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A life-saver for Whalley How a‘defib’works


by Julie Magee '


A life saving defibrillator that r - ‘ is available 24/7for use by


, the local community has been sited in Whalley.


The village’s first community


. public access defibrillator . has been installed thanks.to the hard work over the past year by Gordon Fishlock, team leader of Whalley First Responders. Whalley Parish Council


also helped by finding a suit­ able site for the device. Parish council chairman


Eric Ronnan explained that it suggested the defibrillator should be sited on the wall of the village’s public toilets, which arelocatedinthecentre of Whalley by the bus station. As well as donating £400


from their community fund towards the cost of the £1,395 defibrillator, parish council­ lors also helped rally support from the local community. • Donations-were made


by the Roger Osliffe Memo­ rial Charity (£250), Whalley Chamber o f Trade (£250), W ha lle y Masonic Lodge (£275), Greens Solicitors


; A spokeswoman for the ; 3 North West Ambulance; r Service said: “AEDs are so r simple to use andyoureally cannot do any further harm tothe patient. Theyonlyal- lowyoutodeliverashock . if a patient is in a specific rhythm.


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“The AED delivers an elec­ tric pulse through the chest, in an attempt to restore normalheart rhythm. A „ patient’s chance of survival - decreases 10% for etery one minute that passes without defibrillation; with the ap­ plication of an AED within five minutes of collapse the best possible chance of sur­ vival is maintained.”


(£300), Whalley Warm and Dry (£50) and Romero’s (£25). More money was raised


during fundraising events, in­ cluding a tombola at a Sunday market in Whalley with most of the prizes donated by local shops. That raised £190, while a raffle by the staff at Barclays Bank in Whalley raising £121. A real community effort,


the defibrillator was even in­ stalled and connected for free by Abbey Engineering and.


Community Resuscitation Development Officer Jane Atkinson, first Re­ sponder Gordon Fishlock with councillors Eric Ronnan, June Brown and Joyce Holgate as they unveil Whalley’s new defibrillator.


electrician Andy Waddirigton. A fund-raising surplus of


£476 means that plans are now afoot to secure another defibrillator for Billington. Static defibrillators are .


located at the dentists and doctor’s surgery in Whalley , with one soon to be located at St Mary’s Church, Langho.


However, when these places are closed there is no access to them and that is why hav­ ing a community public access defibrillator is so important. There are plans to hold training sessions in Whalley


‘ on how to use a defibrillator and anyone interested should call Gordon on 01254 823901.


Dog ban order may still allow walkies in Castle grounds


byEricBeardsworth eric.beardsworth@jpress.co.uk


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Dog owners may be allowed to keep letting their pooch-, es run free in the grounds of ClitheroeCastleunderapro- posed control order. But Ribble Valley coun­


cillors are ready to press ahead with a Dog Exclusion Order banning all dogs from any enclosed children’s play area, skate park, tennis court, basketball court, bowlingorputtinggreenand sportspitch.


. . . ■ The proposals were put


before last week’s meeting of Ribble Valley Council’s Com­ munity Services Committee and will now go out to pub­ lic consultation then back to councillors. -The original proposal


included a Dogs on Leads Order to apply throughout the whole of the Castle grounds. However* council­ lors decided that an enclosed areas ban would suffice. Orders on dogfouling will


be tightened up, and own­ ers will not be allowed walk


Coun. Horkin: “A sensible and measured response.”


more than four dogs at a time in parks.


Clitheroe town mayor


and dog owner Coun. Kevin Horkin said: “I think the committee has come up with a sensible and measured response and I’d wholeheart­ edly support it. “It would be no use hav­


ing a knee-jerk reaction like some local authorities and banning dogs completely. . “Dogownershaveadutyto


keep their dog under proper supervision, and most own­ ers in the Ribble Valley are responsible.”


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