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Ilitheroe's award-winning trans- lan g e has changed the face of Iport in the Ribble Valley has pted at a rural conference.


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invited to the conference to launch the Lancashire Rural Recovery Action Plan. In his speech, he emphasised the need for those involved with the rural economy to work towards the goal of cre­ ating sustainable com­ munities and highlighted the revitalising of mar­ ket towns, tourism and improved transport links as being the keys to rural recovery. People from the farm­


make them more viable. Mr Michael had been


by the Lancashire Rural Partnership, an organi­ sation set up to find long-term solutions to problems in Lancashire's rural economy, particu­ larly following the foot and mouth epidemic.


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felt at the death of popu­ lar member Mr Frank Parrot and thoughts go out to Pat and family members.' _ Next week's meeting is


competition, a very plea­ sing feature was that no fewer than 12 club mem­ bers had prints or slides placed in the top three of the various classes. Everyone at the club felt that this demonstrated a depth of skills it is fortu­ nate to possess and that no member need be shy of entering a competi­ tion. But much sadness is


des was the winner of the natural history sec­ tion with "Spotted Deer" • by Trevor Marklew sec­ ond and Mick Caddy's "Lord of the Glen" third. Over the two weeks of


ing and tourism indus­ tries were at the event, at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors. It had been organised


C e le b r a t io n r a i s e d £ 1,500 fo r a p p e a l


A CELEBRATION of 25 years of fund-raising


• Mytton Fold Farm


in the North-West made £1,500 for the Christie Hospital, Manchester. The event, held at


Hotel, Langho, on Satur­ day, attracted 100 guests


jiwho enthusiastically bought raffle tickets and took part in a charity auction which swelled the coffers of the Pat Seed Appeal


has raised more than: £8,500,000 and provided state-of-the-art tech-, nologies in the diagnosis


The Pat Seed Appeal


and treatment of can­ cers. Mrs Pat Seed was a


tained with a 30-minute comic routine by Mr Gerald Holden, whose talk was entitled "A day without a laugh is a day wasted".


Christies. Guests were enter­


for


Lancashire journalist and was first treated at Christie in 1976 and given only months to live. A year later she found­


some of the guests who attended the function. (T180302/6)


Service wiU mark the end of fund-raising in memory of Kenneth


A LITANY of hope for anyone affected or bereaved by cancer is to be the poignant closing event for a fund laun­ ched in memory of a young Clitheroe father. The service of celebra­


touched by cancer, it will include prayers, hymns and readings, and there will be an opportunity for people to light can­ dles of remembrance. Clitheroe violinist


tion and reflection will take place in the town's Trinity Methodist Church at 7-30 p.m. on Sunday, April 21st. Open to all those


Miss Gaynor Sutcliffe will perform and there will be refreshments afterwards. The service has been


Miss Theresa Robson: "Anyone who has been affected by cancer in any way is invited to attend. “We hope the service


organised by the Ken­ neth MacMillan Memo­ rial Fund, a group of for­


fund, which had an origi­ nal target of £2,000, has raised more than £6,000 for the East Lancs Hos­ pice Appeal and the Clitheroe Arts Centre Project. Said fund member


mer Ribblesdale High School classmates. They reunited following the death two years ago of one of their peers, father- of-two Mr Kenneth MacMillan; who died at the age of 37 from a rare form of stomach cancer. Since its launch, the


ed the appeal after hear­ ing the hospital needed a CT scanner. She died eight years after her diagnosis. Our picture shows


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auction mart AT Gisbum Auction Mart only one newly- calved dairy cow with heifer was forward and it


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made to £840. Forward in the fatstock


sale were 92 cattle (54 young bulls, 38 steers and heifers), 36 rearing calves and 510 sheep (367 hoggs, 17 shear­ lings, 126 ewes and rams). Top kilo price for bulls


was 430kg at 142p (£612.75) from R. and F. Hargreaves to J. R. Mellin. Bulls: Young premium made to 122.5p (average 113.3p), young prime to 105.5p (94.4p), young bulls to 87.5p. Steers: Prime made to 94.5p (88.1p), others to 65.5p. Heifers: Pre­ mium made to 142.5p (120.4p), prime to 103.5p (92.7p), others to 81.5p (73.8p): Sheep prices saw R.


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M e rg e r o f h ea lth tru s ts ‘will improve patient s e r v ic e s ’


by Barry Ayrton


THE merger of the Black­ burn, Hyndbum and Rib­ ble Valley H ealth Care Trusts with.its Burnley counterpart would result in the new body being probably the largest employer in E a s t Lan­ cashire. I t would have a workforce


of around 6,500 and a budget of £210m. a year. But the team behind the


will be a moving event in memory of Ken and give people the opportunity to share their experi­ ences, strength and hope in a poignant way."


East Lancashire Trusts' Merg­ er Project is stressing that no facilities faced closure if the proposal went ahead. "We are not proposing one


project director Mr John Thomas. He said tha t the present


facilities in Pendle and the Rib­ ble Valley would also be unaf­ fected. "We believe more could be


others currently provided out­ side East Lancashire. "We will attract high calibre


range{ of services and bring in


hospital would become the major hospital in East Lan­ cashire. We are committed to having acute hospitals in both Burnley and Blackburn," said


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"A Diver’s Story", by Andrew Hollows, which will be a most interesting and different talk. The club meets at Ribble Lane, Chatbum, at 7-30 p. m. on Tuesdays when new members are always welcome.


ilk from father of falton sextuplets


IS evening in the company of Gra- Jther of the Walton sextuplets, was r members of Clitheroe and District


|guests at Pendleton Village Hall, i lively talk, entitled "Living with


I, followed the lives of the girls from pt day 18-year-old adolescents, life were thanked by Mrs J. Wrathall,


I tea and cakes, provided by members, pore than 100 members and guests, feting is at the White Bull in Gisbum, jer will be Mr Brian White.


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it was the start of the season and bode well for Jonathan’s hopes in


His results were particularly as


the Junior World Championships, to be held at Bala in July. Jonathan (pictured) is continu­


2002 season on challenging wild water courses with good levels, which made for exciting races and resulted in several competitors capsizing. The Clitheroe Royal Grammar


ing to be coached by Jonathan Royle, of Brinscall, the GB junior team coach. His preparation for racing is continuing after a diffi­ cult winter when his training was delayed by a lack of access to suit­ able water and daylight. The youngster is now focusing


School pupil won the junior cate­ gories, coming second overall in the senior sprint event (losing by just 0.4 of a second), fifth overall in the Grandtully Classic and sev­ enth in the Thistlebrig Classic.


prizegiving ceremony, which took place at the Tayside Hotel. At the event, Jonathan was


awarded the national champi­ onships at under 23, under 18 and under 16 level, as well as being ranked fourth in the senior elite rankings for 2001. The Duncan Eglin Trophy,


on the world championships, which will be staged on the River Tryweryn at Bala between July 15th and 21st. • Former GB national champi­


on and NW Scouts race series winner Mr Alan Tordoff present­ ed the awards at the GB National


awarded to the junior who has made the most significant improvements in performance at Division A, was presented to Jamie Oughton. The trophy was presented to


marily an organisational and management merger under which there would he one trust board and one management structure providing a hospital service for 500,000 people across East Lancashire. "The desire is to support


ject is Coun. Azhar Ali, chair­ man of Burnley Health Care Trust. Mr Thomas said it was pri­


achieved by removing organisa­ tional boundaries between the two trusts," he said. Chairman of the merger pro­


staff and it will lead to improved services for patients," he said. Mr Thomas said the Burnley


around £500,000 but it was envisaged that any redundan­ cies would be covered by mea­ sures including early retirement or redeployment. The merger proposals will be


and Blackburn Trusts had been working quite closely together since the mid-1990s and already provided a joint range of ser­ vices, including those for eye, nose and throat conditions, as well as having a joint supply service and IT technical department. He said if the ENT and oph­


officially launched on Monday at Burnley General Hospital and will be followed by a 12- week public consultation peri­ od.


East Lancashire as a centre of clinical excellence. A merger will allow us to take that even further. "We will keep the current


regarded as medium to large in the early 1990s, hut were now seen as medium to small. He said it was also hoped to reduce management costs by


thalmology services had not merged, treatment would quite likely have had to be provided outside East Lancashire. He said that the Trusts were


ings in Colne Town Hall on March 26th, Burnley Town Hall on April 9th, and the Council Offices at Clitheroe on April 10th, all starting at 7-30 p.m. Meetings are also being held


with staff. Subject to Secretary of State


for Health Mr Alan Milburn approving the merger in July, a shadow chairman and board would be appointed in the autumn, with the new body officially taking over on April 1st next year.


This will include public meet­


Emmott sell 46kg at 109.8p (£50.50) to Rossendale Meats and a top sale price of £61 from \V. J. Briggs to Mr Shan. Hoggs: Premium (36kg-45kg) made to 108.2p (lOl.lp), prime (36 kg-45kg) to 99.6p (95.6p), prime (46kg-52kg) to 109.8p (104.2p). Horned ewes made to £38 (£26.12), other ewes to £61 (£44.45) and rams'to £50.50 (£39). Forward in the sale of


lightweight hoggs were 48 with light lambs making to 107.4p (102.8p). Top sale prices in the sale


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of rearing calfs were £185 for a bull calf from J. Holden to J. Swann and £100 for a heifer calf from T. A. Snow to J. Townson. Calves: Charo- lais X bulls made to £178, Charolais X heifers to £25, Limousin X bulls to £185 (£129.55), Limousin X heifers to £25 (£13.60), Bel­ gian Blue bulls to £172 (£137.80), Hereford X heifers to £35 (£16), Friesian bulls to £35 (£10.85), Angus X bulls to £100 (£52), Friesian stirks to £214. Nine tonnes of straw were


forward in the produce sale with wheat straw to £15 per bale, barley straw to £65 per tonne and haylage to £10 per bale. At Saturday's sale, five


bulls, six steers and 39 heifers were forward with continen­ tal bulls to £425 (£337), con­ tinental steers to £542 (£335) and continental heifers to £448 (£327).


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