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Bee at school
page 5 AT A GLANCE
A single mother borrowed money, to pay for the funeral of her dead baby.
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A familiar face will return to churches in Pendleton and Sab- den.
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After threatening a police offi cer with a knife, a Clitheroe woman began to slash her own wrists.
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The floods in the summer of 1964 are vividly remembered.
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Popular vicar the Rev. John Birbeck hosts a farewell lunch attended by 200 parishioners and friends.
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Readers air their views on the BNP - two-page letters special.
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Come down to Shawbridge and get behind the lads says Blues chairman as FA Vase quarter final place beckons.
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FOGGITT’S WEEKEND WEATHER: Milder,’ but‘cold.and ■ windy, with showers.
SUNRISE: 7-49 a.m. SUNSET: 4-59 p.m.
LIGHTING UP TIME: 4-59 p.m.
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Winter beauty creates havoc in town centre
CLITHEROE town centre shoppers slipped and slithered along steep pavements coated with ice and snow this week. And, while other town centres appeared to be
almost hazard free, the authority responsible for grit ting the highways, Lancashire County Council, revealed that, as a rule, it did not grit pavements, because it was not seen as effective. As temperatures plummeted in the early hours of
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, there were also complaints that many side roads in the Ribble Valley remained ungritted. Drivers of school transport strug gled to access country lanes and there was a spate of minor accidents. According to a county council spokesman, glitters
were out and about from 8 p.m. on Sunday, with night shifts operating throughout East Lancashire as tem peratures dipped to as low as -6C early on Wednesday morning, leaving dangerous patches of black ice. Nine glitters were out during the day and five dou
ble teams worked overnight. Meanwhile some town centre shopkeepers cleared
the areas in front of their premises, while others said that fear of insurance claims had led them to re-think their policy. Photographer BEN PARSONS captures a wintry scene in Newton.
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Attack man says he will his troubled past behind
by John Turner
WITHIN days of leaving a hospital high-dependen- cy bed where he had been trea ted for several stab wounds, a Clitheroe man was injured again during an incident outside a Clitheroe public house. Darren Leecy (33)' was left
wounded and bleeding heavi ly from knife wounds a f te r th re e men en te red his S tan d en Road, Clitheroe, home in th e early hours of January 19th and allegedly attacked him. His wounds, which included a
punctured lung, resulted in his spending several days in a high dependency unit at Blackburn Royal Infirmary. On Friday, only five days
after being released from hospi tal, Darren, pictured right, was involved in an incident outside the Bridge Inn, Shawbridge Street. During the incident, in which
Darren claims to have inter vened to stop an altercation between two others, one of his stab wounds was reopened and he received several bruises. “As I was walking past the
Bridge there was one lad kick ing another one on the floor. I told him to leave him alone and two lads ran a t me. Before I knew it, I was on the deck and I was being kicked,” he alleged. Paramedics called to the
scene took one of the other men to hospital for treatment. Dar ren refused to go to hospital, and made his own way home. In the meantime Darren -
whose brother, Anthony, then 27, was found dead three years
"ago in Clitheroe with severe head injuries - said he was try ing to put his life back together after several years of troubles. “The days I spent in hospital
after the incident made me think of all the problems I have been causing my parents over the, years and now I am deter mined to do something about it,” he said. “For too long I have messed around with drugs, especially
since I lost my brother. I did sort myself out for a couple of years, but I had a relapse.” How did he start dabbling in
the world of drugs? “I t was just that I was work
ing, I had money in my pocket and started going to clubs in Blackburn. I bumped into the wrong crowd,” he said.
“I have used all the hard
drugs. You name them, I ’ve tried them, from heroin to crack cocaine.” Darren was waiting for news
this week that would help him to escape from his addiction. A crucial visit from a counsel
lor, he hoped, would tell him that the funding was available for him to go away on,a 12- month rehabilitation course. His parents, Mr Tony Leecy
(65) and Mrs Ann Leecy (55) were also hoping that the reha b il ita tio n course could be organised. “We have had some terrible
times,” said Mr Leecy. They said Darren had done
“really well” to recover so quickly from the alleged stab bing and was lucky not to have
been more badly injured in Friday night’s incident. • A police spokesman said
they were called to the inci dent on Friday. A 23-year-old Clitheroe man had been arrested and
Proud family will gather to collect brave Angie’s degree
by Natalie Cox aatfrli
TODAY th e proud family of a young Clitheroe woman will collect' the degree she worked so hard to , achieve. Five years after seeing her sister .
graduate, Miss Angie Walmsley com pleted her own studies at Blackburn College. However, the 29-year-old former ;
Edisford Primary School pupil w ill' not be at King George’s Hall with the rest of her classmates to receive her BA Hons in Business Studies. Her name will be called and her tutor will collect the certificate on Angie’s behalf. Angie died on Sunday from pneu
monia. For her parents, Philip and Pauline,
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sister, Nicola, brother-in-law, Stephen, and nephew. Harrison, today will he a very proud day. Proud of her Ribble Valley roots
and completely family orientated, Angie (pictured) enjoyed life. She had many friends and was agony aunt to most of them. Always happy, her hope was to make a difference. Bom in Newton, she moved to Low
Moor at the age of six months. After attending the local primary school she
By 1995 Angie was on her travels
again, this time destination Romania and her mission, to teach youngsters the value of fun and play. During her four-week stay with the organisation Romanian Challenge Camp she
’ undertook maintenance work and played with the sick and orphaned children. She certainly had the travel bug,
undertaking foreign trips three or four times a year. She had enjoyed holi days in Norway, New York, Turkey,
■ Prague and Berlin, backpacked her way across Canada, from Vancouver to Toronto, and had even talked about going to Australia. Angie returned to her studies in
move’d' toiRibblesdale High School and then studied childcare at Nelson and Colne College. ■, In. 1992 she flew to Canada where
she spent 15 months working as a nanny in Toronto. Before she left, her parents planned a special surprise. As Christmas was her favourite time of the year, they decided to celebrate early. Not only did her dad fix a Father Christmas to the roof of the family home, the Christmas tree was decorated and a festive buffet- planned. The following day the family celebrated Christmas Day - three months early.
September 1998 embarking on a four- year part-time degree course in Blackburn. Two years later she was diagnosed with cancer, but refusing to defer, she continued her studies, coursework and homework, complet ed during her visits to Christie’s where she underwent radiotherapy. Until October she worked part-
time at Eshton Terrace, supporting people with special needs.
o A volunteer at, the Citizen’s Advice Bureau in Clitheroe, she had worked at Nettleton’s Jewellers and behind the bar at Clitheroe Cricket Club.
charged and would be appear ing before Blackburn Magis trates today. After the alleged stabbing
incident in the kitchen, a 22- year-old man was charged with attempted murder.
Lotto luck falls a little short in the Ribble Valley
THERE has not been a Lotto luck for the Rib ble Valley when it comes to cash grants. Statistics show that the share of National
Lottery money coming to the borough is less than half the UK average. Facts published this week show that each per
son in the Valley has received an average of £55.99 from the lottery’s good causes fund com pared to the national average of £191.33 per per son. This leaves the borough 375th in a league of
436 local authorities. The five receiving the largest funds per head were Greenwich, West minster, Camden, City of London and Islington. If the Ribble Valley had received the country
average, an additional £7,302,923 would have been handed out to various causes in the area. This latest cash league has been devised by
information services company j 4b pic, of Cheshire, and is known as the Calculation of Lottery Dispersal Index. Mr. Jeremy; Phillips, managing director of j4b’s technology and information publishing sec-,
’ tion, said the unequal dispersal of funds may not : be a typical North-South bias. He said: “The National Lottery funding bod
ies judge each application on a competitive basis to ensure it can deliver on its promises, rather than just splitting the money between whoever
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for.it. As the application process is not ■straightforward, local authority funding officers must decide whether a speculative application is a good use of their resources. Often these resources are so thinly stretched that it makes more sense to concentrate on applying for the
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Could our town be best-kept area?
COULD Clitheroe be classed as one of Lan cashire’s “best-kept” locations? Officials at Clitheroe Town Council certainly
hope so, and are already planning to enter the annual competition, which seeks to find the best-kept villages across the county. However, before finally deciding whether to
enter this year’s contest the town council wants to know the views of local residents and organi sations. For, as well as entering the main com petition, it believes new entries could also be
successful in the Certificate of Merit categories. These reward specific buildings such as places of worship, war memorials, noticeboards, pubs, hotels special features, children’s play areas and sheltered accommodation, to name just some of
the 18 categories. The town council also believes that, following
on from the judges’ report for its entry in 2002, Clitheroe has a real chance in the main compe tition. Last year’s judges reported that Clitheroe
was “remarkably tidy and litter free”. There was praise for the railway station, which was viewed as “particularly attractive”, and for the “extremely well-maintained” condition of pri vate property, which the judges said reflected the residents’ “very caring attitude”. The condition of the Parish Church was said
to be “outstanding”, although all five of the town’s churches displayed a high standard of maintenance. Commercial premises’ window displays were described as “interesting”. The overall view was that, for a “very busy small town”, Clitheroe is maintained to a very high standard, with the judges describing their time in the Valley’s main town as both “rewarding and interesting”. Views, opinions and suggestions for this
year’s competition need to be forwarded to Clitheroe Town Hall in Church Street by March 24th to give officials time to meet the April 7th deadlines.
Praise for top schools
TWO Clitheroe schools have each received an accolade in Ofsted’s annual list of good schools. Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and Rib-
blesdale High School Technology College were among_the list of 456 schools and colleges - 83 'them in the North-West - which received special praise in the report by Mr David Bell,
'HM Chief Inspector of Schools, published yes terday. Mr Bell said: “I believe these success stories
are a testament to both the talent and dedica tion of the staff and the pupils themselves.” Ribblesdale received its best examination
results ever this year and the grammar school had a record number of students offered places at either Oxford or Cambridge.
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