www.carlukegazette.co.uk THE GAZETTE, Thursday, August 25 2011 NEWS 3 Breached bail Another hearty walk JUST a few short years ago a thank-you for the bypass in her pyjamas heart condition left Lanarkian operation which restored his A YOUNG woman released on bail Leith Mulvaney with hardly health. BIGGAR with a 7pm to 7am curfew condition enough energy to take a slow Before he knew it, pals, was in breach of it when police officers stroll once around Lanark relatives and even total DENTAL Loch; this month he strode strangers joined in and it has found her – lying drunk in the road in SURGERY her pyjamas at 2am on Wednesday. around it 14 times. quickly become a major event The officers allowed her to dress And he wasn’t alone as on the Lanark charity fund- We are now before taking her into custody, and friends and family joined him raising calendar. accepting Nicole Walls (20) of 40 Rose Street, for the third annual sponsored On Saturday there was the new patients Lesmahagow, admitted breaching the walk around the loch in aid of best turnout yet and he hopes NHS and private bail condition when she appeared at the British Heart Foundation. to have topped last year’s Lanark Sheriff Court later in the day. Three years ago Leith near-£1000 total once all this Please contact The curfew had been imposed as part planned to walk the 14 lap year’s sponsorship has been 01899 of bail granted on August 9, but she equivalent of a half marathon totted up; the tombola stall was also subject to other bail orders around the Loch, sponsored run on the loch shore raised 220486 from July and September last year, and for the charity by way of a £80 alone. March this year. Officers had found her on Abbeygreen FAMILY AFFAIR: Leith Road, and the court was told that she Mulvaney with wife Jan, sister Joyce, had been heavily intoxicated and had brother-in-law Dougie Jardine and Competitive Prices on all leading brands; Twyford, not responded to the police initially, granddaughters Jessica and Olivia Carron, Tavistock, Tre Mercati, RAK, Porcelanosa then had told them that she was plus Pippin the dog during their Bathroom Packages from £999 - £3,900 breaking her curfew. hearty walk round the loch in aid of We can create the perfect package to suit your “Is it time for this lady to go to prison?” the British Heart Foundation home & budget Sheriff Alastair Brown asked. Latest 2011 Kitchen Ranges Her solicitor said that he hoped not. Fully fitted Kitchen Packages - £3,995 “She was found lying on the roadway Call Today for full details 01555 667788 early this morning, dressed in her pyjamas,” said the solicitor. 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These being run by the same Order the court, and a number of other cases Lanark’s wartime history, a story eventually cropped up over half a which ran the Smyllum Orphange WITH LYNN had been deferred until September 29, HE last time two that can now be told thanks to century later when Bill published a in Lanark. Classes re-commence in the hope that she could attend a 12- elderly Frenchwomen an old photograph stirring the book about his dad’s old ship. “They tell me that they had a Thursday 25th August, 8pm week fitness course. returning to Lanark curiosity of an outsider. “I was intrigued by these very happy time at Lanark and Now, back in court facing a fresh T That person is 71-year-old Bill photographs of children and nuns everyone was wonderful to them; next month saw the Forster, an independent publisher on the deck of a warship the day they have very fond memories of at EU Church, Lanark charge, she was in a very serious Classes also held at Hamilton & Blantyre position. town it still had four in Hertfordshire whose late father, before Boulogne was captured by the place and its people and have Walls was also subject to a bail kirks, three cinemas, two Lieutenant William Forster, found the Germans and wanted to find decided to make a return visit in 1st class half price with this ad. supervision order from July and himself, in 1940, on a Royal Navy out who they were and why they September,” said Bill railway stations, a thriving destroyer, taking part in the were aboard HMS Venomous. There is one final, poignant Tel: 07702382378 probation, with a condition of alcohol racecourse and a Provost counselling, and her solicitor added desperate evacuation of allied “I contacted a reporter on a footnote to this tale. that she had alcohol issues and and town council. troops and civilians just ahead of local paper in Boulogne and he Says Bill: “Actually, one of the bereavement issues. Having said that, there were no the invading Nazi juggernaut. published two articles, asking French party which arrived in LOCH GARAGE “People have been bending over Lanimer celebrations for the then That ship, HMS Venemous, was for further information on the Lanark back in 1940 is still there! It backwards to give you chances, and childhood pals Jacqueline Vicart decidedly creaky, but anything that incident.” was one of the nuns, who was, in Accident Repairs you had the chance to apply for a and Marie-Paule Sergeant to enjoy floated was being used to get those The result of this appeal was fact, English by birth, who’d gone course which might have turned your during wartime ... and sweeties in France to the relative safety of beyond Bill’s wildest dreams and to serve in the French orphanage Insurance Estimates life around,” Sheriff Brown told her. were strictly rationed. Britain and this included a party started a history trail that led all and found herself coming to “That is the only reason I am not going It was a very different Royal of 27 French schoolgirl waifs and the way from the wartorn coast of Smyllum and decided to stay on CAR & to send you to prison. Burgh they left near the end of the nuns caring for them from an France to Lanark. their after the girls and the Sisters He deferred sentence on the latest World War Two; even their home orphanage near Boulogne. Two of the girls – now elderly returned to France after the war. offence also to September 29, telling here for four years, the Smyllum The sight this desperately ladies – in the pictures got in touch She spent the rest of her life there VAN HIRE her to be of good behaviour, and Orphange, has gone, transformed relieved party made was not one namely Jacqueline Vicart and and I hear she eventually died and HYNDFORD ROAD, LANARK urging her to apply for the course. into luxury flats. you usually saw on the deck of Marie-Paule Sergeant. was laid to rest in Lanark.” 01555 663907 Punched man WESTWOODS for better floor coverings five or six times A family business ~ established over 40 years Immediately after leaving court Carluke man Stephen Gould got into UP TO trouble, by assaulting a friend of his 1 2 RUG SPECIALS girlfriend. / He punched Andrew Russell PRICE We must clear selected repeatedly in the face, causing so much injury that the victim thought his jaw Rug Stock Now at BEST PRICES EVER had been broken. ● CARPETS ● VINYLS Back at Lanark Sheriff Court on ● Wednesday Gould (22) of 12 Islay LAMINATE FLOORING Gardens, Carluke, faced two charges. ● CONTRACT FLOORING His plea of not guilty was accepted to a ● ESTIMATES WITHOUT charge that on June 13 in Hope Street OBLIGATION Almost last out...heading for Britain as Boulogne fell and elsewhere in Lanark, on a train Orphans of the storm...schoolgirls on the ship leaving Boulogne ● EXPERT FITTING and then on land between the station ● FULL HOUSE DISCOUNTS and Unitas Crescent, Carluke, he tried Let’s Walk on a Bargain! to incite Laura Brown to breach bail AN INDEPENDENT COMPANY WITH NO CONNECTION conditions which prevented her from TO ANY OTHER CARPET RETAILER IN LANARK contacting him. 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