The Clitheroe ' Thursday, June 5th, 2003 No. 6,100


Vikings invade village


AT A GLANCE


A Ribble Valley nurse has been awarded damages of £32,000


following a five-year “night mare”.


page 2 A Waddington property with a


royal connection is up for sale at £ l% m .


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A Whalley pig might fly in an unusual global charity dash.


page 2 Donning their hiking boots net­


ted £7,250 for a children’s char­ ity.


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Diagnosed as hav­ ing an unusual medical condition, Claire Metcalfe has launched a support group.


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Sawley skier Dan Wyatt scored a string of successes in recent competitions.


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Film makers book their place in the Ribble Valley.


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WEEKEND WEATHER: Warm, with heavy


th u n d e ry showers and sunny periods.


SUNRISE: 4-23 a.m. SUNSET: 9-32p.m.


LIGHTING UP TIME: 9-32 p.m.


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Sue’s night in the hot seat nets her £16,000


A CLITHEROE accounting techni­ cian had an audience of millions on S a tu rd ay n ig h t when she took th e chair in "Who Wants to be a Million, aire?"


Sue Isherwood left the show with


£16,000, the final contestant in the cur­ rent series - the 13th.


Watching her in the audience was


husband Phil, while children Guy and Robyn had to be content to keep up


with their mother’s progress a t home in Chatbum Road. Asked early in the programme what


she would do with any winnings, Mrs Isherwood said th a t some would go towards the cost of her 15-year-old son's


£900 forthcoming school ski tr ip to America. Showing very little sign of nerves,


Mrs Isherwood told presenter Chris T ar ran t, pictured handing over her cheque, how she had gone to university to study maths, b ut had come away with a certificate for rock and roll danc­ ing. She then trained a t home for her present post.


Describing the "fastest finger" ques­


tion as "lucky", Mrs Isherwood was asked to place words in order in the nurs­ ery rhyme "Grand Old Duke of York". "There were nine men and me; I had


a b i t of an advantage," she laughed, adding that once she had climbed on to the "extremely high" chair, ”my mind was then porridge. If he had asked me who walked up the hill with Jack, I wouldn't have had a clue”.


Brunette Mrs Isherwood (44), who


admitted to being dubbed "brillo" a t school, resorted to the audience’s help for the fifth question (£1,000). She sailed through th e sixth and seventh, bu t called on the help of her former rock and roll partner, Balderstone church organ­


ist Peter Singleton, to achieve the eighth for £8,000. By the ninth, with £16,000 a t stake,


nerves were beginning to show and Mrs Isherwood opted to remove two incor­ rect answers, taking a stab a t one of the two remaining. I t paid off, but left her struggling to answer the 10th, which she decided to decline, opting instead to take the money. "It will pay for quite a few ski holi­ days," quipped host Chris Tarrant, as he


described the Clitheroe mother as "a nice lady". Employed by Abbey Telecom Ltd,


Blackburn, Mrs Isherwood rang to answer the multiple choice questions, encouraged by her daughter. "They rang back a week late r with a qualifying


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Countdown to three glorious days


DANCING in the streets is a fun feature of Clitheroe’s Great Days Festival and this year more than ever is planned.


From bands and dancers to actors and choirs,


the town centre will be a colourful carnival of music and theatre.


Street entertainment starts on Saturday on


the Market a t 11 a.m, then moves up to Castle Street, which will be closed to traffic between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., with several new acts joining the well-known favourites this year. Faceless Theatre Company from Hudders­


field will present three 40- minute street acts on stilts between 11-45 a.m. and 3-15 p.m., a t mid­ day Blackburn People’s Choir will be singing on the Market, while Bay Beat, a carnival street band from Morecambe, will perform there a t 12-30 p.m., then move up to Castle Street. Four folk and clog dance sides will maintain


the traditional side of the festival’s street scene, and the Horse and Bamboo Youth Theatre Project will be performing, as well as holding an evening workshop tomorrow.


For more information about the Great Days question a t which time I was in the last


100. Then I was told I was down to the last 10,” she recalled. On Bank Holiday Monday, she heard


she had been successful and two days later was .on board the 7-15 a.m. train from Preston to London for filming. On Saturday night, the Isherwood


family invited friends and family to watch the show. "We had a big party. We


are definitely going ski-ing - all of us. We


went for the first time at Christmas and loved it. Guy will also be going from school — as for the rest of the money, I don't know, I will have to think about it. With two children heading towards fur­


ther education it will be handy. But it’s extremely nice." •C a n you answer th e questions?


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Two police forces in operation to catch high-speed raiders


by John Turner pAN operation involving two olice forces and two police


helicopters followed a raid by a gang of five men on com­ mercial premises in Clitheroe on Sunday night. Police followed th e gang’s car


for 37 miles into Manchester a t speeds up to 120 m.p.h. F o u r of th em le a p t o u t of th e


stolen new Ford Mondeo being dri­ v en on fa ls e n um b e r p la te s a n d showed police a clean pa ir of heels. But one was arrested after a short


rooftop siege in Colleyhurst, Manches­ ter .


There was danger, too, as patrol cars


followed the gang towards Manchester along the M66 and M60. Tools, includ­ ing a heavy long-handled lump ham­ mer were thrown from the car into the path of the following police cars.


thrown from the car in an attempt to evade the following police vehicles. The alarm went up around 9-30 p.m. on Sunday night a t the Eshton Ter­


Some of th e telephones were also


race, Clitheroe, premises of Phone Works (Europe) Ltd. The gang obviously made a lot of


noise, even using h e av y -d u ty b o lt c ro p p e rs to force th e i r way in to a


premises well-fortified following a high-value raid last year. Police received three 999 calls from


neighbours, who were each able to sup­ ply the registration number of the car. One neighbour even confronted the


raiders before they drove off a t high speed.


The police o p e ra t io n beg an in


earnest when the thieves’ car was first spotted heading towards Read. As th e raiders moved out of Lan­ cashire, the operation was taken over


by police from the Greater Manchester area. The o p e ra tio n - an d th e rooftop


siege - was captured by cameras oper­ ated from the two police helicopters. When the gang originally fled from


Phone Works they took with them 40 mobile te lep h o n es w ith a v a lu e of around £5,000 and telephone acces­ sories worth £1,000. Police spent some hours collecting


up the items thrown from the windows of the thieves’ car. Much of the prop­ erty was recovered.


Police inquiries are continuing into


the id en tity of the four raiders who evaded capture.


Insp. Bob Ford, confident of early


arrests, said: “I don’t know why these professional thieves keep coming here to the Ribble Valley. In most cases we seem to be able to arrest them.” At the time of going to press, no one


from Phone Works was available to comment.


• A 26 y e a r old M a n c h e s te r man appea red before Blackburn magis­ trates on Tuesday following the raid. Andrew Patrick Redmond, of Hol­


comb Close, Manchester, pleaded not guilty to burglary and theft of proper­


ty wo r th £5,000 from th e Phone Works, Eshton Terrace, allowing him­ self to be carried in a vehicle driven


dangerously, affray and criminal dam­ age. The magistrates directed the cases should be heard a t P re s to n Crown


Court and Redmond was remanded in custody until June 10th.


One man and his £2,000-plus dog!


A SHEPHERD from the Ribble Valley has paid one of the top prices for a new dog at a working sheepdogs sale a t which a new world record price was set.


TTU'TJD f tmM t i i l l i . tt . Ian Lancaster, of Pendleton, confirmed


his belief th at quad bikes can never replace a good working dog by paying £2,200 for Dot, an 11-month-old border collie. Dot was one of the top prices a t the sale


a t Skipton Auction Mart attended by 200 shepherds, breeders and enthusiasts. The world record was se t a t 3,125


guineas paid by a Herefordshire farmer for a 12-month-old bitch from Selby. Values are being boosted by a huge inter­


est in British working dogs from the United States.


Contract shepherd Mr Lancaster (32)


said: “I was once told ‘If you see something you like - buy i t ’. As soon as I saw Dot I had to have her. She had the best outrun of any dog there a t the sale.” The little black and white bitch has top


class antecedents, coming from Sal, Bill Skidmore’s breeding bitch from County


Durham. Her grandmother was sold to the United States. Following in his father’s footsteps, Mr


Lancaster has been a shepherd “since he could walk”. For two days a week he is on duty a t Clitheroe Auction Mart, the rest of the time he works as a contract shepherd on farms over a wide area of Lancashire. “You get a lot of satisfaction in watching


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a good dog working. You can’t replace a good dog with a quad bike. The dog ends up chasing the quad bikel


“Quad bikes can be useful on the farm,


but especially a t lambing time, nothing can replace a good working dog.


Mr Lancaster, who has four other work­


ing dogs, is hoping to eventually breed from Dot.


Meanwhile there is another Lancaster


waiting in the wings to follow the family tradition.


Mr Lancaster has a three-year-old son


who, already, has the phrases “Lie down” and “Come by” in his vocabulary.


Mr Jeremy E a to n , Skipton Auction


Mart’s general manager, described the sale as “absolutely fan ta s tic ” . He said th a t because of the unprecedented demand, an extra sale of 40 working sheepdogs would be held in July, prior to the annual 60-dog autumn sale in August. (CR280503/1)


Facelift planned for popular parkland SUGGESTIONS for improvements to


one of Clitheroe’s valuable areas of park­ land are sought. Ribble Valley Borough Council is hop­


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Teenager (17) in crash A TEENAGER from Sabden involved in a


traffic collision has been detained in hospital in Preston. James Basnett, (17), of Homeacre Avenue,


was riding his motor scooter a t Inglewhite on Monday afternoon, when it was in collision with an agricultural tractor towing a trailer. He sustained severe leg injuries and was


taken to the Royal Preston Hospital. Police described the incident, a t the junction


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