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. .1 - Michael Bisping insists he’ll be back - 1 , 1 2 6 :


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' 2.- Ex-Clltheroe.Royal Grammar School; ; pupil had £43,600 cannabis farm — 566 v ~


3 r Avalanche victim is former.CRGS pupil ' - 287


4 - Burnley v Hull selected for TV - 267


5 - Heavy snow closes Ribble Valley schools -2 6 4


. 6 -;Tumble dryer safety warning —^ 6 : i


- 7 - Reports of bid for Bournemouth striker- wide of mark-1 9 2 .


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- 8 - East Lancashire murder victim funeral to be held-1 8 7 ' ' ‘ ^


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9 - LIVE UPDATES: Burnley v Birmingham C ity -156 , 1 0 - Tributes paid to adventurous young ; > Ribble Valley woman -1 5 4 - .


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Pupils getting a real outer


by Eric Beardsworth


WITH a little help from astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Buzz Lightyear, sports trainer David Bunyan has a mission to help chil­ dren get fit.


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challenge called “Mission X: Train Like An Astronaut” at five Ribble Valley primary schools, including his own old village school at Bolton-by-BowIand. David is starting the programme by show­


David (25) is delivering a NASA-sponsored Langho I Blackburn Accrington


Weekend weather: Showery rain is fore­ cast for the weekend with the possibiiity of sunny intervals on Saturday


Sunrise: 7-56 a.m. Sunset: 4-50 p.m. Lighting up time: 5-20 p.m.


the UK Space Agency is .working with NASA to develop the programme. ' The aim is to use the excitement of space


travel to help children leam about fitness, diet and science.


^ The six-week mission includes healthy eat­ ing, educational science and competing for . points in a series of physical challenges with titles such as “Jump for thbMoon’,’ and “Let’s Climb a Martian Mountain”.


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Grindleton and Gisbum village schools, and the Clitheroe schools of St Michael and St John’s and Pendle Primary. Schools in 22 countries are taking part, and


ing the pupils a.NASA video in which Buzz ^drin, the second man to walk on the moon, interviews spaceman Buzz Lightyear from Disney’s “Toy Story” animated movies. David’s other schools in the challenge are


(Clockwise) Oliver and Edward Stott,


Alice Walmsiey, Katie Dakin, William Mellin and Megan Johnson, strengthis important to astronauts, and which aims to get all the particlDatine children to-


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attended jRib.blesdale High and Clit- Grammar School Sixth Form before


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(jolfers tee up a success


DESPITE the cold weather, the annual charity cof- fee morning run by the ladies’ section of Whalley Golf


other with a selection of exquisite hand-made cards by member Mrs Agnes Flanagan. There was also a bring-and-buy stall, tombola and


morning and many visitors enjoyed a club lunch. Lady captain Mrs Wendy Green thanked everyone for their support and generosity.


peat of the nearly-new clothes sale successfully intro­ duced last year. Coffee, tea and biscuits were served throughout the


provided by Precious of Whalley, and there was a re­


raffle. A dazzling display of jewellery and accessories was


browsed the stalls, including ones featuring deli­ cious home-made sweet and savoury items plus an­


Club had an excellent response and raised £1,848 for Cancer Research UK. The clubhouse was a hive of activity as ladies


Clitheroe Advertiser & Times,Thursday. January 31,2013


COFFEE TIME: From the left, lady captain- elect Mrs Sally Blenkinship, lady captain Mrs Wendy Green, Mrs Margaret Breakell, Mrs Ann Pollard, Mrs Helen Hamer, president Mrs Lorna Slinger, Mrs Christine Thurston, Mrs Margaret Calvert, Mrs Frances Gierat and Mrs Shirley Palich. (s)


Tributes after sudden death


the popular ski resort of Meribel, but had been due to fly home earlier this week.


Augustine’s pupil had type one diabetes and it is believed that she went in to a coma, triggered by a hypoglycemic at­ tack, while asleep. Fiona attended St Mary’s RC Prima­ ry School, Langho, and St Augustine’s


The beauty therapist and former St


TRIBUTES to ah adventurous young woman who died while work­ ing in France have been paid by friends and family. Fiona Watson (23) was working in


The Best in Whalley. Salon owner Sarah Macmillan said:


the luxury chalet company Alp Leisure Ltd since November, after travelling around Australia for eight months.


and all our clients absolutely adored her. She was our best friend.” Fiona had been working in France for


RC High School, Billington, before go­ ing on to study beauty therapy at Black­ burn College. She then took up a position at Simply


“She worked here from being about 17 and was such a happy person. “She was gentle, kind and fun-loving


ADVENTUROUS: Rena Watsen. (s) Gastropub award for Three Fishes


RIBBLE Valley pub the Three Fishes, at Mitton, has been placed 32nd in The Bud- weiser Budvar Top 50 Gastropub Awards. Andy Morris, operations director of Rib­


tremely hard to ensure that our customers receive high quality service when they dine with us.” " The awards ceremony was held at the


ble Valley Inns, said: “It is a great achieve­ ment to be recognised in The Top 50 Gas­ tropub Awards. “The team at the Three Fishes works ex­


Tor the premium end of the UK food-led pub trade. The Three Fishes is owned by Nigel Ha­


worth, Craig Bancroft and Richard Mat- thewman and is a part of Ribble Valley Irms. RVI is part of the Northcote Group.


Crazy Bear at Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, and attended by chefs, managers and own­ ers from the Top 50 list. The awards, now in their fifth year, have established themselves as the leading event


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Army man faces jail for £190,000 school fees fraud


forming his superiors of the split - therefore creating a change in his personal status -meaning that he may have no longer have received the allow­ ance. Jolleys maintained to his superiors that he was still mar­ ried and that his wife lived with him in his Army quarters.


was legitimately claiming the allowance, which pays up to 90% of the school fees, until he separated from his wife Judith in 2002. He was accused of not in­


tinuing Education Allowance, which allows service personnel to send their children to board­ ing school and prevents any dis­ ruption to their schooling. The court heard that Jolleys


lieutenant colonel claimed the money over several years to send his three sons to Stony- hurst College, a jury at Swindon Crown Court was told. He. abused the Army’s Con­


SHAMED ex-Array officer Robert Henry Jolleys is fac­ ing jail and seizure of his as­ sets after being found guilty of defrauding taxpayers of nearly £190,000. - The 52-year-old former


sentencing in March and was warned that he may face a pris­ on term and would be subject to the Proceeds of Crime Act.


Whalley, was convicted on three charges of obtaining a money transfer by deception, three charges of fraud and one charge of the forgery of his ex- wife’s signature on a bank form. He was granted bail until his


Woman in court after glass attack


A 26-YEAR-OLD Clitheroe woman has appeared in court follow­ ing an incident in a town centre pub on Fricfay during which a man was hit ■with a glass.


bail to Preston Crown Court when she appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged vrith assaulting Andrew Gunn causing him ac­ tual bodily harm. She is alleged to have thrown a glass at Mr Gunn in the Buck Inn, Lowergate;


Rachel Louise Linford, of Hodder Grove, Clitheroe, was sent on AWARD WINNER: the Three Rshes at Mitton. (s) Advertiser and Times subscribe and


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grieved, does not enter licenced premises and abides by a curfew at her home address between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.


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She was granted bail on condition she does not contact the ag­


from behind a screen as she did not wish to see her ex-husband in person. She said that they had effectively separated in 2002 and divorced in 2010 after nearly 20 years of marriage. Jolleys, of Woodlands Park,


Jolleys accepted he knew the Army’s “broad rules”, but maintained that he and his wife had not separated when he was posted from London to North Yorkshire in 2002. Mrs Jolleys gave evidence


began, Jolleys set about trying to cover his tracks by changing his personal status. Under cross-examination,


now ex-wife rang his superior officer in the summer of 2009 and asked “Where’s Henry?” As the Army investigation


He was only caught when his


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