TEACHER Paul Kabrna has become something of a TV celebrity in his school and he's not yet appeared on screen!

Boys at Burnley's Barden High School are buzzing with the news that 'sir' is going to appear on TV.

Mr Kabrna is a founder member of Craven & Pendle Geological Society and teaches mathematics and information technology at Barden.

He was asked to appear in the Bob Langley Country TV programme which will be shown in February or March next year to explain some of the more interesting features to be found in the 345 million year old carboniferous limestones of Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe.

Filming took place at the former limestone quarry, now home to an industrial estate, last weekend. Mr Kabrna discussed Waulsortian mud mounds which are a unique geological reef record of marine organisms.

He also talked about fossil crinoids, unusual marine sea organisms, which are common in the Salthill limestone.

Mr Kabrna said: "Over the years the limestone quarries of Clitheroe have yielded an amazing variety of genera and species. Nowhere else in England can match them."

Potter Jenny Eaton, from Cow Ark in Ribble Valley, will also appear in the programme.

Jenny, 47, was selected after the crew saw some of her work on display in the Platform Gallery, Clitheroe.

She said" "I got back from holiday and there was a BBC film crew waiting to interview me. It's all very exciting.

"They asked questions about how I started and wanted to look at some of my older work to see how I had progressed."

Jenny has been involved in pottery for about 20 years but only really took it up seriously about 12 years ago. In the last three or four years she has been able to work as a professional potter and sells work all around the country.

The Craven & Pendle Geological Society's web address is: http://freespace.virgin.net/craven.pendle. The society hosts monthly indoor lectures at Barden High School through Barden Community Association.

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