DAVID Waddington, a 49-year-old barrister and former MP, was almost certain to be the next choice of Clitheroe Conservatives to fight the seat left vacant by the death of Mr David Walder.
And Blackburn 'super barmaid' Mary Bond was celebrating her 70th birthday -- despite her age she still worked full-time behind the bar.
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