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Golfer is honoured - page 5


Popular nativity tableau-page 15 Reprieve for Corrie star - page 16 Death of sportsman - page 23


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Amy’s cash appeal for educational trip


By Faiza Afzaal A PLEA has been . .46 to 48:


. issued by a Clitheroe Royal Grammar School sixth-form pupil to help her raise funds to attend a high-profile conference in America. . ■Amy Duckworth (pic­ tured) needs to .raise -


■ £2,500 to attend the Glob- •; al Youth Leader’s Confer­ ence in the USA next sum­ mer. She is one of eight pupils from the school to go on this educational trip, . which brings together out­ standing young people from around the world to discuss global issues.


; The 16-year-oId will be travelling to New York and Washington, but first needs to raise the money and is urging Ribble Valley


■ business folk to support her. Amy, who is studying A-levels in French, Ger­ man, history and sociolo­ gy, beat off strong compe­ tition from fellow pupils to win a place to attend the conference by writing an essay and giving a presen­ tation.


i Commenting on the


“o n c e - in - a - l i f e t im e ” opportunity, she said: “I


have always had a strong interest in world current affairs and I am really


•looking forward to the chance to gain greater knowledge and also express my own ideas. “Making a difference in


the world is so important and I feel the experience will be hugely beneficial and contribute greatly to my future career as I am very interested in going into politics.”


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Ultraframe shares deal


AN investment company has bought just over £2m. worth of shares in Ultra­ frame PLC.


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. Third Advance Value i Realisation Company! Limited has acquired an interest in 8,222,574 shares ’ a t a price of 25p. This rep- j resents an 8.45% share in | the company. .. The acquisition follows ] the announcement of . “dis­ ap p o in t in g” year-end , results by the Clitheroe- ] based conservatory giant, which employs 450-plus at its Salthill base. The coin-


. pany, ,which consists of around 97 million shares in total, has faced some of its


‘lowest share prices ever in the last couple of months. As the Clitheroe Adver­


tiser and Times went to press, the company’s share price was holding steady at 25p.


Quiet period Amy has already been


sponsored £500 by Scott Rees and Co Solicitors, in Skelmersdale, and hopes this appeal will encourage more people to pledge th e ir support and help reach her target of £2,500. O The Global Young


Leaders Conference (GYLC) offers students the opportunity to learn and exchange ideas with some of the world’s top business leaders, policy-


officials, lobbyists, jour­ nalists, diplomats and aca­ demics. Pupils return home with


a greater understanding of their roles and responsibil­ ities as citizens and future leaders in the internation­ al community. Anyone wanting to


make a contribution towards Amy’s tr ip is asked to contact Clitheroe Royal Grammar School on 01200423118. ■


Station manager proposes over the airwaves


LISTENERS heard a double celebration during the switch-off of Ribble Valley Radio on Christ­ mas Eve. The community radio .


station, which had come to the end of its 28-day broadcast, finished with a


, surprise proposal from its station manager. During the “ra p ” p a r ty a t St Mary’s Centre,


in


Clitheroe, Mr Steve Suttie made the announcement to his partner, Liz Chap­ man, jus t as the 10 p.m. deadline approached. And


fortunately for him she said yes! “After all she has put up with these last four months where she has ■ hardly seen me, I thought this was the best way to thank her,” said Steve. The couple, who have been together for 14 years.


hope to marry in Septem­ ber. Meanwhile, the team behind Ribble Valley Radio is working towards completing the full-licence application in time for the April deadline and hopes to be back on a ir for a temporary licence in June.


Checkered history of village school


FIRE-FIGHTERS in the Ribble Valley enjoyed one of the quietest New Years for decades. S tation Officer Dave


McGrath said i t was the first time in 20 years that he had not been called out for fire-fighting duties. The only incident during


the whole period was a minor fire involving a toaster at Clitheroe Hospi­ tal at 8 a.m on New Year’s Day. Mr McGrath has attributed the quiet festive period to a package of home fire safety checks consisting of educational trips to local schools and the installation of smoke alarms.


PendleClub


SOLO whist winners at the Pendle Club were Mrs P. Holden, Mr J. Nedeljkovic, Mrs D. Knight. New members welcome


every Monday at 7 p.m. Bridge winners a t the


Pendle Club were: Mrs Marjorie Collier, Mrs Jack­ ie Pilling, Mrs Frances Porter, Mrs Kim McDon­ ald. New members wel­ come every Monday at 1- 30 p.m. Domino winners were: E. .Weaver, M. Davies, joint 3rd, C. Wise­ man and G.- Capstick, M. Berry, D. Knight, M.


■Woods. New members wel­ come every Friday a t 7 p.m. Sequence dancing is held every Tuesday at 7-30 p.m. and line dancing every Thursday 1-30 p.m.


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WEEKEND WEATHER: SATURDAY is forecast to- be cloudy, while Sunday could have sunny intervals.


TODAY Rowland High School is a - In years gone by, the Grindleton : cial feature “Down Your Way” on ■thriving educational establishment building was used m a hotel, hydro :pages 12and 13. • - ; ; ' and acknowledged as a specialist. ; and children’s home.’ school in performing arts.


;v . Pictured are some of the school’s ’ To find out more, turn to our spe- pupils. (A191205/7) ’ v . ■


joined the search party for a 14-yearrold boy who went missing, while fell walking over the New Year. Two mountain Tescue teams and a helicopter were called around 3 p.m. after the teenager,’from Elswick, was separa’ted from his parents on Parlick Hill, near Chipping.-:: •• , He was found safe and well at 7-20 p.m. . T


THE scene today, right, from almost


the same spot (the exact spot is


obscured by trees) taken at 3-30 p.m. on July 23rd, 2004


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CLITHEROE STATION and surrounding urea, left, from an old


1,4 photograph taken from -


the Castle ramparts on a mid-summer’s afternoon sometime bclwccnl885 and 1889. (Photo


restored by N. Kirby)


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Fascinating trip back in time


by Vivien Meath


THESE fascinating pictures of the area around Clitheroe rail­ way station have appeared in the latest edition of Ribble Val-- ley Rail News. Mr Bill Briggs tells us th a t on


the top picture, the latest datable structure is the former Post Office, now the Old Post House Hotel, on the extreme right, built in 1879. Castle View Terrace (1889) on the extreme left of the lower photo, was not built when the top photograph was taken. ! Mr Briggs has been told that the type of County Constabulary sta­ tion and combined Magistrates’


Court, far right, would have been built in 1885. Some of the structures now lost


from the top photo include Albion Mill ( ‘t ’ bobbin shop), the gas works and its siding, Clitheroe Sta­ tion SB, the original alignment of Raihvay View before the Goods Yard was constructed, now Booth’s car park, and the fledgeling auction mart. The Station Hotel was not b uilt until 1898 and the Palace (now Dawsons) and the Palace Cafe (now Maxwells), not until the mid-20th Century.


• Waddow Hall is seen on the


extreme upper left of the lower photo. The two cemetery chapels and The Beeches on Waddington Road, visible in the upper photo-


(top of picture, either side of centre line) are still there but obscured by trees. Not so Tommy Silverwood’s barn, still prominent in the fields (upper centre) despite the encroaching houses. Upper right, ju s t above the railway line, is Chester Avenue, where the Clitheroe Kid, Jimmy Clitheroe, and his mother lived for many years. The o u ts tan d in g difference


between the two photos is the num­ ber and size of the trees obscuring large parts of the original view. Mr Briggs says that what is now


missing is a photograph taken from the same, or a similar location in the intervening years, preferably prior to 1962.


Slaidburn man is a new deputy lieutenant SLAIDBURN res ident Mr


• Thomas Woodcock, one of th e , country’s leading experts in geneal-,: ogy and vheraldry, has. been appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire. ’ .


• :. . He is one of six Lancastrians, the


Nowadays, the position is mainly ceremonial and considered to be a n . honour recognising th a t person’s contribution to the county and its life.. Commenting on the appoint­


others include Mr Edwin Booth, of . Csbaldeston, chairman of E .H .’ Booth and Co. Ltd, who have been- made deputies by the Lord Lieu­ tenant of Lancashire, Lord Shuttle-, worth. Mr Woodcock (54), along with ■


the other, five deputies, will assist Lord Shuttleworth in representing Her. Majesty The Queen in Lan­ cashire. Criginally these appointments


were made to assist the Lord Lieu- - tenant in organising the militia.’


ment, Mr Woodcock, who is third from the top of the College of Arms ’ in London, where he works during the week, said: “I ’m delighted to : have been appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant as i t retains a connec-' tion with Lancashire where I live.” Cfficially a member of the Royal


Household, Mr Woodcock, who is also a qualified barrister, is respon­ sible for heraldic matters north of the River Trent and in Northern Ireland. His medieval title is N o r - . roy, (meaning king of the north) and Ulster. King of Arms, and he


and Garter King of Arms, the sen­ ior, officer at the College of Arms,


• have to approve every coat of arms in his area. Mr Woodcock is currently work­ ing on editing the third of a four-


. volume Dictionary of British Arms which, when completed, will con--, tain about 114,000 examples of British coats of arms before 1530. ■ Spending his childhood in Hurst Green, -Mr Woodcock attended Miss Camm’s school in Whalley as a child in the mid-’50s, and later went on to E to n , followed by Durham and Cambridge Universi­ ties. He was called to the bar, but pre­


ferred a heraldic career and, since he went to the College of Arms in 1975, has gradually progressed. • -


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