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taken. "We will be watch­ ing carefully on road 'safetyandonthe general


tranquillity of the area for the people who live, work and travel in the vicinity,"


said Coun. Holtom. Appropriate steps


could be taken at very, short notice and the situ­ ation was being moni­ tored day by day. : "It is disappoinitng


that they are coining here and I am particularly anxious that there should be no unsavoury distur­ bances round the site^y But Coun. Holtomfelt


that the situation should be viewed realistically. "We need to be concerned not to over-egg the pud­ ding," he warned.


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1' ' 'IS';, *. • ' - . by Emma White


A TEENAGER from Bashall Eaves has been named the Junior National Young Farmer of the Year for England and


Wales. Bridget Hartley (16), is Press


secretary for Clitheroe Young Farmers and travelled to Warwick­ shire for; the finals of the presti­ gious national competition on Sat­


urday. "I was interviewed by a panel and


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some of the questions were really challenging. I was proud to be rep­ resenting Lancashire," she said. ' The former head girl of Bowland


High School has recently returned from the Global Young Leaders' Amer­ ican conference. Some 350 high school students were


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believe that they are 10 to 15% better off having taken business into their own hands than they would be if they sold their milk on the open market. Farmers taking part


! Graveston, Bolton-by- Bowland; J. E. and B. M. Harrison, Slaidburn; Edward Jackson,


in the scheme are: John Alpe, Whitewell; A. Carr, Dunsop Bridge; B. . Gill,, Sabden;. David


Wiswell; Steve Morris, Dutton; G. Parker, i Slaidburn; R. Pairker, I. Newton; I. Porter, Whitewell; M. Shep- 1 herd, Dunsop Bridge; John Slinger, Pendleton; R. Wade, Sabden; H. Whitewell, Pendleton


| and J. G. Whitewell, Pendleton. Directors of the com-


; pany "Connect Plus" the farmers have formed are:


3 Thomas Binns, Down- . ham; James Carr, Dun- 1 sop Bridge and William a Slinger, Pendleton.


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al other shared ventures, including inter-school vis­ its and staff exhanges. Also, a group of St Dami­ an’s pupils has been on retreat to Stonyhurst and there has been liaison on the maths, English and science curriculum. In a further develop­


ment, the college is plan­ ning to go "international" with its video conferenc­ ing by setting up a pro­ ject with a school in Bil­ bao, Spain, in an exchange of language and listening skills.


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TEACHER Stella Lightbown was astounded by the after-sales service she received after her partner bought her an oil paint­ ing on the last day of her holiday


in the Italian resort of^Sorrenta,, !vThe' owner' of :'tfie(gaiVery said they


would'deliver it rather than the couple having to carry the large painting on


the flight back to England. "I expected it to be delivered by post


or carrier," said Stella, of Daisy Hill Farm, Slaidburn Road, Waddington. Three weeks later she was lying in


bed early one morning when there was a knock at the door. She opened the bedroom window and a voice greeted


her: "Bonjoumo, Madam." The painting had been delivered by


an Italian with a van after a journey of more than 1,500 miles, which ended at the door of one of. the most isolated addresses in the North-West. "I was absolutely amazed," said Stel­


la, who teaches children in Burnley General Hospital. "He could hardly speak a word of English and I only had a few words of Italian. I managed to establish that he had got completely lost in Waddington and a kind villager had driven him from'Waddington to


my door. "I drove him back to his van at


Waddington and there was my paint­ ing, wrapped in a blanket. It was quite amazing service."


Passport call to young drinkers


A MEETING of Clitheroe and Whal­ ley Pubwatch ended with a unani­ mous vote to introduce new measures for combating under-age drinking in


the area. Every licensed premises involved in '


. Clitheroe and Whalley Pubwatch will now only accept a driving licence or passport as


proof of age. Birth or other certificates, which could


have been borrowed, will not now be taken


notice of. , It has also been decided that letters will


be sent to the homes of repeat offenders. A spokesman for Clitheroe and Whalley Pubwatch said: "When teenagers are in the


pub, their parents usually think they are somewhere else. By sending letters home, we are telling parents what their children have really been doing."


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Memorable year for


Samantha


THE year 2002 has cer­ tainly been memorable for Clitheroe athlete Samantha Murray (12). In June, she travelled


to Switzerland to com­ pete in the Youth Cham­ pionships as a member of, the Modern Pen­ tathlon Association of Great Britain's youth squad. In Bern, she com­ peted in the .tetrathlon, followed by a pentathlon contest in Berlin.1 • . Then Samantha (pic­ tured centrejwas among those chosen to carry the 'Jubilee baton during one of the last'laps through the county, in Lancaster, prior to the start of-the Commonwealth. Games in Manchester, (s)


It was organised by an America-


based company, which picked a group of exceptional high school students who had shown leadership and acade­ mic abilities. They were then placed in Washington and New York tp help them appreciate ongoing events which are creating history. "We were divided into groups and


allocated a country and then given various scenarios. We had to do what was in the best interests of the country in each situation," explained Bridget. The high'school pupils were given a


talk by the Assistant Secretary of State, a talk on human rights and even ran their own UN summit at the UN headquarters in New York. "The programme was really


intense," said Bridget. "We were up at 6-30 a.m. and didn't go to bed until 11 p.m."


Bridget was recently chosen to rep­


resent Rotary International as the local heat winner in the annual junior masterchef competition, where she


was runner-up. She plans to give a talk to the Rotary Club of Clitheroe, Clitheroe Young Farmers and Ribble Valley Borough Council about her experiences in America.


"Visiting Ground Zero was amaz­ ,


ing, but it hit us all really hard-. Standing there, I could just visualise the chaos, even though everything


was so quiet now,"- she explained. Bridget is now eagerly awaiting her


GCSE results, which are due next Thursday. "I want to go to CRGS sixth form to


do my 'A' levels. Maybe afterwards I could take a gap year, as I really want to go travelling now that I have got the bug!" she added.


Model’ village in line for a £Xm. community hall


by Natalie Cox..


ing activities, with the bal- :ance!being paid by'private


A .RIBBLE VALLEY ... "riipdel":yillage:jno looks set to have a £500,000 community


facility. Plans have been drawn


up for a new village hall- style facility at Brockhall.' The scheme forms part


of a major planning appli­ cation being submitted to Ribble Valley Borough Council by the Brockhall Village Residents' Associa­ tion and Brockhall Village


Ltd. If given the go-ahead,


the hall would have its own village green and car park, as well as incorporating meeting rooms, sporting facilities and a youth club, together with a bar and stage facilities. Its aim would be to provide ameni­ ties for all ages, ranging from mums and toddlers and senior citizens to teenagers. Hopes are high that


most of the cash needed to foot the bill would come


from grants and fund-rais­


donation.,The land is being given by village developer 'Mr Gerald Hitman.


• ' Mr • Andrew - Coney, chairman of the village's


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residents' association, explained that for the past year talks had been taking place with the site's devel­ opers about a number of concerns. One involved the need for a village hall or community facility, anoth­ er centred around a desire to see more open space in the village for residents’ use, and their third issue was to see development at Brockhall Village brought to a conclusion. '- Said Mr Coney: "We have negotiated a deal with the developer whereby they will give us the site for the village hall and a cash contribution towards its construction. We get per­ manent access to Great and Mill Woods, with' foot­ paths and managed access, and we get a large area of open space in the middle of


the site where people can go and children canvkick a ; football."'' ' L' ' Vt *.----‘ -1


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■ around the relocation of.- some proposed housing to another part of the site to


He addecbthat another, aspect of'the plan centres.


-’space and ideally would be sold to those who want to


These housing units, would have designated office


‘w o rk 'froT n 'h om e ; 'g iv in g them space: to employ two or three st af f . >


provide an area of open space. The application also • proposes changes for eight acres of land designated within the planning agree­ ment for employment use. "The current planning


permission for factories and the like would be com­ pletely inappropriate for our village - the land is next to housing, the nurs­ ery and a children's play­ ground in any event," said Mr Coney. "There is no real demand for employ­ ment space. We surveyed all the residents as part of the application and about 24% already work partly from home." As a result of the ques­


tionnaire, Mr Coney said residents — Brockhall now has 170-plus households - wanted to see the space used for live/work units.


, ■ Said Mf'Goney: "The application covers a num­ ber of different elements, but deals with all the con­ cerns raised. It would pro­ vide us with what we think is lacking in the village and give all the remaining undeveloped land a use in planning terms which would bring about a con­ clusion to the whole devel­


opment." Village developer Mr


Gerald Hitman said: "Sooner or later it was | inevitable that the resi­ dents would decide how they wanted the village to be finished off, and I am happy to go along with them. I think the idea of the live/work units origi­ nally came from the bor­ ough council as a good way of generating employment in the countryside, and it deserves to work."


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Shop owner without a licence sold alcohol to police test girl aged 13


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POLICE used a 13-year- old girl to make a test purchase of alcohol from a Clitheroe off-licence.


. Blackburn magistrates heard the only question the girl was asked when she bought a.bottle of Chekov ice and a bottle of Blue WKD was if she wanted a bag. Julie Anne Thompson (41),


of Park Street, Clitheroe, pleaded guilty to selling alco- hol without a licence Her son, Andrew Haworth (23), of Whalley Road, Blackburn,


pleaded guilty to selling liquor to a person under. 18 years of age. They were each given a conditional discharge for six months and ordered to pay £55.costs. A summons against Thompson that she allowed the sale of liquor to a person under the age of 18 was dis­ missed. Mrs Elizabeth Reed (prose­


cuting) said police had been keeping observations on Cork­ ers off-licence in Whalley Road prior to using the 13- year-old girl to make a test


■ purchase. The girl went into the shop where Haworth was


serving and bought the two bottles of drink: A plain


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; clothes police officer had also entered the shop and observed the transaction.


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, "The only question the girl was asked was if she wanted a


: bagi" said Mrs Reed. Mr Roger Pickles (defend­


ing) said Thompson had only just bought the off-licence at the time of the offence and had thought the previous licence covered her until she had made the necessary appli­ cations. At the time of the offence she was not in the: shop. She had asked her son to


mind the shop while she went to the wholesalers. .


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,. "Thinking about it now, Mr. Haworth says he would put the girl’s age at between 16 and 18 but; unfortunately, he did not think about it at the time)" said Mr Pickles. He said that as a result of the incident Mrs Thompson had shut the shop for a time.’She had taken advice from, the police and had now obtained a protection order and the Off- licence had re-opened. • AN application made by


Mrs Haworth for a drinks licence should be rejected,


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according to members of Clitheroe Town Council. They are- writing to the


licensing justices to recom­ mend refusal after details of the court proceedings brought to their attention at a meeting earlier this week. The transfer


. of the licence to Mrs Haworth from Corkers' previous owners,


'was part of their meeting' agenda.


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: It was on the agenda at the request of the licensing jus­ tices, who will formally hear Mrs Haworth's application, but is currently asking for views on the matter.


Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, August 15th, 2002


Sign of the times brings blush or two


. by Tim Procter “NO SEX”.-L - was it the most unusual sign


ever to go nakedly on display in the Ribble Valley?


' . The area always offers left evidence that their


a pretty wide range of attentions were cpncen- notices, givenits-huge trated on taking notice range, of commercial i • of medical exhortations activity from Castle to excercise responsibili- Cement to tiny bed and . ty. breakfast establishments i A nearby, farming and its leisure venues, family, who are adamant from cricket grounds t o 1 that their name or pleas- a wild boar park.. "r ; ant location on quite a Foot and-mouth pro- busy road must not be


vided some inevitably sad classics for the sign connoisseur. But the two-word


exhortation, which app­ eared briefly by a coun­ tryside conversion site on Friday,-must be the most unusual ever. Callers to the Adver­


tiser and Times wanted to know.what was going on.


Without the knowl­


edge of the owners, it was put where an enlarged gateway has made more space in which cars to park. Cou-


revealed, found the situ­ ation offensive.


. ' They put up a sign


pointing oiit that the road is private, but say that the "No Sex" one was erected by someone else without their knowl­ edge. They do not wish to comment, but clearly wanted to deal with the situation carefully. When the sign was


pointed out to them, it was withdrawn immedi­ ately, indicates the fami­


ly-


The roadway has now been blocked off to avoid


pies in them were not further unauthorised viewing the scenery and entry to the lane.


Targets missed on recycling


LITTLE progress is being made towards achieving household waste recycling waste targets. In Lancashire, Ribble Valley Borough Council is


listed as having recycled 2% less waste in 1999/2000 than the previous year. Only 16 out of 46 councils in the region have increased their recycling rates. Now MEP Chris Davies is urging the Government to introduce financial incentives and penalties to help councils meet the targets.


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