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CLITHEROE’S “good” skateboarders,
can understand the com plaints, but Mrs Judith Greenwood, of Pimlico Road, echoed their feel ings when she told us this week: “Where else can our children go? The Fire Bri gade doesn’t complain.” Meanwhile, last week’s
shift skateboard park is causing concern, not least among nearby residents. Parents of the children
story about skateboarders adding to the existing town centre motor cycle nuisance has created a considerable amount of comment. The local police have a
growing list of complaints about noise and hazards to p e d e s t r i a n s f rom skateboarders. Residents in the Pimlico
house School were given assurances at a meeting on Monday morning that Mr Fergusson would not be returning to the school. His home address has not been disclosed.
Parents at the Lower-
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Road area have also been complaining to Lancashire County Council, which sent along an official last Thursday to check the alleged noise caused by the skateboarders practis ing on the car park at the rear of the unmanned Clitheroe Fire Station in Princess Avenue.
even constructed wooden ramps to ride up.
from four to 15 years of age use the car park up to 7.30 at night, particu larly during the school holidays. The youngsters have
Up to 20 youngsters Mrs Irene Parker
siasts used to go to a site in Blackburn, but this has recently closed down. Une of the complaining
Previously, local enthu
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that they had not been consulted about the move to restrict parking and refused to move their cars, their action effectively blocking the road. A county council fore
Residents were furious HUSBAND and wife Mr and Mrs Wilf Robertson
A LONE voice at last year’s public meeting w as t h a t o f Mr s Jackson
critics. They are planning a petition to get Ribble Val ley Council to provide somewhere safe to enjoy the sport — instead of the town’s fire station car park, where they have to hurriedly move everything out of the way when part- time firemen arrive to turn out on a call. Obviously, their make
the ones who do not put people at risk with their gyrating antics, this week hit back at
by PETER WHARTON
pal area building manager for Lancashire County Council, who visited the site, said afterwards that a report is to be prepared for possible action by the county council’s Fire Bri gade Committee. The youngsters regard
playing on their skate boards as one of their main hobbies, next to playing squash and going on the “fun bus” to the Sports
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for 30 years and finds the noise from the youngsters hitting the ramp with their skateboards annoying. Mr Roy Clayton, princi
residents, 67-year-old Mrs Mary Gascoyne, of Pimlico Road, has lived in the road
Hargreaves, of Pimlico Road, said: “There were complaints from parents of young children because of the noise in the early evening. The children then decided to bring in the ramps at around 7.30 p.m. to appease the neigh bours.” The parents of the
Centre in Longridge. Housewife Mrs Ann
skateboarding youngsters are determined to fight for safe facilities for their chil- d r e n to u s e t h e i r skateboards. “We will be getting up a petition to the Ribble Val ley Council, signed both by the parents and the
alarm
children, demanding the provision of a suitable ska teboarding area in Clith eroe,” added local parent Mrs Hazel Braithwaite, a school secretary. The parents say they,
prefer to know their chil dren are playing close to hand. Nurs e Mrs Ju d i th
boarders have been using the car park site for nearly eight months. Skateboarder Peter
Greenwood stressed: “Our children are playing close to home and at least we know they are safe. There is also a good community spirit regarding safety among the youngsters.” The Clitheroe skate
Hargreaves (14), of Pim lico Road, said: “We have
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Villagers rally to support
their chemist
WHALLEY chemist Mr Roger Halliwell has been overwhelmed by the support of local resi dents in his battle to save his business, follow ing our exclusive story last week about plans by the village doctors to open their own dispensary.
have now put their names to it. In our story last week,
The skateboarders and their parents
no trouble with the fire brigade. As soon as the alarm goes off, we clear the car park for them to drive in. We do not want to cause trouble, but there
is nowhere to go. We want facilities somewhere.” He went on to say that
made. “We would pay 50p an
it would not cost much to provide a skateboard facil ity, if a small charge was
hour to use good ramps. We also wear pads, so there are no injuries,” added Peter.
Family Practitioner Com mittee. Almost 500 villagers
Halliwell is being drawn im for presentation to the
Mr Halliwell spelled out his fears and promised to close his doors if the local doctors go ahead with their plan. "We started collecting
A petition backing Mr
representative body, and by the close of business at 12.30 p.m. on Saturday we had collected 480 sig-’ n a t u r e s , ” s a id Mr Halliwell. Mr Halliwell says that
over three years ago the doctors gave the parish council a verbal undertak ing not to include a dis pensary in their new building.
signatures at 10.30 a.m. last Thursday with the full authority of the Pharma ceutical Committee, our
The divided village As decision day nears for exciting Barrow business park
don developers Pilot Prop erties is to be discussed by Ribble Valley Council planners on Thursday. I t has already caused
more controversy than the tiny village has seen since
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THE village of Barrow is this week divided. Not by traffic thundering along Whalley Road, but by the far-reaching business park plan for the site of the former printworks. The plan lodged by Lon
scheme have submitted a petition of more than 120
the closure of the English Calico works in the early 1970s. Opponents ' of th e
been relatively quiet,, with the exception of Mrs. “North West One” would';... ‘The’ tle'velopers have .Heather Jackson who, provide a hotel and busi- already spent around a
signatures, which they claim represents a large percentage of the village. Those in favour have
back in November last . year, bravely confronted scores of Barrow residents at la stormy meeting of protest to speak in favour of certain aspects of the scheme to develop the 47- and-a-half-acre site.
of development and client services Mr Philip Bailey urged the 150 residents to look again at the proposals constructively. Under the scheme,
ness centre, office and light industrial accommo dation in units scattered throughout the site, plus housing for key workers. The firm was attracted
At that meeting, Ribble “Northern Lights” report, Valley Council’s director which highlighted Clith-
to the Ribble Valley after the area’s inclusion in the
scale of the development is too large and inappro priate to the site location on the edge of a small com munity, stretching into open countryside. Said Mr Neil Turnbull,
quarter of a million pounds in preparatory work. Objectors claim that the
by. . . Vivien Meath
'V i ? AND AGAINST. . .
BARROW residents opposed to the present scheme have submitted a petition with more than 120 signatures
eroe as a potential focal p oint f 6 r e c o li o m i c- take-off.
of The Acres, Barrow: “We know there has to be something .there.and even, though the roundabout and access is now pro posed from the A59, it is still going to affect the vil lage traffic. Many people will take short cuts. Local residents are wondering what is going to happen to the site owned by this company on the other side of Whalley Road if permis sion is given for this
the battling community
WAR over parking came to the streets of Chatburn on Monday when county council workmen turned up to paint “Keep Clear” signs on part of Old Road.
dents vowed they would not let the matter rest and warned that more trouble was brewing. Mr Bernard Marsden
man pleaded in vain for the blockade to be lifted and the police were called as the angry confrontation grew. Eventually county council officials arrived for a hasty meeting to explain the new parking policy. Officials said the bottom
After the meeting, resi
will be telling us to go and park in Gisburn by the time they have finished,” Mr Marsden added.
of the Old Road cul-de-sac, near the centre of the vil lage, should in future remain clear of cars to allow emergency service vehicles to be able to drive up it.
Pub darters have world record in
their sights
A team of darts players from the Black Horse Hotel, Pimlico Road, Clitheroe, is hoping to double-top the world record when they begin a d a r t s ma r a t h o n on Saturday. An eight-man team will
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said: “This is the thin end of the wedge as far as the residents are concerned. The next move will be to introduce double yellow lines and Chatburn could prove a testing ground for similar restrictions to be introduced into other parts of Ribble Valley.” Residents say they are
said: “We thought this was the age of democracy, when official bodies con sulted ratepayers over something important. The first we knew was when all these workmen started arriving in wagons want ing to get on with the job.” Neighbour Mrs Lynda
’completed and nobody would have listened to our views. We are very angry.” Residents claim there
Lofthouse said: “If we had not taken our stand, the work would have been
start throwing at 11a.m. and hope to beat the 12- hour world record. The fund-raising event
particularly angered at the complete lack of consulta tion over something that a f f e c t s t h e i r v i t a l interests. Mrs Anthea Rodgers
man told us this week: “We are concerned that emergency vehicles cannot get through, so we are creating parking bays on one side of the road in the hope that people will voluntarily use these and leave the other side clear fo r th e eme r g e n c y services.” ■ Our picture shows resi
A county council spokes
dents in solidarity on the road in question: from the left, Mr Bernard Marsden, Mr John Turner , Mrs Lynda Lofthouse and Mrs. Anthea Rodgers.
Dancing in the rain!
DANCER Stewart Nairn, of Kenilworth'Drive, Clitheroe, and his partner were aiming to raise the roof when they compete in the all- England Junior Ballroom Dancing Championships on his 14th birthday on Saturday. . . but the weather nas beaten them to it!
is in aid of the Les Evans Holiday Fund, which sends handicapped and terminally ill children on the holiday of a lifetime. Attractions on the day
has been 'only one com plaint about not being able to get through. This, they say, has come from a local farmer who only uses the cul-de-sac infrequently. Service vehicles, such as refuse lorries, manage the road without problems.
will include children’s games, a tombola and raf fle. The men are all beini sponsored, and there wil be , a collection at the hotel during the event.. - Landlady Mrs Anne Fit-
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zakerly said; “The men will be making a real effort for the record,' so we are hoping the public will come in and support them.” ,
never been an accident and the county’s move will force people to park in the centre of the village, out: side local businesses which rely on passing trade. They are hoping borough councillor Ted Boden will raise their plight with council colleagues:
They say there has
areas such as this, without public transport, ’ being able to park your car is vitally important.: They
“For people: living in
Pwllheli on the North Wales coast on Monday night and among the extensive damage is a huge hole ripped in the roof of the ballroom where the competition will be staged.
to Stewart, who is a pupil at Bowland High School, and his parents, Andrew and Kathleen Nairn, but they telephoned organ isers on Tuesday and were told the competition was still on. Mrs Nairn said: “We
It came as a great shock '
have been told that if it rain's, the dancers will stop while the floor is mopped up. I t . will certainly be a contest with a difference.” ' Mrs Nairn is taking Stewart to Wales, with daughter Andrea (10) and her sister, Miss Heather Hosker, of St Mary’s Street, Clitheroe. ■
Stewart’s partner, Sarah Jones (14), of Pensby, on
There they , will meet ■&.
Butlin’s Holiday Camp at practise with top teachers Joan and Alan Merrall, of
Freak storms lashed the Wirral. The pair, who Stewart has been danc-
the Wirral, have already won their first ballroom dancing competition in the Winnick Championships at Widnes, which earned them a place in the pres tigious “Young Champions of Tomorrow” competition to be held at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, in January.
THE Miniprints photo gr aphic company of Knowle Green has been acquired by a leading pho tographic processor in London in a ma jo r takeover deal believed to be worth’£2m.
International have given a undertaking that all: key staff will be retained to h e l p d e v e l o p ^ ne.w business. .
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ing since the age of four, but has only partnered Sarah for a year, as his previous partner grew too tall.S t ew a r t ’s’ s i s t e r , Andrea, is also a dancing" fanatic, but because their difference in age is six years, competition rules prohibit them from' danc ing together until Andrea is 16 years old.
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this will provide 2,000 jobs, but round here we
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people, believed Barrow could “just disappear” because of the scale of the proposed development. “It is all right saying
and with hundreds of vil lagers putting their names to a petition in support of Mr Halliwell, he moved his pharmacy from one end of the village to the other.
On the strength of that,
states: “We the under signed object to the doc tors opening a dispensary in Whalley. It is contrary to all the assurances given in 1986 and it will lead to th e c l o s u r e of the pharmacy.”
The recent petition
just Whalley, but the sur rounding districts of Read, Simonstone, Hurst Green, Wiswell and Barrow.
that his business depends very much on serving not
Mr Halliwell stresses
■ It is understood that the Family Practitioner Com mittee is currently looking into the matter.
Royal photos
OUR Royal visit issue last week caused a con siderable amount of interest — and brought a letter of thanks from the Duchy of Lancaster (see page 11). Meanwhile, there is
still a chance for readers to purchase a photo graphic record of the visit by the Queen and the .Duke Of, Edinburgh from the 200 colour and black and white prints on display at the “Advertiser and Times” office in King Street, Clitheroe. The photographs are
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