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CHC opposition will cost the district £5,000 per week, while savings are badly needed by the district.


Wobbling cyclist


was drunk CLITHEROE magistrates fined Paul Dewhurst £25 when they found him guilty of riding a pedal cycle* while unfit through drink. Dewhurst (32), of Alma


that he had seen a friend that evening, who was going away. He was not going to see him for a long time and he drank one can of bitter. At around 10-30 p.m. he left and was mak­ ing his way to his girl­ friend’s house when he was stopped. Dewliurst told the court


that he was unsteady because it was a new 18- gear mountain bike and he was not used to the high and low gears.


Fines of £80 for moped rider


NURSING assistant Carol Dean was fined a'total of £80 by Clitheroe magisy


trates when she admitted carrying on her moped a


non-competent pillion passenger.


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secuting, said that a police officer,on Sabdem Road saw Dean on a moped. She was carrying a passenger without a helmet, so the •police officer stopped them.


petent pillion passenger she was fined £60 and for carrying a passenger with­ out a helmet £20. Her licence was endorsed with two penalty points and she was ordered to pay £10 costs.


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MOTORIST John Roland Lancaster (22), of Mickle- hurst Farm, Bashall Eaves, was fined £60 at Clitheroe Magistrates’ Court for driving a car with a defective front off­ side tyre in Whalley Road, in the town. He admitted the offence


and was given three pen­ alty points and ordered to pay £10 costs.


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LANGHO motorist Gary Devine (20), of Spring Terrace, pleaded guilty at Clitheroe Magistrates’ Court to driving a Range Rover in Old Langho with no insurance. He was fined £100, with


£10 costs, and his licence was.endorsed with six penalty points.


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Road- Sabden, was not a full licence holder and the pillion passenger, a juve­ nile, did not hold a licence either. For carrying a non-com­


' Dean (34); of Padiham , - • , ■ Mr Leslie Davies, pro­ •


court that while on mobile patrol in Waterloo Road he had seen the defendant riding in the direction of Whalley Road. Dewhurst was very unsteady and wobbling and he arrested him for being drunk. In reply, Dewhurst said


Place, Clitheroe, was also ordered to pay £20 costs. PC John Burke told the


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IN reply to the letter in jast week’s edition regard­ ing the half-term .Film,, there are one or two com­ ments that I would like to make. I must admit I was sur­ prised that Mr Read did


noticed that throughout the summer break, there was not a single pro­ gramme available for tiny tots and I had made up my mind that they must have something at half-term. In bygone years we


clear that I was presented with a problem for the holidays of either showing this film for the kiddies or ignoring the holiday com­ pletely. The programme has played at that length in every cinema through­ out the country, but I chose to show it as I have always tried to cater for the younger children dur­ ing holiday periods. That, Mr Read, is not easy! I t may have been


have known the length.of the programme before he purchased his tickets, as details are plain to see on the board in the entrance. I would like to make


not make his complaints known tv


o me. He must


IT. would indeed be a tragedy if Bramley Meade Maternity Home has to,: close, not only a tragedy for this' area, but more specifically for women arid their families who will be giving birth in the years to come:


Does the patient come


brings into conflict the proposed “reforms” of the health service where the patient comes first. Inevi­ tably, it is the balance sheet that comes first —


. Surely this closure


perhaps our esteemed Home Secretary could put


forward a case to Kenneth Clark that the closure of Bramley Meade is not put­ ting the patient first.


Delighted by the good rail news


WHAT a pleasure to learn of the firm news of a restoration of the rail service along the Helli- field, Clitheroe, Whalley, Blackburn line in last week’s “Clitheroe Advertiser and Times.”


feature programmes are long gone and unlikely to return, due to the escalat­ ing costs of production. Also, the film companies


to say that very many par­ ents informed me that they approved of the early finish, as so many of the audience were very young. If those little ones found pleasure in what they saw, I do not r e g r e t my decision.


BARBARA CULLEN, Manager, Civic Hall, Clitheroe.


there, Mr Read, but can you honestly say you find the atmosphere the same while viewing them? I cer­ tainly do not. In closing, I would like


charge the same percent­ age for all films, no matter what the length. Oh, the videos are


have shown Disney Festi­ vals (six films in six weeks), but that was then and this is now, with not one single film from that particular company. ■ i The days of the double


" In theory, we could have caught this train with the 8-29 a.m. bus from, Whalley. Luckily we caught the 8-10 a.m. in s te ad . I t l i te ra l ly crawled from Langho to beyond the Brownhills Valley."


catch the 9-19 a.m. Black­ burn to Bolton train and, with senior citizen rail cards, we-got £1.90 NW Day Ranger tickets (avail­ able after 9 a.m.) which took us to Macclesfield, without having to cross Manchester any longer f rom V i c t o r i a to Piccadilly. >


H j c n o i n g m y dorothy ormerod, °


• M I L T O N thoughts W


ter from Local Motorist. We all know now there is a huge amount of traffic coming through Whalley, but the lights do control movement. Many people, however, are impatient/ A roundabout would be chaotic and is a silly idea.


BRENDA ENTWISTLE, The Sands, Whalley.


No further rate increase needed to finance centre


“Langho Resident” in your edition of November 2nd referred to asking rate­


payers whether they wanted a rate increase to fund the building.


may be worried about the prospect of a further rise in rates, I think it is important to make it quite clear that no increase was proposed at all.


In case any resident


already budgeted (partly since 1984) for a consider­ ably larger contribution to the cost of building a sin­ gle community centre for the parish than was actually sought by the Community Association in September. Perhaps it also ought to


The parish council had


WHILE I am loath to make further use of your letters page regarding the Billington and Langho Commumty Centre saga. I would be grateful if you would publish this letter to clear up one misunderstanding that may be in some residents’ minds. The le t t e r signed


be made clear that the parish council was being asked to find about 20% of the total project costs.


correspondent’s address was not supplied, so I am unable to supply this information direct. Might I suggest that any resident interested in knowing the actual facts of this matter would find it interesting to read the minutes and asso­ ciated papers of Billington Parish Council and of the Billington and Langho Community" Association, this information being, of course," open :fo public inspection.


Unfortunately, your


RICHARD JARVIS, 27 Whalley Old Road, York, Langho. :


IT is with increasing agitation and incredulity that I read the correspondence in the “Clitheroe Adver­ tiser and Times” which seems to revolve solely around the home life of Miss Amy Astridge. I remem­ ber a time when the “Advertiser and Times” offered a varied outlook on Ribble Valley life and did not con­ sist of gratuitous village gossip. ' I heartily agree with Coun. Jack Carr (who has


Amy should stick to school work


done sterling work for Billington and Langho Parish Council) that Miss Astridge lacks respect for her elders and betters. I will decline to offer my opinion on whether the young lady in question is pretty, well brought up and doing well at school, as I deem it" irrelevant and not a fitting subject for discussion in a local newspaper. My other reservation is that I have to doubt the


“Advertiser and Times” as it is becoming more and more the “Amy Astridge Show,” for it appears she is also the head girl of the Grammar School. My final word of advice for Miss Astridge is to tell


MR M. CORNTHWAITE, Pasturelands Drive,


Billington. Not always untidy


I WAS very upset to read an article in last 'week’s “Advertiser and Times” about the graveyard at West Bradford Old Methodist Chapel. About 15 years ago; my family a nidi‘lived at


“Troutbeck,” which stands at the side of the graveyard. ’


great pride.in cleaning the graveyard. He did this at night and weekends without help from anyone. In the three years that we lived there, he kept it


in splendid condition. ■ , MRSM. MAUDSLEY,


Lower Lees Cottage,;' Cow Ark.


- ; i , , •■ . . . , My son Gary, who was about 14 at the time, took . ”t‘ 'i


authenticity of Miss Astridge’s letter, as I know very few 17-year-olds whose vocabulary includes the word “poppycock” and whose interests extend to the build­ ing of a village hall! It is with increasing trepidation that I open the


her to concentrate more on her school work and less in hindering the . affairs of hard-working councillors such as Jack Carr. •'


' CLITHEROE. and District Scouts took the honours with a tremendous win in the East Lancashire County, Swimming Gala. >.


and past multiple winners an eight-man team of van- Blackburn into second ous age groups. Clith- place by a margin of eight eroe’s team also won this, points to take the Belsey albeit by a margin of Trophy.


15, comprising five Cubs and 10 Scouts, took places in nearly all the individual events. The Cubs also took third place and the Scouts first in their respective relay squadrons.


event, there was a bonus award of a brass “Canon Trophy” donated by F. H. Brown Ltd. This was for a


In addition to the main


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lads said they -owed a great debt of gratitude to Mr David Phillips, of the Ribblesdale Pool, Clith­ eroe, for the interest he showed, not only acting as


A spokesman for the Sto^iraamainlfa P°°- ^ They beat the favourites rapid-fire relay race with (Tigers),_ Neil Gartledge


Beer, Ian Cross, Lewis Cross and Michael Phillips (St Paul’s), RUssell Brass, Matthew Day,. Simon Holt, Neil Mitchell, Daniel Wilkinson and Zachary Wilkinson (St Mary’s). Team manager'Terry


(St Paul’s) and Simon Brass (St Mary’s). Scouts — Nicholas


Waring (right), the Scout Leader'of St Mary’s, is


— Philip Howarth, Ricky ' phy,.and Nicholas Beer, Khan and Alan Isherwood with the Belsey Trophy. ''


practice sessions.^ , ^ pers/ Zachary Wilkinson,' Taking part were: Cubs holding the Cannon Tro-


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THANK you, Doris Brown, for your-letter “Desecration of our com- m u n i t ie s .” My own thoughts completely, as for many other readers too, I feel sure. I also agree with the let­


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WITH reference to the article in last week’s “Advertiser and Times” regarding the proposed roundabout at Whalley, from a “local (anonymous) driver,” I, for one, agree with what he says regard­ ing the encroachment of vehicles on to the round­ about to get a better view of vehicles coming from the right, in such a con­ fined space. In my view, d is re ­


garding the “ laws of obstruction” caused by vehicles being allowed to park on both sides of the road leading up to the lights, this would appear to the local councillors to be the easy way out and offend no one. A roundabout, under


lawful way is to put down double yellow lines, one or two depending on the width of the road, and then there would be a steady flow of traffic


the present circumstances, in Whalley would not alle- v ia te y o u r t r a f f i c situation. In my view, the only


That day my wife and I roundabout, as did hun- travelled from Whalley to


believe, a regular weekday occurrence which could be, and we hope, will be, alle­ viated with a rail service opening up extensive and reliable further travel from both ends of the reo­ pened line to inhabitants' of our part of the Ribble


Boulevard about 9-05 a.m., instead of 8-40 a.m. as timetabled. Such congestion is, we


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dreds of other people in their cars, while for some of the journey we could see the empty railway lines. We got to Blackburn


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Meade and the care, offered at a centralised maternity unit cannot pos­ sibly be compared — one is simply a conveyor belt, as many mothers have often described the unit at Queen’s Park Hospital. I would urge all mothers


close, a lean-to in a car park at Queen’s Park Hospital is no replace­ ment, even temporarily. Look at the temporary Bull Hill unit, where water is coming through the ceiling, causing it to fall in, thankfully not on the babies, • but rather in the sister’s office. The care at Bramley


If Bramley Meade does


who have benefited by staying at Bramley Meade to write to our MP, to w r i te to th e h e a l th authority, their councillors and to support the cam­ paign to keep . Bramley Meade open.


A CO N CE R NE D NURSE.


C o v e rag e m ad e my toes curl


THE fulsome, “over the top” coverage ini last week’s “Advertiser and Times” re Mr I Waddington made my toes curl! I thoughtl sensible,, balanced reporting should avoid! over-sentimeritality.


... Earlier this year, the Editor defended thel


newspaper’s political impartiality in the let-1 ters column. A newspaper has. the..right to| be of any political “flavour” — and ho.w'we I know!


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The ".Clitheroe Advertiser and Times’’ is | definitely Conservative!


JOAN MARSH, 13 Lancaster Drive, Clitheroe.


# MRS MARSH’S letter is a blatant and I petty case of sour grapes, presumably! from the opposite side of the politicall fence. One wonders if she would havel taken the same view had the Ribble Val­ ley been honoured with a Home Secretary! of a different political hue. For our part,! the politics of it all do not matter one dot. I It was a terrific story and, after all, it isl not often that a constituency produces al Home Secretary, is it? Compared with thel column inches devoted by the country’s! press, of all political shades, to thel Cabinet drama, the efforts by the newl Home Secretary’s home-town newspaper! were far from “over the top.” Editor.


I had done my homework in school governors debate


I HESITATE to prolong the governors in Grindleton debate, but I would be most grateful if you would allow me to correct Coun. Nevett (Letters, October 26th), who accused me of perpetrating a falsehood.


r e s e a r c h in g Coun. Nevett’s background. If I had, perhaps he would have accused me of invad­ ing his privacy. Although, bearing in mind the inef­ fectiveness of Government attempts at “data protec­ tion,” I suppose this is


present at the governors’ meeting on May 25th, 1989, as I wrote originally. I am well aware that accusing your opponent of telling lies is a common technique in politics, but it is the first time in over 15 years of active involve­ ment with politics that I have been so accused. I apologise for not


homework. I have double- checked the facts. I was writing about governors’ meetings, which are com­ pletely different from, for example, the AGM held by schools for parents. Coun. Nevett was not


I h a d d o n e my


unlikely. Apparently, con- fidentiality/secrecy is only im p o r tan t when the machinations of state bureaucracy are involved.


many excellent points made in Coun. Pickup’s letter in last week’s paper, concerning the impact of the Education Reform Act 1988 upon schools, espe­ cially in relation to “for­ mula funding.” To Coun. Nevett, I suppose that these would just be a few more “ tired political points.” But then politics has always been intimately involved with education.


I shall not repeat the


was introduced, not for the benefit of those edu­ cated, but to provide a suitable workforce to keep the wheels of industry going, so that we could compete with the rest of Europe.


The 1870 Education Act


Selection system grossly unfair


HAVING read correspondence in your columns about the appointment of school governors, with particular concern to our village schools, I feel that the system of appointing governors representing the LEA is grossly unfair.


lines are mentioned, objec­ tions are raised by local shopkeepers and, even though they are in the minority in these rural a re a s , th ey seem to influence the person who makes the decision. I would welcome any


“legal” replies about the above, either through this column or personally.


J. B. BECK, 17 Peel Park Avenue, Clitheroe.'


through the village instead of hold-ups caused by u n law fu l ly p a rk e d vehicles. But once again, if yellow


parish or town council, is not represented on the school governors. This anomaly could easily be overcome if the


There are instances where the minor authority, i.e.


to make comments on public transport, planning, lighting, rural industries and current relevant issues, so why not village schools? Come on, county councillors, get your act together


COUN. ERIC EDMONDSON, Chairman, Lancashire Association of Parish and Town Councils, 16 Queensway, Waddington.


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county council conferred with the parish and town councils prior to making appointments. Parish and town councils are requested by county


and see to it that the mechanics of appointing LEA governors give the parish and town councils fair representation, irrespective of colour or creed.


Curriculum — Mark II will follow just as models change in the car industry — is a production line model of education. Feed in the “raw material” at one end, subject it to cer­ tain procedures, inspect it at various stages, giving it a quality control ticket, and out of the other end comes a “useful product.” Useful, that is, for the demands of industry. If this is such a marvel­


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