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Get ready for another feast


by Faiza Afzaal


Julie Whallcy said: “The main aim is to showcase Ribble Val­ ley and Lancashire’s fantastic food and drink producers. The wonderful food and drink offer will be complemented by an ex­ tensive array of entertainment and activities over the course of the day, as well as into the evening, incorporating his­ torical tours, archery, falconry, young people’s cookery dem­ onstrations and competitions.


day food extravaganza say they are hoping to capitalise on the huge success of last year’s food festival, which saw thousands of visitors descend on Clitheroe and experience an array of de­ lights for the tastebuds. Food festival co-ordinator


tions, top local food and food- related craft stalls, a real ale and wine-tasting area, a pud­ ding feast and tasty food trails are just some of the highlights planned for the event, which is to be held on Saturday August 13th. Organisers of this year’s one-


A FEAST of riches celebrat­ ing the best of Ribble Val­ ley’s fresh produce will be on display at The Clitheroe Food Festival 2011. Celebrity chef demonstra­


tasty food trail, a “treasure hunt”, or perhaps a wristband scheme to encourage visitors into their trading establish­ ments. Information from the wrist­


band scheme will provide par­ ticipants with relevant infor­ mation on trading during that


by a team of Clitheroe music groups, and incorporates the Rock Fest and Proms Night scheduled in the Castle over the same weekend. Clitheroe’s local retailers, market traders, pubs, cafes and restaurants are all being encouraged to show a united front and become in­ volved to truly make this flag­ ship market town event a suc­ cess again. They can participate in the


also take centre stage as the festival organisers seek local bands, buskers, folk singers and entertainers to get in touch and become involved. This is being co-ordinated


Festival will be a truly memora­ ble event, and will take visitors across the whole town from the Castle to King Street, from the Market to York Street, so that all our traders have a fantastic opportunity to really make the best of the event.” Under the plans, music will


“The new .Clitheroe Food


weekend, and marketing op­ portunities will be co-ordinated in the event programme and the website. Booths supermarkets has al­


ticketed areas, and the festival will officially open at 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., with the music at the Castle extending into the night. Car parking is being ad­ dressed with a huge park and ride scheme. More infe \tion about


sponsoring the event and tak­ ing part please visit the festival website at www.clitheroefood- festival.co.uk. If you are a local business


and want to get involved, please contact Julie Whalley on 0777 6134003.


parking on the uay will be pub­ licised to residents and busi­ nesses in The Clitheroe Adver­ tiser and Times. For more information on


Booth, said: “Booths has trad­ ed in Clitheroe for more than 27 years, and we are proud to support an event that champi­ ons and celebrates the best of Lancashire food and drink. As a Ribble Valley resident myself, I can’t wait.” Entry is free with offers and


ready committed to supporting the event. “Chairman, Mr Edwin


BALLROOM BLITZ: Some of those at the VE Night celebration and (below, right) a local spiv takes wayward wartime urchin to task! Pictures: DAVID BLEAZARD


An evening of VE nostalgia


have fun, dressed in uniform or ’40s-style dress, including at least one spiv, a refugee child and a couple of country gents on a Saturday night out with their molls! This was also the last sighting, in uniform, of event or­ ganiser Sergeant Bill Honeywell, before he donned his cycling shorts and set off on his 4,300- mile round Britain cycle ride. Dancing was to the fantas­ tically versatile Swing Com­


FOR the second year running the Rotary Club of Clitheroe or­ ganised a 1940s-style Victory in Europe Night celebration dance at a patriotically decked out St Mary’s Centre. People were determined to


from this event, don’t miss your monthly Valley magazine, free with The Clitheroe Advertiser and Times.


£1,500 was generated for Help For Heroes and its own char­ ity. Organisers expressed their thanks to all those who support­ ed the event and to Lisa Varo for supplying such nourishing rations in these hard times. • For many more pictures


manders band, who had the whole audience up on the dance floor. Funds were boosted with a bottle-bola and raffle, plus the auction of signed photograph of Field Marshall Bernard Mont­ gomery. Rotary estimates around


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entheroe A dvertiser & Times,Thursday, May 19,2011


Roy’s book relives his meeting with an armed Russian agent


A RETIRED electronics en­ gineer and college lecturer has written a novel based on an in­ cident which occurred while he was working in the Netherlands in the late 1960s. Mr Roy Higgins, who lives


ject, has now written “Weekend in Amsterdam”. While spending a weekend in


Langho and has previously writ­ ten and had published two tech­ nical books on his specialist sub­


Amsterdam he met with a So­ viet agent in a bar, and for the duration of his stay they became drinking buddies. At first Mr Higgins did not believe him to be an agent, until he was shown the handgun in a holster be­ neath his armpit. The agent, who introduced


himself as Vladimir, said that he worked as the head of secu­


rity at a Soviet radio station in Amsterdam, which Mr Higgins took to mean Russian folk songs and a little Soviet propaganda played to a Dutch audience - but this could not have been further from the truth. It turned out that the radio station was, in fact, a facility for the transmit­ ting and receiving of coded sig­ nals and the cracking of codes used by other governments. Although he never actually


said that he was a Soviet agent, being in charge of security at such a sensitive site led Mr Hig­ gins to believe that he was prob­ ably a KGB agent, but he has later learned that he was more likely to have been GRU, or So­ viet military intelligence, whose function, apart from the trans­ mission of signals, included procuring industrial, scientific


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