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INFORMATION DITTY chemist: Sunday - Peter Buckley,'Railway, f - - - '
,View,'Clitheroe; Monday - Boots, 15t19 Castle Street, Clitheroe. Both days noon to 1 p.m. rs ;: -c POLICE: 01200 443344._______________________ FIRE: In emergency 999 and ask for fire service. ‘ ■ ELECTRICITY: 0800 1954141. : : - T Gas: 0800 111999.'
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COUNCILS: Ribble Valley Borough Council, Cllt- • 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. 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: Lcx:al 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. QUEST (specialist smoking cessation service):; 01254358095. RIBBLE Valley Citizens’ Advice Bureau: 01200 428966. .
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‘p i l la g e ’ p a g e s in sp ir e s ca r r a lly
.; enthusiasts set off round the Ribble Valley to cel ebrate St George’s Day. . >,'On Sunday four Lam-
. WITH a route inspired, by; the village pages of the Glitheroe Advertiser: and jTimeSj classic car
-in the seventh annual rally organised by Lanca^ shire Automobile Club. . ' After starting at Mitton Hall, the.75rmile route '
; bretta scooters and a yin- ;■ tage” Honda motorcycle' were also am'ong the 105 vehicles which took part -
Fairtrade
: Thanks to, the hard work put in by shops, busi nesses and organisations, including faith groups and schools, the necessary “Five Goals” have been met - and in three cases •
town status IT’S official - Clitheroe has been awarded Fair trade Town Status.
: took drivers through 19 . villages including Whal-, ley, Billingtori, Dinckely, Ribchester, Chipping and Chaigley and back to the . start point. Organiser David Bell
: organisations (including faith groups, schools and • businesses). Speaking
‘exceeded. , i In Clitheroej 13 shops sell Fairtrade products; five cafes and bed and breakfast establishments use them, as do 20 other
'lanes of the Ribble Val ley.” ; • For more pictures see next month’s edition of our Valley magazine.
ash misery with new mayor!
CLITHEROE’S new Mayor will be sworn into office next Tues
day, May 4th. Amid all the pomp and circm- ,
stance the historic market town can muster, Coun. Alan Yearing will ■
' become the Mayor of Clitheroe for ■ the forthcoming municipal year, taking on the chain of office from the outgoing mayor, Goun. Mary ■; Robinson.
■ A procession, led by the Halber diers and Town Sergeant in full; regalia, will set out from the Town ■ Council offices, in Church Street,, att 11-40 a.m. Taking a circular route it will'
process along Church Street, down ; Wellgate, into Lowergate, up King Lane, through Market Place and back into Church Street. • .There the council’s annual meet
which is part of the library building, opposite the Town Council offices. Coun. Yearing will be appointed Town Mayor and Coun. Simon En- twistle Deputy Town Mayor. ' ' : Following, the meeting, at ap
ing will be. held in the Moot Hall,: T h e Grand, for a small celebration.:
proximately 12-45 p.m., the proces-. sion will reform outside and make its way through Market Place, down King Lane, along Lowergate, up fWellgate and along York Street to
Youngsters used their loaves
_ CHILDREN at > Edisford Nursery
. and Reception class' : helped the bakers
: arid stretched dough; ;,' j ' . into hedgehog rolls- ---; as well as tasting dif ferent breads. Not only did they
: from Warburtons : make bread. Pupils kneaded
0m l0-i^ g ^V f^ uhiley I Blackburn
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Weekend weatherfJtwillhe quitejwarm with light showers ^Sunday.
Sunrise: 5-35 a.m. Sunset: 8-41 p.m. ^Lighting up time: 8-11 p.m..
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. get to take their hedgehogs home, ■ ‘ they were also given;-; ■Warburtqns loaves as well! ^ ; •
child around the j
V agepf two, Edisford £;f Nurieiy would like to s ’ vinyiteyou to a Teddy||‘J'- ■
’* bear’s picnic after- ’• ^ ■ noon on Tuesday'' (May 4th) between
'ii;, 1-30 arid 2-30 p^m.'C ‘i ' Don’t forget'to f
;: take along your-Te'd-: dy and if you would - like more details ring s,TT . 01200422239.. ' ’'.
KNEAD AHAND^PuDilS’at Edisford Nu'rse'iY^^
• Continued from page 1 -ation came; from them and not officialsior em ployees of the airlines,” said Richard. . ;■ Meanwhile, Clithe- roe’s Philip Michael and his family are lucky to be back, home after-being stranded in Tenerife. - Philip,-who'runs the
Philip Michael Hair Stu dio in Duck Street, was forced to spend an extra £3,200 to get his family safely back to the Ribble Valley. He explained: “We
said: “The weather did not set off too well, but i t . did not deter the enthusi- - asts coming out with their ■ beautiful motor cars. ; “They had a wonderful time traversing the leafy
' about the award, the Fair trade Foundation said: “Congratulations and well done. Thank you to all the businesses and organisa tions who have made this possible.” --And Coun. Mary Rob
FLYING THE FLAG: St George’s Vintage Car Rally setting off from Mitton Hall. Photo Ben Parsons ^ Dog walker attacked FaizaAfzaal
A VICIOUS and unpro voked attack on a local dog walker is being investigated
should'have-returned home on April 20th. In stead we found ourselves caught up in the ash cloud
chaos. “It was terrible. People
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cseen nothing like it. ;., ■ .i vAThere was ,no help s available for stranded hoi- . iiidayrnakers and hotel and ■ food‘prices had soared so ::npone could afford to eat i'out.- Our flights had been 5'booked.with’Easyjet and 4 the next available.flight. hhcy were offering us was .May 14th.\ " ' >“Luckily,T had my Visa y:ard'and. decided to get • saiflightifrom Tenerife to ; ^Barceldna'and then hired • ■ia taxiifrbm Birmingham, ; jwhich drove out to collect.
were stranded in airports with no:;money. Some were begging for water.- It was awful and we had
sise bnd our three children, cMolly:!(ll)?:Berijamin J(nine) i and five-year-old s sHeidi,';arrive“d in Clithe- -. -roe just after midnight o n :. ;;Monday.’'iWe are' so re-; '^lieved to be home.” ■y-'He added: ‘Twould like to thank all my clients ;
)1|^‘Myself,;iTiy wife Lou-
fwho have bee'n extremely ; ;understanding and who. jjuggIed;.their;appoint-i- rments.
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by police. . At around 11-15 p.m. on Sat urday," a 37-year-old man was walking his dog in the grounds of Clitheroe Castle when he was
approached by two men asking him about a black dog. After a minute or so, the men
separated. However, a few min utes later the same two men ap proached the man near to the children’s playground and ac cused him of assaulting another man the previous evening. 'They
■ struck the victim over the head with a metal baseball bat and a
and alert the police. He was tak en to Royal Blackburn Hospital where he was treated and later discharged. An investigation is underway and police are appealing to any-
metal pole, causing a deep lac eration. The man managed to escape
- one with information to contact them.
scribed as white, aged between 35 and 40-years-old. One had a medium build, short grey hair - ■ and a greybeard.
Both men have been de He was wearing a track suit ;
top. The second man was slight ly taller and had a larger build. He had shaved hair and a Liver pool accent. • Clitheroe’s Sgt Mick Dixon
Plastic floral ban sparks fury FaizaAfzaal
•Valley cemetery — amid fears over health and safe
ARTIFICIAL flowers have been banned from a Ribble
• Burial .Ground;Gommittee have stopped the laying of ar tificial wreaths and the plant ing of flowers or shrubs along graves.^*^.j‘^ ^ <i. ;■ RelativesJ^and friends o f deceas'e'ddoved ones buried at thescemetery,'which^ac- commodates^
more.than•500 graves,’ have been angered by the rules,'which they have de scribed as “callous”. ' .Whalley resident Mrs Betty
ty. : WhalleyandWiswellJoint
Edwardson^(68), whose par- ents’are buried;at'Whalley andiWiswell.Burial Ground, said during her.-most; recent visit to the graveyard she was horrified to find all the flowers had been ripped, out. . “There were some silk flow ers and little angel decora-
; a large pile near the rubbish ; bin,’~ she said. .“A week before.
. tions which and been taken off the grave and dumped on
' dug out. I couldn’t understand . what was going on.” Similar concerns were ex-
I had planted some daffodil ■ bulbs and even they had been
“•on Sunday ! thought the -•'graves had been vandalised.' J: .; ■:.";'i'“I was shocked and,devasr ? 'tated; It .wash’t until iriy hus- feband- looked-around the' site,
-:pressed by Mrs Edwardson’s •daughter, Tina McLough-. lin (39), who said: “I visit my grandparents’ graves almost every week and when I went-
■ji'rahd noticed that all the artifi-; cial flowers and solar-powered grave lights; tubs'and decora-
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tive.itemsfrom other graves i-had been ripped out - even >frdm; the children’s graves, s which was very sad to see. j ; A!;:-“We; then; noticed a little ^sign in the' rules and regula- ^Jtions board, which informed us about the restrictions.'No
’' they can remember their loved : ones. I think it’s really insensi tive of the burial committee to remove the items without the
"one has ever noticed that be fore.“Mourners should be,a\- lowcd to decorate the graves the way they want to so that
family’s consent.” : Barrow man Mr Burston,
whose wife is buried at the; graveyard, added:- “I;have i
■'S': Responding*
to.the concerns i^raised, Mrs Susan Earnshaw,
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. Councils, but is irianaged by a ' large and incongruous. ' “While some people keep a beautifullyjt%ded plot and ' ‘obwpusly'thinld^ef^^ about;:
’ to Whalley and Wiswell Parish r planted on the plot become ;s'comnuttee>,-
; never seen such callous behav-. iour. I hope they can sleep at night after upsetting so'many people.” The cemetery land belongs -
.^chairman^f^iWhaffey and ■£? Wiswell JointBurial Commit-‘ tee; said the rules should have been applied since the open ing of the burial ground in the 1960s. ■ , •r> She added'that-metal or, other flower holders inay be placed upon graves a f tKe base of the headstone.' She commented:'.:ff'would?i*'themcquld^llecfthemfrom -
' the sun’o'uSdi^gs/.o^^^^ it one step further^untll it be--; conies uncoritfollable.'
^erwise there are co&plaints bf, iurifaitriess; :5g;“AlIitems^qfq mat^^ ' furqwere plaSd hy^e'gate so; :? that anyo
' ; “At thati^qint 'wejh^ to treat eyeiyqriqfthe^same oth-
to kebp •:
": “The safety of visitors and riiatter and foVa more person-; the people working'in the al explanation.’’4"rii burial ground has to be c o n - • Mourner’s"f eaction - see ' sidered. The.burial ground is i-^Letter’sPage.
the r'l I >
like to say we are all aware'of therer-'"” the emotive nature of remov-., ;« -i,“We;apologise'-to anyone ing items from the'graves and^iij upset by the-acjipns of the we are loath to stick firmly to fecominittee andiUrge them to , the rules,'but'from;time;to -;!;'scontact:the7regrs'trar or the; ’time we have to call a halt.'^;
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' the grass are dangerous. Dead . plants, badly-faded silk flow ers' and'broken ornaments, are unsightly and small shrubs.
•as in some cemeteries. Metal and glass objects hidden in
lawned, with the only mark ing of a grave being the me morial stone,'not a full grave
is investigating the assault. He said: “This was a vicious and unprovoked attack on a local resident who was just walking his dog and I appeal to anyone who saw what happened to con tact the police.”. ' Anyone with'informatlon can
contact police on 0845 125 35 45 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
inson,-the Mayor of Clit heroe and chairman of the steering group, added: “This is wonderful news and reflects all the hard work by the people of the town..We should be very proud. Thank you to all the businesses and organ isations who have helped to make this happen. But this is only the start of making the world a fairer place.” Shops and other places
which sell or use Fairtrade products will soon be able to display the specially de signed Fairtrade sticker. • Clitheroe’s Fairtrade
group will have a stall at the Sheepfest on May 8th, and they are planning an event to celebrate the achievement and raise awareness at The Grand. • • Anyone who wants to get involved with the town’s Fairtrade group can contact Jo Harding on 01200 444242 or by email-
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