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out of bus TWO schoolboys escaped serious injury when they fell out of a bus on their way to school. The Ribblesdale


High School Technolo­ gy College pupils were taken to Blackburn Royal Infirmary with only minor injuries fol­ lowing the accident, which happened at 8-45 a.m. yesterday at the junction of Turner Street and Queens Road, Clitheroe. Police and ambu­


lance crews attended and a paramedic con­ firmed that two 12- year-old pupils had fall­ en from the Blackburn Transport bus and sus­ tained minor injuries. It is understood they


were travelling on the lower deck of the dou­ ble decker bus and fell against a window as the bus went round a cor­ ner. The window broke


and the pupils fell from the moving vehicle. Police are investigat­


ing the accident. Ribblesdale High


headteacher Miss Glynne Ward said: “All the staff are very con­ cerned and we are working alongside the police to fully investi­ gate what happened.”


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Couple’s escape from Spanish hotel blast


by Margaret Parsons


A SA B D E N cou p le escaped unscathed when terrorists bombed their Spanish holiday hotel - bringing a frightening end to their month-long


break in the sun. Bill and Joan Wallace, of Pendleside


Close, were fleeing the hotel Port Denia and were three floors from safety when the bomb went off directly below them. Miraculously, only a handful of people


were injured in the blast caused by Basque separatist group ETA, although the hotel, in the fishing port of Denia, was badly damaged. The couple, who were coming to the


end of their holiday are glad to be back safely at home and recalled how the British “Dunkirk spirit” came to the fore. Mrs Wallace (74), a retired teacher,


said they were resting in their hotel bed-^ room when a staff member hammered on the door and asked them to leave the hotel immediately. Thinking it was a fire drill or a fire in


the kitchen, they began to make their way down the staircase when they felt the explosion below them. “We thought there had been an earth­


quake nearby, but nobody was panick­ ing,” said Mrs Wallace, who was amazed when she got outside to see that half the hotel had been blown away. The dining room where they had eaten


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a few hours earlier was in ruins and the kitchen had gone. The bombers had planted explosives in a rucksack beside a fire escape - directly below their fifth floor room - on the ground floor of the 280-room hotel which was filled almost entirely with British holidaymakers, most of them pensioners. The fleeing holidaymakers took refuge


BACK HOME: Mr and Mrs Wallace (s)


in a nearby pub until they were taken by coach to other hotels. No-one was allowed to return and it was the next day before all their possessions were collected and returned to them. The couple spent the remainder of their holiday at a hotel 30 minutes away in Benidorm. They returned home last Wednesday, three days after the blast.


BOMB BLAST: A picture from a Spanish newspaper showing the explosion (s) Mr Wallace (78), a production manag­


er at Crown Paints, Darwen, before he retired, said that it was amazing how calm everyone had been. Some people were obviously upset and a small number were taken to hospital, but most had an amazing escape. “The bombers had obviously targeted


the hotel because it was full of tourists, but there was no panic at all,” he said. The local newspaper reported that the


bombers had given a 40-minute warning of the explosion. ETA has killed 850 people since 1968


in its campaign for an independent Basque state.


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