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Husb^d’s attack '’wife


A 41-YEAR-OLD Clit- heroe man struggling to


come to terms with his ■ wife’s adultery with his' -


. best'friend flipped after ' ■


a meeting with the other man’s wife.


heard that she had uncov­ ered the affair when she found a video clip of the pair, which left no doubt how far their relationship had gone. ' The court was told that ;


Blackburn magistrates


• RobertLconard had been - prepared to swallow his pride for the sake of his 20-year marriage and his •' children.-But‘after the-; meeting he went home drunk and attacked his wife, dragging her around the house by her hair, slapping, punching'and kickingher. ■Wheh’’dne of their, children came down and


- shouted at his dad to stop, Leonard threatened him. Leonard (41), of High


Street, Low Moor, plead­ ed guilty to assaulting •


'Julie Leonard. He was remanded on bail for the preparation of a pre-sen­ tence report. ' ; Bill Maud (prosecut­


ing) said clumps of Mrs Leonard’s hair had been


. pulled out during the in- - cident. He added that on the night of the attack the " wife of the other man had invited Leonard to her home to discuss the situ-- ation. Leonard returned home in the early hours ■ of the morning and when .. his wife came downstairs ■ threw, a kitchen chair


across the room before going for his wife.


: y “She eventually fled .’from the house and ran across the road to the nearby home of the man she had-been associat­ ing with and, not surpris­ ingly, she wasn’t welcome there,” said Mr Maud. , “One of their children


phoned the police and when they arrived the eld-


■ est child popped his head out of an upstairs window


' and said he was too fright­ ened to come down.” : Andrew Church-Taylor


(defending) said Leonard was a law abiding, hard working man who was currently running his own


: courier business.Tlic oth-' er couple involved were


: long-time-friends who they regularly went on holiday with. ■ “Everything in his life


was going well until the wife came across a video which showed her hus­ band and my client’s wife in a position that was con- elusive proof they were having a relationship,” said Mr Chureh-Taylor'- . “My client tried to cope with it and tried to make something o f their 20- year relationship. He had suffered the ignominy of having his wife sleep with his best friend, but he de­ cided for the good of his family’he would try and reconcile the situation. . ' “He is not proud of the way he behaved when he got home and he wishes it hadn’t happened,” said. Mr Chureh-Taylor. -


A NEW Zumba class has started at Salesburv Memo­ rial Hall. . . .


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bining salsa, samba and reggae to tone and sculpt the body while burning calorics. No partner is required and normarieisure wear can be worn. Entry to classes, which are held every Thursday at 7 p.m., costs a donation to the Help For Heroes charity.


DIAMOND COUPLE: Brian and Marie Waiker are celebrating 60 happy years of marriage, (s)


■by Julie Magee ■


.MOURNERS packed St Mary’s Ghurch,.Gisburn; . on Friday for the funeral o f popular villager Mrs Jessie Wrathall. - ■ ; Jessie’s life started in Tock-


holes where her parents farmed. As a youngster she visited the auction marts with her dad, sell- -


ing the butter that she and her mother had made. In 1962, Jessie moved to Gis-


bum and marriedlarger-tlian-life ' farmer Frank WrathalL -. -From a very early age her first


true love-was farming and she ' worked very hard alongside her husband, building a family farm . from scratch. Lambing time was her forte; she took charge and'


-j MRS JESSIE WRATHALL


looked after the new born and “hospital cases”. She had two children, Frank


and'Gillian, who she showered with affection, giving them huge support as they grew up.


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■ As a young mum Jessie joined forces with Joan Craddock, a mis-


: chievous pair who became mem­ bers of the Young Wives. .


, : For many years Jessie support­ ed St Mary’s Church, both as a member of the parochial church


■council and as church magazine treasurer. Year after year, Joan and Jessie would cook chickens


- and roast hams which they would donate to the spring fair for the tea room to raise funds. • , ■ • After losing her husband 17


. years ago, Jessie threw herself into giving her support, help and love to others. Her,elderly milk customers benefited from having their newspapers delivered, trips to the shops and the hospital and having prescriptions collected. ? . She became a dear friend to


both her sister-in-law Edith and to Bet and they enjoyed holidays


- Jenny. Holt started to lose her sight, Jessie was not deterred and


: she offered Jenny friendship and a taxi to get to the luncheon club.


through difficult times and could always be relied upon whenever she was needed. Jessie gained a great deal of


' She helped all her close friends


. paper. ■ : : A devoted mother and granny,


; keen gardener Jessie, who acted as a judge for Lancashire’s Best Kept Village competition.


60 years of wedded bliss WHEN Marie invited her friend, Brian, ■


• .to her 14th birthday party, little did she know she would spend most of the rest of her life with him. Today the childhood sweethearts cel- ■


ebrate 60 years of wedded bliss. Marie, now 78, was a pupil at Clithe- ■


roe Grammar School for Girls when she met Brian (81)'at a school dance. She said: “We met at the dance and I


decided to invite him to my birthday par­ ty at my house. We remained together since.” ■ .


Brian did his National Service with the


■ Royal Air Force in Malaya, and on his return the couple married in Slaidburn


in December 1950. They enjoyed a hon­ eymoon in Blackpool and made their


. home in Slaidburn. They had five children - Anne Livesey, ■ Janet Robinson,.Gillian Cowking, Jac- -qui Howard and Murray Walker. The y


have also fos'tered 41 children through­ out their lives. In addition, they have 13 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, hvo step great-grandchildren. While Brian worked as a storeman


for a firm in Slaidburn, Marie was busy raising her four daughters and son. Once they left home, she enrolled on a three- year training course to become a nurse at the age of 51 and worked for the learning disability service for 12 years.. Brian and Marie Walker are looking


forward to celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary with family and friends on Sunday at Slaidburn Village Hall.


. ■ When asked the secret to their long,


happy and successful marriage, they re­ plied: “We just got on with life and have no regrets. We have enjoyed our mar­ riage and if given the chance, we would do exactly the same again.”


Walkers’ dogged determination! Farm and Coffee Shop WALK AND


WAG: Some ■ : of those ' who com­ pleted the sponsored dog walk;


from Home- base.


pleasure and happiness from the Lady Farmers and here she made many new and treasured friends. She was president of the Clithe- roe branch in 1987 and again in 1999. She was also county treas­ urer. Jessie was also a reader for the Ribble Valley Talking News-


ON SONG: Children at Chatburn Primary School rehearsing for the CD under director Jeff Borradaile.


> , By Duncan Smith


CHILDREN from four Ribble Valley primary schools have been help­ ing to make a charity CD or Christmas songs and carols. Sponsored by local music


and arts action group Valley Gigs, children from each of the four schools - Brookside in Clitheroe, Chatburn Prima­ ry, Brabin’s Endowed and St Mary’s RC, both in Chipping - have been rehearsing hard over the past few weeks to get their songs to a standard high enough to make a quality CD. . They have been working under the musical direction


of Jeff Borradaile and (3111 Fourie, both experienced choral directors. Jeff and Gill have been working in schools around the Ribble Valley throughout the year to en­ thuse youngsters with the fun ofsinging. Making the Christmas CD


seemed a great way to round off the term’s work, and Val­ ley Gigs stepped in to help with production costs. Recording the singing was carried out by Seamus Hef-,


. fernan of locally-based Sham­ rock Studios. A competition to help design the CD cover was won by Thomas Hill, of Chat­ burn School. , Class teacher Miss Fenton,


from Brookside School, said: “It’s been a wonderful expe­ rience for both children and staff alike and we are looking forward to hearing the finished CD.” :


^ A spokesman for Valley


. Gigs, Pete Monk, added: “It’s been a new venture for our group; We see this as a pilot project. We’ve already had enquiries from other schools keen to participate next year.” The CD is available from


the offices of the Clitheroe Advertiser, priced £5, with £1 from the sale of each CD go­ ing to UNICEF, the world’s leading organisation protect­ ing the rights of children and young people.


and meals out together, with Jes­ sie being the chauffeur. When


LOCAL: Cover of the new CD, Hodie! - Christmas Music from Whalley.


• A CD of homegrown Christmas music from the Ribble Valley is now available. Singers from the Whalley-based


Valley Voices group combined with the Bowland Ensemble and Wood- fields Trio to record music written and arranged by Hurst Green com­ poser Dr Thomas Muir. “Hodie! - Christmas Music from Whalley” contains a setting of the Mass with responses and acclama­ tions and Psalm 96, a setting of words by Chaucer and arrange­ ments of carols and traditional Christmas music. Richard Horn, of Clitheroe,


takes the role of cantor in the Mass setting and Whalley soprano Julie Singh, accompanied by Clitheroe keyboard player Janet Ismail, sings the Chaucer setting. - Recorded in Whalley Method­


ist Church, the CD was engineered by Paul Lee, of Leeway Studios, Clitheroe. . Glen Pate, who directed the


‘Road rage' incident led to court A “ROAD rage” incident


. on the A59 at Clitheroe ended with a man having to jump to safety, as a car was driven at him on a pet­ rol station forecourt. ‘ Blackburn magistrates


heard the incident at the Somerfield petrol .station at Barrow followed a pro­ longed pursuit by a local man who thought he had been “cutup”; . And, while he was


described as the aggres­ sor, it was the local man, David Cowgill, who had to take evasive action af­


ter challenging the other motorist. David Anthony Cook


(48), of Fairview Avenue, Levenshulme, Manches­ ter, pleaded guilty to driv­ ing without due care, fail­ ing to stop and failing to report an accident. He was. fined £325 and disqualified from driving for 60 days. Mr Andrew Robinson


(prosecuting) said Cook had driven towards Mr Cowgill on the petrol sta­ tion forecourt. Mr Cowgill managed to jump out of the way and Cook then


crashed into a parked car before driving off. Ms Brenda Baillie (de­


fending) said in mitigation that Cook had been driving towards a roundabout and was unsure about which lane he should be in. As he got close to the rounda­ bout, he realised he was in the wrong lane and pulled over, thinking Mr Cowgill was allowing him in. “Mr Cowgill saw it dif­


ferently and chased after my client,” said Ms Baillie. “He says he went round a roundabout twice in pur­


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^ IT was best feet and best paws for­ ward when colleagues from a Clit-; hcroe store set about fund-raising- with their canine companions.. ■ Staff from Clitheroe’s Home-


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base store, joined by some custom-': ers and friends, organised a spon- ■; sored dog walk to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust; Home- ■ base’s current chosen charity. ; i.; The.Trust is raisine monev to es-;


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■heroe Homebase store manager Sue Webster. :


dogs completed.the sponsored walk on a beautiful crisp winter’s day, with the total raised already at £320 with more money still to come in.


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singers, said: “Dr Muir set us a real challenge. The music lan­ guage is very modern, with some harmonies and sonorities. 1 sup­ pose the vocal technique required IS within the capabilites of the average parish choir and congre­ gation, but the shifting rhythms, complex texture and the clashing dissonances make for painstaking preparation. . “I am proud of the way the singers and instrumentalists re­


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