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THURSDAY, JUNE 29th, 1989 No. 5,372 Price 24p


THE Ribble Val­ ley’s topsy-turvy weather is proving hard to swallow for Mr Austin Ball, landlord of the Wellsprings Inn, high on the Nick o’ Pendle. One minute a hea­


twave was threatening, to call time on the moorland hostelry, with hillside water supplies running dry in th e s i z z l i n g


temperatures. Lorries began an expen­


sive emergency supply to feed a 3,000-gallon storage tank, but no sooner was this done than the skies darkened and the heavens opened. More than two inches of


rain fell in a terrific down­ pour on Monday night and Mr Ball awoke to see hill­ side streams which had b e en dry fo r w e ek s cascading down Pendle Hill. It was a case of water,


Mr Ball (right) with tanker driver Tony Gcldard


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his drink. But every cloud has a


passed, with water filling up faster than pints can be pulled. But Mr Ball does not want to take any more chances and is considering having a borehole drilled 200ft down into the hill to create a permanent supply of water.


In Clitheroe, Coun.


John Cowgill is to raise as a matter of urgency the latest flooding under the railway bridge on Wad- dington Road.


Furious residents on


Tuesday demanded action after the road remained closed for hours. Mrs Pat McGuire, of Waddington Road, thought that the flooding was more serious than it had been for the


Lorries were the only vehicles able to splash their way through the flood under the Waddington Road bridge


past 11 years. She said: “It is disgrace­


ful that nothing can be done about this. It is a health hazard, with the real risk of children who are coming to play in it catching typhoid. “Heavy lorries come


sweeping through, which sends tidal waves of water crashing across the pave­ ments and up the walls of gardens. All our walls are being undermined by the waves. You have to see it to believe how bad it is. It is just incredible.


Clampdown on town’s car menace


IRRESPONSIBLE parking is bringing


gestion once and for all, Clitheroe Police have


joined forces with the “Advertiser and Times” to


stamp out thoughtless parking practices around the town. From Monday, police


by VIVIEN MEATH


Clitheroe to a halt. In a bid to relieve con­


considerately and legally?" For 14 days, police and


are mounting a month-long campaign aimed at educat­ ing motorists to think before they park. Posters prominently


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Cockshutt (40), a passen­ ger in the family’s Ford


Cockshutt (42), of Whalley Road, Langho, died in the accident, at 9-30 p.m., on the A6068 Barrowford Road near the junction with Carr Hall Road. His wife, Mrs Mary


A LANGHO man was killed and his wife injured on Tuesday night in a car accident involving four vehicles. Father of three Mr Alan


Father dies in crash


Sierra, suffered chest and leg injuries and is “satis­ factory” in Burnley Gen­ eral Hospital. Mr Cockshutt worked in


ANGER is growing over last week’s pollu-. tion of a Ribble Valley stream by the water authority — the third accident of its: kind in four months.


is considering whether to prosecute the authority for the pollution, a carbon copy on a smaller scale of a


Now the county council


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Langho for four years and have three children, Lisa (15), a pupil at St Augus­ tine’s RC School, Billmg- ton; Paula (19), a student at Lancaster University, and Michael (20), who is serving with the Army in West Germany. L an gh o r e s id e n t s


similar incident ten weeks e a r l i e r w h i c h w a t e r authority bosses promised would never happen agairi. Some 5,000 fish died when caustic soda spilled into Colne Water between L an e sh aw b rid g e and Colne.


brown trout were killed when caustic soda was dis-


Last week, at least 70


charged into a brook from one of North West Water’s treatment plants — this time from Low cocks W a t e r w o r k s , n e a r Clitheroe.


p.m. and 6 p.m. on Wednesday of last week and was reported anony­ mously to Brian Jackson, the Pendle co-ordinator of Friends of the Earth, who said he was furious there should have been a dis­ charge at a time when North West Water is fac­ ing a court case over another incident involving caustic soda.


It happened between 4


A North West Water spokesman said that for­


sited will help to hammer the message home, posing the question: “Have you parked your car safely,


traffic wardens will be out and about in the town tak­ ing note of bad parking procedures. Motorists at fault will be left warning let te rs on their wind­ screens with a map detail­ ing parking areas in and around the town. Anyone seriously transgressing will be dealt with in the normal way by fines or through the courts. Monday, July 17th, will


see the start of an inten­ sive clampdown, during which regulations will be


rigidly enforced. The campaign is being


masterminded by Sgt Robin Phoenix, who is based at Clitheroe Police Station. “I want people to think


are in King Street, Clith­ eroe, opposite the Post Office, and in Moor Lane, outside the shops, where there is limited waiting on one side, yet motorists regularly double park, causing obvious obstruc­ tions to the traffic flow. T h i s S g t P h o e n ix describes as “out and out bad manners.” Wellgate is another


for themselves — it’s all down to commonsense at the end of the day,” he says, adding that waiting restrictions do not allow exceptions, yet many peo­ ple blatantly abuse them. Clitheroe’s worst spots


trouble spot, as is the bus lay-by in Clitheroe’s Mar­ ket Place, where disabled drivers tend to be the worst culprits, regularly flouting restrictions. “Their orange sticker allows them to park on


double yellow lines for up to two hours — but not to


estate nearby is built, things will be even worse, because there will be more drains adding to the problem. “It must be possible in


“When the proposed


silver lining, as Mr Ball explained: “If the hea­ twave had continued, we would have had to close down for the first time, because there would have been no water for washing or for the toilets. It was very serious.” Now the c r is is has


Special weather report by JOHN DOVER


lem. It is just ridiculous.” . Residents say it is like


the seaside, with heavy lorries driving through the dee)) water and sending the waves crashing eight feet up the railway bridge. Mothers and children going to school had to dive for cover as walls of water came racing across the road. Scores of vehicles had to


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The Royal yacht may bring Queen


THE Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh hope to arrive in Lancashire on board the Royal Yacht Britannia when they visit the Hodder Valley in August. The possibility of the


yacht anchoring in Heysham or Fleetwood is being investigated. The Royal couple are


turn back, several cars had to be pushed out after their engines stalled and in one case a mother and her children were rescued by British Telecom workers, after her car ran into dee]) water. Coun. John Walmsley,


o f W a d d in g to n , has received many complaints about the water and feels something should be done as a matter of priority. Coun. Cowgill is to raise


the question of the flood­ ing at a Ribble Valley C o u n c i l c om m i t t e e meeting. He added: “We have


this day and age to do something about the prob­


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making a private visit, touring the Whitewell Estate and meeting farmers from the 13 farms, as well as representatives from other Duchy properties in the county. It will be the first time


at Heysham by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, Mr Simon Towncley. They will spend a day in Lancashire before leaving on board the yacht for the Isle of Man. Villagers in Dunsop


the Queen has been to the Hodder Valley since the Duchy of Lancaster took over the estates 51 years ago. The couple will be met


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built, the streets were fre­ quented by horses and carts. Now, more arid more people have cars, which they have to park. Laziness is the backbone of all this. People should ask themselves: Is my journey really necessary?” Parking partially on


pavements is another form of obstruction regularly committed in Clitheroe. “M o to r is ts are not


allowed to drive on the f o o tp a th s . I t is an offence,” s tr e s se s Sgt Phoenix. “The worst offenders


are wagon drivers. Our pavements are be ing’ demolished by this type of p r a c t ic e . S om e t im es women with prams find it impossible to walk on pavements which are obstructed and as pave­ ments are cracked and eroded th e r e is more chance of people tripping,


remove vehicles which are badly parked — and charge the owner, which, can result in a bill of £70. “When Clitheroe was


park in a dangerous posi­ t io n or to c a u s e an obstruction,” Sgt Phoenix points out. Police have the power to


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Bridge are hoping to gain a glimpse of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and will be putting out the bunting to greet them.


Parking charge


CHARGING for car park­ ing in the Ribble Valley could be a way of financing litter wardens, Coun. Bill Bowker told the Ribble Valley Council. He wanted the council,


when it prepares its report on the issue, to investigate how much car [larking is long term and how much short stay. He suggested that any proposals for car park charges should allow “a reasonable amount of. time free.”


Water petition


IN Clitheroe on Saturday will be members of the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble V a lley group against fluoridation. They are circulating the


The “Advertiser and Times” poster which is asking drivers to think before they park


police is clear — think again about where and how you park your vehi­ cle, or your next shopping


trip into Clitheroe could prove extremely costly.


POLLUTION ANGER by CLIVE BARNDEN


tinuing into the discharge, from Lowocks Water­ works into West Clough Brook between Grindleton and West Bradford.


treatment plant supplies, water to Clitheroe, the spokesman stressed that “at no time were water supplies under any threat as a result of the incident,” explaining that caustic soda was used to treat the natural a c id ity of raw water at the plant.


Although the water


The spokesman added: “The controlled discharge


tunately the discharge was a small one and of diluted caustic soda. Investigations are con­


into the brook was from a sump after checks had been made. The discharge lasted for no more than t h r e e m i n u t e s and involved about 20 gallons, of which less than five gal­ lons was caustic soda and the rest was water.”


The water authority had


immediately organised the restocking of the brook, but it was “nonetheless extremely concerned that it happened at all.”


was Lancashire County Council leader Mrs Louise Ellman, who this week unveiled an environmental initiative for Lancashire in the 1990s which would


One of the first to erupt


due to start, police are aware that there will be an increased number of chil­ dren around the town’s streets. Dangerous and selfish parking can lead to accidents and young lives could be at risk. The message from our


particularly the elderly and infirm.” With the school holidays


town with a pe t it ion against the fluoridation of drinking water.


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fied it should happen again. Strong action is needed. Clearly, the water authority is taking its responsibilities lightly,” she added. County Coun. Mrs Gill


Lea said the discharge was a “diabolical case of sheer care le ssne ss” and she wants a public apology from the water authority, a s we l l as a f u l l e r explanation.


Linda pedals her way to a top title


AS she prepares to com­ pete in the women’s ver­ sion of the Tour de France, • Linda Gornall’s p r e p a r a t i o n s h a v e received a tremendous boost.


described the family as being very close, adding, that they could not have w i s h e d fo r b e t t e r neighbours.


•fill a book, but the words describing the action taken would not cover a postage stamp. This was the view


expressed to the Ribble r


THE words spoken about the parking problems in Saltnill Road and Lime Street, Clitheroe, would


Linda (25), of Mearley


Farm, took first place in the prestigious British national 50-mile cycling


championships, held at. Didcot, Oxfordshire, last


heels of the silver medal she picked up in the 25- mile championships two weeks ago. Then Linda was beaten by Maria Blower, but this time she reversed the positions, recording a time of 2hr. 0


Sunday. This follows hard on the


Plenty of words but little action


Valley Council on Monday by Deputy Mayor Coun. Howel Jones, who said the problems were getting


to the area three times recently — when an arti­ culated lorry backed into a


He had been called out


car, when a lorry blocked the road during the eve­ ning rush-hour traffic and when a third lorry trav­ elled across a pavement, damaging it.


Health Committee is to investigate.


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min.47sec. — 39 seconds ahead of her Leicester


rival. What made the win all


the more satisfying for Linda is that she did not decide to take part until the day of the race. She said: “I had just


returned from the Tour of Italy, where I had a bad couple of days. I returned on Friday and did not feel like racing, but my sister- in-law Sue persuaded me to ride for the sake of the team.” , It was a decision that


Linda did not regr et because, along with her personal triumph; the’ Horwich Cycling. Club team of Linda, Sue Gornall and Oswaldtwistle’s Helen Chadwick also won, the overall event.


’ but I am glad to be home,” said Linda; who has had a g rue lling fortnight in which she has never been out of the racing saddle. Now, after a couple of


“It was great to win,


days res t, Linda has returned to the Blackburn


recorded a pleasing eighth place at Didcot, are cur­ rently preparing to repre- . sent Great Britain in the female equivalent of the men’s Tour de France,' beginning on July 11th. It is expected to. be the toughest women’s race ■rtf


DHSS office, where she works part-time. Fortuna­ tely she is .allowed special leave if she is on interna­ tional duty, which will come in very handy in two week’s time. . Linda and Sue, who


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involve set ting up an environmental research unit and conducting what she described as “green audits.” County Coun. Mrs Ellman was “horrified” by the discharge and is now calling for a full inquiry into the incident because, she said, it indicated “gross negligence.” “I am particularly horri­


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Gornalls have firmly-fixed their sights on are the world championships in August, and the Common­ wealth Games in January.


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