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. Chelsea Flower Show in Scotland) from June 1st to 3rd. Peter had a major thyroid eye


disease and by way of thanks for his successful treatment he became a trustee of BTF, which is based at Harrogate, with a local group in Edgeworth, Bolton. ^ As a fund-raising effort to get


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plus the cash from the sale of the original in a silent auction will be donated to the BTF for ongoing projects.


better diagnosis, care, pathways and guidance for patients with thyroid eye disease, top botanical artist Anna Knights, who suffered thyroid cancer in 2008 and so ap­ preciated the help from the BTF after successful surgery, has paint­ ed a lovely picture of a peacock butterfly (the thyroid is butterfly shaped) on apple blossom. All, profits from sale of prints


LOCAL gardener Peter Foley managed to arrange for the British Thyroid Foundation to have stands at both Harrogate flower shows as well as a presence at Gardening Scotland (the equivalent of the


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GARDEN DESIGN: Peacock butterfly on apple blossom oainted by artist Anna Knights, (s)


“Blossoms and Butterflies”, fea­ turing many plants that are butter­ fly friendly as well as the painting


trustee, Mike Gourlay, Peter is staging a display of a 400 sq. ft gar­ den in the main flower hall at Gar­ dening Scotland. The garden will be entitled


Together with another former


sketched what the garden should look like and this has been used as the background for a leaflet that will be available on the stand for visitors to take home.


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THREE friends and former Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupils have raised an


impressive.£7,110 after com- Jleting two running challenges m short order.


Brothers Matt and Richard Sharpies and friend John Bennett completed the London Marathon, Richard finishing in three hours 28 minutes. Matt in four hours 18 minutes and John in five hours. And a week later Matt and Ri-


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Manchester Marathon, making it two 26-miIers in a week. For the Manchester race, Matt’s finishing time was four hours and 29 minutes and Richard’s three hours and 41 minutes.


They are raising money to sup- ,


again to take part in the Greater Sharpies, who is battling one of the world’s rar­ est diseases. She was diagnosed with lymphangio-


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works at FS Ac­ countants in Low- ergate, Clitheroe, underwent tests in November, 2010, after experiencing excruciating pain in her side. A scan revealed she had . a nine centimetre tumour on her kid­ ney and cysts in her lungs.


LAM is incred­ ibly rare it doesn’t mean it’s any less devastating for women struggling to live with it.” S a r a h , who


only a small charity and needs ail the support it can get,” eiq’Inined Matt. “Just because


leiomyomatosis (LAM) last May. Thisjis a condi­ tion which causes cysts to form in the lungs and can ' cause tumours in other parts of the body. “LAM Action is


of Anna’s and they hope to have live butterflies hatching out on the stand in domed incubators. Peter’s daughter, Mary, has


SPECTACULAR: Dance from Sleeping Beauty. Photo: CAROLINE HOLDEN


spectacular


Southward, said: “I was delighted by the high standard of performance they have all achieved. We’re pleased, too, to have raised over £300 for Cancer Research and Friends of Chernobyl’s Children.”


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“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (twirling umbrellas as they skipped), “Mrs Tiggywin- kle’s Laundry” and “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo”, which was choreographed and taught by Stonyhurst’s headgirl, Lara Schitto, for-her Academy of Arts gold award. Stonyhurst dance teacher. Miss Anna'


ballet from “Swan Lake”, “Coppelia” and “Romeo and Juliet”, as well as jazz dance to “All That Jazz”. The youngest dancers performed


ALMOST 50 dancers, aged three to 18, performed in “Colours of Dance” at Stony- hurst College, Hurst Green. The varied programme included classical


valleyeducation are open to


A weekly look at local schools and colleges


ing for the position, and then they took part in an interview process in which they gave a “visitor” a mock tour. Following this process, three pu­


cations are: “I have attended this school since I was in pre-school, therefore I have a good knowledge of the school” and “I like Thomey- holme School because it is a small


pointed pupil tour guides to show visitors around the school on the open day next Tuesday, June 12th, from 2 to 6 p.m. Several pupils applied in writ­


school as having “an extremely positive and welcoming ethos”. The behaviour of the children is described as “exemplary” and “pu­ pils’ spiritual, moral, social and cul­ tural development is outstanding”. Headteacher Mrs Healey has ap­


FOLLOWINfj its successful Ofsted inspection, Thorney- holme RC Primary School at Dunsop Bridge is opening its doors to show prospective par­ ents what it has to offer. The Ofsted report describes the


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IN AWE: Pre-school youngsters in the shadow of a massive dumper truck at Waddington Fell Quarry, (s)


Quarrying for imowledge...


PRE-SCHOOL children learnt all about large working vehicles on a trip to Wad- dington Fell Quarry. A group of 15 children from Bowland


Montessori Pre-school were equipped with hard hats and high visibility jackets on their arrival at the quarry before be­ ing welcomed by Bardon Aggregates unit manager, Gordon Dick. He then showed them tipper trucks be­


pils were appointed. Extracts from the pupil appli­


TOUR GUIDES: Left to right, Ellie Brown, Sarah Carr and Oiiver


Thomas, the pupils who will show visitors around Thorneyh6"F me School on its open day next Tuesday, (s)


school with small class sizes, conse­ quently you get more one-to-one time with the teachers”. “The children are all very excited


about sharing their school with visi­ tors,” said Mrs Healey. “We are all proud of our school and what it is achieving.”


ing weighed in, a huge bulldozer and a arane inside the quarry shifting rubble with


'Its enomous grab. The largest vehicle was a massive dumplr ttuo-'c (pictured). Later there was a visit to'a natureTeserve'


just below the quarry to see ducks and Canada geese. To finish, the children de­ scended to Newton for drinks and snacks on the banks of the River Hodder.


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