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£Anotori6usand busy stretch of Ribble Valley road branded


: - an accident blackspot is to > have its speed limit reduced.■ ’


. /Road safety.campaigners, . local residents and borough y councillors/Joyce Holgate ' MB E and .Terry Hill are cel-:


Ji ebrating victory after Lanca- shireCoufityCouncil officials confirmed that the speed lim-;


a it along the'A67i Accrington . . . Road, Whalley, near to Spring «; S:: Wood Picnic Site, would be cut*:£ /j;from6oto'5omph. - ';-/k ' In addition, the height of £.


•a^'a traffic signal will be raised, ' -'so that it is more visible to-:


p. drivers, and a directionsign Ik is.to be relocated in a bid to imp’rove'thejgeneralvisibility. Coun. Holgate, who repre- ’


• sents the area, said: “I am de-


: - lighted that finally ourvoices a have been heard. Coun. Hill


a ; ; and I have had meetings with • . /the traffic police and high- ^ways officials at County Hall j for years and it’s about time


something was done to make w this road safer.


. “This is a m^jor victory for'


everyonewhohas campaigned - for the introduction of traffic r. calming measures along this poorly-designed road.” The move has also been


welcomed by the family of a ~ Billington woman who was ■; almost killed when she was&j involved in an horrific car- ac-. ciderit at the “death trap”junc- - ‘ tion last August. ’ ., - ;.Hannah Flynn (21), was a


bpassenger-in a Ford Ka driven by her sister, Jessica, which' .


/ was hit by a Peugeot 407.^/ - Hannah suffered severe: ? head iiyuries, a fractured pel-, avis; dislocated shoulder and : /two collapsed lungs." ' She was taken to Royal


Preston Hospital where she was in a coma for almost four weeks. Jessica (25) sustained severe bruising; -, The driver of the Other ve-


: hicle pleaded guilty to driving without due care and atten­ tion and was sentenced la s t '. week.


..................... , :• Parents slam “lenient” . k sentence—page3 - The junction on the A671 Accrington Road, Whalley, and (inset) Hannah Flynn before heraccident there last year. ’ /


go-ahead Plans for just over 200 new hpmes on three sep­ arate planning applica­ tions have been agreed, subject to the necessary conditions, by Ribble Val­ ley Borough Council’s plan­ ning committee. Two ofthe sites are at Barrow and one at Billington.


; Seepages Big push on


recycling .Waste collections for re­ cycling are to be altered


. and improved from March ‘ 3rd, Ribble Valley Borough Council has announced. Households will get


collections of waste paper and cardboard on the same day-as their, green or blue wheeled bins.


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