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more voters heading for the polls e w o c i f % 4 1 • j j . i l i ,1 I' w,*? 3 ijt?


could turn out to be the most contro­ versial elections in Ribble Valley Bor­


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38.85%, but it is anticipated that more voters will take the opportunity to register their viewsatthe. ballot boxes across the Valley thistime;' - ‘Hi .'liiii; (Twenty-of the borough’s 24 wards are being.v sitting member):■


contested,' with anadditional nine parish elec-, tions also taking place.'■“ ' 1 - ■


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. i A-total of -74:candidates are standing for • the borough; with 53 contesting the parish elections. •


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, >An increased number of postal votes have already been issued -1,561 for the borough and 845 for the parish and town council - fig­ ures described by the council’s Director of Legal Services, Mr Paul Timson,as “signifi­ cantly up on four years ago”. ■ Onerof- the reasons'for. the increased


demand is the relaxation of laws which now mean -individuals do not need .to .have a spe­ cific reas6n'for,hotr visitihga polling station. ■ “Anyone'can apply for a postal vote and


that has had some influence on the figures,” said Mr Timson. ' Voters in four wards - Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley; Alston and Hothersall (two vacan­ cies); Chipping; and Wilpshire (two vacan-


just enough candidates for seats. One who returns unopposed is Conservative leader - Cornr. Chris Holtom, standing for Wilpshire. Independent Coun. James Rogerson and Conservative Coun. David Smith are also /


. guaranteed a retum'to the corridors of power. They are the only twonominations for. the . two seats representing Alston and Hothersall. • The full list of nominations is (* denotes


f Aighton;’Bailey and Chaigley (1 vacancy): <


‘Janet Elizabeth Alcock( Conservative). - 'Alston and Hothersall (2)’: * James Rogerson


(Ind).^David Thornton Smith (Con). ' Billington and Old Langho (2): Richard Goddard Gledhill (Con), Raymond Price (Lib Dem), Carl Eric Ross (Con), ‘Graham Hugh Sowter (Lib Dem). - . ■ Bowland, Newton and Slaidburn (1): ’"Rose­ mary Joan Elms (Con), Joan Knight (Lib


Dem). Chatburn (1): Howard Granville Douglas


(LibDem);*Keith William Hall (Con). Chipping (1): ‘Doreen Margaret Bailey


(Ind). - Clayton-le-Dale with Ramsgreave' (2):


♦Peter Ainsworth (Con), Edward Joyce (Lib Dem), ‘Doreen Taylor (Con), John Malcolm Theakstone (Lib Dem).


; Derby and Thornley (2): Kathleen Mary Butler (Con), ♦Rose-Marie Croasdale (Lib


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election is the town’s deputy; mayor, Coun. Joan Knight, who hopes to win back her seat


in the St Mary’s ward, allowing her. to /take .up the post as Clitheroe’sfirst citizen from the outgoing/Mayor, ■ Goun. Mrs Mary Robinson. :.s i Also,battling it out at the


ballot box today are three Clitheroe couples - the Year- ings, McGowans and Sutcliffes who are hoping to secure seats. . The Yearings - Alan and


Susan Margaret - are among the five candidates hoping to secure’the two seats up for grabs in the Edisford and Low Moor ward; C oun.' John McGowan is also seeking elec­ tion in this ward, while his wife, Mrs Patricia McGowan is standing in the Primrose ward. The Sutcliffes - John


Stephen and Margaret Eleanor - are contesting the Littlemoor •ward.


A total of 10 seats are up for


election-sin! the ..parish of Clitheroe,' which'makes up the town council.; - ' The full list of-candidates


standing for. election to the parish of. Clitheroe are as fol­


lows. Edisford and Low Moor (2):


Anna Marie Banki (Lab), Ronald John'Michael Loebell, John McGowan (Lab), Alan Yearing (Lib Dem), Susan Mar­ garet Yearing (Lib Dem).' Littlemoor (2): David Rodney


Boden, John Stephen Sutcliffe, Margaret Eleanor Sutcliffe. . Primrose (2): Allan McLean


Knox (Lib Dem), Patricia McGowan (Lab), Mary Robin­ son (Lib Dem), Andrew Wors­ ley:


; . St Mary’s (2): Ruth Harg­


reaves (Lib Dem), Joan Knight (Lib Dem), Stephen Pietrzak. . Salthill (2): David Andrew Berryman (Lib Dem), Ian Frank Brown, Bruce Dowles (Lib Dem), Sheila Sims. • The nominees are repro­


duced as given to Ribble Valley Borough Council.


DETAILED below is a list of polling stations across the Ribble Valley, naming the polling district, description of station and polling station number: Edisford and Low Moor, Edisford


(Henthorn Community Centre) 1; Edisford and Low Moor, Low Moor (St Ann’s Court, Low Moor) 2; St Mary’s (CRGS, York Street) 3 and 4; Salthill (Brookside Primary School) 5; Littlemoor (Ribblesdale High School) 6 and 7, Primrose (St James’s CE School) 8 and 9. Dilworth (Longridge Civic Hall)


10; Derby (Longridge Civic Hall) 11; Thornley (Thornley Community Centre) 12; Ribchester (Ribchester Parochial Hall) 13; Bolton-by-Bow- land (Mobile polling station, car park at Bolton-by-Bowland Village Hall) 14; Forest of Bowland Lower (Whitewell Social Hall) 15. . Easington, Slaidburn (Slaidburn Village Hall) 16; Newton-in-Bowland


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.Church) 21; Downham, Twiston (Downham Church) 22; Pendleton. (Pendleton Village Hall) 23; Wiswell- (Mobile polling station adjacent Coronation Gardens, Wiswell) 24; Barraclough, Barrow (Barrow School, Old Road, Barrow) 25. Mearley, Worston (Worston Mis­


sion Rooms) 26; Whalley (Methodist Church Hall, King Street, Whalley) 27; Little Mitton, Mitton (All Hal­ low’s Church, Mitton) 28; Wadding­ ton (Waddington Methodist Church) 29; Sawley (Sawley Village Hall) 30. . Grindleton 1 (CE Primary School, Grindleton) 31; Grindleton 2 (Lane Ends Community Centre, Grindle­ ton) 32; West Bradford (West Brad­


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ford C of E Sunday School) 33; Gis­ burn Forest (Tosside Village Insti­ tute) 34; Gisburn, Horton (Gisbum Festival Hall) 35; Middop, Riming­ ton (Memorial Institute, Stopper Lane, Rimington) 36; Newsholme, Paythorne (Paythorne Methodist


Chapel) 37. Balderstone (Mellor Brook Com­


munity Centre) 38; Mellor (Mellor Village Hall) 39; Billington (Hodge- field Communal Room, Billington Gardens, Billington) 40; Old Langho (St Leonard’s Church, Old Langho) 41; Langho (Langho Methodist Chapel) 42; Dinckley (St Leonard’s Church,


Old Langho) 43; Osbaldeston (The Heatley Rooms, St Mary’s Church) 44; Ramsgreave (Mobile polling sta­ tion adjacent 47 Ramsgreave Road, Ramsgreave) 45; Clayton-le-Dale, Salesbury (Salesbury Memorial Hall) 46.


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Dem). Dilworth (2): Annamaria Daniela Ferrari


(Con)) Jeffrey Norman Flitcroft (Lib Dem)„ Michael Leigh Kay (Con), ‘John Stuart- Reese (Lib Dem): Edisford and Low Moor'(2): Anna Marie


Banki (Lab), Anthony Frederick Dean (Con); ‘John McGowan’(Lab), Peter Neal McQuade (BNP),'* Alan Yearing (Lib Dem), Susan Margaret Yearing (Lib Dem). Gisburn and Rimington (1): ‘Patricia Rose­


mary Rawson (Lib Dem), ‘Richard Else Sherras (Con).


.■ < Langho (2): David Conroy Eccleston


(Con), ‘Jenny Ann Grimes (Lib Dem), John Stanley .Taylor (Con), David William


Threlfall (Lib Dem). Littlcmoor (2): David Rodney Boden


(Con), Brian Ferguson (BNP), ‘ John Stephen Sutcliffe (Lib Dem), ‘Margaret Eleanor Sutcliffe (Lib Dem). Mellor (2): Judith Catherine Sowter (Lib Dem), ‘Noel.Clifford Walsh (Con), ‘Charles


Warkman (Con). Primrose (2): Ivan Peter Duxbury (BNP),


•‘Allan Mclean.Knox (Lib, Dem), Patricia McGowan (Lab); ‘Mary Robinson (Lib Dem), Raymond Stuttard (Con), Stephen Wilkinson (Lab), Andrew Worsley (Con). Read and Siraonstone (2): Christine Ann Bartrop (Con), Richard John Bennet (Lib


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Dem), ‘John Benson-Hill (Con), John Mar­ shall Waddington (Lib Dem). Ribchcster (1): ‘Brian Melvin Collis (Lib


Dem), David Nuttall (Con). St Mary’s (2): ‘Frank Edgar Dyson (Lib


Dem), Paul John Frankland (BNP), Beverley Jones (Lib Dem), Diana Ruth Moores (Con), Stephen Pietrzak (Con). . Sabden (1): Michael Fielding (Con), ‘Frank


Goss (Lib Dem). Salthill (2): ‘Stephen Paul Adnitt (Lib


Dem), David Andrew Barryman (Lib Dem), Giles Bridge (Lab), Ian Frank Brown (Con), Shannon Peter Gath (BNP), Sheila Sims


(Con). Waddington and West Bradford (2): ‘Roger


Harold Chaplin (Con), William Le Breton (Lib Dem), ‘Gwen Pye (Lib Dem), Edward Michael Hitchen Ranson (Con). Whalley (2): Thomas Peter Hardwick (Lib


Dem), ‘Joyce Holgate (Con), Christine Mary Marchi (Lib Dem), Christopher Sterry (Con). Wilpshire (2): Stuart Alan Hirst (Con),


‘Christopher John Holtom (Con). Wiswell and Pendleton (1): Bruce Dowles


(Lib Dem), ‘Robert James Thompson (Con).


PARENTS who organised a fund-raising balloon race in the Ribble Valley received back much more than they expected. Not only did the post­


man bring the tag attached to the balloon - he brought a map and an exact map reference, right, as well as a photograph of the balloon bobbing about in the Baltic Sea between Ger­ many and Denmark, below. The balloon was released


from Oakhill College, Whalley, by the parents’ association. It was one of 122 bal­


loons sent skyward in an operation which raised £222 for school funds. Some days later yachts­


man Joerg Meier from Denmark was out sailing on a beautiful Easter week­ end in the Baltic Sea when he spotted a yellow object on the horizon. He told Oakhill College:


“First I was thinking of a fisherman’s buoy, but after looking with my glasses I saw the balloon. So I picked it-up and what a surprise - a balloon con­ test!” Mr Meier sent back pho­


tographs of the balloon in the middle of the Baltic and gave its precise posi­ tion (54.21 north and 011.28 east) and also enclosed a map for good


measure, , ?&spok^man for the


school’said: “Whether JoergSasfdund the win-/.’ ning balloon we’ll not know for a couple of weeks untilthe competition clos-


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A GROUP of Clitheroe Hi Ramblers hiked the hills of Vl North-Yorkshire at the jc weekend. The 15 members walked


from I-Iawes, famous for its ];J ropemaking, along part of a]L the Pennine Way towards pf Dodd Fell, 668 metros pj high. The clear, sunny weather


enhanced the stunning views of Ingleborough, Whernside and Great Shunner Fell, with parts of the'Lake District visible in the distance. After an extended lunch


break at Kidhovv Gate, half of the party returned to


Former teacher is named new rector


•A NEW rector- ; has been appointed for St James’ Church, Clitheroe.


The Rev. Mark Pickett (42) '


will move from his team vicar post at Thetford,.Norfolk, in September. Mr Pickett grew up in East­


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Solicitor re-elected president of chamber of trade and commerce


LOCAL solicitor Mr :John Houldsworth w i l l . ” lead Glitheroe and District Cham- ber of Trade and Commerce again.


• ;; Elected to the post of presi­ dent for<2003/4 at the organisa­ tion’s /j annual ^meeting,Mr, ■Houldsworth'said afterwards that he^was looking forward to another “excellent.year.


The chamber’s new vice-pres­


ident and treasurer is accountant Mr Ian Walton, with Julie Wat­ son being nominated and elected as secretary., < The night before the annual


• meeting, chamber members met :: Ribble Valley ME /Nigel Evans to discuss the issues surrounding the disposal o f ; commercial


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v “T-he chamber is moving on well and weyhave many, new members joining and getting


’involved with the executive com­ mittee.”


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-' waste, as well as parking, crime and Clitheroe itself.


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i'- the discussion as “lively” and vjsaid the’aim had been to try to.


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Trinity College, Bristol, and became a curate in the Norwich Diocese before moving to Thet­ ford Team Ministry. Living in the North will be a


new experience for Mr Pickett, his wife, Della, and their five children, aged from five to 16. Mr Pickett says: “We don’t


know Lancashire at all, but we are told it’s very beautiful. I am very excited about coming to Clitheroe and working with the


team there.” - . Mr Pickett is also pleased that


St James’ has a part-time youth and children’s worker. He is very conscious of the church’s work among families, young people and children. - -The institution service has been fixed for September 4th: . :


Easter goes to dancers’ heads


BEAUTIFUL seasonal bonnets were worn by the Pendle Club’s Tuesday night sequence dancers at their Easter party. The evening get-together got off


to a swinging start with a buffet and raffle organised by Connie


Bishop. Entertainment, in the form of


an amusing poem in Lancashire dialect, was given by Kathleen


King and a-full programme of dances, together with spot prizes, was provided by Eileen Shuttle- worth and Bernice Sanderson. The winner of the Easter bon­


net parade was Olga Billington. . All those who attended enjoyed


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