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grandchildren. She still enjoys reading and also watching the television soap “Emmerdale”. Marion, who lives in Sab-


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just19daysbeforethe outbreak of the First World War has celebrated her 100th birthday.


Mrs May Hobkirk was sur­ rounded by her family and close friends at Well Court, Clitheroe, as she marked the landmark event. The Deputy Mayor of the


Ribble Valley, Coun. Bridget Hilton also attended and passed on her congratula­ tions. Born and brought up in


Blackburn, May, a,retired accountant office worker, was only three when her father was killed at the battle of Bat­ tle of Passchendaele in 1917. She was raised by her mother. May,whohasbeenmarried and widowed twice, has lived


den, said: “Mum is healthy and remains busy and in good health. “She enjoys the weekly


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coffee morning the residents organise and she is always busy with lots ofvisitors from friends to relatives, hairdress­ ers to carers. “She always liked to vis­


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in Well Court for the past 20 She has two daughters, years and say she has always Marion Procter (73) and loved the rural nature of the Christine Harper (62), three area.


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it Clitheroe and we used to enjoy our days out in the Rib­ ble Valley, so she was pleased when she moved here. “In the evenings she likes to


watch television programmes, especially ‘Emmerdale’. In fact, we cannot ring her when thesoapison!” May was delighted to re­


ceive a congratulatory card from the Queen and anoth­ er from lain Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary. Marion added: “She was


over the moon to receive the cards. It really made her day.”


hashtag network byEric Beardsworth eric.beardsworth@jpress.co.uk


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Businesswoman Hath Lord- Green has started a hash- tag revolution in the Ribble Valley. Within a couple of weeks


of her launching Ribble Val­ ley Hour - a business hour on the social media network Twitter - about 250 busi­ nesses of all kinds have be­ come followers. #RVhour is a weekly


networking hour on Twit­ ter every Tuesday from 8 to gpm, facilitated by Kath, in which businesses can promote themselves, their products and services to a local audience for free. Kath (51), who lives at


Whalley, runs her own business, Insight Training Coaching and Media, and is on the board of Ribble Val­ ley FM. She said: “I use the busi­


ness networking hours #NorthWestHour #Lanca- shireHo.ur and #Preston- Hour to network myself and


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get business. I thought why not have our very own here in the Ribble Valley. “We already have lots of


followers, businesses from the Ribble Valley who want to network in the evenings in a virtual hour. “They can build relation­


ships by chattingandgetting to know one another, with­ out the hard sell, from the comfort of their sofa.” Anyone can get in­


volved by using the hashtag #RVhour and by following® RVhour on Twitter.


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Father and Son racers Nige and Ben Rea, of Rea-racing, Whalley, enjoyed fantastic re­ sults atthe ClassicTTraces on thelsIe-of-Man.


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The privateer racers lined up against the sports finest road racers from around the world. Nige was accepted in the Formula 1 Classic TT and participated on a Suzuki XR69 l.ooocc machine, while Ben competed in Formula 2 on a 1991 Yamaha 250 Grand prix machine. — Practice week was marred with problems and the boys


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seasons with Blackburn ace Carl Fogarty so there was no­ body better on the island to get our bikes working cor­ rectly for the rigors of the TT course,” said Nige. Ben added: “My 25omelted three pistons as various prob-


lems caused frustrations and I had to be recovered from dif­ ferent parts of the course and


once had a lift back on the side lanes by a friendly local.”


The rules for the event


state that a rider has to qualify by completing a minimum of two laps, one of those at a cer­ tain lap speed. As they rolled


Fatherandson racer Nige and Ben Rea with their ClassicTT trophies


up to the start line on the world famous Glencrutchery road, Ben had just made the two laps, while Nige had one to spare having ridden three. The race was three laps of


the 37.74 mile circuit and at the chequered flag Nige was 26th overall, but second place finisher in his class, having lapped at an average speed of i04mph on the final lap. In the Formula 2 race


Ben was seventh overall but fourth in his class after rid­ ing at a very similar i04mph. This meant that both riders received the prestigious Sil­


ver replica trophies for their efforts. In the following Manx


Grand P r ix ra c e s Nige circuited his GSXR600 Suzu­ ki at oveno9mph in the Junior Race while Ben had a magnifi­ cent result in the Supertwin


Race. For this race Ben was supplied with a Kawasaki by local sponsor Tony Morris, of |


CMS - a vehicle service and MOT centre in Blackburn - and he did not disappoint. Ben was holding third at


times but at the chequered flag was fifth and managed to record a best lap of nomph av­ erage speed on the 650CC twin cylinder machine. He won a MGP replica for his efforts. The father and son team


are keen to express their huge thanks to their family and friends who gave their time and effort as true privateers. Kellie, Joe, Sam, Shannon,


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he Rea-Racing headquarters on Back King Street, Whalley.


tand trophies can be viewed at


Simon of CMS. The team’s race machines


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