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POLICE in Lancashire are warning those who continue to dodge fines and avoid court orders to make a fresh start this year, before it is too late. Police are urging those who have


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not turned up at court or not com­ plied with the punishments handed out by the courts, be it a community penalty or a financial penalty, to hand themselves in or they will be tracked down, arrested and put back before thecourt.


• Inspector John Clucas, pictured, said: “Enforcement is a key part of having an effective local criminal jus­


Lessons to serve others


THE Hyndburn and Kib­ ble Valley CVS has organ­ ised a number of free train­ ing sessions for local volun­ tary and community groups in the Ribble Val­ ley. The sessions have been designed to help local peo­ ple involved in voluntary and local groups to gain new information and skills so they can develop their roles in local community activities. The training sessions on


offer are as follows: • 9 Preparing for fund­


raising - Thursday, Febru­ ary 2nd ' 9 Child protection


awareness training - Thursday, February 9 th 9 Basic first aid -


W^ednesday, February 15th 9 Writing better fund­


raising applications - Thursday, March 2nd 9 Fund-raising from


companies - Thursday, March 23rd 9 Basic food hygiene


(accredited) - Tuesday, April 4th 9 Presentation skills-


Wednesday, April 12th For further details of


training, contact Andrea on 01200 422995 or call into the office at: 1 Swan Mews, Off Castle Street, Clitheroe.


tice system. There are still people who fail to obey court orders or who skip bail. Over the next few weeks we will be


taking positive action against those who continue to ignore the criminal justice system, ensuring that they are brought swiftly back before the courts to be dealt with appropriately. “We are not prepared to ignore peo­ ple who thumb their nose at the


courts.” Those people who have failed to


appear at court on their bail date, or have failed to return to a police sta­


tion to answer bail are asked to attend


• their local police station early on a weekday morning. . “Those who have breached court


orders or persistently avoid the pay­ ment of fines are urged to contact the magistrates court to arrange a con­ venientsurrendertime. Insp. Clucas added: “If you contin­


ue intentionally to avoid the criminal justice system, we will come and arrest you at a time that is convenient to us and this may mean you end up spending the night, or indeed a full weekend, in a police cell.


“If you turn up in person we will


make the courts aware that you have voluntarily surrendered so this can be considered in subsequent proceedings, and the matter could be resolved in a couple of hours.” “We are now in 2006 and it is at this


time of year that people want to start afresh and sort out things that they might have been putting off. “This gives those who know they


have outstanding matters with the police or the courts the chance to clear the decks, sort out the matter quick­ ly, and then they can move on”.


‘The best one yet’ is promise of show chief


by Tracy Johnson .


ORGANISERS behind the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Show have promised that this


year will be the best one yet. Plans are well under way for the


three-day event, being staged again at Salesbury Hall. This year however, the show will


have a weekend slot, opening on Friday, July 21st to Sunday, July 23rd. At the annual meeting of the


Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society, organisers of the show, t was announced th a t a profit of £53,000 had been made by last year’s show, officially opened by Quadruple Olympic Gold Medallist Sir Matthew Pinsent. Chairman Mr Gordoii Roberts


said: “This healthy profit was due to the tremendous efforts of all the people involved and good house­ keeping by the management team. “I t stands the society in good


shape for the 2006 show.” During the meeting members re­


elected Cplin Mustoe as president, Mr Roberts as chairman and Andrew Thompson was also re­ elected as show director. Our picture shows Daisy and


Thomas McDonald having fun on the toy tractors at last year’s Royal Lancashire Show. (B260705/1C)


Show stalwart goes


THREE decades after taking on the job as treasurer of the Clitheroe Area WI Show, Mrs Brenda Lund has retired. At the committee’s annual


meeting Mrs Lund officially stepped down from her role. ; Every year for the last 30 she has sat by the door at the area show welcoming visitors and relieving them of their money: “A lot of people have gone past in those years and I have very much enjoyed being involved,” shesaid. The first Clitheroe Area WI


Show Mrs Lund was treasurer for was staged in 1976. Said Mrs Lund: “I was a member of Downham WI and


went on the committee as a representative of that branch.' “I took over as treasurer


probably around October 1975. I said last year that the 2005 event would be the last show I would be involved with as treasurer.


„ “I felt it was the right time


to pass the job on to a younger person.” Although Mrs Lund has


been replaced by Mrs Kath­ leen Rigby as treasurer, she will continue as a committee mem­ ber. A dedicated WI member,


Mrs Lund, now lives in Rim- ington. She has been a member of Downham WI since 1957.


Guide’s appeal


A NEW Ribble Valley tourist guide is flying off: theshelves.- Ribble Valley Borough


Council is distributing 25,000 copies of its new visitor guide (pictured) to tourist information centres across the UK. The popular guide will


also be distributed at tourism exhibitions throughout the year.


. It starts with the presti- gious Great Days Out Exhibition to be held at the Reebok Stadium in March. • ■ The revamped and


; extended guide has a styl­ ish new look with new pho-


,tography and words, as .well as features on events, places to stay, attractions and village profiles. Ribble Valley Borough Council’s tourism and arts officer, Rebecca Kay, said: “We decided to give the guide a stylish new look. > “Feedback from tourism


colleagues and visitors has been excellent.”


Copies are available


from the tourist informa­ tion centre in Market Place, Clitheroe, on 01200 425566. 9 LOOK out for the 2006 edition of the Ribble


Valley Explorer, out next month!


Accused of stealing


£311,000


A SABDEN man has been committed to Preston Crown Court on a charge of stealing £311,627 from his employer, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. Paul Brian Haythornth-


waite (27), of Timbrills Avenue, Sabden, is also charged with attempted theft of electrical goods worth £44,586 and obtain­ ing services worth £1,200 from Fraser Eagle by deception, services worth £1,900 from Bury Van Hire and a second decep­ tion from Fraser Eagle involving £390. Haythornthivaite was


committed on bail to the crown court. ‘W.;


Restaurant picks up a


new award THE Spread Eagle, Saw- ley, has developed into one of the top restaurants in Lancashire and under, the guidance of head chef Greig Barnes, and owners Nigel and Ysanne Will­ iams, has picked-up'anoth- er culinary award. Nigel and Ysanne went-


to London, together with 14 other finalists from the 15 categories.. The 2005 Publican Pub


Food Awards were held at the Savoy Hotel. The Spread Eagle was


awarded the prize for “Innovation of the Year” for the “Blind Dining” experience, which they introduced last year. A selection: of dishes are


served without the diners knowing the ingredients and a questionnaire given out for them to guess what they are eating and drink­ ing. - Among other awards


achieved by the Spread Eagle are Best Pub Awards 2005, Lancashire’s Dining Pub of the Yyear 2004 and Lancashire Life's Restaurant of the Year award, 2000.


; It also has a coveted list­


ing in “The Good Food Guide”. ■ •


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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, January 19th, 2006 23+ Joel knows how to make his figures add up!


WHEN it comes to number crunching, a Stonyhurst pupil has proved he is a cut above the rest.


Joel Murang (18) has had two of his


letters printed in this term’s Mathemat­ ical Spectrum, a magazine for students and teachers in schools, colleges and universities, as well as the general reader interested in mathematics. The magazine deals with different aspects of mathematics and, in this


issue’s Letters to the Editor section, two of the six contributions were from Joel. The other four were from adults. One of his letters dealt with “an alter­


native proof for the sum'of the first ‘n’ triangular numbers”, and the other involved Joel’s own thought-provoking tesseracts (four-dimensional extensions of a cube). The inspiration to write to Mathe­ matical Spectrum came when he was in


the More Library at the college, thumb-: ing through the periodicals. He read the publication and decided to submit his own two mathematical theories. Joel is currently studying maths, fur­


ther maths and physics for A-levels and hopes to read maths at either Bristol or Wanvick universities. Mr David Rawkins, head of maths at


the college, said that sixth-form pupils are encouraged to read Mathematical


Spectrum. “I t is viewed as enrichment material rather than for supporting class work as such,” he said. “Joel is a regular reader, and he has


worked on a number of problems from this publication. His articles are related to work in the further maths syllabus. It is all his own work, and it reflects his deep interest in the subject. We are all very proud of him, and expect him to . do extremely well at university.”


Fun at village school thanks to hospital


OUR picture shows


some of the Gisburn pupils testing out


their new playground equipment (B130106/3)


We accept the blame!..


EXCITING and active play­ times lie ahead in 2006 for the children at Gisburn Primary School. They have taken delivery of a


new set of playground equipment, thanks to a generous donation from their village neighbour Gis-. burne Park Hospital. The equipment, which includes


stilts and bouncers, is all designed to develop teamwork and co-oper­ ation while stimulating good exer­


cise and fun. I t has been bought with both infants and juniors in mind and the children couldn’t wait to get started. Headteacher Mr Andrew


Symonds explained: “We were very keen to find new ways of stimulating the children to get involved in activities and games that could interest children who were not always motivated by ball games. “All the equipment is designed


to encourage the children to get active, get involved and to work together. “The children are very excited


by the prospect of .using some of this fantastic new equipment. “Everyone at the school would


like to say a huge thank you to Gisburne Park Hospital for their generous support of the school. “The equipment given will be


enjoyed by children at school for many years to come.”


PLANS to convert a double garage into a living area a t a house in Whalley were approved at a Ribble Valley Borough Council’s Planning and Development Committee meeting.


Conversion plan is given the green light by council The application, for the property


at Woodland Park, will also incor­ porate an extension to form a new garage, which will be built to the front of the existing garage, and a bathroom, which will be built


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between the garage and the existing house. Residents who objected were


concerned at the loss of three park­ ing spaces at the house and the loss of light to the adjacent property.


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