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• CLITHEROE Bridge Club triumphed in a close local; ■ derby winning the Ribble-ValleyiTrophy by just 45r


points. '■ - ■. > KfJ


i ?[The Clitheroe, side had .established: a' lead o f -13 points by the'end of round ohe/'but' theiGreat'Hary


: . wood team fought back and levelled the scores by thei end of round four.\With'the' Clitheixre.team producing;


. plus scores in'the finalroundithey^took the trbphyi- ■: and top honours went toN/S C. Pollard and J.;Bmley;'; E/W B. Wilson and J. Renton. _ '


' ‘‘c’ Plea to blood donors


: CURRENTand new^^blood donors are being urged to ' attend donor sessions in West'Bradford next Fridaiy - March27th.


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y: '.They.will be held a t West Bradford Village Hall, in) •; Grindleton Road, from 2 to 4 p.in. and again from 5-30, Ho 7-30 p.m. Giving blood is quick; easy and virtually, pain free", but it saves lives on a daily basis.' For more..


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; information, ring the NationalBlood Sendee helpline. on 0845 -7711711,* see'- BB C2 Ceefax page ;465: or, -visit ; its website at: www.blood.'coluk;,""' . '


'7 , ''- ' ij Advertising l^eaiure ]


FOR the past 40 years, Brittons to buy a second-hand diamond •. Jewellers has established itself w) and save money, makes good y ; in buying and selling unusual,vs‘ quality antique'and modem < jewellery.


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•Specialising in good second- . ■hand.diamond rings and a wide; selection of top-make wrist ' ‘v’ ■ watches, such as Rolex, Omega and many other renowned makes, the reputable business; ,. handily situated in King Street, Glitheroe, has been serving customers in the.Ribble Valley ■; and beyond. '


“It has always been a very : interesting business and many ■ of our customers have found it makes so much sense to buy, . v older items and second-hand • modem items because of the y ; massive difference and savings; off today’s new prices,’’, said proprietor Mr Britton."


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? Expert and friendly staff at the. : jcwejiers are always happy to' . •part exchange against another . i ■ item,-so the buyer really does , get a good deal. • ’


. Mr Britton explained: “I don’t ■ ■ suppose a multiple high street shop would ever offer this, because how can he if he sells new. items with all i 'the tax, VAT and,, ■


'.profits? He really won’t want to do any deal . y : ■;back. '•


■ :“If you look back in - : history, antiques or


: i good old jewellery has ; ■ ,


He added; “Here is just an : example: A second-hand y-.' diamond one carat, good stone, may cost ncw.up to £5,000 vV.y where as a second-hand one ~v/\ that has been refinished like > new may only cost a third o f ■ this"price,'-about £I;700.


“Remember,’that a diamond is •: already millions'of years old.", No diamond is brand new - so y


:6ften refuse of jiist j cannot do.


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|oId, ciit arid modem j diamonds for anyone,


always been appreciated and : ; who has lost a stone.-We repair with today ’s current financial. ; . ■ rose gold and carry out quality :- :- situation of the economy,) .■


0--B watch repairs.”' ' .•' ’ -


buying second-hand jewellery is ^ ^ e buy gold, which is at its definitely the way forward ^ highest price m history at the


offenng repairs that,-. je^ygiijjy a„(j hundreds of low- high street jewellers^ . prigej (second-hand, unclaimed


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. repairs from an old retired -.jewellers) wrist watches from just a couple of pounds such as Avia, Sekonda, Accent and much more.


-So, i f you have a collection of rings, a gold chain or antique jewellery, make sure you have it valued before someone else . does.


HIGHEST GOLD PRICES FOR 20 YEARS; ' WE BUY Q i


iHil Golif Hems, Jeuuellery, lAfeiches, CHaiiis, ei/eii UruKeii Hems


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4 King Street, Clitheroe (opp Post office) Tci o 1200 425555 ' Op,6n M O H 'F r i 10 am -5 pm S a tu rd a y I0 am -4 .3 0 pm Closed Wednesday ’ ;


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We also have one of the largest selections of antique and vintage costume jevvellety -


. gpjj hundreds of secondhand low cost wristwatches^^^^^^


Now at l}TUtoii& A ji t iq i ie D e p a r tm e n t , 2 Wellqate, Clltheroe Tel 0 120 0 4 2 2 2 2 0 ; open Tues ■


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' ‘‘Our motto is to always buy.;-;:.'


Cgood items as they will always v; please and hopefully be an :investment. So, why pay more?’’'


. Brittons Jewellers also provides , a valuation service for jewellery I and, unlike a modem jeweller,’ ' they.know what it is worth.;; • •


vin addition; for the past four ';- decades, the business has boasted :. a team of specialists in repairs,’ ' :. ;


' moment. Anything broken, , whatever it is, if it’s gold, we v will buy it and sort the good ; ■ from the bad for you.; > j


“We have paid many thousands : of pounds for what was thought to be just a box of old costume ;


jewellery (we will sort it for you at today’s prices. You will be


■ amazed at what it is worth).’’ Everything is guaranteed at


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Brittons Jewellers and valuation , certificates are supplied bn more • expensive items. .


.The business has been'fiirther; strengthened with the opening of


’ an antiques'shop at 2 Wellgate;, , .Clitheroe. Customers can ; •browse around two floors of the., most interesting collection of antiques; pottery and furniture,, ' -as well as a varied and large; selection of vintage costume


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;W-After.four of the five rounds had been played a tr ■. Whalley Golf Club, the local team was neck and n ^ k ; with Great Harwood Bridge Club, y


FRIDAY the ISth.passed f. : __ ' i 1 1.*^ i,e.


-• The 56-year-oId, who runs-., ■Honeyivell estate agent, is on';.


without any horrors for, local estate a g e n t .B i l l ' Honeywell. .


. week two of his gruelling;;, challenge of walking 214 of/..'


th e Wainwright P e ak s to,,: honour th e memory of,:a.?,


- friend and raise £5,000 for..; the Rosemere Cancer Foun-.:;


dation. _ ’ • Mrs M a rg a re t W a tk in s ;:


died ju s t before Christmas aged 67 after a four-year bat-:.: tie with cancer.-Last-Mon-,,. day. Bill began his approxi-,;.; mately 420-mile walk -


to be completed 'u n d e r .. two...


updating his online blog. Here, we p r in t e x t r a c ts ^


from his blog, but you can-; keep up-to-date with Bill’s : full progress by v is i t in g http://wivw.honeywell.co.uk/.: aboutus.html. Friday, March 131h


Well, a f te r th re e d a y s ’ .


walking, yesterday was a day ; off and an o p p o r tu n ity to;; assess how things had gone. . On paper, all was according/ to plan, but more important- ; , ly my cold was a nuisance, ■ not only giving me a t ig h t


months. ;.He has been reg u la r ly , >


/many! Despite the good fore­ cast, clouds were low over the hills as I started from Trout- - beck a t 9 a.m. and trudged ,up, th e . G a rb u rn Road, a


.’steep track consisting mainly of b o u ld e rs . The f irst two h ills, Sour. Howes and Sal­ lows, are rarely visited and so the footpaths were indistinct, w h ic h .d o e sn ’t help when you’re up in the clouds with poor visibility. I strayed off- piste a t one point before the • f irst top, encountered a wall which I thought might be a problem, only to find I was a mere 20 y a rds from a stile.


■ chest, bu t also making my • -The large, sum m it area of legs feel like lead. So, with a .'Sour,Howes itself (1568’) is poor weather forecast for Sat-; urday and a good one for Sunday, it'seemed b etter to . do one day only today and swop the next rest day for a walking d a y - avoid the rain and hopefully help recovery from the cold. And perhaps i t . would make sense to bring


like a big minefield, but what


- ap p e a red 'to be the highest. '.“ lum p ’); was also adorned ..with a tiny.cairn which con- •- firmed th a t I really was at .th e highes t point. I t was a


. straightforward trek to Sal­ lows (16911), a t the top of which.is a tiny.tumulus-likej


forward some of the “easier’lN m o u n d ; . so; th e re was no walks and postpone the hard- ./. doubt th a t I was in the right er ones. : So, today saw us setting off. '-


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from home at 8 a.m. to climb.. five tops in the St John’s Vale area - on the i t in e ra ry as;


change! . . . Monday, March 16th . • place there.'!;


."./.This was the highest point .of the day and it was only 10-


•30 a.'m; ;But progress was to . be 'slowed'by th e fact that .


Day l2 . Well, I sa id th e .?-■ much of the rest of the day.' schedule would be subject to .;- was_'pathless, across rough.


ground,' clouds were beginning to lift On Sunday, Mike (Mar-;1.off the fell-tops.-/ ' •


p r e t ’s husband) and I were ' ' 0 -.N IN E -Y EA R-O LD joined by John and Gather-•J.Clitheroe'girl Ella Spencer


. ine Taylor for an assault on i;. saw a photograph of “Auntie > the Langdale Pikes and their ' M a rg a re t’), in the Clitheroe •


subsidiaries - 10 tops in all, s ta r t in g with Silver How (1292’-) .above Grasmere; where a fell race was about to take place, judging from.the


_ _ :• and'dad'fqr some money, she. ;j.^|


Advertisier;( March' 5th edi­ tion) ajidHm she wanted to’sponsor, th^^ of-siniply/asking.her mum


freshly-planted green flags.wirolled up her sleeves and-,|..g The weather was perfect-. .-baked some cakes. She got-a-J high cloud, not much wind, r/iher-six-year.' old brother, not too warm


Luke, to do some baking too, "f


. I t ’s a long trek along the':.“ theri’> persuaded; her- dad..,Jit; ridge to Blea Rigg (1776));‘a';''.;'.iBarry,'.to help produce some shy top, which doesn’t.tower.,.'f5.fliers%and|;posted themg,®!. over any, neighbours and so it .«.around her neighbourhood. .s.Jg can be a bit difficult to be''-'She'then held a fund-rais-/,i^ sure when you’ve got there,'-H"ing cake”stall at the end of W Suidehelpssort.it’v?; her'drive and-raised a stag-.i-i^; out. The weather had encour.- gcrin'g'£156, which will go to" aged plenty, of. Sunday walk-M)))the’.R6s^erelCancer:Eoun':.-s%| ers to take to.the fells,/which.i3(dation';-:BillHHanked'ihe, pair.^.|.


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°®8inning to get crowd-'iH'.for-their efforts and their,p.ar-- ;,|jg '


"ents,’Tracy and Barry. Our -


. . -HjicsdiiV’ Alarch 17lh i!if.i':pictures?sliovv./the books of walking iiti.whichlf have.sinspired- thfi


)vith company, Monday .was „.5'walks and Bill striding out. the first solo day, perhaps of


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OUR picture shows, from left to right: three members of the tree planting team, Sophie, Michael and Ashlin, tired and wet, ■


■ . by Julie Magee -


. PUPILS from Clitheroe Royal Grammar. School ; braved the rain and -wind to


.; plant more than-lOO trees ' near Whitewell in the For-


■ estof Bowland. ' This "was -the culmmation of


. -ihear Young Enterprise project / to help reduce global •warming an d to make some money a t


• th e same time! . A company, c h r is ten ed


■ ■?Echo” , w a s s e t u p b y th e .p u p ils a s p a r t of the.Toung Enterprise huanes s and edu­ cation charity scheme. ■ • u The aim was to sell trees to


members of the public to help them offset th d r carbon foot-


Proposals submitted fer changes at


PLANS for the change of use of fo rm er m an u fa c tu r in g building and a te into place of


. worship and community part­ n e rsh ip c en tre w ith single storey extenaon and link cor­ rid o r in to existing building have been submitted to Rihble Valley Borough Coundl. The existing portal framed factory - building has been preiiously g ran ted Conservation Area ■ consent for demolition. The creation of a car park, part of which occupies land requiring;


a change of use, improvements to a fire exit and dormer to .' main buiiding are included. • - Comments on the proposal a t M ount Vale, Lowergate,-! Clitheroe (number 0138) must be made to th e council by • March 27th. Other proposals;


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submitted include: Clitheroe; Resuhmisaon o f .


plans for proposed erection of a steel portal framed building ■ for l ig h t in d u s tr ia l-u se a t Uphrooks Mill, Taylor Street.; (0162). Side extension to pro-


Floral trip round Yorkshire Dales


A TALK titled ‘IVtild Flowers in the; Yorkshire D a les” w a s enjoyed by members of Bollahd Gardening Club. .. S p e ak e r M rs A n g e la Henson explained how geology and weather affects the types of plant that grow in the Dales. She showedj s lides of flowers


through th e seasons, s ta r t in g with- autumn-flowering ivy which is impor­ t a n t for. bees; gorse which flowers th ro u g h o u t th e y e ar an d th e n the many woodland flowers which bloom in the spring. She also showed the different types


■of plant th a t grow on limestone and ■ g r its to n e and finally, th e s tu n n in g . ivildflower meadows at Muker. • . Mrs Henson ended her talk on an. u p b e a t note with news of how the near-extinct Lady’s Slipper. Orchid has been'propogated at Kev.' and rein-, troduced to the Dales - M rs Shirley Hartshorne thanked,


the speaker for a talk about a subject, dear to many gardeners’'hearts; v . / / •’ -Tea hostesses were Joan Corless, Janet Knowles and Maxine Lord. .. . ’ • The club’s nextmeeting will be on iWfednesday,-April 8th, when Phil; Dunnett-ivill be talking ahout'herbs. -; Guests and new members will be wel-;


come. 1 ■-i- - . . ANTIQUES CENTRES M INGS M


"vide new garage and extenaon to study. Two fu r th e r bed­ rooms u p s ta ir s in new roof space. New conservatory to th e rear of the dwelling a t 14 Somerset Avenue.,(0165). Erection of ground and first floor rear extenaons and alter­ ations including the installa­ tion of two shop fronts a t 31- 33 Shawhridge Street (0176). • Bairon-: Erect covered walk­


way to east of main bmlding and erect open canopy over- .- m ain en tran ce door a t The


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Spread E a ^ e Hotel, Clitheroe Road (0171). Porch on front of ■ house to rep la ce a wooden tiled canopy a t 6 M i l lb ro o k , Place (0180). ' Bolton-by-Bowland: Demoli-.


tion of existing dwelling and ' attached garage^ Erection of new dwelling and a tta ch e d garaga Alterations to existing. vehicular access a t Bambers, / Lane Ends,. (0172). Proposed lounge extension to side of dwelling a t R o d h ill Lodge (0178).


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^dp^i^BP^ftte^t^feguardmg and promoting 3he wetbre : ww/wTclitheroeadvertiser.co.uk , Clitheroe42M24(Editonal),01282 426161 (Advertsing), Burnley 01282 422331 (Classified) 01282 426161 (Advertising), Burnley 01282422331 (Classified) ; . www.cIitheroeadvertiser.co.uk Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, March 19th,2009 ..13 ils show their metal with tree plant day


• print. The buyers of each tree ■ received a certificate to con­ firm 'their help to the environ­ ment, but asked th a t th e com-j pany would plant the "trees on th a r behalL


.-. Consequently 'vrith a steady sale of trees being achieved, th e y n e eded to f in d som e ­ where to plant them.


monitor progress and do any running repairs, ■ Piul explained. “Seang 'the trees grow to form a new patch


’ of woodland will be a v o y sa t­ i s f y in g , a ch iev em en t a n d reflects well on th e commit- • m e n t shown b y a ll of t h e ,


. : '^ t h help from Phil Dykes, of Lancashire 'Wildlife Trust, ■ a plot of land on a farm near. WhiteweU was identified a n d . the planting went ahead. . All of th e tree s a re na tive


species and have been ■well pro- te c te d w i th t re e guards-, against nibhling deer and rab­ bits. .“The intention is for some of


th e p u p i ls to go b a c k over fu tu re m o n th s and y e a rs to


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MEET THE HEAD ’ All welcome! ' Refreshments provided..


’. It's an informal evening, so just call in when , ■you can - we'll be delighted to see you! _


.MrSmon Corns, JJeadmaster. Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School.


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, pupils involved in the projecL’V / Anyone who is interested in


buying one of th e la s t a'vail- - able trees can contact one of th e m em b e rs of < th e te am through th e company’s web­ s i te a t '/ the- following: www.echo-ye.com ■


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A substantial programme of investment is breathing new life into the historic ; mill, with ambitious plans including: /


• State of the art display cabinets with lighting


• On-site photo studio to allow.tenants .to showcase thairproducts oh the new //.: iv Kings Mill website -


• New coffee shop . . - -i ,! ." '- - • Expenenced sales staff


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• Substantial marketing support to'prom’ote . the mil(as an antiques centre and a tounst k attraction


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If you’re looking to start, relocate or expand your own . : - antiques business. Kings Mill offers a unique opportunity with 20,000 sq ft of refurbished sales area. - .


Kings Mill offers a full service model for antiques dealers." Simply rent and stock a cabinet or unit at the centre and we • .;■; will take care of the test Our experienced staff sell your stock/, and we pay you for your sales on a weekly basis. A unit at , : - Kings Mill Anbques Centra is a more flexible and cost effective . altemative to leasing a shop and will afford.you with substantial savings on costs such as staff and overheads..


Fo r t te la ilso fou r^ ie ia a lm b o d a c te c y ia te . . : frieasB contact John Mulc^ on 079^192500 . . « • email jrfinigld[gsniiBanfiqiifis.nnni


Kings Mill Antiques Centre, Queen Street Briercliffe, Burnley BB102HE . .- www.kingsmillantiques.com 1 Y -


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