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■ A YOUNG cyclist sustained serious head injuries after an accident in Chatburn.


• The 20-year-oId was cycling down Crow - Trees Brow when he lost control of his bike and crashed into the side of a house near the village post office. , • Grindleton had a festive appearance when its brass band paraded for the first


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: ' T T.r’haul innocent sleeping chil- ., dren p u t of their beds...; pushes them : .into stinking caged vans; drives them for : hours while refusing them a toilet stop; Iv and locks them up sometimes for weeks or- , months without tlie prospect of release? My country, apparently; Great Britain. ?, So said Mark Easton, the BBC home af-‘


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Tairs editor last month The Children’s Society, one of Britain’s foremost charities in working alongside


.=, homeless and disadvantaged children and' young people, is campaigning, with fiind- . ing from the Diana, Princess of Wales


,'Memorial Fund, to end the immigration . detention of children.


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: A thousand children are detained every year. The Children’s Society says, 80% of whom are under 11 years old. They are the ; sons and daughters of asylum seekers or


, , wellbeing of children and-families in this • ■ ‘^PW*ry-,I.support this campaign and its --


i ; former refugee from Uganda, Dr John i ' fentamu. has said: “It is vitally important ':- Majesty’s Government..; consid-i Uest to,protect the dignity andil


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THE excellent record of progress made by the Conservative-controlled Town Coun­ cil during the past three years was stressed' by the four candidates contesting Clithe- roe’s municipal elections at an adoption ■ meeting at the Conservative Club. The upbeat Conservative candidates hoping for a good day at the polls were Council­ lors E. Crossley, S. J. Moore, J. S. Wright and Mr Maxwell Dawson.


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, AN appeal went out this week to Ribble Valley employers to look at their staffing levels to see if they could find an opening for a young person. Within the ne.xt few months, some 250 16-year-old school leavers would be coming into the jobs market. That was in addition to the 130 young people who would be seeking per­ manent employment at the end of their . youth training schemes with local firms.


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v ' : 1 ^ In my 50-or-so years in journal- :: JL ism, I ’ve been on the sidelines of more election campaigns'than I care to ‘ remember.


, While many have been as dull as ditch­ -water, some have provided those precious j incidents which still provide a nostalgic ; chuckle when a pplitician ends up with egg on the face. ’ \ • ,. ' •


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r: . There was the candidate who turned up at a campaign meeting, worse for wear


san d rather.tired and emotional, to tell ,his party workers in language studded iWith expletives that he “didn’t give a stuff


i' what anybody thought’’ and that he’d had 5 quite enough of “this miserable part of the country’’. In the sober, cold light of the


' . following morning,' his wheedling pleas ■ Tor the remarks not be reported fell, of , -course, on deaf ears..; . g. ; And there was the candidate who de­ livered an impassioned speech about the


- need for the authorities to clamp down on sexually explicit scenes on TV and cinema screens while his dress was, shall we say, in need of adjustment.


: These are only a few of the gaffes which i have befallen hapless candidates, but I’ve ,


to follow around a young man whose party ' H.Q. had selected to contest a seat he had ■no hope of winning. His party had not ■ : held the seat for 50 years and was about •


narrowed the prize moments down to these: In my early days as a reporter, I was told


• as popular in the country as the plague, added to which the sitting MP, a flamboy­ ant character, had carefully groomed the


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constituency over many years., . ^ . ■ But this young lad was determined to give it a go. He had a catchy campaign


. song recorded and the jingle put a smile on the faces of a rather dour electorate. He worked his socks off campaining and his easy charm and “down to earth” per­ sona seemed to go down well with the vot­ ers.


' ■ • ■. The day before the poll, there were sug­


gestions that a surprise might be in the offing. Then, disaster! Our young hopeful decided to canvass an estate which was a close community and where “outsiders” were looked on with suspicion. His first act was to reverse his car over a child’s bike' lying in the gutter. At that, all hell broke loose. Neighbours came out of houses to fling abuse at the unfortunate young man, who was forced to beat a retreat under threats to his physical wellbeing. ■The.incident was reported in the


evening newspaper and the young man’s performance in the poll the next day was well below previous expectations.


- ' Then there was the campaign in which Britain’s proposed entry into what was then the Common Market was a major issue. One of the party big guns was sent to a Lancashire town hall to put the case for joining. This man, a skilled orator, put in a bravura performance and the audi­ ence seemed well impressed as the poli­ tician swept into a triumphant rhetorical


: , final statement - “And that is why I say . ’ the voice of Lancashire must be heard in


. V. Europe!” : He paused for the expected ap- . .plause but he reckoned without the nativ'e wit of one of the audience. With impec­ cable timing and in an exaggerated acrent


, a voice from the back of the hall eavc oui’ . .“.’Ow d’yer doi’J Within seconds, the audi^


: ence was doubled up with laughter and all of the politician’s fire had become ashes.


; My final recollection is of the sitting MP who decided to visit a remote part of his constituency where the only track in had been churned into a sea of mud and the


locals had been complaining. 1 had been told of the visit and with a photographer


at the wheel of a Mini, we just about nego­


tiated our way to the beleaguered hamlet. We watched as a well-polished Jag con-


: taining the MP and his chaufeur almost made it to dry land and then became well and truly bogged down. The puce-faced,' tweeds-attired MP leapt angrily out of the


car and disappaered up to mid-thigh in the mud. By this time a small group of hamlet-


dwellers had appeared and the MP, hav­ ing extracated himself from the goo, de­ cided to address them. He climbed on top of a grass bank and embarked on a grand piece of pompous Parliamentary oratoiy. Then the heavens opened and the incon­ gruity of the wet-through, mud-spattered MP delivering such a speech in such a place was too much for the photographer, who was convulsed with ringing mirth over the bonnet of the Mini. The next day, the news editor received an angry phone call from an aide of the


. MP protesting about “unseemly behav- . iour”. But the news editor, who had huge­ ly enjoyed the story, decided to take no further action.


; after 30 yeare, v^h^


pf Anne Huson, who has retired from'the'Castle Medical Group ' her farewell party at Clitheroe Health Centre.


A CLITHEROE doctor , iJ k who first came to the'


■ years ago'has retired from general practice.


• J . jLtown as a trainee 30 . ■


By her own admittance Dr Anne Huson is a Yorkshire lass


, who came across the border and found Lancashire to be a friend­ ly place.’ ' Back in 1979, after working


T, in hospitals in Manchester and Leicester and two three-year spells at university in St An­ drew’s and. Manchester, she


joined the Railway View Medi-' cal Practice as a GP trainee. This month she retired from


the practice which she joined as a partner in 1980. Over the past three decades she has seen the practice evolve to become the Castle Medical Group. She regards the time she has worked in general practice in


. Clitheroe as'“fantastic’’: “Be­ ing a GP is a great privilege. Pa­ tients have confidence and trirst in you and take you into their


■ hearts and homes. That is a very ‘ : special thing.


■■ ,■ /; ■ “I have really enjoyed looking


after my patients and have been' really fortunate to work in the Ribble Valley. All my colleagues - medical, nursing and adminis- ■ trative - have worked together as an excellent team.” - Two areas of her work which


Dr Huson has found to be par­ ticularly rewarding were work­ ing with patients suffering with mental.health problems and those needing palliative care: “I have been well supported by an excellent team of district nurses too,” said Dr Huson. At times over the past three


decades she has acted as expedi­ tion doctor fora number oftrips


to the Himalayas, as well as to Australia and Namibia.


■ . Dr Huson has also been in­ volved in medical politics, join-


,, ing the fight to save the Bram-. jley Meade Maternity Home in-


■ Whalley and, more recently, over concerns'about the future


: of Clitheroe Hospital. Dr Huson was also vice-chair­


man of the local medical com­ mittee which represents GPs and meets regularly with the


, Primary Care Trust. She said: “The health of the Ribble Val­ ley is better than the rest of the PGT area, meaning that we have


. to fight really hard to keep our share of resources because there is always a greater need else­ where.” Now she has retired Dr Hu- ’


son plans, to spend more time enjoying the garden of her Rib­ ble Valley home and walking.


Event to focus on dyslexia A WARD winning


ZA. Ribble Valley- 1. ■ Abased organisa-.


: tion NELDA. (North East Lancashire Dys­ lexia Association) is set


. to start, a community project by bringing to­ gether parents, teach- : ers and members of the


; health services in a one day conference. Dyslexia specialists Neil McKay and Sandra


Farmer will speak on ways in which to narrow the gap for dyslexic learners. Those attending the con­ ference will be given op­ portunities to hear about current research and ways in which schools and ■ parents can assist their dyslexic children. They will also be able to look at up-to-date resources and to focus on the Inclu­ sive Development Pro­ gramme being introduced in schools.' The conference takes


place next Tuesday, May 11th, between 9-30 and 4 p.m. at the Conference Suite, in Infant Street, Accrington. Ample op­ portunity will be provided for discussion and to meet other parents and profes- - sionals in a relaxed and informative venue. ; A buffet lunch and re­


freshments will be pro­ vided and the cost for the conference day is £35.' . Booking forms and


■information regarding the day can be obtained by ringing NELDA on 01254 230756 or e-mail- ing: NELDA at nelda@ hotmail.co.uk


The Whalley-based side, which hosts a competitive.


• ernment wrongly believes that they are over 18. They are the only children in this,


, .The Archbishop of York,-himself a


migrants and detained with their families; - Some are detained because the Gov-'


, country who can be locked up indefinitely ■ without oversight by the courts and with- ; out having committed any crime. ’ ■


become members of local churches, who have befriended them, and tried to fight their cause - often to no avail. When their, case is turned down, asylum seekers of­ ten have to choose between returning to


: their country of origin; which they fear, or. . being forced into destitution, alo n g with


■their family, since.th'eir means of support is cut off.


. -search for effective and humane alterna- ■ fives to detaining children.” , 14-year-old detainee commented:' rh e ^ o months inYarlwood was a life-'i


, time hell for me. Please let the Govern-’


T ntent think of us children, we do hot de-^ • ■ serve this treatment.”


Sometimes asylum seeker families'have


•.r ;; Asylum seekers may not be a popular ‘Cause, but then Christ’wasn’t a popular . Saviour.Tn today’s General Election, as. all the church leaders have said, our over­ riding concern should not just be our own


; self-interest but the needs of the margin-: alised and the poor, towards whom God , has a special bias.L ■/''


: G ^ O N RODNEY NICHOLSON, . ' ^ Vicar of St Paul’s, Low Moor and priest-, in:Gharge of Chatburn and D o wn h a m,


Five-a-side finale at Oakhill f


ORGET.Real Ma­ drid - what about Real Oakhill!,


■ Sunday morning live-a-side; league at the Wiswell Lane-


. based Oakhill Sports Acad­ emy, were crowned champi- - ons of their own league on a


; nail biting final match day. Needing to avoid defeat . against defending champi-


; ons Whalley Con Club, Real . Oakhill got the. draw they ; needed arid in truth were ; more comfortable than the . 5-5 final scoreline suggested,


Hargreaves, Matt Parker" and Mike Wright,-who arc- regular gym attendees there. : Oakhill Academy'Direc-H'


; tor Leo-Baron said::“We'; are delighted to host such a ; competitive tournament and, ■ after two seasons as runners- '


- up, overjoyed to have finally.- ■ topped the table.-We would like to thank Mortimer’s Es-


, tate Agents for their coiitin-.- ued support and have every ; intention of retaining 'our trophy next year. We would also actively encourage new;


- conceding two goals in the _ last 30 seconds. ! : Real Oakhill’s prolific ■;_ • striker Edward Snowden,'’: ! from. Mortimers Estate'-- Agents, topped the league-:;-.


; goal scoring charts by som e- ' distance; playingvalongside ■' ' team-mates Leo Baron, Phil y M.oss and Nick Galea, from; ' Oakhill Academy,- and Ryan:.


• teams to join our Wednes-' day and Sunday leagues to ' challenge us for the title”.- L


■ • ' • Oakhill Academy runs ■ itsifive-a-side league on a . Wednesday night and Sun- ■ day morning, offering excel-. lent free membership prizes for-lst, 2nd and Srd.placed teams. For more'information' :or.to join a league,’contact


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