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WhaReyMeadows FCCC Forest School celebrated its first birthday with an - outdoorpartyintheforestforchil-• - , dren, parents and grandparents.


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- Activities included mud painting, bark rubbings’, making mud birthday cakes ’ in the mud kitchen and eating sausages cookedonthecampfire. • ' /


Party timefor the forestchildren Forest School leader Any Wilson said:


. ; “Just being in the forest promotes the


. children’s emotional well-being and sense of self, which in turn boosts their


■ confidence andself esteem. Theparty


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; MOO YEARS AGO £/ ^ r^% Marketplace crash - '•


- TIN SATURDAY EVENING there was a startling ^ accident in’the market place where the pot fair was ^ lnf^p^grK&9KMtl)rbe(Dre 8/iliBloclQamotor; -


car.l^ln^vtbaresidentofl^AmniewaS'A:''-'^-'''' being driven down the market place and the driver,'


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■ alj overthe road, the damage being estimated by , Keower.John Robjnson, of Blackburn, avery


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around thesfil.wiien theaccident occurred, ncluding the wives of two police constables, and a -.•«% lady was treated forjnjuries and sustained shock."- 74,


>• 50YEARSAGO From New Zealand


. 14Y®®?! the traffic in Clitheroe has increased considerablyand this was one of the first things ■ J


noticed byagentleman who recently returned to 7 Clitberpq fbrthe first time since he emigrated to New-


Avenue toldanAdvertiserand Times reporterthat hev^sujpnsedatthegmwthofthetown.When he left Clitheroe, he said, some of the mills were


^t the home of his grandparents in - ) '


The Marsden Building So­ ciety, which has a branch in


■ Castle Street, Clitheroe, has raised £38,503 for the North


- West Air Ambulance Charity through its affinity accounts and fundraising over the past year.


The Marsden made the do­ ■; themtotaketheleadintheirplay.”


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25YEARSAGO Big shop deal


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iJNEOFTHE oldest and best known businesses in ■ . Clitheroe, Coleman's of Castle Street, situated in the;


.ynalleyRoad,the man, whofbrmerly livedin Park-■F -; - been disclosed. Negob'ab'onsforthesale have been •: ; •. conducted through an agent. Coleman's shop, which ;


f -1)®? sold drapery for more than half a century, has .7; .alongandinteresb'nghistory.Originallyagrocers, :


cjos'ngdqyyn and the town seemed to be inforabad” hme. But 14years later, it had grown a great deal and


Meme^ prosperous, On his return to England, he • -5


found that the pnces of food and clothing were lower than in NewZealand, but wages were alsolower."


*' business was conducted there under the title of > ;lkwpool Warehouse and at one time the premises ■ i


»; Were used as a post office. Going still further back - n into history, the home of a headmaster ofClitheroe's - ; 400-yeaiM)ld grammar schoolstood on thesite."yr,.1


. very heart of the town, has been sold. The name of ; i the purchaser, believed to be a large firm anxious to : .[hake extensions to the present premises, has notyet;


nation as part of its arrange­ ment with the charity under which supporters save in North West Air Ambulance- brandedaffinityaccountsand receive interest on their mon­ ey, with the society making an annual payment from its own funds equivalent to 0.5% of the average balances in all of the accounts. Tohelp raisefurtherfunds


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like:,-. “Whoa-oh BlaritBetty, Bam-adam, ■>


, ? ; Whoa-oh Black Betty, y ■ ■ ? : Bam-a-lam;- ‘


* Black Betty Had a child, Bam-a-lam, - t-


■ - The damn thing gone wild Bam-a-lam" 1


....and so on. L-, Recorded by a Iargely-for--


gotten band called Ram Jam; ; it was a glorious bit-of-noisy.■' nonsense with amp;.busting power chords; crazy-Southy ern-rock lead guitar and a thunderous avalanche ofman- ic drumming. ‘


..... ..... - , ^ i ear worm As I See It...


by Eric Beardsworth ; It still sounds good more.


- than 30 years later. ' -The reason I mention.it


now is that I’ve got a “BIack Betty” ear worm.. An ear worm, if you didn’t r know, is that kind of tune that


v creeps into your head at any : timeofnightordayandkeeps on repeating itself.' I blame no.-one but myself. i


• ...When my 15-yeaf-old Ford Fiesta gave up the ghost a few-,.-


y.weeksago after years of loyal £•service^ I had to change my car. -


-.‘•'ViNow, I’m one of those peo-. . pie who can’t resist giving their car a personal name. It’s


sad but true, and no sadder 4


' than BMW 4x4 owners who.;: buy an “X3” or “X5” number, plate. - . ' ' < - " My latest conveyance is a:


, man; (remember Norman MBites yer legs” Hunter?), a • van named Ludwig (Ludwig


black Suzuki Swift; so whaty sprang to mind?. No, not Su- zy; that would be too obvious. I thought: “Oh, yeh, Black


y Van Beethoven), a Mini called yWompom (as iii the Flanders


Betty1: and “Whoa-oh Black - Betty, bam-a-lam” played in , my brain. The ear worm has been there ever since. - It’s there every time I go •


to open the driver’s door and ' start up the engine.


, ^ It’s there again when I’m -


■ scrabbling around for the- mislaid key,.asking myself: ; “Where the heck’s.the’ key-i for...?”


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Looking back, I’ve had a Hillman Hunter called Nor-


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yand Swann song) a Mazda ■ 'named Wally (it was a white - ‘un; as in Wally Whyton)and • no fewer than four Citroens; >


all named, withalackofpolit- ical correctness towards the ; French,’ as Froggy, Froggy 2, Froggy 3 and Froggy 4.


y I’ve even had a lump ham- I .mer called Louie and a iawn-


mowernamedPatrick(Patrick: l Mower, of course). Butnothinghasevermade : 'sjuchadaftimpressionaslink-


. ingthemotorluseeveiydayto that damn “Black Betty” song;


, Ear worm? More like a blooming anaconda!


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. ww.ditoeroeadrartiser.co.uk Thursday, April 3,2014' I ' v j , Thursday,April 3,2014 www-clitheroeadvertiserco uk CUTHER0EADVERT1SER&TIMES I tVALLEYMATTERS \ 2,OJ4 miles in 2014!


Fourfriends have set them­ selves a big challenge - to run 2,014 miles this year raising money forthe North West Air. Ambulance..


• Steph Sergeant, from Barrow, hit on the idea to raise spon-.


- sorcashandawarenessforthe rescue service, and enlisted sisters Katie and Laura Fox and Ana Whittaker to share the challenge.


. Sofarthegirlshaveclocked


up nearly 500 miles between them, covering about 40 train­ ing miles a week and taking part in big events. -


■ ’ . Steph and Katie complet­ ed the Great North West Half- Marathon in February, and a couple of weeks ago they and Laura competed in the Goal- _Den Girls 10k charity race in Blackpool. - Steph (39), a mother-of-one


fromBarrow, works for Bright Futures Day Nursery and or-


ganises a beginners’ group at :-;Whalley to encourage people


; “ to take up running. _ ' ■ Ana (34), from Clitheroe


‘ and mum of a toddler, met - Steph through the nursery. £ Laura (24), from Clitheroe, - works part-time at Moorland


• Nursery School and is'also ,/studying for teaching and


v.; learning support. - -. - Law graduate Katie (22),


=■ from Barrow, a part-time para-legal at Burnley, took up


running seriously to train for the Great North Run.


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The sisters’mum, Lorraine Fox, said: “They chose the - North West Air Ambulance


to benefit because it’s close to their hearts. They’re going out and logging every last mile.” •


Ifd you want to support


their efforts, find the Face- book link to NWAA-2014- miles-in-2014 or donate to NWAA20i4miles on virgin- moneygiving.com '


Helping to keep the rotors turning The charity’s three heli­


copters fly 365 days a year, with the doctors and para-, medics on board providing rapid treatment and hospital transfers across the region. The charity is totally relianton donations in order to remain operational.


Representatives ofMarsdenBuildingSocietypresenttheircheque


for the North-West charity, the building society also fund- raised throughout the year, including sales of Christmas cards in is branches. ' -


Since starting its affinity


accounts in 2010, the Marsden has supported the North West Air Ambulance to the tune of more than £120,000.


_ : • I f you are interested in opening a North West Air Ambulance Charity affinity account with the Marsden, ask at your local branch or, alternatively, visit www.the- marsden.co.uk For more information on


the North West Air Ambu-. lance or to make a donation, visitwww.nwaa.net or contact the office on 0800 5874570.


Pendle’s young bookworms strike gold


Pendle Primary School was host to the presentation of


- not one, but three Lancashire Reading Trail Gold Awards. Alison Rosthorn, ofClithe^


roe Library, attended the full school assembly to surprise Isabella Bleazard (10), Jacob Bleazard (seven) and Franc­ esca Blockeel (five) with their signed books and certificates for completing the challenge of reading 50 books. - - ; - - Isabella and Jacob’s mum,1


.- Emma, saidf“They have both spent a great deal of effort producing their individual book reviews over the past 18 month's and have felt very pleased and proud to see their reviews and also read other . children’s re views in the folder on display in the library.” - - ?


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Child and The Nutters of Pen- dleForest.Bothchoseasigned |


copy of Michael Morpurgo’s j War Horse as their prize. Francesca’s mum, Kay,


said: “Francesca’s reading has really developed whilst doing I


:the challenge and we really | enjoy our trips to the library j choosing books.” - Francesca chose The Pirate


The three gold award readers with Alison Rosthorn from Clitheroe Library.- Jacob loves fact books, but^; - Morpurgo and Tin Tin. Isa-


through the challenge has- bella has also enjoyed read- discovered more story books,; ing Morpurgo’s books as well especially enjoying Michael aslocalbookslikeTheMalkin


Whose Motherwas a Pirate as 1 her prize. All three children are familiarfaces in the library | and have set offon a greatjour-'I ney of being lifelong readers. Do you know any young peo-1 pie who might be interested j in starting on the Lancashire | Reading Trail?Visit your local library today of www.lanca- shire.gov.uk/libraries to find | out more. ■


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