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10 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, September 4th, 2008


• ANYONE interested in learning. about the work of Clitheroe Civic Soci­ ety is invited to attend its annual meeting which ■will take place on Mon-


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day. It will be held at Brookside Pri­ mary School, in Bright Street, from 7- '30 p.m. Other attractions ■will include a local


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Parking contract to end in New Year ^


A COUNTYWIDE parking enforcement scheme operat­ ing in the Kibble Valley will end its contract next year. . And, contrary to public belief, it will not be in a finanr


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for sustainable development said:'“This is good news as it


■ means ParkWise has achieved its aim of providing a parking enforcement scheme that paid for itself.”


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: A decision on how the park­ ing enforcement partnership


will continue is expected to be made in October.


Ex-editor is guest


PKOLIFIC writer Bill Mitchell MBE was guest speaker at Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soci­ ety’s monthly meeting. The former editor of The


Dalesman gave a talk entitled “Old Times in the Slaidburn Area” and stressed that although the history of people and places was very impor­ tant, without the stories of people, places and events it was not really a true picture of the times. Mr Mitchell read out let­


ters he had received after a book he wrote about Stocks Village was published. These letters gave him more stories on the book’s subject enlarg­ ing even further the picture of the times. The author of countless


books about the Yorkshire Dales, Mr Mitchell went on to speak about the different


j \ areas of the Hodder Valley and how the character of the people changed according to the life they lived and the nature of the surroundings.


He stressed the importance


of recording people’s stories explaining that this gave a great insight into their per­ sonalities and accents. Mr Mitchell then played


three recordings that he had made as examples, which were both informative and amus-


ing- ■ Finally, he told memb^s


th a t as the pace of'^jife^nd technology change very quickly now, he thought it very important to have as much detail as possible about the past, otherwise it would be lost for future generations. Mr Mitchell said this was as necessary in family history as in social history. Everyone agreed that it


had been a,n informative and enjoyable meeting. Chris Hall will talk about


The History of Heyhouses and Sabden at the society’s next meeting on September 9th at Clitheroe Cricket Club at 7-30 p.m; Everyone is wel­ come.


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. DAMAGE e s ti-^. mated at more than £200 was caused in the early hours of Sunday


-when a stone was thrown through the double glazed window of a house in Calder Vale,


■ .Whalley. ~ ’ ‘ ? i Police We contin­ uing with their investigations.


A GOLDEN Clitheroe couple celebrated a marital milestone surrounded by their extended family. Most of Jack and Margaret


Burgess’s family of six chil­ dren, 23 grandchildren and 15 .


great-grandchildren joined their golden wedding anniver­ sary party at the Calf’s Head inWorston. The party took place 50 '


years to the day after their 1958 wedding at St Leonard’s Church in Padiham, which had been followed by a recep­ tion at the Starkie Arms. The couple had met a year


: earlier at Whalley Assembly Rooms - the same year that Mr Burgess finished his two years’ National Service with the Royal Engineers in


^ k a l ta r . ^ ^ f t e r they were married, the couple settled in Mr Burgess’s home town of Clitheroe, initially living in


Moor Lane. They later moved to The


Crescent and finally to their current home in Queen Street


where they have IWed for the past five years. For 16 years Mr Burgess


worked at Ribble Motors on the buses and also spent some time working as a lorry driver. Mrs Burgess, who had


worked at Mullards in Simon- stone before she married, worked, part-time at. Whiteacre School and as a


' full-time mum to the couple’s • six children and the many fos­ ter children .they cared for. over the years. Her work as foster mum to


dozens of youngsters earned Mrs Burgess the title of Clitheroe’s.mum-in-a-million in 1997 when she ■was chosen by judges as the winner of a Ribble Valley Mum of the Year competition. According to Mr and Mrs


Burgess, being surrounded by : children and pulling together as a team have been the secrets behind their, five, decades of marriage. Said Mr Burgess: “We just


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A MAN responsible for an unpro­ voked street attack has been jailed for 12 months. Steven McLean (25) was told by the


judge that he could have found himself facing a manslaughter charge. . Victim Michael Mercer and his broth­


er-in-law. Jack Cheetham, had been making their way through Clitheroe town centre, having earlier played darts, when he was attacked. McLean, of Balmoral Avenue,


Clitheroe, pleaded guilty to charges of actual bodily harm a ^ u l t and common assault. He was given a 12-month prison sentence. Mr Mercer woke up in an ambulance,


his face feeling as though it was on fire, Prpston Crown Court was told.


. ,'M r Francis McEntee (prosecuting) said the two ■victims had been for a drink on the night of August 31st. Around 11-


• 30 p.m. that night they were making their way through Clitheroe town centre, near the Tesco store, when the defendant


approached. For no reason, McLean punched Mr Cheetham on the left cheek. The man was really shocked and it took a moment for him to realise what had happened. Mr Mercer then asked the defendant


why he had hit his friend. Other people were present, trying to hold McLean back. He seenied to get away from them and


threw a punch that missed Mr Mercer. However, he threw another punch to


the face which rendered him uncon­ scious. He then woke up in an ambulance, his


face feeling as though it was "on fire", said Mr McEntee. -McLean had nine previous offences on his record. These included an assault


. which occured before the latest case, but for which he was sentenced after the cur­ rent assaults took place. He received a suspended sentence


order, which he later breached and ended up being sent to jail. The other assault case had also


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. involved McLean knocking someone out by punching them in the face in a street attack. Mr Robert Elias (defending) said


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McLean's problem was alcohol. He was a thoroughly personable man when sober. "He realises that his behaviour is com­


pletely unacceptable, when he is wander­ ing the streets, befuddled by alcohol. "It seems that being ^ n t to prison has


had a stabilising influence on his behav­ iour."


■ Sending McLean to jail, the judge.


Recorder Simon Killeen, told him: "It is these types of cases that very often bring what lawyers call one-punch manslaugh­ ters because when people hit the floor with that force, when they are uncon­ scious, you have no idea what that is going to do to their skull. "You were liicky in that sense.


Although you rendered him unconscious by the force of your blow, more serious injury did not result.


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"You have done almost exactly the same thing before."


Golden day for a very special couple MR and Mrs


Burgess on their wedding day, and 50 years later (B010908/2)


• VALLEY residents will be able to cross examine police officers at a meeting taking place later this month. On Wednesday, September


17th, at 7 p.m. a public meet­ ing at The Grand in York Street will give local people the chance to have their say on policing in their area.


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