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INFORMATION


DUTY chemist; Lloyds Pharmacy, 5 Church Street,. Clitheroe: Sunday;noon to 1 p.m.. ' ■ POLICE: 01200 443344. ,


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FIM : In emergency 999 and ask for fire service. --"- x ELECTRICITY:'0800 1954141.::, Gas: 0800- 111999.


' WATER: 0845 462200. '


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COUNCILS: Ribble Valley Borough Council,’Clit­ heroe 425111. Clitheroe Town Council, 424722.; HOSPITALS; Royal Blackburn Royal Hospital:; 01254 263555. Airedale General Hospital, Stee- ton; 01535 652511. Clitheroe Community Hospital:; 427311. ALCOHOL Information Centre; 01282 416655.' ■ (V.


' AIDSLINE; 01282 831101 (7 p.m. to 9 p.m.). DOMESTIC Violence Helpline: 01282 422024. ,: CRUSE Bereavement Care: 01772 433643.- - - ; •' - ENVIRONMENTAL Agency: Emergencies-0800 • 807060. DRUGS: Local confidential advice and information line: 01254 226200. National: 0800 776600. RIBBLE, Valley Talking Newspaper: 01200 428604. SAMARITANS: 01254 662424. MONTHLY.Volunteer Helpline: 01200 422721. LANCASHIRE Rural Stress Network:. 01200. 427771.' ■ '


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QUEST (specialist smoking cessation service): 01254358095. RIBBLE.Valley Citizens’ Advice Bureau: 01200 : 428966.


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/ W E A T H E R


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RIMINGTON Duck- Race went. swimmingly and raised-£2,500. ; ’;


• Rimington Recreation.Associa-; tion would like to thank all who -i attended, helped or contributed:;


= towards this great fund-raising ef- fort; especially Barlow Rowland i ■


; Solicitors; who kindly sponsored-i? . the Gorporate Duck Race; and i the Hartley family for.the use of k their land.


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. i -Winners of the main duck race:*' were:’. 1st;. Phylis Nuttall;-2nd, >; David 7 Bonny Black Farm; 3rd, ' •* Marilyn Wright; 4th;PauI .Winck- . ; ley; 5th, Steven Sherry; Last duck:. .i:


:home: Garole Little;iBest duck'; - name:“Can;ardIy:Swim” ;-.Ian::i!


. Darbyshire.', Seller, of winning":*; duck: Debbie Nuttall.* . :Kiddiesl duck dash::lst, Hugov,;


• Day; 2nd; A Carr;-3rd,'jLibby .*^ Smith; 4th,‘ Freddie Grimshaw;: :■ 5th; Nathan-WaltonT 6th, Harry Young. Last duck home: Heather. Hodson; Best duck name: “Duck terwho” -Ben Grantham.


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; VIP kids’ race: 1st; Sam Magee;... 2nd, Dylan George;: 3rd; Lucas : and Martha, 4th, Oliver F a ir fo o t ;• 5th, Charlie Dixon;. Last duckv • home: Georgia.


CUT FREE: the Toyota Corolla Verso after its injured driver was carefully released -


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.. Corporate race: Heat 1-,Wild , Harvest; heat 2 - MSW Hewet-


son; heat'3- Backhouse Jones;:; heat4-Julie Hartley. - .h.-


WADDLE WE DO?: spectators look on as the rubber ducks race for the finishing line.(s) ‘Artful- Dodger-‘Rivcrsdale


• Final: 1st prize meal for.two at ;


: Black Bull - Julie Hartley, ■ 2nd ■-prize bottle of champagne- Bir-o . chall Foods; Prize for duck name


'Properties, Golden Egg Square - Steven Dewhurst. Name the duck : -Katherine Lachance.


CRASH SCENE: The A59 near Gisburn which was closed by a three-car smash at around 5-30 p.m. on Monday, exactly a fortnight after another crash at the same location, next to the entrance to Gisburn Business Park.


football chairman by Faiza Afzaal


?A RIBBLE VALLEY musi- '.cian, who was also the chair--, man of Chatburn EG for 11


' years,'has died aged 74. • Mr John Eric Bolton, who was born in Chatburn and lived there


:: for-50 years before-moving to .Ciltheroe, died in hospital after a short illness. •


- ' He attended Chatburh PrimaT-' '; : ry School and then Ribblesdale •• High School. On leaving school : he trained as. a cabinet-maker;


.! for Bowker.Bros,;then moved ;. to Joseph Lucas for.l7 years. In- -; 1974 he started work for the Jylilk Marketing Board.' ^


i ; • His main.passion in:life was;!;


'. the guitar and he had the ability.1:: i to play without being able to read .*’; • music.'He formed a group called > •


;.‘-‘The Creole Four”> and won a bid; ■ for stardom t r o p h y i r Mr.Bolton performed for pre-


;■ senterHughie Green on “Oppor- tunity Knocks’-’; but unfortunately


JOLLY: Mr John Eric Bolton ,who died aged 74.'' -'


came runner-up.- He used to per-'-: form at village garden parties and ;• was’well-known for passing on his ’ musical knowledge to locals and friends and family. He also played golfin his younger, days,'but al­


ways preferred the 19th hole, v - He was asked to record for


;■ Clitheroe 800 and performed ’. “Autumn Leaves”, which is now . in the Clitheroe Sound Archives. rt'.He was also well-known for


•-his poems and anecdotes, which •were presented on birthdays and Christmas cards to.the amuse-


: ment of his friends, family and .workmates. On a sporting front Mr Bolton


was originally a player for Chat­ burn FC and then was chairman


-for 11 years. His other duties in­ cluded linesman, tea maker and cleaner.’'


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hies when playing in the Ribble alley Football L e a g u e . .


. .“He was a founder member of


' the committe'e to form the East •Lancs Football League. He had many hobbies, but his latest hob­ by was creating animals from ob­ scure tree branches, which were given to people as a token of his friendship. “In his early years he enjoyed taking the family on holiday in his


.motorcycle and sidecar.-In later :, years.he enjoyed.the more re- . laxed atmosphere of cruising on


V. ■ Paying tribute to a “jolly” man, ■' his wife, Estelle, said:.“He was* weiy funny and always full of surr ■;


:: prises. There was never a dull mo-; - ment and he was a veiy happy in- -r dividual. He was the life and soul of a party.,


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; league with the Aitken Shield,* ■Ashley Smith and Dan Seed Tro-


• the Norfolk Broads.’l ;: v ' v;>. 'A cremation was held on Tues- .’day followed by a remembrance service at the Methodist.Chapel in Chatburn.' - •v, Mr Bolton: is survived by his


;;*,“He enjoyed playing football I and at: one.time. Chatburn was a very successful team, winning the -.-^


: wife;:Estelle, daughter Alison,. i-stepdaughter,' Sarah', five grand- ;'children and two great-grandchil- dren.J;”


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: Donations; can be; made to ; Guide;Dogs fon the Blind C/0 ;Gillia'n Pridden;23 Kingsley Av- ; enue, Padiham.-BB12 8FZ


Words and pictures by Duncan Smith


A THREE-CAR smash closed the A59 near Gisburn at the same location as an­


other accident exactly a fortnight earlier. The accident happened on Monday, at ap-;


. proximately 5-30 p.m., next to the entrance to Gisburn Business Park, just on the Clitheroe side of Gisburn.


• . • ■ It involved a silver Volkswagen Passat es­


tate, a red Toyota Corolla Verso and a black Ford Mondeo. .The driver of the Toyota is believed to be a Clitheroe man who was driv­ ing home from workjwhen the accident hap­ pened.


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side front and rear and was shunted onto the roadside grass verge. ■ . :


His car sustained damage to the driver’s •


He was attended by paramedics while Fire


and Rescue crews from Clitheroe and Bar- noldswick cut him free from the damaged ve­ hicle, largely as a precaution against possible - back or neck injury.


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■ He was then flown to hospital on board the . North West Air Ambulance, which landed in afieldnexttotheroad.


Despite the heavy impact his condition was not thought to be serious.; : ^


- The occupants of the other cars - two in


the Volkswagen and one in the Ford - were shaken but not seriously injured, with only the female passenger in the Volkswagen taken to hospital by ambulance for a check-up.: The Volkswagen suffered a rear-end impact which smashed its window and mangled two


,. mountain bikes on a rear cycle carrier, while the Ford sustained heavy front end damage. All three vehicles were travelling towards


Clitheroe when the accident happened. The injured driver was flown away at 6-15 p.m. and police had the road open again shortly after 6- 30 p.m., once recovery vehicles had removed the damaged cars.: :: During the road closure, traffic was di­


verted along minor roads through Bolton-by- Bowland and Rimington. • The A59 was closed by a crash at the


same location exactly a fortnight earlier, on Bank Holiday Monday. It involved a bus and a Toyota Corolla and was attended by both the North West and Yorkshire air ambulances. They flew the occupants of the Toyota - an


elderly couple from Bury - to hospital, where their injuries turned out to be relatively mi­ nor. Neither the driver nor passengers on the bus were injured.


And pedestrian (62) injured


HEAVY IMPACT: the Ford Mondeo whose driver was unharmed despite this damage


REAR ENDED: the Volkswagen Passat and the twisted bikes from its rear carrier


Langlm, iumley;v 1 Blackburn, Accrington ;


.-.Weekend weather:,It will be a dry, warm and sunny weekend with temperatures : reaching around 21°C


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Sunrise: 4-59 a.m. Sunset: 9-11 p.m.. Lighting up' time: 8-49 p.m.'


A VILLAGE footballer was given the all- : clear to ploy in a cup final by Blackburn magistrates. '■


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tra time/.the magistrates decided to lift his curfew for on hour longer than he re- que'sted.


'' - ’ ' t ' - • ' 1 Paul Clark, of Henthorn Close, Clitheroe,';


plays os a centre-back for East Lancashire; League. First Division .winners Rimington’';


.; FC. But Clark is also subject to an 8 p.m.' And just in case the game went to ex- •


,5 to 6 a.m. curfew for. an offence of driv- ' ;, ing while disqualified, which threatened his appearance for the side in last Friday's /Craven Cup final match, to be played in ;


" Bornoldswick against Grassington, with d 7 p.m. kick-off.


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‘ In a bid to make the squad, Clark went ; to court and asked the magistrates to re- vlax the curfew for one night to allow him


to ploy in the cup finol. He asked for the curtew.to be lifted until 10 p.m. to allow


. him to ploy in the game, hove'a shower; and get back to Clitheroe in time.'-


.V.; Not only, agreeing to his request, the -magistrates added on an hour in case of extra time, allowing the curfew to start at ,,-11 p.m. for.onenight only. .


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. • Rimington won the cup final 7-2. For a report and picture see page 40.’


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PRECISION PARKING: the Air Ambulance landed on the mini-roundabout at the bottom of Pendle Road ;,


byFaiza Afzaal .


A 62-'YEAR-OLD man remains in a stable condition in hospital after, be­ ing injured while crossing a Glitheroe road. .


- ■ . Mr David Raw, from Grindleton, was


crossing the road near the junction of Wellgate with Lowergate when he was in collision with a yellow Ford Fiesta. ■ ' He was airlifted to Royal Preston Hos-. pital having sustained serious injuries. ■ '


AFTERMATH: accident investigators examine the car involved in the accident


The accident happened just after 3


: p.m. on Friday. The police, ambulance : and North West Air Ambulance were all called in. The air ambulance’s pilot managed to put down in a very confined area on the


■ mini-roundabout at the junction of Pen- ; die Road with Waterloo Road as police stopped traffic in all directions.


: Mr Raw’s son, Chris, who had rushed to the scene of the accident, confirmed that his father was “unconscious, but breath-: ing”. A spokesman at the hospital later •


confirmed that Mr Raw was in a stable ; condition. The male driver of the Ford Fi­ esta was unhurt.


: Police investigations are continuing into the accident. Sgt Pete Sculplier, of the Road Policing Unit in Accrington,


• said: “An investigation into this collision is nov/ under way and I would appeal to anyone who may have witnessed it to con­ tact police.” Anyone with information is asked to call


police on 0845 125 35 45, or Crimestop- pers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.


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