2 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, March 5th, 2009;


INSIDE YOUR CLITHEROE A D Vm iSERjljiip


1 Valley Matters...............................6,7 ■ Village News . . . . . .


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■ Letters...................'.............; ..........14 ■ Weekendplus...............; . ____36,37 I Business Matters........................... 13 ■ Family Notices...........................18,19 ■ Ecadersplus . . . . . . . . ; ; . . . . ; . . . .20 I Motors Today' ...............; ............'. .38 ■ Sport........................................... 53-56


AT A GLANCE... to leave - page 4 .'


Jeweller Joseph sparkles page 7


• Hedgelaying i Grand Prix - page 8 Like father, like daughter -page 13


INFORMATION - -~


Duly chcmisl:Heyes Chemist, 35 Moor, Lane,' Clitheroe: Sunday, noon to 1 p.m. Police: 01200 443344. - Fire: In emergency 999 and ask for fire service. •; Eleclricily: 0800 1954141. Gas: 0800111999. Water: 0845 462200.


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Councils: Kibble Valley Borough Council, Clitheroe 425111; Clitheroe Town Council, 424722.


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Hospitals: Royal Blackburn Royal Hospital:' 01254 263555. Airedale General Hospital, Steeton: 01535 652511. Clitheroe Community Hospital: 427311. : : Alcohol Information Ccnlrc:.01282 416655.;: •:. - : : , ■ Aidslinc: 01282 831101 (7 p.m. to 9 p.m.). ■ ■ ■ '' Domestic.Violence Helpline: 01282 4220^1; ; Cruse Bereavement Care: 01772 433643. ^ ■ c: v Environmental Agency: Emergencies - 0800 807060. Drugs: Local confidential advice and information lino: 01254 226200. National: 0800 776600.


Riblile Valley Talking Newspaper: 01200 428604. Samaritans: 01254 662424. Montlily Volunteer Helpline: 01200 422721. - Lancashire Rural Stress Network: 01200 427771. - QUEST (spccialist.smoking cessation service): 01254, 358095. Rilrbic Valley Citizens’ Advice Bureau: 01200 428966.


CONTACT US! - News: 01200 422324


Advertising: 01200 422323. Classified: 01282 422331 Family Notices and Photo Orders: 01282478134 , . “ Fa\: 01200 443467


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WEEKEND WEATHER:There will be bright sun-; •' shine on Saturday followed by heavy rain showers on Sunday. .Temperatures will reach a maximum of 9°c. : ;


SUNRISE 6-41 a m SUNSET 5-59 p m LIGHTING UP TIME: 5-29 p.m.


' \W, In court


-A-WAGON driver was ; fined after illegally carry-; ing scrap metal and other rubbish. •


, : ; . _ s . - = Trio oLparties inarks 100th birthday fun;


CENTENARIAN Mrs Winifred; Sutcliffe enjoyed three parties to ■ celebrate her 100th birthday. -


: • . Winnie, of West Bradford, who has been attending-Mearley Fold


. Day. Centre, Bright Street,-. ' Clitheroe, on Thursdays and '•: Sundays, for the past six years, ; . - enjoyed a party with staff and . ■:


® WINNERS of solo whist at the Pendle Club were: Les Norris, B. Wood, M. Hold--


■ ing.-New members welcome: every Monday at 7 p.m. . ',


- Bridge,winners a t'th e , Pendle Club were: Mrs Eva Velvick and Mrs Frances Porter. Mr Brian.Holden and Mr Harvey Jackson.=-? Domino winners were:


'.joint 1; G. Berry/A'.-Fox, P.' Parrot, joint 4, P. Metcalfe,- D. Lowe,-booby E. Barker.-'


• New/members ^welcome;: every F riday a t :.?; p.m.' Sequence dancing-is held: every Tuesday at 7-30 p.m.- and line dancing: every : Thursday at 1-30 p.m., '


friends at the centre/ I t included entertainment by singer and gui- • tarist Michael Dean and a buf- • fet.


■ ; On Saturday/ the day before her actual birtKday/Winnie enjoyed a party, with-her family a t the.Calfs'^ead:at;Worston, then on Tuesday, she was treated


A heartfelt plea


A PAIR of small blue clogs taken from the doorstep of a house in Grindleton- had great sentimental value for their owner. =Mrs Rebecca Sharp is appealing for


the return of the wooden Dutch clogs, which were taken from the doorstep o f : her home in East View.. :.'"Mrs Sharp explained: “My uncle brought them back from Holland when he' was stationed-there during the Sec­ ond World-War, as a gift for my mother. “They are almost .70 years old and of


great sentimental value. i . -‘“I left them outside after.finding them full of woodworm and was hoping


to restore them; Please,'please can you - return them.” • < -


to a.tea dance and sing along a t :: the Manor House Nursing and: Residential Home, Chatburn, '// where she attends once a week. Our picture shows Winnie Sut­


cliffe celebrating her-lOOth birth­ day with a party at the'-Mearley;, Fold Day Centre.' (A260209/2) . "


World prayer day


THE women’s world day of prayer, will be commemorated in Clitheroe tomorrow evening. /:. A united service will take place at St James’s Church at 7-30 p.m.'


when the speaker will be Mrs: Joan Marsh. Women from . Papua New


Guinea have prepared a service which will be :Conducted a t churches in 170 countries. More; than three million people across the world will be praying and wor­ shipping together. . Men, women arid young people are invited to attend the Clitheroe


service and refreshments will be served.


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, David:; Parr; (.38 Hesketh Lane, Chipping, vyas ordered to pay a fine arid costs totalling £665 after, he was stopped in Clay Street,' Buniley. . ' Appearing: befbrfe .


Reedley magistrates Parr'' pleaded guilty io carry­


in g .controlled waste without a waste carrier’s licence;- The court was told


that;Parr-was driving a caged flat-backed wagon when;: th e ‘ vehicle was s topped by police and Burnley Council officers. involved in Operation Ferrous,-a iriulti-agency: iriyes'tigatiori into the moveirient'and sale of scrap metal. '


';®;:WINNERS - eroe /Bridge Club on .Moriday'evening were:


■; NS Chris Pollard and ;;Ja n e t Bailey, Deanna “Atlcinson' and /Robin


./'Atkirisori.; 'EW . Joan . ‘ Bowker arid Kath Hig- ;/'s 0 ri ; P a, t i M ur ray an d


/.Doreen Blake. On' Thursday winners


were:,NS Merle Allen


f'andSAlasdair/Carter, ■; r'Chris P6llar(l;and Steve; ; /■HigsoriAEW// eanna ,. Atkinson and Doreen


/Blake;/Ernest Ormand ,; /arid Frances Porter/;:- CP;v;


I? ' d by Duncan Smith -


■GOVERNMENT recognition of: th e . plight of- Britain’s pubs'


: ; Mr Evans said: “Figures that ; have been released today just go to :■ show that something must be done - to save the Great British institu­ tion that is the, pub.


■has b een welcomed as lo ng o v e rd u e b y R ib b le V a l le y ’s- ■; Conservative M P Nigel Evans. ^


! Ministers to attend a joint meeting to consider, the challenge now and: to address i t . ''


;: /: He is vice-cliairman of the All■ •Party Beer Group, which invited


r < “The fact that Preston has lost i'vthe seventh highest number of ■ pubs in the country and the Ribble Valley has lost 10, hammers this


. point home in my constituency. I am sure that all MPs will be con- ’cerned when they see the figures ' for their area.'


“To that end, I was'delighted


that five Government Ministers were sitting around the table at


yesterday’s Pub Summit. “The All-Party Beer Group then


plans to invite the relevant Shad-: ow Ministers to a similar meeting that I will chair and we hope to achieve a real consensus on the issue. I sincerely hope th a t the


. summit is a wake up call to the ■ Government and prompts them to act before it is too late.”


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Cliiheroe 422324 (Editorial),01282 426161 (Advertising),Burnley 01282 422331 (Classffied) MP highlights plight Charity Jchallengf


4-iThe pedal pushiiig , fa,theMf-two has also


: pfeviously completed • chanty bike rides from ' : Land;s_Eiid to John : O’Cirpats'and part of the North Sea Cycle Route,


' raising thousands of ■pounds for charity. :


f;,/| For his latest chal­ lenge, the tireless fund-


'Iraiser.has had to ditch : the bike^and heave on his .walking boots. His first : : ascent will be the Great MellFell.


4; .You; can find out more


' about Bill’s challenge ; and keep up-to-date


/ with his progress by vis-, •iting his company web- ' site on this address ,


; http://wivw.honeyivell.co ::iuk7aboutus.html and • follpiying the links. You • can also find his regular­ ly updated


/piAnyohe ivishing to, sponsor Bill can do so by logging on to iviyw.just-:: : giving.cdm/billhpneyivell /


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Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, March 5th, 2009


Creditor’s fury at businesses left in turmoil by Valley school


■ by Julie Magee


AN, angry creditor has slammed Moorland School for leaving local businesses


out of-pocket: during a recession.


, "i Michael Smith, who runs ' ...


vBridge:Street Stone Ltd at Colne; is owed £13,437 after ; the private school went into


. administration on December v23rd, bufonly for 10 minutes.-


:/•• He. had supplied roofing .materials, including blue roof- : ing slate, for a new. building in ; the school grounds. , :-“We’re a small family busi-


: ness and-this is a lot:for us to lose.


s : “We’re already in a recession and this is another kick in the


■ shins,’’ explained Mr Smith v(62), who has been in the building trade for the last 20 years. In total, 17:Ribble Valley


Mum’s pride at talented


daughter (10)


WHILE most young girls enjoy playing outdoors -with their friends in their spare time, little Amy -Judge likes to do her bit for charity..


. The talented 10-year-old, who lives in Whalley, enj oys turning her hands to designing cards and sell-


: ing them to boost funds for. chari­ ty.


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;; Ainy, who is a Year 6 pupil at- -. Rrad Primary School and is set to; ■


attend Clitheroe Royal Grammar


/ySchool in September,: has been ' .{making handmade'eards for th e : . ,;.past two yeare and selling them to ■:help a number of worthwhile caus-" ,es.‘ “ / /■'V> 4 Her proud mother, Susan,:^d:: ' “I t all began when she initially-


‘;made"congratulatory cards for;. j fainily,and friends and we. were all.' / impr^sedwith the higri standard:/ ::of.them..Her passion has grown •: ^c e -> •-


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4r'.;‘She lovS aR and it is fantastic i ;to see heivwith her.sequins and •. . gems designing cards.” :: ../Susan added: “In the past she : has had stalls at school fund-rais­ ers to make money for the choir :


• A FORMER Clitheroe man who died in Spam three months ago appears to have , been buried without his fami­ ly’s permission.


' As reported in last week’s /• Clitheroe Advertiser and / , Times, the body of Neil Walk-


DSAWOe-e|,| .:«- • c,*. ■


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and school funds. She will have one - 'i during the Easter to sell her cards - '- and donate the proceeds to chari-«' ty.


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' -“The cards are professionally/./' made and sold well, priced between ’ £1.50 to £2.”


' Susan revealed that Amy hired-;.': a cabinet at Whalley Library last';:-, February and sold cards raising -. money for RSPCA. .■


'e r was lying in a morgue in Ali-


-. cante, south west Spain. The 37-year-old, who had been liv­ ing in Clitheroe before moving out to Spain last summer, died


■ in N o v em b e r . . His mother, Joan Crossland (64)jvas desperately trying to


... V “Amy is hiring the cabinet again throughout this month and will. selltHe cards in aid of .the Guide ■ DogSjforJthe Blind. A cafe in-: WHalley, ‘Number 51.’. has also ■


agreed to sell some of her stock on..' her behaltFam so proud oFAmy/'' She is a very clever girl and has;- always enjoyed art and craft. She:', is only-10 years old, yet she is always thinking about others.”


raise funds to bring her son’s / body home. Mrs Crossland has now been hit by the devastat-. , ing news that her son has been buried without her permission.


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businesses are included in the 103-long list of creditors, who were owed £1,059,560 when the school went into adminis-: tration.


• ■ Mr Smith was particularly ■


aggrieved after reading infor­ mation included in a report by - administrators Baker Tilly. - ■ ' ■ : I t records that from 2005 to ■ 2007, the company generated net profits of £537,000 with ■ dividends to shareholders - amounting to £565,000 over the same period - therefore - £28,000 more than the school’s net profits were paid out to/; shareholders during that time./ “Accordingly, the company


retained-., limited -liquid -: resource to fund future capital:/ expenditure and/or downturns in trading,” admin is trato rs ' state in the report. Despite this, in 2007, con­ stru ctio n began on a new-


:-building within the grounds of the leasehold property owned '


by current school principal John Harrison. This was pre­ dominantly, funded by a loan


and overdraft from Barclays Bank pic.


• 'But after spending around £600,000 on the development, the company experienced.


■ “cash flow difficulties” as well as "certain other operational - problems”: in autumn 2008. With the development only. •


part complete and costs to do- - sure estimated a t £500,000,


: the company could riot source. further funding so.work was suspended and the : site secured.


./■/ Then in October, just weeks before a meeting, with admin-/


■istrators was held; the direc-:: tors and shareholders of th e ' school,'Helen and Paul Smith, were replaced by Helen’s par­ ents John and Janet Harrison, Following the appointment


of administrators on Decern- her 23rd, th e business and


assets were sold, th a t same day, to Moorland P riv a te School Ltd whose directors are Mr and Mrs Harrison. ■ i : The only option open to Mr


Smith now is to remove the building materials that he sup- / plied. “Technically we could go


and recover, the goods, but-, although the building is not . yet finished, all the scaffolding has already been taken down.


/ “If I do th a t though i t - might cost me £5,000 to recov- • er th e goods,” Mr Smith explained. • He added that some of -the


businesses affected have no way. of, recovering their losses / such as unpaid supply teach­ ers.


' ' Mr Harrison, now principal - ■


school in 1988 before passing it on to his son-in-law, who acted as director and shareholder of the business from 2002.


' “We are trying really hard


now to recover from this,” he said. : “We had no idea of the mag­


nitude of the debts; The pre-vi- ous director took more money out of .the school than was pru­ dent to do.” Mr Harrison added that the


school had never had debts previously and that he had the g re a te s t sympathy-for Mr Smith. “Once you go into adminis­


at Moorland School, said he ■ had been faced with the unen- • viable situation of closing or • saving the school. • He originally bought the


tration,- we’re not allowed to pay any of these people,” he explained, adding that he was on the list of creditors and was personally owed £133,845. A second p rivate school


owned, by, Mr -Harrison, Heathland School Ltd in Accrington,- is also owed almost .€200,000.


• TWO men will be ques­ tioned by police today after- a fight which left a 21-ycar- old with a fractured skull. Police are appealing for:-


witnesses after the brawl' in King Street,'Whalley, at ■


. 11-15 p.m. on Saturday. The incident was.said to involve up io 10 men.,


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• A 21-ycar-oId from the Blackburn area was arrest­ ed on suspicion of wound­ ing with intent and violent disorder. A second man, also 21 and from the Black­ burn area, was arrested on suspicion of wounding with . intent. They were granted bail and arc. due to be questioned by police today. -The victim has not yet-


been named, but is thought -: to be from th e Burnley area. He was taken to the Royal Blackburn Hospital where his condition is- understood to be “improv­ ing”.


' Del. Insp. Steve Dawson • saidlhcincidenl was being treated as a fight between- two groups. Anyone who witnessed /


(he incident can-call Clithcroc CID on 01200 458741 or (he free and con- / fidential Crimcsloppcrs line on 0800 555111. ■


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