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Manchester to bid for Olympics?


MANCHESTER shoii-. Id bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, says Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans. • -


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I which will do no harm at all to Snesses in the locality. Suction marts are returning to nor­ land farmers' produce is being mar- id directly to the public regularly at uccessful farmers' market at


]• way to the July show each year, a


Bheroe. ■rippers and holidaymakers are


iming to sample the delights of the Intryside and provide a living for a ■inconsiderable number of people. She area is bathing in the light at lend of the tunnel, j; has meant a lot of agony, much Lnuity, and a lot of hard work and il'idence. tow it is payback time. The reward ting able to live and work in one of (most beautiful parts of the realm.


Ilooking -I BACK


100 years ago


ITH the depression in trade and hther, Clitheroe people were not J the most optimistic mood jpecting the success and enjoy- Int of the annual holidays. I t was hoped better things were in


Ire and that Coronation celebra- |ns would cheer a populace which ; that prospects for the winter : anything but bright.


I The people of Gisburn were npened by neither weather nor


|ture, but enjoyed their Grand r with great enthusiasm.


gaged preparing for the event, by ! kind permission of Lord Rib-


Workers had long been busily


Isdale, who, with Lady Ribbles- Be, took a paternal interest in all |ngs connected with the village 1 its institutions. I The Waif Saturday collection


IClitheroe for Dr Barnardo's Junes realised £20 and three jllings. Donors were thanked for |ir generous contributions to the ]rthy cause.


50 years ago


IE water supply situation at Gis- | im became so difficult that Bow-


| the waterless village, which filled j village’s water storage tank, l The Princess Royal motored bm Harewood to visit Guides


Jmped at Waddow Hall. She ured the sites, spoke to the girls


nd lturai Council was forced to orrow two 2,500 gallon tankers om Chaigley Dairies to carry eight ads of water from West Bradford


minster, Mr Evans said he believed the "resound­ ing success" of the Com­ monwealth : ■ Games "should open-.the doors", to a successful Manches-, ter attempt to bring the Olympics to the North- West. He'continued: "Even


Speaking from West­


the rain didn't dampen the spirits of the ath­ letes, organisers and spectators during the competition. "I would like to slam


Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, August 8th, 2002 5


Simon leads guest dignitaries on hunt for town’s ghosts!


THERE were more than the usual number of clank­ ing chains as Mr Simon,Entwistle led his latest ghostwalk. ■ ' They were not spooky, though.-The noises came


from a number of mayoral chains worn by the guests of Clitheroe Mayor, Coun.' Mrs Mary Robinson. Among a party of about'two dozen who took part


in the tour led by Mr Entwistle,were the Mayors of Longridge, Skipton and Rosseridale. ■ It was an event started by Mrs Robinson last year, during her first year of office. "Simon agreed to do it last-year for one of my


charities, the Friends of Chernobyl's Children. “It went down well, so I thought we would do it


again. \ "It had been a dreadful day, but the rain stopped


just in time. A good time was had by all." The Mayoral party enjoyed a potato pie supper


. tender for a UK Olympic bid. This London-centric tendency is disturbing and unnecessary. "Furthermore, after


the suggestion that Lon­ don is the prime con-


afterwards at the New Inn and a cheque will be on its way to the charity. The group is pictured with Mr Entwistle before


setting off from the Castle gates. ................. (B010802/7)


the inefficiency, of the London athletics bid and the farce of the new Wembley stadium, one wonders if London is capable of holding a major sporting event of the type that Manches­ ter has recently excelled at."


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Mr Evans added that while the Common- wealth Games had been


[a catalyst for regenerat­ ing large parts of Man­ chester, he saw the : Olympics as capable of [doing the same for much >of the North-West.


Stephen’s


bid to cure stammers


A STAMMERER who cured himself hopes to pass on his potentially life-changing technique to sufferers across the Ribble Valley. After undergoing


Plea to businesses to help meet the cost of new cameras to crack crime


by Tim Procter


EFFORTS to encourage Clit­ heroe and Whalley businesses to help pay for CCTV monitoring


are being stepped up. The Ribble Valley Crime and Dis­


order Reduction Partnership has distributed 500 copies of a newslet­ ter which keeps people up to date - and appeals for pledges to con­ tribute cash annually. The scheme should be in use by the


round-the-clock monitoring cost esti­ mate has gone up by several hundred pounds. Part of the bill will be met by car


The previous £1,000-plus weekly


parking increases already voted through. There will also be money from the dual use of the monitoring station with the sheltered housing monitoring scheme. The considerable shortfall has to be


newsletter. It emphasises that GCTV will mean shops and, indeed, all busi­ nesses or property owners, will no longer be a "soft touch" for travelling criminals. "CCTV is increasingly an essential


found from somewehere. Commitment to an annual contri­


beginning of December, although ten­ ders have not yet been returned. More money will be needed than


'arrests for shoplifting in Clitheroe and Whalley have seen people from Black- bum, Hyndbum, Rossendale and Lan­ caster in custody. It has always been felt some crimes


part of an effective crime reduction plan," says the newsletter. Recent


originally thought because a govern­ ment grant scheme subsidising the employment of disabled people has been discontinued.


bution is being sought from business and property owners in the- "viewed]' area, based on rateable values. Some £20,000 would be raised if a 1% levy was agreed. Under this arrangement, a business


with a £21/500 rateable value would pay £17 a month. "It is fair, it works elsewhere and you must gain,” says the


go unreported and the newsletter takes this further. I t suggests some shops do not know how much theft there is/ quoting an unnamed one which rarely took stock. When it did, thousands of pounds-worth of goods was missing. Accounting errors and staff pilfering were ruled out, leaving theft as the only cause.


£600,000 scheme involves 25 cameras in Clitheroe, Whalley, car parks, the Castle grounds and Edisford. The cost includes a special fibre-optic cable- from Whalley to Clitheroe, also three mobile cameras. The newsletter emphasises the qual­


As previously reported, the


ity of both types, which have state-of- the-art digital recording. Pictures from the mobile cameras are reproduced, showing easily read small type on commercial vehicles. The mobile cameras do not need the


fibre-optic cable, but use mobile phone technology. They can be located any­ where, either obviously as a deterrent or covertly for detection purposes, and monitored continuously. 0 Inquiries can be made to Bill


Alker at-Ribble Valley Borough Coun­ cil offices on 01200 414412.


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, [ niques are transferable to i others, enabling'them to


[ .: Following his success, ! he - believes.: his. tech-


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i about observing how flu- 'ent people speak and 1 mirroring the way they i speak and think. | “I've cured myself and i am more confident than [anyone I know, and I -believe my life's work is j now to help others do the >same." •


years of unsuccessful speech therapy, 28-year- old Mr Stephen Hill used fluency techniques to rid himself of his stutter. He said: "ft is all


Id was served tea by local Brown- □ Miss Phyllis Hornby, of Myt-


|n View, Clitheroe, left for Egypt take up a teaching post at a hool for Royal Air Force families


lay there to serve with the East jmcashire Regiment.


25 years ago


|N amended plan was received by Tibbie Valley Council for the jiange of use of a house in Holden Itreet to a Moslem educational Jitablishment. The change involved lie use of the house for one month a r - during Ramadan - instead of


|11 the year round. □ Morris dancing was felt to be in


lecline, so exponents and support­ ers met to form a Clitheroe group. The loss of men during the wars las blamed for reduced numbers of


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I'his was followed by changing fash- ons which further reduced num- ers. The group's advertisement for


lancers and in several areas there 1/ere still women-only groups which lad formed during the war years.


Bheir plans included an old photo- jraph of Miss Whipp's Morris


lancers, a mixed group from |Vaddington. □ Whalley Abbey went commer-


|ial to put it on a sounder economic ooting and ensure its future as a


jhurch conference centre. Profes lional hoteliers moved in and Imployed a French chef as part of Iheir plans to offer bed and break- last, full and half-board facilities in She centre.


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| the Suez Canal Zone. A meeting as planned with her younger other, James, who was also on his


-1 gain confidence. | As a result, Mr Hill is ■ planning to hold a free ’ open day in Clitheroe to demonstrate the key ele­ ments of his five-day - individual tuition ses


sions. If there is enough


- interest, his open day will take place on August " 31st at a venue to be


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OPPORTUNIST thi­ eves, possibly using a white Transit van, stole a-£l,300 road saw from the roadworks at School Lane, Simonstone, on Monday morning. The saw is orange,


with a 14in. diameter diamond tipped blade wheel. Police are investi­ gating.


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A BANK in Clitheroe is backing a former Whal­ ley woman and her hus­ band whose bottled water from a pure Lake District spring has gone on sale in supermarkets all over the North West. The appearance in


dale Springs Water was the culmination of three years’ planning by Mrs Morag Ferris and her husband, Mr Pete Ferris, both former employees of British Nuclear Fuels at Springfields, Preston. And i t was another


Booths supermarkets of still and sparkling Was-


chain which is trying to obtain more of its prod­ ucts from local sources. Last week the store


.often found in bottled waters, so it-tastes won­


extremely pure, as it has none of the nitrates


scoop for the 29-store family supermarket


launched a scheme to sell milk produced by the cows on 15 Bowland farms, including that from Robert Whitwell, pictured above right.' The couple have been


derful." Being in the heart of


supported in their plan to diversify the upland sheep farm in 1997 by the HSBC Bank in Clitheroe, which backed the installation of a bot­ tling plant in a business venture that is expected to employ 10 people when working at full capacity. Mrs Ferris, who is the


' farm in 1997 when Mr Ferris was moved to - work at Sellafield. The farmhouse and


the Lake District National Park, close to Wastwater, England's deepest lake, the couple had to go through a three-year procedure involving environmental assessments, planning applications and a public inquiry. The couple, who met at university, bought the


youngest daughter of Dr and Mrs Randal Stalker, of Whalley, said: "The source of natural spring water was found 87m down through solid gran­ ite by a 92-year-old water diviner. I t is


buildings were derelict and the sheep farm was making a large loss. "We sought to diversi­


fy into a business which would, hopefully, help to sustain the sheep farm and give more prospects to the locals who are


CLITHEROE women Rebecca Cunliffe (21), of Brook Street, and Gillian Cryne (41), of Seedall Avenue, were remanded on bail until August 22nd by


Blackburn magistrates. They are charged with assaulting Adele Hitchen


causing her actual bodily harm. Cunliffe was also charged with stealing a handbag and mobile phone belonging to Gemma Bond and Cryne was charged with assaulting Gemma Bond.


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