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Unreliable figures on the
poll tax
tax of £259, where would your Mr Disraeli secure the necessary savings from the actual present costs of £340 poll tax. Home helps? Education? Police? Rural transport? Highways? Street cleans ing? Public lighting? Even the font of Tory
figures are being shown, week in week out, to be most unreliable and Tory Ministers are more deter mined to buy off their friends in the city with sweeteners in the sale 'bf public assets such as Jaguar £40m., Royal Ordance £300m., water industry £1 .6b., rather than the support provision of public local services necessary to maintain the quality of life of millions of ordinary British residents. Disraeli was instrumental in the repeal of the Com Laws and we shall make sure that this breadline poll tax is ultimately defeated.
RON PICKUP, C l i th e r o e C o u n ty Councillor, 9 Lingfield Avenue, Clitheroe.
n must be accompanied by i indication of good faith, o use a non-de-plume.
TRUE ITYLE
rt” in London, in 1929. rt the ’30s he was one of international performers, cabaret in New York and; d appearing in films with neidge and Bobby Howes, var he joined the RAF and NSA with Anna Neagle. lis most gallant post-war ■ was at the London Casino ■ 1947, when Mistinguette rst British debut at the
ie and Florence Desmond, award fell ill he took over this resulted in Coward m in the original cast of
st famous song, “Mon nd Milton held tne stage, -ad-libbing for half-an-hour, F
Jars he became a successful tor, appearing in the films ibove” with Peter Sellers uh°ns” with Peter Ustinov
ained her composure.
Smith, as well as various mes.
«E™8."His autobiogra-: e Miltons Paradise Mislaid,”
? Pechstein grand piano at leld Hotel, Mayfair. >e was memorably teamed h his celebrated contempo- M Byng, then 93, in “Those
d in 1976.
d he retained a star’s sense len ill health forced him to
malle Hall provided he was take with him his beloved : to him m his heyday by
he only agreed
n in te re s tin g life he oesit?mine Seem fair*y
CAMBIEN, Prospect,
$
it the '70s, immaculate in a sr jacket, he entertained
he great French star, then r prime,, forgot the words
ture was some £200,000 higher in 1989/90 than the figures announced by the Government for next year’s budget. The G o v e rnm en t’s
excellence, the Ribble Val ley Borough Council, had a report from its chief finan cial officer in November 1989, advising that the District Council’s expendi
finance spokesman at County Hall, chooses to be selective with his figures, as the starting point. His budget increase last year would have meant a county rate increase of 4.62%, whereas the actual increase was 4.89%. Coun. Bailey is not able to state how he would achieve the reduction of expenditure of £56m. to come to the Government’s required spending level. In' order to levy a poll
obviously not aware that the top rate tax is already at 40p in the £. Coun. Bailey, the Tory
association has consis tently and reg u la r ly informed the Secretary of State that the expenditure patterns chosen are £1.6b. « below the present costs of p ro v id in g e x i s t in g services. Your Mr Disraeli is
lished the Press release, your Disraeli and the real Ribble Valley Tories would have recognised that the figures for Lanca shire’s poll tax were not from the county Labour Party, but a report of the county treasurer, advising the consequences of the Government’s announced spending levels, upon which it had determined the support grants to local government services. Every local authority
THE real Mr Disraeli would have been much more enterprising than your correspondent, both in making sure of his facts and concealing his iden tity, if tha t was the purpose. Perhaps, had you pub
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TUESDAY saw the funeral service for a for mer president of Clitheroe Inner Wheel and a popular member of several other local groups.
Ablett, the wife of Mr H. G. "Mick” Ablett. of Croasdale Drive, Clith eroe, died last-week in Blackburn Royal Infir mary after an operation for a-hip fracture. She was 69.
a stroke about 12 months ago and her courageous battle to lead as normal a life as possible was a source of inspiration and admiration to those who knew this remarkable lady. , Tyne-born, Mrs Ablett
Mrs Ablett had suffered Changes
CLITHEROE magistrates approved plans for struc tural, changes to The Old Post House Hotel, King Street, Clitheroe, at a licensing court on Monday. Austin and Lynn Ball
Staggering result
are extending the area! covered by a previous licence to a new public res taurant planned for the ground floor of the build ing, now undergoing extensive renovation.
CLITHEROE firemen sparked off a bumper fund-raising event with th e ir annual Christmas draw.
of local shops and businesses in the Ribble Valley, the local fire-fighters collected more than 50 prizes. The result was a staggering £1,234.48 for the Fire Services
Fuelled by the generous support
National Benevolent Fund. As “Advertiser and Times” pho
tographer Mr John Barry drew out the winning numbers, firemen at the Clitheroe station paid tribute to the support received from local peo ple and thanked particularly the management of E. H. Booth’s Ltd, in Clitheroe, where £376 was raised from the sale of tickets in the shop foyer. . •
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Youth club’s Japanese visitors
JAPANESE youth work ers are visiting Clitheroe’s Trinity Youth Centre today.
as an ideal place to visit by the Lancashire Youth Clubs’ Association. During the day, the visi
ing a day in the town dur ing a week in England looking at various aspects of youth work. Trinity was suggested
The party will be spend
opportunity for them to hear a local band rehears ing, as members of Ano nymity, formed as a result of Trinity Music Work shops, will be on the premises.
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JOHANNISBERGER ERNTEBRINGER RIESLING KABINETT Estate bottled Hock medium dry
MOSCATELDE VALENCIA A very sweet luscious wine-nice with Christmas Pudding
1986 CHABLIS A classic dry french
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£12.35 WHITE SATIN GIN
£6.99 CORK GIN
SMIRNOFF VODKA
£8.19 £7.75
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PORT Souza Ruby
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Fonseca 10 yo Tawny £8.69 Fonseca Bin 27
Fonseca Guimaraens Vint. 1974 SHERRY A
range of veryfne Spanish bottled sherries, rich cream, pale cream, Amontillado
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Cloruso, fine Manzanilla £3.79 Burdons Heavenly cream £4.95 Martial medium Amontillado
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tors will be talking to staff and volunteers and in the evening will meet mem bers of the junior youth club and senior members’ committee. There will also be an
Whalley is set for a Dickens of a scene
CHRISTMAS in Whalley will have a Dicken
Lions have been putting the-finishing touches to their Pickwick Night next Thursday. The carnival atmosphere will include something for all the family and there are extra treats this year. Members of Calder-
sian flavour again this year when Mr Pickwick drops in. Whalley and District
again be selling their Vic torian replica candle lan terns, which sold out within an hour last year. Rounding off the occa
Lions members will
will be dancing all evening at various points and there will be carols by a church choir.
include Father Christmas and a Punch and Judy show. Music is being pro vided by a Salvation Army band, With additional tunes from an authentic
Children’s attractions
served in the street, along with seasonal hot punch and mince pies and hot drinks will be available at the Methodist School hall.
Victorian fairground organ. Roast chestnuts will be
stones Revue and Dra matic Society, who during the week will be perform ing “Pickwick” at the hospital theatre, will also be singing songs from the show at the village event. Clitheroe Morris Men
sion, traders will have stalls outside their prem ises, while many local organisations will be rais ing funds for their own charity causes.
Mrs Elizabeth Alma don, and started nursin at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Carshalton, - Surrey.
mg ital
During the second worl war she served as an emergency nurse and then in the WAAF, returning to nursing when*the war ended.
rid
was educated at a board ing school in Ealing, Lon-
her husband iii.jl941 and the couple lived all over the south of
England.after, the war, with Mrs Ablett doing some wart-time nursing, but otherwise devoting herself|to looking after their growing family of two s.oni and a daughter..
She met and/ married / • j
East Lancashire in 1965, taking to life irithe Ribble Valley with giisto. “She was very extrovert, a con versationalist,/and would talk to anybody about any thing,” said fyer husband. “She was particularly interested in education, politics,.literature and quizzes and was very sup portive of my work with the Rotary Club.” Mr Ablett was president
The couple'jmoved to
became governor of a number of local schools, including one at Burnley, where the couple and their family lived for a time. The couple’s daughter,
dington’s canvassing. . In recent years she
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Mrs Gale Oddie, now lives near Manchester. Their surviving son James (26) lives in Croasdale Avenue and works for Greenacre Garage as the p a r ts manager. Tuesday’s funeral ser
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vice was at St James’s Church, Clitheroe, fol lowed by cremation at Burnley. As a tribute to her interest in nursing, any donations in place of flowers were given to the F rien d s of Clitheroe Hospital.
Reckless driving
of Clitheroe Rotary Club in 1985, four years, after his wife was president of Clitheroe Inner Wheel. She was also a member of Clitheroe Ladies’ Lun cheon Club and its mem bership secretary for a while.
band served on the polling committee of the Ribble Valley Conservative Asso ciation and Mrs Ablett helped MP David Wad-
Both she and her hus
gue (24), of Abbey Road, had pleaded not guilty to the charge of reckless driving on April 7th in Whalley and Clitheroe. He was given six
A WHALLEY man has been found guilty at Pres ton Crown Court of reck less driving. Malcolm Peter Monta
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months’ imprisonment suspended for two years, disqualified for 18 months and fined £100, with £390 costs.
Chippy is to disappear
fisher Restaurant and Guest House at the end of January. The mid-terrace prem
SABDEN has lost its one and only fish and chip shop — “Sabden Plaice” — for good. It reopens as The King
ises that used to be Sab den Plaice, 6 and 8 Whal ley Road, ceased trading in July and were bought by trained chef Antony Currie two months later
wi.th a view to converting
ley planners gave the go- ahead to the scheme, despite the county sur veyor’s concern that there was no off-street parking allowed for. He did add, however, that he thought it unlikely that on-street, p a r k in g w o u ld be' increased.
himself and two first-floor rooms to let. Last week Ribble Val
it into a ground-floor' as consent had been charge of the front-of- licenced restaurant, first- granted in 1986 for the use h o u s e s id e of th e floor residential flat for of the ground-floor as a restaurant.
felt that fresh planning den Mini-Market store and permission was not needed bakery and will be in
Ribble Valley Council
Court at Clitheroe’kaw the restaurant and residential licence for The Kingfisher granted to Mr Currie’s mother, Mrs Jacqueline Currie. She owns the Sab-
tea room. But in granting formal permission for the latest scheme, it said the patio should be restricted to private use only, so neighbours would not be affected. Monday’s Licensing
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