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A NATIONAL campaign to lift restrictions on the type of goods which can be sold in shops ana markets on a Sunday has narrowly failed to find the support of tne Ribble Valley Council’s Public Works and Health Committee.-


By eight votes to seven


it rejected a call from the Association of District Councils to bring pressure on MPs for reform of the Sunday trading laws. The association’s appeal


follows the disappointing response in Parliament to a Bill seeking the removal of restrictions. Council solicitor Mr


Paul Timson told the com­ mittee that the law relat­ ing to Sunday trading was full of anomalies. In one instance, a woman could go out and


buy a bottle of gin for herself, but could not buy a tin of powdered milk for her baby. “The law as it stands is


almost impossible to en­ force,” he said. “You could go round Ribble Valley on a Sunday and find a dozen contraven­ tions.” Coun. Jimmy Fell


(Whalley) said that he hoped the move would not cause a proliferation of Sunday markets in the area. Strong opposition to the


lifting of restrictions came from Coun. Howell Jones (Clitheroe) who said that non-trading on a Sunday was a British way of life and should be preserved, o th e rw is e it would become like a second Saturday. He said he had heard ad­


verse comments about Sunday markets from people who had previously supported them. “There are more proper


places to worship on a Sunday than the altar of commercial interest,” he added.


• The matter is to be re­ ferred to the next meet­ ing of the council for a final decision.


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Low Moor supports Janice


THE generosity of Low Moor villagers has helped to raise more than half the £400 target of a spon­ sored walk organised by Laneside Special School, Calderstones, on June 12th. When they heard that


Janice Shears, of St Ann’s Square, was to be pushed round the 10-mile course at Whalley Nab in her wheelchair, they rushed to sign her sponsor form. Her father, Mr James


Shears, also ran a disco and raffle in Low Moor


Club which helped to boost Janice’s contribu­


tion. At an informal cere­


mony at the school on Friday, her mother Mrs Prue Shears, handed over a cheque for £220 to head­ master Mr Harold Har­ greaves. As a result of the mass


support by villagers, the school now expects to raise £550 which will go towards general funds, as well as helping to run the school mini-bus.


Fined £50


CLITHEROE magis­ trates fined a Sabden car driver £50 for driving without due care and at­ tention. Stephen Orrell (19), of Thorn Street, who pleaded guilty, was in­ volved in a collision with a car and trailer on a long bend in Whalley Road in the village. He was or­ dered to pay £5 costs.


Lead lifted STRIPS of lead recently


laid on the roof of the old s ta b le bu i ld in g s in Clitheroe Castle grounds have been removed by thieves. They are valued at. £170.


LETTERS for publica­ tion must be .accom­ panied by name and ad­ dress as an indication of good faith, even if the writer wishes to use a nom-de-plume.


Rural area is losing efficient service


I AM most concerned to learn that the Lancashire Education Committee is yet again attempting to disrupt the education system of this area.


The abolition of the


Ribble Valley Education Office will do untold harm to our children’s education and the identity of the Ribble Valley itself. The closure of the edu­


Open day


tops £1,000 NOBODY could complain about the number and variety of attractions at Clitheroe Hospital’s open day, resulting in more than £1,000 being raised in a little over three hours. Entertainment was pro­


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vided by Slaidbum Silver Band, Longridge Rosettes and Clitheroe Martial Arts Club and guests in­ cluded the Mayor and Mayoress of Clitheroe, Coun. and Mrs John Cowgill. The money will help the


Friends of the Hospital to provide amenities for pa­ tients. Miss Val Parker is pic­


tured trying her luck in the raffle run by nursing and catering staff.


Resident comments on flooding


BEING a resident of Taylor Street, I would like to make a few com­ ments on our recent flooding. First of all, a report in the Clitheroe Advertiser


cation district can be viewed on two levels. On the one, Ribble Valley will lose a very important service. Schools need an efficient service and the public need personal at­ tention. This rural area will lose


out if it competes with the urban. Also, I find it disturb­


ing that the Ribble Valley should be dealt with “in a different way to the Fylde, which is to be amalgamated in total with another district. Can it be that the


tripartite division of Ribble Valley has an underlying motive?


I think yes, and with


the future loss of the chil­ dren who live in the Ribble Valley villages near Blackburn from our local secondary school rolls, then the LEC will have engineered “falling rolls” .


prehensive school in Clitheroe as scheme 5, which has been presently adopted, will be seen to be non-viable.


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"stated that 20 houses were flooded. This was completely untrue, the houses that were flooded were numbers 18, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30, six houses. Number 20 escaped the flood owing to the fact that it has a high step, both back and front, but these six houses get flooded every time. They have been flooded four times in 20 months, this is an average of one flood every five months. I would like every coun­


cil official to try to im­ agine his own home going through this dreadful dis­ aster, with the chance of more to come. Mr Michael Jackson made a statement to this paper something about assistance given to the flood victims. Assistance was abso­


lutely nil. Council workers came round 24 hours after the flooding putting disin-


Noise does not stop at four houses


Ribble Valley parents


WITH reference to the article last week re Salth- ill Quarry as a haulage centre, I and several of my neighbours would like to express our concern that only four Green Drive residents were ad­ vised of this application. We understand that the


planning office was asked at the time to contact the rest of the people in Green Drive, but this re­ quest was ignored. Surely the council real­


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ises that the noise does not stop at the four houses in question. All of us have been suffering from the excessive noise from heavy machinery re­ cently used in the excava­ tion work, but we consi­ dered this was only a temporary nuisance and that when the job was finished, we could expect to get back to normal. Now we are being threatened with noise and pollution from haulage vehicles. Mr Bailey states that


the council does not have to advise residents of planning applications which affect them, but surely there is such a thing as courtesy and con­ sideration to ratepayers?


MRS RUTH P. DICKINSON,


16 Green Drive, Clitheroe.


fectant down drains back and front, is that what Mr Jackson calls assistance?


At a council meeting on


June 22nd, Coun. Wad- dington stated that on June 6th it was the first time the sewers had blown on Taylor Street.


In 'Oc tob e r 1980 a


sewer, on the road, in be­ tween number 24 and 26 gushed out sewage and the attending firemen can verify this.


Coun. Waddington also


said that heavy rain was a major contributing factor to the flooding.


In October 1981 the


local rainfall was over the whole month 7.67 inches, this is above average quite a bit. But Taylor


Let there be light in


churchyard


NOW that we hav.e a vicar at Whalley Parish


Church who believes in moving things around (at great expense), I would like to bring to his noti<6 the state o f Whalley Churchyard. The caged pew he intends to move has been around for 300 years. The churchyard has been around much longer. My wife’s parents are


buried in the lower pre­ cincts of the churchyard in the middle of the disas­ ter area, where each year children (and others) jump on and over and around the graves, hurling what­ ever comes to hand at the “conkers” on the chestnut trees that blanket the sacred ground. Each year we try to


grow plants on the grave and each year we lose. In April of this year we scrubbed the gravestones with a wire brush and bleach to remove the green slime that is an annual feature. Rising to a height of 40 feet are two sycamore trees that meet overhead to shut out the lifegiving sun. You see, there are still


Little on offer for disabled drivers


YOUR article in last week’s edition which re­ ported on the discussion which took place at the meeting of the Ribble Valley Council Public Works and Health Com­ mittee, on the negative response by Lancashire County Council and Lan­ cashire police to the prop­ osal to allow parking for the disabled in the Market Place lay-by, has left many decent people with a nasty taste of bureauc­ racy, some dismay, dis­ gust and anger, but not surprised. I do not believe that


our local bobbies had any part in such'a silly and callous decision, it has to be down to some faceless body, yet again.


Nowhere else in Lanca­


people alive today who care for the graves of the Whalley folk unfortunate enough to be buried in the shambles of Whalley chur­ chyard. Although they were


shire is there such a good amenable access for the disabled to banks, shops and post office as there is in Clitheroe town centre. The small lay-by is perfect with a pedest­ rian crossing on each side, short distances to walk for the disabled, but it is to be denied to them and for no valid reason. . What is on offer by way


of special provision for the disabled driver? In a corner of the Town


buried facing the East, they never see the sun. Cut the trees down and let there be light.


MR T. LORD, 89a Chatburn Road, Clitheroe.


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on the understanding that they may be edited


or condensed at the Editor’s discretion.


Hall car park there are three places for disabled visitors, the one nearest to the wall cannot be used by anyone badly handicap­ ped, on the Lowergate car park two places for invalid cars, none for dis­ abled drivers in conven­ tional vehicles. Imagine what a strug­


gle it must be for the invalid car driver to get to the town centre from Lowergate park.


If out- fellow human


beings have been unlucky enough to suffer handicap through some disaster or disease, or have paid the penalty of war, can we not squeeze a little com­ passion into the delibera­ tions of our local govern­ ment? The USA, Holland and


Germany do everything possible to ease the lot of the disabled, and some towns in the UK do try too. Can Clitheroe folk not give the same consid­ eration?


BRIN JOYNSON, Ex-lst Para Squadron, on behalf o f ex-Service personnel everywhere.


Wrong place for take­


away shop


HURST Green is no place for a take-away hot food shop, Ribble Valley plan­ ners have ruled. The proposal to use


part of the ground floor premises of 4 Silver Street produced numerous complaints from residents and the Parish Council. They were worried


about the problems which would be caused by in­ creased traffic, noise, litter and cooking smells. It was also pointed out


that there were already several places locally which provided food. Borough Planning and


Technical Officer Mr Philip Bailey reported to the Development Sub- Committee that such a shop would be seriously detrimental and should be strongly resisted.


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Street did not flood, I wonder why?


I go to work each morn­


ing and if it rains I am filled with anxiety. I go to bed at night and cannot sleep for the fear of flood­ ing if it rains.


If one or two council


officials were to be placed in a Taylor Street house and just experience one flood, heaven and earth would be moved to pre­ vent another.


I would like to express


my thanks to Coun. R. Ainsworth and the Mayor, Coun. J. Cowgill for the time they have spent coming to talk to and ask questions from the flood victims. They have given a lot of their own time,


being on the street until after 10 p.m. It is com­ forting to know that someone is fighting to try to get things put right


Back in 1980 after the


floods of October and November, Coun. Rush- ton made a statement in the Press that a flood fund had been set up in 1966 and he mentioned a sum o f two hundred pounds. The flood victims of


Clitheroe, not just Taylor Street, would like to know what became of this money? Interest on £200 over 16 years would be quite a large sum. The flood victims of this town could use some financial help for re-decoration etc.


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