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Ighters from Whatley CB- ry School and passed the I day with many people. J Parkinson had been on rig Ince he was 17 in locations I s India, Malaysia and jbefore Brazil, jldon will be fondly remem-
i s a pleasant personality, love all he was a grafter," |family friend. "Whatever- is doing, he was doing i t |ghly and well. There won'tr l iy people who knew more ■drilling and oil-rig opera-, fan him - he used to go on- k to learn more.
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J feels great sympathy." " Herat arrangements were still
I. family has lost an excel- tther and everyone in the)
finalised yesterday, but the( ■ has asked for donations to: lo y al National Lifeboatj; Tite in lieu of flowers.
’eathers refuge!
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Singer is to take place of Animals
rock star Bur don plitheroe father-of-three is to
: play in a free gig in Langho by John Turner
A SINGER from Clitheroe has taken his place fronting a rock band with an inter national pedigree going
back nearly 40 years. rFrom now on, father-of-three
Peter Barton will occupy the place filled originally in the Ani
mals by Eric Burdon. T h e Animals ra n k in th e top league of British '60s groups -
there
were times when they were jockey ing for chart positions with the Bea tles and the Rolling Stones. Origi nally from Newcastle, th e ir huge international best-seller, "House of the Rising Sun", originally consid ered "too long and too rude", estab lished them around the world. Z John Steel and Dave Rowberry are
the only two survivors from the orig inal chart-topping band, Z The Clitheroe singer and manager reformed the Animals in 1992. He stepped in to sing after the lead singer bowed out just over a year ago. Z The 40-year-old has returned to glitheroe for a short rest, after a huge- ly-successful 45-day UK tour with Georgie Fame. The tour followed big successes in Russia, where they played to crowds of up to 100,000. r "I t is amazing", said Mr Barton. VThe band is going down a storm and we are getting people aged from 17 to 70 being bowled over by the sound we
make." They have brought out "Life", the
Animals' first original album since 1983, and are due to play a free gig at Mytton Hall Hotel, Langho, on Wednesday next week.' The Clitheroe member is the baby of the band. Three of the others are in
their 60s and one is 54. The free gig is their way of giving thanks to the hotel for the support in
providing accommodation when group members visit the Ribble Valley. The next day the Animals fly out to begin a mammoth 150-date world
tour.. Success is nothing new for the
Clitheroe singer. In the 1970s he sang with Lieutenant Pigeon, who had the No. 1 hit, "Mouldy old dough” in 1972. He is also the UK representative for Eric Burdon, the Animals' former lead singer who is now based in California. Isn’t Clitheroe a strange place for a
top international band to be based? "It's perfect," said Mr Barton this
week. "We are close to all the motor ways and Manchester Airport is only
40 minutes away. "You can actually get to an airport
quicker from the Ribble Valley than you can from the centre of London. And band members love visiting the Ribble Valley. You'd be amazed how many top
. musicians regularly visit," added the singer, who lives in Salthill Road, Clitheroe, with wife Julie, and children Liam (15), Adam (11) and Amy (13). Mr Barton is pictured right as he
takes the microphone during an open- air concert outside the Palace of Cul ture in Moscow with Vladimir Mick- elov, the biggest music star Russia has
ever produced. n
Belarus to Blackburn — that’s the aim of a ‘friend’ of Chernobyl children
i r- *, \ > v-« by Robbie Robinson
FROM Belarus to Blackburn by bike - fchat is the charity slo gan for a; Clitheroe
feyclist. ■ i y ' £ M r -B r ian . Davies, of ®iays Drive,-leaves today;
th e ir own barn owl, Ollie, for the past two years.
Mrs Higham added: •
"The bird is ringed, so, whoever claims the birfj
will have to provide all the documentation to
prove they are the right ful owner." Anyone who has any
information about the owl is asked to contac.t Mrs Higham on 01282 774417. Our picture shows Mr
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lor the town of Mogilev in Belarus and will bike back to raise funds for Friends of Chernobyl's Children. '! He travels out with two cycling companions and a support driver, who all set off cm the 1,500 mile return jour ney on April 16th. •’ After passing through the
Higham with their lo^t charge.
>r the town of the social, educational
[in- and vocational develop- nd ment of local young peo:
■ve, The redevelopment of [the the Grand Cinema will; hip they say, be complements
ver pie.
jnly ed by the development of ■the a new town centre Com- I ’ol- munity Arts Centre in the b u t next two to three years.'-'-
J-ge- Both venues will por- I the tray a progressive Ribble luld Valley community fully pin- able to meet the demands for cultural leisure and
find educational resources foi- Shat both local people and visi: Tve a tors to the to™ and bor- L on ough.
|and help an appeal to buy an“ • for Clitheroe four-year-old
lion for Jessica: I Clitheroe are being asked to!_
strict Darts League are run-. - I doubles tournament on April;;
l enter can find entry forms at pho have darts teams in the.
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cities of Minsk and Warsaw, they will be joined by a fourth cyclist a t Berlin and will make th e ir way via Hamburg to Cuxhaven and catch a ferry to Harwich. " From there they have a mere 250 miles to complete their ride, intending to arrive at Salesbury Church on May
-12th. Friends of Chernobyl's
Children (FOCC) started in a small way in Blackburn in 1-995 and has grown to a nationwide network of groups around the country. Mr Davies represents the
Glitheroe group on the ride, the other members of the team being representatives of the Settle, Great Harwood, Blackburn and Fylde groups. Blackburn is now the chari ty's headquarters. _ The cyclists have chosen to
(lepart from Mogilev as it was one of the two towns in tjie old USSR most affected by radioactive fallout from the meltdown of the nuclear
reactor a t the Chernobyl power station in April, 1986. The nuclear poisoning of
the area s t il l affects the health of local people, partic ularly the children, with a 3,
000.%.inci;ease in.diseases such as thyroid.' cancer, leukaemia and brain disease since the incident. Each year the charity's
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Cleared of meat theft at work
A MAN from C h a t- burn has been acquit te d a f te r a t r ia l in to a l le g a t io n s th a t he s to le m e a t from his employers, Rose Coun ty Foods. . Simon Richard Taylor
(38), of Victoria Court, was charged with the offence in October but, after a trial at Blackburn Magistrates' Court, the chairman of the magis tra te s said they were happy he had not acted dishonestly. Taylor maintained he
was taking meat he had found in a packaging room to security. The chairman said
they accepted his version fully, and hoped his legal advisers would make clear their views a t any employment tribunal. Speaking a fte r the
hearing, Mr Daniel King, of Forbes Solici tors, said the matter was already before an employment tribunal. "Mr Taylor's acquittal
and the observations of the magistrates' chair man will ass ist him greatly", said Mr King.
Laptop stolen at CRGS
POLICE made immedi a te inquiries a t the CRGS sixth-form centre in Clitheroe on Monday morning after a laptop computer was stolen. I t was left under a
desk in the York Street premises ju s t a fte r 10 a.m. and had gone a few minutes later. The Fujit su model is valued a t £1,042 and police inquiries continue.
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groups bring 500 children from Mogilev to this country for a month's recuperation to
help boost th e ir weak immune systems and
increase their life expectancy. The children all stay with
host families and more are needed for the 2003 visit. The cycle run is p a r t of
this ongoing friendship and will raise funds for the chil dren's air fares to the UK in 2002 and 2003. Mr Davies has already
cycled from Land's End to John o' Groats for the chari
ty.He said: "I was lying in bed: thinking how we could raise more funds as we are short this year. I jumped out of bed and checked the atlas and thought; it's only 1,500 miles—we can do that. "We are hoping to raise
£5,000. As i t costs about £500 for each child's visit, that's 10 children." Anyone requiring more
information on the bike ride who wishes to support the ch a ri ty and the event, or families offering their ser vices as hosts, are invited to contac t the chairman of FOCC Clitheroe, Mr Miles Leadbeater, on 01200
424575. Urn thief scales drainpipe
A BURGLAR scaled many feet ;of drainpipe to steal two classic ;design u rn s f rom th e to p of
•Standen Hall, Pendleton. • They are valued a t £500 each and itheir disappearance is the latest and “most daring of a series of thefts of sim ilar items. Most of the rest have been ‘
from ground or gatepost top level. week, and the burglar traversed two
floors of the height of the hall. The urns were pushed from their
places to fall on to the lawn below. They left impressions in the grass,
as did a wheelbarrow which police believe was used to carry them to a
vehicle. The urns are sandstone and of clas
sical appearance, with garlands of
Plan for shutters ‘sad reflection of times’
Security moves at shop approved
AN application to install security shutters,at a centrally-located Clitheroe shop is a "sad reflection of the times", accordmg to a bor-
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Coun.UHowel Jones (Clitheroe) said that although steel shutters — would "diminish the attractiveness of the |
town centre", reality had to be faced from an insurance point of
view. . A 're p o r t to Ribble _ .
Valley Borough Coun cil’s . Plan n in g and Development Commit tee about the proposal for Season’s House of
Fashion in King Street said: "Although in the conservation, a re a i t
.would-be preferable not. to see sh u tters added, on certain types of busi nesses it is unfortunate^ ly becoming a necessity to gain insurance and continue trading." : - Members approved the: application for shutters to be fixed to ground- floor windows and doors on both the front and rear elevations. '
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