48 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, April 6th, 2006
March was cold, wet
THE month of March started with very cold weather. Daytime temper atures were in the low 30s, with night frosts and snow showers. The second week saw
change to slightly milder weather, with rain and showers and the 13th and 14th being two wet days. The third week of the
month brought cold weather and strong easter ly to north-easterly winds, making it a bitterly cold week. A further change took
place on the last week of the month, when milder, south-westerly winds brought heavy rain and blustery showers - the 27th was a particular wet day with well over an inch of rain. The weather stayed
unsettled to the end of the month, with further down- pours on the 30th and
31st. DATE MAX MIN RAIN Op
O p
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31.
36 25
36 22 36 22 34 22 38 26 40 30 44 34 46 45 43 40
40 38 36 28
36 31 36 33 40 36 40 30 34
38 36 40
42 36 40 34 38 27 40 28 44 46
36 36
50 41 57 44 51 46 47
36
51 36 50 44 42
50
34 38
mm _
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4.6 .
- 2.6
13.3 8.8 8.5 2.3 1.4 2.8
17.1 11.7
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0.5 _
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0.3 0.1
_ -
1.3
13.0 10.6 5.5
32.6 7.3
Total rainfall 197.9 mm = 7.916 inches. The precipita tion on the 3rd and 11th was snow and on the 16th sleet.
10.1 20.5 23.0
Methodists will reach out
at boot sales WHY is the church always in buildings? Well, hope fully, the Clitheroe Methodist Circuit is going to break that mould dur ing the summer of 2006. A series of outreach
events will be held at major car boot sales throughout the Ribble Valley from May 7th until the end of September. Each Sunday, there will
be a team from around the Clitheroe area working at major car boot sales from 12-30 until 2-30 p.m. The events will involve
portraying the Christian Gospel in modern ways through dance and drama, face-painting and story telling., .
Valley paintings np for auction
ART collectors with an interest in Ribble Valley scenes may be keen to leam of a pair of pictures to be auctioned next week. “The Ribble Near Gisburn” and “Gis-
bum Bridge on the Ribble” were painted by Robert Cresswell Boak (b.l875) and will be auctioned by Tennants of Leybum on Wednesday with an estimate of £300 to £400 for the pair. Both signed by the artist and inscribed
with titles on the original frames, they are pencil and watercolour pictures heightened with white. Each measure 26cm by 21cm. Mr Allan Darwell, head of the art
department at Tennants, said that, in his opinion, Cresswell Boak was a very under rated artist whose pictures represented good value. Both pictures are in good, read-to-hang condition and they form part of Tennants’ two-day spring sale and the full catalogue can be viewed online at
www.tennants.co.uk Next Wednesday’s auction begins at 10 a.m. and the Gisbum pictures are Lot 760.
Shared ownership scheme will help local people to buy homes
AFFORDABLE homes for local people are in very short supply in the Ribble Valley, with young people often find ing it virtually impossible to get a foot on the property lad der. House prices have gone
through the roof in recent years, nowhere more so than in the many villages that pepper the area. Now local councillors are working with new partners to redress the balance. Bringing new homes to local
people is a top priority for Ribble Valley Borough Coun cil and a new shared owner ship scheme, being developed in partnership with St Vin cent’s Housing Association, is
set to see 11 new homes in Waddington. Waddow View is specifically
aimed at giving local people a leg-up on to the housing lad der. Shared ownership offers buyers the chance to purchase a percentage of the equity, say 25% or 50%, and pay rent on the remainder. Funding for the new scheme has come from the Housing Corporation, bring ing investment of £403,000 to the village. The council’s Rural Housing
Enabler, Rebecca Lawler, has identified sites within the Rib ble Valley where social housing can be developed sjnnpatheti- cally and at a reasonable cost. Waddow View has been designed to blend into its vil
lage environment and will replace a former cornmill, which has long been consid ered to be incompatible with the village setting. The average price of a two-
bedroomed terrace house in the borough is now around £150,000, beyond the reach of many local people, particular ly youngsters who have grown up in the Valley and often find themselves priced out of the market when they attempt buy their own first property St Vincent Housing Associ
ation development manager Yvonne McDermott said: “There has already been a lot of interest from prospective purchasers and St Vincent’s is working closely with the coun
cil to ensure that the proper ties are sold to local people in housing need.” Coun. Joyce Holgate, chair
man of the council’s Housing Committee said: “Affordable housing is a huge concern in Ribble Valley, with many first time buyers now unable to get on the housing ladder. The council is doing all it can to tackle this problem and is pleased to be working with St Vincent’s Housing Association on the Waddington scheme, which will give local first-time buyers much-needed help.” Work has now started on
site and all interested pur chasers should contact Mor timers Estate Agents on 01200 42733.
Legion hears tales of Alaska dog race
A VERY successful dinner, arranged by the Wadding ton branch of the Royal British Legion and attend ed by 50 people, was held at Waddow Hall. Guest speaker was Mr
Roy Monk, a branch member who has had a close connection with the Iditarod, the race between dog teams over more than
a thousand miles in Alaska every year. He told his audience
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that the race commemo rates the delivery of vital serum during an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925 and h ^ beeii.ralled “The Last
Great Race. Mr Monk and his wife, Lesley, have both taken part in the race, separately, on several occasions and the talk gen- erated many questions from the guests. President Col. Jeffery
thanked Mr Monk and further thanks were extended to all who had contributed to a most enjoyable evening. Pictured are members
and guests of the Waddington branch of the Royal British Legion at their annual dinner at Waddow Hall.
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new head of Stonyhurst
by Julie Magee
THE governors of Stonyhurst College have chosen Andrew Johnson as the new headmaster. Mr Johnson (39) will
succeed Adrian Aylward and take up his post on September 1st. He is currently deputy
head teacher of Birkdale School, Sheffield, an inde pendent school with 800 pupils Mr Johnson, who is
married to Dawn and has two sons, aged 10 and eight, was educated at the Skinners’ School, Tun
bridge Wells and Bristol University, where he read French and Spanish. He also has a postgradu
ate diploma in Education Management
from
Portsmouth University. Before joining Birkdale
School, Mr Johnson was at Winchester College for the previous nine years and for his final four years he was head of modem languages there. “I am very much looking
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ments of recent years,” Mi Johnson commented. The chairman of gover
nors at Stonyhurst, Mi Kevin Ryan, said: “The governors are delighted that Andrew Johnson has accepted our offer tc become the new head ol the college. It is their unanimous
view that, of a strong field of candidates, he has the necessary combination ol talents to build on the suc cess achieved by Adriar Aylward, the present head.” Our picture shows Mi
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