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■ Clitheroe Advertiser. & Times, Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Woman smashed up former partner’s home A WOMAN broke


;. into her former partner's home in


r Clitheroe with a- pickaxe to retrieve - her property, but


by Faiza Afzaal'i


.‘xrH’E ins tantly fell in love after seeing a'pic- " ture of the girl of his dream s ., ■' . That was more than 60 years ago.


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; ' , The couple, of Edisford Eoad, Clitheroe, first met in 1946.


^ - Mr O’Bryan, then 17, had asked to be intro-


r. duced’to the theiiT8-year-dld after “taking a j,; liking to herphotograph’^'shown to him by a ; " Trien'd while he was travelling to night school onri 'a double-decker bus.


' . trict; the couple soon invested in a hardware ,


? shop in Woone Lane, with Mrs O’Bryan run- '^ning the shop and Mr.O’Bryan following his ; trade as a joiner at ICI, where he stayed for 25 ,


' years. !(. '. Although the couple worked hard running the


k'' .Today, Mr and MrS'Vincent and Madge.; ■ O’Bryan are celebrating their'diamond wedding ■ anniversary.


shop, they still found time to continue their love;


'■’of dancing which they enjoy to this day. . • .: - They dance regularly a t a range of .venues


^across the Ribble Valley and take part in after-, 'noon tea dances in Sabden and Lowergate, in Clitheroe. They have also won two URA Pre- ;


' mier Award cups for their dancing skills.-: The couple have two children, Kathleen (59)


• ; “It was like love at first sight as soon as I saw . ;:;-Madge’s picture and I set my. heart on marry- fling her,’’: said Mr O’Bryan (80), who attended ‘ Ribblesdale High School.'


-:S.‘ The couple first met at the Assembly Room A in .Whalley and hit i t off straight away.


; ; i The wedding was three years later at Whal-) I


’.< and Tony (52), as well as two grandchildren ^ : and four great-grandchildren. Mr O’Bryan enjoys fell walking in the Lake


.'D is tr ic t and Yorkshire Dales, while Mrs ■ O’Bryan’s hobbies include gardening and cook­ ing.


' 'When asked the secret to 60 years of wedded bliss, they replied: “There is a lot of give and take and you should never sleep on a quarrel.


,rley-:Parish Church, , w ith'a: reception a t ; i Longsworths Mill. Despite the restrictions of '. / the times, there was a good spread of food and a h large turnout of people. Following their honeymoon in the Lake Dis-;


BE MY VALENTINE!


' . Send your loved one a special j <i -■ valentines message -


email:


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- or call into any of our offices:- Buil Street, Burniey, : Scotiand Road, Nelson or King Street Ciitheroe.:


. AFTER two days of rain-and snow ■ ■: showers, the morning dawned fine and ■ clear. . Twenty-four Clitheroe ramblers set


off from Higher.Hodder Bridge in*: bright sunshine, with a light westerly'


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.ybreeze. Conditions were ideal for a good •; ■■-winter walk.


;t*' The walkers followed the Hodder : Way: downstream to Lower Hodder : Bridge,-along the path which was very • niuddy in places -r. no surprise after the previous days' weather. .


;:;>: TheTiver:was full, and "Cromwell's ■ ;;Bridge':' looked particularly, fine in the I sunshine with the rapid water foaming ‘ a t its buttresses. ’


.^' . The group, walked up .the.hill to ' - Stbnyhurst‘Road End,'then over the


stile by the small telephone exchange, and across the fields. From here there was a superb view of Pendle, brilliant and white against a pure blue sky. The farm tra ck took the walkers


down to Winkley Hall Farm, and so back to the bank of the river. The Hodder has only a short distance


to go from here before its waters are lost - in the greater waters of the Ribble.


■ The lunch stop was in the calm, sunny, shelter of a good hedge just before the confluence with the Calder. At one moment there was a loud


splash from the Ribble, which was apparently a large' salmon leaping right out of the water. Leaving such a pleasant place was an effort, but after talking about Hacking


Invitation to tlie Lenten taC^ at Stony hurst College


cha[[enge offditH ” ’ All Welcome '


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. .7.30 p.m. start in the Bayley Room, Stonyhurst College , (Visitors - please report to the Stonyhurst RecepUon upon arrival)


;:,- ; ::This is a scries of talks on T u e ^ y evenings in Lent Speakers will ' ■ consider. T h e Challenge of Faith in a Secular World’ and will reflect on : how this impacts on their particular ministry and work.


Tuesday, 3rd March-Rl Rev. Bishop Terence Brain, Bishop of Salford, ‘


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Tuesday, lOih March - Fr John McDade SJ, Principal of Heytluop College: .“God, Imagination and the digital mind


Tuesday,'17lh March - SrJosetteZammit-Mangion, ' ' - Lecturer at Heythrop College: ‘The Brother for whom Christ died".


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Tuesday;24th March - Fr David Roberts, Parish Priest of V Holy Angels, Hale Bams ' - ,


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■Forfurther information, please contact Fr. John Twist SJ ^- Hcmail.T.twist.sJ@stonyhurst.ac.uk) o r Miss Sarah Young '


. ............. '(entail-s.youhg@st6nyhurst;ac.uk)rTelephone: 01254 827009/01254 827143


Stonj liutsl is a Kiinian Catholic coeducational school for in the Jesuit Charism for hoardin;; and day pupils af;cd 3 -18 "


■ . Stonyhurst CollcRe, Stonyhurst, Nr Clithcroc. Lancashire. Hit? 91>Z


Boat, and looking a t the two tumuli in the field behind th e lunch spot, the group went by way of the Jumbles and Fox Field Farm up to Stonyhurst. The front of the college was admired,


and then: the track was taken past St Mary'sHall. :


. From here, again, there was a beauti­


ful view across th e Valley to white- mantled Pendle. : The walk continued forwards across


the road, then through fields and down steps in the wood to regain the bank of. the Hodder a t the stone bridge, below HodderPlace. ■' ■ : I t was then a gentle stroll upstream


to Higher Hodder bridge and the end of a memorable .winter, walk.


: . ' - Norman Thorpe There’s no hiding place!


POLICE in Lancashire have • joined forces with neighbouring forces in Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cum- bria to crack down on people •


wanted on warrant across the ■ region. The- operation, named


“Operation Callisto”, began on ■ February 2nd 'and in the first ■


four days alone 43 people were arrested in Lancashire, some wanted locally, some wanted


. cashire Constabulary, said: “I am really encouraged by the success of the operation so far and hope, that this sends out - the message that if you have a


-warrant outstanding for any-*’- “thing afall; be that for failing" , to appear, breach of a commu- ’ - , nity penalty or even just a non- -' ; payment matter, clear them up


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■ by other forces. ,: ■ Insp. John Clucas, of Lan-; •


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now, because wherever you are in the North-'West, you tvill be caught. No matter where you


: are, there is nowhere to hide. ' “Even where arrests have


not been made, we are getting valuable leads as to where the wanted person may have,- moved on to and that in time will be actioned, so there is much activity and we are keep- ■ ing the courts busy.” .


■ Locally,'nine people were ■


arrested in the constabulary’s Eastern division, including one. in C l i t h e r o e .■ • ; ■ Information can be passed to


the local police, or anonymous­ ly to Crimestoppers on 0800;;


555111. • . ■' For other people wanted by,


■Lancashire' Coiistabulaiy, visit = the ‘.‘Wanted”’ section on its


■website, at: the ■ following::, ■


www.lancashire.police.uk ,


: -::“We always did things together and took an interest in each other’s hobbies. We both


;; enjoyed walking, dancing and are enjoying our retirement.” ., .


•: They went on to say: “When we first mar­


ried, we didn’t have a lot of money. When Vin­ cent was an apprentice joiner he earned only 10 shillings - that’s 50p - a week. Times were diffi­ cult, but we did not think anything about it. In fact, no one did. Everyone worked hard and saved up to buy something you liked. You had to earn it. Times are totally different now. Peo­ ple want everything at once.” . The couple, pictured above as they are today,


will spend their anniversary with a family gath­ ering at Kathleen’s house. (A040209/6)


• The photograph on the left, shows the happy ; couple on their wedding day. (s)


Then decided to smash it up. -Presto n Crown


' Court vvastold thatHayley.-


: Cla^e, who has : nursing qualifica- • : tions, told police : , that if her foriher ■ partner had been at home “I would


■have put i t ’ through his head”.


: Clague (36), of , Ridgeway Avenue, . Blackburn, had admittedaggra--


:-vatedburglary.' ■-.:: Miss Mercedah ■ Jabbari (prosecut- ing)saidthe


offence was on July 18th last year


: in Kiln Close, Clitheroe, where Mr Wayne Cox' held the tenancy. He received a


call to say his home had been entered and dam­ aged and when police got there, :


■Claguesaidshe ; . ' was getting prop- ' ■ erty which belonged to her. . “When asked


who the occupier was, she said that he was dead,” said • Miss Jabbari. ■ Claguesaidshe ■


had broughtthe pickaxe with her, : : and therewasaA. knife with a 3in. ; blade in her bag. ■


Local naturalists ‘visit’ Namibia


“THE Natural Wonders of Namibia” was the eventual subject chosen as her topic by Clitheroe Naturalists’ guest speaker Marilyn Willwohl.


. A vast country in south-west Africa, Namibia was settled by Germans in the 1840s and to this day reflects those times in both architecture, as well as town and street names. . The speaker reflected on a two-week


expedition by truck covering vast tracks of land, parts of which were dotted with farmsteads. ■


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In tribal areas people eked out a living selling basketry and stone or wood carv-


: ings and members of the Havevo tribe- still wore long -Victorian-like dresses with many petticoats..


: - On the sandstone plateau, 800ft. high were few animals other than antelopes in the arid climate. However, in Namutoni


. National Park, water holes remained from a large lake a t t ra c t in g zebra, ostrich, wildebeest, oryx and the big five; while birds included four sorts of starling, bustards and the yellow-billed hornbeam. .: ■ In the North-West of.the country was


■ scrub land and savannah with just a few ?tiny flowers.’Rock engravings remain from the bushmen who lived there up to


. 2,000 years ago and rivers are just dry cracks lined 'with basalt-dolerite columns. . Eventually the skeleton coast was '. reached, the shores bearing the remains ■,


■; of many shipwrecks and most impressive, f were the giant sand dunes some 1,000ft. .high. Canyons carved out by the fish-.


■ river over-100 miles long were unforget-' ■table when-viewed from the air. , .


. ' The speaker’s illu s trated ta lk was


: interspersed with audio-visual sequences ' giving the audience a real image of the vastness of Namibia -


its emptiness and


: the plight of the Bushmen fighting to hold onto their ancestral areas. Silhou- ettes of the tryffid-like quiver, trees at sunset brought the evening to a close. A vote of thanks was given by chair­ man Muriel Carruthers.


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Nicholls (defend­ ing) said the offence was ‘‘ unpleasant, but -


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. out of character. ■ Passingsen- tence. Recorder :


. Maurice Greene ■ told Clague: “You


have pleaded


i . guilty to a very V serious offence of : aggravated bur­ glary.”


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He said she had; gonetotheprop-


-. erty together . -property and had then thought she


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would smash the place up. I t was' ;• fortunate her ex­ partner, was not . , there. He said he


, was a loss of some ■ work for the corn- self-control.


accepted there . hou rs ’ , unpaid ■ munity and she


, Clague was sen- ■ will be supervised tenced. t o 140 for two years. , •■


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