T h e C l i t h e r o e Thursday, June :13th, 2002 No. 6,049


More * school pictures


' page 8 AT A GLANCE


A teenager is rewarded by a judge after memorising a car reg­ istration during a gun robbery.


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A last-ditch campaign has been launched by Pimlico residents in a bid to save their inn.


page 3


Clitheroe’s Squash Club is fac­ ing an uncertain future as its courts are closed.


page 36


A controversial caravan site plan is to be considered.


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A schoolgirl who failed her 11-plus has won a coveted place at Cambridge University to read biological science.


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There is a delay, possibly to the winter, as work continues on the Valley’s long-awaited CCTV scheme.


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An appeal to raise £4,000 for a specially-designed wheelchair has reached its target.


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FOGGITT’S WEEKEND..........


tied with a cold easterly wind. SUNRISE: 4-39 a.m.


SUNSET: 9-37 p.m.


LIGHTING UP TIME: 9-40 p.m.


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A GROUP of chil­ dren playing in a den created underneath one of the stands at Clitheroe Football Club is considered the most likely cause of a fire which dest­ royed the structure


this week. Fire-fighters were


believe the stand was not covered by insur­ ance, were meeting this week to discuss the best ■ way. to avoid the fire ■ loss destroying; their ambitions to gain pro-" motion to the Unibond-' . I x s i ^ e . ''


called.to the Shaw- bridge Ground early on; Monday evening, where p a r t of the wooden stand, the old­ est one the club owned, was well alight. Club officials, who


disaster came on the same day as the club announced it had been awarded a grant of £24,440 from.the Foot­ ball Stadia Improve­ ment Fund to install a pitch drainage scheme. Clitheroe FC believed


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HEAD occupational.therapist at Clitheroe Hospital, Miss Pam Toothill is hoping it will be a case of horses for courses when she saddles up for a gruelling charity challenge later this sum­


• To raise money for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, Miss Toothill is in training for an 11-day horse-back trek through Canada's remote Chilcotin Mountains. The trek involves a minimum of seven hours a day in the saddle and nights spent under canvas, even though Miss Toothill has been warned to expect snow and ice, despite the trek's start


med date of August 24th.


based at Clitheroe Hospital for,the last 16 years: "I feel very strongly about the value of Guide Dogs for the Blind as a charity. Guide dogs can help give hack a great deal of independence to someone who has lost their sight. "Yet the trek is also going to be.a


Said Miss Toothill, who has been


plans, to fly out to British Columbia, she must also show that she has spon­ sorship to the value of at least £2,500. So ;far, she has raised £500 after


real personal challenge, as my horse will be totally new to me. Although I can ride, the days will be very long over very tough country and I expect it's going to be quite chillyl" Miss Too thill, w h o liv e s . in


completing a sponsored 85-mile leg of the Coast-to-Coast Walk with a friend. She is also planning a car boot' sale and auction of promises and, with help from other local supporters of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, will be holding a street .collection in Clitheroe, Whalley and Longridge on


July 27th. Added Miss Toothill, who is the


Clitheroe, was accepted to join the trek after she replied;to:an.adyert seeking volunteers, which appeared in a horse magazine. She has been ridinig since the age of 12, and keeps two horses at Waddington's Field House


Stables. Yet before she can make her final


College of Occupational Therapists' ^representative on the goveming'body of the charity, Riding for the Disabled: ."I spent four years working and trav­ elling in Canada after I first qualified as an occupational therapist 20 years ago. I thought then how lucky I was to be able to do that and, again, I feel


tremendously lucky that I now have the opportunity to return." " Anyone wanting to sponsor Miss


Toothill (pictured) should telephone 01200 441776.


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'also appeared before the magistrates ■ last week on a similar charge. He] denied the offence, and the case was


/adjourned until June.28th for papers to be prepared.


S tre et Clitheroe, has appeared until June 28th to give time for,;the. A second man, Robert Grime (also -He was granted bail witn concn- 24),of Newland.Avenue, Clitheroe,


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inherent drainage prob­ lems. At one time the pitch was unplayable for three months. The pitch improve­


There have been


ments for which the grant was made have also committed the club to an expense of nearly £6,000 of their own funds. ' Acting chairman Mr


Soccer club fire may be work of


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World Cup treat is


served up at schools


NORMAL service resumed as soon as possible for pupils of St James’ CE School, Clitheroe, yesterday once the final whistle went on the v ital England v Nigeria


match. One minute, 100


pupils who had arrived at school soon after 7 a.m. for the big kick-off were wildly cheering the -- fact that England had qualified for the next round and that Argenti­ na had gone out, next they were hard at work at their desks. "We had a wonderful


time," said deputy head Mrs Janet Cooper. Half of the school's


200 junior pupils had taken advantage of the early start. They also had orange


■ said;


to think that kids have been playing underneath i t , ' making a .den or something like that,." he r j


Dave Burgess said the fire destroyed approxi­ mately one third of the stand, which could accommodate 200 spec­ tators, and the rest would probably have to be demolished. "The fire brigade seem


trouble on the ground in ■ the .last month, .with;'


"We have been having


somebody try in g : to : break into ■ the club- ! house, and some damage ■ was done to a door," he added.’ "The fire is a massive


their pitch drainage was the last remaining detail preventing them from promotion in the eventu­ ality of winning the one promotion place in the NW Counties League Division One. Two sea­ sons ago the club were runners-up. Last season


knockback, to be honest. To get the ground grad­ ed for the Unibond League, you not only have to have the team, you have to have the ground suitable to that standard," said Mr Burgess. Over recent seasons,


SMOKE and flames pour from Clitheroe Football Club’s stand on Monday night, captured in this dramatic picture taken by Adver­ tiser and Times reader Michael Arrowsmith (s)


sound, but all the money is raised from within the club; we have no bene­ factor to help us." He believes the club


may have to go cap in hand to Clitheroe busi­ ness to try. to replace the ruined stand.


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UNSUPERVISED youngsters are mak­ ing an elderly. Clith­ eroe widow's life a


Mr Simon Taylor, for the Football Stadia


He added: "A club of


Improvement Fund said he was sure the club, would be listened to sympathetically if they made an approach for help, to replace the ruined stand.


;


Clitheroe’s level and size is eligible for funding of


up to £100,000. Obvi­ ously, we want to help where we can. We will be trying to arrange a meet­ ing with the club as soon as possible to see if there


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a n e ld e r l y R i b b l e V a l l e y w id o w path; smeared' on the


door and window sills. "What has happened


nightmare. -. The pensioner has had


they had spent £10,000 on upgrading the ground, and it was all money generated by the


club and committee.. "W p a r e financiallv


to endure late-night vis­ its by eight and nine- year-old boys who ring her doorbell before run­ ning away. 1 Litter is constantly thrown over the wall of


the neat and tidy home in which she has lived for


48 years. And dirt has been thrown over her front


to Glitheroe?" asks the woman's daughter who feels unable to help and, in desperation, contact­ ed the Clitheroe Adver­ tiser and Times from her home in South Africa. "Mum has had a hip


kind of behaviour that not only makes a lot more work, but also makes her very ner­ vous," says her daughter, who asks what eight and: nine-year-olds are doing roaming the streets at


10-30 p.m. "What is happening in


replacement and suffers from severe arthritis, but manages to keep her house spotlessly clean inside and out and also digs the garden and mows the lawn. What she does not heed is this


Clitheroe that parents of these children have no' idea what their children are doing at that time of night? I t scares me to think what those little ones will be doing in 10 years' time if this is what they are doing now. We


read that church and Sun-. day School attendance is down and that school­ teachers are not allowed to discipline the pupils. This is scary stuff, as this is what happened in other parts of the world. What has happened? Wake up Clitheroe before you become a serious crime area." The daughter, who


has asked us not to print her mother's name and address for fear of reper­ cussions, ends by saying that she had always been proud of coming from


Clitheroe.' "It' hurts to have to report this kind of behaviour and also to read, weekly,, in the Advertiser and Times of similar or worse." • See letters, page 8.


is anything we can do." Station Officer Dave


been using it as a den. He said the 15m by


McGrath said fire offi­ cers and police were


4m stand was "well alight" when the fire-


investigating the possi- fighters, under Leading bility th a t rubbish Fire-fighter Ian Parking- underneath the stand ton, arrived at the scene, had been set alight by They were at the ground children who may have for 90 minutes. - - '


juice and cereal bars, supplied by Sainsbury's supermarket. I t made quite a scene


in the school hall, with abundant St George’s flags and England foot­ ball shirts. "We even had a Mexican wave," added • Mrs Cooper. St Michael And St


I b e fo re th e ren d .o f . th e . m a tch , th e r e s t of . th e


John's RC Primary School also laid on "footie in the hall". ■ " . A t . le a s t 100 were th e re a t k ick off an d


school — an d even some; p a re n ts :—, h a d jo in ed


were here at 7-30 a.m. - perhaps we should show edited highlights every


momingl"


r-y A' spokesman for th e .school said: "There was a lovely atmosphere. We ■ even jo in ed in th e s in g in g before - th e, match. "Even latecomers


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