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Tributes to a popular boss


by Faiza Afzaal


T R IB U T E S have been pouring in for a war veter­ an an d fo rm e r Whalley businessman who died on the eve of his 95th birthday. Mr Harry Orontes Stant,


pictured, died at his home in Cheshire last Wednesday after a short illness. Born and brought up in.


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Whalley, he was educated at the local school and sang in: the church choir. On leaving school a t the age of 14, he joined his father in the family business as an apprentice bricklayer. The father and son team


later started a haulage busi­ ness, which grew from strength-to-strength. Over the years Mr Stant


built many houses in Whalley and the surrounding area. He met and married his


wife, Janet, in 1938 and the couple were blessed with two children, Joan and Peter. Mr


Stant joined the Royal Navy during the Second World War, seeing action on many fronts. He was a D-Day veteran. After the war he continued


with the building and haulage business until the mid-50s, when he realised a life-long ambition to farm and moved to Clerk Hill, on the outskirts of Whalley. He later sold the farm due


to the ill-health of his wife, moved to Wiswell and returned to the building trade.


After his wife’s death in


1974, he moved to Cheshire and continued to work there until retirement only a few


years ago. Paying tribute to a “consid­


erate” and “loving” father, his daughter, Mrs Joan Shackle- ton said: “He was a very clever man and a very interesting person to speak to. He was full of knowledge and was very kind and considerate. “He was very hard working


and dedicated to his work, but in his spare time he enjoyed watching cricket, boxing and horse riding.” A funeral service took place


at Altrincham Crematorium on Tuesday followed by cre­ mation. Mr Stant is survived by his


daughter, Joan, of Whalley, son Peter Stant, who now lives in London, and grandson, Adam. His youngest grandson,


Guardsman Damian Shackle- ton was killed in Belfast in 1992. (s)


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up their walking boots and complet­ ed the Three Peaks challenge in aid of the charity “Self Reliance iji Africa” as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award. The walk comprised the three


peaks of Pen-y-ghent (2,277ft.), Whemside (2,415 ft.) and Inglebor- ough (2,372ft.), taking in some of the Yorkshire Dales’ finest views and, inevitably, its unpredictable weather! The pupils were joined byfive staff


members from the college and raised a combined total of around £500 for the charity. By tradition, the gruelling 23-and- a-half mile challenge should be com­


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pleted within 12 hours. The group achieved this comfortably, in just over 11 hours. • The Duke of Edinburgh’s


Award scheme is committed to pro­ viding young people with an enjoy­ able, challenging and rewarding pro­ gramme of personal development, which is of the highest quality and the widest reach. At Oakhill College, the scheme,


which is an integral part of the devel­ opment programme on offer for the children, is growing in popularity. Our picture shows pupils Tom


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Building


a future PUPILS from St Augus­ tine’s RC High School, Billington, were given a taste of what it would be like to follow a career in construction. The group of pupils


gained an insight into the world of construction and the built environment as they attended a World of Work event during National Construction Week. Taking place at Burnley


Football Club, the Elevate East Lancashire event, organised by the Lan­ cashire Education Busi­ ness Partnership (LEBP), was aimed a t Year 9 pupils about to select their GCSE options. The pupils took part in


some hands-on exercises as well as speaking with com­ panies in the construction field - from building and plumbing to surveying and architecture. Mr Andrew Platten,


project manager of the Elevate programme Con­ structing The Future, said: “This annual event gives Year 9 pupils the chance to find out about the wide spectrum of opportunities open to them in construction at all levels. “There are now a whole


host of regeneration proj­ ects starting up in the East Lancashire area and with these comes a range of work opportunities in construction. “We want, wherever


possible, to use local com­ panies and local people who have the aspiration and drive to deliver suc­ cessful regeneration proj­ ects and it is important that teenagers are aware of these opportunities when choosing their options at school.”


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More sport time is Valley MP’s view


CHILDREN in the Ribble Valley should double the amount of time they spend playing sports in school. That is the firm view of MP


Nigel Evans who has urged that school pupils should be given more time at school for physical activities. His com­ ments were made after reports th a t a £100m. fund may be made available to allow those children up to the age of 16 to have up to five hours of sport per week and 16 to 19 year- olds, up to three hours per week. Speaking from Westminster,


Mr Evans said: “If this money becomes available it will not he issued through local authori­ ties. The funding trustees therefore must not forget rural areas. In the Ribble Valley there are many deserving sporting enterprises and volun­ tary clubs such as Clitheroe Wolves which do fantastic work for the communities that they serve. “Rural areas must not lose


out yet again. I t is already dif­ ficult for children in these areas because of the cuts made in school transport. As a conse­ quence, it is so much harder for them to stay after school to participate in sporting activity. Up to five hours a week should be the norm for our children. “This money should he pro­


tected for sports, to he used in schools and voluntary clubs. We must try to raise the aver­ age exercise time from two hours a week. A group of GCSE students from Ribbles- dale High School came to visit me recently and a large num­ ber of them wanted more sport at school than the two hours the curriculum currently allows them. “The answer therefore is to


make these funds available and concentrate on getting children five hours of sport per week.” • What do you think? See this week’s on-line vote


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Have you seen missing Daniel?


POLICE are continuing to appeal for the public’s help to find a man who has been missing for almost a


fortnight. Daniel Palmer (26), pic­


tured, of Wensley Road, Blackburn was last seen in Langho on Friday, October 19th. Police say he withdrew money from a cash machine in Clitheroe the day after he went missing. Daniel is described as 6ft.


2in. of slim build and with short dark brown hair, which has recently been shaved. He


has blue eyes and was last seen wearing a slate grey zip up nylon jacket and dark blue jeans. He was wearing a blue knit­


ted hat and green and brown walking shoes. He was also carrying a blue and black rucksack. Police are appealing to any­


one who recognises the description or who sees Daniel to contact them. PC Sian Barnard, of Black­


burn Police, said: “We are concerned for Daniel as he has not been seen for almost


two weeks and it is complete­ ly out of character for him to go missing. “Daniel will n o t yet be


aware th a t his fa th e r has recently returned from Cam­ bodia and he is keen to con­ tact him. “Daniel’s mum is really


concerned about him and wants him to know that he is not in trouble. We just want him to return home safe and well.” Anyone with information


can contact police on 0845 125 3545. (s)


Ex-CRGS student is a green hero


k FORMER Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil has been listed as one of Times Magazine’s Heroes of the Environment. An Oxford modern lan­


guages graduate, Professor Norman Myers developed an interest in ecology from the grassroots while working as a wildlife photographer in Kenya’s game reserves in the 1960s. He would idle away the days' hottest hours — when lions and elephants rested — by reading up on biology. He soon began to wonder why none of his hooks gave good estimates of the rate at which species were going extinct. So he did the calculation himself.


While conservationists of


the day guessed that the plan­ et might he losing one species per year, Myers' research in the early 1970s revealed that the rate was probably closer to one species per day. At the time he was a Ph.D.


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MEET the winner of our 2007 Baby Face competition. He is six-month-old Oliver


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canvas worth £300, plus £100 Boots vouchers. In second place was Harvey


Ashworth, also six months- old, of Whitewell Drive, Clitheroe and third was 11 months-old Emily Haythom- thwaite, of Chatburn Road, Clitheroe. They win framed photos and £25 Boots vouch­ ers.


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that are home to a dispropor­ tionately high number of species — provided a frame­ work for conservationists to prioritise their work. He tal­ lied the number of what he called "environmental refugees" — people fleeing areas because of, say, water shortages or desertification. And, says Times Magazine, he continues to campaign with compelling logic against "per­ verse subsidies," the trillions of dollars governments spend on activities with steep envi­ ronmental costs, like overfish­ ing or fossil-fuel extraction.


He says tha t his secret is


specialising in being a general­ ist. He has done research for organisations as diverse as the World Bank and NASA, has served as a consultant on the environment to governments and corporations, has lectured around the world, and has written some 20 books. There are two common


threads in all of this work, states the magazine: “a pow­ erful conviction ‘th a t scien­ tists should reach out to the general public,’ and a genius for inspiring laymen and experts alike to think anew”.


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