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A HARD day at the office for a Clitheroe 27-year-old has, from time to time, resulted in wounds requiring stitches. Mr Andrew Balmforth


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are delighted that he is le to pay us a visit today, years ago the Queen was tying th a t one of her ; was Whitewell. It was a she would like to have


in the seat of power rely lilbirds to buy their prop-


lore appropriate would it l to send her son and heir mnting expedition in the


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oncert was held in the ■ch, Low Moor. A vari- d and vocal pieces was lg the violin solo from sticana”, a song from ed “The Better Land” solo “Fun and Frolics” ickbum. Scottish prize ichol Brothers, also ion.


mation Ox Roasting rchased the head of the 20 guineas (£21) from


i, the young girl from who won it at the Coro- ies, for presentation to


ill. The head was hand- ted and bore a silver inscribed.


lfirmed that a vagrant Srocott was lying in the ffering from smallpox.


1 from Blackburn and Ited he had the disease, | i and quarantined con-


i years ago


were higher than at any le previous seven years, is more than usual for ihants were able to sup­ ers with their full 5 cwt (1,275 kilos) per i that was usually used two or three weeks of a rationed fuel, such as ality nutty slack, was it the ration,


ilph Assheton MP he Rotary Club of is return from a tour of said: “Americans are a le people and if we can r, a great deal of good to the world in the des- tered century in which


dded that women ruled hey apparently did not ling down in one place, n hospitable and gener- lrialistic.


tomime Jack and the d its 13th and final per- he season at The Hall,


lie Catholic Pantomime ided a record success as 00 people had attended 1 an extra performance nged.


»years ago


J!ES were given by the Association of Rural t small village schools dosed before proper con- calculations had been


birth rate in the Ribble ipped from 754 a year in irming 499, classes were laller and the cost of ihools open was becom- lsive.


illor said that packs of ere running wild in the d Low Moor areas of e a nuisance and a dan- e. He was compiling a idents to convince Rib- ouncil to engage a dog


lly-convened meeting at irse Inn was attended by


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fcve all else, the wonderful I t she believed th a t God lamed of her, and if she Be that, so can we believe lives, and of our world. I Canon Philip Dearden


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from Ribble Cement, ilmost unanimously to lacklisting of Clitheroe’s ig firemen, to the delight ary of the joint shop- mittee.


Ultraframe founder is way down in the annual salary pecking order


FOUNDER John Lancast­ er is way down the pecking order in the salary stakes at Ultraframe, the annual


company report reveals. M r L a n c a s te r (60), who


recently announced his plans to stand down from his execu­ tive position a t Ultraframe, received th e same sa la ry of £30,000 as he received the pre­ vious y e a r - a l th o u g h he earned £ 4 .3m. on his share­ holding of 22.3 million benefi­ cial shares. His total sharehold­ ing is 33.7 million. The founder’s salary pales into


insignificance when i t is com­ pared with some of his colleagues whose incomes are revealed in the report, which goes to the annual meeting in just over two weeks' time. The directors shared more


th an £320,000 profit-linked bonuses last year, reflecting a rise in company earnings. The report also reveals that for­


mer finance director Mr James Henry, who left the company in April, received £99,000 compen­ sation for loss of office. He also received pay and benefits totalling £60,196 for the part of the year he worked. Chief executive Mr David


Moore (39) saw his pay package almost double to reach £357,447, including £257,000 salary. Top money went to Mr David


Ewing (55), who became chief executive officer of Ultraframe’s North American operations in


2001. His package totalled £ 393,737. including a £101,442


bonus and £289,214 salary. Group technical director Mr


Chris Richardson (44) received a £50,680 bonus and £142,333 salary for a £202,296 package. Mr Nick Gale (43), managing


director of Ultraframe UK, received a £51,225 bonus and £150,000 salary for a total pack­ age of £263,934. The report reveals his package included a £50,211 relocation payment, Group finance director Mr


Alan Rothwell (49) received a £29,192 bonus and £86,528 in salary for a package of £115,852 for the part of the year he served following his appointment. The report reveals how well


Ultraframe is performing and how confident the company is in the future. Turnover rose by 51.8% to


£145.2m. and operating profits rose by 31% to £33.3m. Each share earned 19.4p. In his chairman's statement,


Mr Rod Sellers said it had been "an excellent year's performance, despite the challenging conditions faced in our markets". Long-term prospects for the


group were good. His report stated: "Although


the major economies in which we are established are growing at only modest rates, overall the sec­ tors in which we operate provide better long-term growth poten­ tial. We are pleased with the achievements made and with our emphasis on investing in product development and customer sup­ port we are confident of another


year of good progress." During th e year th e number of


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left, Ultraframe UK managing director Mr Gale, group techni­


Barrow man is new head of trailblazing Welsh school


A MAN from Barrow, who once was a pupil and a teacher in Clitheroe, has been appointed headmaster of a trailblazing new school in Wrexham. Mr Bernard Knowles, pic­


tured right, is a former pupil of St Michael and St John’s RC School. He trained as a teacher


and specialised in maths, PE and technical drawing at Ribblesdale High School. He is the first head of a large school in the newly-created education system in the Welsh town where three schools are being replaced by two new ones. The appointment comes


after Mr Knowles was select­ ed by the Department for Education and Skills to be one of just 11 deputy heads in Britain to take part in a training course specially for headmasters. The move was made because the role of head


teachers has developed wide­ ly in recent years and incum­ bents needs a wider range of skills than just an ability to teach. Before his trail-blazing


course Mr Knowles (47) was deputy head of St Hilda’s CE High School, Sefton Park, Liverpool. His role in Wrexham will


be a challenging one. Wrex­ ham has had its educational problems and replacing its three schools with two new ones is said to be the solution. Mr Knowles will have to


supervise the recruitment of a whole new staff. The 1,200- pupil school is so new it only carries the temporary name of “East Wrexham High School.” Mr Knowles, who lives at


Barrow with his wife and three teenage daughters, is a former secretary of the local table tennis league, and takes his new post after a uniquely varied career in education. He left Ribblesdale to


teach a t Longridge High School before spending eight years in various com­ puter and other courses at Blackpool and Fylde Col­ lege. For four years he was


head of information resources at The Radclyffe School, Oldham. He has no immediate


plans to move to Wrexham, though. He plans to keep his


main home in Barrow so as not to disturb his children’s education, (s)


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cal director Mr Richardson, and Ultraframe US chief executive offi­


cer Mr Ewing, who, between them, earned close to £900,000 in salaries and bonuses last year, (s)


Mobile police station will aid rural cover


THE introduction of a £30,000-plus mobile police station next month will add to force cover in the rural areas of the Ribble Valley. Insp. Bob Ford stressed that the aim of the special­


ly-equipped Ford Transit van, due to arrive in the Valley in February, is to establish improved contact with the public and increase police visibility in rural areas during the day. Recent police rota changes had, he said, already


resulted in more rural officers "out and about" when many members of the public were asleep, providing a much better response capability. A survey is currently being carried out in a bid to


discover where, and when, the mobile station would be best utilised. More than 1,500 questionnaires have been distrib­


uted to randomly selected addresses throughout the rural areas of the Ribble Valley, from Mellor to the far end of Gisbum and to Newton. The mobile station is being financed with money


from the Rural Policing Fund and will be staffed by a police community support officer. "It will be visiting villages, such as Waddington,


Grindleton, Chipping etc. and be used for police surg­ eries, property marking, local events, such as agricul­ tural shows, and searches," said Insp. Ford The mobile station will also have a high profile at


auction marts, where traditionally hundreds of farm­ ers gather, with police seeking to reduce incidences of crime affecting outlying farms. A timetable for its use is currently being drawn up,


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commutes for an hour and a half a day from his Low Moor home to his “office” a t the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds where he is kept busy demonstrating the art of the fighting man of years gone by.


’ His training, firs t as an actor at the London Academy


' of Music and Dramatic Art, then at the British Academy of Dramatic Combat, stands him in good stead for the daily rounds of combat laid on for the public a t the popular museum in Leeds. He has recently returned to live in Clitheroe, the town he


left at the age of 16 soon after the death of his father, Mr Trevor Balmforth, in a light aircraft crash in Scotland. Before returning to the


North West and the job in Leeds, he acted in London and spent two years working in Australia. Mr Balmforth said:“Now


and again we get little injuries which require stitches, but we are well insured, and there are stringent safety measures to prevent serious injury.” In the latest show a t the


Armouries, Mr Balmforth and his colleagues recreate vividly the macabre battles by gladiators. Our picture shows Mr


Balmforth (right) in one of the gladiatorial contests, (s)


Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, January 9th, 2003


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