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Duty chemist: Peter Buckley Ltd, 4 Railway View, Clitheroe: Sunday, noon to 1 p.m. Bank Holiday Mon­ day: Boots, 15-19 Castle Street, Clitheroe: noon to 1 p.m. Police: 01200 443344. Fire: In ennergency 999 and ask for fire service. ■ Electricity: 08001954141. . Gas: 0800111999. Water: 0845 462200. Councils: Kibble Valley Borough Council, Clitheroe 425111. Clitheroe Town Council, 424722. Hospitals: Royal Blackburn Royal Hospital: 01254 263555. Airedale General Hospital, Stceton: 01535 652511. Clitheroe Community Hospital: 427311. Alcohol Information Centre: 01282 416655. Aidsiinc: 01282 831101 (7 p.m. to 9 p.m.). . Domestic Vioicncc Hcipiinc: 012824220^. Cruse Bereavement Care: 01772 433643. ; • Environmental Agency: Emergencies-0800 807060. Drugs: Local confidential advice and information line: 01254 226200. National: 0800 776600.' nibble Valley Talking Newspaper: 01200 428604. Samaritans: 01254 662424. Monthly Volunteer Helpline: 01200 422721. Lancashire Rural Stress Network: 01200 427771. : QUEST (specialist smoking cessation service): 01254 358095. . - Ribbic Valley Citizens’ Advice Bureau: 01200 428966. .


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Latest plans


A PLANNING applica­ tion for the conversion of and extension to storage buildings, to form six housing units, three of


V which are to be affordable housing, has been sub­ mitted to Ribble Valley Borough Council. • : Comments on the pro­


posal a t the Old Wes­ leyan School, Union- Street,.Clitheroe, (no. ;


.0661) must be made to ■ the council by August . 28th. ; Other plans submitted,


; in Clitheroe include: : - : New glazed lobby to be built around store ent-.


. ranee to prevent.wind ;and rain blowing into .Tesco (0665). Concrete garage with


apex roof, a t 2 Brown. Street (0586). .


•‘i . Partially retrospective,' application for sand pad- dock for private use a t *


. land to rear of 50 River-* 'side (0630). - - Change of use of depot ;


• building at-3;Salthill Indus trial-Estate to a* '.waste transfer station-


. (0633);- ' , i'.;: Single-storey side ex­ tension to form garagef and store'at 42 Hen thorn'; Road(0672).',


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;POLIGE irivestigations are ■; continuing this.week into the death of a four-month-old, child. - .


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'•■ Baby Elliott Forshaw was admitted to Royal Blackburn;


^Hospital on the evening of la s t ; iTiiesday.from a home in Padk' ham Road,' Sabden. He died in' ■the early hours of the next day. I t is believed police were alert-


.'ed t’6 the death; which'is cur- : rently heihg tre'ated as unexry plainedj by staff at the hospital and are ..working with the hospi- ;


ta l ' to establish- the: circum-v- stances surrounding it. 1 ‘


A post-mortem was carried*


.j out on ;Monday,. but' proved inconclusive. An inquest into' the


; baby’s death was openedmn .M on day .-an d ;has been


.''adjourned until September 2ith. • Police arrested a 17-y_ear-


old girl oh suspicion of murder although they stressed that the


exact cause of death'ihas not been established; ' ; She has since been released on


ipolicei.bail'pending further' ' enquiries.' ' ■ i ‘ ’ "


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Society is ready to start its new season of events


ON Monday, September 7th, the CUtheroe Civic Society will be holding its first event of the new season and is looking forward to building on the suc­ cess of last year’s programme. ■A number of'the events then were


“standing room only.”-, so all hoping to attend are ad-vised to come early. As with recent meetings this will be


held a t Brookside County Primary ■ School in Bright Street, and will start at


7-30 p.m. The evening’s presentation will be


given by Mrs Christine Thistlethvyaite and her. topic is -‘‘Our Spoken Heritage and the Lancashire Dialect”. This will be informative, humorous and all in all ‘a reet good neet’. :■ Prior to the meeting the annual gen­


eral meeting will be held and the coin- mittee will be seeking approval for. their • new constitution from the membership, and also looking to fill the vacant post of minutes secretary. : 'The society is also keen to encourage


like-minded members of the public, with a love of and interest in promoting, enhancing,- interpreting and; when, nec- • e ^ ry , protecting our unique civic and;


.borough environment,.to join its grow­ ing membership.!.;


- has to contact the committee on the night.


:'.;:Future events, which will be taking ' place.in;Brookside School include:; “Traditional Farmhouses in the Forest y of'Bowland’.’ by Kevin'Illingworth;;


■ !‘War and Peace in Lancashire” by Ron -■


:Freeth'y and .‘^The'Histoiy of Waddow ■Hall’I by Margaret:Firth (actually.at.:


.Waddow Hall and not to be missed). j “if A full calendar of all the society s ;


events’and aims and recent activities is -,


' available by. going to the Clitheroe Civic - Society; website at.www.ge6cities.com/.. . tonygoodbody/csprogramme.htm.


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Mum-s run in memory of her baby daughter


A MOTHER is gearing herself up to take part in this year’s Great North Run to keep the memory alive of her baby daughter. Charlotte Duckworth (27), pictured, will take part in the world’s biggest half marathon next month to


; boost funds for the Meningitis Trust. Little Lola Kay was born on April 7th, 2008, at


Burnley General Hospital as an apparently normal, healthy baby. But a few days after taking her home, her parents Charlotte and Steven Kay (30), of Chat- bum, knew something wasn’t quite right. “■We enjoyed four sweet days with Lola until she


: suddenly collapsed at home then was rushed into Pendlebury Intensive Care. Nobody was aware until it'was much too late - but our perfect baby girl had contracted e-coli, meningitis and septicaemia and we had no choice but to let our strong little fighter go to be with the angels.”


'• If anyone would like to sponsor Charlotte they can do so by logging onto http://meningitis-trust.tribute- funds.com- then enter Lola Kay, or by calling her on : 07915457647. (s)


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Teams given red card from Roefield pitches


byJulieMagee'


AMATEUR footballers are ■ kicking" off after, discovering the whistle has been blown on their games in Clitheroe this


season. . Several senior teams have been. .


forced to find alternative pitches while new changing facilities are built a t Roefield Sports and . Leisure Centre as part of a £1.5 m. improvement schema Clitheroe’s Royal British


Legion, the Waggon and Horses and the King’s Arms pub teams, plus Waddington Reserves all used to play on the Ribble Valley Borough Council-owned playing fields at Edisford and used the council’s changing rooms at Roe­ field. However, the team’s man­ agers were informed in June, just two months before the start of this year’s football season, that no changing facilities would be available for the 2009/2010 sea­ son. ■ Waggon and Horses team


manager Mick Holgate (50), explained: “The council offered us a pitch at Longridge, but that isn’t acceptable as we play in the Craven League and a lot of the teams we play are based in York­ shire.” The team will now play all this


season’s games a t Memorial Park, Great Harwood, but will have to pay £44 per match for the privilege compared to £322 per season at Edisford. Paul Bretherton (48), secre­


tary for Waddington Reserves, which will also play a t Great Harwood this season, said extra


fund-raising would now have to be carried out to meet the cost. . “We’-ve got 13 fixtures plus cup


MEMBERS of WFC Ciitheroc who are not happy with the changing room situation at Edisford (B220809/1) “I find this situation incredible


games, which could take the number of games up to 16 or 17. That’s a lot of money compared to what the Roefield bill would have been.”


, Increased travel expenses and referee bills will also bump up the cost faced by the clubs. The team’s manager Matt


Day (31), slammed the council for its lack of consultation and poor planning. He asked why the. changing room improvement scheme could not have been com­ pleted during the closed season. Rimington footballer Liam;


Carter asked why the council could not provide alternative temporary changing room facili­ ties. “When Accrington carried out a similar scheme, temporary changing facilities were provided for players,” he explained. . .


WH^mith coming to town


WHSmith wll open a store in Clitheroe town centre this November. ■ The national retailer wll move into , the former Woolworths store in Castle


Street. A company spokesman said:


“WHSmith is delighted to be opening a store in Clitheroe, on the site of the for-.


■ mer Woolworths. The new store will- ' offer a range of books, stationery, news­ papers and magazines.” The news has been welcomed by rep­ resentatives of the local business com-, '• munity and council chiefs.


■ Mr Nigel .'Pratt, president; o f : Clitheroe Chamber of Trade and Com-


■ merce, said: “This is absolutely fantas-: tic news for Clitheroe. I t’s a retail space recovered and one eyesore off the mar­


ket. “If a big name like WHSmith is get­


ting involved in Clitheroe, they’ve obvi­ ously got laith in it.” Ribble Valley Borough Council


leader Coun. Michael Ranson added: • “We are delighted that a high street retailer as renowned as WHSmith has; chosen to take over the former Wool- worths site, which will enhance the cen­ tre of Clitheroe in these difficult eco-. nomic times and is a vote of confidence in small market towns.”. Remedial work is currently being


carried out on the empty store by Hey- -wood-based Kaberry Construction Ltd in preparation for WHSmith’s contrac­ tors to then move in and fit out the


store. Our picture shows the building;


.WHSmith is to move into. ; Work to repair HGV damage on the A59


SOME £92i000'-is to be.invested by Lancashire County Council on resurfac-


‘ ing and rebuilding part of a road that ■ has been damaged by HGVs in recent


: : Work'is to begin on the A59 east of •■the Petre Arms roundabout near Whal-


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; ley on Tuesday . The kheme is sched- • ' uled to last for one week. ■ , In order to complete the works in as


short a time as possible, and to minimise disruption to motorists, these works will


' be carried out throughout the day and night.


' Stop/Go boards and temporary traf- < |


fic lights will be used to'allow traffic to -. continue to use the road while the job is 'C i l I Vi being done.


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a t a time when the Lancashire Football Association are trying to promote more junior and sen­ ior football in the area, not less.” Clitheroe’s Royal British-


Legion team -will now travel to Longridge this season, while the King’s Arms pub team is still investigating alternative pitches.. Junior sides in the Ribble Val-.


ley, which use the Edisford play­ ing fields, include Clitheroe Wolves and Readstone United. : Clitheroe Wolves’ founder and


secretary George Hibbert said the juniors, of which there are 20 teams and 300 plus players, were having to “make do’? -with the sit-. nation and would still use the


. playing fields -without any chang-.. ing room facilities. . A spokesman for Ribble Valley


Borough Council said:.“The changing rooms at Edisford are being re-built as part of a £1.5m.


scheme to improve facilities at Roefield.


'. “As the new changing rooms are being built on the existing footprint, they will have to be demolished, meaning that there


. will be no changing room pro-vi­ sion over the next season.:: “While we accept this will


cause some inconvenience, we hope the football teams will


: recognise th a t i t is a sacrifice worth making in order to secure new state-of-the-art changing facilities. '• “Local teams were informed of


the situation and, where appro­ priate, given the opportunity to


. play their matches in Longridge for the coming season.” ■


/ '; According to the council, work • oh the new changing rooms is


■ • scheduled to start as soon as pos­ sible. I t win take about 40 weeks


'a n d will be completed by the ' start of the 2010 football season.


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