Anita and Alan Whalley, who keep the Pendle Witch Inn - and "Old Mother Demdike."

From an Express Roadshow feature by Allan Halstead:
For this feature (which included the Express Evening, planned to entertain villagers in the evening) Allan Halstead aimed to "get the low-down on the current controversy in this lovely village, set in the shadow of Pendle." He said: " It has to do with the choice between work and leisure." It concerned the future of vacant land near the centre of the village - should it be used as a site for new industrial premises, or should it be developed for leisure-pastimes? Most of the land is the site of the former Stuttard family mill and Allan found that the villagers were very much divided about its future use. Allan commented "Why not have both."

He comments on the arrival of Mr Derek Machell, his wife Margaret and their four daughters and one son who have just left the White Hart Burnley to run the White Hart, Sabden. Leaving the Sabden White Hart is Mrs Esther Cuthbert who is only moving four doors down the road where her daughter and son-in-law have a grocers' and mixed business. The Pendle Witch Inn and its publicans Anita and Ann Whalley is also mentioned.

Also mentioned are Mr Bill Rimmer, a Sabden resident and Mr Martin Hoare from Blacko with their new company Marbill Development (Sabden) Ltd. They are one of several small industries giving the old Victoria Mill a new lease of useful life. They make "castable polyurethanes" - a rubber-type material with a high performance which outstrips rubber - supplying widely diverse enterprises such as North Sea oil drilling and water ski-ing. Pendle Furniture Ltd, now well-established in the former Union Mill are an enterprising firm who have increased their labour strength from employing 20 to the present 65 and hope to expand with even more jobs.