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SAUCY m^nequin Barbara, who is affectionately known as “Babs” is stili causing a storm of controversy.


Following a complaint from a passerby that Babs should be wearing more clothes, the police were called to the Time Train retro shop in Shaw- bridge Street, Clitheroe. As previously reported in


the Clitheroe Advertiser, oth-, er local residents are believed to be preparing a petition to submit to Kibble Valley Bor­ ough Council, calling for her removal from public view. Now a “Save Babs” cam­


paign has been started on the social networking site Face- book and has so far received more than 13,000 hits. Despite the controversy,


shop owners JefifBeamer (45), Matt Taylor (31) and Lisa Pick­ les (26) are standing by Bahs. Matt said: “To call the po­


lice is absolutely ridiculous. rve;had a few older ladies making comments to me about how they were offend­ ed by it, but didn’t see it going this far. During Easter one of the ladies asked how I could put the mannequin up during God’s weekend. I told her that God blessed us with a sense of


are going to send a petition in to the council, so that’s when wesetuptheFacebookgroup. “For me, this can go on for­


ever, because it’s great pub- hcity for the shop, and we’re getting about four or five peo­ ple a day coming to have their picture taken with B'ahs. “In the summer I’m going


to get Babs a boyfriend who will be very scantily dressed, or I might even get her a girl­ friend - that might really up­ set some of the complaihers.” Time Train was opened


hy the trio in November after they all decided to quit their


jobs last summer. The curios­ ity shop sells everything fi:nm board games to the original master clock fi:om St Paneras Station.


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Jeff, from Preston, and Matt, of Sawley, who worked


. asaflshery manager at Stocks Reservoir, met when they found themselves bidding for the same items at auctions. ■ AspokeswomanforEihhle


- Valley Borough Council said the authority had not yet re­ ceived a formal complaint. A spokesman.for Lan­


cashire Constabulary said: “This is not technically a po­ lice matter, but a member of the Neighbourhood Policing Team attended the shop and gave words of advice.”


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Fire and rescue teams cut anii^ured motorist from his car after a collision blocked Whalley Road, Clitheroe, on Wednesday of last week. They removed the roof from a damaged Honda Accord to release the driver and fasten him to a backboard, as he had head and neckiiyuries. ’The woman driver of a Kia Soul had chest ii\juries. The road was closed for more than an hour.


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A grieving wife has thanked the emergency crews who rushed to the rescue after her husband collapsed dying at the wheel of their car.


Retired hospital worker Ron Heap (56), of Salthill Road, Clitheroe, was driving his wife Daphne to a darts match at Clitheroe when their Peugeot car began to veer to one side in Whalley Road last Thursday evening. Mrs Heap grabbed the wheel


andmanagedtopullthecaron to the verge, where it collided at low speed with a metal post. Mr Heap, who had suffered a stroke, was taken to Royal


car started to veer I said to Ron: ‘■ What are you doing?’ then Ino- ticedhis face had fallen on side and he wasn’t moving. “I pulled the


wheel and man­ aged to get the car on the verge. I was phoning for the ambulance and two men and a woman all stopped and came up to help. One was a lad from Tesco, but I don’t know who the others were. “Only a few moments later


an ambulance came past with the blue lights flashing. “Theymusthavealreadybeen


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a police officer who came to the hospital with me, PC Neil Had­ dock, and he was very supportive,


and the nurses at the hospital were very good to me.” Mr Heap, originally from


Blackburn, had been a bus mechanic for Blackburn Transport, and moved to Clit­ heroe about i8 years ago for hisjob. He worked as a porter and


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fected his mobility. “He was an outgoing man


who liked company and a joke, and he’d do anything for anybody. “He really was one of the


bert,” said Mrs Heap, who is a support worker for a special needs charity. “He liked his darts and dom­ inoes at The Dog pub, and al-


thoughhecoiildn’twalkfarhe liked to go out with his dogs, Maddy and Paddy.” Mr Heap is also survived by


hismother, Margaret and sis­ ter Sandra, who lives in Black­ burn, and twin brother Ken, who lives in Portsmouthi His widowis asking for any


donations in hismemory to be made to Cancer Research. Funeral arrangements are be­ ing made for cremation next week.


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