The Clitheroe imes Thursday, September 19th, 2002 No. 6,063


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AT A GLANCE


A Clitheroe company with an unblemished record has been fined £10,000 for polluting a brook.


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Two brothers and former busi­ nessmen have died within three days of each other. ,


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A visitor from Down Under sur­ prises localyoungsters. ■


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Heritage fever grips the town. '


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Police have warned local residents not to approach a man who has gone miss­ ing from a secure unit.


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A Ribble Valley hamlet has won a top spot in the Best Kept Vil­ lage Competition.


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Members of a grateful family find 2,000 ways of saying thank you to hospital staff.


; cast and breezy.. . :• SUNRISE: 6-46 a-mf'


SUNSET: 7-18 p.m.


LIGHTING UP . TIME: 7-27 p.m.


FOGGITT’S WEEKEND WEATHER: Remaining warm and dry, but over-■


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A PACK of 101 Dal­ matians, 600 police cones, £6,000 worth of fireworks and 12,000 spectators add up to a spectac­ ular success for the organisers


Clitheroe's golden jubilee Torchlight


of


processionl They are celebrating


what has- been described as the town’s best-ever Torchlight event, which for the first time in its 115- year history was extended beyond being just an evening parade into a weekend full of family activities.


police, a crowd of at least 12,000. It thronged the parade route from its starting point in Chat-


. burn Road to its finish in Seedall Avenue. Throughout the town'


. cheer the colourful and tuneful floats as they passed. Over at the viewing platform, digni­ taries were tasked with. filling in score sheets to choose the best-decorat­ ed float. Their award went to


centre, spectators lined up five to six deep along the pavement's edge' to


• Torchlight launched with the opening of a kiddies' funfair, stalls and display of military vehicles and classic cars on the Castle Field on Saturday morning, all of which stayed put until late on Sunday after­ noon. These attractions


■ cool at Clitheroe. Library". The procession was


'school later. In second place was the Clitheroe Library entry - a wagon decorated as an ice chamber inhabited by snow: queens to put across the message, "It’s


Brookside County Pri­ mary School for its 101 Dalmatians-themed float, which blasted out the '70s Donny Osmond hit, "Puppy Love", as it drove by. A prize of £25 will be presented to the


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" Saturday night's Torch- light procession.,


helped to keep Clitheroe buzzing and town centre traders smiling at the sound of ringing tills before and after the weekend's main event,


’. The procession •


attracted more than 40^ floats',; six 'bands,. 10". spectating mayors; who joined borough MP Mr Nigel Evans and other dignitaries on a special­ ly-created viewing plat­ form-in the Market Place, and, according to


■ sen., who celebrated his' 85th birthday by mak­ ing his third Torchlight, appearance alongside his son, also Mr Richard Dugdale, on the Tim-|


also particularly special for Mr Richard Dugdale


■ bermatic Ltd; "Queen ,off , Hearts"rthemed float. ' Said chairman of the T ° r«hlight;. Working,.


• Group,. a :thrilled-but: 'shattered Mr Peter 'Moore, who has spent the last 18 months work­ ing towards the event: "The standard of float entries was fantastic. I have been inundated


TORCHLIGHT Kingf Queen and jkslerNorman Hornby,’Keith Whiteside and :


with people telling me how good they thought this Torchlight was and how they can't wait for. the next one.


Chas Hughes (T150902/8d) "People from out of


town cannot believe that a place the size of Clitheroe can put on such a good show. I had


BNP’s top man denies any plans to fight by-election


THE top man in the British National Party in the North- West this week denied reports that they planned to fight the by-election for a vacant seat on Ribble Valley Borough Council


support. One of the reasons is some of the statements being made by Tory MP Nigel Evans. The Tory Party don't; know, exactly where they are at the


next month. Neither would they be contest­


ing the four-yearly council elec-


| .tions in May next year, said Mr Chris Jackson. But,- he said, the BNP was gaining strength in Clitheroe and


j had it in mind to fight a future parliamentary election for the


Ribble Valley. Mr Jackson, of Todmorden,


| a growing number of sympathis­ ers were being recruited from Clitheroe for the BNP Hyndbum


said they were not forming a Clitheroe branch of the party, but


branch: He said: "The party is going


through a huge growth at the moment. We don't give numbers, all I can say is that it is a lot of


moment. • "Mr Evans may change his


tune when asylum seekers come to the Ribble Valley. We are going to win more and more Tory vot­ ers. But we have no plans to field, an official candidate at the by- election, so the town can sleep easy tonight," he added. MP Mr Evans hit back on


Tuesday. He told the Advertiser and


Times: "I am not a racist. I never have been. As far as I am con­ cerned, I represent all of the peo­ ple of the Ribble Valley and the Conservative Party view is as strong as it always has been - it has always been against bogus


. asylum seekers." He suggested that BNP interr


vention in elections in the Ribble Valley in May could let in the


Liberal Democrats or the Labour


Party. Mr Evans attacked leaflets


' He said: "A leaflet being put out in Clitheroe the bthfer day stated


being put through Clitheroe doors by BNP supporters.


they want to put'Our'people first. Who are lOurV.people? Quite


- frankly, the people of Clitheroe are 'Our' people, regardless of their


: only ended up with'three seats in Burnley. The people of Clitheroe have no truck or sympathy with


. colour or persuasion. "Despite a lot of pressure, they,


them,'.' he added. Nominations close on Friday for


. October 17th. By Tuesday there had been no


the by-election for the Waddington seat .caused by the resignation of Conservative Mr.Harry Back­ house. The election will be held on


nominations deposited with Ribble Valley Borough Council, but there were indications that two people were preparing nomination papers.


FOUR coaches will leave the Ribble Valley on Sunday taking; 200 campaigners to London's Liberty and Livelihood March. \ As darkness fell on Monday •


night, beacons were lit on the summit of Pendle Hill and in Mellor as part of a 3,000-strong chain nationwide. -


, Pendle's beacon was lit by • ,


Campaigners all set,for march on London "Alongside the six-month vigil


members of the Countryside Alliance; while Mellor's was fired by 'Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans. On Tuesday, Mr Evans said that he was proud to have been


: asked to light the beacon on behalf of the, Countryside Alliance Liberty and Livelihood Campaign..


outside the House of Commons and the march bn Sunday, this historic beacon-lighting aims to demonstrate from the.very heart of the countryside and through-, out the country that people's rights and ways of life should not be casually tampered with,"


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one man come up to me, who was at the hand- back of I-Iong Kong to China, and he told me that our Torchlight fire­


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Town in celebration mode as the is


work display was even better than the one organised for that cere­ mony." The. fireworks fol­


lowed the end of the procession. Centred on the Castle Keep, they lasted a spectacular 20 minutes, showering the night sky gold. Their centre piece was a glim­ mering sparkler crown above the number 50, which was fixed to the keep wall by a wooden framework. The display was built


already known to us were detained briefly for minor public order offences. They will be prosecuted at a later date.


"We also understand ■


th a t two people fell from a float in Waddington Road, but th a t having suffered only minor injuries, they were quickly treat­ ed by marshals and first-aid stewards." And Mr Moore was


and orchestrated by an Oxfordshire company, Minster Pyrotechnics, of Bicester. Yet they were not the only Torchlight attraction to keep eyes skyward. On Sunday, there was a fly­ past by two Tornado aircraft and a Tucano, - although the Red Arrows display team, which had promised to fly over Clitheroe if it could, found that time restraints forced it to pass just to the west of the town. Also celebrating.


Torchlight as a triumph was Clitheroe police's Insp. Bob Ford. His team of local and bor­ rowed officers, buoyed ■ by special constables, had put out 600 traffic . cones to prevent proces­ sion and diversion route : parking and congestion


' v :S a id - I n s p . F o r d : " I w o u ld ' like: to ' th a n k th e p u b l ic fo r re sp e c t in g o u r c o n e s . T o r c h l ig h t w a s e s s en t ia l ly a t ro u b le- fre e e v e n t , m a k in g i t a n o p e r a t io n a l su c c e s s fo r u s . T h r e e p e o p le u n d e r t h e a g e o f 1 8 a n d


problems../: ;


Transco to begin work on pipe replacement


A MAJOR' gas pipe replacement pro­ gramme is due to start in Clitheroe on Monday. It will take gas pipeline


the work to be carried out. At times householders'


company Transco about four months to replace 2km of iron gas mains and service, pipes in the Standen Road area of the town at a .cost of £150,000. The work is being carried out as part of a multi-million pound package of improvements across the North West. This week a spokes­


gas supply may need to be turned off, but Transco says its engineers will be in direct touch with resi­ dents about this aspect of the work. Residents are being advised to ask staff to produce their identifi­ cation cards before giving access to their properties. The spokesman said:


equally quick with his thanks. Added Mr Moore:. "I want to thank everyone who took part, came to watch and who helped out. I would also like to thank our sponsors. First North Western Trains, Radio Lan­ cashire, Ultraframe, Castle Cement, Prim­ rose Garage and Total, and Mr Gerald Hitman of the Brockhall Village Company, not forget­ ting Clitheroe Town Council and Ribble Val­ ley Borough Council, which sent out its envi­ ronmental team to clear up immediately after the procession had ended.", Now Mr Moore and


! lotel duo i n finals of


top contest A YOUNG chef and a waiter at a prestigious Ribble Valley hotel have


won through to the finals of a national competition. Waiter Russell Bennett


and chef Lisa Allen, of the Northcote Hotel, Langho, are competing in Young ' Chef Young Waiter 2002, organised by the Restau­ rant Association and sponsored'by the Savoy Educational Trust. The duo won the,


Northern Regional Finals in Merseyside last week, their prize being a trip to France to visit Cham­ pagne Louis Roederer in Reims. The pair will be


required to cook and serve to an invited audience of lunch guests and high- profile judges for the finals in London next month. The winners will


receive £2,000, a trip to stay at the world's only seven-star hotel, the Bur- jal Arab in Dubai, and attend a specialist course at the Emirates Academy.


Valley flood


advice calls HOMES in Low Moor and Ribchester will receive flood warning telephone calls next week. The calls will be made


"up the contents of the bucket collection and money raised from sou­


other, working group members are counting


venir programme sales. .The.group’ needs tp net approximately £4,000 to


'after a National Lottery application to cover its costs was rejected. Any money over that amount will be donated to local charities.


break: even on the event,


Automatic Voice Messag- ing;(AVM).system, to. alert:at:risk.homes .to; potential flooding. Now it ■ wants residents to help it . check the system by acknowledging its mock warning. Those dialled are asked to return the call by pressing digit one on their telephones.


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man for Transco con­ firmed that work in the Standen Road area had. been brought forward in. view of public concern fol­ lowing the fatal gas explo­ sion on Easter. Monday which resulted in the death of eight-year-old Andrew Marsden. Although some prepa­


ration work has already, been carried out in the area, the main pro-, gramme is due to gel;; under way on Monday..- Residents living in the


nine streets which will be. affected, including High-! field Road, Hayhurst Street, Eastmoor Drive and Mayfield. Avenue, have already been sent letters giving details of


, has happened." Anyone with any ques­


"We want to apologise for the inconvenience, but we have decided to replace the pipes now, rather than later, to reassure local people in view of what


tions about the work can contact Transco's cus­ tomer services desk on , 01204 546900. On Mon­ day and Tuesday a spe­ cial information unit will be set up in Standen Road, when Transco staff


will be available to answer any queries about the project. The unit will be open between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. both days. ■ © Transco confirmed


' have now been submitted • to the Health and Safety Executive which is con­ tinuing its own investiga-, tion into the incident.


■ that its report into the ’ events on Easter Monday


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