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behaviour order has been used to stop ;a persistent thief targeting the Ribble Valley. A Hapton man with a history of rural


c rim in a ls is that we will take robust action to curtail their activities.”


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crime, described as a “parasite” by a Ribble Valley police inspector, has been hit with a ground-breaking order to curb his criminal activities. , •- Michael William Yale' has been made ■


subject to an antisocial behaviour order which, among other measures, bans him fronvt,he Ribble .Valley'and Craven Dis­ trict of North Yorkshire between 6 p.m. ■ and 8 a.m.


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• order for five years, giving the police a powerful mandate.to end his rural ram­ page which centred on the theft of diesel. : “Travelling criminals are a particular


Insp. Bob Ford said he was delighted Blackburn magistrates had imposed the


problem in rural areas and I regard Michael Yale as a parasite who takes advantage of the problems of security for isolated properties,” said Insp. Ford; “This order id a new measure which we will use to the full in the on-going battle against rural crime. The message to travelling


; Insp. Ford told the court that Yale (41), of Much House Cottages, Hapton, had an extensive record and had appeared in courts throughout the North of England over the years. ■ ' “He and his associates constantly visit the Ribble Valley and Craven District of North Yorkshire during the night, to com­ mit crime,” said Insp. Ford. “He has no legitimate purpose for his visits to,these- areas.”, »;Insp. Ford revealed that Yale had been stopped on many occasions and found to have with him empty fuel containers or


pumps and hoses. ■ , ' ■ He said the criminals would target


;haulage contractors or coach operators.; They would use bolt croppers to remove locks from diesel tanks and then attach electric pumps to the vehicles' batteries to transfer the fuel to containers in the back of vans.


He said police spot checks had shown . ( - 7 ;


Yale to have more than 70 different vehi­ cles, but none of them had ever been regis­ tered to him. “One of the main problems is that


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diesel; once it has been stolen^ cannot be »>and five jerry cans belonging to Collinspns Coaches of Ribchester. Charges of bur­ glary and theft were withdrawn. He was


identified as stolen property” said Insp. Ford, “Yale and his associates have been stopped many times with some of ■ this equipment in their vehicle. If they are seen in the area at night we know the next day


.reports of burglaries will come in. As far as we know, he doesn’t have any legitimate business in either the Ribble Valley or. the Craven District.” , Mr-Dylan Bradshaw (defending) said


his .client* did not contest the making of the,order, although he did hot accept all that was said.


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• “I am anxious to portray a different side to the individual before you,” said Mr Bradshw. “He is a diesel mechanic, works as a fitter and has a farm where he has horses and items of plant. He has been described as a menace but that is not the only side of him and he has legitimate business interests.


past, he has found it hard to tread the v in possession of bolt cutters or^any Similar straight and narrow but he now takes the, , device . ••


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view that he is becoming a bit long in the . Entering any yard compound or other tooth to spend time in prison,” he added, land or buildings including fuel storage Yale had pleaded guilty to handling a areas, filling stations, haulage or coach stolen JOB hammer drill, a box of tools yard without express permission.


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THE,overwhelming generosity of. people from acrossthe Rib­ ble Valley and beyond will help a little Clitherob boy’s dream come true.


” ' A proportion of the £3,422 col­


lected in memory of a young woman from the town who died in February will help fund the youngster’s special treat. He will


be the first child in the area to benefit from the Round Table’s Children’s Wish charity - an organisation which has been making dreams come true for, youngsters with life-threatening illnesses for more than a decade.. The family of 29-year-old


Angie Walmsley, who died earli­ er this year, say they have been


overwhelmed by,the financial* tributes they received in her memory. -• Angie died from pneumonia


just days before she was due to receive her BA.(Hons) in busi­ ness studies from Blackburn Col­ lege. She started the four-year part-time course in 1998 and refused to defer when she was diagnosed with cancer two years later, completing her coursework and homework while undergoing radiotherapy, at Christie Hospi­


tal.


closest to Angie said her hope in life had been to make a differ­


At 'the.timeof her death, those


ence. This week the family was able to present a cheque for more


..Children’s Wish charity-in her memory. '


... Angie’s mother, Mrs Pauline Walmsley, described the mone­ tary donations they had received as “a great legacy” to her daugh­ ter, adding: “Your children are always special to you, but we had no idea her life would have this sort of impact. We want to thank everyone for their generosity. Clitheroe people have always ■supported charity,; but, we


than £3,400 to Round:TabIe . . .


-deceived'money.from.far and wide, from people y/e hardly know, but all who had come into


, contact with Angie along the way.” . Mrs Walmsley also said that the charity selected by the fami-


ly to receive the money could not have been better, chosen', and they all firmly believe that it,is one Angie herself would have wanted • to be associated with. Angie’s family have now decid­


ed to keep the fund open for fur­ ther donations. Said Mrs Walmsley: “It would


be nice to think that we could keep it going for a year or two.” ' Co-ordinating the appeal is


Angie’s cousin. Miss Tracy Walmsley, and donations can be sent to her, care,of. 18 Stamford- Place, Clitheroe, BB71NT. Tracyi is pictured presenting a


cheque to Mrs Janet Warning, the local representative of the Round Table Children’s Wish. . (B230403/8) ,


Row erupts over beck conservation work dubbed by some ‘a concentration campr


A ROW is going on in the Rib­ ble Valley, about conservation work which damaged sandy river banks where sand mar­


tins nest. The controversy concerns a major project recently carried . out without planning permis­


Coun. Nierop that the works carried out should have received permission. He said he believed the Envi­


ronment Agency’s powers were enough to require reinstatement to be carried out. He said they were considering


sion by the Ribble Catchment Conservation Trust-on-the- banks of the.Skirden and Hold­ en Becks between the village of ■. Bblton-b'y-Bowland and th e ': River Ribble. At the forefront of protesters


is Ribble Valley Borough coun­ cillor Philip Nierop who, at a recent meeting of Ribble Valley Borough Counci demanded to know why the council is not planning enforcement action against the trust, which had. straightened and strengthened, the banks of the beck to pre­ vent it changing its course. , He claimed that, although


the work had obtained a licence from the Environment Agency, the trust had not applied for planning permission. Coun. Nierop was highly crit­


ical of the way the work had been carried out to a regionally important site - one of the best examples of a naturally-mean­ dering stream in Britain; Contractors have dumped


hundreds of tons of boulders at places where the becks turn cor­ ners, lined several hundred yards of banks with logs and brushwood and put up several hundred yards of fencing topped with barbed wire. Some have dubbed the area “a con­ centration camp”. Planning and Development


Committee chairman Coun. Richard Sherras confirmed to


requiring the Environment Agency to notify.the.planning, authority if future applications for similar licences .were submit-.. ted.


This weekthere was support -• •• •*;.


for Coun. Nierop from'Mr Tony Cooper, chairman of the East Lancashire Ornithologists’ Club, who described the area as “a regionally important geo- morphological site” and a “bio­ logical heritage site”. .Mr. Cooper, who lives at


"Clitheroe,, added: “It is one of the best examples of natural* meanders in the whole of Eng­ land”. He said he had been appalled


Vat the extent of the works car­ ried out and disputed that the . work was necessary, because the river had meandered over the flood plain for 60 or 70 years. • He accused the trust of caus­


ing “severe damage to the envi­ ronment” and caused threats to sand martins, oyster catchers - both on the amber list of threatened birds - little ringed plovers, green sandpipers and herons. A spokesman for the Envi­


ronment Agency said the Ribble Catchment Conservation Trust had carried out work in excess of the approval given by the agency. “We are talking to the Con­


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■ sentenced to .60 days in prison which will run concurrently to the six-month’sen- ' tence he is already serving for going equipped for. theft and handling stolen) ;p ro p e r ty . :


'V-The anti-social behaviour order p rb | hibits Yale from:


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installation i THE mew-mayor .of Clitheroe, Town Council will be officially installed in office on Tuesday.... 7'Subject -to her re-elections today, Coun. Joan Knight wiH takeoip the post from.Coun.“


^ a r y Robinson. The official mayor-making,cer­


emony-will take placeduring.the;, town council’s annual meeting," which is to be held in the'Ribble•’ Valley Civic Suite in Church^


Street from noon. Members of the town council,' i , , . ; ' :


who will be elected today, will be1' invited to meet at Clitheroe Town. Hall in preparation for the pro­ cession which will make its way - via Church Street, York Street;^ Well Terrace and Church Brow to , the civic suite. Following the ceremony a pro­ cession, which will again, be led by


;the,t.halberiliers and town ’sergeant, wiltmake its way along Church Street, Market Place and Castle Street to the Swan and Royal Hotel.


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SKIRDEN BECK, complete with the contentious barbed wire and, inset, a sand martin (JT280403/1).


is going to do the work,” she added. The Trust’s Mr Philip Lord, of


Cow Ark, said: “I can’t say a great deal, because I am dealing with the Agency. It is extremely minor. We are only dealing with’40 or,50 ,tons of boulders. There is npt a serious


problem. We are-trying to return a river corridor habitat to suit a lot of species, not just one species. We take a much broader view than special interest people. “We are also interested in migra-;■


tory fish and creatures like otters.” He claimed the sand martins


were happily nesting close by: where they had placed rock. 1 '


A PUBLIC meeting is to be held in Whalley about possible village improvements. Grant money could be available.


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