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New, Year have:been un forgettable. You- see, I live in TaylbrTStreet, Clitheroe, the-street that has. had .four floods bet ween October - 24th and December llth.
am not a young person. On Christmas morning, I went downstairs and switched on the Christ mas tree lights. Their re flection shone back from the. cold black surface of the bare asphalt floor....
I live on my own and
AH.,..WELL! ' So Christmas 1980. has passed.. I hope . all members of th e Ribble . Valley Council and ’ L a n c a sh ire County Council had a warm, comfortable and' happy Christmas, with no twinges of conscience.- My own Christmas and
out "’my broom and'’ my mop and bucket to-do the cleaning up, feeling full of “goodwill towards men.”.
- After breakfast I took
to prepare my Christmas lunch; again there was the cold .asphalt floor and a strong repulsiye smell coming from walls thick with black damp, paper coming off and plaster fal ling off. Also water-marks two feet up the walls.
Moving into the kitchen
months, I have decorated my home, right through at great exp'ense. It has in volved a lot of hard work, and I gave up my holidays to do it.
In th e p a s t th re e
heartbreaking, to-say the least. But what is worse is the fact that no one single member of the Ribble Valley or Lanca shire County Councils has
The whole affair is
Avoiding the facts of
economic life
THE inconsistencies con tained in Mr Richardson’s letter of December 18th demonstrate a use of statistics similar to a drunkard’s use of a lamp- post . . . for support rather than illumination. If, as his" sixth-para-
abroad rather than in this country, where,1 according : him; they could: earn
under legal obligation to "r members to invest se funds to the best . dvan tag e — in v e s t
himself why, if lucrative investment opportunity exists here, the financial experts controlling “pen sion funds, insurance funds and the like” — . ..o are, incidentally,
course, that, like all pre- t-Government critics,
massive profits. I t will be noted, of
his pedagogic ivory tower, castellated by inflation- proofed pensions, into the
CLITHEROE’S Civic Hall cinema is due to reopen on Monday after being closed for holidays and essential maintenance since December 20th.
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- - Richardson is engag ing in purely destructive criticism; He makes no at tempt to detail alternative policies and then tries to cover up his deficiency with a wealth of socialist clap-trap, most of which is irrelevant, some of which is untrue and all of which carefully avoids the facts of economic life. If he will descend from
: ndustrialisation” . . . under, incidentally, a Government which, he claims, represents only ‘big business”? Should he not, also, ask
jraph statistics indicate, British industry is doing so well, then why does he fear, in his penultimate paragraph, “massive de-
real industrial world, he will find that world reft of its former prosperity by a world-wide slump which defies the efforts of any individual government to solve. This position has been exacerbated here by massive injections of infla tion over the last eight years by successive gov ernments which preferred to seek popularity with the electorate rather than do what they knew to be right.
ment which is, at least, trying to do what it be lieves to be best for the whole country in its fight against inflation, despite the inevitable unpopulari ty which that fight must bring.
Now we have a Govern
fails in that policy then the outlook for every man, woman and child in this country is poor indeed. The last decade; has gshown"'a frightening movement towards the! type of hyper-inflation ex perienced by the Weimar Republic in the 1920s and if that- comes here, then we will really experience the de-industrialisation of this country which Mr Richardson professes to fear.
If, for any reason, it
we will, probably, look back on the present fi gures of unemployment as appealing rather than with our present feeling that they are appalling.
In such circumstances
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. flooded only one house — number 28. The next flood was at 5-
. The. first flood,, on Oc tober 24th," was caused by the drains backing up and
V. Then,. on the afternoon of the same day, owing to heavy rain, “Little Mear- ley Brook” burst its banks,- causing heavy flooding again. Next, on December
30 on the morning of Oc tober 27th and , this was also caused , by the drains backing up.
llth, we were awakened by" the police at 3-30 a.m. and once again we were flooded right through. This again was caused by, the drains backing up, not, as was stated in the Press, by the stream bursting its banks. The
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Fine these dog owners on the spot
, have noticed a sad de terioration in the state of the public pavements in the town centre. I t would seem that
: tion is covered by the local bye-laws, but do the authorities deliberately ignore the situation? Dog owners who are
• spot. There is a time and
MR ALAN CHAMBERS, Bank House, King Street, Clitheroe.
motorist
‘Unfair’ on the
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down the same road, on the Hurst Green side of Lower Hodder Bridge, where a no-overtaking zone has been created, the owners of vehicles parking on the grass verge with two wheels on the. highway are prose
cuted, fined a swingeing £35 and have their li cences endorsed. This appears to amount
to blatant discrimination by the police and .surely calls for an explanation,
OBSERVER.
did not discriminate against motorists. A constable took each in cident on its merits and dealt with it at his own discretion.
said that double white lines had been placed near the bridge to indi cate th a t it was a dangerous area for p a rk in g and o v e r taking. He added that police
• A police spokesman
public house in the village is regularly, obstructed at night by parked cars, the owners of which apparent ly enjoy immunity from p rosecution for th is ’ offence. In contrast, further
I WOULD like to draw attention to the seemingly strange kind of justice op erated by the police in the Hurst Green district. The footpath opposite a
caught encouraging such behaviour by their pets should be fined on the
place for everything . . . and th e c e n tre of Clitheroe is not the place!
General Post Office in King Street are particu larly notorious, as they frequently tie up their pets to the adjacent gates, with disastrous re sults to anyone negotiat ing that entrance. Presumably this situa-
Clitheroe is- a rare sight and therefore one can only assume that a dog on an owner’s lead or under the owner’s supervision, is encouraged to defecate wherever it pleases. Why not in the gutters? The public using the
is particularly hazardous, It used to be a pleasure living in the centre of town, but it is now rapid ly becoming a nightmare. A s t r a y dog in
every dog owner in the Ribble Valley allows his favourite pet to behave exactly as it pleases, and consequently one has to be as nimble as a ballet dancer in order to avoid a confrontation with the canine fouling of the pave ment. Shopping with a trolley
HAVING been away from Clitheroe for some time I .
.had the courtesy to come to my home and inspect the damage or, to offer any help at all.,
TAYLOR STREET FLOODING MISERY the buck!
at the Lancashire County Council >tell us that the drains are clear and not at
"drains backing up. So in God’s name, will
fault, but we . have seen with our own eyes the
someone tell us what and who is responsible, be cause we cannot take any more?
Street is prone to flood ing. If this is so, why was it not flooded from 1964 to 1980, but then four times in six weeks?
are we going to suffer?-1 am full of rheumatism through living in a con stantly wet house, which
cils to stop “passing the buck” and to give us some constructive help now, not next month or next year. How many more floods
We want the two coun We are told Taylor:
stream was not much higher than" normal. Now the powers that be
the ..electric fire in my kitchen on for 24 hours a day. I am "disgusted, dis mayed, discouraged, de spairing and, definitely damp. •. ; Having said all this, I
I,.cannot _ afford to have
, when other" housewives are cursing the pine nee dles which , have fallen from the tree and stuck in the carpet, I just take out my brush and sftovel and dispose of them with ease.
tried to think of one good thing to come out "of this tragedy and I found one. On Twelfth Night,
ONE OF THE WET ONES.
one of many who was not insured, so I have not had one penny compensation.
Early days for the new independents
I FEEL compelled to comment on the letter by the former leader of the Ribble Valley Council,' Mr Bill Fleming, and his reply to remarks by.
seemed to me to be a true and fair assessment of the present situation. It is a
Coun. Cowgill’s letter
Coun. John Cowgill in his letter to the Adver tiser and Times (December 4th). The periodic bleatings
of Mr Fleming in the hope
fact that the majority of plus the heart rending voters in the parish of plea repeated by his van- Billington decided not to elect Mr Fleming.
of being forgiven by the electorate in Billington,
ject, and the very oppo site to independents who opposed this-project, ir respective "of the feelings of the electorate?
appears to bother Mr Fleming a great deal. Does he mean he is kindly disposed to independents who supported his policy on the council offices pro
be grasping at straws in Billington. Coun. Carr "supported the council of-
Mr Fleming seems to The title “independent”
dose of medicine similar to the council offices pro ject? Mr Fleming is on record as favouring more costly ventures at the ex pense of the ratepayer. In his reply to Coun.
campaign prior to the election. This could be. On the other hand, if
observations on the Bil- lington parish council result, fewer than 300 people cast their votes, surely not a true indica tion to the result of a contest in the Ribble Valley election.
Fleming’s remarks about independents, the resul tant by-elections in the Ribble Valley could be misleading and in com parison, almost as mis leading as Mr Fleming’s defeat in the Higher Croft ward of the Blackburn Borough Council elections of May, 1980. With reference to his
Mr Fleming had been seen to have acted cor rectly and treated the electorate with the re spect they are entitled to, perhaps independents would not have arisen to challenge him and his col leagues. Again, contrary to Mr
Coun. Bob Ainsworth’s the method used to bring magnificent six months this about. And how does
serts that all the new in dependents would not have been elected but for
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gardless of Mr Fleming and his followers, I intend to press ahead with the job I was elected to do — to serve all the electors to the best of my ability as a true independent, free, unconnected, not adhering to any political party, treating every issue on its merit, with the well being of the people in the parish foremost. COUN. FRED ELLIS,
Whalley Road, Langho.
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up my Advertiser and Times dated 1997 and lo and behold I am in a different world. • First,’we have returned to our own monetary
AFTER reading the newspapers in the first week of 1981, I was so fed up with all the economic experts dishing out the gloom and doom forecasts of more unemployment, higher taxes and prices, I decided to take a peep into the future to see if there were any signs of an improvement. This is easy for me. All 1 have to do is take
(a table and four chairs) for £11 3s, a lawn mower (with free spade) £8 3s 6d, men's shoes are 29s lid and I can visit Chipping Show for 2s 6d. On the black side the Valley is devastated by’
system of £sd and I can buy a detached bun galow with three bedrooms for £3,125. My new car will cost me £711 11sV3d and there is no such thing as VAT. I can buy a bunk bed for 19gns, a kitchen set
floods and we have not cured the flooding in Taylor Street. There’s one snag. 1 may not be around in 1997.
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Fleming that it is early days yet for the new inde pendents on the Ribble Valley Council. In the meantime, re
will be in for an increase in rates. Included in the increase will be a large interest repayment to cover the council offices project." I would remind Mr
he justify the enormous cost of the council offices in relation to this state ment? In April, the ratepayers
flees project. Coun. Mrs! 'do believe; that sbCimmB Leach and myself opposed1 ;must be brought back to it, and all of us were proportions that the cus- elected as independents. Now Mr Fleming as
Cowgill he states: “I have . always believed, and "still
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would accept this, but what I cannot accept is
quished and departed col league, “come back Bill Fleming, there is nothing really to forgive,” never ceases to amaze me. How ever, this will, in the end, be decided by the voters of Langho, Billington, Brockhall and York. Will they risk another
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One of oldest in the parish
■HEAD of a family closely linked with the farming life _of Downham, Mrs Annie Buckle, of Hecklin Farm, died on Friday. ; She was 87 and one of the oldest people in the parish.
.three sons and the family moved to the larger Heck lin 'Farm more than 40 years ago. The farm is now run by
her son Leslie, another son, Bryan, farms at Little Harwood, near Blackburn, and Walter runs, an outside catering business from Ings End Farm, Rimington. Mrs Buckle was associ
ated with St Leonard’s Church, Downham, where the service and interment took place yesterday.
PARTY DATE
. Mrs Joan Foulkes, Mrs I''Woodford and Mrs Robin son, a sketch and also contributions by the choir..
Pedder welcomed a com pany of 100 who enjoyed a programme arranged by Mrs Mabel Hammond, Mrs May Woodford and the committee. There were items by
THE Ribblesdale After noon Townswomen’s Guild held its annual party at Clitheroe Parish Hall on | Monday. Chairman Mrs A.
native of Barnard Gastle, blit after her marriage she and her late husband, Mr Thomas A r th u r Buckle, farmed , in West morland. Eventually they had
Mrs Buckle was a
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