The Clitheroe Thursday,: March'2nd, 2006 vertiser an imes No. 6,240 news and views from the Centre of the Kingdom www.clitheroetoday.co.uk Price 60p 'jy- PAGE 9 A miracle


by Natalie Cox and Tracy Johnson


A TRAILER loaded- with bags.of animal feed crashed into a Grindleton house, smashing through its front wall, on Tuesday morning. No one was hurt in the inci­


dent, which caused rush-hour dis­ ruption; to traffic travelling through the Valley village. Substantial damage was caused


to the terraced house in East View - known locally as Brow Bottom shop - but the occupants, Mr and Mrs John Wilkinson, escaped injury. , PC Ted Ross, of Clitheroe 'police, said the accident happened around 9-15 a.m. on Tuesday,


luckily just after the school run. He said that a tractor driven by


Trevor Dobson was making its way up Grindleton Brow when the trailer it was pulling came loose and slid downhill, smashing


through the front wall and win­ dow of the East View terraced 'property. ^ PC Ross added that the house­


holders had a lucky escape. “If someone had been inside the front room the incident could have been a lot worse.


r “It is very lucky that this did­


n’t happen further up the hill because the trailer would have picked up a lot more speed and the results could have been cata­ strophic.” The trailer was pulled away ,


from the property just before 11 a.m.by another farmer’s tractor under the supervision of a build­ ing inspector and the damaged


. area of the front of the house was fitted with security fencing. ; ■ . • Mr John Dobson, Trevor’s '


father, said his son was quite-' shaken by the incident, Said Mr Dobson; “The main thing is that no one was hurt. There was a safe­ ty chain on the hitch, but the chain broke. I t could have hap­ pened anywhere.” Officers think there may have


been a car travelling behind the- tractor just before, the trailer, which is believed to have been carrying around four tonnes of baped animal feed, came loose. This vehicle managed to manoeu- vreoutof the way. / ^ Said PC Ross: “This driver had


a narrow escape. If they want to make themselves known to us we would be grateful to hear more details.”


- Pictures by Mr Jeff Cowling, chairman of Ribblesdale Camera Club, (s)


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A BUSY section of the A59 was closed for five hours on Sunday morning after a fatal accident in which a vehicle caught fire. The cause of the accident,


which happened around 6 a.m. between Clitheroe and Barrow, is being investigated by police, officers. It is believed the driveh of a Nissaii Almefa, a Black- , bui'n rnan whose identity h a s '' hot'yet-been released,' hit'a


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Council homes


sell-off? COUNCIL house tenants in the Ribble Valley could get a new landlord after councillors decided to look again at transferring their housing stock. In August last year


members of Ribble Valley Borough Council voted by a narrow margin to retain their council housing stock and instructed their offi­ cers to come up with a business plan to maintain and improve the houses “within the reasonable resources of the council”. But a report to Tues­


day’s meeting of the full council told members that, after six months exploring every option, it had proved to be mission impossible. .Mr John Heap, the council’s Director of Com-


Man dies in A59 car crash blaze


safety barrier in the road and his car then caught fire. No other vehicles were


involved, but a section of the road was closed by police offi­ cers until 11 a.m. Due to a high number of acci­


dents along the A59, Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans has been campaigning for road safe-, ty improvements for several 'years.' , ,■ ’


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