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April start on Whalley sheltered housing


THE long-awaited sheltered housing scheme at Whalley —. at a revised total cost of £781,000 — has been given the go-ahead and building work is expected to start in early April.


the Ribble Valley‘Coun­ cil’s Housing Committee decided that the scheme, on land between the bus station and Manor Road,


At a special meeting,


Ideas and help are needed


VILLAGERS of Billing- ton and Langho have been asked to rally round and support their Community Council in building a com­ munity centre.


o f f ic e r , Mrs Connie Seahill, is appealing for people of all ages to attend the annual meeting in St Leonard’s School, Langho, on Tuesday, at 7- 45 p.m.


The council’s publicity She wants ideas, time,


support and financial backing to enable a centre to be built by the com­ munity' for the com­ munity.


that there are various or­ ganisations in the two vil­ lages, but there is no vil­ lage hall or community centre.


Mrs iScahill points out


hall with a stage, kitchen and toilet facilities and with the possibility ofex- tension later on.


She envisages a large Win heat


CLITHEROE Soroptim- ists defeated their coun­ terparts from Accrington 8-4 in the first heat of a “Call’ my Bluff • inter-dub quiz. In the Clitheroe team


wore Mrs C. Winning, Mrs J. Hesketh and Mrs C. Hooper. They go through to the next round on March 3rd.


should proceed as planned — but without a unit for the disabled which would have added £4G,000 to the


overall cost. The accommodation will comprise 23 units — eight maisonettes for elderly married couples, 14 flat­ lets for the more frail single persons, communal facilities and a warden’s fiat. Chief Architect and


MEMBERS of Clitheroe Royal British ‘Legion Club raised £3G0 for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Associ­ ation at a charity evening on Friday. Guest of honour was memb e r Mr St a n l e y


Bridge Club


THIRTEEN tables were in play at the duplicate game at Clitheroe Bridge Club, • The winners were: NS Mrs Millington and Mrs McKinnon,


Mr R. Atkinson and Mr W. L. Wilkinson. EW Mrs Brenton and Mrs Garde. Mrs .Wilson and Mr Stott. Most of the high cards were


in the east-west hands; but the most interesting hand was held by north-south as shown in the following diagram. West dealer all vul.


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Planning Officer Mr Philip Bailey said that the flat­ lets would be in two storeys of seven. It would be "cost effective" for the full-time warden to be on hand to look after resi­ dents of the maisonettes as well as the flatlets. It would be possible, he


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contract of six dubs by north at several tables. It was always


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held to 11 tricks, but with good card reading the contract can be made. On the lead of the queen of


said, to add the detached disabled bungalow at a later date, if desired. At the meeting, sugges­


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his fiancee Amy Watts (seated right, fellow mem­ bers, and, of course, his. dog, Peter.


Snape, of Highfield Road, who recently became the first person in the town to be allocated a guide dog. Pictured : with him are


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hold the charity evening because of Mr Snape’s as­ sociation with the Legion and members were very pleased with the outcome'. Local artistes who gave


The club decided to


their services free were singer Jenny Jones, the CBJ group and compere Mr Ken Clarkson, land­ lord of the Brown Cow. Organiser was Mr Danny Maher,. the club’s . enter­ tainments secretary (pic­ tured far left).


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cold chicken and curled-up lettuce in Alexander Fleming House, the headquar­ ters of the DHSS, when I was called to the phone and, in half an hour, I was on the, doorstep of Number 10 trying to convince the policeman on duty that I really did have an appointment with


There’s no escaping Red Box


arrived at the Depart­ ment of Employment (DE for short and not to be confused with the DOE, the Department of the Environment) and I soon found I was in a world of initials. I had to’ decide whether YOP was better than STEP and TOPS (which was fairly easy) but I had also to translate into ..English HSC, HSE, DISC, ESD and appreciate the importance of RSMDs and MSDs. I also found that, unlike my schooldays, sentences


the Prime Minister. The following morning I


Civil Service ritual is the Red Box. There is no es­ caping them. They follow wherever you go and after a time life does not seem the same without one..


frequently begin with "however” and "but,” and to admit that one found that strange is as bad as confessing that one was brought up in the age of cellophane, bakelite and the wireless. The centrepiece of the


1 move across from the Department, in Tothill


At G or 7 p.m. each day


Street, to the House of Commons. Soon a Box ar­ rives aiid I set to work on the contents. Eventually I go home


and take the Box with me to finish off in the early


hours. On Saturday mornings


a Box arrives at Whins House, Sabden, to keep me amused throughout the weekend and on Monday morning I. take it back to London. I am not convinced that


permits for would-be im­ migrants and health and


safety at work. . We have recently pub­


lished a Green Paper on trade union immunities and are awaiting the reac­ tions of interested bodies


and' individuals. M a n y feel that before


taking any further steps we should at least allow • the Employment Act 1980


to the- appalling damage done to the B r itish economy in recent years by irresponsible industrial


the Red Box is a prere­ quisite of natural survival. I am sure that the Civil Servants believe that a little homework can keep a politician out of mis­ chief.


v come within the Depart­ ment’s scope, the particu­ lar areas with which I am concerned are industrial relations, the docks, work


four Ministers in the De-. partment of Employment, I have a joint responsibili­ ty for all matters which


Although, as one of the


action and say that if we do not take further steps


Dock Labour Scheme have taken a fair amount of mastering and health and safety at work seems to attract more corres­ pondence and take up more of my time than all the other subjects put to­ gether.


now we never will. The intricacies of the


ward to my first Question Time on January 27th. It was a noisy and packed


Club helps guide dog fund I was not looking for­ '


to “bed down.” Others, however, point


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very cross, with me, not because of the content of my replies, but because th e y th o u g h t (quite wrongly) that I was being deliberately verbose in . order to reduce the time for which Jim Prior, who was to answer a question on the unemployment fi­ gures, would be at the Despatch Box. My first question was


House but in the event it was not too bad an ex­ perience. The other side were


on Wages Councils, set up many years ’ ago to fix minimum rates of pay in trades and industries where there was no ade­ quate bargaining machin­ ery and very low rates prevailed. It is argued that some


Wages Councils now serve no useful purpose at all and that others, by setting excessive rates, have contributed to unem­ ployment. If Employers in Wages


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Council industries are, indeed, being deterred from taking on people, and particularly young people, because of exces­ sive awards, it is a very serious matter. But I suspect that as


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far as young people are concerned the Wages Councils have merely fol­ lowed the trend towards a narrowing of the differen­ tial between adults’and young people’s wages which has been occurring in industry as a whole. That this result of trade


union bargaining has con­ tributed to youth unem­ ployment I have no doubt whatsoever and the whole subject is one which we must examine most care­ fully. My next question was


about training of shop ste­ wards and many people will be surprised to learn that this “allegedly" anti­ union Government actual­ ly makes a very substan­ tial grant to the TUC for such training. We believe, . however,


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that it is very much in the interests o f ' the country that shop stewards should have a better understand­ ing of the nature of their duties. Finally I have never


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A COLLISION between two cars at the junction of Whalley Road and G re e n a c re S t re e t , Clitheroe, led to Freda Rowley (41), of Winder- mere Avenue, Clitheroe, being fined £50 for driving without due care and at­ tention. She was ordered to pay £5 costs. Insp. Kevin Fitzpatrick


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hearts, won in dummy, north can count 11 tricks, the twelth depending on the position of the ace of clubs. The defence holds three


tions were made for cut­ ting the cost of the scheme, although it was generally agreed that it should go ahead in one form or another. Coun. Mrs Sheila Maw


honour cards in clubs and if the ace of dubs is singleton, the contract can be made. After winning the opening


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(Clitheroe) said they needed the maximum number of units for the money, but Clitheroe member Coun. Tom Robinson asked if it was fair that “council house tenants should pay 43p a week to finance the ;scheme.” in an sw e r to the


(Whalley) said: “It is obvi­ ous that there is the need for sheltered accommoda­ tion in Whalley and there can be no question of the scheme being scrapped. "We need warden-super- vised accommodation and not just maisonettes." Coun. Peter Nuttall


lead, north should come to hand with the king of spades and lead a small dub. ducking in dummy, and is rewarded by finding tne ace of dubs sing­ leton.


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MEMBERS of Clitheroe Naturalists Society were treated to an East African safari when Mr and Mrs T. Lord showed their slides. Mr Lord described the


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Mayor, Coun. Miss Agnes Mel ling (Long ridge'), Borough Treasurer Mr Gordon Onslow said the average rents of the Whalley development, would be a little over £13 a week, not including


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, Mr and Mrs Lord were thanked by Mr F. Dakin. At next Thursday's lec­


terrain that forms the habitat for a large variety of animals and birds. He showed '.impressive shots of lions and their cubs, the antelope family and I some of.the 400 species of birds to be found in the area.


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