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n in its university teaching. ■ A lay reader for half a , century, he had also served as a member of the General Synod of the Church of England. His busy life had other.


aspects too, including a key role in the Bronte Society and work for the parish council in his home community near Hull. The funeral and


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Alert boy’s £250 reward from judge in village gun raid case


THREATS to shoot Whalley postmaster Mr Stephen Baldwin were made as what appeared to be a pistol was brandished at his wife by a Saturday teatime rob­ ber. Two men got away with


memorial service were on Tuesday at All Saints' Church, South Cave, East Yorkshire. Prof. Pollard leaves his


wife, two sons and five grandsons.


[would farm


' in relation to highway use amenity would no longer , suggests the report, e parish council has objected e plan, but two nearby resi- ■ support it. anning officials suggest a ber of conditions to control evelopment and feel it could proved when the undertak- offered are legally secure. ;


-heme. "Considerable prob- ousmg?


recommended to look favourably on the appli­ cation and defer final approval to Chief Execu­ tive Mr David Morris when legal formalities regarding land use and deposit of money for the recreational facilities are completed.


facilities would be a posi­ tive improvement to the site and a benefit to the community and there would be no significant impact on neighbouring residential amenity. Councillors are being


removing the possible "bad neighbour" devel­ opment of the former industrial site and there are no traffic objections from the county council. The improved sporting


s choristers


hne\y CD Wednesday evening when they will be singing evensong a t Kipon Cathedral. More than 80 guests


will hear the boys sing several items a t the event on Friday, which is being held at Sagar Fold, a beautiful country house in the Ribble Val­ ley.


Stonyhurst College and St Mary’s will also pro­ vide musical entertain­ ment, and food will be prepared by Northcote Manor, whose joint owner, Craig Bancroft, is the father of one of the choristers.


Musicians from lub results


winners were: NS, Mrs D. Blake and Mr J. Hig- son, Mr H. Fielding and Mr G. Capstick. EW, Mrs K. Higson and Mr J. Bowker, M r J. Pawlicki and Mr J. Renton. Thursday's winners


Global honour for Bridget


THE head girl of Bowland High Sch­ ool, Grindleton, has won a "global" hon­


wide selected for the con- prizein this year's local, ference. "It is a great" Young-Enterprise com-'


chef, business contest prizewinner and would- be teacher Bridget Hart­ ley (16) flies to America next month to attend a Global Young Leaders' Conference. She is one of 400 high school students world-


our. Farmer’s daughter,


worthwhile experience and will help with my ambition to become a teacher in a specialist field, such as food tech­ nology or special needs." Bridget won the best personal contribution


tional leaders," said Bridget. "I will certainly be mixing with, and learning from, young people of a similar age to myself from all over the world. "It will be a very


honour and I am very petition. She was man- grateful to my school for agiag director of Bow-' putting me-forward," High School's rural


said Bridget, of Mason House Farm, Bashall


Eaves. "I was on the reserve


list for the conference and have only just been told there is a place for me. Now I am busy rais­ ing sponsorship money in quite a short time." .. The conference is


products company and, about the same time, was runner-up in the regional Rotary Club junior masterchef con­ test. Bridget has worked for several years at the Inn


organised by an Ameri­ ca-based organisation which picks a group of exceptional high school students who have shown leadership and academic abilities. They are then placed in Wash­ ington DC and New York to help them appre­ ciate ongoing events which are creating histo­


ry. ay,


were Mrs B. Wilson and Mr J. Renton, Mr C. Pol­ lard and Mr B. Guha. EW, Mrs I. Park and Mrs K. Higson, Mrs A. Peddar and Mr G. Cap- stick.


W.M.J. uiry cancelled


bout-turn has been made by er Ribchester Hospital site, to the non-determination'of omes was called off on Friday, e to have gone ahead on Tues- developers already have out-


ion to build 24 homes, ning officials were expecting a om the developers to include a


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ios are also tackled to sharpen the young peo­ ple's approach and the conference's slogan is: "Inspiring today's young leaders to become tomorrow's stars". Personal security and


"Global crisis" scenar­


at Whitewell and is ve^ grateful for sponsorship help she received from there. Well-experienced at


milking cows and lamb­ ing sheep, Bridget is a keen member of Clitheroe Young Farm­ ers and is Press secretary for the club. "The conference will


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be rather different to farming, but I will be interested to meet any other farming daughters or sons there," said Brid­ get. "I will, in effect, be a teenage ambassador for the Ribble Valley and will do my best." On her return, she will


• chaperoned and escorted from the minute they arrive in America. "There may be the


safety is very much in mind. The delegates are


chance to meet some national and interna-


cnevtoie by Julie Frankland


be keen to give talks about her experiences to local organisations and schoolfriends at Bow- land. • Anyone who would


like to help-with sponsor­ ship is asked to call the Hartleys on 01254 826326.


Partytime gives charities a boost'


FIVE childhood friends, all celebrating their 30th birthday this year, raised £800 for charity when they threw a joint parly for 400 family and friends. Instead of presents, they invited guests attending


their marquee bash in Slaidbum last month to make a donation to a cash pot, the contents of which have now been divided between the Friends of Slaidbum Medical Practice and Lancashire Air Ambulance. . The big-hearted quintet of Messrs Duncan Gawk­


ing, Ian Breaks, Jonty Mason, Julian Cook and Stu­ art Raw all come from Slaidbum.


WHEN bride-to-be Miss Charlotte Par­ ker first said yes to marrying Horton's Mr Mark Davidson, he promised to take


but, when the couple walk down the aisle a week tomorrow, it will be at the Higher Par­ adise Chapel in Mr Davidson's home vil­


her to paradise. That was a year ago,


lage. Their union will be


only the sixth to be cele­ brated at the sleepy, but picturesque chapel since 1964 and will mark the building’s reopening since doors closed last


Decemberfor extensive refurbishment and redecoration. Instrumental in much


of the improvement work has been Mr Davidson, his usher Mr Peter Jenkinson, who is a decorator by trade, and Mr Davidson's mother, Mrs Jean Ritson. Mrs


Ritson and her husband ' -in the chapel, it makes live next door to the Mark and Charlotte's chapel. He is a trustee, while she is secretary to the board of trustees. Said Mrs Ritson:


"Mark and Charlotte Have been going out


summer's day that they


together for about a year and half. I t was last mid-


about 16 members and has its original box pews, so services are restricted '.Mr,Davidson's older to an annual carol ser­ vice, Easter and harvest celebrations and an anniversary service in May. Since 1964, the chapel has had only five weddings, the last one in 1995, and four baptisms. As the family is involved


wedding that much more personal." For the wedding, Mrs


decided to get married which was f o u n d e d i n ' here in the chapel.


Ritson is making and icing the cake, and Miss Parker's florist friend Rachel is in charge of bouquets and floral dec­ orations for- the chapel,


"The chapel is very site of a former church pretty, but only h a s . building and which still


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brother, Mr Allan Davidson, and three- year old daughter Megan also have impor­ tant roles to play. While Megan is one of four bridesmaids, Allan, who with Mrs Ritson and Mark is a partner in Skipton's Busy Lizzie fish and chip cafe, is sharing the role of best man with Mark's Skip- ton Rugby Club team­ mate, Mr Adam Old­


field. ' Following the ceremo­


ny, which will be con­ ducted by Baptist minis­ ter for Earby and Salter-


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Clitheroe, a reception at Gisburn's Stirk House Hotel is planned. Mr Davidson will then


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the 19th Century on the. Taylor, m the presence of a. registrar


whisk his new wife, who hails from Silsden and works as a hydrologist, off on honeymoon before settling in Carlton. Arid their choice of destina­ tion - where else but the Bahamas' Paradise Isl-


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£23,000 from the King Street, Whalley, post office, but a boy of 14 memorised their car registra- tion number. Police for miles around started


The gun and the cash were inside it,


Preston Crown Court heard. Judge Pamela Bradley praised the


boy, whose identity is known to only a few people, and directed that he be paid £250 reward.


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. Zabir Issa (20), of Bicknell Street, Blackburn, admitted being one of the men involved in the robbery. He was sent to custody for seven years. , . The drama unfolded just as the


looking for the Lexus and it was spotted in Blackburn after only a few minutes.


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National Lottery side of the busi­ ness was closing on Saturday, Sep­ tember 8th. A man with what the Baldwins had no means of .knowing was not a real gun burst into the


shop, told Mr Baldwin to lie on the floor and then ran off with the money. As reported in the Advertiser and


■


Times at the time, police received a number of calls, and one of them at least highlighted the Lexus car and the


in a very public- spirited fashion, memorising the registration plate of the car,he knew had been used in the crime. - • . •- -■


Village route to Blackburn where a patrol spotted it and Issa was arrest-


number it was displaying. • I t apparently drove over the York


In court, the judge directed the year and been offered a university reward for the boy and said: "He acted place, said his counsel.


' V save p s s a ^ ts i


A 297-name petition protests against homes conversion plan for historic Black Horse Inn


by Julie Frankland


R E S ID E N T S of Clitheroe's Pimlico village have laun­ ched a last-ditch campaign to save the historic inn at the -anifnow wants backing


munity. A petition bearing 297


signatures, along with letters of objection and copies of a dossier, which the residents claim is proof of an attempt to wrestle the pub, the Black Horse Inn, from locals and convert it into a housing development, have already been for­ warded to officers and councillor members of Ribble Valley Borough Council's Planning and Development Commit­ tee. The committee is


Mr John Willacy, next month. In it, Mr Willa­ cy, claims th a t after moving into the 1822- built inn, he tried to run it as a business for 18 months, but that it was not viable. He closed the pub in July- of last year


heart of their com4 to convert it into two - houses, with ■ a third house sited on the car


park. Yet according to Mrs


What then happened him. Added Mrs Han- was wrong. I t is our son: "We are also aware belief that Mr Willacy of a third interested never had any intention ' party."


of making a go of the ' pub. We believe, he always had-its conver­ sion into va c housing development in mind because it was as if he deliberately tried to run the inn down." According to Mrs


Karen Hanson, a mem­ ber of the Pimlico Vil­ lage Residents' Associa­ tion, Mr Willacy is "talking rubbish". Said Mrs Hanson: "When Mr Willacy moved into the Black Horse Inn, the pub had two quiz teams, a darts team'and a pool team. "It was a thriving part


of the community and very important to vil­


expected to debate a ' years earlier, the pub change of use applica- represented Pimlico’s tion, made by "landlord" only real meeting place.


lage life. As the village shop had closed a few


Hanson,' of Barrow Nurseries, opening hours became a d . hoc and erratic.. Said Mrs Han­ son: "In our opinion, nothing was done to attract custom. At one point, regulars even -'


pub themselves if Mr Willacy supplied the paint." With their offer


been included in the dossier forwarded to councillors and council officials','which the resi­ dents' association is hop­ ing will help convince the planning committee of the Black Horse Inn's value as a community facility. Members of the association also intend to be at July's committee meeting. Mr Willacy, in a letter to the Advertiser and


This "evidence" has


o f f e r e d t o - r i e c o r a t e - t h e J - ^ ^ - ^ y e f - clalmed , that most of the commu-


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ignored, Mrs Hanson claims the residents' association has copies of two written approaches made to Mr Willacy by different individuals interested in buying the Black Horse Inn from


■profitable business. Retaining bar staff


nity did not use the pub­ lic house and most of those who did, did not use it with the regularity required to make it a


was, he said, impossible I and they were treated with hostility by "a very strong clique."


Paradise is assured when Charlotte marries Mark


right mid proper that people who act in that way should be recognised."


' :!'He should be commended. I t is


emphasised that his client had not only admitted the offence, but made a


; Mr Jeremy Lasker (defending)


ed. When interviewed, he said that he - full confession to the police. Another had acquired the car, number plates 'man, \not before, the court, was and gun. But another man went into irivovled.ahd Issa had agreed to join the post office while he was sitting in him. the car.


Issa had passed his A-levels last • ?! ;


Valley’s CCTV scheme delay until winter


the Valley's new CCTV scheme are going ahead well, it is anticipated that work will be com­ pleted two months later than originally thought. And a report to Mon-


BIG brother will not be watching you in Clitheroe and Whalley until November. Although plans for


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are being made to increase the annual financial contributions from private businesses in Clitheroe and Whal­ ley which will benefit from the CCTV scheme.' Once up and running,'


day's meeting of, Ribble the scheme will enable Valley Borough'Goun-; 'Clitheroe's four cameras cil's Policy and Finance • to ' be replaced and Committee notes tha t .another 11 installed;


the lowest quote for staff to monitor the cameras is £22,000 more than the estimated.f.isSumi^X'of £50,000;pefe*year.iHow-i ever,'it;adds'thattalks are taking place about th e use of subsidies towards th e cost' of salaries. - • The report also says that "concerted efforts"


including four in the Castle grounds. The five cameras at the Trans-! port Interchange will be linked to' the scheme; and there will be anoth­ er two cameras at Edis- ford and three in Whal­ ley town centre. Three relocatable mobile cam­ eras will also be provid­ ed.


Joint crime initiative is to be extended to Read


A JOINT police and charity Age Concern ini­ tiative, which has been running for the past two years in other parts of the Ribble Valley, is to be extended to Read. ; From this-Monday. onwards, a shared police and Age Concern mobile information unit will park a t the entrance to the village ’cricket ground from 10 a.m. to noon. The caravan will


strong of Age Concern: .."The project has.beeri very popular elsewhere in the area and now peo­ ple in Read are to be provided with the same quality service."


be staffed by a police officer and Age Concern officer to give villagers aged over 55 help and advice on policing issues, benefits, form-filling and health service provision. Said Mr Geoff. Arm­


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