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Thursday, February 12,2015 www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk C U TH ERO EAD V ERT IS ERS T IM ES I VALLEYMATTERS U— u* I „ H n n > * *» • j ' Rebecca Hay hurst with the Tower of London ceramic poppy which she presented to Stonyhurst College in a special service


Schools can put big 1 in the picture


Primary schools are being in­ vited to design a programme cover for the Royal Lancashire Show’s return to the Ribble Valley. Pupils will get the chance


Rebecca’s gift to honour Stonyhurst’s fallen


Ribble Valley youngster Rebecca Hayhurst has given a very special gift to Stonyhurst College to commemorate those who gave their livesin the FirstWorldWar. Rebecca (lo)donatedherceramicpoppywhich camefromtherecentTowerof London in­ stallation, “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red”, in a short ceremony which took place at the historic college and was attend­ ed by officers from the school’s Combined Cadet Corps, Lt Col Andrew Barber and RSM Robert Clare. Stonyhurst’s chaplain Father John Twist blessed the poppy before Rebecca placed it on the college’s war memorial. Rebecca, a year 6 pupil at St Joseph's RC Primary School, Hurst Green, said: “I wanted to give my poppy to Stonyhurst because seven of its former pupils have been awarded the Victoria Cross. Also, the Combined Cadets Corps does avery good job.” Rebecca’s family has a very long association with Stonyhurst College, with three generations having worked there including her grandmother, who was employed there for almost 38 years. Lt Col Barber said: “We are extremely touched by Rebecca’s gift and honoured that she chose to place one of the Tower of London’s highly sought after poppies on the college’s war memo­ rial.” 176 young men from Stonyhurst gave their lives in the First World War.


When I’m 64? Forget it!


The Beatles song “When I’m 64” was never my favourite. Far from it, in fact. - For me, it was the runt of


the litter on “Sergeant Pep­ per’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, the album acclaimed as having changed the direc­ tion of pop music back in 1967, that summer of love. Actually, I always preferred


their 1966 LP “Revolver” with its jangly guitars and heavy electric sound, one of thebest guitar-and-drums albums ev­ er made, but 1 digress. It’s 2015 and I’vejust turned


64, and do you know what? I still can’t stand that Paul Mc­ Cartney song. Thatjolly rum-pum beat, toot­ ling woodwinds, faux-i920s feel and clever-but-soppy lyr-


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ics about descending into dot­ age still grate on my old ears as they did on my 16-year-old lugholesbackin‘67. ■ “When I get older, losing


my hair, many years from now...” Too late, mate, it went 30-odd years ago! “Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight if it’s not too dear...” Come off it, Paul, you could have bought the whole Isle of Wight! Maybe I shouldn’t be too


hard on McCartney, because he was only 25 when “Ser- geamt Pepper” was released, • and when you’re 25 the age of


64 seems an impossibly long way in the future. I wonder what he feels


about his song now that he’s 72, or “73 next time”? Anyway, I’ve made it so far,


so I checked on some of my contemporaries to see how they’re doing at 64. . On the music front, Phil


Collins and Mike Rutherford of Genesis are still prog-rock- ing while their buddy Peter Gabriel, also 64, ploughs his own fascinating furrow. Agrietha Faltskog is singing


as sweetly as ever without the rest of Abba, Joan Armatrad- ing is still spreading “Love and Affection”, and the everlasting “Refugee” Tom Petty topped the album charts for the first timejust last year.


LOOKING BACK


100 YEARS AGO 50 YEARS AGO War highlights ambulances


“THE WAR HAS resulted in great attention being paid to ambulance work all over the country, but one would have to travel far to find a village in which greater enthusiasm has been displayed than at Waddington. Prior to the war, the village possessed no class for this work, but it is clearthat the desire to become acquainted with it was lying dormant and unexpressed within many. For no sooner had war been declared than classes were commenced. Acourseoflectureswassuggested and enthusiasticallysupported by the residents of • the village. Theyoung people of the neighbourhood flocked to enrol their names and entered with zest uponacourseofstudyongivingcaretotheinjured."


Marriage bad for students?


“THERE HAS ALWAYS been a lot of prejudice against students martyingyoung.Chiefly because itissupposed to be bad fortheirwork. Buton the other hand it can be argued that their work isfar more likely to suffer from the general gadding around and broken love affairs that so frequently afflict theyoung unmarrieds. Nowan expert has reported that married and engaged students do


betteratuniversities than the unattached-Areport conductedshowedthathalfthemarriedand


at the end of their courses. But only 34% of the ,


unattached and only 26% of those with boyfriends or girlfriends achieve this."


25 YEARS AGO Trouttobereplaced


“NORTH WESTWATERhasgivenan assurance that800 brown trout killed by an accidental poison spillage at Sabden are to be replaced 'as swiftly as possible.' The trout died when workmen accidentally flushed about 20 gallons of caustic soda into Sabden Brook, killing all water wildlife for two to three miles.


A spokesman for the authority said the accident happened while the work men were engaged in the


long running scheme to improve Sabden's water supply and stressed that at no time was there any danger to residents. The men were flushing out a • tankwith freshwater, not knowing thatthere was a quantity of caustic soda at the bottom. The brook turned white with foam'and bubbles."


few weeks ago I readanewspaper- story that made • me go “Ha I” A five .year old had been


biUed£i5.95forfailingtoatv. tend a friend’s birthday party ;; at a dry ski slope. ‘ -- My “ha I "included a certain degree of smug superiority - “what a ridiculous state of af­ fairs”. But my initial sympathy


• for Alex Nash and his family gradually disappeared. Alex’s family had con­


firmed to his friend’s parents that he would be at the Satur­


Hollywood actor Ed Har-.


ris didn’t lose a man on his shift in “Apollo 13” and could still tackle any crisis, and Bill “Ghostbuster” Murray is still making interesting mov­ ies, with or without gorgeous young starlets. Richard Branson is still


making gazillions and Prin­ cess Anne is still as abrasive as Carborundum. I’ll end with a lyric from my own Flat Cap Pack’s rep-


. ertoire, to the tune of “You Make Me Feel So Young” and replacing “And even when I’m old and grey...” etc. “And I’ll defy deterioration, Cos this is my g-g-g-g-gen-


eration. Damn right I’m not too old.” Enough said!


Clitheroe based school uni­ form specialist Trutex Ltd has announced that the sen­ ior management team have recently concluded a manage­ ment buy-out of the business. Trutex was previously


bought by Leeds-based Pri­ vate Equity investor Endless LLP in 2010. Since then the thriving


business has enjoyed a peri­ od of significant growth and development over the last five years, after having re­ structured its operations and invested in several new areas including an increasingly suc­ cessful performance sports­


wear brand, AKOA. , Commenting on the suc­


cess of the business, manag­ ing director Matthew Easter said: “Trutex has come a long way since Endless invested in the company in 2010, and they have supported us throughout its transition to the business that it has evolved into today. “However, as a manage­


ment team we are keen to continue driving the business forward into its next phase, and were able to conclude the acquisition from Endless; leaving us in a stronger finan­ cial position to further the fu­ ture strategy.”


Countrypursuits:Apony‘GrandNational'atanearlierRoyalLancsShow.


to win £500 for their school by illustrating the story of “Dai­ sy the cow, Barbara the sheep, Penny the pig and Tommy Tractor” having a grand day out at the big show. Primary schools will short-


list pupils’ entries before sending their very best ones for the final round of judging. Entries must be completed and with the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society, at Man­ or Court, Ribchlester, no later than Friday February 27th. The artist of the winning


; picturewillbepresentedwith a giant art box and a free fam­ ily ticket to the show as well as £500 for the school. The newly revived Royal


Lancashire Show is on the weekend of August 7th to 9th


atSalesbury. David Marriott, secretary


of the Royal Lancashire Agri cultural Society (www.royal lancs.co.uk) said: “The Royal Lancs Show is a fantastic day out for all the family and we can't wait to see the ideas for a front cover. “It’s been great to see how


much enthusiasm there is for the show and this campaign ties in perfectly with our am­ bitions of bringing more agri­ culture to the classroom”. The showis expected to at­


tract more than 30,000 visi­ tors. Attractions will include heavy horses, sheep shear­ ing, showjumping and coun­ tryside crafts, the quad bike stunt team Adrenaline Tours vintage tractors and steam engines, classic cars and mo­ torcycles, avenues of trade stands, the “Field of Food' showcasing local produce, and celebratory real ales and traditional ciders.


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KEN VAREY S\ “ TOWN AND COUNTRY Trutex in Clitheroe THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK


day party - then they remem­ bered that he was supposed, to be at his grandparents. He simply didn’t show up at the party and the ski slope had charged for the number of, children who were supposed to be there.'-'.; What kind of lessons have


Alex’s parents been teaching him? I hope that I have taught my children that you should keep your word in the big things or in the small things. If you commit to be some­


where you should be there. But we live in a society


where people in general have a fear of commitment, which is masked by talk of being “too busy”. ' I believe we see this fear ,


of commitment in the gener­ al breakdown in traditional


, family life. And I think we see this in


• the many voluntary organi­ sations who struggle to find people to serve as treasurers, secretaries and volunteers. Maybe its even why our for-


merly-dog-loving nation now has more cat owners than dog owners (dogs need more com­


mitment from their owners). - But if we can’t make com­


mitments we can’t be fully hu­ man. ' This Saturday is Valentine’s


Day. And at its heart real love is about commitment. “I loveyou. I will loveyou till


I die. I will loveyou when you are old, when you are ill, when you may riot even know who I am. 1 will love you as long as I have breath in my body.” Only a fully committed life


is real life. Rev. Andy Froud, Clitheroe Parish Church


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