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REVELLERS at the Muzik Magazine Dance Awards In the company of young entrepreneurs


BUSINESS tycoons of tomorrow have been busy learning the basics at schools across the district, thanks to


the Young Enterprise scheme. It encourages high school pupils, aged 15


and above, to learn about business, not from the pages of a text book, but from real-life experience. Pupils from sue schools in the Ribble Val­


ley and Hyndburn area are involved in Young Enterprise, setting up their own in- house businesses, designing, manufactur­ ing and marketing their own products and, hopefully, managing the profits! Everything is done by the business book.


Each Young Enterprise company must appoint directors and managers, each with their own’area of expertise and responsibil­ ity.


The companies must work within their


set budget, use the materials and resources available to them, identify and exploit a gap in the market and keep the company accounts in tip-top order. Making special allowances on the


grounds that these young entrepreneurs are “only s tu d en ts” goes completely against the Young Enterprise ethos, which aims to recreate the authentic cut and thrust of the business world. Over the many years th a t it has been


running, Young Enterprise has seen many exceptional high school businesses, some finding that demand for their high-quality products far outstrips supply! The scheme has inspired many students


to enter the business world and equipped them with the knowledge to make a confi­ dent start. I t also encourages schools to forge strong


links with business and industry in their area. Each Young Enterprise company is


urged to seek sponsorship from an estab­ lished local company, benefiting from advice, guidance and, above all else, invaluable experience of doing business in the real world. The young entrepreneurs must deal with


real-life business issues such as health and safety, VAT, other taxes and the dreaded


auditors when setting up and running their companies. The support, encouragement and backing of their business sponsors is crucial in all these areas. Another key element of business is compe­


tition and this is not overlooked by Young Enterprise. The high school companies compete


against each other to see which is the most successful in business. That includes a popular Young Enterprise


Trade Fair, which takes place in Clitheroe on Saturday. It will be held under cover at the top of


Ribble Valley Borough Council’s car park, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Young Enterprise Trade Fair offers a


great opportunity to buy some highly indi­ vidual, if not unique, Christmas gifts, or just to treat yourself. Details of the six companies taking part,


and the products they have to offer, are as fol­ lows: From Clitheroe Royal Grammar School


comes “Pulse”, a company appealing to a broad range of customers by offering three products. Stylish candles will sell alongside com­


memorative mugs marking the school’s 450th anniversary and sure to appeal to pupils past and present. Also set to be top sellers are “illuminart” designer illuminated name plates. “Lodestar” is the name of this year’s


Young Enterprise company at Ribblesdale High School Technology College, also in Clitheroe. It has produced hand-crafted storage racks


for spice jars - a must for anyone who likes to get creative in the kitchen. St Christopher’s C of E High School, at


Accrington, is home to “Signum” a dynamic new business producing hand-crafted door plaques. These small objects of desire would make


ideal gifts for Christmas or any time of year and need to be seen at Saturday’s trade fair to be fully appreciated. “Heaven Scent” is the clever name of the


Young Enterprise company from Rhyddings High School, at Oswaldtwistle. I t offers its customers a taste of “divine


luxury” through its range of highly desirable toiletries. Go on, spoil yourself!


St Christopher’s C of E H igh School Equally cleverly named is “Fleecewood”,


the company from Norden High School, at Rishton. Its name reflects the company’s two main


products - cosy fleece hats and scarves and high-quality hand-made wooden craft items. Last but not least comes “Atmosphere”,


the Young Enterprise company from St Augustine’s R.C. High School, at Billington. I t has put its resources to work to manu­


facture a range of highly individual and appealing clocks, the like of which you will not find anywhere else. To experience all these products first-hand,


make sure to visit the Young Enterprise Trade Fair. You won’t be disappointed. Mr Trevor Roberts, a past chairman of the


Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Young Enter­ prise Board, commented: “The products are all of extremely high quality. “In past years this has meant outstanding


success nationally in Young Enterprise com­ petitions, in which our local schools’ compa­ nies have won first and second place.” The companies have to take their work a


stage further when they each produce a three- minute video promoting their products. If that was not daunting enough, the video


is intended for the export market and must be produced in French! Each company is judged on the content


and entertainment value of its video, and the standard of French. All the presentations will be made at a spe­


cial event at the Civic Hall and Grand Cine­ ma, on York Street, on Wednesday, Decem­ ber 17th, starting at 6 p.m. The judges will include fluent French


speakers Corinne Pichonnat, of Ultraframe’s export division, and Sylvia Hayes, wife of the financial director at Spiroflow. Mr Roberts explained that the local win­


ner then goes on to compete at regional and possibly national level. The overall UK winner will repeat its pre­


sentation and sell its products at a trade fair in Brussels where 20 companies take part, mostly native French speakers. “I would like to thank everyone who has


supported this year’s Young Enterprise com­ petition,” said Mr Roberts, “especially Rib­ ble Valley Council for the use of its facilities for Saturday’s trade fair.”


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■ To see what the enterprise and hard work of young people can produce, and top up your Christ­ mas shopping at the same time, visit the Young Enterprise Trade Fair on the Ribble Valley Bor­ ough Council car park on Saturday. Stalls will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.


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Drinking is ‘controlled by genes


THIS is the season to be jolly and maybe also to bewail our lack of willpower as we knock back a few too many drinks at the office party and generally over-indulge all our vices from


smoking to eating. But why is it some people are the soul of


sobriety and never suffer the next day with a hangover, while others cannot help behaving badly when the wine is flowing and gaily fling all their inhibitions into the file marked B for


bin? Our drinking tendencies, according to a


newly published book, “Your Genes Unzipped”, are largely due to to our genetic programming. Genes are our blueprints for life - we have


around 30,000 of them in each of the trillions of cells in our body. We inherit our genes from a combination of those of our parents. The book’s author, Prof Tim Spector, says:


“Genes are useless by themselves, but they provide the blueprints for proteins which make, start and drive all our body’s structure and the chemical reactions. “Protein reactions are responsible for the


way we think, talk, act, look, eat and breathe, as well as our subconscious desires.” So genes are also responsible in part for


shaping our drinking pattern and govern our reactions to alcohol. The professor says: “Peo­ ple have always thought of cigarette smoking and drinking alcohol as down to purely envi­ ronmental factors - such as social circum­ stances, education and religion. “Most people would be shocked to realise


that the underlying single most important fac­ tor in our drinking pattern is our genes. So how much we smoke and drink has a large element that is down to genetics.” It also means that relying on or taking too


literally the official drinking guidelines for safe drinking could be a mistake. Instead we should consider that just as we


have a unique genetic make up it then follows that our own personal tolerance level will vary enormously. Prof Spector says: “The advice on how


much alcohol it is safe to consume before you are unsafe to drive is only a guideline. “Even if you accepted that two glasses of


wine a day is safe for most people there are some individuals who, after half a glass of wine, will go bright red in the face, feel sick and dizzy and be unable to finish the glass. “Equally there are others who will have two


glasses of wine, and it will not have any notice­ able effect on them at all. “This difference between people is due to the


differences in their genetic make up.” As well as the acute effects there are also dif­


ferences, governed by our genes, in how we break down alcohol and get rid of it from our systems. He says: “This is because the chemical con­


stituents that give you a hangover are elimi­ nated differently in different people. Some break it down easily and quickly, while others take far longer and those people will suffer hangovers.” He points out: “People often say, ‘My friend


ple who have inherited Asian genes, lack the liver enzymes that can rapidly break down alcohol. That is why people from Asia, includ­ ing American Indians, deal with alcohol badly and go bright red in the face and get very drunk very quickly. There are others with a genetic make up


had a couple of pints and he was breathalysed the other day and was fine, so that follows it must be okay for me to have that amount’. This is completely misleading. Everyone is totally different, and should consider their own experience, and this is true for most traits.” People from Asia, and some European peo­


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which allows them to keep the blood alcohol level down in their blood. So if they are breathalysed after several glasses there will be hardly a trace of alcohol because it will be eliminated so quickly. Generally, people who are teetotallers have a certain genetic make up which means they


cannot tolerate any alcohol. As our genes are inherited from a combina­


tion of those found in our parents, we can learn a lot about our risk of suffering from alcohol by looking at their behaviour. Prof Spector, who specialises in genetic epidemiology at St Thomas’ Hospital, London says: “Don’t just consider how much they drink or don’t drink, but also related addictions such as smoking or gambling. If they do run in the family, you have to accept you could have a much higher risk of going the same way. The earlier you can realise that you may have a potential problem, the more able you are to cope with it.”


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JUST over £200 was raised for two worthwhile causes at the Ribble Valley Mayor’s Christmas coffee morning. The money from the


event will go to the two chosen charities of the Mayor of the Ribble Valley, Coun. Alan Yearing - the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Dyslexic Associa­ tion. There were a number of


stalls at the event, includ­ ing ones selling cakes, Christmas cards and gift paper, as well as a bottle and jar tombola and a raf­ fle.


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Mayor and the Mayoress, Mrs Susan Yearing, plus guests at the event, held in the Ribble Valley Council Chamber. (C291103/1)


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