38 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Hundreds flock to V 1=5:


propertytoday.co.uk propertytoday.co.uk fe s tiiS ifI Scarecrows are always = i^-.; by Natalie Cox ; y


SEARCHING for scarecrows is big business. in one Ribble;


■Valley village.. ‘ Waddington’s annual Scarecrow.


. Festival draws people of all ages from across the area and beyond to = an event 'which has become a pop-, ular tourist attraction.


- > Over three days, thousands of


visitors converge on the village to view, the handiwork of household-: ers who have spent hours making' models which they put on display : outside their homes. •


/ . ' . This year many well-known


faces had been reincarnated in.v scarecrow form including Willy Wonka with: a window full o f ' Oompa Loompas, as well as one of the country’s best-known foot--


■ bailers, together with a cheeky ref-' erence to one of his nicknamesl • ^ . Other exhibits included a mini


bells, cockle shells and a whole row of pretty maids.


.. Maypole with the ribbons held by a variety of small stuffed toys and ■ an officers’-mess complete with a


; member of the armed forces and his female companion. ’


■ r ;The invisible man was almost ■ there, while one scarecrow had - gone “ back to basics’’ literally,


. with the designers simply using a bale of straw.


■; - There were many humorous models, including a “Knight on the; tiles” with the armour-clad hero


, depicted alongside his empties,- and Little Miss Muffet was sitting


. on her tuffet in the main street accompanied by. an oversized spi­ der. Outside another home Mary,:


• Mary was tending her garden ■ which was in full bloom with silver


- A variety of different events had- been organised for every day of the


: St Helen’s Church festival and held on the village croft. . Festivities culminated -with the. now legendary duck race.


• •.


■: .As the start o f the race drew ; . closer, the banks o f the v i l la g e . 'brook were packed with spectators who saw the amazing spectacle of


.V hundreds of small yellow plastic : birds bobbing their way through - - the village, with the first past the


.. post claiming a cash prize of £200 - for the owner of the corresponding ' ticket. ;. • Young Charlotte Winder, p ic - . tured. to p , : was crowned R o s e . Queen.


(T060508/4C) TAKING in the rays are these bikini-clad.‘ladies’. (T060508/4b)r m


.^ > - /pO R E ’striking to look at than the .y /1 ^Wwtra but also more spacious and -L y i -w i th an improved engine range,


the Vau^all Insignia looks like a winner. The'optional four-wheebdrive system


should go down well at the top end of the range, helping the Insignia to extend its appeal to more private buyers. .: ;. The Insignia is offered with five


Si. HEIDI ROSENDALE, with Olivia, Drew and Morgan Coulston and their.'liitic devils’ (TOGOSOS/dh) -;- :


IAN Poole, George Poole, Mark Jackson and Simon Grctlon with their scarecrow ^


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engines initially. Petrols range from a 138bhp four-cylinder unit to a 256bhp V6. On the diesel front, Vauxhall’s advanced 2.0-litre oil-burners take a bow for the first time and if the CDTI tech­ nology in the Vectra’s diesels is any indi­ cation, they’ ll be more than enough to keep fleet-customers contented.: We can also expect an Ecoflex version


“THESE girls,; left, are wait-?


J'-ing eagerly . for the start


'' .of the duck i , ; . race .. " ■ (T060508/4d)


with low C02 emissions.'The Insignia is offered in two or four-wheel-drive guise with the 4x4 model benefiting from the clever adaptive all-wheel-drive system pioneered by Saab. It adapts the distri--, bution of torque between all four wheels instantaneously to enhaiice traction and handling. This should give the Insignia a key


advantage over its predominately 2WD rivals. There’s also the optional IDS Plus:


: active chassis which controls damper set- according to the driving conditions;


y|P?he Vectra wasn’t the most thrilling car to drive and regularly suffered in dynamic comparisons to its arch rival. Ford’s Mondeo. The Insignia is hell bent on eclipsing.


By STEVE WALKER


stitute the UK road network. Vauxhall tells us that their new models will be individuals rather than conforming to a . common styling theme as the Corsa, Astra and Vectra have done in recent J times. .-


• 'The Insignia looks distinctive, there’s;.


; no question about that. Offered as a five- -7 door, a four-door or an estate, the'car ' tries for a dynamic, head-turning appear- i


■ ance and isn’ t unsuccessful. The five- -:, door hatchback and four-door saloon; versions are nigh-on impossible to distin- guishataglance.: . Both have the same bowed roofline


which drops dramatically towards the • rear and, perhaps the Insignia’s signature , ; stylistic device, the “blade” feature that’s , cutaway behind the front wheelarches. At the front, all Insignia models feature a , bold chrome grille with the latest Yaux- hall badge at the centre. - ,


: ■The .Insignia’s 'styling has to be. ;


deemed a success in the context of the ;': often mundane mediumrrange sector.but-


; the insignia’s designers were also intentk on delivering practicality. The car is ;,_- 21mm longer-than the Vectra at!,:


4,820mm and 50mm wider.. The Vectra wasn’t a cramped offering ;'.i


itself but the Insignia improves passen-rf: ger space partly through'these larger


• exterior dimensions and partly through , a wheelbase that’s extended by 35mm. ; :


the Blue Oval’s finest and has been : developed largely on UK roads to give it a fighting chance. iThe SRi models with ■ their sports suspension set-up are always; particularly.pop'ular;with;UK buyers; and this'setrup. has benefited from thou-;


. sands'of; development milesion. the rut-,; ted and oveAvnrked 'shrface.s that con-


The Insignia, like the Vectra,. will come in an array of guises as buyers


: select their preferred bodystyle, engi'pS- ■ and triih combination but what’s crucial--;, is that the basics seem to work. • .


: ■ -The Insignia looks a desirable, cleverly i j ■^designedrpackage that:will,give rivals;|;i


' .snmethinff to think' about. " , : ' ,


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