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.CJilhefoe 422324 (Editorial), 01282 426161 (Advertising), Burnley 01282 422331 (Classified) 2 ' Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, February 19th, 2009.


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Man attacked outside horne t page 5 Clitheroe’s Fairtrade bid - page .10 ’ Death of former Mayor .-page 18


INFORMATION


Duty chemist: Buckleys Pharmacy, 4 Railway View Road, Clitheroe: Sunday, noon to 1 p.m. - Police: 01200 443344.


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Fire: In emergency 999 and ask for fire service. Electricity: 08001954141. . - Gas: 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. j Alcohol Information Centre: 01282 416655. Aidslitie: 01282831101 (7 p.m. to 9 p.m.). • : Domestic Violence Helpline: 01282422024. : < ; . -. Cruse Bereavement Care: 01772 433643. Environmental Agency: Emergencies - 0800 807060. • Drugs: Local confidential advice and information line: 01254 226200. National: 0800 770600.


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Rihhic Valley Talking Newspaper: 01200 428604. v: Samaritans:01254 662424.;;>rv- Monthly Volunteer Helpline: 01200 422721.


'Lancashire Rural Stress Network: 01200 427771. ; ’ ' QUEST (specialist smoking cessation service): 01254 358095.


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Uii)l)le Valley Citizens’ Advice Bureau: 01200 428966. ■ CONTACT US!


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. up 400 years! •A TEAM of front-line Rib- <


sb le Valley; health''profession- ■ als h^'clockeci up nearly 400 years NH S service, between them: and h a v e :b e en h o n - ' , I cured for their commitment; >


: V '. The “dedicated dozen!’, who ■. K.work at Clitheroe Hospital and. ;; Clitheroe Health Centre serving: ■ residents throughout the Valley, v found themselves centre stage at ; the. annual awards ceremony of- the area’s community health ' provider, NHS East Lancashire. • ■'.They'’were commended for:-: th e ir long service.and given


' awards by NHS E a s t' Lan- '. cashire’s chairman Kathy Reade and chief executive David Peat at the “Excellence In Practice”. • and Long-Service Awards Cere- .• mony a t the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors. -BBC North 'West broadcaster.


Annabel Tiffin presented the awards to community-based health professionals from - throughout Ribble Valley, Hyn- dburn, Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale. In all, the winners clocked up more;than 4,600 :


years’ NHS service throughout their careers. Our picture shows (left to


right; front row) Avril MacNeih, staff nurse a t Clitheroe Health Centre’s Treatment Room; Carol Holden and Judith Green­ wood, both registered nurses at Clitheroe Community Hospital; Kathy Reade, chairman of NHS


East Lancashire; Julie Hitchin, domestic supervisor at Clitheroe Hospital; Jacqueline Threlfall,: manager for Clitheroe and Accrington Community Hospi-


'tals; (back row) Beverley Whit­ taker, staff. nurse at Clitheroe Treatment Room; Sister Jane Spurgeon, Clitheroe Treatment Room; Francesca Kerr, Ribble


Ward manager at Clitheroe Hos­ pital; Sheila Smithson,nursing assistant at Clitheroe Hospital; Clare Ball, Pendle Ward manag­ er a t Clitheroe Hospital; Jeanette Gudgeon, matron for Clitheroe and Accrington Com­ munity Hospitals; Joanne Carter, staff nurse at Clitheroe Treatment Room, (s) - ■


Natural causes verdict on baby


A BABY girl whose mother found h e r “warm, but lifeless” ,in;the - early hours of the morning had suffered a respiratory infection. - An inquest- heard t h a t - 10-'


month-old Jessica Fenwick had been having trouble with.her-


: breathing and a post-mor tem’ examination showed a viral infec­ tion of the respiratory tract. '. ■ But paediatric pathologist Dr.


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SUNRISE: 7-19 a.m. SUNSET: 5-25 p.m.' LIGHTING UP TIMEf4-55 p.m.


I LAST week in dur online poll we asked: Has the gritting of Ribbie Valley roads been adequate dur- I ing the recent wintry wpather?


H ACCRINGTON - Bridge latest


WINNERS a t Clitheroe' Bridge Club on Monday evening were: NS Jean Mar-


■tindale and Doreen Blake, Chris-Pollard and Janet Bai-


, ley.'' .;, EW; Geoff Wharfe and


: K a th -Thompson,. Joan Bowker and Kath Higson.- > On Thursday evening the.,


winners were: NS Chris Pol­ lard, and Steve : Higson, Merle Allen and Sue John­ son. EW: Joan Scott and E rn e s t . Ormand;-. Joan;. Bowker and B. Guha. -■


Injured farmer


is still in hospital A WHALLEY farmer who was - ' kicked in the stomach by a cow is in a


.“comfortable” condition in hospital... -.y Mr John Wearden (46), of Shaw House Farm, suffered serious injuries and was taken to'Royal Blackburn’?,. ■ Hospital.It'is understood that the . - incident happened around midday on* January 29th, while Mr Wearden was in one of the” pens with some of the ■ - cows on the family-run farm; ;; :f : ■


Pendle Club results


SOLO whist winners at the Pendle Club were: R. Knight, M. Holding, D. Underwood. New members welcome every Monday at 7 p.m.


•. -Bridge winners a t the Pendle 'Club were: Mrs Marjorie Collier and Mr Bob Tasker, Mrs Dorothy Jackson and Mrs Sylvia Walsh.-? v .. .


; Domino winneis: P. Metcalfe, M. Berry, joint 3,. V. Giles, A. Lowe;


; joint 5; R. -Barker,' F. Giles.New members welcome every Friday at 7 p m.Line dancing is h'eld every


-Thursday at 1-30 p.m. and sequence dancing every Tuesday at 7-30 p.m.


Melanie Newbold told the inquest that was not. the cause of Jessica's death, although i t could have played a part; : Dr Newbold said reference was


; often made to sudden infant death syndrome, or “cot death”, but that


was not a cause of death, but rather an admission tha t medical science was unable to establish a cause of death;-; ., . : “A lot of children who have been -


described as dying as a result of this have had some kind of infec­ tion at the time,” said Dr-New-. bold.


■ 1 Jessica’s mother, Stacey Kemp, of -Taylor Street, Clitheroe, told


■ the inquest she had taken. Jessica ^ to the docto'r because, of her bre'athirig problem, the second


■ time just thre e days before her. .-'death oh November 27th. ■.-::'.The day before she'had not 'eaten well and was still struggling


with her breathing; but had seemed all right when she was put to bed. ■ The medical cause of death was given as unascertained and deputy coroner Carolyn Singleton recorded a verdict that baby Jessica died of natural causes.-


.. . . ' .: • AT the time of Jessica’s death,


her devastated parents, Stacey Kemp and Matthew Fenwick,


•issued a brief statement via the police. It read: “We loved.our daughter


very much and miss her deeply. We would like to thank everybody for their support and best wishes at- this time, but we’d like, to be given space and time to grieve.’.’


- ' • cdnfiniied from pajge 1:


It’s great news for


food outlet dairies to bakeries. Tourism and local food are clearly an enterpris- - ing match made in .heaven.”


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• Sadly, the much- praised Craven Heifer


, at Chaigley closed at the New Year due to the recession'and Paul Heathcote has this week, announced thaLhe is putting his first restau­ rant, The Longridge ■ Restaurant, up for sale, concentrating on the - Olive Press outlets. ■ Copies of the Ribble


■Valley Food Trail • leaflet are available ■ from the Ribble Valley. Borough Council offices, in Church Walk, Clithe-, ore, and 'many other? outlets around the Rib­ ble Valley. ■' f You can also find; ;. ■details online at: . ■ ;. . www.ribblevalleyfood- : trail.com.'


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: * • by Vivien Meath TH E annual Ribble Valley


: Mayor’s Ball proved to be an ; excellent showcase for young people Mayor John Hill had chosen


, Ribble Valley Scouts and Guides as the charity for his year of


. office and, in the surroundings of the Mytton Fold Hotel, Langho, ^


, took the opportunity to promote the organisation to the'hilt.' • Guests included the country’s


top Guide - Chief Guide Liz Burnley, Regional Commission­ er for Scouting in the North West Chris Creelman, to possi­ bly the country’s oldest active Guide supporter, Betty Lowe - now in her 101st year, and local Guides who will certainly never forget the night they received their top awards from the Chief Guide herself! Entert^ning were more young


people in the form of the extremely talented and passion­ ate Arden Youth Choir.


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, With some 230 people packed into the venue, including Mayors


and Mayoresses from all the sur­ rounding areas, the organisation­ al committee did a brilliant job. ‘ But it was first and foremost


an event to celebrate and raise money for Scouting and Guiding I t is expected that more than £2,000 will go towards the local organisation. . Sprightly. Betty Lowe has been involved in Guiding for 89 years, joining at the age of 11. She travelled to Langho from her : Salford home and still enthusias­ tically supports Waddow Hall,; never missing the chance to spend New Year there. Proudly . displaying her MBE, she has been a Tawny Owl, Guider, Cap- . tain. District Secretary, and was at the opening of Waddow Hall Guide (jentre. A member of the Trefoil Guild, she also finds time to batch bake and help out at the


■WRVS shop at Hope Hospital in Salford. Among the evening’s toasts


and responses, Mr Creelman referred to the growing need for focus by young people. The ScoutandGuideassociationpro- ■vided that focus, as, he added.


PICTURED with Ihcir guests arc (he Ribbic Valley Mayor and Mayoress. (T160209/7)


did other organisations, includ­ ing the excellent Arden Youth - Choir.


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■ Responding to thanks to the evening’s main sponsor. Fort Vale Engineering Mr Ted Fort added that the Fort family had been in the Ribble Valley 300 years and had recently opened a factory in Simonstone. The engineering company was founded 40 years ^


and was today a world leader


in its field, with factories in Shanghai, Houston, South Africa and Holland, as well as in the North of England. The Chief Guide expressed


thanks to the organisers, adding that half the women in the UK had been in Guides at some time in their lives. The organisation celebrates its centenary in Sep­ tember. Referring to the Arden Singers’ song: “Give us Hope -


Award winners meet Chief Guide


NOT only did they meet the UK’s Chief Guide, but;six worthy Baden Powell Challenge Award winners also received their badges in front of more than 200 people'on Friday night. ‘ ■ Emma Maher,-Amy


Winterbottom ■ and Emily Littler, o f : St


■ Leonard’s, Langho, and Clitheroe Parish Church Guides, Bethany Tomlin­ son, Ruth Birtwistle and Joely Donald were all presented with the high­ est award in Guiding.


. To complete it, each had .to undergo 10 chal­ lenges.and the Baden Powell Challenge Adven­ ture.


PICTURED arc the recipients with the Chief Guide, Liz Burnley,-back, (hire! left,: ■ : and Ribble Valley Mayor, Coun. John Hill (T16020b/8) r-


r ‘Steam’ will provide a dose of nostalgia for summer


SUMMER in the Ribble: Valley: will see a weekly invasion of nos­ talgia. - From July, a summer “steam” •


service is to operate over the local railway line. The- service, dubbed “T h e . Fellsman”, will provide a 260-.;


: mile return trip over the Settle- Carlisle line..'


. leaving Lancaster and picking up passengers from Bamber Bridge, Blackburn and Clitheroe. I t will


' be hauled by steam giants from :.the past, including the recently: ; rebuilt LMS Royal Scot, class-


; 46115.“Scots Guardsman,” or LMS Jubilee class 5690 'Tean--: der.”


- :• -Using carriages from the 1950s'


: It will run every 'Wednesday,. from July 29th to September 2nd, ■


' and’’60s, there will be a chance to ; leave the train at Appleby for a;


four-hour break; or continue to - Carlisle for two hours. . The service is to be operated by


Statesman Rail in partnership.; with Camforth-based West Coast^ ■Railways.


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wife, Phillipa, and daughters it was certainly a successful and memorable night. Coun. Hill expressed his sincere thanks to all who had helped and given support in any way, including sponsors, musicians and table magicians. • .


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