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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, April 11th, 2002 5 An end to identity parades


WITNESSES to crimes in the, nibble Valley will soon not have


to undergo the ordeal of actual . identity parades. ’"The Home Office is providing Lan-,


nmer-


g to stop ledream


3 available on one site could avoid -


, although art has been available for one for decades. ~Vbung people could ; a place to develop their own ideas,


her than regurgitate what current ilture tells them is trendy.


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It could be wonderfuL For an arts centre to be more than aui- 1 huilding it is up to people, up to u^ lake it work. Art is peoples' work; is


lut people, for people and by people le Arts are for everyone, an essential


J valuable part of histoiy and culturl Bich develops through time bur. Bough its previous influence, is also leless.


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phat we can he given the opportunity ave such a centre built for us andbim Idren is one to be grasped without cait 1 or snobbery or qmicism or financial ptidsm.


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f you think it is a good idea, support it vely. If you are against it or indiffer.- remember that your children's chi^ 1 ivill not have the choice if it is not 3 so support it anyway so that they


ave the choice, provided hy you. ^ t is the chance in many lifetimes and


|>hould not let it go. We should not let 1 the future by misdng this chance.'!U


lO O E IN G H B A C K


100 years ago


lentire police force, including the^ * Constable, assembled at the . 1 Lion Hotel, Clitheroe and held,^ her to celebrate the homecoming j


J Little, who had served as a cor-„ jin Tempest's Scouts during the


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had seen action several times,^ y taking a kopje from a party ofij I The enemy then returned, rein-!j 1 to 40 in number, but he held'I off until relieved and was Men-i 1 Despatches by Lord Kitchen-4


1 pdith and Gertrude Nicholls,^


nakers, were summoned under"! actory and Workshops Act fo r j


ying a child named Bertha Yates- 12 years, without the necessary; 1 attendance certificate or time


e certificate bajd .to:b'e sH6wh^


ly to indicate to’ the employers I be child had attended school foi^l quisite five half-days each preSj [week.


J 'olice Sergeant Mowle had a


serious accident. While making, gations into the alleged theft of"*


' and trap, he had gone roimd t o ! ck door of the Thrro Fishes Iim tain information. In the dark of ght, he fell head first six feet


in opening used for the lowering rels into the cellar, the covering ch had been left off. proceeded home, as no bones iroken, but was unable to move xt morning as his back and left rere badly bruised.


50 years ago


Ir a trains were laid on for the Ir period. They included two jsions for ramblers on Easter , to Hellifield, Clapham and


|on. However, the trade recession ; many people in the mill towns 1 at home during the holiday.


f


ir Harry Pemberton became roe's first Labour county coun- which came as something of a


: to Conservative supporters, were addressed by the losing can- :, Miss Evelyn Garnett, who told 1 "We must now start and put our in order, and make sure we win


unicipal elections in May." 'armer James Pye and his daugb lary, built a new cowshed and^ at Thornber Barn Farm/


lington. They collected stone! a nearby disused quarry an<^ mill, and transported it by trac-i Ir Pye, a skilled drystone waller,) lade the scaffolding himself. The* ng eventually housed 12 cows. ,


25 years ago [


spection of the latest US mili-: ircraft and missile hardware was* f the programme for local MPi avid Walder during his atten- p at a defence conference in the


Iwaggon and Horses FC had a


I welcome in the south of France bir first Continental fixture. They s-2 against Stade Olympique in iltes, Clitheroe's twin town, and 'ned, dined and feted iike a pro- club by their hosts.’ > •


p team said that the only problem b entire trip was taring to work bw to match the hospitality and ^ t io n of the French for a return Blanned for 1979.


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KAREN 1VEAVING and her friends wave goodbye to the Duke on his depart­ ure from Stirk House (C030402/2)


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A WH-ALLEY mid­ wife has been app­ ointed one of the country's first nurse


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Sheena Byrom (46), of Mitton Road, will take up the, newlyTcreated post of Consultant Mid­ wife in Public Health for Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust in June. From her base at.


Blackburn's Queen's Park Hospital, Mrs Byrom (pictured) will


fexius on developing and


improving access to local maternity services. She will also be instrumental in producing public health education pack­ ages for use by midwi-ves and student midwives working in the communi­ ty.


Mrs Byrom's new job


is part of a Government drive to encourage more top and long-serving nurses into senior p o r ­ tions within the NHS. Currently, Mrs Byrom


is the Trust's midwifery manager in charge of co- ordinating local mid­ wifery teams, but for 24 years, she worked i n ' delivery suites at Burn­ ley's Edith Watson Maternity Unit, Whal- ley's now closed Bramley Meade and the materni­ ty unit at Queen's Park. Mrs Byrom, a parent


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V by Julie Frankland


IT was hats off or, rather, hats bn, to g r^ t the Ribble V ^ e y ’s rojfal visitor! ' Members o f Ribble Valley


Ladies' Limcbeon Club, dressed in pjheir best, were "brimming" with ^citement at welcoming the Duke 6f Gloucester to their base at Gis- bum's Stirk House Hotel, and he Repaid the compliment by admit­ ting he was wowed by their "won­ derful hats". Yet the Duke's 'visit had more at stake than fashion. He was there as


(joint honorary president of Cancer JResearch UK to congratulate club (members on their fund-raising in ■support of the charity. I Since its foundation just over {three years ago, the club has raised >£190,000 to fimd research into diag- 'noring and treating childhood can- jeers. Of this amount, £30,000 has been added since January, putting


jthe club's now 400 members well on ('course to achieve their £ 200,000


^H E Duke with Karen Weaving (left) and committee member Bobbie Holbrook, of Read warm welcome


for Duke from the ladies


target by the end of the year. At a special luncheon held in his


honour, the Duke addressed club members and their invited VIP guests, which included Ribble Val­ ley Mayor Coun. Mrs Gwen Pye, her consort, Mr Terry Murray, Clitheroe Mayor Coun. Mrs Mary Robinson and the Chief Executive of Ribble Valley Borough Council, Mr David Morris. The Duke spoke of the important


role groups such as the Ribble Val­ ley Ladies' Limcheon Club played in helping to raise awareness of can­ cer and contributing towards glob­ al efforts to conquer it. Said club secretary Mrs Karen


Weaving; "We are grateful that the Duke kept Ins appointment with us, as his 'visit fell during the royal fam­ ily's official period of mourning for the late Queen Mother. "Yet he put us all at our ease -vrith


his imassmning and genuinely car­ ing manner. We hope the Duke's 'visit will be the first of other future royal occasions for us." At the luncheon, a further £2,000


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A WHllVI welcome for the Duke from Blackpool Pleasure Beach proprietor Geoffrey Thomp­ son (left),. Karen Weaving and John Nayler, of Dunsop Bridge , , \


cashire with a system which allows- video versions and one is being sited at Blackbium where identity parades for


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crimes in Clitheroe and the Ribble Val­ ley are normally staged.'; Lancashire is one o f 10 crime


hotspot police authority areas which -will share £7.6 million from the Home Office to provide the new equipment. The Blackburn system is one of seven which Lancashire will receive.


PETER VICARY SMITH proposes a vole of thanks to the Duke of Gloucester for his attendance.


was raised in proceeds from mem- cashire. Lord Shuttleworth, and Mr Research UK charity shops.\While bers' ticket sale receipts and a raffle. Peter Vicary Smithi' director, of there, he chatted with shop yolun- Before his arrival at Stirk House, fund-raising and marketing for teers and cu sto me rs ^' /-


the Duke, whose entourage includ- Cancer Research UK; visited Pictures by Kent Photography ed the Lord-Lieutenant of Lan- Clitheroe's two town centre Cancer


and Colin Horne


governor at Billington's St Augustine's RC High School, is also studying for her Masters degree in midwifery at'the Univer­ sity o f Central Lan- cashire. . Among the first to


congratulate her on her new post was her sister Mrs Anne Geldard, who is district nursing sister based- at Clitheroe Health Centre.


SpeciaUy-designed McDonald’s sign for Valley outlet


FAST food ' chain is probably as subtle as McDonald's is to open ' McDonald's gets".


in the Ribble Valley, but the sign advertis­ ing its presence will be unusual. [. Councillors refused


Valley Enterprise Park,, and would,have a detn- Barrow * »


erwted on the R i b b l e - i n a p p r o p r i a t e .mental impact on the


permission for the com­ pany's normal tign to be


ed sign haj3 been speefii- - area. - cally designed for the site by McDonald's.'''^."” . ' ^ Members of the bor-l ough council's Planning and Development- Com­ mittee, who approved


Instekd’, an iU u m in a t-' ’visual amenity,o^the . ■


■ However,- the.off icer


--noted that the sign cre- ated for the Barrow park ' -was ."significantly differ-


-i'ent'; and would hot be - inappropriate.'


the application; heard '.y '- If is believed that the that the sign would hey/only, other-McDonald's, created from a mix of ^'iisite advertised by a dif- stone and brick with the /;'ferent slgn to,those.nor- letter ,VM". on'top; Coun.' /; mally seen is Mtuated on Stephen Sutcliffe (Clith-^ ;', the .prestigious ;Champs eroej/cgmment^: "This E ly ^ , Paris.


1 A report to councillors


. said that an application < for a pole-mounted sign,


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