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AT A GLANCE...- . - Whalley loos open -page 4
Cheques for good causes - page 9 Farm’s horror show-page 11 INFORMATION
Duty chemist: Duty Chemist: Lloyds Pharmacy, 5 Church Street, Clitheroe: Sunday, noon to 1 p.m. Police: 01200 443344. .
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Fire: In emergency 999 and ask for fire service., Elcclricily: 08001954141. , ; Ga.s: 0800 111999.' Water: 0845 462200. Councils: Ribble Valley Borough Council, Clitheroe 425111. Clitheroe Town Council, 424722. : Hospitals: Royal Blackburn Royal Hospital: 01254 263555. Airedale General Hospital, Steeton: 01535 652511. Clitheroe Community Hospital: 427311.: . Alcohol Information Centre: 01282 416655. , Aidsline: 01282 831101 (7 p.m. to 9 p.m.).. Domestic Violence Helpline: 01282 422024. Cruse Bereavement Care: 01772 433643. Environmental Agcncy: Emergencies - 0800 807060. Drugs: Local confidential advice and information line: 01254 226200. National: 0800 776600. ■ . '
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Ribble Valley
landmark hotel closes its doors
, A'LANDMARK h o te l in th e . ‘-Ribble Valley has c lo s e d - i ts j do'orS;- r. ;As we went to press yesterday, it was discovered that The Moor cock Inn,"in Slaidburn Road, Waddington Fell, had ceased trading with the loss of around 17 . . . _ : . -
■ jobs.- . A spokesman at the hotel con-
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firmed.the bad news, saying: “As ’ from 6-^45 p.m. on Tuesday, the
LiMoorock Inn ceased trading ;Wrbecause
the.bank has withdrawn. . ' i t s support.”
•"fjiNestling on the side of -
' Waddington Fell in the heart of ■ -the Forest of Bowlandrthe 100- year-old hotel and restaurant has .. long been a focal point for the ./ ‘ local community.. - /
; - The Moorcock boasts many -/
. famoushames among its past; - clientele, including members of/.
- the Royal family, Winston/;' Churchill and George Formby. -i
.WEEKEND WEATHER: IT will be a wet weekend with the heaviest showers falling on Saturday. Tem peratures will reach a maximum 13“c. - ’ .
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SUNRISE: 5-17 a.m. SUNSET: 8-55 p.m.. LIGHTING UP TIME: 8-25 p.m.
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—With luxury en-suite bedrooms, private gardens and a-restaurant • and bar, the hotel has been a pop ular choice as a wedding venue for generations of local families.
Windscreen wiper bent A MOTORIST returned to find the windscreen wiper
. of his vehicle had been bent.:;. : ;
. The car was parked in the driveway of a house in /the village of Worston when it was targeted some time ' over the Bank Ploliday we ek en d .—
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I t ’s amazing how quickly they can be taken from you, it all happened in a split sec ond. ■
/ . ■ “We ju s t feel so lucky
Anissa is okay.” ■ - Jacqueline, a housewife,
and Malcolm; who works for United Utilities; were both unaware there were ponds in their relative’s garden. “We only went to a wed
ding last week where there was a pond and we followed Anissa about everywhere. We ju s t couldn’t relax,’! explained Jacqueline, who was only yards away from her children when the inci dent happened. “It just shows how impor
tant it is to keep ponds cov ered if you have small chil dren.” . As a reward for her
actions, Keela will be treat ed to a trip to the Build-A- Bear workshop and a meal out a t Manchester’s Traf- ford Centre.
. ' “She definitely deserves
. 9 The Clitheroe Advertiser and Times will bring you more on this s to ry ' as; i t : , develops, - a t
www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk Picture shows The Moorcock Inn.
Front door is damaged /
VANDALS damaged the front door of a house in; Eshton Terrace, Clitheroe, in the early hours ot Bank Holiday Monday.
; : Police are examining CCTV footage into the ineb dent, which is believed to have involved three men.
the praise_and a reward,” added Jacqueline. “She’s my little heroine.!’.- S'..
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Bill’s on top of the world after epic charity effort
>. . : by Faiza Afzaal
CLITHEROE estate agent Bill Honeywell is feeling on top of the world after completing a daunting, Lake District challenge. On Saturday, the 56-year-old, who
runs Honeywell estate agents, finally completed the round of all 214 of Wainwright’s Lake District Fells, 420 miles and the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest nearly five times, in an astonishing 55 days (39 walking, 16' days off). During this period, the keen walker
reached the summit of every one of the 214 fells listed in Alfred Wainwright's
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Pictorial Guides, finishing on schedule at the final fell, Loughrigg. And Bill has another good reason to.
celebrate as he may have broken th e : record of becoming the fastest walker to . have completed the Wainwright chal lenge. He said: “I have been in touch with the Wainwright Society and this may well be the fastest completion by a fell walker. The famous fell runner. Joss : Naylor, has run them much more quick-. - ly and someone else says they recall a ; walker doing them in under two months' about 25 years ago. I am awaiting con firmation of this.” .
. ' Bill, who lives in West Bradford with
his wife, Valerie, braved all weathers and completed the peaks walk in memoryof ■. a dear friend, Mrs Margaret Watkins and is delighted to have raised money
/ for the Rosemere Cancer Foundation. In fact, the tireless fund-raiser has beat en his target of £5,000 and raised over £6,000 with more to come, hopefully over £7,000 by the time it’s all in. Mrs Watkins died just before Christ
mas, aged 67, after a four-year .battle with cancer. The grandmother-of-seven was well-respected in the community
- and was a member of the Ribble Valley Macmillan 100 Club. Bill said: “When I first had the idea
to do this I thought it would be difficult, but once I got started I realised it was going to be much harder than I imag ined - probably fewer than five people have done it. So I’m delighted to have finished on schedule and that Mar garet’s husband, Mike, was able to do two-thirds of the fells with me, and that we managed to raise over £6,000 for Rosemere.” He added: “Two of Marg aret’s
grandsons were in the group on Loughrigg, the final fell - five-year-old
Harry Watkins and 11-year old James Matthew, who was wearing Margaret's old boots!” Bill is no stranger to taking part in
charity challenges. In 2007, the keen cyclist joined 5,000 cyclists on a 120- mile journey to complete the British Cyclo Sportive event in aid of multiple sclerosis sufferers. - The pedal pushing father-of-two has
also previously completed charity bike rides from Land's End to John O'Groats and part of the North Sea Cycle Route,
College rejects car crash claim
CLAIMS th a t a group of boarding pupils at Stonyhurst College crashed a car being driven “a t high speed and recklessly” then “ran off” have been refuted by the college. The claims were made in an
David is
president A SIMONSTONE man
• has-been appointed as National President of the Association of Speakers’
Clubs. Mr David Grainger
was invested as president a t the annual Charter Dinner held in Dundee. Mr Grainger is a long
standing member of Blackburn Speakers’ Club and has held vari ous executive positions within the organisation. He is looking forward
to a busy year ahead vis iting clubs across Eng land and Scotland.
e-mail sent to several news, organisations, including the Clitheroe Advertiser, and Times. Although purporting to be from “a resident of Hurst Green’/ the e-mail contained false contact details and a false, name, “Andrew Johns” - pre sumably a thinly-disguised reference to the college head master, Mr Andrew Johnson. ■ I t is the latest in a series of
misleading and potentially damaging e-mails sent to news organisations and attacking the college over various issues. This one claimed th a t six pupils were returning to the
college “after an evening of heavy drinking in village!’ when their car “ploughed into the subs tantial stone pillar enter ing the Sto n y h u rst grounds from Hu rst Green, knocking over the pillar and writing off the car”. I t then claimed that the pupils ran off, “abandoning the demolished. pillar and car”. This week a spokesman for
. the college confirmed there had been a minor incident, but the claims made in the e-mail were either completely inaccu-. rate or grossly exaggerated. A statement issued by the col lege reads:. “As the summer term was ■
beginning-one of our sixth form day pupils had a road accident and caused damage to a post on the edge of the College campus. No other '
vehicle was involved and no- one was injured.
, “The incident occurred
when a few pupils were return ing from an evening event at a local Catholic Club. . “The car being driven by a pupil misjudged the narrow entrance to the college grounds and hit a stone pillar. . The driver isn’t a boarder at the college. “The boys took the sensible
action of pushing the car off the road, so as not to cause an obstruction for other vehicles, and alerted a member of staff who lived nearby. “The pupils then returned
to the college to repor t the incident. . “All of the boys were given a proportionate punishment and Stonyhurst College now con siders the matter closed.”
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raising thousands of pounds for charity. Our pictures show: Ian Hardy (right)
presenting a cheque for £1,000 from Clitheroe Round 'Table to Bill (left) on the very last summit - Loughrigg Fell on Saturday. Inset, Bill Honeywell (left) with Mar
garet's husband, Mike, braving the wet and windy weather on the summit of Pillar and tireless fund-raiser Bill dur ing his Wainwright challenge keen to raise money for the Rosemere Cancer Foundation, (s) ; ' / V ' - / '
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Nomihate a sporting
champion A SEARCH is on for Ribble Valley’s sporting and community champi
ons. - Nominations for the
2009 Ribble Valley Sports and Community Awards are now open. Now in their fourth year, the awards will be pre sented at a glittering cer- emony a t The Grand, Clitheroe, on Tuesday, June 2nd.
/ . Nominations are open
in the following c a te gories: Club of the Year, Coach of the Year, Volun teer of the Year (Adult and Junior) and Rising Star. There is also a Life time Achievement Award in memory of Marjorie Partridge. Tom Bamber, Ribble Valley Borough
• Council’s sports develop ment officer, said: “The quality and quantity of nominations for the Ribr ble Valley Sports and Community Awards is usually very high and a testament to the wealth
• of sporting talent in Rib ble Valley.
. “We a re asking as many people, clubs and organisations as possible to make nominations and we are looking forward to a fantastic night when the winners are announced.’’
- The deadline for nomi nations is Friday, May 15th, and further infor mation is available from Ribble Valley Borough Council’s sports develop ment team on 01200 414484 or at: www.ribbl-
.evalley.gov.uk-
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