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Young team is gearing up for final


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MEMBERS of • the Young Enterprise prize- ■ winning team Chame­ leon are gearing up for the North-West regional


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final.Ribblesdale • , High School Technology Col­ lege has won its way there several times in recent years and were winners in 1999. The team makes'and


James has sights on future


CLITHEROE soldier Drum- •• mer James Kemp has been.


putting his skills to the test in a major exercise. v James (21) and 600 fellow sol- !


diers from The Queen's Lan- ■


cashire Regiment have been tak­ ing part in Exercise Druid’s •


Dance on Salisbury Plain. Their only home for three weeks' was the trenches they dug them-'


sells clocks and student souvenir material avail­ able in CD form. I t will be pushing its skills and achievements to a panel of judges on June 16th. Team members are


ing their GCSE exams! The final is again at


the Quays Theatre at the Lowry Centre, Salford. Opposition will come


from schools in Man­ chester, Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cum­ bria, the Isle of Man and Wigan. Personal qualities and


skills will play a large part in the marks award­ ed, but the judges will also look at the real-life balance sheet, reflecting actual money. Few local firms do as


, selves. But there was not much ■ time for resting, they were always on the lookout for the "enemy" in realistic war-fighting situations. . The soldiers were armed with hi- tech laser equipment which regis­


also very busy in quite another direction - tak­


v "It was about as real as you can ; get to a war situation. I enjoyed it and learnt a lot. I t was great being with the other lads in the Drums ' Platoon. We all get on well and work as a team," said James, whose parents, Jeff and Caroline Kemp, .


tered whether they had become a battle casualty. ' .


live in Clitheroe. The members of the Drums Pla­


toon have two very different roles. When they are a t war, they man


the machine guns. Back in camp, they also practise their drumming representing the regiment on cere­


monial occasions. On the exercise, the soldiers also


A59 business dwellings given the go-ahead


THREE bids for dwellings to meet widely different business needs at sites off the A59 were viewed favourably by planning council­


lors. Several other claims employment space for


well as Chameleon has. Investments by pupils and supporters have shown a remarkable increase, with a £3 invest­ ment turning into £11. The pupils will be wear­ ing smart business clothes for the event.'


>es to master


cial reasons have been turned down by Rihble Valley Borough Council recently. But the council has


that a countryside home the company concerned is justified for commer- and the development


would assist the efficien­ cy and potential of the business. •Conversion of a bam


always said that it will support bids for rural diversification where they meet the laid-down criteria. The Planning and


■ The man leading them into bat­ tle was new Commanding Officer ,■ Lieutenant Colonel Jorge


made use of their Saxon armoured personnel carriers which transport them around the battlefield.


Medonca. He said that the exercise •


. North Yorkshire. The unit is part of 19 Mechanised Brigade which is currently in a training role. Next year, The Queen's Lancashires will be on high readiness alert; the bat­ talion is already scheduled to go on


went extremely well. "The training facility is the best in the country and the lads really got stuck in." .. The 1st Battalion is currently based at Catterick Garrison in


a six-month operational tour of Bosnia, hut could also be called, upon to go anywhere in the world.


In 2004, the soldiers and their fam­ ilies are looking forward to a post- ing to Cyprus.'


Taste of Portugal proves big hit with hotel’s gourmet diners


Development Commit­ tee accepted officials' recommendations on the three applications. They were fon- •A bailiff-manager's


to a farmhouse plus two holiday cottages at Burons Laithe, Horton- ih-Craven. I t is felt that for various reasons the proposal is acceptable and will offer a net plan­ ning gain. Officials said that in


dwelling with office and workshop plus two holi­ day chalets for Linda Ann Davies a t Pendle View Fisheries, Barrow.


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each case a legal agree­ ment rather than the


usual less formal plan­ ning consent should cover the special dwelling occupancy and use features without which they would not have recommended the


There is already permis- ' plans, sion for a dwelling else- So councillors voted where on the site. Expansion of the fish


. of the site is envisaged. •Conversion of a bam


sales and fishing aspects


! room and four-bedroom : dwelling at Greenhead ; Farm Bam, Sawley, for ;];Mr :Newton; Officials "tsaid th a t there was a .. "reasonable amount" of


to form a design studio, office, instrumentation


Ive chess for many years, including everal games against former world tampion Dr Max Euwe. Mr Carr led last year in his 80s.Mr Brown


15), an IT developer who has played less since the age of 12, is pictured Jth Mrs Chris Carr and the trophy (K140502/12)


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nation: Harriet Bell (H), Hannah Cunliffe-Lee (H), Simon Dowds (D), Penelope. Frankland- Smith (H), Michael Johnstone (D), Joshua Reilly (D). The Speaking of Verse


and Prose Grade One: Joseph Garlington, Philip Alton (D), Mary Ann Woolon (H). -•-' Grade Two: John


Walls (D). Grade Five: Matthew


Lambert (H). • Brian Carr, who played competi- -how:ttv> i-* --


standard-type planning conditions for each plan, covering materials, acc­ ess, drainage, landscap­ ing and similar matters.


that they were minded to approve the applica­ tions, with final approval left to Chief Executive Mr David Morris when the appropriate legal papers have been signed. In addition, there are


by Vivien Meath


ifimdoniSaloii-s brilliant work at the camera club


LAST week's meet­ ing of the Ribbles­ dale Camera Club presented the cream of renowned interna­ tional competition,


the London Salon. A first-class commen­


tary by Salon member George Felton took the club through the latest work from Britain, Europe, Australasia and South America. The number of ink-jet


art" proviso, it was sur­ prising th a t so many wryly humorous pictures were chosen, showing that photography at the highest level can still be fun. As some of them were about the British seaside, it also shows that sunshine is not nec­ essary for award-winning' pictures. On Saturday the club


prints was striking, but so too were traditional pictures and a number of wet chemistry rarities such as bichromate prints. One technique com­


pletely new to members was printing from nega­ tives which had already- been hand-tinted. : The common theme in


•j all the sections of the salon was an obvious i artistic feeling and bril-.


liant execution. Perhaps with a "high


is holding a coffee morn­ ing in the Mayor's cham­ bers. There will be an exhibition, photographs for sale, bric-a-brac and tombola and some very good coffee. Come and meet the


EVEN the weather was reminiscent of sunnier climes as Portugal and the Ribble'Valiey joined forces in' a new and somewhat revolutionary tourism ini­ tiative at Chipiping's Gib­ bon Bridge Hotel. Chef Gary Buxton was


joined by his counterpart, Joao Pereia, from the Hotel do Caramulo, in Portugal's northern mountain region, providing diners with an array of his country's delica-


Guests arriving for a gourmet. of Lancashire hot pot, steak


sausage, potato and cabbage both hotels situated in beauti- . So exceptional was the weather soup served with maize bread;


dinner, the climax of the week- and kidney suet pudding, long celebration, were given a scones and jam roly poly! s taste of northern Portugese cui- With Portugal haying traded


ed goat in red wine and herbs, •To round off the event,-a


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ta s ty array of Lancashire cheeses was presented by Lea- gram Organic Dairy. Next month, Gibbon Bridge


Hotel proprietor Miss Janet Simpson will be travelling to Portugal to take par t in a "Taste of Lancashire" week at the Hotel do Caramulo. Diners there will discover the delights


ine which included a chorizo with the textiles of Lancashire,


pan-fried octopus and marinat-. wholesome cuisine, the two place in the hotel’s gardens. , — , ■


■ ■ Patterson, of Tanners Wines, .


Miss Fay Kitching, whose father founded Leagram Organic Dairy last year, demonstrating the fascinating art of cheesemaking to guests.


locations and both.fans of: th a t her demonstration took hotels already have lots in com-. . r pnor to dinner, lifrAdnan Guests a t Thursday's gour- provided information on the


met event included representa- wine list accompanying the fives of the hotel, the Portugese food, concentrating on Por- tourism authority, MP Nigel Evans, Ribble Valley Mayor Coun. Mrs Joyce Holgate and numerous media representa­


tives. The evening began with a port tasting session, followed by


tugese wines, along with spe­


ciality ports. Pictured are hotel proprietor


Miss Simpson (second from the right) and some of the guests at Thursday's gourmet event. (T170502/2b)


ME sufferers’ postcard campaign will demand health trust action


by John Turner


club members and talk about photography and any problems you have


with it. The meeting on Tues­


day will be the inter-club photographic alliance's black and white folio. This will show the best of the photographers in East Lancashire. Ken Geddes


SEVERAL hundred sufferers of ME in the Ribble Valley, will be taking part in a postcard campaign targeting local heal­ th trusts, demanding action. They feel they have


If they want special­


is t help they have to travel to Leeds or Man­ chester and a long jour­ ney is the very la s t thing victims of the d ebilita ting illness need. ME - myalgie encep­


been neglected by the National Health Ser­ vice locally.


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halomyelitis - or chronic fatigue syndrome, as it is also known, is a chronic illness th a t affects many body sys­ tems and their func­ tions, causing profound exhaustion, muscle- pain, problems with mental functions such as memory loss or poor concentration, malaise and other symptoms. The campaign is being


we are upping the ante." The local support


doctor left and has not been replaced, she said. "It now means travel­


group meets every two months in Wilpshire Methodist Church. The next meeting is tomor­ row. It has 200 people in


ling to either Leeds or Manchester. Some peo­ ple cannot even consider that journey," she added. "There was also once a


launched by the East Lancs ME/CFS Support Group to coincide with ME Awareness Week this week. The postcards will be


sent by sufferers to local primary care trusts, ask­ ing them what plans are in the pipeline for spe­ cialist support.


nurse who could call on patients in their own homes - now there is no one. We need something on a local basis. There is absolutely no provision for people who are bed- hound. "The doctors in


the area on its mailing list and the number of those needing help is growing. At the group’s latest


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Clitheroe are very good with us. There are cer­ tain areas which are still controversial and GPs take different approach­ es to treatment," she


said.


worked with the authori­ ties for a long time and have got nowhere. Now


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