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the Ribble Valley Council in its objections to the rise. Its letter to the Traffic Commis­ sioners says that the escala­ tion of fares has more effect on rural areas than elsewhere and hits lower income groups harder. Those using buses to go to work were experiencing real hardship because of exist­ ing high fares and the low frequency of services. The council urges the


Bowland Forest Higher Divi­ sion’s representative, said passengers would never return to the buses until the use of the motor car is curtailed.


Bill Fleming, Langho, who said that private operators could be able to make some rural services pay because of their lower overheads. But Mr James Lecdham,


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Mr Leedham, who privately


CARL RUNG (18), of Hodder Grove, Clitheroe, was fined £5 by Clitheroe magistrates when he admitted urinating in a public place.


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burn, of Mellor, said Ribble ought to give up the routes on which it gives hardly any service. He was supported by Coun.


commissioners to make a better effort at marketing services and to consider providing new ones to exploit the growing potential of tourism. Chairman Mr John Black­


suggestions made at a meet­ ing of the Ribble Valley Parish Councils Liaison C om m i t te e when th e company’s proposed fare increases were discussed. Members agreed to back


BUS FARES RIBBLE Motor Services should consider surren d e r in g some of it s ne g l e c t ed rural bus services to give private operators the chance of making a go of poorly served routes. This was just one of the


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CLITHEROE postman Mr Cl iff Wrench has opened his last letter box and hung up his sack after 40 years’ service in which he has braved ice, snow, wind, and rain to deliver the mail.


the war Mr Wrench (60) was up at 4 a.m. and out on his bicycle an hour later with a sack full of letters.


to abandon his bike and trudge across fields carpeted with snow to reach isolated farms and houses.


Sometimes he would have Every working day since


In 1934 he became an auxiliary postman delivering in Chatbum and later Gisburn Cotes. When war broke out he joined the Army and, as an anti-aircraft gunner, served in France and Greece.


the only life around at that time in the morning but Mr Wrench, of Michell Street, was happy with his lot. “It was a grand job and I


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THE recommended changes in the Ribble Valley Council's mobile office service were generally welcomed last week by the Parish Councils' Liaison Committee. A dozen villages where the


service is little used will be removed from the route, but the office will make longer stops at about 15 places at rate collection times. Coun. Miss Alice Alston


(Sabden) said the longer stops would prove very useful. Long queues had formed at the mobile office when rates were due and this had thrown the service completely out of schedule. The new idea would be far bettor for everyone, she commented. But Coun. Miss Alston


mobile office, I would have thought we would have had more rates in than ever before. It is so much easier for the ratepayers now,” she added.


expressed surprise at the largo number of people who had not yet paid their rates. With the introduction of the


changes during his service — not least in the amount of wages paid to Post Office employees. When he started as tea boy


thousands of miles on his trusty bike in all sorts of co n d i tio n s . Mr Wrench particularly remembers the winter of 1946 when snow drifts blocked the roads and he had to cover much of his round on foot.


man’s job in Clitheroe in 1946. Since then his work has taken him all over the Ribble Valley, and in particular Bolton-by- Bowland, Worston, Wadding- ton, Chatburn and Pendleton. He has covered many


He was captured by the Germans in Crete and spent the last part of the hostilities in prisoner-of-war camps in various parts of Europe. He returned to his post­


nasty experiences with dogs and has been to hospital several times for anti-tetanus injections. “People tend to think it’s funny for a postman to be attacked by dogs, but when you’ve had nasty big bites on your hand it isn’t so amusing,” he said.


come to know and make friends with many of his "regulars", “The public are generally pretty friendly although you do come across the odd awkward one,” he said.


marked by two presentations. Blackburn’s head postmaster Mr Reg Rand presented the Imperial Service Medal and accompanying certificate of merit, a letter of commenda­ tion from the Managing Direc­ tor of Posts, Mr Alec Currall,


Mr Wrench’s service was Inevitably Mr Wrench has


He has had his share of


was made at a dinner at the E d is fo rd B r id g e Inn. Clitheroe Postmaster Mr Rob Wilson handed over a toaster bought by his workmates, and wished Mr Wrench a happy retirement. Mr Wrench was accom


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IN our picture are Mr


Devolution: It’s a thoroughly bad measure


THIS week there was publ ished a pamphlet entitled “Devolution: The Eng l i sh Dimens ion” which is another of those consultative documents much favoured by the Government. It is difficult to give the


for that, of course; as no one has a clue about the Irish, Scots and Welsh Dimensions yet, it might be thought a trifle premature to settle our affairs first.


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have noticed, still recovering from the throes of local government reorganisation which had as its two objects, greater efficiency, and, a phrase that occurs again in the new document, "to bring government closer to the people." It's a great sounding phrase, but I wonder if it has happened? To judge from some of your letters to me the answer would seem to be a resounding “No." What we are all certain of is


that government, national and local, lias become considerably more expensive. It has also become more complicated and bureaucratic and to many people it seems as if more and more people are drawing larger and larger salaries administering the lives of others. This week it was announced


that more than half of the young people graduating from universities go into some form of public administration rather than the professions, industry or commerce.


is considering separate systems of administration for Scotland and Wales, while no one knows what will happen in England and few seem even to care what will happen in Ireland.


At the moment Parliament HULLABALOO CINEMA


and a wealthy Englishman in Norway find themselves on a strange mission when they take off in the giant airship Hyperion to search for a missing youth in "The. Island at the top of the world,” the film at Clijteroe’s Civic Hall next week. Donald Sinden and David Hartman are among the stars of this Walt Disney production. For light ..relief there is d “Winnie the'Pooh : and Tigger too” film. '■


An American archaeologist Maybe this is what the


Consultative Document calls "flexibility," but I suspect we have got ourselves into our p re sen t position simply because, the Conservative Party has lost seats to the Nationalists in Scotland and the Labour Party to Plaid Cymru in Wales. Both fear they will lose, more at the General Election unless- they do something to placate the • demand for separatism: ' Now there arb'jjenuine


advocates of devolution in the Scottish Unionist Party and in the Labour Party north of the


We are in fact, as you may


prize for its most absurd sent­ ence as it contains many, but certainly among the runners- up must be “At this stage the Government do not them­ selves advocate any specific course of action in England." There is a very good reason


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by DAVID WALDER


Border. Nevertheless, neither Party agrees within itself, lienee all the hullabaloo within the Shadow Cabinet and the disputes which will occur when the Labour Party is asked to obey the Party’s call to vote for actual devolution legislation. In those circumstances


Welsh will become “special," and Ireland will still be administered from Westmins­ ter by Englishmen.


PROBLEMS So if the Devolution Bill is


passed we shall have estab­ lished a governmental system which is neither fair nor logi­ cal; and, equally important, anyone who thinks that we will by these moans keep fanatical nationalists quiet is living in a dream world. So, after Devolution, there


would then be represented by one MP at Westminster, County Councillors at Preston, Borough Councillors at Clitheroe, Accrington,


will be as many problems as before, if not more. For despite the Consultative Document will not the English say “What about us?" And that in my opinion will be the b ig g e s t d an g e r of all. Demands for a North West Assembly for instance. Yct another layer of, bureaucracy and officialdom. More meet­ ings and sub-committees and acres more of paper, minutes, reports and the like.. The Clitheroe constituency


Wales will be given Assemb­ lies, but with no attempt at equality thereafter. Scotland, numerically, is already over­ represented at Westminster, but th a t s itu atio n will continue. Ulster on the same basis is under-represented but that, too, will continue. At the same time Scots MPs will still be permitted to vote on matters entirely of English concern, for instance trans­ port and education, but their own domestic measures will be d e a lt with by their Assembly. - In short, the Scots and the


the Devolution Bill this week because I consider it to be a thoroughly bad measure. By its terms Scotland and


what does an ordinary MP like myself, representing an English constituency, do? I shall happily vote against


Burnley and Colne, a share of a European MP at Brussels and a representative on a North West Council as well.


REFERENDUM Will we be better governed


in consequence? Will the deci­ sions made be quicker, fairer and more acceptable? Will government truly be brought nearer the 52,000 people who will be paying considerably more for it?


tion of Scots and Welshmen have voted SMP and Plaid Cymru. Is not the answer a referendum to ascertain what people want before Parlia­ ment decides to divide up this small kingdom into even smal­ ler and more costly mini- Luxembourgs?


Britain, is in the middle of an economic crisis which is bound to be of considerable duration. Does anyone, save perhaps Mr Wedgwood Benn, really believe that the solution to our problems lies in more Govern­ ment control and more State expenditure?


Britain, the whole of


shall be debating from now until Christmas and beyond, only interrupted by Mr Healey’s mini-Budget. We have every chance therefore of deciding in the New Year that though we hope to be superbly administered we shall be broke.


Yet that is just what we


Presentation to former vicar


and carols at Low Moor on Sunday will be taken by chur­ chwarden Mr Kenneth Guy. Mr Hunt’s successor is likely to be announced next month.


from the ministry last month to take a job in industry, is to return to St Paul's to conduct a service of carols and the presentation will take place beforehand. A service of nine lessons


LOW MOOR parishioners are to make a presentation to their former Vicar, the Rev. Alan Hunt, on Christmas Eve. Mr Hunt, who resigned


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