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LOCAL clean-up cam- McGhie, who led the 1986- paigners have branded 87 war on litter. Clitheroe as one of.. The disheartened cam-


ter blackspots. Its scruffy rating comes


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CLEAN-UP campaigners Couns. Jimmy McGhie (left) and Eric Braccwell despair at the sight of yet another litter blackspot, this time in Shaw- ' bridge Street


only two years.after a major civic clean-up cam­ paign which a le r ted townsfolk to the serious­ ness of the problem and sparked off many street­ cleaning sessions by will­ ing volunteers. “The town’s litter prob-


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Lancashire’s worst lit- Pajgners are stressing that Clitheroe s litter-strewn streets are definitely out of character with its tour­ ist image and recent “Northern Lights” rating, which identified it as one of the North West’s top 10 towns for a t tra c t iv e e n v i r o n m e n t an d prosperity.


One of the leading cam-


Mayor Coun. James — it is absolutely shock- cewell, said: “Some other footpath cleaning service


lem is back to square one paigners, Coun. Eric Bra- •l


ing ” said former Clitheroe towns in Lancashire, much and is pumping as much - -


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eroe, have less of a prob­ lem in their centres. “People come into Clith­


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mg as legislation allows. Litter louts, they say,


eroe centre and discard their empty tins, fish and chip papers and food trays, and the piles of rub­ bish mount up in various areas.” The campaigners say


the problem is worsening even though the town council operates a daily


less attractive than Clith- money into footpath clean-


leave their calling card in the following blackspots: • Pimlico Road, near the roundabout by St


junction with Talbot Close. • The Shawbridge area


outside the chip shop and under the bridge. . • Church Street. • Highfield Road at its


Denys Home. • Waddington Road,


a town council meeting when members called for a


of Pendle Road. The list was drawn up at


new war on litter. They decided to seek special attention from profes­ sional clean-up teams for the blackspots and also appealed to the public for help in stamping out the problem. “Most of the town is in


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street cleaning, but he felt there was little more the town council, could do,


local' government bec®use it was already


that many people thought the mechanical footpath sweeper was no longer in use, simply because they never saw it in action. This was because it operated at 4 and 5 a.m. The sweeper operated


Coun. Bracewell said o n n rvi h n r iom r rh a mo V i .


contributiong the maxi­ mum finance allowed by lo c a l g o v e r n m e n t legislation.


for 39 hours every week, cleaning up the town centre footpaths, while the county council cleaned the roads and other footpaths outside the town centre. Coun. Bracewell said:


need of cleaning up,” Coun MGhie told the meeting, while Coun. Howel Jones pointed out that problems arose because street clean­ ing was jointly operated by the county, borough and town councils.


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on local people to take ?> pride in their town and do all they could to reduce the mess on Clitheroe’s streets. After the meeting,


Coun. Bracewell called t & PHOTO BY JOHN BARRY


CHEERS, the toast is on you, ladies! That was the pleasant surprise for Clitheroe’s “angels with the tea trays,”


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of the town’s new Tesco store. Alice and Claire, both 77, live across the road in Duck Street and made


countless cups of tea for workmen building the new store. Claire, a keen Pendlc Club member, carried on helping to brew up despite


Coun. McGhie said: “Cleaning up Clitheroe has always been one of my main areas of concern and while I was Mayor I led a major clean-up campaign. I have always tried to get people interested, but now we seem to have gone backwards.”


town councilspends £10,000 a year on street cleaning and that a privately-owned mechanical fo o tp ath sweeper, financed by the town council, tours the town centre regularly. This service was in addi­ tion to street cleaning operated by th?: county council and funded jointly by the county and Ribble Valley Council.


He pointed out that the


said, would continue to press the county for extra


The town council, he


a recent accident which left her with two broken hips and a broken arm. So delighted were Tesco officials that they invited the two ladies to join the dignitaries and help with the great official opening alongside the Mayors of


Ribble Valley and Clitheroe. They helped Ribble Valley Mayor Coun. Albert Atkinson to cut the tape


and afterwards were presented with bouquets of flowers and invited to become honorary first customers. Claire said: “They were such wonderful workmen struggling in the rain to


complete the store on time. They had no canteen and we just felt sorry for them. It was nothing really.” The men had done a marvellous job to improve the area, said Claire, who


has lived in Duck Street for 49 years. Our photograph shows, from the left: back — Fiona Whittaker, Alice,


Grant Nurse; front —Andrew Glancey, Carol Holden, Claire, Claire Slow.


Debts total £35,900


THE amount of money owed to the Ribble Valley Council by sundry debtors stood at £65,940 by the end of December, com­ pared with £70,607 a year previously. It has been reported


that £30,000 of that has since been paid, reducing the figure still owed to £35,940.


“The town centre is very clean first thing in the morning, but the litter begins to pile up as the day wears on, because people prefer to throw down unwanted paper and tins instead of placing them in a litter bin. “ I feel that greater


THE controversial plan for an emergency bunker at Clitheroe Civic Hall (above) has been slammed once more by Ribble Valley councillors, but never­ theless is to go forward to the P o l i c y and R e sou rc es


emphasis could be placed on educating people about the need to be litter con­ scious. The Clitheroe problem is part of the gen­ eral scruffy image that Britain has in comparision with other European countries.”


complete waste of money. We do not need a nuclear fallout shelter.”


agreed and added: “I don’t think that we want an alternative to the plan — we just don’t want to waste this money.


Coun. James McGhie (Clitheroe)


Committee. At a meeting of the council’s


Finance and General Purposes Com­ mittee, various members spoke out against the plan, but it was reluc­ tantly voted not to delete it from next year’s capital programme. A grant of 75% of the cost is pay­


— all that expense for a shelter for just half a dozen people.”


“The cost is the criminal part of it


pointed out: “There is far more to it than this and we should not lightly cast it on one side. “It is not just a fallout shelter, it is


Coun. Les Nevett (Grindleton)


able by Central Government. Said Coun. John Cowgill (Clith­


He’s off to see Oxfam at work


AFTER over 20 years working for Oxfam, a local teacher is off to see for himself the life­ saving work carried out by the charity — at his own expense.


- Mr Philip Royle, who is chairman' of Oxfam in Clitheroe, has been invited to India to see at first­ hand some of the amazing work th a t has been achieved in the sub-conti­ nent. . Indian officials are delighted at the practical help and concern shown by Britain through shops such as the one in Market Place, which last year ra is e d a s ta g g e r in g £36,700. Mr Royle (52), of Salthill


THE shored-up Civic Hall, which will benefit struc­ turally from the £250,000 to be spent on the building of a nuclear bunker.


WE do some digging: of our own to find out more about the controver­ sial nuclear bunker . . . John Dover reports on page 13


Road, flies out on Satur­ day for the two-week visit, which will cost well over s p e a r h e a d £1,000. '


graphic account of condi- already having a useful tions in the southern city spin-off in the Ribble Val- of Hyderabad, which is ley is a women’s lace-mak- near an area devastated ing co-operative, which by floods.


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A PROUD occasion will be tinged with sadness when pupils of Ribblesdale School, Clitheroe, hand over a cheque for more than


£1,800 for charity. ■ For they have raised the


Pupils honour memory of deputy head


He had looked forward to being there when the money was presented. Now the cheque will be


handed over to staff from donations from staff, par- Speaking of the fund- the hospital’s intensive ents, friends,governors, raising efforts, Mr Mor-


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magnificent sum of money in memory of one of their much-loved deputy heads, Mr Mike Watkins, who sadly died just before Christmas last year. The children decided to


when the whole school and Mr Watkins’ widow, Mrs Janice Watkins, will be present. The money-raising


help Withington Hospital, Manchester, after Mr Watkins, one of three deputy heads at the school, spent 20 weeks in the intensive care unit. He was su f fe r i ng , from myasthenia gravis, an ill­ ness characterised by the progressive weakening of the muscles. The pupils rallied round


in an amazing fund-raising effort, which started last November. A month later, 16 different events had been held to reach the amazing total. At the sta rt, it was


events ranged from lines had to break the tragic of coins, various forms of news of Mr Watkins’ death sponsorship, the sale of to pupils. Christmas cards, raffles,


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care unit on February 8th, scholars and from the timer said some of the first - ■ ! pupils’ own “enterprise year scholars who had scheme ”


Christmas that headmas- Watkins, but still wanted ter Mr Denis Mortimer to help.


I t was ju s t before had not even known Mr taken part in the effort


DISCO dancing for Britain in Denmark next month will be 11-year-old Gemma Dawson. Gemma, the daughter of


CE Primary School, Clith­ eroe, Gemma put on her dancing shoes six months ago and is now a member of a young dance centre team chosen to represent Britain in the Danish International Champion­ ships.


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planned to raise £1,200 to buy a portable ventilator- for the hospital. But with that total being well sur­ passed, the school will now be able to buy the ventila­ tor and another piece of v i t a l l i f e - s a v i n g equipment. - Mr Watkins (48) had


been at the school for 12 y e a rs and had been delighted by the pupils’ desire to help the hospital.


teams from Finland, Swe­ den, Norway, Germany, Denmark and Holland, the group “Pinnacle” is hoping to repeat the success which has come its way during recent months with titles including the North European, Lancashire and Cheshire championships.


Competing against


months ago of the “Shapes Dance ■


team, based at .Clayton-le- Moors, its members have won all but one of the com­ petitions entered.-


Since the formation nine Centre” under 12


Mr Mike Dawson and his wife Doreen, of Kenil-


worth Drive, Clitheroe, regularly competes in


Gemma enjoys playing the piano and is intent on. working her way through her examinations in music as well as dancing.


Latin American and disco dancing, spending all her Saturdays at the dance centre. A versatile young lady,


. She is excited by the prospect of travelling abroad for the first time with the team and will be ■ accompanied by her mother and grandmother. The dance centre is tak­


ing three teams to Den­ mark — under. 12s, under


Love: “There will be 30;- pupils travelling.. A- num- • ber will be accompanied by


16s and adults. Said trainer Graham


parents who are paying raise £3,000 — £100 a head ; looking for.a firm th e ir own costs. The : — towards the cost of tak- prepared to offer centre is- now trying.to ing the teams and we are ship.”


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store for the 18 visiting for sale in Market Place. A charity shop workers, who third of Oxfam income will be taken to see comes from charity shops such as the one in Clith­


A gruelling tour is in its products to Clitheroe has been sending some of


eroe, and this shop alone has been raising an incred­


ible £30,000 annually in recent years. Mr Royle, a classics


teacher at Queen Eliza­ beth Grammar School in Blackburn, said:“This is my first visit to India and I do not know much about the Hyderabad area, but there is no doubt there is still plenty of work that needs to be done.” His wife, Janet, who is


will be able to give a detailed account of his experiences to groups in the Ribble Valley to help f u t u r e


p ro je c ts which have brought new hope for millions. Afterwards, Mr Royle


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secretary of Oxfam in Clitheroe, said: “Ribble Valley people have been wonderful when it comes to giving. It is heartening to know that a lot of good is being done and that this work is greatly appre­ ciated over there.”


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a control centre in case of a national emergency.” A proposal to delete the plan from the capital programme was defeated.


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