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Clampdown on Acid House parties
ACID House party organ isers will probably land in hot water if they try to ' stage these events in the Ribble Valley.
Hargreaves could face a heavy fine for failing to apply for a licence to hold a party on his Balderstone Hall Farm.
Balderstone farmer Bill
lors are keen to prosecute Mr Hargreaves and have urged Borough solicitor Paul Timson to take action.
prosecute these people, then it is the duty of the council to take this up,” said deputy council leader Coun. Bill Bowker
“If the police do not Ribble Valley council
(Chipping). Coun. Bowker felt that
Home Office and ask for it to be increased by at least £5,000 to £10,000,” he added.
“We should write to the
echoed by Coun. Barrie Parker.
I t was a sentiment
people are just flouting the law. Drugs arc readily available at some of these events and your head is in the sand if you think they are not," he maintained. “These events can raise over £60,000 and a £2,000 fine is just peanuts.”
“It is ridiculous that
the maximum £2,000 fine which could be imposed for the offence was paltry.
New YFC centre opens its doors
CLITHEROE became the centre for administering Lancashire’s Young Farmers’ Clubs when the new official headquarters was opened at the Ribbles- dalc Agricultural Centre. Nearly 150 people attended, including represen
tatives from clubs all over Lancashire and major sponsors. They were welcomed by county chairman Mr
Neville Harrison, of Slaidburn. County president Mr Norman Lund, of Rimington, welcomed the first county organiser from 1949 to 1958, Mr Richard Sutton, of Ormskirk, who declared the building open by unveiling a plaque. A buffet was served by the Lancashire YFC
FRUSTRATION, anger and disappointment boiled over following possibly the largest public meeting ever to be held in Langho. As residents saw their
hopes of obtaining finan cial help for a community hall evaporate, they walked out of Billington and Langho Parish Coun cil’s meeting in disgust. The parish council’s
raisers were bitterly dis appointed, as was parish council chairman Mrs Cath Jarvis, who stated after last week’s meeting: “This council will regret this decision for a very long time.” The meeting produced
decision not .to purchase a one-acre piece of land designated for the hall, followed a b iz a r re sequence of events and left many local residents in disbelief. The hard-working fund
Girls’
Committee.The new building will be used to administer county events, including social occa sions and competitions. Its full-time staff will be organiser Miss Valerie Milburn and secretary Miss Elaine Marsden. Facilities include a training room and kitchens, which will also be hired out. The previous headquarters were temporarily
housed at Hutton Agricultural College. Our picture shows Mr Harrison (centre left) and
Mr Sutton, with officials, sponsors and members looking on.
acre or thereabouts of land situated behind Langho St Leonard’s Church from' Langho and Billington Community Association at a price to be set by the district valuer and that the land be leased back to the community association for the sole purpose of build ing a community hall on it. Any shortfall in the sum required by the commu nity association in this purchase up to a maximum amount of £26,000 should be provided by an inter est-free loan.” Residents heard the
an amazing about-turn. More than 150 local resi dents packed St Leonard’s School Hall for an open meeting to discuss the issue. After an hour’s debate,
over 60 years, it would be between 30p and 35p annually per community charge payer. Voting was 96 in favour and nine against. Coun. Mrs Jarvis intro
estimated cost to commu nity charge payers would be £7.20 each, if the money was given to the community association and paid back in one year. If a loan was taken out
they voted overwhelm ingly in favour of the prop- osition:“This meeting requests Billington Parish Council to purchase one
snag Walk-out protest as plan evaporates
Coun. Jack Carr said there were many people in the parish who had no interest in the community hall? ’ “The community asso
is probably the largest in the Ribble Valley,” he added. “The parish council should be ashamed. What legacy is it leaving our children? If this parish does not provide proper facilities for our children, who is to blame them for getting into trouble?” Expressing his concern,
ciation did not consult the parish council when it bought the land. For over 20 years, successive parish councils have, objected to every application to build on that land. We do not like being bamboozled. There are 3,000 people who will be footing this bill and are not here tonight They couldn’t care less.” Many of the residents
duced Mr Michael Holden, rural officer for the Com munity Council of Lanca shire, and Mrs Marion Chisholm, of Billington, the newly-appointed par ish council clerk. Coun. Mrs Jarvis out
the community association had bought the land, but in applying for a grant, members were told they needed 25% of the total cost of the building, esti mated at £110,000, in liquid assets. Land owner ship did not count as liquid assets. Mr Holden explained
lined the background to the meeting, pointing out that the parish council was not overwhelmingly in favour of the principle of a community hall. Coun. Lewis Gollop said
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minority are imposing their wishes on the vast majority who do want a community centre for all and we were on the point of being able to provide it. “What I want to know is
what alternatives do Couns. Beniston, Carr, Hughes, Robinson and Yates have to offer? “Do they really believe
that the area of Billington and Langho does not need a non-denominational recreational facility avail able to all, contrary to what exists in most other parishes in Lancashire, and as the cost can be met from the existing precept, on what grounds do they deny this facility to our children, our senior citi zens and our community as a whole?”
said he felt unable to make up his mind in an. intimi dating atmosphere and added that 80% of the peo ple he had spoken to had been against the hall; they were not present at the meeting. Commenting that the
attended the parish council meeting which followed. Coun. Norman Yates
bought the present site for £10,000 and spent £3,000 on architects! and planning fees. “The parish of Billington
been considering a commu nity hall since about 1904. In 1987, the association
be around £110,000 for the bare shell of the building. The money the community association requires is £35,000,” said Mr Holden. Association chairman Mr Richard Evans said his greatest fear was that the vast majority of people in the parishes were in severe danger of being dictated to by a vociferous minority. “That I am d etermined will not happen.” The parish, he said, had
the county council’s grant scheme, by which the association would have to raise 25% minimum, the borough council 25% and county 50%. Any expendi ture above £100,000 would have to be funded by the community association itself. “I have been told it will
Robinson said she had spoken to more than 100 people that week and they advised her not to vote for it. Although the associa tion had done a wonderful job fund-raising, it did not have a large enough per centage on the council. During her speech, half
lost, as Coun. Carr said the issue would have to be decided. Coun. Mrs Kathleen
deadline situation which had arisen was not the fault of the parish council, he proposed the adjourn ment of the meeting for a week. His proposition was
BRIDGE CLUB
WINNERS of the duplicate game at Clithcroe Bridge Club on Wednesday night were: NS Mrs F. Wilson and Mrs Taylor, Mr Garner and Mr Holden; EW Mr and Mrs Meakin, Mrs Gilli* brand and Mrs Hollander. The following hand was
usually played in three clubs and five clubs, generally making 10 tricks. Occasionally it was played in four hearts, making 10 or 11 tricks. As can be seen, the hand
poses bidding problems. Three no trumps snould not be bid because of the spades, but five clubs,
if.bid, should always be
spade tricks, declarer has to make all the remaining tricks and therefore it can not be right to finesse the nueen of hearts on the first rounu of that suit, as even if it wins, west will have had to have the bare king jack, as only this combination will allow 11 tricks to be made. As the odds are very much
made. After losing the first two
added that the association had not raised the neces sary money because the association had failed to achieve the support of the parish. Following a vo te ,
the people present walked out, including members of the community associa tion, who registered their annoyance. Coun. Mrs Robinson
nity association met at the weekend to discuss the present situation. After wards Mr Evans said: “We will continue the battle. We were surprised and astounded that after the parish council held a pro- p e r ly convened and extremely well-attended public meeting, they chose to ignore the wishes of 91% of those present. The
Award group ends expedition season
MEMBERS of the Langho Duke of Edinburgh Award group have reached the end of their expedition season.
the end of January, has 22 members and 12 have recently completed their bronze awards.
The group, formed at
July, Derek Edmundson, Jay Horeesorun, Chris Threlfall and Christian Topham undertook their award expedition by mountain bikes in the Car- neddi area of North Wales, the first time such an expedition had been completed by a group from the North West.
At the beginning of
Slater, Antonia Rowland, Catherine Strickland and Jenny Turner carried out their expedition at the end of July in the Sedbergh and Dentdale area.
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was chosen by the second team of boys — Richard Harrop, Peter Taylor, Ian Barlow, Mark Dean, Jon athan Young and Richard Ross — with a route covering about 100km of minor roads, cycleways and bridlepaths in the White Peak area of Derby- shire in very mixed weather.
A cycling expedition
the year, also in the Dent- dale area, involved Cherry Jarvis, Stephanie Bailey, Dawn Kilroy, Sarah Ken dal and Jane Eagles. Starting from Ribblehead on the Settle to. Carlisle line, they walked via the north of Whernside to camp at Dent and then continued their walk on the hills north of Dent.
The final expedition of
lysed, first by a network of regional representa tives, of which I am one, and then by a small num ber of staff at the BTO’s offices in Tring. This co-operation between amateur and professional has, over the years, resulted in the build-up of a bank of ecological data which is the envy of every other country in the world. Organisations such as the RSPB and the Government’s Nature Conser vancy Council rely heavily upon this accumulated knowledge. The vast majority of surveys are based on the
exactly 10 minutes as near as possible to the centre of each tetrad some time during the two hours after sunset on a calm night. A record is made of the number of male owls heard hooting arid of the number of females heard calling in return.’ From this, an estimate of the number of pairs present can be obtained. Information on the habitat is also required; obviously, some treeless areas are unsuit able for owls. From a combination of vocal and habitat returns, it will be possible to obtain a good estimate of the national population. The only 10km square involved in this area is SD
dition work, members, have carried out commu nity service’work-and skills including canoeing and. origami, railway affairs and dressmaking, criminology and cooking. 'Iii.V-V'- .f; ••J--' ■
Apart from their expe
63, which runs from Samlesbury to Wilpshire and from Longridge to. Mitton. One of the specified tetrads was in Longridge itself. Standing outside somebody’s house after dark and seeing the occu pant look out suspiciously made me wonder
whether the police might drive up before my 10 minutes was up. , ■ • Needless to say, I did not' hear any owls in that particular tetrad. The survey is still coritiriiiing, so
I will give news of the iresults ,in some future article.
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10km squares of the Ordnance Survey National Grid and then upon the 25.2 km squares or tetrads within each 10km square. The current survey is to assess the population of tawny owls. At this time of the year, young owls are driven away by their parents and seek to establish territories of their own. This leads to highly vocal disputes. Rather than cover every tetrad nationally, a daunting task, observers are asked to cover 15 specified tetrads within one in nine of the 10km squares. This tawny owl survey involves standing for
THE British Trust for Ornithology is not a con servation organisation in the way that the RSPB is. The BTO owns no reserves, runs no campaigns and does not' seek directly to influence public opinion. What the trust does do is to harness the expertise of experienced birdwatchers nationwide to carry out survey work. The results of the surveys are collated and ana
Couns. Yates, Beniston, C a r r , Robinson and Hughes voted against and Couns. Jarvis, Gollop and Evans in favour. Members of the commu
against this, the nine of hearts snould be finessed on the first round and the queen on the secondr"Again, the odds are very much against this, but this is tnuch more probable and offers the only hope of success. N dealer, EW vul.
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Crossroads Scheme
meets man at the top
THE director of the Asso ciation of National Cross roads Care Attendants Scheme, Mr Ian Croft made his first official visit to the Ribble Valley to speak at the second AGM of the Ribble Valley Scheme. More than 50 care
attendants, members of the management commit tee and representatives of local o rg a n is a t io n s attended the meeting, held in the Ribble Valley Coun cil chamber. The Mayor, Coun. John
Cliff, presided and reports were given by chairman Mrs Mollie Hood, co-or- dinator Mrs Kathleen Eas twood and treasurer Mr Ken Taylor. Vice chairman Mrs
Christine Helm retired and was replaced by Mr Roy Dewhurst. Other offi cials, including secretary Mrs Pauline Howarth, were re-elected en bloc. Seven other committee
members were also reap pointed and Mrs Molly Curtis, of Clitheroe Citi zens’ Advice Bureau, was elected to fill a vacancy. Mr Croft, who lives in
Harrogate, spoke on the progress being made by C r o s s r o a d s as i t approached the 1990s. He also probed the implica tions of the Government- commissioned Griffiths Report, which suggested that disabled people be allowed the choice of organising their own care, and described how this would affect the help that Crossroads gives. Mr Croft was thanked
by Mr Dewhurst and Mrs Hood thanked the Mayor.
Skateboard petition
call by local youngsters for a safe place for their hobby. The skateboarders presented a 650-name petition in support of their cause to the council, via local councillor Howel Jones, and some of them then met council officers to discuss their needs. Council officers have
even been to a skateboard park in Bury to see what f a c i l i t i e s could be provided.
were: NS Mr Garner and Mr Capstick, Mrs Webster and Mr Bradshaw; EW Mr Webster and Mrs Patterson, Mr and Mrs J. Pawlicki.
Cadet course
by Mr Pino Pozzi, who is both a youth worker at Trinity and a leader with St John Ambulance in Clitheroe. Activities included
photography, ski-ing and self-defence sessions. The visitors also joined centre members at their Friday night disco.
MORE than 50 St John Ambulance cadets from all over Lancashire con verged on Clitheroe at the weekend for a residential course at Trinity Youth and Community Centre. The visit was arranged
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THE issue of sk a te boarding in Clitheroe is to be discussed at Ribble Valley Council’s Recre ation and Leisure meeting on Tuesday. The discussion follows a
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