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NO DANGER OF THE DREADED YELLOW LINES


TROUBLED Brcnnand Street, Clitheroe


ing in the town centre Mr Philip Bailey, is under review and


sion for 12 months, but the dreaded double yellow lines are not on the cards — according to Ribble Valley Coun­ cil’s Chief Planning


TO pay or not to pay — that is the question facing Ribble Valley councillors as they ponder over problem parking in Clitheroe’s short stay car parks. Tlie future of park- and Technical Officer,


there will be no deci- do not like to see double yellow lines through


very attractive conserva­ tion area like the centre of C l i th e ro e ,” said Mr Bailey. Harassed residents of Railway View, however,


“Ribble Valley planners a


Acid rain survey is taking off


interested in taking part in the national “Watch Acid Drops” survey can contact the project organ­ isers at The Green, Ncttleham, Lincoln, LN2 2NR. While there is no direct evidence that acid rain


Kent’s disturbing survey created a lot of interest among; readers. Now Mr Kent, of Fairfield Close, says anyone


and should persuade the authorities to take note. “Doing back garden surveys only costs a few


pollution is worrying. “The more people who can be persuaded to take part means the surveys will be more convincing


Waddington to persuade the Department of the Environment to release figures on findings but says that so far he has only had a vague reply.


pounds initial outlay, but making people sit up and take note is harder.” Mr Kent contacted Kibble Valley MP Mr David


has caused damage to plants and trees or affected fish in the Ribble Valley, Mr Kent feels current air


PEOPLE in the Ribble Valley can take part in a’ national survey to monitor acid rain and its possi­ ble harmful effects. Our recent story on Clitheroe man Stewart


would welcome any mea­ sures to stem the daily flood of workers trying to park outside their homes. “I’m sick to death of it,”


says one householder, who claims that cars parked outside her house are blocking the light and deterring visitors from calling. “It really is a nui­ sance; they come at 8.45 a.m. and stay until tea- time,” she adds. Mr Barry Stevens, pres­


Clitheroe Advertiser ■Meningitis — no cause for alarm-


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SWIFT measures have been taken to contain the outbreak of meningitis in Clitheroe following the tragic death of a 13-


the District Medical Officer o f H e a l th , Dr Gwynne


month-old baby. This assurance came from


Williams. As we reported last week,


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Clarke Pindcr died within days of being taken ill with the disease. Careful checks have been


outbreak. Although other cases of


meningitis have been reported in the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribblc Valley Health Dis­ trict recently, this was the first death in Kibble Valley. An isolated strain of the dis­ ease is thought to have been responsible for C la rk e ’s death. It is not thought to be linked to the type that has c a u s e d so m u c h f e a r nationally. B u t th e r e m u s t be no


carried out by health offi­ cials, who are confident there w i l l be no w id e sp re a d


grounds for complacency, says Dr Williams, and any parents of young children showing unusual symptoms of


rashes, vomiting or headaches should contact their GPs. Relatives and friends who


broke, people started contact­ ing their GPs for advice. The c o n d it io n of a normally healthy baby can deteriorate until its life is in danger within hours, so time is of vital importance. In cases such as Clarke’s,


came in to c o n ta c t with Clarke Binder have been given antibiotics to kill bacte­ r ia th a t might have been passed on to them. As news of Clarke’s death


hospitals prepare antibiotics which arc taken to contacts’


Clarke had beaten nearly 200 entrants to win a bonny baby contest organised by local p h o to g r a p h e r Da v i d Simmons.


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ident of Clitheroe Cham­ ber of Trade, believes that better signposting could be the answer to residents’ problems and benefit the town as a whole. “We should have new


signposts with the mes­ sage ‘Long Stay Free Car Parks’ to try to point visi­ tors there — and then signposts directing people to the town centre,” he says.


however, that the town’s long stay car parks are being under-used. “It’s not far to the Chester Avenue car park,” says one resi­


All are in agreement,


dent of Railway View. “It wo u ld o n ly ta k e tw o o r three minutes to reach the town centre from there.”


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charging drivers for park­ ing on the Railway View, Lowergate and Station Road short stay car parks would encourage them to stay for the amount of time they had paid for and avoid the temptation to stay longer, as they some­ times do now.


Mr Bailey believes that


on Brennand Street and St Mary’s Street are also being tackled by council­ lors. Plans to introduce a “permit only” parking scheme for householders in the s t r e e t have been scrapped after the Chief Constable of Lancashire said there was not the police m anp ow er to enforce it.


The problems of parking


“no access” signs at the bottom of the two streets to deter the day-time parkers. A more expen­ sive solution would be to narrow the entrances to both streets. However, this could prove difficult for lo r r ie s supplying businesses in the area.


New proposals are for


lived in Brennand Street for 12 years and says that residents have not always been bothered by people leaving cars outside their homes during the day. She says the problem started when parking on the Rail­ way View car park was limited to two hours.


Mrs Elsie Lancaster has


believes in a policy of “live and let live” with the dri­ vers, but adds that rela­ tives and friends often get annoyed when they cannot park in front of her house. She also realises the dan­ gers of parked cars pre­ venting an ambulance or fire engine from attending an emergency in the street.


Mrs Lancaster herself


C L I T H E R O E cannot afford to miss the “golden opportunity” to provide something for townsfolk and tourists alike on the Auction Mart site, despite the publ ic c o s t —


Clitheroe by VIVIEN MEATH


the site, a former resi­ dent advises the bor­


to see just what is going to take shape on


according to a man who has the town at heart. As- everyone waits


ough council not to be sh o r t-s ig h ted and ignore the rewards of tourism, investment and prosperity.


Former Clitheronian, company director Maurice Gregson points a finger at Skipton, where last week


COUNCILLORS are calling for sleeping policemen to halt traffic which is using a Clitheroe street as a race track.


‘Race track’ street calls for a halt


stant menace.” They claimed that Clith­


residents of Taylor S treet presented a petition to the police and the Ribble Valley Council, demanding action over “the con­


go.


eroe’s new Auction Mart and a proposed major housing development would increase the number of cars and lorries stream­ ing past their homes. With Bright Street Nur­


sery and Brookside School close by, residents fear


petition organiser: “The residents of Taylor Street, Walker Street, Jubilee Street and Bright Street consist of around 75 to elderly people, single


Says Mrs Elsie Grooby,


parents and young couples with children. We all want


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A WHALLEY restaurant is featuring freshly bottled tap water from Chatburn for customers to compare with imported mineral waters during National Eating Out week! The Chatburn water is


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ing” is only one of the events planned for their “April Showers and Flow­ ers .” Local twins Mark and Ian Seed should be th e r e with colourful umbrellas, and also on the “menu” is a flower demon­ stration on Saturday after­ noon by Mrs Marion Riley, of Oswaldtwistle, with proceeds going to the Scanner Appeal.


A GRANDMOTHER 18 times over! That’s Hurst Green resident Mrs Lucy Wilkinson, who is proud of every one of her growing family.


birthday competition to find the member with the most grandchildren.


Lucy, a member of Hurst Green AVI, won a VVI


Mr Harry Wilkinson (72) and today the couple live happily at Shireburn Barn with many of their large


She is the wife of lifelong Ribblc Valley farmer


family living round about. They have two sons and five daughters, and I I of


their grandchildren live in the parish.Thcse are Clare, Richard, Robert and Lucy Embery; Patrick, Alistair and Lydia Hough; and Rebecca, Daniel,


Sam, Vincent, Harry, Helen and Katie Wilkinson — who at 14 months is the youngest grandchild. In Canada are grandchildren Sara and Matthew


achievement. She said: “There must be lots of other families with more grandchildren. But we arc a close family and it is nice to have so many people all around you. “We arc looking forward to going to Canada to


visit the rest of the family and we like to think the children help us to stay young.” Harry and Lucy are pictured with some of the


family.


launched in her memory two years ago and now a


of the trust, reaching the target is a dream come true because now they know that the untimely d e a th of 16-year-old Wendy on New Year’s Eve 1984 following a severe asthma attack has not been entirely in vain. T h e ap p e a l wa s


presentation is to be held


THE Wendy Howarth Asthma Trust appeal has reached its £20,000 target and equipment bought with the money raised will help save lives in the future. For committee members


Saving lives in Wendy’s name


at Queen’s Park Hospital, Blackburn, on Saturday. A consultant at the


being made to the British Lung Foundation and £1,000 to Dr Benson's Chil­ dren’s Chest Fund. The balance will be kept in a


hospital, Dr Nigel Hors- field, who is president of the trust, will officially receive the equipment on behalf of the hospital. This includes a £10,000 blood gas analyser and a £4,600 pulse oxymeter. A donation of £2,000 is


special account for future use. Equipment purchased


has been installed in the Chest Unit at Queen’s Park and Dr Horsfield said the hospital was most grateful to everyone in theClitheroc district who had rallied to support the appeal. Wendy’s parents, Mike


and Marie, of Talbot Close, can hardly believe how the appeal caught the imagi na t i on of local people.


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Healing, while near Portsmouth live Ailsa and Jes­ sica Macfarlane. Lucy herself was modest about the family


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that accidents could soon occur unless the vehicles are diverted.


what it takes to give us maximum safety.”


Planning and Technical Officer Mr Philip Bailey suggested that members of the Public Works and Health Committee should push the_County Council for sleeping policemen as "a short-term solution. “Long term this is some­ thing that will have to be


Ribble Valley Council


creeping up. If we place four sleeping policemen on the street during the next 12 months, it will slow down traffic.”


eroe). “In the meantime, something is going to have to be done to prevent fatal a c c id e n ts on Tay lo r Street. “The speed of traffic is


put in the estimates,” said Coun. John Cowgill (Clith­


Prince Charles opened another shopping complex. “How do they manage to


Holiday, tourists were •milling around Clitheroe.


afford it? Because Skipton welcomes v is i to r s — actively,” he says. Over the Easter Bank


There was little to do, few shops to sample, for once again the town all but closed down. The specially commis­


tions for the development were among the last to reach the desk of Borough Planning and Technical Officer Mr Philip Bailey. Describing 1988 as “the


sioned consultants’ report has certainly created a lot of interest, both in our let- t e r s col umn and in response to the borough council’s re q u e s t for views. Mr Gregson’s sugges­


year of golden oppor­ tu n i ty ,” Mr Gregson


stresses: “This is not a case of tourists versus townspeople. The two interests are compatible; the right development benefits Clitheronians just as much as tourists. A town attractive to live in is a town a t t r a c t iv e to tourists.” Now living in East Mar-


market, retained and revamped on a more appropriate part of the site; a retail area large enough to be viable as a shopping unit; and a civic centre area forming a meeting place for visitors and townspeople. “Of course the Ribble


Valley Council talks about costs and must do so. But how short-sighted it would be to oppose this civic centre development on the grounds jrf public cost, at the same time ignoring the other monetary factors, the rewards of tourism


ton, Mr Gregson was brought up in Clitheroe and says the town’s future is something which con­ cerns him. He suggests an open


has understandly shattered the lives of his parents, Mor­ ris and Christine Pindcr, of Grafton Street, Clitheroc, and o u r sad s to ry la s t week touched the hearts of many people. Only two weeks before,


homes direct by health work­ ers and, when administered speedily, these have proved effective in lim i tin g the disease. The death of baby Clarke


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A NEW scheme has been agreed for Clitheroe which will enable thousands of pounds in grant aid to be spent towards the upkeep of historic town centre buildings.


Town centre to get big cash boost


£3,000 coming from re|ate to external repairs


Borough Council will give £10,000 during 1988-9 with a further


The Ribble Valley „„ nnn ■ c Grants will normally


g r a n t a i d u p t o owner to find the 00 per £26,000.


tion to bring total Current grant levels are , . , °


Moor Lane, Castle Street, able for recently-acquired Market Place, York Street property, buildings owned by large companies, con- v e r s i o n s


Ninety buildings on Grants will not be avail-


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ough Planning and Techni­ cal Officer, said:“The council has a duty to main­ tain the conservation areas. It is hoped that the successful operation of this scheme will make a signifi­ cant improvement to the appearance of Clitheroe’s town centre.”


refurbishments. Mr Philip Bailey, Bor­


a n d


‘Friendly street’ treat


MR GREGSON’S plan for the future


the encouragement to pri­ vate sector investment, the prosperity implicit in the overall development,” adds Mr Gregson.


planners have their say, as a report incorporating all 59 replies received by the council is circulated to its members over the week­ end, before being dis­ cussed at a special meeting of the Planning and Trans­ portation Committee on Wednesday night. The meeting which follows the Development Sub-commit­ tee is open to the public.


Now councillors and


O rg an ise r is Mrs Shirley Nelson. Mrs Anne Heslin,


MORE than 50 resi­ dents of Newton Street, Clitheroe, have hired a dou­ ble-decker bus to take their children to see a puppet s h ow a t Ki ng G e o rg e ’s Hal l , Blackburn, tomor­ row, following the success of a similar outing last year.


whose two children are going, said: “The children have b e e n l o o k i n g forward to this all week. We are the friendliest street in Clitheroe.”


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and Church Street are now e l ig ib le for aid towards the cost of fabric maintenance.


Lancashire County such as repointing, but Council. English Hen- internal repairs can be tage is matching this included if they form part Town Scheme dona- “f the main structure,


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worth, trust secretary, said: “Support simply snowballed. It was incredi­ ble. It was the least we could do in memory of a very popular girl.”


Mrs Geraldine Wood-


the trust warns the public to beware of bogus door- to-door collectors trying to cash in on Wendy’s name.


On a more sour note,


have been calling on households in Clitheroe. All collections have now s to p p ed and anyone approached by such people should contact Clitheroe police.


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