Accrington Observer from Accrington, Lancashire, England • 9

THE OBSERVER Friday 10 January 1992 'Arcade fury may make folk take law in their own Peto Clinic in London welcomed THE OPENING this week of a new centre for the treatment of cerebral palsy sufferers has been welcomed by a Hyndburn mother The Spastics Society decided to mark its 40th anniversary by going into partnership with the Peto Institute of Budapest where David Sanderson seven of Fielding Lane Oswaldtwistle was able to receive help after Observer readers raised a massive £35000 mother Suzanne said the opening of a branch of the Peto Clinic in London was a worthwhile move ANGRY residents are in danger of taking the law into their own hands over the controversial Ossie Arcade This is the fear of ward councillor Peter Britcliffe who has been inundated with complaints from people living in the shadow of the Union Road premises He said: is proving to be a great worry are in a very angry mood and have hinted that if we are not prepared to do anything about it then they A meeting is being held today between the arcade owner the police MP Mr Ken Hargreaves and the three ward councillors two Labour and one Conservative It will be held at the Park Lane home of Mr Hargreaves who said: am looking forward to some co-operation to help solve this problem is proving to be a real headache for residents and local councillors who are being swamped with complaints We are all anxious to sort something Councillor Britcliffe rejected claims by the ruling Labour group that there was nothing in planning legislation which would have allowed them to turn down the initial planning application for the arcade He commented: think that fact that it would represent a loss of amenity to local residents would be sufficient grounds on which to turn it down proof of the pudding is the fact that the council turned down a similar application in 1983 that time there has been no change in that aspect of the planning law yet it was seen fit to grant an applica tion in Since the arcade opened complaints have been received about: The appearance of the premises The number of youngsters in school uniform playing games during school hours The fear of youngsters becoming addicted to the machines even though they are for amusement only and not gambling However Councillor Bill Goldsmith challenged Councillor statement about planning permission He said that if the council had turned the application down it could have faced a legal bill running into tens of thousands of pounds if the applicant had appealed against the decision He said: council has tried to do everything in its power to solve the problem and is still prepared to leave no stone unturned until the situation improves Councillor Goldsmith said he was also unhappy that the meeting had been arranged at Mr house He believed it would have been more democratic to hold it at a neutral venue School denies cash accusation A union has accused the authorities at Rhyddings High School Oswaldtwistle of leaving money earmarked for the education of its pupils to untouched But Miss Joyce Moore head of the 980-pupil school has refuted the criticism from the county branch of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers The union the second largest teaching union in the country claimed that in March 1991 the governors and Miss Moore decided to save almost £127000 Instead of this money being spent on the education of children it was left to in the accounts because of a fear of overspending Miss Moore said: is a rather complicated sit REGULARS from the Stag Inn at Church have been bottling up their pennies to pile on the pounds for charity A huge bottle put on the bar by landlord Eric Constantine collected so much money that it paid for a slap-up New Year party for 50 local pensioners and a donation of £165 to Hargreaves House in Oswaldtwistle The party took place on Tuesday night along with the presentation to Mr Paul Conchie the manager of Hargreaves House Hostel for the Handicapped He is pictured centre with the landlord and fund-raiser Diane Hadley (S3677) Crimefile Crimefile aide to see for herself LABOUR Front Bencher Margaret Beckett is due in Accrington on Monday to see for herself how the recession has hit Hyndburn A member of Neil shadow treasury team she will be joined at Armitage Brick by prospective Parliamentary Labour candidate Greg Pope While there she will be given on-the-spot reports on jobs and the future of local industry which has been badly hit by the slump Mr Pope said: wih be making it clear to her that policy for a minimum wage would help many people in Hyndburn would not put people out of jobs as the Tories like to claim That is a cynical approach without any basis recent survey has shown that about 5000 workers in the constituency would benefit from the introduction of a minimum Mrs Beckett Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury will be highlighting plans for investment to revive manufacturing Dodgers fined £590 HYNDBURN magistrates imposed fines totalling £590 on eight people who did not have television licences Sharon Bartlett 31 of Grange Street Stacey Beardsworth 22 of Bel-field Road Sonya Wol-fenden 42 of Manchester Road and Sarfraz Khan 22 of Fountain Street all Accrington and Martine McGuinn 21 of Blackburn Road and Yvonne Brierley 22 of The Close both Rising Bridge were all fined £90 with £30 costs Sheila Parkinson 32 of Grange Street Accrington was fined £30 with £30 costs and Joseph Swindlehurst 33 of Cotton Street Accrington was fined £20 with £30 costs An accusation of not having a television licence against Wilfred Evans 59 of Norfolk Grove Church was withdrawn uation but it is a bit like an individual getting a financial statement from their bank does not tell you everything that you have to pay for in the future were alterations to be completed on the new technology unit and there was other work which had to be done on classrooms the most suitable time to do this was during the summer when the pupils were on Miss Moore said: I can understand the concern if it thought that the money was just being left to build up in a bank account we have got to look at the overall situation of the school all the nor of Meadow Street Accrington and Edith Douglas of Burns Avenue Oswaldtwistle both fined £30 with £30 costs Carol Wrightson of Commercial Street Rishton fined £20 with £35 costs and Julie Barton of Has-lingden Old Road Guide fined £20 with £30 costs Douglas was also fined £10 for owning a dog not held on a lead Fund-raising dog Lucky goes walkies AN APPEAL has gone out for the safe return of the fund-raising dog Lucky The sculptured animal went walkies on Tuesday afternoon when he was stolen from outside the front door of Pets and Ponies in Church Street Accrington Sad manageress Janet Storey said the three-foot-high fibre glass cocker spaniel had always been a favourite with customers as he sat outside the shop with a collection box round his neck She stressed that it would cost the RSPCA £80 to replace him so she was appealing for his return even if his box was empty She said: realise that he has been stolen for his money and that we will probably never get that back I would appreciate it if Lucky was returned undamaged anyone knows where he is I would be grateful if they could either return him or get in touch with Mrs Storey revealed that the box was emptied by the RSPCA just before Christmas so there could not have been much more than £5 in it Accrington Police are investigating the scaffolding tubes and cross braces valued at £330 from a plot on the allotments on Charles Street Clayton-le-Moors A THIEF took a £230 Raleigh mountain bike that had been left outside a house in Bran-twood Avenue Knuzden BURGLARS forced their way into a house in Dill Hall Lane Church and stole a video recorder and a black leather handbag and purse containing £5 They also took an envelope containing £195 TWO bottles of whisky a bottle of gin and three bottles of sherry went missing in a raid at a house in Royds Avenue Accrington along with a kettle and a torch A THIEF managed to walk out of menswear shop in the TWO gas fires suddenly became hot property after being stolen from an unoccupied house in Avenue Parade Accrington They were valued at £775 A TELEPHONE worth £250 was stolen from a house in Perth Street Accrington THIEVES snatched a bundle of 50 magazines from a in Nuttall Street Accrington Crafty thieves made a hot getaway after grabbing five sweaters worth £350 from Crafty Things in Cross Street Accrington A RIDER was saddled with a horse he cannot ride after thieves struck at Dill Hall Farm on Dill Hall Road Church and stole a brown leather saddle worth £80 VANDALS managed to smash a vandal-proof window when they broke several glass panes at Accrington Cemetery causing £90 worth of damage THIEVES forced their way into a house in Empress Street in Accrington and stole a music synthesiser 30 pre-recorded tapes and a belt made with dummy bullets Total value of the haul was £1060 A VIDEO recorder music centre two portable TV sets and a portable stereo radio worth a total of £2784 were stolen from a house on Willows Lane Accrington BURGLARS broke into a house on Noble Street Rishton and made off with £1 138-worth of goods including a CD disc player an amplifier a suitcase and a video recorder THIEVES lifted 20 an accusation of theft and asked for one further offence to be taken into consideration Miss Julie Reddish prosecuting said the radio-cassette was stolen from a car which Mrs Mary Brindle had left parked in Blackburn Road Rishton Dunstan later told police that he had Arndale Shopping Centre in Accrington with five pairs of grey trousers The garments are worth £350 A FAST-TRACKING video valued at £350 was stolen from a house in Lemonius Street Accrington LEYBURN Close in Accrington was the target for thieves who broke into a house and stole a £200 video recorder CASH and cigarettes were taken from a vending machine at the Hyndburn Bridge Hotel in Clayton-le-Moors Cigarettes worth £240 and £40 in cash were stolen A PURSE containing £40 in cash was stolen from a house in Bridge Street Rishton A MOUNTAIN bike worth £225 was taken from a house on Maple Street Great Harwood dent that this will be his last appearance in Mr King added that the cassette player had soon proved to be unsellable Dunstan was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £137 compensation with £25 costs Seven owners collared Led-astray youth threw away loot SEVEN dog-owners were fined by Hyndburn magistrates for having pets not wearing a collar with a name and address They were: Jacqueline Broad of Worsley Court Oswaldtwistle fined £50 with £40 costs Lois Dewell of Wordsworth Close Oswaldtwistle and Ian Dunston of Victoria Street Clayton-le-Moors both fined £30 with £35 costs Andrew John Con A TEENAGER decided to steal a radio-cassette from a parked car after getting into bad company Hyndburn magistrates heard However Michael Gary Dunstan found that he was unable to sell the stolen item and had to throw it away Dunstan 18 of Pickup Road Rishton admitted thrown the cassette player away Mr Peter King defending said Dunstan had committed the offence after getting involved with a group of young men in Rishton who had led him astray He added: spoken to Michael and his parents I am confi-.