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lottery hall ide


tntal Fund had already


|ig h th a t th e L ancashire ; Programme will donate ■ villagers to find the bal-


I and household in Tosside Ing donations.” I village institute for more Iriginal building was a for- I r wooden army hut which 1 was followed by the cur- Ih was constructed from (aged from former prefab


lid: “Our own campaign is I are halfway there with Id. We are now writing to


Iponsible for building both (popularity of the venue le decades with regular enings being staged there, dition of the most recent ated over the years, with i poor. But the institute is


In 60 square miles of coun- shire-Yorkshire border.


Id from old panels, there I building could be refur- ll. conforming to modem luirements as well as envi- liility standards, was per- I solution. I village school kick-start- (revitalise the village hall lto the community. ; Id: “Ironically, since losing l ia d q u i te an in f lu x of (he area, and our new hall ovide b e t te r services for [le increasing number of


J- folk.” In, work is likely to get Iv facility this summer, pial evening on Saturday : a lottery grant celebra-


Ite will be the venue for a liebrate the awarding of


(side Social Committee, ; a hot buffet supper and


lided by Mid-life Crisis. Ilisco Ind are available from the lean pay at the door. The p.m.


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TWO sixthiform students from the Ribble Valley will be going'global this summer. - *


Teenagers Vanessa Tattersall (16)


and Mark Binns (17) have been selected to attend the Global Young Leaders' Conference in Washington DC and New York. . This prestigious event aims to give


young people the opportunity to explore cultural differences, chal­ lenge diplomatic skills, build confi­ dence and enhance their, decision- maiking ability in an international climate. The youngsters, both members of


As well as securing sponsorship. ;•


from Ribble Valley companies, they are also hoping to find promotional : and marketing backing. ' ' ' -


.- Other fund-raising activities planned by Vanessa, a former pupil at St Augustine’s RC High School,' Billington, and Mark, of Brockhall . Village, look set to include a raffle, and events for their colleagues in the sixth form and across CRGS. ' Both Vanessa and Mark .were* nominated by staff from CRGS on


the sixth form at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, are looking for­ ward to their transatlantic trip, but before they go they must raise in the region of £5,000 between them towards accommodation and tuition. This week the duo were hoping to


kick-start their fund-raising cam­ paign.


,the basis of their academic excel­ lence, leadership skills and fluency in English.


; , During their time in the States,*


the pair, together with other dele­ gates from America and 80 other countries from across the world, hope to meet representatives from the Bush administration, as well as visiting the United Nations, where ' they hope to take part in a meeting.


Prison for Internet,, porn mail


A CHATBURN man caught with Internet porn, following investigations by authorities in the USA, has been jailed'for nine months. Gordon- Robinson was also


told that his name would be on’ the sex offenders' register for 10 years. .


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. .....The 39-year-old was caught out by an operation called Nick- ■ el, where details of transactions involving people from the USA were passed on to British police by the Americans. . Robinson, of Bridge Road, Chatburn, had pleaded guilty to


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Teenager revved car and drove into woman as she walked near disabled riding centre


A TEENAGE driver from Lang- ho knocked down a worker at a special needs education centre when she stood in front of his car


to make him slow down. Blackburn magistrates heard


that Anita Knagg, a trustee at Lords House Farm, Rishton, was walking in front of the car driven by Ashley John Campbell to make him drive slowly down the lane leaving the riding for the disabled centre. 7 He began revving his engine and


turned his radio up loud as he moved to within a foot of Mrs Knagg. .


Ms Lisa .Worsley (prosecuting)


said that as she walked in front of the car it hit her legs knocking her to the floor on her hands and knees. Campbell (18), of Higherfield,


Langho, pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention. He was fined £60 with £35 costs and his licence endorsed with three


penalty points. Ms Worsley said Mrs Knagg •


was working with some children at the side of the lane leading to the centre, which is also a public foot­ path. Campbell had driven into the centre at what Mrs Knagg consid­ ered to be an excessive speed and-


Sporting pupils need not worry about rain!


PUPILS of Ribblesdale High School and Technolo­ gy College do not have to worry as much about weather forecasts from now on.


New all-weather facili­


ties, which have been a major expenditure for the school and Lancashire County Council, are now in use.


A football pitch-sized '


allow hockey, tennis, foot- b a l l i ta n d i c r ic k e t 'to -be- played in most weather conditions; • The school also has a


area has been laid down to Astro Turf, which will


new fitness room and climbing wall, as well as a sprung maple wood floor in the sports hall. But the new projects,


.L E D G E i the Ribble Valley mar-


J from Birmingham at All lirdshire. Im Rovers fan and former 1 Scott, son of Alan and


(lilledge, from Coleshill, king at Usher Hall, Edin-


lege, Oxford, in 1990. py her father, Dr David tory taffeta gown.


(r Pocock, Kate Shepherd liy wore burgundy velvet


I man and Messrs David Irew Gardner the grooms-


Iciated and the reception Ixford.


stination and the couple I, Derbyshire.


for the Society


l i t was an excellent cult, said Mr Nicholson -


Io0% increase on the ual amount raised. The bney, he added, would bport the society's many ejects among disadvan- hed children, including


lip for young runaways Id the highly-praised liildren's Society scheme (offer young offenders on l i l an alternative to lison, so that their lives lild hopefully be given a |sh start. Speaking briefly at the pper, Mr Nicholson also


Irents were addicts, and le other to support the pldren of travelling fami- js. Such children can suf- | from lack of schooling, I well as being labelled I ty or dishonest.


Jmtioned two little- lown projects run by the (ciety. One was to Ifriend children whose


costing £500,000, do not mean that the traditional grass playing surfaces will be forsaken. Far from it.


... Part of the project has been to install a new drainage system to allow for one full-sized football pitch and two junior foot­ ball pitches to be less sus­ ceptible to flooding. A spokesman for the


school said: “Our involve­ ment with the community will be enhanced, our con­ tinued partnership with local clubs and primary schools will also benefit greatly.” She added: “A new


■ dimension has been added to our whole school sports programme.” ■ Ribblesdale was one of


the Ribble Valley Schools which all fared well above average in the recently published secondary schools league tables. Ribblesdale was sixth in


the country in the list of 160 top secondary schools. The school’s rate of 68% of


SOME residents of a modern development at Sawley are feeling left out of the Broadband revolu­ tion. Although some of the Internet


users in Brpwgate, Sawley, will be able to take advantage of 10-times quicker access when Broadband comes to Clitheroe on April 9th, others will still have to make do with the existing line. This is because some of the Saw­


ley telephone subscribers are linked to the Chatbum exchange, which will not feature the Asym­ metrical Digital Subscriber Line necessary for Broadband to be


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when he returned she stopped his car- and had words with him about his speed. ’


•. ..... Campbell returned about half an


hour later and Mrs Knagg again spoke to him about his speed. “He asked if 20 m.p.h. was too


fast for her and she replied yes. She walked away with her back to the car and at that stage the defendant began revving his engine and turned up his radio. She took a few more steps and


then the car hit her on the legs knocking her to the floor”. .Campbell shouted'at Mrs Knagg: “What do you think you


are d6ihg?’”and she said she was memorising'his number. He shout­ ed for her to report him before again speeding off. Mr Michael Blacklidge (defend­


ing). said the incident was totally out of character for his client. After studying at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School and gaining his A-levels, he went on to university, where he is doing a degree in mar­ keting. , '


; ;,,7 • On the day of the incident,


Campbell had taken his younger sister to Lords' House Farm for a riding lesson. “Since he passed his test more than 12 months ago that


is something he has done most Sat-; urday mornings and there has never been a problem before,” said Mr Blacklidge. “He says there was nothing different this Saturday. There was some conversation with a lady, but he didn’t think anything of it”. “For whatever reason this lady!


did step out in front of him and- told him to stop”, said Mr Black­ lidge. “He was told he would have: to follow her and she started walk­ ing towards the gate. He drove behind her and he now concedes- that he drove a little bit too close.” ■


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15-year-olds passing A* to C in GCSE or GNVQ is' the’,best,s.cpre the,., school has eyer achieved.-, Head Ms Glynne Ward .


said: “Ribblesdale has advanced by leaps and bounds over the 14 years I have been here, there is no doubt about it. The school seems to go on from success to success.” She said the school was now at 1,250, having


accessed by computers. The lucky ones at Sawley happen to be linked to the Clitheroe exchange. One of the unlucky subscribers


grown from 750 pupils. It was.Iikely to grow to a’


, ceiling of 1,300 pupils in the next year. . • Other Ribble Valley


secondary schools pass rate for A* to C GCSE or GNVQs were: Bowland High School 57%, Clitheroe Royal Gram­ mar School 98%, Oakhill College 45%, St Augus­ tine’s RC High' School 72%, St Cecilia’s RC


■ tomers in Sawley who want Broad­ band through the Clithero’


High School 65%, Stony- hurstGollege.74%. ' Otlier figures in the league tables which caused no surprise were the truancy rates. All the Ribble Valley schools returned a figure of 0%, or very close to it. Our pictures shows


Ribblesdale pupils and teacher Rebecca Simpson on the all-weather pitch. (C270103/4)


Some residents miss out on Broadband revolution e tele­


phone exchange. The Broadband service has only


is Mr James Hughes, proprietor of an IT business. Coincidentally, his former boss,


who also set up an IT business, is one of the lucky ones - even though he lives only six doors away on the same road. His complaints to BT have been fruitless and, understandably, Mr Hughes is miffed about the situa­ tion. Mr Hughes claims it would be possible for BT to switch those cus-


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been made available from the Clitheroe exchange after a big cam­ paign and BT says that from April, Broadband will be available to around 966 businesses and 6,992 residential customers in Clitheroe. The Country Land and Business


Association has welcomed moves by BT to speed up the availability of affordable Broadband technolo­ gy in rural areas. BT has reduced trigger levels on 388 telephone exchanges and a f ur-


ther 87 exchanges, previously classed as unviable, have now had trigger levels set. ..-■■■ CLA regional director Mr Dou­


glas Chalmers said that they had been working hard to help rural areas get access to it. But Sawley was not among the


fortunate few,'"although a spokesman said they would inves­ tigate to see what could be done for the villagers. The BT Broadband website


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-five specimen charges of possess-- d^indecent images of.children.' ^M ag is trate s had committed, -him'to Preston Crown Court for sentence. Mr Julian Holt (prosecuting)


said that police seized a comput­ er and floppy discs from the defendant’s home. When analysed at the head­


quarters of Lancashire Police, Hutton, a thousand indecent


-pictures were found th a t had been downloaded. Up to 60 video clips were also


found. Defence barrister Mr Richard


Haworth said Robinson “felt shame and embarrassment”. When arrested he became sus­


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pended from his job. .. .. The defendant had had a high standing in the local community.


" Judge Edward Slinger said: . “Some of the children in the pic­ tures were clearly in pain and distress.”


.7. Anyone who took steps to view such material had to expect a prison sentence.


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