The Clitheroe Thursday, January 24th, 2002 No. 6,029
vertiser an imes news and views from the Centre of the Kingdom; page 40 AT A GLANCE
A Gisbum teenager has serious head injuries after his car went out of control near Clitheroe.
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There was a happy ending in a Harry Potter-style drama for a tawny owl.
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Councillors slam controversial plans for a futuristic country house.
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'Whalley Chamber of Trade is voted one of the best. .
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A Gisburn teenage model has a Gucci assignment - and picks up an £8,000 cheque for his eff orts in Milan.
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Share prices rise as Ultraframe looks set for a bumper year and welcomes a female director.
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There is a chance to say a big thank you to the area’s special nurses in an. annual awards scheme.
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page 14 home-grown crime
Strategy document reveals 80 per, cent of all the offenders live locally and most are male ' by Joh n T u rn e r
includes more use of .closed circuit television,' increasing Neighbour^
C R IM IN A L S in th e Ribble V a l le y a r e n o rm a l ly m e n , un em p lo y ed a n d lo c a l re s i dents.
the latest draft Ribble Valley Crime and Disorder Reduction
This is one of the findings in •
Strategy. The document, released on
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Tuesday, sets out a three-year strategy to reduce crime and dis order and also reduce the number of casualties on the roads of the
Ribble Valley. Research has revealed that, in
the las t two years, 80% of all offenders lived locally, 85% of offenders were male and 48% were unemployed. A third of the men arrested, and nearly half of the women,
were aged between 18 and 24. Among the proposals for cutting
the crime figures are the use of an automatic recognition number plate reader, the use of more mem bers of the Special Constabulary, and the encouragement of parish councils to choose a local person to liase with police on incidents. There is also a 14-point plan to reduce burglaries. The plan
hood Watch Schemes, encourag-"
ing sponsorship for crime preven tion initiatives and providing incentives like free locks and alarms for vulnerable household
ers.
The Ribble Valley Crime Reduction Partnership - made up
of Ribble Valley Borough Coun cil, Lancashire County Council, Lancashire Constabulary, East Lancashire Health Authority arid Lancashire Probation Service - will get £49,800 for each of the next three years to help combat substance abuse. Juvenile nuisance is another problem highlighted by the
report. "There is, perhaps, a lack of
understanding between the young people and the adults affected by 'juvenile nuisance'. . . perhaps we need to engage in a meaningful dialogue with our young people to find out their views on the prob lems that they may face, some times on a daily basis," stated the
report. Criminal damage accounts for
more than a fifth of all reported crime and there have been "con siderable” incidents in the Castle
! social behaviour, including dog fouling and excessive noise, was also ear-marked for action. The report concludes with 38
I t is not just crime which fea tures in the 19-page report. Anti-
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items recommended for action. By August, the police aim to
secure funding to provide dispos able cameras so that householders can identify their high-risk items, and, by November, they aim to have found the money to provide property marking kits for people
in rural areas. Alongside a plan to provide
trained drugs workers on local streets, they want funding for more drug education in primary schools. The report recommends
increased use of anti-social behav iour orders and the promotion of an anti-bullying campaign. The draft is out for consulta
tion. Replies have to be back by February 15th and the report finalised by April 1st.
Sheep subsidy cut a stab in back for local farmers
SH E E P farmers in th e R ib ble Valley have had an o ther s ta b in th e b a ck - th is tim e from th e European Commis
sion. And some fear the latest piece
of bad news, the setting of the subsidies for 2001 at close to half what they were the year before, will be the final straw for some farmers already reeling from what is considered to be the blackest, year farming has ever
had. The European Commission,
working on the higher meat prices across continental Europe instead of Britain's low prices last year, has settled on a Sheep Annual Premium payment of £5.61p per ewe, compared with £10.73 in 2000. \
farmer who sold.lOO lambs at an , and ignore the compelling case for '.On these figures, a French •
'which saw,their farmers so clearly ; disadvantaged would stand back
average EU weight las t year would have received £5,379, while his counterpart in the Ribble Val ley wqidd bank just £3,096. \ The NFU has worked out that if the'British market price for lamb had been used for the calcu lations, rather than the average EU price, the premium payable would be £15.24 per ewe- £9.63p
higher.'Now the farmers'organisation, is making a plea for additional government support for sheep farmers in England and Wales, claiming there is an overwhelming
' NFU deputy president Mr Tim Bennett, saying they
would.be raising the issue with Defra Min isters, added: "I cannot believe th a t any, other,member s ta te
case.'
some kind of additional support under what have been exception al circumstances." Mr Rodney Bacon, policy
adviser to NFU members in the North- West, said it was a double blow because, not only was the payment late, it was a lot lower. "This is yet another blow to the
farmers. I don't know how many more some people can actually take," he added. But not all sheep farmers were
- news for small producers, he said. And there was optimism from
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; The large flocks kept down the price of lamb; which was not good
that disappointed. One farmer in the Clitheroe area, who asked not to be identified, said the subsidies were of more use to the big farm ers with thousands of sheep. They kept sheep mainly for the big sub sidy cheques. '
By George - a patriotic idea from brothers
BY GEORGE! While
the Ribble Valley may well be the heart of the kingdom, b ro th e rs Peter and Gavin Mc- Quade w an t to make Clitheroe the heartland of England. For this St George's
Day, the proud-to-be- English duo (pictured)
intend to ensure that the town is aflutter with the red and white Cross of St George England flag. They want Clitheroe
to celebrate St George's day, which falls on April 23rd, like never before and in a way that is unri valled anywhere else in the country. Explained Peter, of
Coloured Glass, of North Street, Peter has devised a scheme where by the two supply flag poles and England flags to shops and businesses throughout Clitheroe. There will be a small
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charge for their service, which includes installa tion, but all profits will be donated to the cancer charity Macmillan Nurses, which provided care for their late father. Added Peter, who
Shawbridge Street: "I think that more English men know when St Patr ick's Day is than they do St George's. I t upset me th a t in 1999, the Union flag flew from Clitheroe Castle on St George's Day instead of the England flag. "I think it's good that
. Clitheroe's Tuesday market day. If everyone backs the scheme, we can make the town look fantastic and bring in extra visitors." Peter is also planning
works for Ribble Valley Borough Council’s refuse service: "This year, St George's Day falls on
the Welsh, Scottish and- Irish all celebrate their saints' days and i t is about time th a t we, as proud Englishmen, showed our true colours and did the same." . ' ; ' With Gavin, who runs
his own Clitheroe glazing firm, Ribble Valley
- with a bill-topping come dian to make th eir St George's Day a true cele bration. .
a St George's Day patri ots' party - an event at the'Rose and Crown, Castle Street, where peo ple, in his words, can enjoy good food, a good drink and have a laugh
Anyone wanting to :
support the McQuades Clitheroe for England scheme can telephone Peter on 0796 7365520. . (B200102/2)
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11 ARTE ET LABORE
An emotional return to the laiid from which he fled 17 years ago
FA TH E R -O F -TH R E E M r Sonam Choepel, th e Ribble Valley’s only Tibetan, is plan ning an a rduous re tu rn tre k to h is h om e la n d , 17 y e a r s a f t e r h e f le d f rom th e
Himalayan country. And, at the end of two days of
flying and three days of Jeep trav el, he is hoping to be carrying aid from Clitheroe when he arrives in the tiny home village he left behind. That is why he and his family
are holding a fund-raising event, "A Taste of Tibet", a t the Catholic Social Centre at noon on March 9th - an event complete with authentic Tibetan food he is preparing himself, an auction of promises and a sale of unwanted
man his work colleagues at Ultra frame have since renamed "Chip
videotapes. More than 17 years ago, the
pie”, took 29 days to escape from Tibet into Katmandu, the capital of Nepal. He could only travel at night for fear of capture by Chi nese troops. From there - after meeting the Dalai Lama in exile - Mr Choepel
(37) went to a Buddhist monastery in Southern India where he trained to become a monk. But he met and fell in love with
Kate Murray, a young English woman from the Ribble Valley who was teaching him English. They returned to Britain together and have since had three children, Pema (six), Nyima (five) and Tamzin (two). The couple (pictured with
Choepel’s mother and father have died.
But still living together in the ■■■■. •
home village are an elderly aunt, four brothers, one a monk, three sisters, two of them nuns, and an assortment of nephews and
nieces. Correspondence between
Clitheroe and Tibet has been unreliable, but in recent months, once a telephone link was opened, Mr Choepel has been able to talk for the first time to members of his family in Tibet. . His wife, Kate, said: "It is only
Nyima) will be taking the youngest two children on the April trip to Tibet. The oldest girl, who is severely disabled, is being cared for during their three- week absence. Since he fled from Tibet, Mr
ries about the Chinese occupa tion, huge numbers of deaths, the settlement of more than six mil lion Chinese in Tibet and the destruction of 6,000 temples and monasteries during the Maoists' "cultural revolution". Chinese has now become the first language in Tibet. Mr Choepel and his wife, of
Victoria Street, Clitheroe, have already raised money for the Mysore monastery and for refugees at previous Tibetan occa sions in Clitheroe. They will not really know the
recently they have had conversa tions. During the first few calls they were so overcome, all they did was cry down the telephone
line." These are agonising weeks,
because Mr Choepel does not know what sort of Tibet he will be going home to. There have been harrowing sto
needs of the community until they arrive in the settlement. "It would be nice to be able to
open some sort of school eventu ally," said Mrs Choepel. "We know there is hardship in the vil lage, but we don't know how much we are allowed to do, or how much the Chinese authorities will let us do. Initially, all we may be able to
do is to show that people want to help them and take it from there." To help the fund-raising, people
are being asked to donate their unwanted videotapes. Jane Nolan, who is helping to
organise the event, has already been given a number of promis es for auction, including a ses sion of Indian head massage, a squash lesson, a reflexology session
and a magnum of champagne. Items can be sent to her at 21
Salthill Road, Clitheroe (012000 426816), or to the Jigsaw Pantry in Moor Lane, Clitheroe. • Mrs Choepel is looking for
another Tibetan to join her hus band in a display of Tibetan dancing. "It is a wonderful thing to see, but he will not perform on his own," she said.
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