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ByFaiza Afzaal


A CONVICTED r a p is t who scooped £7 million on the National Lottery is said to have been enjoy­ ing his freedom in the Forest of Bowland.


According to a Sunday tabloid news­ •


paper, lorworth Hoare, who has spent 30 years behind bars for rape and a string of other sex crimes was switched from a secret hideout in North Wales to the scenic forest beauty spot at the end of last week to prevent him being found. It was stated that the 53-year-old


multi-millionaire had also expressed a desire to climb Pendle Hill. ' Hoare, ori^nally from Leeds, aston­ ishingly won a third share of a £21 mil­ lion Lotto Extra Jackpot while he was in a bail hostel believed to be in Mid- dlesborough. He was on release from Leyhill Open


Prison in Gloucestershire when he bought his winning ticket. It is understood that he was released


. in a secret Prison Service operation at the end of March after serving 16 years of a life sentence and was expect­ ed to remain in a bail or probation hos­ tel for his first few weeks of freedom. However, it has since been reported


in the national press that Home Office officials whisked him to a property on the edge of the beautiful Forest of Bowland, although when the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times contacted the Home Office earlier this week, a spokesman said: “We do not comment on individual cases.” This week, a reporter confirmed a


source had told the newspaper that Mr Hoare was seeing this very much as a “holiday” and he was very'happy


about it. He added that he had also expressed


a desire to climb Pendle Hill and planned to spend his time enjoying the countryside.


. . Time- By Natalie Cox


, A TIME travelling great-grand­ mother went back to school in Clitheroe, 75 years after she left.


" “I’m going back in time like Dr Who”, declared 87-year-old Mrs ■ Greta Ernest as she toured the build-


^ i ings of St James’s CE Primary School that she last saw in 1924.


■. Although she has returned to her Kibble Valley roots several times on holiday, this week was the first occa­ sion Mrs Ernest, who moved to Stoke-on-Trent when she was 12, had been back to school. On Monday she took a step back


MRS ERNEST with Year 1 pupils during her visit to St James' Primary School (B250405/2)


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in time and was given a guided tour by current headteacher Mr Paul Adnitt. As a five-year-old Mrs


Ernest - bom Greta Middleton in St James Street, two days after her mother finished working at her four looms in the nearby mill - started in Miss Wignall’s class when the head­ teacher was Mr Gregson. The daughter of Charlie and


Dorothy (Dora) Middleton, she remembers playing marbles and net- ball in the school yard. ( When Mrs Ernest was at the


Greenacre Street school the junior department had not even been built and she spent her seven years in the infant building which has stood on the site since 1897. She had to buy her own exercise book at the cost of


' four old pence, had to mend holes in her shoes with pieces of cardboard and remembers being given “thmp- pence” to buy a pie at lunchtime, as


Coincidentally, on Monday a


reporter from another tabloid newspa­ per was in Clitheroe trying to trace Hoare, who has allegedly previously admitted joining a rambling club so he could meet women. Yesterday it was strongly believed


that if Hoare ever was in the Kibble Valley, due to the intense media inter­ est, he will now have been moved many miles away. I t is believed that Hoare carried out


his first attempted rape at the age of 21. His most vicious crime came on Mother’s Day 1982 when he raped a woman walking her dogs in fields around Leeds.


in town well as spending one shilling and six­


pence on school pumps. Among those she met during her


hour-long stay was Mrs Judith Mal- lett, the head of infants. During their conversation it became appar­ ent that Mrs Mallett’s father, Mr Verdun Allen, would have been among Mrs Ernest’s classmates. Mrs Ernest had travelled to Clitheroe from her home in Hanford with her daughter, Barbara Fitzpatrick. After leaving school she started


work as an enamel painter for a pot­ tery firm and met her husband-to- be, Albert, who was working as a mould runner.. The couple married in 1939 and


would often enjoy holidays in Clitheroe catching up with child­ hood friends and family.


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