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I YOUR SUPERR I M IS S I I ! is trav-mendous! AT A GLANCE


A Clitheroe businessman has ba cked down :from a H igh Court battle with. Vodafone:


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Two marathon mums are flying high in their charity bid. ' ' ' ' '


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Harriet Ingham comp iled a sp e ­ cial report, on the Lad y Taverners as p a r t of her work experience.


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TV cameras film a house con­ tents sale in Hurst Green.


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Clitheroe darter Andy Gud­ geon is to play for England.


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A FORMER Clitheroe Royal Gram­ mar School pupil has picked up a Lau­ rence Olivier Award for his performance in the musical "Jerry Springer - The Opera". Alastair Charles Parker (31), who is


at the awards ceremony at London’s Park Lane Hilton. - ’


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•’ musical, to David Bedella as best actor in a musical and to Mike 'Walker for best sound.:


These included awards for best new .


also a former pupil of Whalley CE Pri­ mary School, was part of the show’s 20- strong chorus, which was presented with a group award for best supporting per­ formance in a musical at the 28th Lau­ rence Olivier Awards on Sunday. Mr Parker, pictured, has been a mem­


Springer’s notorious television talk show - with music by Richard Thomas and book and lyrics by Thomas and Stewart Lee - also scooped three other honours


ber of the production’s chorus for two years, first performing at the Battersea Arts Centre, then the Edinburgh Festi­ val, the Royal National Theatre and at Cambridge Theatre, where the musical will continue to run until 2005. The musical, which is based on Jerry


award,” said Mr Parker. “When we were first nominated we thought that they were just doing it as a gesture. We didn’t think there was any chance we would win.”


been awarded to a group before and Mr Parker smd it had been the highpoint of his career to join other chorus members on stage to collect the award. . “Everyone was so shocked to win the


A Laurence Olivier Award has never '


, rience. We were surrounded by all those people you recognise from television and the theatre. Mr Parker, the son of Mr and Mrs


Robert Parker, formerly of Clarkwood Close, Wiswell, attended the Kay Thurston Dance School in Clitheroe and was awarded a scholarship by the Royal Academy of Ballet at the age of 11. '


He added: “It was an amazing expe- Richard's collection Top theatrical award for Alastair r


Theatre School in 1995 and went on to take a one-year postgraduate course in performance and m\isical theatre at the Royal Academy of Music.


Theatre School, undertaking a three- year course in acting, during which it was discovered that he had a good singing voice. He completed studies at the Guildford


theatrical productions including “Is There Life After High School?”, “Okla­ homa,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “Vil- lians Opera”, “Honk!” and “Oliverl” He has also starred in the television


Mr Parker has appeared in numerous ’


chant Of Venice”, .“Hell For Leather”, “The Mystery Man” and “Living Stones.”


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THERE has been a positive leap for­ ward in the quest for a community arts and social facility for Clitheroe. St Mary's Parish Church Hall is to be


renamed "The St Mary’s Centre" and will be leased to Trinity Community Partnership. The hall remains in the ownership of the cur­ rent trustees, but is already at the centre of a


detailed design study undertaken by Ivan Wil­ son Associates. The building has been a drain on parish


resources for some considerable time and the Parish Hall Development Group recognised last year that it was beyond the capacity of the parishioners of St Mary’s to operate it for much longer. . Group chairman Liz Parkinson said that


results of the design study are revealed next month. . .


Triends' group was sot up at a time when the redundant gasworks site at Kirkmoor Road was seen as the most likely location for a new community complex. The group has pledged its support to any real bid to provide the facility and is not tied to a specific location. ■ The hall's day-to-day management is now in


(FROGS), are among a number of groups involved in the consultation process. The


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. ities for the site was commissioned and is cur­ rently ongoing. The Clitheroe architects are due to report early in March. ' Although the new management of the hall is


during the last few montlis a real partnership had been forged with Trinity Community Partnership and the Clitheroe the Future Part­ nership. As a result the study into the possibil-


being welcomed as one step towards the future redevelopment of the site for the benefit of the whole community, those involved stressed this week that no decision will be taken until the


the hands of Ben Hasty, with Les Allen work­ ing alongside until his retirement at the end of April. Although originally the parish of St Mary’s had envisaged running the hall until the redevelopment options were resolved, notice of Mr Allen’s impending retirement as hall manager forced the trustees and the man­ agement committee to look at the staffing and management arrangements. It will continue to be managed much as before, with all existing bookings being honoured.. :


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will bo working with the user groups and St Mary’s is to be represented on the advisory group. The new number for bookings is 01200 427162 , not as previously circulated in the let­ ter to hall users.


Mr Hasty, now based at St Mary's Centre, .


to operate as usual with the same telephone number of 01200 422828. .; '


Dealer jailed after crackdown


A DRUG dealer from Clitheroe is behind bars after police targeted him for his crim- - inal activities. Acting on information received from the


community, trained undercover officers posed as customers to buy Ecstasy tablets from 39-year-old John Andrew Stevenson, pictured after his arrest, on several occa­ sions. ,, ; ■ More evidence came from covert surveil­ lance and the operation against Stevenson- culminated in a dawn raid on his Low Moor flat on November 3rd last year. The warrant to arrest him and search his flat was execut­ ed as part of “Operation Nimrod”, Lan­ cashire Constabulary’s high-profile crack­ down on drug dealers across the county. Stevenson, shaven-headed and heavily-


tattooed, was led away in handcuffs as trained police officers carried out a fingertip search of his flat in Low Moor. " - :


gressed-through the courts. 'When he appeared a t Preston Crown Court last 'Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to three sepa­ rate charges of supplying Ecstasy and was sent to prison for two years. ; ■ , ’ , That news was welcomed this week by


He commented: “We are pleased with the ’ He was remanded on bail as his case pro­


Insp. Bob Ford, of Clitheroe Police, who co­ ordinated the investigation and the raid on Stevenson’s home. ■ ;


sentence. Stevenson was targeted as a result of intelligence received from the community. “We will continue to target people who


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Nightclub boss to stay in custody


SABDEN nightclub boss Anthony Jackson was refused bail by Hynd- burn magistrates on Friday.; Jackson (59), of Padiham Road,


was arrested following a recent high- profile police raid on his Monroes nightclub in Great H a rw o o d . ' . , He appeared in court via video­ link facing charges of permitting the nightclub to be used in the supply of a class A drug and being concerned in the organisation of entertainment without a public entertainments licence. ,


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