrants who habitually visited the workhouse to a dose of “hose”.


/ The adoption of the plan would, it was suggest­


ed, keep down expenses considerably, especially for soap, and the Guardians might possibly see in it the solving of the troublesome question of


;vagrancy, in regard to which so many schemes had been formulated..


' □ The Clitheroe Rural District Council decided* • .


to erect a bridge at Burr Holme, Whitewell, at a; cost of £90. The improvement was deemed very acceptable to the people living in the Whitewell area as the river often flooded the highway after,


rain. ■ ■ □ A retired policeman from Chipping commit­ ; ■ ,.*\ . ; ■■■ v ’■■ . \ 50 years ago


THE Archdeacon of Blackburn addressed Clitheroe Rotarians and recommended more humour in the-UN. He said that a sense of the ridiculous in Moscow, of the incongruous in Berlin, of the unexpected in Washington and the ability to see the funny side of things in Whitehall, was one way of helping to solve the world’s problems. O Mutton graced most dinner tables locally fol­


lowing an announcement by the Clitheroe Butch­ ers’ Association that there was a shortage of beef, but that supplies would be restored before Christ­


mas. □ Ponds, lodges and the ornamental lakes at


Stonyhurst were frozen over and skaters presented a Christmas card scene as they glided over the ice.


25 years ago


COMPLAINTS about early-bird lorry drivers prompted a response from the owner of a Chtheroe haulage firm. He asked for registration numbers to be taken so that he could ensure that none came from his firm and asked his drivers to cut down on early departures from his depot.


-. □ The Australian pen-pals of a young Chtheroe


man discovered that the southern hemisphere's old­ est trout hatchery, at Plenty,-Tasmania, had been founded by William Ramsbottom, of Chtheroe, in the 19th century. His great achievement was in keeping salmon


and trout eggs alive and hatching them on the long sea journey from England, having found water that was suitable. The hatchery he set up is still in


operation. • □ A business trip to the Far East provided a


■thrill for a Merchant Navy officer from Whalley.


.He broke the traditional bottle of champagne over the bows of the 8,000-ton freighter "Sea Emerald"


* to launch the vessel at a shipyard in Shimoda, Japan. He was-working there to supervise the building of a*series of ships for a Kuwait-based Arab consortium.-


Packed timetable for YFC


bapy'!i5I^™ Mr xr^n- "TBp rinh A PACKED programme tion held at Bolton was a been enjorod over tBe great success, with


few^weeks-Winfeiii-”'' Clitheroe'-A'H^nning the' bers of Clitheroe’s Young competition and James.


have


Whitwell achieving the * cme7 m? ,


excellent night proved to be a suc- S S h e dub wants


j Hartlev as well- to ’thanlc'anvone who . . . ’


ted suicide by cutting his throat with a pen knife. He had been unwell for about 12 months.


MUSIC has dominated the ] of Sabden great-grandmotll Mrs Millie Moorhouse.


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lage Baptist Chapel and when J celebrates her 90th birthc tomorrow, her beloved piano


For six decades she has plai the organ every Sunday in the j


not be too far away. Friends at the church held a pa


following Sunday's service, therj a- surprise, took her to Clithij Parish Church to play the


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:i -The‘visit had been organised I the.help of.that church's orgal Mr Michael Paiii.'ahd was the rf sation of a long-held dream for Moorhouse.


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’ Born and bred in Sabden,I youngest of six children, Mrs M| house played the piano from the


Farming local re<


FARM, a new group for work ers and campaigners, is seekin Valley members in a recruitme The organisation is holding,


meeting in the Crofters’ Hotel near Garstang, on Wednesday il to gather farmers' views on tl affecting farming and to recruit! to drive forward the organisatiol The meeting is open to all loci and members of the public.


The group's national launch ll


her attracted widespread mteresr port amongst farmers nationwid representatives delivered a draft! to Margaret Beckett, SecretarJ for the Environment, Food 1 Affairs, and posted Missing Per


Heard any. News!


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A “R EV EN G E ” a t ta c k a Clitheroe street left the vij tim with his leg broken in t \ places. The attacker was “angr


towards him” because he allegedl had a conviction for indecen assault, Preston Crown Coul heard.


the public streets is something thl cannot be justified,” said Judge Bnl Duckworth, sending Gary Simps! (29) to prison for three years. Simpson, of Monk Street, Accnr


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