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Brave Steven (seven) wins everyone’s hearts


by Julie Frankland >U £


GOOD things come in small packages, which is just as well for little StevemMarsden. ■Although he is only


sev en ,• Steven has heaps of bravery and determination, so much so that: he is the winner of the Clitheroe Travel-sponsored Child of Courage award This will be present­


he had apertures cut in the ind suitable signs installed.! Peter McGeorge, ot Ribble


iy Borough ' Council, ined that the facility would le people to improve their onment through recycling.


Rid: "Mr Crompton's app- i was most welcome and the :il is pleased to be involved in lership in this scheme.


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he people of-Whalley now a good recycling facility and Duncil gives full credit to him lis concern for the communi- which he has a business."


ir picture shows the Mayor Mr Crompton heading the e to use the new recycling eatWhalley.


(B110902/5) .


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this year. He is described as e, of stocky build, 5ft. 8in. with dark brown receding in a skinhead cut. He was aven when he went missing


could now have a growth of ble.


; has brown eyes and speaks a Midlands accent. He was


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■ing a white T-shirt, black ksuit bottoms and white ers when he was last seen at oximately 9-50 a.m. on Fri- He has family in the Birm- am and Wolverhampton , but has previously lived in ambe.


lief Insp. Steve Gregson, who lading the inquiry, warned ■


| Mr Oszmianski presented' a Jus danger to members of the Be because of his mental state I said: "He should not be oached and anyone who sees


j should contact the police 1 51212) immediately.".


ed a t our star-studded "Heart of the Valley Gala Evening"- on Sat­ urday, October 26th, at Gisburn's Stirk House Hotel..


’ ■ : The charity event is


being organised to cele-' brate the Ribble Val­ ley's heroes and hero­ ines, among which Steven is the firs t to take his place. .


Clitheroe's St James's GE Primary School, was nominated for the award by his grand­ mother, Mrs Maureen Capstick, of Chatbum. Mrs Capstick wrote to tell us of Steven's courage following an Easter gas explosion at his family home in Standen Road, Clitheroe.


Steven, a pupil a t


r Steven, his parents and older brother, Andrew, were badly injured in the blas t. While his parents were taken to hospital in Preston, Steven was transferred to Liver­ pool's Alder Hey for treatment. I t was three weeks before he and his


days after the explo­ sion. Said Mr Tony


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Quinn, proprietor of Clitheroe Travel, who met Steven on a visit to St James's: "Hearing Steven's story is a great leveller. You think that you have had a bad day and then you learn what Steven has already been through in his short life and it puts things into per- ‘ spective. "I am humbled by


, parents' ■ were well enough to be re-united. Sadly, Andrew, who was tre a ted in Man­ chester Pendlebury Hospital, died, five


Steven's positive a tt i­ tude. I t is a testament to his whole family. Steven's a smashing, smiley l i t t le lad. He was eager to introduce me to his classmates and teacher. He's a real character


much." Mr Quinn, pictured


with Steven, presented atla se s to th e school and to Steven: He .will also hand over. Steven's


’ and' impressed me very,


' award on gala night. Tickets for the gala,


which is a black tie event, are now on sale


a t the Advertiser and Times office.in King Street, priced £35 each. They are also on sale at: ' S tirk House Hotel, .te le p h o n e


01200


.445581. Besides the awards ceremony,


H u n d r ed s o f f ish k illed — firm u n b lem ish ed record adm its


A COM PA N Y from


■ Clitheroe with a 150-year unblemished record was fined £10,000. for pollut­ ing a brook and bringing about the deaths of more


3 B. Dugdale and Son Ltd was also ordered to pay the "£1,527 costs incurred by the


•than 600 fish, including 96 brown trout.


’ Environment Agency in tak- p ing the case to Blackburn ,, magistrates. j'.. The company admitted causing the polluting matter


been found in a 500 yards stretch of the brook with open mouths and flared gills, an indication th a t they died of suffocation.


- The cause of the suffocation


was an increase in solid organ­ ic waste into the brook from an overflow from the drainage system inside .Dugdale's premises a t Bellman Mill on the Salthill Industrial Estate,


. she told the court. ■ An agency officer noticed


Worston Brook was. foul­ smelling, heavily discoloured and foaming where i t joined


,Ao enter Worston Brook in r.Clitheroe in August last year, i. Estelle Palin (prosecuting Z for the agency) said that 600 ^fish, mostly buff heads, had


Mearley Brook. A protection officer report­


ed soya beans in a manhole for surface water drains and in the outfall to the brook.


The agency classed the inci­ dent as a category one inci­


dent. Mr Stephen Barker (repre­


senting Dugdale's) said th e : company fully accepted liabil­ ity, although, he argued, little blame could be attached to


them. . He said the drainage sys­


tem in the mill had b e e n . designed by the local authori- ty and North West Water at • the time the Salthill Estate was built,-after consultations with the company about its requirements and water,


usage. Following the incident,


when a foul sewer had backed up, causing waste to pass over a weir in the drain and into


the stream, the company had paid for a closed-circuit TV camera investigation, which revealed a blockage in the foul sewer. He told the court that dur­ ing the foot and mouth epi­


demic the company had been extremely diligent in. the washing of vehicles coming into and out of the yard,) because of the agricultural nature of the business.. ■ *».« • There would have been more liquids going down the drains because of the precau-


.-, tions, but also more solids.' "It.would appear that some­


thing has somehow got stuck in the pipe leading to the blockage. This also occurred at the time of the annual clean


which is being com­ pered ' by BBC TV newscaster Mr Nigel Jay, -the ' evening includes dinner, a c ab a re t , disco and charity auction, with proceeds being donated


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down, when all buildings are washed down. The result was a sh o r t, sharp, very intense intrusion of organic matter into the system," he added. . Mr Barker said Dugdales


had been in existence for more than 150 years,' had an exem­ plary record and was proud of .its reputation. 2 He added: "They have pleaded guilty because they were the cause of the problem, even though i t was not their fault. This is the first environ­ mental prosecution they have faced and, hopefully, there will be no more in the next 150 years." A spokesman for the compa­


ny said this week that it would be submitting an appeal.


Family finds 2>000 ways of saying thank you


',;a CLITHEROE tod- ); dler an d h is fam ily ..have found more than


.,2,000 ways of saying o thankyou to the hospi-


—surgery at Manchester’s ^Pendlebury. Children's >iHospital in May. after,, t-fbeing diagnosed with an ■uastrocytoma, on his ‘.-••spine. Without th e opera­


::: tal which saved his life. -j : Two-year-old Declan T a tte rsa l l underwent


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ar and other special feature, which was the Corona-


es tion Garden, were won n- by Waddington, with n- Chipping taking the. a- award for shop or filling he station and Ribchester n- (Stydd) named as run- re ner-up in the places of he worship category. 1 m Waddington was also ed highly commended for n- its place of worship and nd its bowling green, while ho West Bradford's public playing field also caught the judges' eye, earning it


inal- a highly-commended last award.


tb y Other highly-com- Chor mended verdicts were lade bestowed on Grindleton . for its two village pubs,


(fold Old Langho for its cara- four van site and Hurst Green ir of for its public toilets and ages bowling green. •


lithe An awards ceremony. icate for the winners is due to take place next month at


shel- West Bradford Village tion Hall.


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t i o n he would have died. ‘^Although the operation «>removed 95% of the '(•benign tumour, the tot (j'still has to have regular (vseans and could face •^further treatment in the S future. sj As their way of say- V ing " thanks” to s taff ’ who cared for Declan on ! Pendlebiiry's neurologi- J cal ward, his parents, > Miss Lea Brown and | Mr Keiron Tattersall, of • Cringle Way, held a ►i fund-raiser


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►^Clitheroe's Swan and Royal on Sunday.


* Throughout the after- ■ noon there was a disco, | buffet, face painting, > nail a r t and tombola. J Raffle prizes were '.donated by local shops -and firms, including the top giveaway of a week­ end break, which had been donated by Crime Prevention Sendees. An


auction of items, including signed Black­ burn Rovers and Man­ chester United shirts, and a slave auction helped to raise a total of £2,000.. Having ’ already


exceeded their estimat­ ed total, the family now. hopes to collect in the region of £2,500 for the neurological ward. This weekend, Mr


Tattersall's grandpar­ ents, Mr Bill and Mrs


■Kath T a tte rsa l l, will ‘celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. But instead of gifts


to mark th eir marital milestone, the couple


■ have asked for. mone­ ta ry donations to be


sent to the Pendlebury fund. Said Miss Brojvn:


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"We would like to thank everyone, including the Swan and Royal, as well as all th e shops and firms, for all the dona­


“C\[cmtii 20 i/edis o j c ic a l f iu ] c o n s e r v a to r ie s mean- a b to l i t lc


tions they gave for the raffle and tombola." Our photo shows


Declan and his parents with family and friends who supported their weekend fund-raiser . . ■ (B150902/2)


Gisburn gourmets could cause expansions . . .


^WAISTLINES nationwide -fcould soon be expanding ‘..because of a double success by Gisburn gourmets Farm­


-house Fare. ic The company, best known


;<for its range of sticky pud- "idings, has won shelf space for Si its desserts in two more super­ b-market chains. From this week oh, all Cost-


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sale will be two new varieties— a sticky banoffee and a sticky marmalade and whisky. Like their predecessors, they


will be available in three sizes - , 500g, 350g and individual) microwaveable 120g pot puds. The new puddings are due


to launch through local deli­ catessens and the firm's exist-;


; ing supermarket outlets, all : Booths and 380 of Sainsbury's larger stores, next month.


. There will be in-store tast-.-.


Ing of the new flavours, along with-the established varieties of sticky toffee, sticky choco- ; late, sticky syrup and sticky chocolate and ginger, in Booths, Clitheroe, a week on Saturday. Says company founder Mrs


Helen Colley: "We are delight- :- ed to be in two more supermar­ kets and to be in’a position toi


Jaunch two new pudding vari­ eties."


'-..''V'A-.'- ■ ' Mrs Colley and her mother,


Mrs Dorothy Falshaw, launched Farmhouse Fare ini­ tially as an outside catering company from the family home, Shuttleworth Hall Farm, in-1984. Their pudding speciality


came after they supplied puds for a charity coffee morning and ;were inundated with (requests for more. .


! i ; -Now Farmhouse Fare has been granted a prestigious


British Retail Consortium standard, which also qualifies


' I t is also moving into biscuit production. The company already supplies predominant­ ly southern-based Waitrose., with shortbread Fare Cakes, an oat biscuit and sultana cookie, - This range is being expanded to include a chocolate chip arid • orange, "grandma's ginger" and •. a gluten-free biscuit


, it to make own-label brands for supermarkets. ,


Schools join the WASPS


. Youngsters - from Ribblesdale High School Technology College,: ’ Edisford County Primary and St James's CE Primary, have invitations to ]oin WASP (Wildlife After School Project) clubs. ■ The clubs, co-ordi­


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Sentence adjourned on death


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crash driver A PLEA of not guilty by a Billington man to a charge of causing the d e a th .o f a fr ien d by dangerous driving was accepted by the prose­ cu tio n a t P re s to n Crown Court. • But Andrew Mc­


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Manus admitted a lesser charge of dangerous dri­ ving, although sentence was adjourned until next month for a background report. .


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Taxi driver is injured


A TAXI driver..', was taken to Burnley Gener­ al Hospital after being involved in a night-time accident in Grindleton. No other vehicle was


involved in the incident, which left the taxi driver with suspected' neck spinal and arm injuries a fte r his car collided with a wall, according to emergency services. Police, ambulance


and a fire crew were all dispatched to the scene, with fire-fighters and a paramedic ; - working together to extricate the man from his car.'


that Neil Heywood (22) of Limefield Avenue) Whalley, died after an accident at Whalley Old Road, Billington, on April. 6th last year. . _ i McManus (23), of


The Old Coachhouse! Whalley Road,' Billing­ ton, was said to have been the driver of anoth­ er car following Mr Hey- wood's vehicle. Mr Bob Elias (prose­


cuting).said there Was some doubt as to whether racing had caused the fatal acci­ dent. :. .The decision not to pursue the greater charge had not been affected by "touching" letters from Mr Michael Heywood, father of the dead driver, he said. McManus was grant­


ed unconditional bail until the October hear­ ing.


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