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Garden club just keeps on growing


MEMBERSHIP of Clitheroe Garden Club is continuing to increase.


to go out with the next newsletter. Members meeting at Ribblesdale High School Technolo­ gy College were asked to pass the schedules on


to interested non-members if they were unable to attend the show. Mr Gregson appealed to members to start


140 households were now members. A schedule for the club's August show is due


Chairman Mr Bill Gregson told the club that


preparing for the show on August 30th, urging everyone to enter. Help with stewarding etc was needed from those who were not taking part. The once-a-month opening of the sales hut


on to radio


Pupils get switched


Castle FM, taught the young­ sters a lot about the perils of preparing programmes and some of the difficulties, many of which are not always obvious. Broadcaster David Blaxhall’s


THESE pupils from Ribblesdale High School Technology College, Clitheroe, will listen to the radio with a more appreciative ear in future. Setting up their own “station”,


training company, The Radio Surgery, was used to teach the pupils the basics of going on the air.


on Saturdays during the peak times, in addition to the weekly Sunday opening, had been a suc­ cess. The last session for this year is on the afternoon of June 7th. The chairman reminded members that there


were still some places left on the summer visits, but they were filling up.


aid of the Ribble Valley Talking Newspaper was £245.


club coffee evening at Waddington on July 16th. Members were urged to grow plants for this event and for the club plant sale on August 13th. The main event of the evening was a talk on


Tickets were on sale at the meeting for the The final total raised at the coffee morning in


voice projection, interviewing and writing, and reading scripts were among the subjects covered by Mr Blaxhall. Castle FM prepared three


Operating the equipment,


mock programmes with special guests including Blackburn Rovers assistant manager Tony


Parks. Ribblesdale Technology College head of music Mr Andrew Anderson said: “This exciting pro­ ject enhanced our students’ com­


munication skills, confidence building and dexterity. Who knows, some of them may move on to become household names in


future!”Our picture shows Chris Mullen with other members of the Castle FM team. (C120503/5)


roses by Martin Hesketh. With the aid of slides, he took members on a very interesting grand tour of rose varieties, showing everything from dwarf border roses to climbers with the poten­ tial of climbing to 100ft. Following his talk he answered many ques­


in which one lucky gardener won a garden gnome. The chairman reminded members that the next indoor meeting was on October 1st, but that the club had many other activities over the summer.


tions from members. He modestly claimed not to be a rose expert, but showed by his answers that, in fact, he was. The meeting closed with the members' draw


Partnership’s positive moves are helping cut crime and disorder


by Tim Procter


THE several-partner team tackling Ribble Valley crime and disorder is already see­ ing success - with more to come. “Positive moves” are having


an effect, says Mr Bill Alker, a Ribble Valley Borough Council official closely concerned with the partnership. Speaking at a Lancashire


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“The Ribble Valley is no soft touch offering rich pickings.” Recent police activities such as


chasing armed robbers, tackling local-victim international vehicle scams, catching drug dealers or detecting diesel thieves have resulted in arrests. Sometimes help from the public has been of vital help. Action against young people


Police Authority public meeting in Clitheroe, Mr Alker outlined some of the Ribble Valley Crime and Disorder Partnership’s ini­ tiatives. Its newly-published strategy


running through to 2005 has a clear message for criminals -


who cause continuous problems in the community is ongoing - ones who “get the message” early enough can keep out of court. The partnership includes the


the CCTV system already


obtaining convictions in Clitheroe and Whalley. Three new cameras are being


installed to extend the bound­ aries of the system and the mobile ones have been used at locations of frequent disorder or crime. The partnership has also


ular are often identified by the system, which is operated by offi­ cers able to combine its technical features with their experience. “Sweeps” are now being planned. The partnership’s plans include


Travelling criminals in partic­


local and county councils, the police, the police authority which controls the county force, the pro­ bation service and the health ser­ vice. Funding available to it has helped pay for several new-tech- nology initiatives, in addition to


bought an automatic number plate reader for use by the police. It electronically checks passing vehicles against the national database of those which are sus­ pect in some way, whether with­ out current tax, owned or used by a known criminal, seen near where crime has occurred, possi­ bly involved in a failing to stop accident or showing a registration ambiguity which may indicate false plates.


numerous measures to combat disorder and nuisance which affect far more people, numerical­ ly, than crime.


slow to enter employment or fur­ ther education, noise of various kinds, vandalism and road safety are among the wide range of top­ ics being covered. Specialist staff, sometimes in teams, are involved.


Substance abuse, young people


to combat dog fouling, with covert CCTV surveillance being increased.


Technology is even being used in Artistic WI members creating hand-stitched quilt


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MAKING a bedcover will pro­ duce an artistic and historic result for some local seamstresses. The needlework is being


undertaken by the ladies of Slaidburn WI, who are creating a


dered and appliqued the squares, with some ladies supplying one and others making several. These have now been joined together, creating a patchwork of reds, pinks and blues, in preparation for hand quilting. This will be done in time-hon­


hand-stitched, double-bed sized quilt. They have already embroi­


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Plan to give playing fields a facelift


A RIBBLE VALLEY playing field could be in for a facelift. Plans to install multigoal play


Chipping: Formation of canopy over


equipment and surfacing on Lang- ho playing field in Bushburn Drive have been submitted to Ribble Valley Borough Council. Comments on the proposal (No.


plans are as follows: Clilheroc: Single-storey extension and


conservatory, 8 Buccleuch Avenue (0387). Erection of conservatory, 10 Moorland Avenue (0388). Freestanding advertisement with two flagpoles, land off Croft Street/Littlemoor Road (0391). Erection of new perimeter fence, Clitheroe Delivery Office, Chester Avenue (0392). Proposed change of use from shops/offices (vacant) to offices, 1 and 3 Pimlico Road (0396). Simonstonc: New entrance canopy to


refurbished office building, Time Tech­ nology Park, Blackburn Road (0389).


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mission of 3/02/0029), 107 Whalley Road (0393). Billington and Langho: Proposed first-


0395) must be submitted to the council by May 30th. Other recent


floor bedroom extension and conserva­ tory, 5 Rogersfield (0398). Read: New vehicular access roller


shutter door and box profile cladding to exterior wall, Unit 11, Friendship Mill, Whalley Road (0399). Boltun-by-Bowlami, Gishurn Forest,


Sawley: Second-floor extensions (alter­ ation to plans as passed under 3/03/0049), Varleys Farm, Anna Lane (0400). Whalley: Proposed conservatory, 14


Waters Edge (0401). Proposed conser­ vatory, 12 Waters Edge (0402). Gishurti: Change of use of first-floor


flat from residential to commercial (to use as dining room and kitchen for exist­ ing restaurant), Grove Cottage Restau­ rant, Main Street (0403).


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quilt in time for the local arts and crafts exhibition. This will be held in Newton-in-Bowland Vil­ lage Hall from 10 a.m. to 5p.m. on the weekend of July 12th and


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variety of crafts, including needlework, watercolour painting and glasswork, and the WI ladies will provide their famous home­ made teas. The completed quilt, which by


13th and the quilt will be on dis­ play. The exhibition will feature a


the very nature of its making will be greater than the sum of its many parts, will be raffled to raise money for the Women’s Institute and Friends of Slaid-


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