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The Clitheroe Thursday, January 9th, 2003 No. 6,079


vertiser an imes news and views from the Centre of the Kingdom


Snowy start to


pages AT A GLANCE


Police cover in rural areas of the Kibble Valley is to be improved with the introduction of a mobile station.


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Thousands of BT subscribers were unable to make calls for an hour on Tuesday.


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Demonstrating the art of the fighting man of years gone by is a Clitheroe man whose “office” is the Royal Armouries.


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A cycle racer dis­ covers he is no longer a champion after reading the Clitheroe Advertis­ er and Times.


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A Valley man has been awarded the MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours for 42 years’ ser­ vice to one company.


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There is an offer of a place at Oxford University for a Ribble Valley girl aged 16.


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frosty, it will be cold : and cloudy, with sunny intervals.


FOGGITT’S J WEEKEND WEATHER: Although no longer


SUNRISE: 8-25 a.m. SUNSET:' 4-07 p.m.


LIGHTING UP TIME: 4-07 p.m.


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page 16 Prince Charles in high spirits for Clitheroe visit by John Turner


STORIES in the nation­ al press this week th a t the Prince of Wales is unwell are far from the truth, a spokesman a t St James’s Palace told the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. A statement on behalf


of the Prince said: “He is in fine form and in fine spirits. He is very much looking forward to his visit to Lancashire”.


The Prince was due to


arrive in Clitheroe soon after 10 a.m. today on board the Royal Train, which will have travelled north from Kemple in Gloucestershire, close to the Prince’s country home at Highgrove. The only vehicle allowed


to move along a section of Railway View Road, Clitheroe, for five hours will be the royal bus carry­ ing the Prince from the sta­ tion to his appointment at Chipping Village Hall.


To cope with the expect­


ed crowds and as a security measure, Ribble Valley Borough Council has made a closure order for the sec­ tion of Railway View Road between King Street and the Bus and Rail Inter­ change from 7 a.m. to


noon. Detours will be put into


operation. Big crowds were expect­


ed to gather outside the station to greet the Prince. The passengers on the bus will include a represen­


tative cross section of about a dozen of the dis­ abled people from Clitheroe, Chipping and the Bowland area expected to use the new bus after the service begins officially. The Royal Train will


leave Clitheroe once the Prince has alighted. At the end of a full day


in Lancashire, the Prince will leave the North-West for Scotland by air. Looking forward to a


meeting with Prince Charles - see page 3.


Artist Jenny has three good reasons to greet royal guest


WHEN artist Jenny Cork shakes hands with Prince Charles in Clitheroe this morning she will have three good reasons for greet­ ing him shortly after he arrives in


the town. He was a patron of Atlantic College,


the school she attended in S o u th . Wales, and although he visits the school regularly he did not visit while


she was there. A low interest loan to help her launch


her glass business two years ago was made by the Prince’s Trust. And she is the artist responsible for


designing and making a gift for the Prince on behalf of Ribble Valley Bor-


. ough Council. , She is full of praise for the Prince’s


Trust cash. “They have been very good. It is very


much ‘hands-off’ and, under the scheme, once a month I have the benefit of advice from the mentor appointed by the trust, retired businessman Mr Tom Griffith, of Sabden. He makes sure I am heading in the right direction,” she said. Miss Cork (29), of Downham, who studied glassmaking at the Wolver-


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Company crashes, but rebirth hopes planned


A COMPANY founded by a former Valley man to make and sell his revo­ lutionary washing machine has


crashed. But Clitheroe-born Mr Martin Myer-


scough (45) is determined to make a suc­ cess of the Titan and is starting again after nearly 10 years’ work. Monotub Industries was started by


Mr Myerscough to launch the machine, but it has sold only about 100 despite large sums of money being put up by cor­ porate and private investors. They may get barely half a penny per


share back in the company’s voluntary liquidation - at one time Monotub trad-. ed on the Alternative Investment Mar­


ket at 647p. The market is a launchpad for new


ideas and investors are well aware it offers more risks - and more rewards - than the conventional Stock Market. Mr Myerscough has bought the design


and some other assets of the company, from which he resigned some months ago, for just £l! He is starting off on the manufacturing and marketing process again with a £250,000 finance package he has put together. This week Mr Myerscough told the


Advertiser and Times that he still believed in the machine and felt that per­ haps it had not been presented in the


right way. However, he would not be drawn on


how long he thinks it will take to get the machine back on the market. A one-time Castle Cement labourer, he


qualified as a naval architect and then as an accountant: He once worked for accountants Arthur Andersen and was


later finance director of a biotech compa­ ny.


The Titan idea was born after Mr Myerscough saw the need for a big wash­ er with a removable drum for quick han­ dling and a design enabling it to be stopped during its cycle if any problem became apparent. On flotation, investors were attracted


by hopes of a James Dyson-style success story, and City reporters reached for the cliches. Mr Myerscough appeared on the Big Breakfast and was sought after for business advice. But, as the company’s paper value approached £80m. on expec­ tations of success, he was carefui to point out that one-product companies were “not especially healthy"and more chal­ lenges would be sought. But within months, of going on the


market exclusively through Curry’s, the Titan was in trouble as Which? magazine revealed technical problems. Mr Myer­ scough stepped down from the chairman ship. Since then there have been efforts to


find a partner involving discussions with seven well-known-companies. But none wanted to take the Titan over on accept­ able terms. The form of the liquidation keeps the


shareholders together and a payment of £4 will be made into their pool for the next 15 years for each Titan sold. Mr Myerscough is taking a profession-


'al view of the situation, looking to the future and taking press comments on the chin. “Sud’s law”, “the final rinse cycle' and “tumble-dried shareholders”: have been justsome.


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A PAIR of antiques enthusiasts from Clitheroe have starring roles in a tele­ vision quiz programme tomorrow. The BBC One “Bargain Hunt”


features the two-man team of Paul Lee and Kevin Newman pitting their wits against the value of antiques at auction - but until the programme is transmitted at 11-30 a.m. tomorrow they have been honour-bound-to keep secret the outcome of their quest.


“We had a wonderful time,” said ; '


music teacher and recording studio owner Mr Lee (34) who, with his friend Mr Newman (44), who. works in advertising, applied to be consid­ ered for the programme on the Inter­ net.


After an initial interview in a Har­


rogate hotel, they were selected to spend £200 on antiques at an antiques fair in Wetherby and, in July, to submit their purchases for auction


'at a sale in Barnsley. Viewers tomorrow will see Mr Lee


perform his “party-piece” imperson­ ation of George Formby singing “With my little stick of Blackpool


rock”. “I think we were chosen for the pro­


gramme because we like to laugh,” said Mr Lee, whose quiz partner, a father-of-two, plays clarinet in Clitheroe Town Band. The two are pictured,,Mr Lee on


the left, with the show’s presenter, David Dickinson. (s)‘ -


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• hampton School of Art, uses a kiln to create glass objects like howls, tiles, wall pieces and decorative elements for inclu­ sion in interiors and furniture. The piece the Prince will be given


today is a representation of the fields and hills of the Ribble Valley.


The Bashall Barn-based artist has


already exhibited her work in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Chester, Paris, Dublin and even the Shetland Islands. For six weeks she worked in the United


States. “I am delighted my work has been chosen for a gift to the Prince” she


added. Miss Cork will be just one of the Rib­


ble Valley artists meeting the royal visi­


tor this morning. Arts Development Officer Mrs


Katherine Shoesmith will be guiding Prince Charles through the former rail­ way station, now converted into one of the North West's premier galleries. He will see Clitheroe schoolchildren


making felt pictures and meet artist-in residence Miss Suzanne McCullock who has been helping the youngsters. As well as meeting Miss Cork, cabinet­


maker Mr Gary Wilson, textile artist Mrs Louise Swindells, jewellery-maker Mrs Ellen Darby, gallery co-ordinator Miss Liz Martch and assistant Miss Frances Spencer, the Prince will have an opportunity to talk to some of the Val­ ley's young people about rural travel. Mr John Kirkham, the Youth and


Community Service's district team leader will be hosting a rural transport forum at the venue. In our picture Miss Cork puts the fin­


ishing touches to the Prince’s gift (CR060103/1)


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Afghan date for War Cry seller


READERS of War Cry will not be able to obtain their copies from the regular Salvation Army seller in Clitheroe, as he is off to Afghanistan for five


weeks. Major Henry Silcock


(pictured) is assisting with an emergency winter relief programme to help returning refugees in the Afghan capital of Kabul. With four other officers, he will be joining a


team which has already begun the distribution of blankets and duvets to refugee families. The fall of the Taliban regime and the forma­


tion of the replacement Transitional Authority has encouraged around two million Afghan refugees to return home from neighbouring countries. About 600,000 of these have returned


to Kabul. The city still lacks water, sanitation, schools,


health care and public facilities. As the refugees have repopulated areas still wrecked from the civil war of the 1990s, they are in need of imme­ diate relief from the harsh winter. Salvation Army support in Afghanistan


dates back many years and Major Silcock will be assisting the experienced officer leading the operation, who directed an extensive health programme for Afghan refugees in Pakistan in


the 1980s. Major Silcock, who lives in; Clitheroe,


described how many of the people came home to ruins or are living on the city streets owing to mine dangers in their villages. His priority will be to help with the weather­


proofing of wrecked buildings to make them more habitable and to distribute warm bedding, coats and boots in temperatures reported as sub-zero. Assistance with the provision of clean water and sanitation will follow. He is not yet certain of where he will be


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working in Kabul, although he has received information that their accommodation will be somewhat below British one-star standard, with water supplies limited to two gallons a day


per house in that area. While he is away, his wife, Major Anne Sil­


cock, with another Salvation Army member, will be selling issues of War Cry and running the Salvation Army Church on Lowergate.


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