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During the last term, pupils at St Mary’s RC Primary School, Osbaldeston, showed how much they think about others by organising not one, but two fund-raising events. The first of these was a special “fun afternoon” planned and rim entirely by the older children in the school. The sum of £200waspresented to The Stroke Association following


the event. The whole school then joined in with a sponsored “Readathon” and together read a total of over 750 books! This magnificent effort raised over £900 in aid of Macmillan Can­ cer Care. A cheque was presented to Seb Farnell on behalf of Macmillan and the money will be used to support over 40 people in the local area.


Ribble Valley’s Conserva­ tive MP Nigel Evans has ex­ pressed his disappointment at the poor turnout in last Thursday’s local elections and called for the extension of voting to the days before traditional polling day. From results declared by


early last Friday afternoon, turnout (the percentage of eligible voter who actu­ ally cast their vote) was on­ ly around 36%, compared to 42% in 2011 and 39.2% in 2009. In a letter to Deputy


Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who is responsible for elec­ toral and constitutional poli­ cy, Mr Evans wrote: “Despite the national media running with gains for UKIP as the main story of the day, I am far more concerned about the poor turnout in these elections. “I am writing to suggest


the introduction of a four- day polling station to be opened at'each town hall from theSunday beforepoll­ ing day, with the retention of


Centenary celebrations Doris’s special birthday marked with party for family and friends b y K a t i e H a m m o n d


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Whalley resident Mrs Doris Farnsworth had much to


celebrate at theparty for her 100th birthday, thrown by


family andfi;iends and attend­ ed by the Mayor and Mayor­ ess of the Ribble Valley, Coun. Michael Ranson and his wife, Janette.


Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans


the traditional polling day on Thursdays.” Sp eaking from Westmin­


ster,MrEvanssaid,“Weneed to see a different approach


to voting in an attempt to encourage those who stay at home to turn out and cast their ballot. The fall in turn­ out in local and national elec­ tions should be of concern to anyone in elected office and 1 am of the belief that real ac­ tion must be taken to end this decline.”


Born at Trafford, Manchester,


Doris was theyoungest ofseven siblings. The family’s favourite holi­


day destination was the Isle of Man, where they took an an­ nual break, and it was there that Doris was introduced to her future husband, Alf,


whosefamilyregiilarly stayed in the same guest house. The couple’s first date was


a day out to Chester in 1939 and Doris recalled how they heard the news about the out- break o f the Second World War on the way on the radio and had to return home.


Power cut hit homes


in town Hundreds of homes in Clit- here were without electricity, on Saturday after a power cut hit some parts of the town. Engineers from Electricity


North West worked to restore power to 880 homes after be­ ing made aware of the fault. shortly before 2 pm. The engineers managed to


restore power to most of the properties shortly after ar­ riving in the town, but took almost six more hours to re­ store the power to the remain­ ing 10 homes. A spokesman said: “A fault


on the overhead power line caused the loss of power to around 880 customers in Clit­ heroe at 1-56 pm on Saturday. Engineers quickly arrived on site and restored power to 870 customers by 3-09 pm. “The remaining 10 cus­


Doris Farnsworth with guests a t the party held to mark herlOOth birthday, (s) Doris witnessed some of


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the worst of the Blitz from her Trafford home. Her and Alf’s courtship largely took place at the Sale Lido dances and they married in 1941, making their home near to Alf’s family in Little Harwood, Blackburn.


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der company Pearson’s before moving to Chatburn to run the Brown Cow pub, where the couple’s son John was born, and then on to the Aspinall. Arms, Mitton, where daugh­ ter Kate joined the family.


Now a grandmother of


three and a great-grand­ mother of five, Doris, who underwent a double cataract operation at the age of 99, was emphatic when asked what was the secret to a long and healthy life.


tomers were restored at 10- 29 pm. “We would like to apolo­


She saidthat the answer


lay in a daily medicinal dose of whisky and in continuing to keep an active mind, which she manages to do by playing bridge at the Pendle CIub in Clitheroe a couple of times each week.


gise for any inconvenience caused and i f customers would like any further infor­ mation they can contact us on 08001954141.” The majority ofthehouses affected were on the outskirts •of the Ribble Valley town.


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