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AT A GLANCE


As concern grows over the prospect of regional govern­ ment in the North-West, a spe­ cial meeting is called .


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A Clitheroe medical group’s appointment system comes underfire.


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Borough council chief engineer Mr Graham dag­ ger sets the lead for Valley cyclists.'


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A curfew has been imposed on a woman who sought revenge on a licensee.


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Libby’s little help from her friends


A SCHOOLGIRL raised £147 in less than a morning with the help of her peers for the Blue Peter Appeal. ,


Brookside Primary School in Clitheroe, organ­ ised a toy sale to raise money to go towards the appeal, which will help children with learning disabilities attend Out of School clubs. Many children with a learning disability find


Eight-year-old Libby Faulkner, who attends •


it harder to learn things, or to understand and talk to others. Libby is hoping the money will help the chil­


dren to get extra help and be able to take part in the Out of School clubs. Speaking on the amount raised, headteacher,


Mr Graham Claydon said: “Throughout the year the school holds many fund-raising events for charity, but the toy sale was Libby’s idea and she organised it herself \vith very little help. “I t is always a delight to see pupils at the


school raising money for other people who are not as lucky as them.” Our picture shows year four pupil, Libby, with her helpers at the toy sale. (B220104/3)


Exciting plan for rural ‘nursery on wheels’


by Julie Wintle


A MOBILE nursery scheme could hit the road in some of the most rural areas of the Ribble Valley if ambitious plans get the


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go-ahead. A meeting to discuss the


proposed scheme was held in the Ribble Valley Borough Council Chamber on Friday. I t was attended by repre­


only one childminder between several villages in the Forest


of Rowland. The meeting also heard that


children in rural areas are socially isolated and many rural families cannot afford expensive nursery fees. A spokesman for Lancashire


that a mobile nursery is a “classroom on wheels” and the idea behind it was that it could travel around various villages providing nursery education where there is not the means to provide full-time education in the local schools. This kind of provision is


sentatives of Ribble Valley Borough Council, Trinity Community Partnership, the library service, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Primary Care Trust, Clitheroe Hospital, Homestart, Lancashire Coun­ ty Council and local schools. They heard th a t some


County Council said £500,000 had been allocated for the whole of Lancashire through the Government’s Children’s Centre Rural Fund and the Ribble Valley area would have to bid into th a t funding stream. Some of the villages being


Youngsters in isolated areas miss out on care


normally lacking because there were not enough chil­ dren in a village to warrant a permanent, full-time nursery. However, the county coun­


mums have a 10-mile drive to the nearest nursery in Clitheroe and th a t there is


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looked at through this scheme include Newton, Slaidburn, Chipping, Gisburn and Rim- ington. One such iriobile nursery scheme is already operating in


the Lune Valley. The spokesman explained


cil spokeswoman stressed that she did not want to raise peo­ ple’s hopes and th a t these were tentative discussions in what are the “very formative stages of a plan”. The scheme comes on the


dren’s centres is to bring together services such as edu­ cation, early years, health and family care. “I t ’s really about re-shap-


The idea behind these chil­


living in rural areas who found i t hard to access existing childcare provision. In the Ribble Valley, the


ing these services so they fit in with the needs of the local community. Most specifically for deprived or disadvantaged areas,” the spokeswoman added. Ribble Valley Borough


back of the “Children’s Centre Initiative”, which was devel­ oped from the Government Green Paper entitled “Every child matters”.


councillor Stephen Sutcliffe added that the case showing there was sufficient need for a mobile nursery would need to be demonstrated before any funding bid could be made. He said such a scheme could help pockets of people


rural isolation th a t people experience, will be a key argu­ ment in trying to access the necessary funding ■ ■ An outline bid for funding will be submitted next month and if that is successful, a for­ mal bid will be put forward around April. Over the next couple of


weeks the scheme will be looked a t in greater detail including site visits to some of the villages being considered for the mobile nursery scheme.


Mark’s date with Tony Blair


A PUPIL a t Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Sixth Form , Centre could soon be standing face to face with the Prime Min­ ister. Mark Bailey (17), of George


■ organised by the Parliamentary V Press Gallery,, the organisation • set up to guarantee the right of reporters to work in the House of Commons. He will now join a small group


Lane, Read, has scooped the top prize in the North-West region for an essay- writing competition


interested in national and local politics considering the fact that' the turnout of 18 to 24 year olds in the 2001 election had only been


54%. An A-level student of French,


Gorman, history and politics, Mark wrote 1,500 words on the


, subject. “I wrote about the different


programmes the Government could set up and the different >


- ways it could encourage young people to take an interest,” Mark


of winners selected from regions across the country on an all­


'-journalists and politicians, wit- ■ nessing a debate in the Commons from the Press gallery and last, but not least, meeting Tony Blair. , In order to take part, Mark


;j-' The prize includes meeting the f speaker of the Commons, senior


expenses paid trip to Parliament; and 10 Downing Street next month. ,


explained. • “I said MPs should be more


representative. The average age of an MP is in their 60s and I ' argued we should bring the age of MPs down. “I also said that on local coun­


;had to write an essay looking at how the Government could encourage more people to become


. politics and was preparing for a work experience placement at the European Parliament in Brussels at the end of February. “I ’m really chuffed with this. I


was really surprised, but i t ’s


great.. “I ’m looking forward to visit­


ing 10 Downing Street. It \vill be a real experience to go and meet the Prime Minister.” The competition has been sup


ported by the Times Educational Supplement, the Department for Education and Skills, the Hansard Society and the House of Commons education unit and has been designed to complement citizenship lessons in schools. Catherine MacLeod, a political


editor who is co-ordinating the competition, explained: “Teenage voices are rarely heard in the political debate, and poorer it is for that. “Politicians and journalists


cils there should be a quota for^ younger councillors.” Mark added th a t he had always taken a keen interest in.


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TB confirmed at grammar school


A SIXTH form student a t Clitheroe Royal Grammar School has been diagnosed with


tuberculosis (TB) The student, who cannot be named due to


patient confidentiality, is being treated with a course of antibiotics. All the parents of the 600 students, who


attend the sixth form centre in York Street, have been informed about the incident. A screening programme of all students, who


have been in close contact with the infected stu­ dent, is due to start next week. TB is an infectious disease caused by a bac­


terium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. Tb). ,


monly spread through droplets in the air pro­ duced when someone with the infection coughs


^It mainly affects the lungs and is most com­ ' .


or sneezes. A person with TB does not necessarily feel ill,


but the symptoms can include a cough that will not go away, feeling tired, weight loss, loss of appetite, fever, night sweats and coughing up blood. The disease generally requires prolonged close contact with an infected person. When the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times


contacted the school this week, acting deputy head teacher Mr Eddie Murphy, said: “We are


co-operating fully with the Health Protection Agency, which is dealing with this issue.” Dr John Astbury, a consultant in health pro­


tection for the North West Health Protection Agency, confirmed the situation was under con-;


trol.i He commented: “There really is no need to


student affected has been fully treated.” “The maximum risk to anyone who has been


keep children off school. “I t is not a hazard to anyone there and the


in contact with the pupil is less than one per cent and we expect the risk to anyone to be well below that,” Dr Astbury added.


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