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E L E V E N Rib b le Valley villages — the most from any district — have entered this year’s Best-Kept Vil lage Competition in Lancashire. First-time entrants Bil-
lington are so keen to do well that a poster compet ition to stir up interest has been run among local schoolchildren. With them in this year’s
competition are Barrow, C h a tb u rn , Chipping,
Hurst Green, Langho, Read, Sabden, Whalley, Wiswell and Waddington. They are among 50 vil lages throughout Lanca shire which will come under scrutiny this month by judges, who will want to see an absence of litter and dumps; the mainte nance of homes, outbuild ings and property; the maintenance of grounds, gardens and fences; the tidiness of churchyards and c em e te r ie s ; the upkeep of communal
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buildings, and the tidiness of adverts and notice boards. The competition com
prises three classes — champion village, large village (300 or over) and small village (under 300). Special prizes will be awarded for the most-im-
Eroved village and the
hall, playing field, school and grounds, industrial premises, shop, inn, hotel or restaurant and farm, and a special feature.
est-kept church, village
two finalists from each class will be chosen and then visited next month by TV and radio broad caster Brian Redhead. Billington is determined
At the end of the month
to make its mark and the poster contest should give the competition maximum publicity. Already six pupils from
Thistlethwaite — have re ceived book tokens for their designs. It is planned to repeat
month but at all times." Last year, the first for
the poster contest at St Leonard’s CE School and St Mary’s RC School, ac cording to Parish Council chairman, Coun. Lewis
Gollop. He said: “There’s no
St Augustine’s RC School — Janine Mellor, Joanne P i lk in g to n , S tep h e n Swain, Joanne Whittaker, Pauline Mercer and Simon
point in entering the vil lage competition and then hiding the fact. We must encourage everyone to keep the place neat and tidy, not only for this
prizes were won locally with pride of place going to Waddington, which was champion village and won an award for its Corona tion Gardens.
Yet, in 1979, seven
however, that the village had to stand down for last year’s competition.
This success meant, M r Whitaker Mr Statter
It's all change at Clitheroe bank
NEW manager at the Clitheroe branch of the Trustee Savings Bank is Mr William Whitaker. Mr Whitaker takes
taking part in athletics. He enjoys reading and takes a great interest in
politics. He and his wife, Jean,
over from Mr Edward Statter , who after 18 years at Clitheroe has been appointed manager of the Accrington branch. Mr Whitaker was edu
h a v e a so n a n d a daughter. Mr Statter attended
1951 and served in most offices in the Preston and Fylde areas before becom ing manager at Bamber Bridge. He has been man ager at Bispham TSB since 1969. Mr Whitaker, of Lon-
cated at Balshaw’s Gram mar School and at college at Winchester. He joined the bank in
gridge, is a keen golfer and in his younger days was an -en th u s ia s t ic sportsman, playing rugby, hockey ana soccer and
Burnley Grammar School and joined the TSB in 1938 in the Burnley area. Between 1942 and 1946 he was in the RAF. In 1951 he was ap
Planners frown on scheme at Eshton Terrace
A PROPOSAL to convert the former children’s clinic in Eshton Terrace, Clitheroe, into a rehabilitation centre for 3rockhall patients has met opposition from Ribble Valley
councillors.
scheme because of road safety problems and on the grounds that it would be “unneighbourly de velopment,” the Lanca shire Area Health Au thority is to be-told. But their comments
They are against the
pointed branch manager at the Duke Bar TSB, Burnley, and has since managed branches in Blackburn, Todmorden and Clitheroe. He and his wife, Joan
been circulating because the health authority had not revealed details, he
added. Coun. John Cowgill
have been dismissed by a top Brockhall official as a reflection of a negative public attitude towards the mentally handicapped.
Petition
who live in Linden Drive have one son, Ian. Mr S t a t t e r ’s main
hobby is golf and he is a member of the Clitheroe club. He also enjoys gar
dening.
Geoffrey Haynes d e scribed the opposition to the proposed unit by the Ribble Valley Council’s Development Sub-Com mittee as very disappoint ing, but promised that the setback would not stop Brockhall from developing community services for its patients.
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SALE A petition containing
the signatures of more than 250 |ocal residents was received by th e Ribble Valley Council ex pressing great anxiety over the area health au thority’s scheme to con vert 8 and 10 Eshton Terrace. Although the health au
thority has power to ap prove its own scheme, it is obliged to ask the coun cil for observations.
High-handed
proposal by the Develop ment Sub-Committee on Thursday was watched by more than 70 residents from the public gallery in
A lengthy debate on the
(Clitheroe) was perturbed about the annual costs oi the c en tre which he thought could be around £100,000. This, he felt, should be of concern to
the council. “If this were a private
application it would be turned down out of hand, because it is a very dangerous road for- chil
dren,” he said. Borough Planning and
Technical Officer Mr Philip Bailey reminded members that they were being asked only for then- observations and that ob jections must be purely on planning grounds.
Fears
unit would be used by children up to 16, with a
The Eshton Terrace
mental age of four or five. There would be constant supervision, with three or four staff always on duty. At 16, the children would be classed as adults and transferred to a hospital.
part of the discussions at a meeting the previous evening called by the Blackburn and District
These points formed
Community Health Coun cil to “clear the air.”
man (Clitheroe) claimed that this meeting had failed to allay the resi dents’ fears.
But Coun. Henry Chap
the council chamber. The health authority’s
handling of the scheme came under particularly heavy criticism. Clitheroe Mayor Coun. Bob Ains worth described it as “the most high-handed for a long time” and Coun. B r ia n B r a i th w a i t e (Clitheroe) said it was one of the worst public rela tions exercises. So many stories had
ton (Gisburn) maintained that Eshton Terrace was unsuitable for the scheme because it was one of Clitheroe’s busiest roads.
Coun. Harry Wadding
told the Advertiser and Times that a decision would be made soon on whether to ignore the Sub-Committee’s observa tions or reconsider the scheme.
This week, Mr Haynes
road safety problem was not relevant because it was unlikely that the chil dren would be mobile enough to play near the
He argued that the road. Nuisance
“unneighbourly develop- ment’r observation, he said: “It seems people are trying to dress up the fact that they just don’t want mentally handicapped people in their road.
Commenting on the
be no more of a nuisance than a normal family. I cannot see any legitimate grounds for opposing the scheme.
“These children would
that the health authority could have handled the matter of publicity better?
Did Mr Haynes think “The mentally handicap
ped have , a right to live where they want and it is an insult to them to have to seek the permission of local residents.
tailed publicity would have been a waste of time, because a number of residents simply rejected the scheme out of hand, he said.
Delay
owner Mr Roy Dewhurst, who is chairman of the CHC, believes that more public consultation would have been wiser, but probably would not have made much difference.
C l ith e ro e bookshop He said his group would
be keeping a close eye on developments over the
scheme. The CHC supported the
principle of introducing young handicapped people into the community and, Mr Dewhurst hoped, the councillors’ opposition would not cause excessive delay in bringing this
about. “Earlier and more de
Policing Toxteth streets
CLITHEROE police have been doing their share of keeping law and order on the strife-torn streets of Toxteth during the past
four days. Five local constables
have travelled daily to Liverpool with a strong contingent from Lanca shire Constabulary to help out the hard-pressed Merseyside Force. “The Clitheroe men
were in the thick of the rioting at one time, but fortunately none of them was injured,” said a police spokesman. “They will continue to
Collect your poster
THIS month sees one of 'the most moment ous Royal occasions of the century and the Advertiser and Times is offering readers a permanent souvenir of the “wedding of the decade”. — a set of four superb-quality colour posters. They show Prince
County puts an extra 18p on the rates
Charles and Lady Diana on their en gagement, an infor mal portrait of the heir to the throne, a moment during the Prince of Wales’ in vestiture and a com memorative scroll. They come in a
RIBBLE Valley ratepayers will have to contri bute £900,000 of the £24%m extra rates demand announced by the county council this week.
sturdy colour-printed tube for easy storage after the great day . . . and the cost is just £1.50, along with a special coupon from the Advertiser and Times, which ap pears this week on page 7.
Valley householder with a rateable value of £150, the 18p supplementary rate demand will mean an extra £27 — about £1 a week between September, when rate bills are ex pected to go out, and the end of the financial year in April.
To the average Ribble According to Mr Sid
Moore, chairman of the Clitheroe and District Chamber of Trade, the new levy is bound to hit local businesses hard and is almost certain to raise prices right across the
board. “For smaller businesses
with rateable values of up to £1,000 the increase is going to be quite big and we can’t conjure up the extra money from no where. I t has to be passed on, so it’s going to have the obvious effect of raising prices somewhere along the line.
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serve in Liverpool as long as .they are required.” 'He added that while
they were .away, collea gues would work overtime to carry out normal police coverage in the Clitheroe area.
MEMBERS of the Ribble Valley Council’s Recrea tion and Leisure Commit tee have given th e ir “wholehearted support" to a proposal by Clitheroe Parish Church Players to stage “Merrie England” at Clitheroe bandstand next June.
The production would be organised along similar
lines to that of “A Mid summer Night’s Dream” and he subsidised by the
council, subject to the preparation of a budget.
Treasurer and Deputy Chief E x e cu t iv e Mr Gordon Onslow said that apart from businesses being hit “very hard” it would mean a recalcula tion of all the 5,000 rate rebates for individual householders. The extra rates bills
council makes the best use of the money when it gets it,” he said. Ribble Valley Borough
“I only hope the county
will be sent out in the usual way, “But the county council will not foot the bill. It falls on the district council and it will affect our financial balances,” he said.
the Labour-controlled au thority, Coun. Mrs Louise Ellman, announced the supplementary rate on Monday, she blamed the need for it on Environ ment Minister Mr Michael Heseltine because of his cut-back to local au thorities and threats to in troduce legislation pre venting councils from cir cumventing the cuts by levying supplementary
When the chairman of
I’ates. “The levy now is the
only responsible action we could take before the Tory Government puts this council in a straitjack- et from which there is no
whose party swept the Tories from power in May, said that Mr Hesel tine threatened to with draw £15.5m from Lanca shire ratepayers unless additional major cuts were made now. She said: “The new
escape.” Coun. Mrs Ellman,
Moors walkers strike gold
TWENTY-FIVE energetic members of the Clitheroe Golds raised about £500 for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and a number of local charities with a 40-mile sponsored walk over the North Yorkshire Moors. The Lyke Wake walk from Osmotherley,
near Northallerton, to Itavenscar on the East Yorkshire coast was started in 1955 by a North Yorkshire farmer, who issued a challenge for anyone to cross the moors in 24 hours. The first Clitheroe walkers completed the
walk in UV2 hours, with the last of the party passing the finishing post two hours later. All 25 members finished and although there
was much nursing of sore feet and blisters at Ravenscar, the Golds were delighted with their fund-raising effort, held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh award
scheme.
HELPING Clitheroe Hospital’s annual open day go with a swing are these Brownies from St Paul’s, Low Moor, and Clitheroe United Re formed Church, who ran a “treasure trail.” Their stall was just
one of the many attrac tions at the open day which attracted hun dreds of visitors on Saturday. The Brownies are
(from the left): Tamsin Wood, Gillian Potter, Jane Scorah and Judith Wilcock with Mrs Christine Lockett, Miss Gillian Thompson and Guider Mrs Irene Wilson (right). A full report of the
open day appears on page 3.
several years, no Ribble Valley village won a major award.
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FESTIVAL OF ARTS ON THE CARDS
A TWO-WEEK arts fe s t iv a l,
including
music, drama, dance and ballet, could be held in Clitheroe next year. The Ribble Valley
Council’s Recreation and Leisure Committee is to look into the possibility of linking the various uses of Clitheroe Civic Hall into one event spread over a number of days and ex tensively promoted. Local dance teacher
Mrs Kay Thurston, who organised last month’s highly successful Festival of Dance at the Civic Hall has written to the council asking for permission to stage a similar event there next year. Deputy Town Clerk
(Administration) Mr Brian Manning told members that the possible linking of that event with the annual Ribble Valley Drama Festival and a number of concerts would allow the Civic Hall to take on a “festival atmos p here” for a certain period. He added that promo
tion of the events could be - tied in with a proposal currently being consi dered by Clitheroe and District Chamber of Trade to have a “Come to Clitheroe” week or fort night sometime next year.
Missing cup
C L ITH ER O E Town Council — which is hoping to locate all trophies in its ownership and nave them valued — is appealing for information about the Ernest Allen Cup. It was donated to the council by the late Mr Peter Hulland in the e a r ly 1960s. Anyone who knows of its whereabouts should con tact town clerk Mr James Orrell (Tel. 24722).
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