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Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, March 20th, 1980 9 fie Editor must
t in iture
ently as ignorant of the interests of his
Stop the go slow
is a ratepayer I object Irongly to the idea that [algo members should be lowed to “go slow” at [ark and draw their full llary.
I l’heir action will, in the lig run, be to the detri- nt of ratepayers who ready have to pay larly for services which |e already much eroded.
(These people should not | allowed to have their Ike and their ha’penny, lev already have enough Irks — cheap car loans, — and should be told
If you don’t do a full ly ’s work, you will not
|t a full day’s pay."
51) IT RATEPAYER addington
Song time
1 MISERS of Low Moor | kI Companions enjoyed leral knowledge and |nbled word games, [ipy birthday was sung |one of the members.
|lr J. Parker and Miss Braithwaite enter- led with songs and
Imunity singing, ac- lpanied on the Ivtr J. Scott.
piano |>ks.
(elpers with refresh e s were Mr E. Bush, S. Seedall, Mrs A. •gess and Mrs S.
lext Thursday there [be an Easter competi- ] judged by the May- of Clitheroe, Mrs
Is Ainsworth and fol- |d by a social after- and tea.
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Westminster Viewpoint
I STAND before you as a perfect example of a politician with egg on his face.
side to it all. After the debacle, Neil Kinnock, the Labour spokesman on education went into hiding because of the impossibili ty of his being able to say anything to the Press
which would not have brought forth gales of mirth! It cannot be much fun
for a chap dedicated to the complete destruction of the Second Chamber to have to face the fact that Peers and Tory Peers, at that have won his battle for him.- The Lords, who according to the left are at best an anachronism and at worst a threat to democracy are- now, if Kinnock be right, reflect ing the popular will when the elected Chamber is not.'yKp
ter in one of Aldous Hux ley’s novels-whol-isaid “No-one seems to realise that the House of Lords is right simply because it is
I; think it was a charac
have thrown out the prop osal and I would be a sight better off if .1 had kept my big mouth shut. Still, there is a funny
stoutly defended the Gov ernment’s proposal to give county councils discretion to charge for school trans port ana have come in for a fair battering as a result. Now their Lordships
For months I have
by DAVID WADDINGTON, Clitheroe Division MP
and who could have given the Government a mas sive majority, demons trated an independence of mind and a refusal to accept the conventional wisdom of the establish ment which is far too r a r e ly s e en in the Commons.
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ago the prospects of a set tlement seemed remote ■ AFTER the. very first-of • irideedi and.'eyenl:the' most^'::the8e5;artieles0«;,Was-5,re-!
the Conservative Party was overjoyed at Mr Mugabe emerging as the outright winner but there is much for which ,we ought to be thankful. As recently as a year
to. concede th a t th a t Lusaka Conference, the Lancaster House talks
stupid. This chance body of ordinary men drawn to gether by accident of birth is a great democra tic protest against the ap palling arrogance of tne aristocracy of intellect.” Huxley’s c h a ra c te r
meant it as a joke but like all good jokes it has a grain of truth. Certainly the Upper House, where there are over 400 Peers who take the Tory whip
and the conduct of the election itself have been a major triumph for the Prime Minister and Lord Carrington. There really is now a
s o ,h e '-seemed to think that I was taking some? sort of unfair advantage of my -position as a politi
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prospect of an end to the appalling bloodshed of recent years. Although after our own General Election I was much at tracted by the idea of our granting immediate recog nition to the Muzorewa
Three jailed for Chatburn garage raid
AN unemployed steeplejack 'who planned armed robberies at Chatburn and Colne was jailed for a total of 10 years at Preston Crown
Court.
scribed Terence Fletcher (25) as “a nasty young man”.
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/Council ordering them to stop making concrete pro ducts- on land at “High- field,’’ Garstang Road.
TWO Chipping men are appealing against an en forcement' notice served by .the ‘ Ribble Valley
Mr H. Gornall ana Mr P. Holton have, used land
The council alleges that
‘and buildings for making concrete products without the. necessary..,-planning, permission.
y v- The notice requires the :, removal: fromt the .land - of all:': materials,iplant ? and
machinery.' / A; 'public\inquiry into;
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•the/Town; Hall,'Clitheroe,' • on April 22nd; •
dress, was found guilty of an armed raid at Cnat- burn filling station and of fobbing the trainee man ager of a Colne supermar ket of £1,090.
Fletcher, of no fixed ad
Fletcher: “The public is entitled to be protected
T h e j u d g e t o l d
Date for • inquiry.
Mr Justice Mais de
from the likes of you. You are still a young man, but a nasty young man who is prepared to do violence and live by dishonest means.”
guilty of aggravated burg lary, the theft of 35 igni tion keys and taking a car without consent.
Fletcher was also found -i r v
Also in the dock were Fletcher ’s br o th er , Stephen (20), of Shipley and Mark Vickers (20), of Keighley. They admitted the same set of offences save one of aggravate! burglary, which Stephen Fletcher denied. The charge was allowed to lie on the file.
- Vickers was. jailed for Uiree years and Stephen Fletcher for five years.
burn robbery in August 1978, the. court was tok how the three men burst into a bungalow near the fifling station where prop rietor Mr George Wood
Concerning the Chat
' was .-entertaining three friends. . -
:dent bore all the hall marks of a - robbery Colne the previous month
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and the premises ransack* ed. .One of the raiders car ried a sawn-off. shotgun the, other a knife, the third an iron bar. The inci
All four were tied up
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cian. More recently I was rapped over the knuckles for making frivolous re marks about people bath ing in the House of Com mons cisterns. Now I have received a
very kindly letter from a reader who, thank good ness, , is amused rather than disgusted by the story about my search for an office in the Lord Chancellor’s Department and my coming across a wizened old lady who was delighted at receiving her first visitor for decades. By an appalling stroke
of ill-luck it turns out that my correspondent was ac tually employed in the Department at the mate rial time and he insists that there certainly wasn't any wizened bid lady there. From now on I think I’ll stick to bees!
'IT:
ON March 4th Sir Ian Gil- mour, the Lord Privy Seal, made his statement on the resu lt of the Rhodesian election. I cannot pretend that
Government, I can see now that such recognition would not have brought peace but an intensifica
tion of the war. I have mentioned Ian
Giimour and he himself has played no small part in this matter and is enti tled to much praise. His quiet manner is mislead ing and no-one is better able in debate to deliver the devastating ripost. When, on the day of the
statement, Julian Amery asked him to recognise that Mr Mugabe’s victory rep re s e n ted a major defeat for the west he re plied: “To say that free and fair elections are a major defeat for the west is surely not a very West ern attitude.” Michael Brotherton
then had a shot, claiming the result of the election th rea ten ed our trade route around the Cape, and he received the fol lowing broadside: “My Honourable Friend will be aware that Rhodesia is land-locked."
PARISH priest at- St Hubert’s RC Church, Uunsop Bridge, Fr Joseph Francis Stoker, was overwhelmed by the celebrations that took place at the weekend to mark his Golden Jubilee.
.The popular priest had been exactly 50 years in the priesthood on Sunday and St Hubert’s was packed to the door for a special Mass.
This was followed by a meal and a party in the (
village hajl attended by most of the villagers, (luring which Fr Stoker received a cheque for £190 ky a collection. It was handed over by Shepherd, Christine Collinson and
Christine Marsaen. The church and village hall were decorated with
flowers arranged by Mr and Mrs Peter Devlin.
Mr A. Marsden presented Fr Stoker with a spiritual bouquet on behalf of SS Michael and John’s RC Church, Clitheroe.
Neville Shaw, a member of St Hubert’s. In reply, Fr Stoker thanked everyone for their' donations and the meal, which was provided by parishioners of St Hubert's.
Tribute to the work of the priest was paid by Mr Village celebrates priest’s 50 years
Tops on first aid
contest A SCOUT first-aid- team formed only last month has won the East Lanca shire County Scout Am bulance Shield. - The four members of
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the C l ith e ro e Royal Grammar School troop, will represent the county in the Lord Derby Ambu lance Shield competition, at Barrow-in-Furness, on April 19th. Teams from Cheshire, Greater Man c h e s te r , 1 Merseyside, West Lancashire and Cumbria will be com peting.. The boys, are: Anthony
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after Scout first-aid train ing, and in a practical first-aid competition at Clitheroe Scout headquar ters'beat the 1st Pendle and St Paul’s troops. In the county competi
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tion, organised by Mrs McKenna and Miss News holme, of the Clitheroe St John Ambulance Division, each team member had a practical and theoretical test. The team also had a 10-minute practical test attending to a realistic- looking "casualty". With top marks in both
1 were unable to attend. Fr Stoker also thanked Mr Jim Dowle and the
, Letters were read from the Rev George Gaze, Rector of St Andrew’s, Slaidburn, and the Rev Arthur Higginson, former priest-in-charge at Mitton, Whitewell and Hurst Green, both of whom
Hodder Valley branch of the Royal British Legion for their good wishes and gift.
the attendance at the service and the party after wards was really marvellous.” The celebrations started on Thursday with a
Afterwards Fr Stoker said: “I was amazed by
concert and puppet show for the priest, given by 27 pupils at Tnorneyholme RC School. They also presented him with a set of books and served coffee and biscuits. Finally, Fr Stoker was joined on Monday by his
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the individual and team tests, the team won by a very good margin. Mem bers now have a month to extend their knowledge and improve competition techniques before the big test at Barrow.
Sports council nomination
C L I THE ROE Town Council has accepted an invitation to be re| resented on the Ribb Valley Sports Council. But it is to ask the
brother, nephew and eight other Catholic priests | from the area for Concelebrated Mass at St Hubert’s and a lunch at Stirk House Hotel, Gisburn. Pictured at. Sunday’s meal in Dunsop Bridge
village hall are some of the villagers with Fr Stoker (seated, left). Next to him is Fr Edmund Willoughby, priest at SS Michael and John’s Church.
Dancers’ marathon
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managed to stay on then- feet for the full 12-hour session. The others flaked out at various intervals and rested their sore feet.
Only five youngsters The disco was super
vised by eight adults and the records were played by David Hothersall and Peter Moon.
Dinner dance
THE Hodder Valley Bad minton Cldb held its annual dinner 'dance at the Falcon Manor, Settle. Arrangements were made by secretary Mr John Barber.
Hand brake faulty
-• FOR using a car with , a
'George-'Metcalf Simpson '(18)',-; o f . Swallow Sc a r F a rm , ' Slaidburn, was', fined £30 at Clitheroe. .
defective.yhand b r a k e ,
for having a defective si lencer.
Imeson, prosecuting, sajd Simpson was stopped in Waodington Roan, West Bradford. The car had a makeshift silencer box, and the hand brake was faulty. .
Chief Insp. Geoffrey Cleared
CLITHEROE magis trates cleared Norman Burgess (55), of Seedall Avenue, Clitheroe, on a summons alleging- that he parked a car within the limits of the double white line system in Eshton Terrace.
fending, said Burgess had left the car while he deli vered a heavy box to a nearby works.
Mr Robert Hirst, de He was also fined £15
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