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Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, .ITiursday, April 2nd, 2009;.;* 3,j aiasgqw.8SW»tBa»»a>r.'8»i»»m{*'


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• :.V"' Hnnlri in a woodland area in meat shops across the RibbleVal- donect in a wouu ^


windows are locked at all , .


:- <<i am also askmg people not to .;


recentbreak-ins.'s’\''-' v ^ -v- occurred at pproximately 11 m^astian^ _ _ • , v : ;A s part of tKeJnvestigation, ‘ The first incident occurred^ , p.m."on S u n d p , Heywooas ^


Three raiders," who police 'forced thar way mto the shop on - _ .. .................................


nVs at hutchere’shops elsewhere • keep large amounts of money in S t


between 10-15 p.m: last-Phurs-,; Butchei^ m Wilpshire, was^i;. > 8 mvestigating. He said: es who may have noticed any sus^, ■ dayahd6a.m:4hefollowingday..^ geted.-Police say three men_ ^


f in S ir e over the past’ shop p r t o overnight.” - clitheroe Sgt Evans is also urging witness- thefts is picious activity to contact thein;


e also been involved."-, ■-■■ _ and confidential Crimestoppers fseei^Jravelli^^^


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. ‘'■'ANi'-irate mother has slammed bosses at Clitheroe’s ';


,-«.«-sTesco store for refusing to sell ?^her alcohol when she was r ii with her 14-year-old son.


,The.incident happened when


'' y-^35ryear-old Sue Pollard, of New ■" I Ings Farm, Gisbum, popped into


:?;:,i?s-‘ithe Duck Street store at around , ^)^.7-30.p.m. on Saturday with her " f.;Soh, Tai, and his 15-year-old friend to buy a few items such as bread arid c a t food. She also ' picked up a box of lager that was


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■ von special offer and went to the ; . check out to pay. , •, - i “The young lad'on the check serve-me as I ;


couldn’t prove the beer wasn’t for,; m y so n and his friend,” Sue


’ explained. “He said he could only serve


’ me if I had ID. I said ‘are you joking? I’m 35’; to which he said,-: ‘no not for you, for them two’


Duty chemist: i Peter Buckley Ltd,-4:Railway.yiew,


Ghtheroe:; Sunday, noon to 1 p m. Police. 01200 443344. r Fife: In emergency 999 and ask for fire service. Electricity: 0800 1954141. Gas: 0800111999.


Water. 0845 462200.' Councils; Ribble .Valley Borough, Council,vChtheroe,


425111. Clitheroe Town Council, 424722.’ - , Hospitals: Royal Blackburn Royal Hospital: 01254 263555.‘’Airedale General:Hospital, Steeton: 01535


652511.’Clitherbe Community Hospital: 427311. Alcohol Information Centre; 01282 416655.'p-, Aidsline 01282 831101 (7 p m. to 9 p m ). ; DomesticViolMce Helpline; 01282 422024..;- Cruse Bereavement Care; 01772 433643. l


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Environmental Agency: Emergencies ^.0800 807060.:;;,. Drugs: Local confidential advice and information line: 01254226200.National’0800776600.


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Kibble ValleyTalkmg Newspaper: 01200 428604. Samaritans 01254 662424 ,


,i MorithlyVoluntecr Helpline; 01200 422721.;,


Lancashire Rural Stress Network; 01200 ,427771; vs QUEST (specialist smoking cessation service); 01254 358095


Kibble Valley Citizens’ Advice Bureau; 01200.428966. ■; ■'t'


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SMohammediJsRafhan (37),' of Whalley Road,|


s' was remanded.on bail by, ■iHyndburn magistrates


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carers’ V: open day '


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. rfy An opeh’day has been • ^-organised by the foster||


care associates (one of > §| the UK’s leading foster?; mg agency) who are,;:;?:-| looking to recruit fosteri; carers across the North ? West to make a real dlf? ference to the lives ofXg: Children and young peo?


- pie ’ - ; . j: For further mforma-* tion about fostering, please attend the open ;.S


'1‘ day tomorrow. (April :'.'3rd) between 10 a.m..',<>| and 3 p.m; at The Barnf


Vi Fishes and Peggy,Hill?; -jiFarm) Henthorn Roadi| 5-1 Clitheroe (next to the “ Chtheroe Recycling'vlg Centre);-You can also vii call 01200 427526 or log I onto the website' www.iwanttofoster.cpm


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LONG-SERVING-Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans will today,meet with the chief executive of .the bps-;, pital where his 86-year^ld mother,


Betty, died from a suspected hospi-: tal “superbug’’-infection last week; s vMrs:Evans,'-pictured,'dtedi.in „


Singleton Hospital) SwaMea, m ' the early hours of Friday morning,-.;*. Ma"rcK'27thTShe,had gone into ? ihbspital-lO days previously.lor a?,;


routine operation to remove a gall- stone from her bile duct, but m,the ,-i days following the operation;her. 1 condition'detenorated and she was .-;


diaghosedas suffering fromvthejfc, •_1 _


tracted while m hospital.


clostfindium difficile infection,” /rerofded on her death certificate as which her family believe she con- ' dostrindium difficile infection , .


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“Glearly we are very angry,” said gn Monday that he expected she Mr Evans. “I will be meeting with would have had another year or the chief executive of the hospital two years or maybe more,” said Mr , and we will want some very quick Evans "But the elementary aspect


: why my'mother 'wasn’t kept in high standard that these superbugs hospital longer after her procedure canthnve to monitor her recovery.” - . -


c^ 'Although Mrs Evans was being ,:; ;;but on a wider basis there is no rea-; treated for cancer,-her son believes hat:was not 'connected to: her


“I cannot brmg my mother back, son in the 21st Century that,we


'death? with'-the cause of: death‘;: ;blhng people m hospitelsand that:-- -mother.would have wanted i


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members ivelcome every;;i-::everyFndayat'7-p.m.-’i-:;;;;5 Monday at 1-30 p m ; Line dancing is held Solo whist'iWinners at4«ievery,-Thursday.at l-30i


i the' Pendle:Club.were'Lvs-;' p.mr and sequence dancing' Norns, B Wood, K. Hold-* eve'ry'Tuesday‘at 7-30


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“The surgeon said to my sister stituents made her leei mcreamiy ^„ -11 mv friends


. j ’„ jjg^ fggi incredibly


vnU- who have: i-™ a L svmoathv'


answersonhowthiswasallowedto ;,,of thisis the.question of why, our- . during this most,diff , happen;’particularly, in relation to . hospitals are not cleaned to such aj


their


my life’ -'-Despite his loss and much to his


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credit; Mr Evans fulfilled a long­ standing engagement at Sabden Bowling Club on Saturday morn- -


ing "and a weekend surgery, telling constituents th a t was.what h is ,


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Remanded to crown,court BARROW, man Simon Hartley.(24), of Trafford ,, Gardens; had his casej^directed.to Preston.Crown Court when he appeared before Blackburn .magis-


•tfates.'He IS charged with assaulting .Carl G1II1-. brand causing him actual bodily harm.**,


: Traffic mirror is stolen A TRAFFIC mirror has been stolen f rom outside a house m De Lacy Street, Clitlieroe


ii-'i'-The 2ft;- rouhd mirror,’worth'£120, was removed, i'from outside the house between 8t30 p.m, on Fri-,. ::;day and'11-30 a.mVon Saturday.'.^


lim o iiliie ro ia ilfe r tlm o o jlc y es 70% NO 30%


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CASH is available for Chtheroe S ’' town centre’s annual Christmas :, lights display.


. - Mr David Morris, the chief


; . executive of the Ribble. Valley Borough’ Council,- has this week ■:


r:: & firmly hit-back at claims made by > :fej Chtheroe-Town Council; that cu t-: "■K«


• fe: ply of small trees and hghts erect- c ' . ed outside shops m Clitheroe. ' J., ' As reported on the front page of ftt'.-Iast.week’s Clitheroe. Advertiser,;


■ffi-xatand Times, council:officials were? < branded “scrooges” after the i:;*vijitown:counciI thought;the plugs : -;<^?was being pulled,on funding for*: ' .th e town’^annual festive^ights /-display.ji^j^


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*,‘-::The controversial move was bem'g blanSed on the recession and the council’s commitment to keep


’'•'fiJcoiii^ciltax'down’in.the.Ribble 4iyaUey7^


In a statement to our paper, Mr Morris'stresse'd -that fundin'g; is


i'Sfeavailable to illuminate the.town C 'd u n n g the festive period. / * y , “Ribble Valley Borough Coun-


ft-siS’cil (RVBG) assures Clitheroe res- q>;r((-vv i -y- *--}■ gy y ~


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idents,. traders and .wsitors that?) funding IS available fo'r.this'year’s ? Christmas lights,” he explained.?-;?: f “RVBC has contnbuted signifi->|


cantly to Christmas'Hghts in?) Chtheroe over the years and cbnT, ; tinues’to do so.:Grant;aid;to's; Clitheroe : Town,; C6uncii :;in^ 2008/09 included £2j370.tbwmds^ 120 small Christmas treeste'n^^^


•lights and £630 towards'nihej^ planters


i’:f,-YRVBG’s lights budget for 2009/10 is £3;560 more th^^^ enough to help fu n d ] t l i iy y e ^ lights m Clitheroe.


* '.i“This budget already, has suffi-;:;:- ,,.?cient monies; therefore it’WMn^^^^


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v.«'-f necessary- to, replenishjitTo'rft; 2009/10.


s « ‘‘Unfortunately,:Ribbleya|ley ft- Borough Council serifla jetter)tp'*5l


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i!; Chtheroe Town Council :on)Feh?ft^ a ruary.27th; 2009,-which gay^^ f-impressionthat tHe'Christm^ lights budget was no iohgehayail)|| able.'” ! '' ■


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;; ftYThere has not beijfafl)uagrt|| •^.allocation for.these gtentefoirlhell V


’last lew years; because) themw^^ ■ super iiaVe; iiothinglp dp. they ■


-i-went' into hospital in the first place.” r


iV'Paying tribute'to?his mother, ; 'i^Cohseryative;^ Iftwas ;thankV:td; m^


i f stent support tte^^ |S low.- myfdream of. a careerdn poli-


| ; t i c 8 ^ i S i i l i S t S I S ^ ^ '.ii|,?‘ShecpmfdrM^^^ IsiustenEmce during my political loss-;.


^tiestend; that: WM ;ali;TO^^^ #sh'e Was abie^o’sKare'm^ joy bn? ?i;heing elected ;Me^


' t-ment for the Ribble^'W^^ iiBYSheloTCdM


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- i .-f referring to m y son and h is ; friend. I was to ta lly gobs-;- '* mackedi” Sue, pictured, who reg- ’ .:’ ::t:'? .ularly- shops in the Clitheroe. i


Tesco cashiehrefuses to serve mum cilcohol due to preseiKie of.son (14)


.the manager,’who told the single: mum th a t he had to agree with


S'the approach taken by his mem- : - her of staff. “I didn’t know what to say! I :


i^bought by someone who is under,:’; ,the age.qf 18.'‘1 .


•0?S‘In tlds’mstance, it sounds like;; ;;'ithey got it .wrong and we apolo-? ’,‘ gise.for that; but I'm sure, as the


just walked off and told them to keep their shopping,” : Sue : recalled. “I'm not a big drinker,' but I was made to feel like a comr ■


, plete criminal.: I t was’ very.’ humiliating.”


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: ' “All the people in, the queue; behind me were amazed by what-


■iWas happening,’I:added:Sue,‘'a;' •, self, employed freelance groom. : “What are people supposed to do


' if they have their^children,with them? '‘Is i t coming to i th e .p o in t :


where Tesco can dictate what we. ' can and cannot do?” ,


• A^spokesman for. Tesco said;,, “Such action is taken when a


• ' . ft' st subsequently asked to see '. : ’ cashier suspects alcohol is being


■ '.mother of;a teenager, the woman ■ '■


’in question -would understand


ftwhy our cashiers have to be so • - careful. , .‘‘This incident demonstrates..


.‘-’What a difficult job our cashiers :■ do.” - He confirmed that no new pol-;


i:. icy had been implemented by ■


- Tesco and th a t parents?, who:; •■


- were accompanied by. their chil-'t


. • dren,': were welcome to shop m •’ ;: sto res'and buy as many age V • res tricted - products as they - *: wished.' .“The.staff were j u s t : abiding by the law. We have to be . ,


- very, wary of proxy selling where . adults are buying alcohol for chil­ dren.” (CR310309a) ,


■ Fdntdsticmakeover-offer, IN this month’s issue of the Valley, we are launching an exciting new com-.


'■ ’Petition to ivin a fantastic makeover worth more than £250. . , : :


’ • Drop a dress size in a month ivith 10 free 45 minute cross bike sessions at Lee Carter Gymnasium • Head into spnng with a new ham style, make-up, nails and a tan from Kellie Hughes in Whalley - • AND to top it all off; there’s a new outfit waiting at:Seasons m ; Clitheroe. Make sure of your copy of the Valley.--,OUT'April 23rd.-: :


ouncil:chieftrefutes4scrooges.i claim Jfeil


and still IS more than sufficient:; monies set aside in a reserve,, specifically for such applications. :::.;‘This important matter was * raised by several Clitheroe coun­ cillors at the Ribble Valley Coun-. cil meeting on March 10th, 2009, •. when the council’s budget for 2009/10 was approved. The fol-.- lowing day, Coun. Allan Knox,- a member of Clitheroe Town Coun-,, cil; was informed th a t funding was available to help fund Christ­ mas; l ig h ts / inC l i th e ro e t in - 2009/10.”


' • In addition, Mr Morns has,; apologised to Clitheroe ,Town Council th a t:the:February,27th letter, stated: :“This is-the last time this grant aid will be avail­ able.” This IS incorrect


fX’Mr Morns added: :/‘An e-mail was sent to Goun. Allan Knox on ;


:March.llthr!2009,',which;con- tamed.the correct information.;!, am satisfied that there will be suf-: ficient funds to assist’with ,the provision of-Christmas lights m:; Clitheroe”


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