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. 2 Clitheroe Advertiser&Times, Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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Youngsters’walkathon-page 4 Save our dispensary - page 5
Mystery painting auctioned - page 21 Bay trek raises £3,028 - page 22
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WEEKEND WEATHER: Showers are expected on Saturday, but it is forecast to be nice and bright on Sunday with plenty of sunny spells.
SUNRISE: 7-23 a.m. SUNSET: 6-28 p.m. LIGHTING UP TIME; 5-58 p:m.
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RUNNERS from the Ribble , Valley were'among the thou sands taking part in this year’s Great North Run. . First past the post of the local
; ; - donate, they are still collecting at
; the Hark to Bounty, in Slaidburn.. ■ Mother and daughter duo
. participants was John Wharam, of ' Slaidburn, who was also raising money for the Parkinson’s Disease < Society.
: John, who will tu rn 20 on : November,4th,: had never-done anything like this before, but corn- ; pleted the course in 1:42:40 to fin- : ish in 3,468th place overall, putting him in the top 7% of the 52,176 runners. A former CRGS pupil, John is now studying politics and ■ parliamentary studies at Leeds University. If anyone wants to
Audrey Holt and Karen Wrigley ■ finished the -IS-miles in around two-and-arhalf hours. Despite suf-
' fering a heavy cold, Karen was the first of the pair home in a time of 2
■ hours 20 minutes, with her mum finishing just 15 minutes later. . Karen, who has also taken part
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in the London Marathon, said she had loved taking-part in the New castle race and is keen to do it all again next year. ■ ' The pair hope to have raised the grand sum of £1,000 for muscular,
dystrophy. Meanwhile, two West Bradford
ScMdiilooksSic^^^
men also raised-cash for two deserving causes by taking part in the world’s most.popular half-,
-marathon. Mark Hammond crossed the fin
ishing, line in two hours and 16 minutes and managed to raise £500 for Mencap - .a leading UK charity for people with a learning
. disability and their families. :■ > His friend and neighbour,’Gra-. ham Eccles, completed the course in two hours and 35 minutes and raised £3,000 for Children with •Leukaemia.
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; The duo said they had a wonder ful time, the weather was fantastic and the whole event had a very good atmosphere.
RespecUd
A RESPECTED ambas sador of tourism in the Ribble Valley has died. Mrs Mary Parker (72),
for many years the face of Clitheroe’s Tourist Infor mation Centre, died overnight on Tuesday. Her work to promote
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th e - . Ribble . - Valley Tourism" Association and the Hodder Valley Show was exceptional. She was' a member of many organ isations, and one of the most knowledgeable per sonalities regarding visi tor aspects of the Valley. We received news of her death as we went to press. A full obituary will be car ried in paper next week. For funeral details, con tact Brian Price and Son on 01200 441297.
Top awards
.TWC. Weight Watchers slimming class leaders who co-ordinate meet ings in Clithero'e have been recognised for their o u ts ta n d in g su p p o r t and service. Kathleen English and
Karen Taylor, who have more th a n 18 y e a rs ’ experience between them and were members before they were leaders, were presented with a Diamond Leader Award, the-highest acco lade leaders can receive. Meetings are held at
CHILDREN at Bolton- by-Bowland P rim ary School took part in the “Big Tidy Up” day, which was promoted nationally. ...., - All children, including
the very youngest Early Years group, donned their green aprons and took brushes and dust
pans to the school grounds and the sur rounding area'. They started within
th e ir own classrooms and then progressed to. the grounds and the out side entrance. Several bin bags-later and they were finished. The vil lage school now has tidy
up notices on display, made by the children, and they have extended these to the village noticeboards too. . The school also con
tinues to collect waste paper in the paper cube behind the school grounds, while the • school entrance hall has
a recycling tube for bat teries and a collection point for ink/toner car tridges and mobile phones. These facilities can be
used by the wider com munity.. Our picture shows the children at the end of their tidy up cam paign. (s).
Gar thieves leave-trail of destruction
VANDALS and thieves left’A trail of destruction when they target ed parked cars in the Clitheroe area.
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■ £1,000 damage when they struck over the weekend.
They caused, an es timated ;
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; Police say th e raiders have ■ been focusing their attention on .
Ford Focus vehicles, smashing windows and making off with CD players. Cars in West View and Victoria Street, have particularly been targeted. In another incident, at 3-30
. a.m. on Sunday, .vandals smashed the rear offside quarter light of a ; Citroen Saxo .in Tower Hill.
. Officers are urging motorists to
keep their vehicles locked at all times and not to leave expensive items'onshow. ■ Anyone with information is
urged to call Clitheroe Police on 443344, or the free and confiden tial Crimestoppers line on’0800 555111.
MP calls for action over fake £1 coins
ACTION is being , demanded by Ribble Val-: ley MP Nigel Evans over • the rising level of counter- / feit £1 coins in circula tion.
• - ■ / Mr Evans said: “When „
I asked a Parliamentary- question two years agoi.?; about
how.many counter feit £1 coins were in circu- - •:
lation, th e answer was 1% of all one pound coins.
■ - . “That figure has since
risen t o . 2 %, which; equates to 30m. £1 coins. Clearly, this number of counterfeit-coins cannot be allowed to rise. - .. .•:<“We now need to know an accurate figure - just
how many counterfeit ■ coins are in circulation? “I t is fundamentally ■ necessary for all business-
' es'to know, but especially; small businesses, which. ■can be severely affdeted by fake currency. • “One businessman in
London estimated th a t 7 % of his cash £1 coin
intake was counterfeit. , “We /. need to 'crack
down on the perpetrators. Clearly, six prosecutions on average a year are not addressing the problem in the way th a t wq would like. Finally, we must look at design. It should not be easy to counterfeit the design on any coinage.”. -.
Clitheroe Conservative Club on Thursdays at 6- 30 p.m. and St James’ Church H all ground floor on Mondays at 9- 30 a.m. and 6-30 p.m.
Whist winners
SCLC whist winners at th e Pendle Club were: M. Holding, B. Wood, D.
Underwood.New mem bers welcome every Monday at 7 p.m. Bridge winners at the
Pendle Club were: Miss P a t Hargreaves, Mrs Marilyn Wood, Mrs Jackie Pilling, Mrs Mar jorie Collier, Mrs Doris Farnsworth.
, Domino winners: 1 ( jo in t) , M. Berry, J. Sagar and J. Monaghan; 4, P. Holden; 5, W. Bark er; booby, M. Parkes.
Bridge results
WINNERS at Clitheroe Bridge Club on Monday evening were: NS David Mortimer and Brenda .Wilson, Jean Martindale
and Jean Taylor. EW Doreen Blake a n ^ S a t Murray, Geoff
and Kath Thomps^^ Cn Thursday evening •
winners were: NS Chris
■ Pollard and Tony Stokes, Pat Ward and Roy Ward. EW Geoff Capstick and E rn e s t Crmand, Ken Geddes and Peter Harg reaves.
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Castle to be adventure ft
as ram by Julie Magee
BRIDGE works at Grindleton were battered by torrential rain at the weekend.
' Local residents could only watch in disbelief as scaffold ing erected at the end of July to carry out the works was hammered by a river in spate and a deluge of debris;
Work to re-paint the
bridge, which is being carried out by TI Coatings Ltd for Lancashire County Council Engineering Services, was due to s ta r t towards the end of July to coincide with United Utilities’ recent closure of Ribble Lane.
• However, the start date was postponed after birds nested on the bridge steelwork subse quently delaying the painting
of the bridge until early Sep tember.
• ■ A spokeswoman for Lan
cashire County Council explained: “The heavy rain on Saturday cai^ed the level of .the Ribble to rise signifi cantly, which damaged the access scaffolding.
' “The scaffolding is being
recovered and reinstated over the next few days and i t is en-visaged that the works will
Raise your glass to
SIMPLY the bestl That is the accolade scooped by Byrne’s Wine Merchants in this year’s prestigious Inter national Wine Challenge. Noniinated for 14 awards,
more than anyone else, the family company took four including the Small Indepen dent Wine Merchant of the Year Award for 2008. • One.of the largest gather
ings of the global wine trade in many years gathered at this year’s awards dinner held at the Grosvenor House - one of London’s most prestigious hotels in Park Lane. On a glittering, evening,
that is generally accepted as the Oscars of the wine trade, father and son, Andrew and Joseph Byrne, collected a plethora of awards, beating nominees including super markets, agents, on-trade suppliers, mail order, on-line
.^ ^ in d e p e n d e n t and high retailers.
^ 3Tne's were named in the
final for, the Overall Wine Merchaiit of the Year 2008, alongside Tesco, Marks and Spencer ;and. Tanner's of Shrewsbury, only to be pipped at the post by M & S. ; A delighted Andrew said: “This was a glittering occa
be complete by October 20th, provided that the river does
• not rise to a dangerous level again.” She added th a t the surface p rep a ra tio n .and application of the primer coat had been completed. “There are some remaining
minor steelwork repairs to carry out and the application of sealant and two further coats of p aint before the works are complete,”, she said.
by Faiza Afzaal
CLITHEROE Castle creative play area has been named as one of the first locations for the exciting new outdoor p ark sprpmised by council bosses. Lancashire County Council
has more than £lm. to spend over the next three years on exciting new play spaces close to where children live, includ ing equipped ad-venture play grounds. And children themselves will
have a say in what the new fim areas should look like. The plans are par t of the
government’s £235m. national Play Fair programme aimed at developing play facilities for children aged between eight and 13. Lancashire County Council
is leading the initiative as a “Playbuilder” authority and will be working in partnership ■with district councils to estab lish a t le ^ t 20 to 25 play areas across the county. . The final list of seven sites
was approved at a meeting of the Lancashire Children and Young People’s Strategic Part nership’s board. The other six locations for
JAY-CARE
We have been m o v e d ^ b C ^ how much suppontiweihayelf received
ahayenbf >r children!
the play areas are: Chorley,
. Fleetwood, St Anne’s, Great Harwood, Pendle and Rossendale. The new fun facilities - '
which ■will cost up to £50,000 each - ■will be designed in col laboration with children, mums and dads, local people and councillors. They will be adapted for use
by children with disabilities too, and sited so that as many children as possible can reach them on safe walking/cycling routes. The county council’s cabinet member for children and
. young people Jennifer Mein said: “I ’m delighted to see this exciting project come a step closer to fruitioh. “Through this initiative we
and our partners want to pro- ■vide exciting pla.ces where chil dren will want to go to meet their friends and where they ■will feel confident and safe.” County Coun. Alan Whit
taker, chairman of Lancashire County Council, said: “This is terrific news for children and young people in Lancashire.
■ The new play area will be a first class facility and -will pro- ■vide exciting, challenging out door fun for children to enjoy.”
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sion which brings together the most important people in the drinks industry and oiir award was the-crowning glory ■ for our business. • “I t was the best award we
: could ever get, a very big achievement for such a com paratively small merchants compared to the mult-million pound companies we were up
against.” The rigorous .-judging
processes included a mystery
shopper who later comment ed he was so impressed with Tim Byrne's knowledge of wines,-from their source to how they complement food and to the range of wines that the shop has to offer, some which he assumed only large merchants in London would stock. He also- commended
Bsmie's staff for their person al atten t io n and customer service. The present Byrne’s
are the fourth generation - the business being s ta r te d by. great-grandfather- Denis Byrne.
■ All the team, who consist of Andrew, Philip and Timothy, Andrew's son Joseph and
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•Simon Jackson, work hard to - make the shop, one. of. Clitheroe's top -visitor attrac- . tions.' . : ■ Our picture shows Andrew and Joseph with one of their . awards; (CR071008-3):
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