2 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, April 14th, 2005


INSIDEYOUR CLITHEROE ADVERTISER AND TIMES ;


Valley Matters ................ ........... . -8,9 Village News ..........................H> 12,13 Letters ....................................... 26,27 Weekendplus ....................... 28,29,30


H Weekend TV ................................24,25 Family Notices.................................42


HReadersplus ............................... 44 Jobs......................... .................31 to 33


I Propertyplus..............................39,40 Motorsplus .........................44 to 60


B Sport............................43 and 61 to 64 AT A GLANCE...


Friends face marathon weekend - page 6 Pupils’ tree-mendous award - page 7 Birdwatchers’ half-century - page 10 Clarissa loved the Valley - page 16


INFORMATION


Duty chemist: Lloyds Pharmacy, 5 Church Street Clitheroe: Sunday, noon to 1 p.m.


Police: 01200 443344. Fire: In emergency 999 and ask for fire service. Electricity: 0800 1954141. Gas: 0800111999. Water: 0845 462200. Councils: Ribble Valley Borough Council, Clitheroe 425111. Clitheroe Town Council, 424722. Hospitals: Blackburn Royal Infirmary: 01254 263555 Queen's Park Hospital,. Blackburn: 01254 263555 Airedale General Hospital, Steeton: 01535 652511. Clitheroe Community Hospital: 427311. Alcohol Information Centre: 01282 416655. Aidsiinc: 01282 831101 (7 p.m. to 9 p.m.). Domestic Violence Helpline: 01282 422024. Cruse Bereavement Care: Blackburn, Hyndburn and


Ribble Valley 01254 207999. Environmental Agency: Emergencies-0800 807060. Drugs: Local confidential advice and information line:


01200 444484. National: 0800 776600. Ribble Valley Talking Newspaper: 01200 428604.


Samaritans: 01254 662424. Monthly Volunteer Helpline: 01200 422721. Lancashire Rural Stress Network: 01200 427771. QUEST (specialist smoking cessation service): 01254 358095. Ribble Valley Citizens’ Advice Bureau: 01200 428966.


CONTACT US! News: 01200 422324


Advertising: 01200 422323 Classified: 01282 422331 Family Notices and Photo Orders: 01282426161, e.'tt. 410 Fax:01200443467 editor e-mail: vivicn.meath@castlancsncws.co.uk news editor e-mail: duncan.smith@easllancsnews.co.uk sport c-niail: edward.lce@castlancsncws.co.tik


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WEEKEND WEATHER: Saturday is set to remain cloudy but dry, while showers are expected for Sun­


day. SUNRISE: 6-15 a.m. SUNSET: 8-07 p.m. .


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DIY superstore for Rectella site? ^


A NEW DIY superstore is set to be built in Clitheroe.


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A\ planning application for a p sfnrp at the Rectellla site


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in Clitheroe has been submitted. The application to Ribble Valley


Borough Council is proposing the construction of a DIY store, with a garden centre, car parking and landscaping at the site bounded by Queensway and Highfield Road. Submitted by Citypark Projects


Limited, the store will include a 3000 square metre shopping area, with an additional 735 square metre


Ltd have confirmed


garden centre. Rectella Internation­ al Ltd and Flexible Reinforcement Ltd have confirmed that all their manufacturing and warehousing facilities will be transferred to their Bar-Be-Quick Distribution Centre site at Burnley and hope that all Clitheroe staff and factory employ­ ees will be able to follow the busi­


, manufacturing and ware o . s


ness there. Relocation of the business is nec­


essary in order for the company to remain competitive in the current market, as many of the products manufactured at Queensway House


spokesman for Rectella said that K S o s a lo [Q « .e n s . ,a yH « u a e site will play a significant role in guaranteeing the security of the company and that the proposed planning application has been designed with the intention of con­ tinuing to serve the needs of the res­ idents of Clitheroe.


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the disposal of Queensway Hous pjay a significant role in fVio cor»n n tv of the


News of the planning application


broke as the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times went to press. We will bring you more details in


next week’s edition.


Nigel launches his bid to stay as MP


THE Ribble Valley’s MP for the past 13 years. Conservative Nigel Evans, this week - launched his campaign to retain his seat in the


House of Commons. He was. joined at


Clitheroe Conservative Club on Monday evening by three of the area’s Con­ servative candidates in the Lancashire County Coun­ cil elections, to be held alongside, the General Elec­ tion on May 5th. Speaking at the cam­


paign launch, Mr Evans said: “Oh May 6th either Michael Howard will be Prime Minister of the country or we will have another five years of Tony Blair and the Labour Party. ■ “This means another five ' years of spin and smirking while taxes go up and pub­ lic services are cut - as we have seen with rural trans­ port, the closure of Post Offices, the rise in violent crime and the huge 70% increase in Council Tax. “Their slogan is ‘for­


ward, not back’. Does this county really want to go forward to another five years of manufacturing meltdown, huge waiting lists for operations, a dou­ bling of the MRSA super­ bug and immigration spin­ ning totally out of control? All we’ve done is go back to


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Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson, the architects of New Labour spin.” Mr Evans also slammed


the Liberal Democrats as being “irrelevant” with policies such as reducing the drinking age to 16 at a time of increased worry over binge drinking and giving votes to all prison­ ers, including murderers. He reserved a special attack for the Liberal Democrat policy of scrap­ ping Tranche 3 of the Eurofighter project.


. Mr Evans said: “This move would cost thousands of highly skilled and paid manufacturing and techni­ cal jobs in our area. It


would cost millions of pounds to the local econo­ my with the possibility of another 20,000 lost jobs with sub-contractors and other service providers to BAE Systems. Smaller businesses would be partic­ ularly hurt. ' “I back Eurofighter


because it's right for the local economy, right for manufacturing jobs, and right for the defence of our county and our interests. The Lib-Dem leadership have truly sold their Lib- Dem candidates down the river in seats such as the Ribble Valley, Pendle, Pre­ ston, Rossendale and Dar- wen, Hyndburn, Black­ burn, Burnley, South Rib­


ble and the Fylde with this disastrous policy.” Mr Evans’ Ribble Valley con­ stituency opponents in the General Election are Liber­ al Democrat Mrs Julie Young and Labour candi­ date Mr Jack Davenport. The British National


Party has not yet announced whether it will put up a candidate in the Ribble Valley. The deadline for nominations is 4 p.m. next Tuesday. Our picture shows Mr


Evans, third from the left, at his campaign launch mth Conservative county council candidates, from the left, Chris Holtom, Albert Atkinson and Mary Wilson. (G110405/3)


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CLITHEROE Euro-M has called for timber mer­ chants and building con-­ ro


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tractors who use wood fmm ElEl v illegally felled trees to face the risk of imprisonment.


With the world's forests


facing catastrophe as a result of the illegal timber trade, a conference in Bnis- sels has insisted that EU governments must be forced to take stronger measures to halt imports. Euro-MP Chris Davies,


who chaired the event, said that high-level corruption and violent criminals lay behind the lucrative busi­ ness that was causing mas­ sive environmental damage and wiping out tens of thousands of animal and bird species across the plan­ et. . But it was demand by


consumers across Europe for building materials, fur­ niture and paper that fuelled the trade which every year destroys forests with a total area four times the size of Belgium. He said: "Some encourag­


ing progress is being made by the timber trade in Britain to ensure that the source of trees can be con­ firmed, but it is still the case that hardly a single merchant can guarantee that they have not pur­ chased wood from illegally felled trees. "There will be no forests


left at all unless we take steps quickly to ensure that people can be confident of the purchases they are making. Businesses that then put profit before forest survival should be prose­


cuted." The conference heard


that 80% of the wood being sold on world markets came from illegal sources, with Britain buying wood in large quantities from the felling of tropical forests in Brazil, Africa and Indone-


■ sia. Controls are not even in place across the whole of


Europe. Bridge club


BRIDGE winners at the Pendle Club were: Mrs Joan Lavery and Miss Pat Hargreaves, Mrs Anne Riley and Mrs Eva Velvick.


No BNP candidates in the county elections


NO British National Party candi­ dates will fight for Ribble Valley seats in next month’s county council election. In March, the local branch of


the BNP announced it would field two candidates for the county elections on May 5th. A party spokesman said Mr Paul Frank- land would stand in the Clitheroe, electoral division and Mr Dainny Holland would contest the Ribble Valley North East division. However, when nominations


closed, no BNP candidates were included in the list of candidates standing for election in any Ribble_


Valley electoral division. A nomi­ nation form was submitted for Mr Holland, but it was rejected by election officers because his main nominator was not registered on the Ribble Valley electoral roll. Each candidate must have a pro­ poser and seconder and eight other people to nominate them, and all must be registered on the electoral roll for the nomination to be valid. _ Meanwhile, each of the three


main political parties will field candidates in the three Ribble Valley divisions.' In the Clitheroe division.


Stephen Sutcliffe, of Shays Drive, Clitheroe, is fighting to retain the county council seat he has held for the Liberal Democrats. Hoping to take it from him are Conservative candidate Sheila Sims, of Holden Street, Clitheroe, and Labour can­ didate Giles Bridge, of Skipton Road, Gisburn. In the,Ribble Valley North East division, Conservative


'Albert Atkinson, of Crowtrees Road, Sabden, is campaigning to keep his seat on the county coun­ cil. Standing against him are Labour candidate Laura Field, of 'Withgill Fold, and.Liberal Demo-


crat Margaret Sutcliffe, of Shays


Drive, Clitheroe. In the Ribble Valley South


West division, Chris Holtom, of Alleys Green, Clitheroe, is defend­ ing his county council seat for the Conservatives. Opposing him are Labour candidate David Hindeii of The Grange, Wilpshire, and Liberal Democrat Graham Sowter, of Whalley Old Road, Langho.'We will be bringing you an elec­


tion special with more details of ail nine candidates in our edition of April 28th, a week before the election on May 5th.


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rebuilds lives hit by waves


for the past .six years,” explained Mrs Egan. “We absolutely love going there and love the Thai peo-


A WHALLEY couple are appealing for people to return to Thailand and help the survivors rebuild -he’r live' devasted by the horrific tsunami which


hit South East Asia. The plea has been made by Mr and Mrs 'Tony


and Joan Egan after their recent holiday at the Sheraton Grande Laguna beach resort, near the


t-unam. h t island of Phuket, where they experi­ enced at first-hand the destruction and devasta­


tion caused by the massive earthquake. Thousands of people were wiped out in Thai­


land when the Boxing Day wave struck - about


half of them foreign holidaymakers. Before the tsunami and disturbing images of


the aftermath were shown on television, Phuket


: was the most popular travel destinatm m South­ east Asia, but now it is a completely different


story in Phuket and tourism is needed more than


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daymakers.to return to Thailand - not to turn thdr backs on them when the survivoi-s need them


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^ “When we arrived, we were greeted with open arms and the Thais were simply relieved to see


“There were tears of joy as people greeted us and they were kissing and hugging us and saying


thank you for returning. We felt so humble. “The survivors are determined to re-build their


lives and become self-sufficient, but they can not do this without tourists. _


c , “They are desperately in need of tourists and


want things to get back to normal. They claim the tourists give them a means of supporting them-


“They fear there will be another crisis on the way if the thousands of tourists the islands can


usually expect each year fail to show up. The couple’s three-week visit to Thailand l^ t


month coincided with a celebration to mark their 40th wedding anniversary and their visit to see their 35-year-old son, Christopher, who is se^ng a four-year jail sentence for narcotics offences in Chiang Mai Central Prison - offences he contm-


'ues to deny vigorously with the full support of his At the end of January, the doors of the Egans’


home in Whalley were thrown open for a special l \ j


Tea and song brings in cash for Guiding activities . .. _ . . . T,


LOTS of activities were on offer tor people who attended a fund-raising event in 'Whalley. The annual event raised


£295 in aid of the Guides and Brownies and was organised by Whalley, Sabden and Read


Trefoil Guild. It was held in the Methodist Church Hall and attracted more than 70 visitors. Entertainment was provided by Great Harwood Male Voice Choir and tea and biscuits were served by Third


fund-raising event in aid of the tsunami sur- money-spinning ideas included a bring


and buy sale, raffle and auction.. More than 60 people attended, who dug deep into their POckets and raised £1,900 in the space of four hours - the cash amount raised is equivalent to approxi­ mately 134,000 baht (Thai currency).


Whalley Guides


wviniipv Guides and Brownies Other attractions included a cakes stall and raffle.


ownie . i The Brownies are pictured


with their hand-made floral arrangements during the evening. (T070405/4)


The couple had intended to take it to Thai­


land and donate it towards a profect. but vyhen they experienced the suffenng of the Thaa, they decided to give the cash to 91 desperate sur­ vivors - who had not only lost loved ones and friends but had been left homeless and faced losing their jobs because there are no tourists. • continued on page 3


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