FORMER police officer for Blackburn and Accrington, Chief Superintendent William Abbey Watkinson, was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the New Year Honours.
And Andrea Graham, weighing 6lb 4oz, whose mother lived in Mitchell Street, Clitheroe, was the first new born on 1979's wintery first day.
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