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eastlancsnews.co.uk by Faiza Afzaal .
^ PORTRMTS of local heroes ;are to hang at Glith'eroe Cas-
:• tie in a unique collaboration between a gifted young artist and Ribble Valley Borough
Council. , Ellen Riley (22), a former pu
pil of Stonyhurst College and Blackburn College, has painted a series of portraits of commu-
: nity champions which will hang in Clitlicroc Castle Museum’s
: “Your Clitheroe Room” from Friday, November 5th; - Ellen, who exhibited at the Na
tional Portrait Gallery aged.16 and a year later was the North- West winner of ITV’s “Brush
■ with Fame”, was diagnosed with - a brain tumour last November,- just a week before she was due to'op'en her first solo exhibition
■ ■ at the fashionable Swiss Village • in Paris.
• : - Ellen grew up in Hurst Green and left Ribble Valley three years ago to study art and literature in France, where she met her hus-;
' band, Cedric Charleuf, who is - also an artist. She looked set for success on • the Parisian art scene, but in No-
. vember last year, three days be fore her 22nd birthday and eight days before her first solo exhibi tion, she.was rushed into hospital for a seven-hour life-saving op eration. -' Now Ellen’s portraits of sever al local heroes, among them phi
Footballing trailblazers honoured
SPORTING prowess from two of Ribble Valley’s top teams has been officially recognised by Ribble Valley Borough Council. . Rimington FC and Hurst Green FC have each
done more than their fair share to put the Valley firmly on the sporting map, and the council chose to honour their outstanding achievements. Rimington FC is one the most successful amateur
teams in the borough’s proud sporting history. In the past 10 years, under manager Teriy Braithwaite, they have been the East Lancashire Premier Divi-' sion champions no less than four times, won the President’s Cup twice and the Craven Cup a remark able six times. . In the golden season of 2007/8 they did the treble
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- becoming East Lancasliire-League champions and winning the President’s Cup and Craven Cup. They did the double, being league champions and Craven Cup winners, in the following two seasons. Rimington councillor Richard Slicrras com
mented: “For tliese consistent results over such an extended period, Terry cannot be praised highly
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enough, without taking anything away from what is a team performance.
. . .-.:.“Success can only come with talented, dedicated
..players and officials. Credit goes also to the Rec- vreation Association and residents of Rimington for supporting the provision of such good playing, train ing and recreation facilities largely from their own resources.” Meanwhile, Hurst Green FC in March became the first ever club from Ribble Valley to win the prestig-
, ions Lancashire Amateur Cup - a miglify achieve-: ment to add to their East Lancashire League Pre mier Division Championship in 2006/7. The Club is now working towards the FA’s Char
ter Standard award and has one of the best grounds in the league.
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. lagers cricket club, form an important, pro active part of the Hurst Green Community. ,
Young given a chance to show<talent
The club and committee, which also run the vil- PIONEERS: Ribble Valley's Deputy Mayor Coun. Simon More and Mayor ___. -
CLITFIEROE Youth Foriim is staging a “Club’s Got Talent” a u d i t i o n . v , • - ^ ' ' The event will be held at St Mary’s Parish Hall, Church Street, Clitheroe, on Monday,' November 8th, from 6-30 to 7-30 p,m.'‘ ■ : . 'Young people auditioning will be split into two age groups, one for 11 to 13-year-oIds and another for 14 to 16-year-oIds.
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- ■:The routine must be three minutes and can be a solo performance or part of a band, group,-'
Coun. Lois Rimmer present the
award.to Peter Hayhurst and Barry Bolton,: of Hurst Green FC. ■ T,. ' ' y : '
r dancers, singers or musicians. Those chosen frorn this audition will go forward to the Lan-. cashire Association of Clubs for Young People • county finals on the evening of'Wednesday, De-:
:- cember 8th, at Lancashire Police Headquarters, , Hutton, near Preston.
.1 .. Those wishing to take part or wanting further information should contact'Mel Diack, Clithe roe Youth Forum chairman; on 01254 823012 no later thanTuesday, October 2 6 t h . < - ■
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TRACK RECORD: the presentation to Rimington FC with, from the left, Deputy Ribble Valley Mayor Coun: Simon More, assistant manager Steve Conti, manager Terry Braithwaite and Mayor Coun. Lois Rimmer.
lanthropists John and Rosemary Lancaster and disability activist Simon O’Rourke, will hang at Clitheroe Castle in an exliibition called “Heroes”. - Ellen said: “When you are
faced with huge events in your life,' the everyday people who surround you can turn out-to be heroes, and by painting their portraits, I would like to com memorate the actions of local people who do or have done her roicthings.” Clitheroe Castle keeper Rachel
Jackson said: “Ellen has been an inspiration to work with and her exhibition has generated a great deal of interest. “We are particularly delighted
that portraits of Clitheroe’s com munity champions will take pride
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of place at one of Lancashire’s most prestigious heritage sites.” Coun; Robert Thompson,
chairman of the borough coun cil’s community committee, add ed: .“We are absolutely delighted to host this exhibition of portraits by one of Ribble Valley’s most talented youn'g artists and wish Ellen every success in her artistic
: career.” Other portraits in the Heroes
exhibition include charity fund raiser Laura Quinton Bailey and council electrician Syd Chamley, one of the unsung heroes of the
- £3.5m. Clitheroe Castle Heritage Scheme. Further details about Heroes
are available from the Clithe roe Castle Museum on 01200 424568.
HERITAGE: Stonyhurst headmas ter Andrew Johnson with Patrick Hoffman and Charlotte Redmond beneath the new portrait of college founder Robert Persons SJ.
School’s 400 year history
FEW schools can boast four centu ries of history, but Stonyhurst Col lege certainly can; Robert Persons was the Jesuit who
founded Stonyhurst in St Omer, now . Northern France, in 1593. It was just oyer 200 yeasr later, in 1794, that the
school moved to its site at Stonyhurst. - ■ To mark the 400tli anniversary of its
founder’s death, the school staged a special Mass, an'essay prize contest and sixth-form feast. The feast was held in the college’s original Refectory, where a new portrait of Persons, by Lynn Kroll, was unveiled. Charlotte Redmond, from Rossen-
dale, won the junior essay prize, and - Patrick Hoffman, from Berlin, won the senior prize with his essay entitled “Should Catholics be prepared to face martyrdom in a modern society?” • Patrick wrote: “Robert Persons SJ has
been described as ‘the martyr not of a moment but of a lifetime’. To me, this' suggests an extreme kind of martyrdom. and one that actually comes close to the_ original meaning of the word ‘martyr’, which is ‘witness’. People who, in our modern society; speak out for a promi nent role of the Church and its message. are seen as witn'esses to the irrational and unreal, and branded as fools: they suffer nothing less than a modern form of martyrdom. But is it worth facing this kind of martyrdom? 1 think it is - if there is a role to play for the Church and its principles in modern society.”
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Sophie meets gene genies
______ by Faiza Afzaal
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BRAVE.Read woman will, come under the national spot light next week when she ap-‘ pears in a BBC documentary
about her incurable condition. : Tireless fund-raiser Sophie
A Decade of the Human Ge nome”. The programme will see Sophie
Longton (23), who suffers from cystic fibrosis, will be seen in BBC2’s “Horizon: Miracle Cure?
go.behind the scenes at some of Britain’s leading research labs to investigate what the sequencing of the genome means. Sophie, who lives in Read and
works at Mount Carmel RC High School, Accrington, was chosen to appear in the programme after her
name was put forward by the CF Trust. She commented: “As part of a season of films marking the 10th
anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, BBC2' followed the journeys of three dif ferent people, each with a different ■ adverse genetic condition. I, along with the hvo other selected people, travelled separately to laboratories and met scientists who are devel oping treatments or.potential cures for Our conditions.”
. . . Sophie, who is an ex-head girl of
Clitherde Royal Grammar School, - added: “The first day of filming took place at my house and at the ■ school where I work;
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• “They filmed me working with my students and on duty on the yard etc: I was on home treatment (intravenous antibiotics) at the time of filming as I had a chest in fection.'They filmed me taking my treatments and having physio. I was interviewed about what it’s like liv ing with CF, the positives and the challenges. - “I then had four days of filming
INSPIRATIDNAL: Sophie with Professor Eric Alton during her research for the BBC Horizon documentary, (s)
in London where I, interviewed three scientists about their re search. The first scientist I e-mailed was Simon Waddingon, originally from Nelson, who is researching foetal gene therapy. His research was fascinating and holds hope for future generations. “ The second scientist I inter
viewed was Professor Adrien Thrasher, President of the British Society for Gene Therapy. I met the little boy Rhys Evans, who was the first ‘bubble baby’ to benefit from gene therapy. “Then I met and interviewed Professor Eric .Alton. This was re
gally important for me as Eric is such . an important person in the world of CF so to meet him and interview him was a special experience.” - Speaking about the remark
able experience, Sophie said; “The whole experience really was such an incredible journeyTor me. I learnt so much and it brought me a lot of hope for future treatments. “To meet the people that are
Trio s 24-hour mad dash
THREE football-mad friends are looking to net £7,000 for charity by driving to all 20 Pre mier League stadiums in less thanaday! .
: . Former Clitheroe Royal Gram
mar School pupil James Watson (20), along with friends Tom Montgomery and-Jamie Dav-
' idson, all third-year students at, Lancaster University, will cover almost 700 miles in a Fiat 500 car,
■ dressed as Top Gear’s The Stig. ' The .money raised will be di- -
vided equally between learning : disability charity Mencap and Blackburn Rovers Community. Trust, who are launching disabili ty multi-sports sessions on Sunday mornings.
• ' The .marathon tour is being
. supported by James’ parents, Clit heroe residents John and Sallie Watson, who are the co-owners of , Prestige Nursing East Lancashire and celebrating their firstyear in business located at the Blackburn Rovers Enterprise Centre.
' Gurbani Cliandhock,'from
GEARING UP: James Watson, centre, with Prestige Nursing carer Sian Wilde, and Tom Montgomery, raising funds for Mencap by packing bags at Sainsbury’s in Clitheroe.
Mencap’s corporate fund-raising team, said: “Mencap wishes the boys the best of luck with their challenge and reaching their fund raising target, the money will help to support thousands of people with a learning disability.” James, Tom and Jamie will kick-off their epic trip at Wembley Stadium, at 00;0f on Wednesday •
(October 27th). They aim to com-
, plete their challenge by arriving at Ewood Park less than 24 hours later, having pit-stopped at every top-flight ground in between. Anyone who would like to sup
port the trio on their fund-raising adventure should visit: http://
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working so hard to find a cure and change the lives of so many people was a unique experience. “IThe director Dan, researcher
Leili and cameraman and sound man were fantastic. Some of the topics I discussed were personal, but they made me feel so comfort able.”
Despite suffering from CF, So phie has never let the condition
- get in the way of her daily life. She is always fund-raising and raising awareness of the condition. At the age of 18, she was awarded with the Diana, Princess of 'Wales Me morial Award for her inspirational qualities and contributions that she made to her school, family and community. She has also previouriy won the Clitheroe Young Achiever o f the Year Award and Junior Fund-raiser of the Year Award in 2002. “Horizon: Miracle Cure? A Dec
ade of the Human Genome” will be screened on BBC2 on Monday (October 25th) at 9 p.m.
Husband and wife
killed in bike crash A HUSBAND and wife were killed after • their motorbike crashed on the A682 Bar- • rowford to Gisburn road on Saturday. Keith Lowcock (55) and his wife Elaine
(48), from Heywood, near Rochdale, died after losing control of their Honda motor cycle on a left-hand bend colliding with a fence.
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Mr Lowcock, who was travelling towards Barrqwford at around 5-30 p.m. with his
wife riding pillion; was pronounced dead at the scene. - His wife, was airlifted to hospital in
Leeds where she died a short time later. The road was dosed for four hours while
investigations were carried out into the double fatality and police have appealed for witnesses to the accident to contact them on 01254 353211.
Facing sex charges from 25 years ago
A CLITHEROE pensioner has appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged with sex offences involving a young girl go ing back more than 25 years. Jack Burgess (74), of Queen Street,
pleaded not guilty to four charges of in decent assault and three of committing an act of gross indecency on the girl between April, 1981, and April, 1985, when she was under 14 years of age. He was directed to stand trial at Preston
Crown Court and remanded on bail for the preparation of committal papers.
Martin’s new book
LOCAL fisherman, broadcaster; televi sion presenter^ journalist and author Mar tin James is launching his latest book on Wednesday at The Queen’s Lancashire Regimental Military Museum, Fulwood: Barracks, Preston; Martin, an angler for 70 years is also a
keen conservationist and countryman. His latest book entitled “At The Water’s Edge” takes the reader on ah exciting angling and travel experience, and a do nation will be made to ABF The Soldiers Charity from every copy sold.
Read PACT meeting
THE next Police and Community Togeth er meeting for residents in Read will be
•held from 2-30 to 3-30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 3rd, at Read Library. ,
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