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THE Conference was going well. One of my few complaints was that our room in the Grand Hotel was at the back. On Thurs day night we went to bed early and slept like a log until the bomb exploded. We got dressed and
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Church, we sang “Onward Christian soldiers” and “Abide with me” to a brass band. Psalm 46 was read as
by David Waddington, QC,
the lesson . . . “God is our refuge and strength, a ever present help in trou ble . . . The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.” But John Gummer was
went down the fire escape and once on. the prom enade saw that a great wedge had been taken out of the front of the hotel. We knew at once that, short of a miracle, many people must have died. Not long afterwards a
story spread that all the Cabinet was safe, but no thing was known of the Wakehams and we could only remember th a t Roberta had said that her room was at the front and she could just see the pier from it. The pier was half right of the gaping hole in
the building. We went to her funeral
in a little church in the village of Arlesford. Jonathan (11) and Be nedict (9) showed true Wakeham courage and the rest of us could not for shame cry when they did not. John lay in hospital at risk of losing both his legs, if not his life, and nearby, in the intensive care unit, was Margaret Tebbit, a pitiful sight. Police were on every floor for fear of another attack. Eric Taylor, chairman
given the new English Bible and we were told that the God of Jacob was a high stronghold, what ever that might mean. The translators just threw away the poetry of the psalm, to what purpose I really cannot imagine. When my time comes I insist on going out with the Authorised Version!
THE best thing to do on the day of the State Opening of Parliament is watch the procession from outside New Palace Yard and, when it has passed, run like a hare for the Chamber of the House of Commons. You can just about make it in time for prayers. After the arrival of
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telephone tapping, for which I am responsible.
ON Remembrance Day I ★
was on duty in the old Home Office in Whitehall. As the Royal Family ar rived in the courtyard off Downing 'S tre e t they were greeted by the Home Secretary and, at 10-25, he began to escort the Queen to the front of the building. I followed with Prince Philip and Prince Charles. At 10-58 and 20 seconds
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Black Rod follow the Cabinet and Shadow- Cabinet into the Lords and then burrow through the crowd and stand on tip toe. With a bit of luck you can see half of the Queen as she reads the Speech. This time, as usual, the
of the NW Conservatives had died — a kind, gentle man. A month earlier he had happened to be talk ing about death to a friend and had said that when his time came he would like to go out with brass bands. So, at his thanksgiving service at Oldham Parish
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t ra in in g programme seemed to be paying off as they cruised to easy victories in the basketball and penalty-kick contests' at Blackburn.
And when they won the le ap f ro g g in g ,
“ R o ta r a c t” Trophy seemed to be within their
the
grasp. But then the other five
clubs began closing the gap when the organisers
changed.the rules without, telling anyone.
ClOCKeU M IC IrtOLCOU w u » v ,
but with several penalty, amends next year, ne points, in the hockey drib- warned.
(After the club had clocked the fastest time,
The team’s intense ble, it was derided to award points for clear
rounds only. The team went to
and spoon race for drop ping the egg and coming nowhere in the wheelbar- .row race and soccer
pieces after that, being disqualified from the egg
dribbling. The club’s president
and team coach, Mr David Brass, said if it had been football, the team would have asked for a re
match.1 , “It was !all great, fun,
but you can be sure , we will ,be out to make
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MORE than 1,000 people attended the Christmas Fair at St Augustine’s School, B i l l in g to n , on Sunday. Both socially and financially it was a great success and raised £860. Fr Denis Dwyer, of
S t P h i l l ip ’s RC Church, Padiham, a governor of the school, opened the fair and
Augustine’s Associa tion and the school there were dozens of stalls including re freshments, games, seasonal gifts and plants. P ic tu red is Fr
welcomed all. Organised by the S t
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Dwyer with just a few of those who helped to make the event such a success.
P la n to re s to re tip land
PLANS are being made to replace the Henthom / refuse tip, Clitheroe, which is expected to reach its capacity within the next five or so years.
Lancashire County: Council’s' Highways and Transportation Committee has included estimates for the work in, its draft ex penditure programme for 1985-86.
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TROPHIES won by mem bers of the Clitheroe Scout and Canoe Club were handed over at a i r e s e n ta t io n a t SS dichael and John’s Social Centre. Among the cups was a
group or Guide company. This was presented to Trinity Guides by Mr Tony Capewell, managing director of Plastic Spools, Skipton, a subsidiary of Tootal.
new one, the Tootal trophy for the best at tendance by a Scout
were handed over by Mr Theo Wilson, chairman of
Other trophies, which
the Canoe Club, went to Stephen Spencer (Loyola group) for best attend ance by a Scout; Kate Standen (Langho Guides) for best attendance by Guides; David Carpenter (1st Pendle) most-im proved Scout and Kate White (Langho) most im proved Guide.
Pictured with the new
shield are Trinity Guides [ Rosalyn Pearcev.and Joanne Nock, watched by
other members and, from I the left, Mr Capewell, Mr Wilson and Mr Steven Pietrzak who runs the club, which practices at | Barrow Lodge.
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■make it in one sweep and had to back and try again. The result was that the Queen and the Home Sec retary of the day had to trot through the building.
precisely the Queen set off down the steps and into Whitehall. A few years ago an over zealous policeman put a bollard too close to the courtyard entrance. The driver of the Royal car could not
Speech contained plenty of work for the Home Office. There is to be a Bill giving votes to the British Citizen resident abroad and to holidaymak ers. We are introducing a national prosecution ser vice independent of the police and there is to be legislation dealing with
MANY people have writ ten to me about buses. Most of the letters have clearly been inspired by the highly tendentious and misleading advertise ments and leaflets being produced by the County Council which do not, of. course, mention the im
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the freeing from control of local services should not be equally beneficial and, while in rural areas the local bus will stay, dere gulation will create new opportunities for low cost transport services such as shared taxis, mini buses and voluntary community schemes. I understand the concern about concessio nary fares but there is nothing in the proposals which need affect them.
THE famine in Ethiopia has caused enormous con cern and we in Britain have, quite rightly, led the world in aid. When the harrowing scenes first arrived on our TV screens we were told that nothing whatsoever had been done to help the starving and had not the media disco vered the famine the Gov ernment would have con tinued to do nothing. In fact, before our addi
period and in the previous 12 months the European Community had allocated £26m. of humanitarian aid for Ethiopia, some 117,000 tonnes of cereals, 8,000 of other food and assistance with transport, seeds and medicines were the result.
West should try to do more in the way of over seas aid. But sometimes we do go in for far too much breast beating and self flagellation. Com pared with the Commun ist World, the record of | the West in superb. With our own official aid prog ramme of over £1 billion, 63% of it going to the very poorest countries in grants, not loans. Britain has certainly no reason to hang her head in shame.
Of course, we in the
pressed in recent weeks, the programme is not to be cut and we are going to remain one of the largest donors in the world.
In spite of the fears ex
choose to ignore another very important point. It is appallingly difficult for the West to help countries such as Ethiopia.
The breast beaters also
A regime like that of Mengistu is not going to desist from civil wars and starving the peasants be cause we tell them to. Of course, we have a clear moral responsibility to try to feed the starving and bail Ethiopia out of, ac cording to the ILO its largely home produced
tional measures were an nounced on October 24th, Britain had already paid £13m. over a two-year
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that much of the aid we send will end up where the Ethiopian Govern ment wants it and not where it is needed. These terrible truths have to be
But the terrible truth is SVISIT OUR ■ spoken.
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