Clitheroe Advertiser &TImes,Thursday, April 21,2011
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Village's festival will be cracking!
by Julie Magee
classes, there can only be one entry per person, per class, and these should be labelled with the entrant’s name and age, and taken to Newton Village Hall between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. All entries will be displayed in
ed to take part and enter their. masterpieces in three classes - the “decorated hard boiled hen egg” class, the “one decorated cup cake” class and the “Easter bonnet” class. Due to the popularity of the
tend the festival, which will open at noon and finish at 4 p.m. at Newton Village Hall. Children and adults are invit
RESIDENTS in Newton-in- Bowland will have the chance to win a prize for the best deco rated, e ^ themed house or gar den during the village’s Festival of Eggs on Easter Monday. Everyone is welcome to at
the hall and judged on the day. It is 50p to enter and prizes will be awarded. Lunches of sandwiches and
home-made cake will also be available, and anyone able to donate a cake should call Marie on 01200 446400. There will also be lots of ac
tivities on the day including a village Easter egg hunt, an “egg X marks the spot” game, plus “name the bunny”, “guess the weight of the egg” and “guess where the chicken laid its egg”. To complete the day, there
will be egg catching at the Park ers’ Arms. All proceeds from the event will go to the funds of the village hall, which celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. To volunteer on the day
call Justine on 01200 446471, Audrey on 01200 446716, Caro line on 01200 446395 or Jane on 01200446800.
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www.clitheroeadvertlser.co.uk Clltheroe Advertiser & Times,Thursday, April 21,2011 FROM PAGE ONE
Clitheroe and now of Newlands Drive, Acomb’ York, had admitted wounding. She was given 52 weeks in prison, suspended for a year, with 12 months supervision and must comply with the community mental health team. She had no pre vious convictions.
or to be punished and talked of a potential rec onciliation. The defendant, formerly of Hayhurst Street
and destructive. In his victim impact statement he told the court he thought Horrocks needed help, hadn’t wanted her to be before the court
Books comte alive
BOOKWORMS: Pupiis at St Mary’s Primary Schooi, Osbaldes- ton, showed their iove of reading when they celebrated their favourite stories by becoming characters from them for a day. Favourites ranged from SpongeBob to James Bond and in cluded such “classics” as Harry Potter, Dorothy, Pippi Long- stocking and The Snow Queen. The children heard exerpts from their own and their parents’ favourite stories as well as taking part in a Lancashire Library storytelling session.
Ramblers’ three nature reserves trek
TWENTY-EIGHT ramblers and two dogs re cently discovered that you don’t have to take to your car to find great walks in Clitheroe. The group left their regular meeting point
of Chester Avenue car park to proceed through the town to Salthill Road and into Salthill Nature Reserve. In the reserve, they paused to admire the
the Pendle Hotel, to visit the second of the three nature reserves on the walk - the small and little-known Chatbum Nature Reserve. .A climb up Old Road brought them to a
stone seat full of crinoid fossils, which dates from a time when the area was covered by tropical seas. After walking across the fields to Chatburn Road, they detoured left, just past
gate and a rather slippery descent down sev eral fields to a path which leads to the Ribble River. This path used to be thick with mud most of the year, but is now much improved, with stones laid on a good part of it. It was a pleasant walk along this section of
the river to West Bradford Bridge and beyond and the sight of a dipper on a stone in the river
was an added attraction. The final section of the walk took them,through Cross Hill Nature Reserve and the adjoining Brungerley Park, where they passedisome of the sculptures on the Sculpture TraiL Later in the year, all three reserves will be
full of wild flowers. wFor now, the ramblers had to be content
with seeing the white butterbur in Brungerley Park, which is rare in this area. A short walk up Waddington Road brought them back to the start of their route.
Exhibition puts pupils in the limelight
of Rowland Area of Out standing Natural Beauty Landscape Stories herit age project the children worked with artist Pete
and March pupils from Thorneyholme School, Dunsop Bridge, and Brennand’s Endowed Primary School, Slaid burn, worked hard to capture all that activ ity in drawings and pic tures. As part of the Forest
AS you journey through the Hodder Valley in the Forest of Rowland you are likely to stum ble across lime kilns large and small - a re minder of a time when this peaceful area would have rung to the sound of rocks being quarried, fires being stoked and lime being transported. During F eb ru a ry
itage Lottery Fund and Spot On Rural Touring, staff and children from the two schools held a public exhibition of their artwork at Thorneyhol me Primary when par ents and grandparents got the chance to admire the children’s artwork and find out all about the heritage project.
the old magic lantern, the budding-artists also produced a series of col ourful “slides”, which follow the life cycle of this imjDortant resource - from rock, to kiln, to final product. Supported by the Her
Flowers to show the in tricacy and variety of the fossils from which lime stone - a key ingredient in the production of lime - is made.. And using the idea of
iu LIMELIGHT: Children from Thorneyholme Primary School admiring
the Magic Lime Show artwork with artist Pete Rowers and Sandra Siik, of the Forest of Bowiand AONB. Isl
he probably knows you better than anybody, that you need professional help. I tend to agree.” The judge added: “You must realise how very lucky you are that the injury was not significantly worse.”
not for Mr Horrocks to decide what would hap pen to the defendant because she (the judge) had to protect everybody from the defendant and that included him. But, the judge told Horrocks: “He thinks, and
has now lost everything that she had.” The sui cide attempt last December had been serious and she was released from hospital in January. She was no longer on medication and was back at Thomson. The defendant used to work out of Manchester airport, but was not flying at the mo ment. Sentencing, Judge Beverley Lunt said it was
“extremely turbulent” and emotions were clearly running high; She was sorry for what happened arid realised that perhaps they should no longer be together as a couple. Miss Pie'rpoint said: “As a result of this, she
perhaps unusual and surprising to find a woman like the defendant before the courts for such an extremely serious matter. Her relationship with her husband had been
a friend’s and gave a dishonest account of what happened, claiming she had been provoked into stabbing her husband. She was arrested and im mediately alleged Mr Horrocks had come at her, a lie which she repeated in interview as the ex cuse for the offence. Katherine Pierpoint, for Horrocks, said it was
sharp pain, but his wife said it was only a scratch. The wound was pumping blood and he went to the bathroom to wash it away. The defendant was at the door, shouting to be let in and that she was sorry. He suffered a 2cm. laceration to his upper back and a 1cm. cut to his left index finger. Both wounds were stitched and he had made a full recovery. After leaving the hospital, Horrocks went to
noon, Mr Horrocks suggested the defendant had only come back home because the other man wasn’t available. The defendant then grabbed one of the larger kitchen knives out of a block and stepped towards the victim with the knife raised above her head. He turned his right shoul der towards her and raised his arms to protect himself. Horrocks brought the knife down, stab bing the upper left side of her husband’s back. Mr Courtney said Mr Horrocks felt immediate
sleep very well and was up early the next day. He spoke to their daughter on the phone and men tioned he wanted her help.'The defendant over heard, was angry, but there was then a relatively rational conversation between the couple about the defendant leaving. It wasn’t long before Hor rocks became aggressive and violent. She hit her husband on the right calf which she knew he had recently injured, the head and groin. The victim thought she was trying to provoke him to fight back. The pair went into the kitchen. At around
discovered an unexpected bill and when he raised it with the defendant she became hostile. Mr Horrocks tried to placate her, she said she wanted a divorce and went to bed. When she got up later, the victim went to bed. The prosecutor said Mr Horrocks did not
deteriorated. Mr Horrocks was working away in the North East, the defendant was working most weekends and Horrocks admitted she was hav ing an affair. They were out of contact for over a week, but by the weekend of September 25th, they were back together and were both at home. Mr Horrocks was checking a bank statement,
cidents of violence by their mother towards their father, but had never seen him retaliate. The vic tim would say that for much of the last 30 years, they had had a happy and loving relationship. Mr Courtney said last August, the relationship
rocks would say the defendant’s spending had caused problems in their relationship. There had been a number of incidents of violent or destruc tive behaviour on her part and they had split up several times for short periods over the years. Their adult children were aware of previous in
Mr Nick Courtney (prosecuting) said Mr Hor National honour for youth forum
YOUNG members of Clitheroe Youth Forum were crowned one of the five win ners of the Rotary Young Citizen Awards 2011. They came under the national spot
light on Saturday when they collected the award at Rotary’s annual conference in Dublin from news presenter Ellie Crisell. The conference was televised by BBC News 24. During the ceremony, there was a pres
entation in front of a thousand Rotarians by youth members Morgan Raweliffe and Harry Ellis. Members of the forum took on a mis
WINNERS: Mel Diack, Morgan Raweliffe and Harry Ellis receiving the award from Ellie Crisell. (s)
sion to honour the sacrifices of local servicemen and women killed during the Second World War. Children as young as nine worked on the Ribble Valley Re membrance project. They used National
Lottery funding to create a remembrance roll of honour, Braille book, website and film to remember the forgotten war he roes. The project highlighted the fact that
some local veterans had never received their medals, among them 98-year-oId Sam Brierley, so the young people sorted that out too! Chairman, Mr Melrose Diack, said: “I
am delighted that our youth group has won this national Rotarian award. “This has been a project that has taken
over two years of research. It has taken some considerable achievement and ail credit to all those youth members in volved. The local Rotary organisation recognised our work on this project and nominated us for the award and we won it.”
tary Tim Ashworth, warned: “It may not be just the hydro scheme, but the weir itself which is under threat.” A hydrological survey, commis
structural defects will need to be fur ther investigated and possible recon- structiori costed before the project can proceed.” Existing hydro group schedules, in cluding finalisation of land and access
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permitting, to celebrate the royal wed ding. “I didn’t want her to get her hopes
up that she would get a reply,” said Linzi, who is a teaching assistant at Chatburn Primary School, “but I was really hoping that she would and was really pleased that she wanted to do it. She wrote the letter in her best hand
writing and was really excited.” Sophie, who is a pupil at St Michael
and John’s RC Primary School in Clit heroe was over the moon to receive a reply from St James’ Palace. It read: “Prince William has asked
of the local community and the fish ing fraternity, is included in the Hydro scheme budget. “However, these more serious
the weir was in a relatively sound con dition and would only require minor renovation. “Such renovation, for the benefit
levels has enabled closer scrutiny of the weir’s structure and visually con firms that the deterioration is acceler ating,” Tim explained. “Up until now it was believed that
sioned by the founder members of the hydro group as part of the design process, revealed defects immediately below the lip of the weir of up to 1.8m. (6ft) depth. “The recent dry spell and low water
had planned to start work installing a lOOkw hydro electric generator for the benefit of the local community on the river during April next year, and for electricity generation to begin in the autumn. However, the group’s acting secre
A PLAN to install a hydro electric generator on the River Calder at Whalley could now be at risk after a survey exposed serious deterio ration in the condition of the riv er’s 600-year-old weir. Whalley Community Hydro group
Fears over future of historic weir
ber of the group, ‘if, in the worst case scenario, the weir were allowed to col lapse it would not only be the Hydro scheme which would die with it’.” The appropriate local and county
authorities have been alerted and the hydro group will be maintaining con tact with them. In the meantime, the group would
the hydro scheme go to www.whal-
leyhydro.wikdot.com or contact Tim Ashworth on 01254 823103 or Chris Gathercole on 01254 823376.
like to thank the very many local sup porters of the hydro scheme. • For further information about
occur, it would completely alter the shape and character of the river, both for local residents and for the substan tial number of tourists to whom it has become a magnet over the years. “In the words of a founder mem
that the weir is an important part of Ribble Valley’s and, in particular, Whalley’s cultural and architectural heritage,” Tim added. “It is thought to date back to the founding of Whalley Abbey in around 1380 and was built to ensure a regular supply of water for the abbey kitchens, fish farm and latrines. In more recent times, from around 1840, it was used to power a water wheel at Abbey Com Mills. “If a breach in the weir were to
agreements, design calculations, spec ification of turbine, obtaining plan ning permission and a water abstrac tion licence, engaging a contractor, and, most crucially, raising finance for the scheme, will now have to be put on hold. “However, of broader concern is
EXPOSED: A hydrological survey has discovered serious deterioration in the condi tion of the 600-year-old weir at the River Calder, Whalley. (s)
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their six year wedding anniversary on April 29th with daughter Sophie, 14- year-old son Sam and other close fam ily. They plan to stage a royal wedding quiz during their party on the big day.
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