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There will be bright spells and isolated showers today (Thursday).


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Sunshine and showers are expected again tomorrow (Friday), but Saturday is set to beafineand'drydey. ■ Following a cloudy day on Sunday fore­ casters are predicting intermittent heavy rain showers throughout the week, next week. Once again, umbrellas at the ready.


Kind-hearted locals going the extra mile for refugees in Calais FROMPAGE1


shelter and living equip­ ment, toiletries, non-per- . ishable food and much more.


• St James CE Church in Clitheroe has agreed to be a drop off point and anyone who would like to donate items can do so at the church office between 1 and 4 pm Monday to Friday.


' The couple, who are us­ ing their own money to pay '


■ for the ferry over to Calais; have had more than £1,500 donated to their cause via: http://gogetfunding.com/ clitheroe-to-calais-people- love-people/ “The money donated will hopefully pay for a van and • fuel and also allow us to go to


the local Lidl and get more supplies,” Emma explained. “As I am also aware we.


have people in need in this country, on our doorsteps, a percentage of what we get donated and the money we raise will go to the foodbank in Clitheroe and towards homeless charity Shelter’s work in Manchester.” The couple are also trav­


elling over to Calais this • Saturday to take part in the Solidarity Day of Action. Former Clitheroe Royal


Grammar School pupil Ben Kenyon (29), of Whalley, is also taking the lead to get vi- tal supplies to the refugees in Calais.


' The father-o'f-one an d .


. former journalist for the Clitheroe Advertiser’s sister


paper the Burnley Express, is supporting the East Lancs Refugee Solidarity Air Col­ lection, which was started alongside Blackburn girl Ash Mowbray, who worked at Workhouse Marketing in Ribchester. “We never knew each


other beforehand, but we got talking online about the growing refugee crisis in Eu­ rope,” said Ben who has a ba­ by son Sonny. “What propelled it'into


„ action was seeing the heart­ breaking image of that little boy’s lifeless body face down on a beach. “As a new father you can’t help but think of your.own


children and what this, poor child must have gone through as he drowned in the Mediterranean and in­ deed what thousands more have suffered making this dangerous crossing away from the horrors of ISIS, President Assad’s regime and the war that has torn Syria apart.”


f m m 8»***kNr “One fact that really hit


home,” he added,’"was that more than half the four mil­ lion-plus refugees who have fled Syria are children (un- deri8s). “We both felt we could no


longer just sit by, complain about the situation and not offer some.kind of help. These refugees are doctors,


nurses, teachers and foot-; ball coaches - people just


like us that need our help.” Drop off points for aid


have been set up with Michelle at the Rose and Crown pub, Castle Street, Clitheroe. Donations were


taken in there on Tuesday evening. There is also a collection


m m i £Ss'Sl m k W Sm im tip,; m ?~tS w m i


in Blackburn town centreon Saturday with similar events being planned at EwoodPark to collect aid to help peopleat the Calais camps and to sup­ port a group shipping aid to Greece and Syria itself. • “The response we have


. had from most people has been incredible,” said Ben. “it has been inspiring


to see thousands of ordi­ nary British people organ­ ising across the country to help this emergency in any way they can - including the kind-hearted people of East Lancashire. “We also want to speak to


local schools who maybe in­ terested in doing a winter/ Christmas shoe box appeal for refugees in Syria itself which has over seven million internal refugees.” For more details about the.


appeal visit: https://vvww.fa- cebook.com/groups/1626570


5i7600767/?fref=ts Meanwhile, a Ribble Val­


ley mum is organising a collection of aid for Syrian


refugees. Mother-of-two Rachel


Isherwood (34)was s0 move(* by recent pictures of the ref­


ugees’ plight that she decid­ ed to set up a collection of clothes and food. Rachel, who with her


husband, Martin, runs the Home Improvement Studio, in Read, said: “Whenyousee pictures of children suffer- • ing you really want to help and I thought this collection - was something I could do.” Donations’can be left at the Home Improvement Stu-


-dio and Pendle Hill Proper­ ties at their showrooms in Whalley Road, Read, from


’ where they will be sorted before being sent out to the refugee camps in Syria by the


charity Syria Relief. Rachel and her team are


looking for donations of


..: shoes - particularly mens shoes and trainers -jeans,,


tracksuits, T-shirts, trou-. sers, underwear, m e n ’s ja c k - ets, belts and socks, and any types of tinned food.


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The Home Improvement Studio can be contacted op


01282 680332 or at www. homeimprovementstudio. co.uk


By Eric Beardsworth eric.beardsworth@jpress.co.uk Twitter: @dithadvcertiser


Pupils are being left stranded if they have only cash, but no bus pass,to take the Bowland


High School bus.


Their worried parents have been told that pupils with passes - either free or paid- for - must take priority on the special service to the high school at Grindleton. . Single mum Samantha


Brunker (45) of Kirkmoor Close, Clitheroe, says her daughterCharlie (13) wasgiv- en the last seat on the bus by a teacher, leaving three pupils


still waiting. Now. she is worried she


may not get a seat at all, ei­ ther travelling to or from the


school. “I can’t afford the monthly payments for an annual bus


pass, so Charlie pays £3-55 a day cash,” said Samantha, a part-time shop assistant.. “When she got the last seat


Flag left flying at half mast has made the town look ‘foolish’


Clitheroe residents have been seeing red over a flag that has been left flying at half mast over the town’s castle. The Red Ensign was hoisted aloft on September 3rd to proudly symbolise Merchant Navy Day when tribute is paid to those who died in the First and Second World Wars. But there were feelings of anything but pride when the flag,


which was installed by Ribble Valley Borough Council, was left at half mast and was still flying almost two weeks after the event. Several people contacted the Advertiser to find


out why the flag had been left in place at half mast for so long and exasperated Clitheroe resident Mr Roland Hail­ wood said the slip up made the town look “foolish.”


He said: “Could someone explain to me why it is our local authority can organise a Food Festival and a Tour of Britain cycle stage yet smaller things just seem to get passed over? “The iconic view of Clitheroe Castle from Castle Street has


disappeared for the sake of abit of tree surgery. The Flag hasbeen stuck at half mast for twoorthreeweeks.Has the


local authority died?” A spokesman for Ribble Valley Council said the pulley mechanism used to erect the flag broke on the day it was b eing flown andithadremainedstuck halfway upthepole. Officers were now waitingfor a steeplejack to fix the pulley


and remove the stranded flag. A ©CLITHADVERTISER • M U K t IU 9 K ^ ^ FACEBOOK.COM/ADVERTISERTIMES54 Anger and dismay as iconic flag left flying at half mast N EW S IN B R IE F . . , : Crash into health centre vimll ‘We felt we had to do


A woman was taken to hospital after the car she was driving ., collidedwiththe wall at Clitheroe Health Centre car park. f Firefighters had to cut the roof off the car to free the woman following the accident which happened at 12-23 pm on Satur­ day afternoon.


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san Micra. She was placed onto a spinal board and taken by ambulance to Royal Blackburn Hospital as a precaution.


No other vehicles were involved and police officers also at­ tended the incident.


Kids’ play centre break in


Thieves broke into a children’s soft play area in Clitheroe just a couple of days before the business was due to celebrate its


first year anniversary. Various items were stolen from Leaping Lizards Play Centre, which is situated on Hawthorn Business Park, Lincoln Way, between the hours of 6-30 pm on Sunday and 8 am on Monday. The’centre was opened by Clitheroe couple Adele and Mar­ tin Aspinwall last year. Adele said that the centre is open as usual anditstillcelebratedits first birthday with a party on


Tuesday. Bollywood night event


There’s no room on the bus, pupils told


if I can’t get on the bus?’ • “There are other parents


like me, and it’s worrying for them. I contacted the coun­ ty council but theyjust said, they don’t have the money to do anything with the service.” Bowland head Mr John


Tarbox said: “1 have a great deal of sympathy for the par­ ents involved, and we are doing our best to represent


them. “Some people in certain


villages seem to be disadvan­ taged under new regulations. - “We.are speaking to the


County Council’s Safe Travel


. people about cases we know about, and I would ask par­ ents to contact the County


Council directly and make themawareoftheproblems.” Andrew Varley, Lanca­


shire County Council’s public transportmanager,said:“We


■ have a legal responsibility to provide transport for some of the pupils at Bowland High


School, with a guaranteed


. seaton thebus. These pupils h a v e travel passes forthebus.


. “Where there are seats


the other day, she came home upset and said ‘What will I do •


available, students who do not Have a legal entitlement


Samantha Brunker is anxious over her daughter’s school buses, (s) --------


to free home to school trans-. port can buy a season ticket. ■ “If there are still spaces


availableotherpupilscanpay onboard.


T • “Unfortunately this isn’t


always possible on busier buses. We’ve been working to resolve this issue and have been able to get a bigger bus for the686 route from Clithe­ roe to the school. While this


won’t guarantee a space for pupils who choose to pay on the bus, it should help im­ prove the situation. “We are still looking into this matter but, due to the


, current financial situation facing the County Council, we’re unable tasubsidise the cost of extra school buses for pupils who are not entitled to free transport.”


Stannah Dealer.


AuthenticBollywood dancers willbearrivinginNewton to­ morrow for a fund-raising evening with a difference. ABol- lywood Night has been organised by friends Jane Dickinson and Maggie Bentley, both of Dunsop Bridge, to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. The dinner dance takes place at Newton Village Hall from 7-3opm and there will be food, music, a raffle and auction. The evening is part of a fundrais­ ing campaign by the duo which next month sees them climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Tickets for tomorrow are £22-50 and are available by ringing 01200 448049 or 446800 or 01995 61777-


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Nine firefighters from Clitheroe and Hyndbum stations freedthe woman, believed to beinher 80s, from thegrey Nis­


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