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A Valentine’s skip aids heart charity


SCHOOLGIRLS skipped their way to suc­ cess in a bid to liaise cash for a national char- ' f


ity. , -.. . In teams of two or three, Years 7 and 8 •


girls from Clitheroe Royal Grammar School attempted to keep skipping for up to an hour. The sponsored sport session was one of a


number of activities which took place at the school’s Chatburn Road site in the week leading up to Valentine’s Day in a bid to raise cash for the aptly, chosen charity, the British Heart Foundation. " Funds were boosted when pupils turned


Cupid and delivered Valentine'cards round school, while a cake stall and special teach­ ers’ edition of the television programme “Blind Date” also added to the fund-raising total. Miss Claire Baldwin, the teacher respon­


sible for co-ordinating the various activities, said she hoped the pupils would have raised several hundred pounds for the charity. Pictured taking part in the sponsored skip


are Charlotte Thompson, Sophie Wenborn, Rachel Ruddock and Jessica Ibrahim, sup­ ported by fellow pupils. (C140203//5)


As Kibble Valley protesters join anti-war demo, some thoughts from marchers


THE Ribble Valley was well represented as an esti­ mated one million people converged on the nation's capital in a bid to vent their feelings against war


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the journey to London were Peter and Brigid Hardwick, of Waddington Road, Clitheroe, who describe their day in the city below. "We went up to London to join the protest on Saturday only after a lot of thought. We abhor Saddam Hussein and what he has done to his own people, as well as to the Kurds, Iranians and Kuwaitis; we have a lot' of sympathy with Tony Blair and suspect he has done more than he is credited with to restrain George Bush, but we went. We went because in our world the means of killing human beings massively, indis­ criminately, and over the long term are becoming available to all and there are two kinds of organisation which claim the right to use such means: the sovereign states (such as USA, Iraq etc.) and international ter­ rorists. In these circumstances, the only hope for our civilisa­ tion, even in our own lifetimes,


Had the Security Council


called clearly for war on Iraq, we would not have marched; but they have not yet done so,


so we went. We got to London late, but


found the back of the march was just moving off from the area of London University. We followed it, shuffling and stop­ ping and cheering and finding out how much harder it is to walk at a quarter of a mile per hour than at four miles per hour. Most people were young, and there were many families. It surprised us that there were so few old ones; and when a man sitting on a pedestal with a camera asked us to stop and pose, we knew at once it was because we were the most decrepit people he’d seen that day. The vast majority seemed to be English, but there was perhaps a 10% mixture of peo­ ple who could have been Near Eastern. Oozing down the wide Lon­


don streets, filling them from side to side, the crowd was live ly rather than noisy, but


from time to time a Mexican wave of sound - whooping, cheering, whistling, trumpet­ ing, gathered and broke, with­ out obvious occasion, though


let-alone those of our children,; its recurrence to the appear-r^Victory . We;honoured.her. -v, is in strong, authoritative inter-’ ances of a police helicopter ; And so we wound on. Police ........


ineurries,, some thought they could link


national organisations and for USA and Britain to attack Iraq against the will of the United Nations would be to weaken, perhaps fatally, our best hope for survival.


' ■ which from time to time lent importance to our gathering. I was carrying a piece of


cardboard tacked onto a bam­ boo cane with two drawing pins and reading simply "U N."


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it in the forest of sturdier, more assertive banners: ‘Don't attack Iraq’,’ ‘Not in my Name’,’ ‘Murder and Mayhem at £1.4b per day’,’ ‘What's it Oil About?’, ‘Peace in Pales­ tine’,’ ‘Victory to the Intifa­ da’,’ ‘Bush Off’,’ ‘War is the terrorism of the Rich’; and there were, of course, the. wide proud banners of the trades unions. There were not many which spoke for us. The only beautiful one was a vertical standard in blue, brown and yellow borne by some Quakers from Wales, and the only one with which we found ourselves


' in complete sympathy read: ‘Various people against bad things.’ We also passed a lady, stand­


ing on an island a little apart from our endless winding river, who held in front of her a notice saying: ‘Peace through Military


lined the route and told us we were about half a million strong; more experienced marchers said ‘always multiply police estimates by two or three.’ People from upper win­


Student heads off to Cambodia on a mission of mercy


A STUDENT from Whalley is off to Cambodia to help disabled chil­


dren. Mary Whowell has been selected


by Outreach International to spend three months at a rehabilitation cen­ tre near Phnom Penh, the capital. She will be working with victims


of landmines and polio, young peo­ ple who would normally be involved in subsistence farming, but whose disability prevents tha t kind of work. Polio still cripples many young


people in South-East Asia, and the landmines which litter the country­ side following years of war and the Pol Pot regime continue to kill and maim in Cambodia. At the centre, Mary will be teach­


ing basic English, computer skills, sports and assisting with therapy. Many young people at rehabilita­ tion centres learn traditional art and craft work, and the items they make are sold in local shops, mainly to tourists. Mary (pictured) is in her second


year reading geography at the Uni­ versity of Manchester and is expect­ ing her work to be challenging and difficult. She said: “I hope to make a differ


ence to the lives of the people I will be working with.” . Mary is due to set off in June and


is currently attempting to raise the £3,000 necessary to cover the cost of her flights, insurance, board and lan­ guage training, so is seeking sponsors to support her. Anyone wishing to help with her


fund-raising can contact her on 01254823341.


dows sporadically cheered; peo­ ple in doorways brought tea for the police. Dancers appeared from time


to time, clad in green leaves or dressed as skeletons, or made up in South Sea style with beating drums. And so we progressed at 10


yards a minute past the six the­ atres of Shaftesbury Avenue and into a great standing wave of sound towering over Piccadil­ ly Circus as the stream of protest from Euston met the stream from the Embankment and both flowed- on together towards Hyde Park. But my wife and I never got


there. We had a train to catch, broke off down Windmill Street and had the pleasant, unrepeat­ able experience of walking northwards down the middle of a Regent Street wholly given up to pedestrians. On the train (which was on


.; Would it strengthen Saddam ' Hussein’s hand, and if so would it encourage him to overplay it and so finally bring down the general condemnation of the


time, starting and getting in) we reflected, not very profound­ ly, on our experience. We won­ dered how the demonstrators from the Middle East would have fared had they tried such a march in their own countries against the declared policy of their governments. We wondered what would be the effect of this day's action.


United Nations which would lead to war? Would it weaken Tony Blair,


or would it strengthen his hand in trying to moderate George Bush? Who knows? In politics you cannot see the


ends of your actions; and yet when invited to act, you have to do what seems best at the time, even if it is as vague a venture as joining various people against bad things." Mr Jo Harding, who owns


Roundstone Books in Clitheroe, attended the march with six other local people, though he said that he knew at least 15 were attending from the area. He said: “It went very well,


but as a veteran marcher I found it wholly different from others I’ve been on." He said the first thing he


noticed was the diversity of the people involved, from all walks of life, ages and backgrounds. He also described how the


whole thing felt spontaneous, good-natured and comfortable, with everyone thinking the same thing. He said: “I t felt like a home­


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made demonstration. Usually there are printed placards and lots of megaphones: of course they were there too, but there were far more home-made ban­ ners, plus music and sharing of food. One person told me it was like a walking picnic.” Another thing he noticed


was how slow the march was. He said: “There were so many people, it took us four and a half hours to walk one and a half miles. We didn’t get to Hyde Park."


Thieves strike as staff celebrate Eid festival


AUDACIOUS thieves appear to have driven a truck through a security check to net a major haul of plasma screen television sets and other electronic goods from a Ribble Valley electronics company. Staff at Time Computers were still trying to establish the total loss nearly a week after they dis­ covered the thieves had attacked a warehouse and company shop on the complex at Simonstone. Initial estimates put the value of the property at


more than £50,000. Police believe that the thieves took advantage of


Eid, the Muslim holiday, knowing that the compa­ ny, which employs a large number of Asian work- ers, would be operating on a skeleton staff because of the religious holiday. . Insp. Bob .Ford said: “Because it was the Mus­


lim holiday, the company was operating on a reduced number of staff. Whether the thieves took advantage of this we do not know.” I t seems the raiders forced their way into the


’warehouse and operated undetected for some time with a pedestrian-controlled hydraulic fork-lift to arrange the goods they planned to take near one of the exits. While they worked, a £3,000 plasma television


screen was dropped and smashed. Detectives called in on Thursday when the theft


was discovered believe the thieves first arranged the goods near the exit of the warehouse, then returned later with a vehicle.. Daringly, after driving openly through a security


barrier, they may have loaded up the vehicle with stolen goods in full public glare.,; The raid is thought to have taken place some­


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major offenders. A camera was whirring on Thursday


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