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Birds of a feather flock to ... Nigel!


BY 'eck it's tough being on MP.


The endless dull de­


bates, the fierce political backbiting, the irritat­ ing chore of winning elections, the piles of expenses forms to fill, the constant photocalls with armfuls of stunning showgirls... Well every job has its


perks and "hobnobbing" at a "society do" has to be one of the better ones for a long-suffering MP. And this was quite some do too.


Held in the glorious


surroundings of Chip­ ping's Gibbon Bridge Ho­ tel, the locally-organised charity bonanza raised more than £30,000 to be ploughed into good caus­ es across the county. For the full story of this


magnificent fund-raising effort see page five of this edition. Caught on camera dur­


ing the evening, poor Nigel certainly seems to have his hands full... come to think of it, where are his hands?


GLAMOUR AND GLITTER: Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans with a bevy of giamor- ous shbwgiris at the charity bonanza in Chipping.


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Police hunt rural raiders


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DETECTIVES are hunting bur­ glars who are smashing their way into Ribble Valley farmhouses and making off with expensive goods. Det. Sgt Nigel Watson, of Clit-


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heroe CID, is urging witnesses to come forward after burglars raided four rural farmhouses in the space of five days.


He believes the raids could b e .


linked. In the first two incidents, police believe the offenders stole a sledgehammer from an outbuilding at a farm in Downham, which was then used in two burglaries. A wooden door at Laneside


Farm in Pendle Road, Downham, was smashed before the intruders searched the property and stole a number of items of jewellery. The break-in occurred last Thurs­ day between 8-30 a.m. and 6-30


p.m. and the items stolen included a silver watch with an elasticated nine-carat gold bracelet strap with a pattern arounde the middle, cop­ per coins, a Next watch and a green wooden model house. Police believe the burglars then struck at an isolated detached farm­


-house in Martin Top Lane, Rim- ington. They again used a sledge­ hammer to gain entry and escaped unseen with an LCD TV. Hundreds of pounds worth of


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goods were taken during a break- in at a house in Chaigley. Thieves targeted the detached property between 1-45 and 3-20 p.m. on Sat­ urday and made off with a laptop, a Samsung phone, a Nintendo DS with 35 games, an iPod and a black Sony PSP games console. In the latest incident, which hap­


pened on Monday between 8-15 a.m. and 12:15 p.m., theives gained


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