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AT A GLANCE...
Charlie taps his way to the top - page 5 Valley B & B wins award - page 7
Meeting scuppers plan - pages 18,19 Valley goes red nose crazy - page 30
INFORMATION
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The mystery of ghostly images
GHOSTLY images have appeared on the television screens of a band of Clitheroe res idents. The residents, who live in the
Bright Street/Highmoor Park area of the town, suddenly started to see the images around two months ago. One of the residents, Mrs Muriel
Briggs, of Bright Street, explained: “It just started to happen around two months ago out of the blue. The television picture quality suddenly went downhill and we started to get this ghosting - double images. We’ve had numerous aerial installers out who say there is nothing wrong with our aerials or TV set up. It’s becom ing really frustrating and obviously, we don't see why we should pay our
TV licence if we cannot get a pic ture.” She added that some residents had
been forced to buy new television sets, digital boxes or install Sky TV to solve the problem. The mysterious phenomenon is
also causing no end of misery to local sports fans including former Clitheroe Football Club chairman Mr Stephen Rush, of Mearley Syke. He says sitting down to watch cov
erage of the beautiful game on the box now involves double the amount of players! In an effort to solve the mystery,
the residents have already contacted the Office of Communications - Of com, the BBC and Ribble Valley Borough Council about the matter. Ofcom says the problem of “ghost
ing” can be caused by the television signal bouncing off a nearby object, for example, a hill, tall building or crane or a shiny surface like the sea, creating a delayed "double signal". It can also happen if weather condi tions let viewers receive other signals, which are usually too far away. Ribble Valley Borough Council's
environmental services department is doing everything it can to help these residents and has been carrying out home visits to some of the prop erties. With no imminent conclusion to the mystery looking likely, the res idents want to hear from anyone in that area of town who is experiencing similar problems that have occurred to the last two months. Anyone with information can ring Mrs Briggs on 01200 426252.
Girls show the boys how to play w
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PROVING that football isn’t just for the boys, Ribble Valley Borough Council has teamed up with the UEFA Women's Euro 2005 champi onships to bring exciting opportuni ties for girls who love the beautiful game. Together they will run three soccer
camps over the Easter break aimed at girls aged eight to 16.
The two-day soccer camps will be They are an excellent lead up to the
held at Edisford Astro Turf, in forthcoming UEFA Euro 2005 Clitheroe, and Longridge Sports Women's Championships." Centre, the first beginning next For full details about the Soccer Tuesday, March 22nd.
Camps and how to take part, contact Shirley Veevers, the borough coun- the council’s Sports Development
cil’s Community Sport Coach, said: Team on 01200 414586/414475. Pic- "These camps are just what's needed tured are pupils of Bowland High in the Ribble Valley to give a unique School, at Grindleton, warming up opportunity for quality fun coaching, for the Easter coaching sessions, (s)
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Fire victim’s lucky escape
A CHATBURN man was lucky to be alive after fire fighters rescued him from his smoke-logged house. Crews attended the fire
at 4-50 a.m. on Friday at Downham Road after neighbours smelled smoke and the man was taken to
.Blackburn Royal Infir mary with smoke inhala tion.
Re-living the morning
incident, Clitheroe Station Officer Dave McGrath said the home had no smoke alarms fitted and it was completely smoke- logged. He added it was pure
luck that the neighbours had smelled smoke and alerted the emergency ser vices, otherwise they could have easily been dealing with a fatality. “The police and ambu
lance were at the scene before us and when we arrived the man trapped inside was struggling to see anything because of the smoke,” explained Mr McGrath. “The situation was
made worse because the man had a lot of video tapes in the lounge, which had caught fire. He is extremely lucky that he didn’t suffer any serious injury because of the extent of the blaze.” Fire crews managed to
put out the blaze and an investigation into the cause of the fire is under .way.
Cattle judge
AT last week’s meeting of Clitheroe Young Farmers’ Club members were stock judging dairy cattle at Low Farm, Simonstone, by kind permission of Mr and Mrs JR Whitwell. Results. Cows: Seniors -
Matt 'Whitwell. Intermedi ate-William Bristol, Isaac Nutter, Ben Hartley. Juniors - joint 1st, Rob Phillips and Matt Naylor, Don Ashworth. Heifers: Seniors - Matt
Whitwell. Intermediates - Ben Hartley, joint 2nd Phillip Woodruff and William Bristol. Juniors - Oliver Bristol, John Walm- sley, Peter Lonsdale. Members have also
enjoyed a talk by member Simon Kirk on his exploits in America. Simon spoke about his time combine harvesting across Texas. Next week’s meeting will
be stock judging, members to meet at the car park at 7 p.m.
‘Attack on the fundamental rights of parents’ Man on bail a place at the non-Catholic Edis
conlin'ucd froth page 1 1
ford Primary School in Clitheroe. He said: “There is clearly a prob
lem here. The child is Catholic and she wants a Catholic education. This is an attack on the fundamental rights of parents to have their child educated in a religious way.” Headteacher Mr Vincent Murray said: “As an aided school, the Gov
erning body is the admissions authority and has meticulously applied the published admissions cri teria to each application received. “Whilst it would not be appropri
ate to comment on individual cases, there will invariably be children who lose out on their first choice of school. This is particularly discon certing when their choice is based on religious affiliation. In recent years.
a variety of initiatives including Key Stage One class size limits and net capacity assessment figures for schools have necessitated an upper limit being applied to school admis sion numbers. Regrettably, in terms of over subscription, some families will not be successful.” Maureen would like to hear from any other parents in a similar situation. She can be contacted on 01200 426541.
CHATBURN man Antho ny Neil Wareing (48), of St Chads Avenue, was remanded on bail until May 4th by Blackburn magistrates charged with assaulting Carol Wareing. Conditions of bail
include residence at an address in Barrow, not to contact the aggrieved and not to go within 100 metres of St Chads Avenue.
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‘Lewd’ acts force closure of WCs
by Faiza Afzaal
POLICE have been forced to board up cubicles in the gents’ section of Whalley’s public toi lets to stop them being used as a meeting place for gay men. The move follows a string of com
plaints from concerned villagers about acts of lewdness in the toilets behind a CP’s surgery in King Street. Over the past few months, the toi
lets, pictured below, which were last refurbished in 1996, have also suf fered what has been described as “mindless” acts of vandalism. This has included vandals damag
ing cubicles and spraying “obscene” graffiti and “disturbing” sexual mes-
sages on many of the interior walls. ■Whalley’s Police Community Sup
port Officer (PCSO) Jason Taylor, v^o has been investigating the inci dents, said he had no choice but to close the toilets. He commented: “For some time
now there have been persistent prob lems of vandalism and inappropriate use of the public conveniences, prob ably by visitors to the village. “In some instances, police have
been alerted and discovered porno graphic pictures pinned all over the walls. “It is believed that the public toi
lets have been a meeting place for, gay men for some time now and this is very disturbing, especially for chil dren who use the facility”. PCSO Taylor added that since the
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premises had been boarded up some body had scribbled the words “why” and “It’s not fair” on a notice pinned up by the police notifying users about the situation. “It is sad that these type of inci
dents are happening in our village. “However, I would like to stress
that these incidents are not juvenile- related and that the cubicles have been closed for the all-round benefit and safety of all.” Meanwhile, landlord of the Dog
Inn, Mr Norman Atty, said he was not shocked to hear about the unac ceptable behaviour in the toilets and blamed it on the locality.
He said: “Well I am not surprised
at all. They are bound to be used for doubtful purposes because they are tucked away in a secluded area of the village. “Public toilets should be easy to
find. If the go-ahead was given for new toilets to be built at the bus sta tion while the site was being resur faced, then vandals getting access and damaging the public facility could have been controlled.” As the gents’ section of the public
toilets is out of use, Mr Atty said that he welcomed people to use the toilets at his pub at any time. Public toilets in 'Whalley have
been on the agendas at the village’s parish council meetings for some time now. The council was disap pointed last year when its applica tion to Ribble Valley Borough Coun cil for new public toilets failed. Previously councillors have raised
the issue that the new toilets be buUt at the bus station site in King Street, which is currently undergoing resur facing work. However, the borough council announced that the new facilities would not be built until 2011/2012. • The leader of Ribble Valley Bor
ough Council, Coun. John Hill has been invited to speak at tonight’s parish council meeting at 7-30 p.m. at the Methodist Church Hall in King Street.
(CR140305) They’re red nose mad!
WEIRD and wacky hairstyles were sported by children at Whalley Prima ry School to boost funds for Comic Relief. Some of the pupils at the school, in
Church Lane, wore wigs or sprayed and dyed their hair red, while others gelled it back to look as wild as possible for
charity. AU the pupils at the school took part in the fund-raising event and in total raised £250. Our picture shows the youngsters on
Red Nose Day. (B110305/5) ■ For more pictures of Red Nose
Day fun around the Ribble Valley, see page 30.
VILLAGERS are being reminded to attend a public meeting on Wednesday to discuss exciting plans for a German town to be twinned with 'Whalley.
Public meeting to discuss twinning hopes The meeting will take place at 'Whalley
Village Hall at 7-30 p.m and the guest speaker will be secretary of the Twinning Federation, Mr Jurgen Voges.
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