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A Chatburn-based food firm is involved in a £lOm. merger.


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There are top marks from Ofst- ed for Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and the outstanding leadership of its headteacher.


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The Ribble Valley has a new Mayor, the first from Whalley for 23 years.


page 17


A TV star is at his peak for a charity marathon.


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There was a night of nostalgia as a former soccer star was guest of hon­ our at a 70th birth­ day party.


page 13


A new video provides a spell­ binding trip round the Ribble Valley. '


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A jobs offer as part of a massive recruitment drive by computer firm Time Group has fallen on deaf ears.


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page 5 Drinks firm supplies England squad Town mosque by Robbie Robson


THE England football squad has called on a local • firm to help play­ ers recover from their World Cup


exertions. Brockhall-based


Science in Sports has been supplying the national team with GO since 1998. The electrolyte drink aids. nutrition and rehy­ dration during train­


' to Japan, but after Eng­ land's friendly against Paraguay at Anfield, the company received a sudden order for REGO, its recovery drink. Although sponsored by another well-known


GO to provide 3,000 litres of drinkshas already been despatched


ing and matches. An order for enough


energy drinks company, GO and REGO appear . to be popular with the squad. Sales executive Mr


Peter Slater said: ”We had a call last Tuesday basically saying Sven's Swedish doctor wants' 160kg of REGO by Fri­ day.” . Available stocks were


by Tim Procter


MORE th an 200 people have objected to the latest bid to establish a mosque in


sent immediately and : the remainder of the order was forwarded on Friday. Mr Slater said anyone


ing water and GO dur­ ing training and match­ es, and afterwards will be drinking REGO for recovery. . . "We have supplied 12


involved in sports can use the products and added: "It's very good . for us that the England squad will be using them. - "They will be drink­


Premier League teams '


this season, our main customer being Arsenal; then Liverpool and obviously our own


Girl birth now sues health authority


can only communicate by saying ‘ah- " by Vivien Meath ,


Cerebral paisy* patient^


A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl who was allegedly starved of oxygen at birth is suing the local health authority for massive


damages. Cerebral palsy patient Pema Murry,


of Victoria Street, Clitheroe, was left severely handicapped and suffered brain damage. She is blind, totally dependent on


•April 12th, 1995, but as labour pro­ gressed throughout the day, another midwife, Lesley Briscoe, called for the flying squad - the emergency obstetric team r- and sent for a doctor from a local health centre.


she would ;be admitted to:hospital problems occur". • v.-.i- , , It says she went into labour early on


others, can only communicate by say­ ing "ah" and has severe uncontrolled epilepsy, according to a writ issued at London's High Court. Her mother, Mrs Kathryn Murry,


.hospital until a second one arrived,, because the neonatal resuscitation unit could not be carried in the same ambulance, the writ says. Pema was delivered shortly after arrival at Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn. A tube had to be put into her lungs


And, although the ambulance arrived, Mrs Murry was not taken to


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maintains she was not properly warned of the risks of a home delivery. and complains that midwife Sheena Byrom did not adequately discuss what would happen if problems arose during delivery, or what emergency procedures would involve. She was not told that, if she needed


to go to hospital, there would; be a delay of two hours for an ambulance to arriv and that the risks to her baby would be significantly increased by delay, and was not told of death rates,


she says. Now Pema, who is now, suing


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specify the level of damages claimed, cases of this nature frequently attract awards of millions of ; pounds. The writ says that Mrs Murry, who


And although the writ does not . • '


through her mother, is seeking sub­ stantial damages from Blackburn, Hyndbum and Ribble Valley Health­ care NHS Trust.


to help her breathe, and she was then transferred to the special care baby unit where she suffered multi-organ failure and cerebral palsy with asy- metric spastic quadriplegia. The writ claims the hospital was


•negligent in failing to provide any proper care for the management of


Mrs Murry and her baby in the last four, weeks of her pregnancy, and dur­ ing the first and second stages of labour.,


hip, and cannot walk, sit or roll. She is said to be a poor sleeper, very sensitive to environmental change and cannot perform fine movements of her hands.. ® Since Pema's birth, a number of


Pema may need surgery on her, left ,


voluntary and church organisations in Clitheroe have raised funds to provide


was 31 at the time,''was accepted for a home birth, her first birth, by midwife Sheena Byrom on.the understanding


■twice daily to help her mother and father, Choephel, take their daughter through a complex schedule of exercis­ es and activities to stimulate her.


her. with apparatus and help she needs. In 1997, a team of 20 volunteers visit­ ed her home, then in Lime Street,


Athlete Samantha on the starting block for Britain


A YOUNG athlete with Olymp­ ic dreams is setting off to take part in international competi­


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O continued on page 20 Fire- by John Turner


SWIFT and brave action by a team of Clitheroe fire-fighters


saved the life of a Clitheroe''


mother. While the terraced home of Mrs Denise Aghi, in.Brennand Street,


burned furiously, two pairs of fire­ fighters wearing breathing apparatus inched their way through the smoke- filled property in a dramatic rescue. Within minutes, one of the teams


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- The firemen continued the search, fearing that Mrs Aghi's' 10-year-old. son was also in the burning house. . • v ; .The fire teams continued their search until police received-the news that the boy was safe and well, staying with rel­


• They carried her out to safety, where Dr Grant McKeating, one of the Med-Alert team, was on hand to; render expert medical help. ,


- save life of mother atives. Family pets had been let out of


the house (above) prior to the fire. Mrs'Aghi was initially taken to


Blackburn Royal Infirmary, but later transferred to Queen's Park Hospital


Blackburn. Clitheroe Station Officer Mr Dave


had located Mrs Aghi, in her 40s, slumped over a dressing table in one of the bedrooms. She was " barely con­


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ing Mrs Aghi from the building and a quick call by a neighbour who spotted the smoke on Friday evening was thought to have saved her life. So far, experts have been unable to pinpoint the cause of the fire. One the-


; ory is that a discarded cigarette may have been responsible. .. . Station Officer McGrath said: "We


are hoping to interview Mrs Aghi when she is well enough; She may be able to give us some clue as to how the fire began. - .;


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Blackburn Rovers. "Cyclists arid swim­


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McRae and superbike rider Neil Hodgson.” Our picture shows Mr Slater left and director


Mr Tim Lawson with the REGO order ready for despatch to Japan. (B100502/1)


side arid rear of the end terraced house in Holden Street, Clitheroe, which is already in religious use, has a complicated planning history. One application for


Clitheroe. The location, at the


recommended for approval


toilet and washing facili­ ties for a two-year trial period. This would also apply to continued use of the house as an Islamic study centre. At six metres by three


prayer hall use there was rejected several years ago by the Ribble Valley Borough Council Plan­ ning and Development Committee. Clitheroe's Coun. John McGowan maintains the new one should be as well. "There are enough


metres, the single brick building would be little larger than a typical car park space, accommo­ dating up to 15 worship­ pers, points .out the report. So residents' fears of loss of amenity "may be misplaced", it sug­ gests. No call to prayer,


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comings and goings in that area already. It is not a question of racism. Local residents have enough to put up with," declares Coun. McGow­ an.


music or other loud noise is planned, and. council experts feel that noise inside the building can be controlled. Carpeting, door closers and wall treatment would be used. The report accepts


"I think it might well be found that more peo­


ple want to use this mosque than the appli-.


cants realise a t the moment. People could corrie in cars from a l l ; over the place."


objections to the build-'. ;. ; irig from,178 addresses,/councillors about the plus'seven anonymous i ■ policy providing, th a t ■ ’


There have been 195 ,


by people coming to the mosque is unlikely to be significant,-it suggests. The busiest time would be Friday, afternoon. , The report'remirids


tha t concerns remain about noise outside the building, particularly as prayer times are based on sunrise .and sunset. But it points out that Tesco, a nearby vets and the council car park off Holden Street all operate round the clock. The difference made


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report for tonight's meet­ ing of the committee rec­ ommends approval of the add-on mosque plus;


m


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parking, traffic or con-; gestion issues, as well as noise. But an ' officials'


ones arid’two letters of' places of worship appli- support. The majority of - cations, will hdrmally be , : . the ^objections; .were-. granted, provided ,no ‘*'•.£;• based on four standard.’ ,• demon.strableharm is letters and mentioned - likely. •


mendation suggests vari­ ous conditions covering ■ the two-year trial period, no use of prayer call, music or singing, acou­ stic measures and mate­ rials to be used.


. The approval recom- . ...................


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