Clitheroe 422324(Editorial),01282 426161 (Advertising), Burnley 01282.422331 (Class'ified) ' 2 ■ Clitheroe Ad v e r t ise r & T im e s , Thursday, Ju ly 2nd, 2009


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CH A T BU RN ' ' , ' A'MAJ.OR housing develop-:


Housing boon at the Mill


'ment in Clitheroe is a step near-; er. "An outline application to


regenerate the Primrose Mill site has been given a preliminary “thumbs up”, subject to details being ironed out with the devel­ oper. The residential scheme for around 160 homes would pro­


vide a mix of two, three and four storey houses, with inore than 20 apartments in the retained mill building and a number of affordable houses among the new properties.


' At their recent meeting, mem­


bers of the borough council's Planning Committee were minded to approve the applica­ tion subject to a number of con­


ditions being met. They agreed to delegate the final decision to their Director of Development Services to enable negotiations


' to take place with the applicant on a legal agreement encom­ passing the various conditions. ■ Our picture is an artist’s impression of the converted Primrose Mill part of the pro- - posed development..


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; www.clitheroeadvenlser.co.uk over drop-off point delay by Natalie Cox. QUESTIONS are being asked


; about why'plans to install a loading bay and drop-off point


.outside The Grand in Clitheroe are on hold. • Martin Kavanagh, director of operations a t the York Street venue, .explained that part of the original


, county planning requirement for the £5m. building included proper loading facilities at the front and a' dedicated drop-off facility. However, he says as consultation


is currently being carried out to look at residents’ parking in York


.Street and the surrounding area, a decision about whether The Grand can comply with the planning traf­ fic order stipulated by Lancashire County Council has been deferred by the Ribble Valley Lancashire


. Local Committee until July 15th. When th e committee met in


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April, Mr'Kavanagh addressed members and referred to many let­ ters of support, as well as a public petition supporting The Grand’s traffic order. ■ Mr Kavanagh said: “We are try­ ing to put on highly popular events to benefit the local community and meet the needs of hundreds of young people and senior citizens


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si^ifleant outlay, we are being held back from doing something we have been asked to comply with by Lan­ cashire County Council. Resident parking needs to be sensitive to us as well as to residents.” County Coun. Chris Holtom,


chairman of Ribble Valley Lan- casiiire Local committee, said: “I have every sympathy for those at The Grand and the delays they are experiencing. I would like to assure them th a t Ribble Valley’s Lan-


. cashire Local is doing everything it can to find a swift and -viable solu­ tion. “The issue of implementing the


who cannot be dropped off outside the venue safely. I t is like a ticking timebomb and we are most con­ cerned th a t before long someone will get seriously hurt. “We are also having to use back


York Street for loading and resi­ dents are rightly getting fed up with the vans and lorries which are sup­ posed to be using the proposed loading bay a t the front of our building. “The consultation which is being


carried out proposes disproportion­ ate swathes of residents’ parking on our side of York Street, but we are not being allowed to fulfill what was required of us and specified at coun­ ty level. We feel this is unfair and that this other proposal is far too skewed to residents’ lower priority needs. “The traffic order was originally


made knowing we would need that capacity for a venue of this size, so we cannot understand why, after


A WADDINGTON couple’s wedding


Silver days to get older folk fit


SENIOR citizens in Ribble Valley are being • encouraged to take part in more sport thanks to a ; new scheme called “Silver Mondays”-. ; /


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■ Each Monday, a series of sports and leisure activities will be on offer to the'over-6 Os a t S t ; Paul’s'Parish Hall and Ribblesdale Pool, in Clitheroe.'


' .v . Ribble Valley Council and Sport England have


joined forces to encourage elderly, residents, par­ ticularly those in Clitheroe’s.^disford and Low , Moor wards, to take part in more physical activi-.


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The scheme,, which offers swimming, aerobics, - ■■tai chi; indobr,bowls and refreshments, for just


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. £3, will be launched by Ribble ^Valley Mayor ‘ Beverley Jones on Monday (July 6th), with free


. swimming at Ribblesdale Pool from 11am to . noon, taster sessions and a tea dance a t St Paul’s Parish Hall from noon to 3 pm; and free goodie;


" bags featuring a! specially-commissioned Silver-,. -'Mondays DVD/ muscle balmrenergy.drink and


.informationleaflets. READ'. ■ BURNLEY ■ ACCRINGTON ; B LACKBURN I


WEEKEND WEATHER: There will be heavy rain^ S^ showers throughout the weekend," leading to.cooler ■ temperatures.


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SUNRISE: 4-46 a.'m. SUNSET: 9-41 p.m. : LIGHTING UP TIME 9-11 p m >


, . . The-DVD features retired Ribble Valley.nurse -


::andGP-'-Moya and'Edgar Ainsworth talking;, about their memories ofexercise'as they grew up' an'd how it’has become more important to them,-;


:"as thby try to stay fit and healthy in retirement. ?; ’’■It follows them‘'taking'part in a fitness session.


'’.And ends with Moya; who has never kick^ a fooL,’ ’ ball, scoring a goal on'an indoor pitch!


. J;.:;Silver:Mondays,is'’available to th'e'over-60s from throughout Ribble Valle^^^


‘the Edisfdrd and Low_^Moor areas./Totakepart,.' rand'claim your free goodie bag, justl go along bn-;


/Monday/ or you can get.more’ details from'thej 'council’s healthy lifestyle team 6n,01200 ,414484ii;f


. was almost scuppered when the bride­ groom was struck down with a medical emergency -with just hours to go. . And it wasn’t doctors who saved the


: day, but quick-thinking staff at a build­ ing society! . -


' ,7.-.Paul Whitney and Kathleen Healey, f . of . Regent Street, Waddington, were due to marry at Clitheroe Register Office on Saturday, but as they made c. their final arrangements something


' happened which threatened to pull the rug from under, their wedding plans. • On Friday afternoon, with just hours


•• to go until their big day, the couple ;. ■:" were in the Blackburn branch of the Skipton Building Society when Paul


: was suddenly immobilised with excru­ ciating pains and a severe shortage of breath. . He had suffered an identical attack


■; ju s t days before and,- following an . overnight stay in hospital, was diag-


; nosed with a pulmonary embolism.. . ’ Paul (58) knew if he could re'gulate


< : the situation quickly with medication ■', he should be fine. " • -. -i:. But he had no medication with him : and an emergency 999,call would have ’ s meant him.being rushed by ambulance


•• to.Royal Blackburn Hospital and £ - almost certainly kept in for observation, and tests. . *


’ After months of planning, the follow­ i n g morning’s wedding would have to ; ■K be.cancelled - and that was an invest- '.■me'nt the building society staff, were /.keen,to protect. Swinging into action,-: the team from the SBS were more like' theSAS!


•"/■../kTaking advice from bridegroom .’- Paul, customer, adviser Michelle Rid-


dehough raced off down the street to the nearest pharmacy and queue- jumped to get the necessary pain-man­ agement medication. •


. Meanwhile financial adviser Wesley Seale hurried away with Paul’s fiancee, Kathleen (53), to find the couple’s car -even though she could barely.remem­


ber where it was parked in all the panic! Back a t the King William Street


branch, mortgage adviser Paula Hall and branch manager Joanne Southorn kept the stricken patient comfortable until the cavalry arrived. Once the medication started to work the pain began to recede, Paul’s breathing pat­ tern returned to normal and hn emer­ gency situation was avoided. . - With Paul recovered and back on his


feet, the couple, who both work at Whitney Woods Ltd, in Rawtenstall, were able to continue with their plans and were married the next morning in Clitheroe. Witnesses were close friends Mrs


Carol Tighe and Mr Stephen Hocking, and also in attendance were the bride’s


’ daughters,; Laura and Melissa. ;The ; wedding was followed by a qiiiet recep­ tion at Mitton Hall, in Whalley.; . : ... ' . " A check-up with his own doctor con- ' firmed that if.-Paul had been unable to regulate the attack,- he would almost'-


/ certainly have ended up in hospital and. missed his wedding day.'


: ./'.’.Unfortunately h already.had to cancel; their planned ■


■' honeymoon in Spain after Paul’s diag-;. nosis made it inipossible for him to fly,


.7 but after all the excitement the newly- weds are happy to enjoy a relaxing hon-


:;-,:eymoon a t home in the sunny Ribble Valley.


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FOUR laptop computers have been donated to a hos­ pital to honour the memory


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' of a young Ribble Valley woman who died from leukaemia. '.' Sadie Kearns Banks Mus- grove-died in December 2007, aged just 20 and only 13 days after marrying child­ hood sweetheart Matthew. ■ A former pupil of St . Augustine’s RC High School,


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Billington, Sadie fought the disease for two years. . After her death, her family and friends set up a charity ■ called “Sadie’s Pot of Gold”


. in her memory to help young people and their families who are battling with leukaemia.


Hospital computers ‘memprial’ to The money raised has so


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far benefited several good causes, -with the latest pres-. entation of four laptops to the young oncology unit at the Christie Hospital in Manchester. Sadie’s hus­ band, Matthew, and her par­ ents Judith and Clive, would like to say a sincere thank you to everyone for their most generous donations and continuing support. Pictured ( left to right) are


ward manager David Wright and Sadie’s father, Clive Bank, (front row) Matthew’s mother Doreen Musgrove, family friend Janet Hall and community liaison nurse Damian Lacey, (s)


Whalley’s downpour drain drama


A MONTH’S worth of rain, which fell over Whalley in just a few hours, has wreaked havoc with the village’s drains. ;. downpours on Saturday


-' and last Tuesday saw almost , three inches fall - the equivalent to a typical month’s worth of rain.


“blown” out of the road leaving a gaping


hole. - “That was the same day Clitheroe Cas- .


• tie was being officially reopened and there was no evidence of the downpour in Clitheroe,” Coun. Hill explained.: • ‘‘I t was a downpour of .biblical propor­


- : Whalley: resident and .Ribble Valley ■ borough councillor.Terry Hill told the, Clitheroe Advertiser he had been astound­ ed by the volume of rain that fell and th e ; ; fact that it fell exclusively over Whalley.


//"-'He recalled th a t during Tuesday evening’s torrential downpour a manhole cover .in‘King Street, Whalley, was


tion, which, quite simply, the drains just could not take.”


. . ■ Whalley resident Vincent Verrill record-


■ ed 34.1mm of rainfall in just an hour-and-. a-half that day. ' :On Saturday, a similar flash flood saw. 37.3mm of rain fall during the storm, - causing flood water to seep into garages at


Woodlands Drive, Whalley, and into The Dog Inn, King Street, Whalley. - ■ , .- V -. Coun Hill said; “These downpours have


: shown that Woodlands Drive is -vulnera­ ble and I ’m compiling a report for both ;


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Ribble Valley Borough Council and Lan­ cashire County Council examining what help, in the form of flood barriers, can-be ■ provided to residents.” • He added: “We were extremely lucky.


; th a t there wasn’t more damage to any ; other properties.’?. . ' Work is currently being carried out b y ;


.. United Utilities to repair the damaged manhole in King Street. ; / ;


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- loading bays is interlinked with the proposals for residents’ only park­ ing in York Street and nearby roads. We are awaiting a report from our colleagues at the borough council outlining plans for residents park­ ing and i t would be impractical to deal with the loading bays issue until we understand the impacts this report will have. “We hope to receive this report at


the next Lancashire Local meeting on July 15th, so that more definite plans for both issues can be drawn up.” Mr Kavanagh is pictured (right)


with some of those who use The Grand but are concerned at the lack of a drop-off facility at the venue.


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e V A N D ^ cracked a side window of a Peu­ geot 306 parked in


■ West View, Cli­ theroe, causing £150 worth of -damage.-


C l ith e ro e A d v e r t is e rS tT im e s , T h u rsd a y , Ju ly 2nd , 2009 ; 3


Chocolate firm creditors Idft


with bitter taste CREDITORS have been left with a bitter taste in their mouths after a Ribble Valley chocolate business went bust. ' ‘ The Official Receiver’s report to credi­


tors shows that handmade chocolate busi­ ness CocoMoyo went under with debts totalling £174,521. And thosebwed money are unlikely to see any, as the report states “there appears to be no prospect of a dis­ tribution to creditors”. ■ CocoMoyo’s founder, 39-year-old Lisa' Kennedy, originally set up in business making chocolates a t Backridge Farm, Waddington, in September 2007, later mo-ving the manufacturing operation to a unit at The Sidings, Whalley. . . . Her CocoMoyo chocolate shop and cafe,


in Castle Street, Clitheroe, was opened in August 2008, but lasted just seven months before the business folded in April this year. ■ At the time Mrs Kennedy - who peti­


tioned for her own bankruptcy at Black­ burn County Court - blamed the econom­ ic downturn, a lack of rate relief support for small businesses and “the banks” for refusing to lend more money to support the business. Describing i t as “profitable”, she even


talked of expansion plans, but the figures presented to creditors under The Insolven- cy Act tell a different story. They show the business owed suppliers


£13,130; had overdrafts of £15,000 and loans of £77,657; had run up debts of £33,471 on credit and store cards; .owed £4,961 in wages, owed the Government £16,768 in unpaid taxes; and had out­ standing rent and unpaid utility bills at £13,543. Mrs Kennedy’s husband, Donovan, was


also adjudged bankrupt on May 13th this year.


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