■ » ^ ’ The Clitheroe imes Thursday, Aqgust 7th, 2008 Np. 6,366^^^ 6 CLEMATIS 4^ 3^BSa READERSPLUS: PAGE 20


Crisis talks as


are threatened


CRISIS talks are being held after, bosses at Ultraframe announced that iriore thari 20 employees are ’ “at risk” of losing their jobs. The Clitheroe-based conservato­


ry giant, which employed around ' 500 people in its heyday, revealed , up to 23 workers could be made redundant. The move is being blamed on the current economic uricertainty, which has led to declining sales. .- .


. I t is uriderstood that seven of . by JohnDeehan


A BRAVE teenager risked her life after div­ ing into the River Kibble during a dramatic rescue..,: v -


. :! " .■ ‘ : Heroic Ribblesdale High School pupil Hayley


Truelove (13), leapt into the.river fully clothed ■ when she noticed a teenage boy struggling to stay above the water at 4 p.m. on Sunday. .


(. ',Hayley and her family had only been at Edis-. ford Bridge in Clitheroe for 10 minutes when the drama started to unfold. . ■ “We heard these two lads shouting but we just


thought they were messing about,” said Hayley. “One,of them was near us and the other one was further down the river.” :


" When'she heard the one nearest to her start


' screaming for help she threw herself into the river. and started swimming towards him. : “At first it was really cold so it was hard to.get


my breath,” said Hayley, who lives in Lowerhouse Lane, Burnley.


■ , . . ' “He was in the middle of the river so I had to


swim put to him. When I got there I couldn’t hold him iip though because he was quite a bit bigger than me. I told him to grab on to my ankle and


- then I swam back to the rocks a t the side before I helped pull him out.” '


, - - . , ' > , While Hayley was heroically pulling this boy.


out bf the river, two men rescued the other young. lad who got into trouble downstream after injure ing his leg.


. - ■ “When I helped himbut of the water he just


kept bn thanking mie,” said Hayley, who thought, the boy was several years older than herself., “He thpught I was a lifeguard a t first until I


told him I was only 13 years old.” ■ , . Hayley’s mum, Paula, could not believe what:;


she was seeing and praised her daughter’s coura­ geous actions.' '■


• ■ “I just turned around and she had jumped into ■ the water,” she said./ .


, '


. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Every­ body there thought the boys were just messjng about and I didn’t for one second think they were struggling.^


L ; ■ , b : -i


:• ‘ “He was extremely, lucky that-Hayley realised - what was going on and was brave enough to jump ' in and rescue him.


-■ “Sections of the river there are quite shallow, but the bit that Hayley Was' in'was deep. The cur­ rent was really strong as well arid I could see that shfe was getting dragged under i t a t some points. > “-The two riien.whb liad gone in further down-, stream’ to rescue the other la'd were struggling


'mtli the strbrig current and they were grown men. She was so brave.” Neither of the boys suffered serious injuries and ■


both were taken home by their parents following the incident.'


LORRY DRIVER IN FATAL CRASH FELL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL - SEE PAGE 2 Sight Tests for the over 60’s and -


______£25 off Complete Spectacles Eye Care and Spectacles for the Under 16’s


■4 New Market Street, C L IT H E R O E ' 1 :0 1 2 0 0 442255


25 Union street ACCRINGTON ’ -1:01254398942,


'.70 Bank Street, RAWTENSTALL . .,7:01706 221132_________-


D S G ')V E R .S A C E ^


C'UOCl.ii C.I0H010AHMANI._ Dior . * U Vl^OArKI


! Desig her Frames ”'“5 0 % .,, ‘ S e e in s to re fo r d etails . 'Offers cannot be used, in conjunction.with ptrier.pffefs. :


the employees who could be affect­ ed are in managerial/administra- tive roles, while 13 work in manu­ facturing and the’remaining three in warehousing.


.. . ,


. Mr Grahame Hall, chief execu­ tive of the Salthill-based company, said job losses were a last resort. ' “■Wlrile there are many good . . things happening at Ultraframe,. continued ecoriomic uncertainty- has depressed consuiner.confi- - dence, and as a result, the declin­ ing sales trend has continued in . June and July like mariy business- ; es across the UK,” he commented. “In order to secure pur long-.


: term future and to remain in the . best posible shape to grow our business mo'ving forward, we must react to current market conditions.


■' “Job t e e s are a last resort an d ' ■we are working hard to erisure that we remain as market leader in a '.very tough arid coinpetitive enyi- ronment.”- -


• . . ; : : : These are the second redundan­


cies at the cpiripariy this year, with 12 workers losing their jobs in Feb­ ruary. \


^ . 1


p


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23