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Farewell gifts vicar
carol service at St Paul’s, Low Moor, the former Vicar, the Rev. Alan Hunt, was presented with several gifts. Mr Hunt, who recently left Low Moor to live in Walton-le- Dale, was given a record player and cheque by Mr- Harry Fox on behalf of the parishioners. F rom the Guides he
received two records and from the Sunday school a copy of Pilgrim’s Progress, handed over by rose queen Zoe Wilson. Mr Hunt’s wife Audrey was presented with a bouquet by Mrs Alice Allen. Mr Hunt took the carol service and sang a solo in the candle-lit church. Lessons were read by members of the choir and Sunday school and there was a packed congrega tion. Mr Hunt also took the
Minister, the Rev. W. G. Walker. .
Read, were well attended. On Christmas eve, the crib was blessed at a children’s service, and the Vicar, Canon Paul Schofield, conducted midnight Communion. On Sunday there was a
Services at St John’s,
service of nine lessons and carols, the choir and congre gation combining, to sing
carols. Lessons were read by Andrew Edge (choirboy), Josephine Russell (Guides), Paul Gunson (server), Mrs Mary Wilkinson (United Reformed Church), Miss T. Smith (Mothers’ Union), Jennifer Shaw (Brownies), Paul Moran (Cubs), Carl Bardsley (Scouts) and the Vicar. Celebrations at St Helen's
midnight Communion service, which again proved popular. Christmas morning Commun ion was taken by the Rev. W. Jenkins, a retired minister living in. Clitheroe. He was assisted by lay preacher Mr Ken Guy, who also conducted Evening Prayer. Sunday morning services
were conducted by the Curate of St James’s, the Rev. J. Taylor, and Mr Guy, who also assisted .Mr Jenkins at the evening prayers. Midnight Communion at
Whalley P ar ish Church began in the traditional way with the chancel darkened as the Vicar, the Rev. R. A. Harpur, read the Gospel. After the Vicar had blessed
the crib, he gave Communion to a large congregation. The choir led the hymns. On Christmas morning, there was a family Communion. During the service, conducted by the Vicar, children sang round the crib. Mass was celebrated at
Midnight on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day and Sunday at the Church of the English Martyrs, Whalley. The services were taken by the Parish Priest, Fr T. Murray.
midnight Eucharist at St Ambrose, Grindleton, than any other service at the church over Christmas. It was conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. E. M. Sidebottom, who also took the Christmas Day service when the preacher was reader Mr Harold Rose. There was a well-attended
More1 people attended the
also conducted all services. On Christmas eve, the choir made its annual tour of the village, ending at Downham Hall. Priest-in-charge, the Rev.
J. G. Cole, conducted the se rv ic e s at All S a in ts ’ Church, Pendleton. Many villagers turned out, espe cially for. the' children’s carol service and blessing on Christmas eve afternoon and the midnight Communion. O rg a n is t was Miss E. Bannister.
eve midnight Communion and Christmas day services at Christ Church, Chatburn, were conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. N. Maddock. Organ ist was Mr N. Lawson.
Well-attended Christmas
Church, Waddington, began with a Eucharist at midnight on Christmas eve. The service was conducted by the Vicar of Waddington, Canon C. F. Good child, and organist was Mr Geoffrey Hitchen. A large congregation sang carols. Communion and Eucharist services were held on Christ mas morning, Canon Good- child officiating. The church had, as usual,
been beautifully decorated by members of the congregation, flowers and holly enhancing the church’s architectural beauty. Organist on Sunday, when services were held at the normal times, was Mr P. A. Cunliffe.
Services at St Catherine’s,
West Bradford, were also led by Canon Goodchild. There were large congregations and the church was decorated. Organist was Miss Elsa Carr. Village organisations were
(Autumn Club), Mr W. S. Hasler (Parish Council), Mrs M. Jackson (WI), Mr Green (Naval Association), Mrs B. Cooper (play group) and the Vicar, the Rev. P. H. Dear- den. Chorister David Taylor sang a solo. The Epistle at the family service on Christmas morning was read by the verger, Mr J. Ellis, and the Gospel by the Vicar. At Communion on Christ
represented at a carol service at St Leonard’s, Langho, on Christmas afternoon. Lessons were read by Mrs A. Brady
Methodist Chapel on Christ mas eve was led by the Minis ter, the Rev. A. Ward Jones, who ' also (gave the address. Miss G. Parkinson was organist.
The service at Chatburn
Peter and Paul's Church, Bolton-by-Bowiand, were conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. J. W. Winder. A candle lit carol service was well a t te n d e d . A midnight Communion was held on Christmas eve and a family service on Christmas Day.
Christmas services at SS
Shepherd Street Mission, Preston, conducted a family service at Chipping Congre gational Church on Sunday afternoon and spoke about his work. A collection from a carol service at Chipping has been sent to the Mission.
The Rev. J. Coppack of the
brated at St Andrew’s, Slaid- burn' on Christmas eve and Christmas Day by-the Rector, the Rev. G. H. Gaze.
Holy Communion was cele Letters to the Editor
Merit not emotion is needed on planning matters
THE last meeting of the Ribble Valley Borough Coun c il Pl a n n i n g Committee provided a revealing insight into the disturbing situation now enveloping this valley. I do not wish to dwell on
recent council proceedings give the impression some times that it is the leadership and officers against the rest. As we move into 1977 with
any individual application, but, as I have pointed out in your columns before, the public, business and even the hard-working planning staff have the right to expect that planning applications are dealt with on merit and not on emotion. I t may am u se some
members of the council to be constantly suggesting that the recommendations of the offic ers in these matters are wrong. But scrutiny of a considerable number of planning rejections in recent months have been against the advice of officers at meetings.
dence in the excellence of its officers, it has the remedy in its own hands. If, on the other hand as is the case, the offic ers are doing their impartial public duty in such matters, then they should be listened to with much greater care and less disregard of the facts than this committee and its members appear to have.
was a family service at Slaid- burn Methodist Church, led by the Minister the Rev. A. Ward Jones.
On Christmas Day there St-Mary’s, Chipping, was
service of nine lessons and carols on Sunday afternoon. Readers were headmaster Mr A. Meadows; pupils Pamela Robinson and John Roberts; Mrs L. E. Ingham (Guild), Mrs B. M. Goodall (trea surer), Mr D. Moir (sides m an ) , Miss M. Brown (Methodist Church), Mr Rose (reader) and Mr Sidebottom. Carol services started the
mas eve, the readings were given by Miss L. Ashworth, Dr G. Bland (headmaster of Brockhall school) and the Vicar. The church was cand lelit for all services and there were good attendances. A service of Communion
was held at Old Langho C h u r c h on Ch r is tm as morning. For the Christmas eve
celebrations at St Barth olomew's, Tossidc, and St James's, Dale Head. They were taken by the Rev. J. S. Salisbury, who also conducted the Ghristmas eve midnight
Communion.at Tosside. There were no services at either church on Christmas Day, but there was the usual one at St Bartholomew’s on Sunday.
called a Christingle was cele brated by 60 children at Read United Reformed Church.
An old Moravian custom,
packed congregation for a service of carols and readings. Services were taken by the
On Sunday, there was a
midnight Communion at St Leonard’s, Downham, the choir processed round the darkened church, carrying candles and singing the carol “While shepherds watched”. At tlie Sunday evening carol service for adults the choir again processed by candlelight and sang "Angels from the realms of glory”. The service, based on the
story of Christmas, was a modern arrangement of nine lessons and carols. Readers were Claire Lund, Helen Chard, Mrs E. Scott, Angela Walmsley, Miss Florence Smithies, Diane Smith, David Buckle and Mrs S. Smith. Soloists were Mrs Smith and Mrs Scott. The Vicar, the Rev. F. E. Chard, acted as narrator and
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full for the midnight Mass on Christmas eve, concelebrated by Parish Priest by Fr. Fran cis Duggan and his brother Fr Louis Duggan, of London. They also shared the three se rv ic e s on Chr is tmas morning.
attended the Christmas Eve Midnight Communion and carol service at Gisburn Parish Church. The Christ mas Day family service and afternoon evensong werealso well-supported. All services were conducted by the Vicar, i Canon S. A. Selby.
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tions for all the services at St Bartholomew’s Church, Chipping, especially the midnight Communion on Christmas Eve. There were two services on Christmas Day and the usual one on the Sunday.
Full chapel
THE Jollie chapel at Barrow was packed for a village festi val of carols and nine lessons. Lessons were read by members of the parish coun cil, the Barrow ladies group, the WI, and the United Reformed Church. Soloist was Mrs Ruth Johnson, of Clitheroe, and organist Mr Roger Altham.
There were large congrega
a political point, but it is fortu nate that the present leader ship of the majority party have their heads more firmly screwed on than some of the backwoodsmen and women who claim to owe them allegiance. Scrutiny of some
One does not want to make If the council has no confi
ever more difficult times for every branch of government, the leadership of our council and its officers are going to be faced with putting some p re t ty unpalatable facts before council and public. Even the Prime Minister has suggested that our way of Government could be in jeopardy unless we are
careful. I t is, therefore, vital in
tion I put before the council was dealt with in council in a way in which great bitterness could have been engendered. Councillors seem blissfully ignorant that what was at stake was the jobs of local people. But if that was all it would have been bad enough. . I am quite capable of deal
ing with these matters on my own and the Advertiser has been kind enough to print my reply to the councillors. But what horrified me is what happened since that report appeared. My telephone rang constantly with calls from other people in the valley who have had similar experiences to mine, pledging their support if I required it. Planning is a long-term matter. It may seem a fair
PLAYING TO GALLERY
AFTER sor t ing the wheat from the chaff, I find no constructive criti cisms in Mr W. Wilson’s letter he is stumbling
in the dark. All that I have said has obvi
ously fallen on stony ground, which is understandable if, as I presume, he is a person blinkered and peering through a microscope when searching for the truth.
verbosity can add to his case — if he has one. So let us get on with what lie believes and ignore his “Ali shuffle” which is only playing to the gallery.
No amount of acrobatic The main problem that
seems to have scratched him in a tender place concerns my reference to the “mindless theories of the evolutionist.”
since the 19th century, science — or the so-called vision of evolution — can give no satis factory account of mind and; as such a term suggests to me, a degree of intelligence. It is only when Dr Blakemore recently admitted a trend towards such a force that I saw a turn of the tide.
Does he not admit that,
mindless interpretation of nature in the form of natural selection has held sway in many schools of thought. Now we find that those who travel in darkness have seen a great light.
motive power, not a "mind less” idea of survival of the fittest, particularly as the end product is not fit to survive. And he should not have to
watching or the studying of plant life. I am concerned with the
look far to find a reason for my effusion on such matters. For it is usually at this time of year that one tries to write informatively on the natural world! I was wrong, or so it seems
from Mr Wilson’s letter, to give serious thought at a period when all thinking persons seek a correct under standing of life and the natural evolution of things in general. This naturalist has been
with the lengthening days and stronger light many will see things with a more advanced understanding — provided the light is not too blinding for those who have for too long been blinkered by certain theories. NATURALIST.
Until quite recently, the Close-knit
community IT IS easy to appreciate how difficult it is for Coun. Greon to understand the feelings of a
blinded by this light. As our civilisation seems to be getting nowhere fast, am I to take it that he is a believer in natural selection?
Perhaps Mr Wilson is
instructive when developing this controversy, particularly’ in a world which appears to have lost its way in a set of theories propounded by science.
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SCOUTS’ AWARDS
TWO Scouts from Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, will shortly be receiving Chief Scouts’ awards. John Stur- rock, of Singleton Avenue, Read, and Christopher Pollard, of Simonstone Lane, Simonstone, will be given the awards at the Diocesan Conference House, Craw- shawbooth, on January 17th.
I will admit that science has provided us with motor cars, electricity, bombs and so on, but the very process of nature can only be correctly inter preted by a philosophical approach. Darwin and-the Huxleys, in their faith in natural selection, did far more harm than good. But like
close-knit community such as ours. Ciithcroe has existed for
experienced the true family spirit and particular sense of humour of our townspeople can appreciate the chagrin of being virtually taken over by outsiders who have never had such privileges. Wars have been fought for less. It is almost synonymous
1,000 years and has known what it is to be a borough since 1558, seeking its own destiny democratically for its council to approve or disap prove. Only those who have
more concerned with the underlying purpose or life force — call it what you will — when others are content just to watch the birds and the bees. Come what may, let us hope
these difficult times that those who care about democ racy and our way of life, and are in public positions, should act in the public interest and in a way that gives confidence — not frustration and dismay. A recent planning applica
game to object to every applicant who wants to extend his business, move into new premises, improve his land or his farm, build new bams or loose boxes. But planning is about inves
tment. Hand down many deci sions which are against devel opment and for those who are opinion moulders in this field you are creating an adverse climate which could have seri ous long-term effects on investment and employment potential in this valley. The collapsing public trans
port system, the lack of inves tment in our village shops, the
lack of new industry which has crept over this valley in the last 20 years has been a slow, insidious result of bad plan ning policies of the past. Our council officers' have
produced some very fine work in the field of architectural studies for the district. They
' are conscious of the need for . conservation. But conservation must be a
two-way animal — conserva tion of resources, as well as of buildings. It is to be hoped that in the privacy of political group meetings, outside coun cil, the sensible leadership can bang some sense into the insensible before they do last ing damage to the valley. Clitheroe will rue the day it
discourages the development of industry; future genera tions in this valley will suffer the effects of bad planning decisions now. We have been warned. ANTHONY M. PERRY. Avenue Road, Hurst Green
The Left not in control
HAVING been in politics for many years it always saddens me when an intelligent person like Mr Robinson, Tory agent for Clitheroe, allows his good commonsense to be superse ded by hysteria. Unfortu nately that is what it means when he says the Labour Party appears to have been taken over by the extreme Left wing. We have a Labour Chancel
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job to do as the Right wing of the Tory Party, that is to pull back the party when it is moving too far away from its political ideals. The truth of
this.can be seen from the way Mrs Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph are trying to pull the Tory Party back to its true blue colour and away from the pale pink policies of Mr Heath. CLARIE GERRARD, Secretary, Longridgc Labour Party, 3 Springs Road, Longridgc
Stop late sittings, says MP
ALL-NIGHT sittings of Parli ament would soon be a thing of the past if Clitheroe Divi
sion MP Mr David Walder had his way. Mr .Walder this week
with the feelings of a child fostered into a strange home to be dictated to by new parents who just don’t under stand. Clitheronians feel like that,
Coun. Green, when the Ribble Valley Authority majority steps in to overrule our local minority on matters that only concern us. I see no reason for you to
object to my use of the word “foreigners” which, according to the dictionary, can be defined as “stranger" or “not belonging to.” I would agree that the word
"bedevilled" may have been ill-chosen. I would regret it if the year should close on anything but an harmonious note and I wish you a.happy term of office in 1977. CHARLES MUSSON 15 Pimlico Road, Clithcroc
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suggested that the House of Commons should end its busi ness at 10 p.m. to give MPs the chance of a good night's rest before attending commit tees the following morning. “The system is a bit daft. In
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any other job we would prob- a b ly re c e iv e over time payment for qur late sittings,” he said. But Mr Walder doesn't hold opt much hope for such a change in the near future. “Every MP thinks this is a good idea, but the problem is to get any collective action. “The initiative should come
from Government supporters, with a number of them agre eing to walk out, whatever is being discussed at that time. But that may not happen in my lifetime,” he added.
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