Running to set Telethon pace
MARATHON runner Chris Wood is setting the pace for Clitheroe’s Telethon fund-raising.
eroe and District Chamber of Trade, the local organ isers of Telethon, 40-year- old Mr Wood wanted to make an individual contri bution in advance of,the Granada spectacular.
As president of Clith-
his running skills, into the fund-raising and is hoping many fellow tradespeople and townsfolk will sponsor him when he takes part in' the Cumbrian Half Mara th o n a t C a r l is le on Sunday.
So he decided to channel
. sey Marathon twice. He has been a road run
software designer with his own firm and is a regular marathon runner in events throughout the British Isles, having won the Jer-
Mr Wood is a computer
Mr Barrie Stevens said: “To drive him on he needs your support. Please spon sor him in his efforts, so that we can raise as much money as possible for Telethon.” Meanwhile, customers
ner since the age of 11, a member of Blackburn Har riers for many years and has taken p ar t in the Cumbrian Half Marathon (13.1 miles) in previous years. Telethon co-ordinator
at the,White Horse Inn/ Clitheroe, have also taken up the fund-raising chal lenge. At least 12 regulars are to stage a 27-hour pool marathon, plus a darts marathon, on the Castle field during the Telethon, beginning at noon on May 26th, and already more than £100 in sponsorship has been promised, with much more expected.
has decided to go in for a close shave while his friends play pool and darts. David "Moon is now collecting sponsorship for a head shave which will take place in full view of visitors to the Castle Field. His hairdresser will be Debbie, of Woone Lane, Clitheroe.
And one of the regulars
recorded by Granada Tele vision and the Chamber of Trade is hoping to top the £5,000 raised at a similar Telethon in 1988.
The e v e n t will be
sor marathon runner Mr Wood is asked to contact Mr Stevens (Clitheroe 22856). Sponsorship for the White Horse contribu tion is being collected by the licensee and his wife, Mr a n d M r s J o h n Partington.
Anyone wishing to spon
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I RECEIVED m; husband and I hai pence; : ■
ly poll tax bill on Friday afternoon and . saw that my d to pay £336 each; making a totalof£672 and the odd .
are paying, nearly £400 more this year than last year and what made, me mo^e, outraged was the fact th a t I am getting nothing different this,year than I was last year,- but yet we 'have: to pay, £400 more. • I was so annoyed I went
- Like a lot of people,:we
; ships. So what recreation : do .they talk-about that: - costs this much?
: food wage by most stan-- over Easter; the1 poll-tax
straight up to the Town Hall to demand to k n o wrMy husband is Welsh not only what I was get-1 and comes from .Milford ting for my £400, but how'.: Haven, Dyfed,: which is I was supposed to pay i t : : ; u n d e r ' Preseli • District My husband, earns a Council. -We went there
council that as .a .family , with; two young: children■ under 11, we are expected ;, to live off £89 a-week./1.;: bet there is not a family of four, anywhere that can do ‘ that. ■'
I; was also told by (the ;
co u n c illo rs '— M r :Pat Shepherd, ;Mr Eric Bra- cewell and MrEric/White- head -^:who,' I: thought, could explain to me. why we have to go through a : lot of, hardship for what seems to be nothing.
ful in a roundabout way, but I received no satisfac tory-explanation from either of the other two councillors, who,; I. feel, ..were not prepared to give me the time of day. . .
Mr Bracevyell was help
ards, but with increasing there is £197; which-is mortgage interest rates.—-' what it was set at. Nobody,
we have a mortgage of pays-less and nobody pays- Tory or-Labour but a £350 a month — and two more.'
Warwick Drive, whom I also-went to see, is not a
children aged six and Milford has a'beautiful genuinely sympathetic and eight, how is anybody sup- big sports leisure centre,; .'also opposed the poll tax; posed to pay the over- with every amenity, in it.- he could not explain the heads, e.g. gas, electric- There.-was also an outdoor . difference between Mil- ity, water rates etc., £88 swimming pool, which has,; ford and Clitheroe. per week mortgage, feed just been demolished and.' He'said quite clearly and clothe two children they are now building a that something should be and ourselves and be -new one; They also have a done about it to save the expected to pay £67 per big library, schools, parks hardship, of what thou- etc. and households also - sands of us will endure, receive 25-50 dustbin The Tories are,laughing liners free each quarter.,
Social Democrat.. He was
month poll tax? After asking what I was
'was being built by. way of donations and sponsor-
recreation? If
they.mean: the Castle, it’s been there for 800 years. The baths have also been there for years and were paid for by Clitheroe people when it
getting for my £400, I was told about th e usual things, then they came to recreation. T h a t’s a joke, what
' Why, when that town with the money they are has so much, do they pay saving, while the rest of us
all. the way to the bank
£197 and we who have sit',at home‘wondering if nothing pay £200 more?
at the Town Hall, they told me to see my council lor, Mr James McGhie. He was very sympathetic and as upset as I was. He gave me th e n ame s a nd addresses of our Tory
After getting nowhere
we are becoming: like the black people in South Africa — the unmention able citizens.
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M R S D E L Y S BROOME, 48 Wilson Street,' Clitheroe.
E Mr Howel Jones, of-
PUNISHMENT FITS THIS CRIME
' MAJOR crime in Clitheroe — police apprehend the villain -— the courts pass sentence—justice is done! I read with some amazement the account
‘ rubbish in a waste skip” at the Henthorn •
of the court case, involving the serious: crime of “sorting out and,disturbing
'• 'it? ■'
- (clothing, books and toys) to raise money to reduce the poll tax— or was it just going to dump ...
Road depot in Clitheroe. - Can someone tell me if the County Council was going to sell the very valuable stolen property -
the depot if one sorts or takes anything and I know indiscriminate sorting at depots could be dangerous if it were to become a regular practice. But where is the sense of proportion? A man has
I know that there is a warning of prosecution at ■
“stolen” some of the poll tax payers’ rubbish, from its council’s skip. The police arc reported as seeing the offender walking off and then they must have been involved in court. Incredible! As for the magistrates — I wasn’t in court and
' Still the law was broken, I suppose. Thou snalt. , not. . . ,
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A TAX PAYER AND POLL TAX PAYER, ' , . who pays for such “justice.’’ _ ‘
Will cavalry arrive to stop sale of
Bramley Meade? ?
. bership of Blackburn, Hyndburn and; Kibble Valley Health Authority ceases for myseli and
perhaps the “Advertiser and Times” report omits all sorts of things — but in these “green days,” when we are encouragcd by many, from the Prime Minister down, to re-cycle rubbish — a £50 fine?- Why not at most a conditional discharge? Or ' should it ever have been brought to court? I’m sure
Fined for recycling
I FOUND it difficult to reconcile the following para graph of the Ribble Valley Council’s Green Charter: “discouraging waste and promoting the re-use and recycling of materials wherever possible,” with the prosecution of a man who did exactly that by taking discarded items from the county council’s skips!
MR T. MARKLEW,
Sandilands Farm, Rimington.- .
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. the majority of my colleagues, allow me to add to the picture of “our” NHS and Bramley Meade in particular.
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V revised peak of projected. Bramley Meade would be births in the district in safe until phase 3A was 1993, g rea ter than -that /operational suddenly, originally, predicted.v
beeome worthless. . ‘1
.wing — phase. 3(A a t ;Er°mme 1991/92 and its poor,.pern;aps sne should look-at her own shop for
cloth of mo known s ta r t faith js .a ttached to. the date for the new maWrnity,
This was against a back-, 'Y
' UnThe forme^was adopted by the authority, hut/bid-
was made tor regional
business management. at region took over-and the district was boxed into a comer with the promise of
finance for the latter with no real, likelihood "that it would be successful.,. . This is where astute
restricted.at Queen’s Park f ^ m u l t be powed into /.always seem to be plenty 'the streets of Chtheroe. -CHRISTINE E. BEGGS,
k Either births had to be *---- ------ • Park ■ f M
'and. adm in is tra to rs ensure everything has: a cost for inclusion in the re su ltan t contracts for services. •’
those caring . /
But perhaps the ,grea-. test slap in the face will be
t There shortly followed eating more to the NHS
finance; then the bomb- the- General Election- at shell, shortly before the around the same time.- contract to. build the facil- Now if polls continue, to ity, that staffing/running predict people’s present costs would have
to.be met choice, a Government* will by the district. '
be elected pledged to allo-
he sweeteners'of phase. and maintaining existing 3A actually being identi- levels of service — to. fied in the regional capital include Bramley Meade,
programme. 1991/92 and , To conclude: while more finance being made Bramley, Meade will no available to cover mater- doubt" close .(my vote nity posts not previously' thought possible and a ' shortfall now equating to the annual costs of Bram ley Meade. ; As the consultation,
against will 'matter, not), there is- every chance that it will rise again to return to the RibbTe Valley the facility, it'requires. v ' You see, it’s one thing
period for the closure of Bramley : Meade comes to an end, the completion of :planning permission; the temporary additional before the cavalry arrives facility is also at an end hi the form of a Govem- and fits nicely into the jig- ment committed to the
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“ ma t e r n i t y p a n e l ” B K U C E D O W L E S , . , i(November 1988, acr Trade Union Movement
tually),T question how naive we all were to put trust into projections for births in . 1993 and to put that financial, request to the region., .
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As I re f le c t . on ' t h a t ,BRUCE DOWLES, . I I . \ * T . . .
NHS. m A tM n A M
member, Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley - Health Authority, 145 Whallcy Road, Clitheroe.
to close a hospital'— it is . another to ’ sell it, with-
carinff acc0untants West Bradford. to
‘S f o r T ’
. .The Heritage Fayre, organised by Lions and Round Table, at tracts thousands of people to Clitheroe eve ry year, many of whom retu rn again arid again, to become potential customers for shops! like Mrs Favell’s. It is a pity that her ideas were :not g iv en-rather more .careful consideration before 'being rushed, into iririt as a “neadline-grab-
BILL HONEYWELL, chairman,. v
Sin g » feature.: . __■! r .-
Clitheroe Round Table,
PETER SCHOLES, president,. Clitheroe Lions.
WHATEVER might soon happen in the refurbished library, I can assure Mr Loebell th a t two years ago his tru e blue friends on both the Borough and Town Councils ensured
that.Clitheronians for the next century will likely have to.enjoy a very expensive second-best library building.
Second-best library for the future
every effort to ensure that the library facilities to be dispensed from the build ing are firs t class and deserving of the people of Clitheroe.
I shall, however, make
his true blue friends on the Town Council who are not too keen to see some of the Town Council Chamber, furniture returned to its rightful place in the 200- year-old Moot Hall.
There are still some of
sion, local ■ government must- now succumb ■ to the private sector and: the G o v e rnm e n t , q u an g o Housing Corporation to meet, the housing needs of
recognise that it is .his true blue- friends in Whitehall who have enacted legisla tion which prevents coun cils like kibble Valley pro viding good quality starter homes at a price young people can afford. >:■ - After 100 years of the lead role in house provi
tle regard'for theneeds'of 1 . 5m ;L';cl t i z e n s lo f, Lancashire. , > 7 ■ ,
th e . nation.’ ; You. can' see the
...results every - day; housing; costs -'are beyond the, means. of -most .young people today. 1 7 1 ■ . The totally unacceptable poll tax system«is solely th e responsibility,; of his true blue friends in-Parlia-' ment," aided and-abetted by. the local .Tories,-,both at County Hall and in Rib ble Valley.- .Mr: Loebell is obvipusly unaware. of the. e ig h t-h o u r id eb a te ^ a t County Hall when the true blue friends acted .with lit
4 ; At the budget - meeting' " t- ^ , X* y J f tJ*
■ The courage and wis dom to redevelop the Auc tion Mart site will require a momentous decision and I await with baited breath- to see whether his true blue friends'ean rise above the mundane to deliver a scheme to meet the needs, hopes and aspirations of thousands of Clitheronians. that will not be wholly prescribed with commer cial consideration only. .. Mr Loebell'has got to
, .members drove a verbal ,'coach and horses through the budget debate, which we sustained for more than two hours. Hardly, I suggest, a few choice words — more like a the saurus of absolute truths ■' of how these true blue friends , fail to meet the needs, of the people who' elect them.
of the Ribble Valley Coun cil, I. agree the majority of members did sit with their hands, over th e ir ears while the few Labour'
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in the last year of the rat- in g s y s t em r a i s e d £371.4m. in Lancashire, so I am not too sure where Mr Loebell obtains his ■ figures in support of his argument.
Finally, the rate precept
. budget expenditure- in ' T990/91: increased £123m. '
■ . The County. Coiin'ci 1
while the true blue friends . in Government < withdrew ’
. Lancashire resident of the true facts. I- agree Clitheronians
Government grant from Lancashire equivalent to £16'8m.— th a t is the major re a so n for the increased poll tax. The county Labour Party is determined not to kid any
should take the oppor tunity to vent their feel ings in a democratic way and- ensure th a t local government is retained to meet the needs of all resi dents and; that the pay ment for • such services is secured by a taxation sys tem which is fair, equita ble, and democratic, based upon-ability to pay and the canons: of taxation well illustrated by Alan Smith.
RONPICKUP, C l i . t . h e r o e -Co u n t y ,
Councillor; 9 Lingfield Avenue, Clitheroe. .
Long service medal for village bobby
PC Peter Burnett Service and
T An-ra4Ki*eU/$ ‘
constable two years'later. ■ When Burnley , was amal gamated into; the Lanca
B“™Iey Borough Police'in 1965, being, appointed a
v! Health reasons took him - back to Burnley,, where he
traffic division, working on motor cycles and cars.-’ l '
;a ■ ceremony. in the r “ st™h"ext C n th b“1" ' r Tr“ ninS Sch0,>1’
PC Burnett first"joiried , - p c k u r n e t t . a keen fee motor yy cl is t1
Owner.o&a 750,‘c.c; Honda, tutors civilians -throughout •
’a n d ’the
shire ! Constabulary,“he ■ served at Reedley in the
the. area in/niotor cycle ndirig.under; the'; Govern ment-backed “Star Rider Scheme.”-. ' ;)He also recently became a tutor for-the Lancashire, Police /“LpokvAfter.Y our-; self,’? scheme!’' This ‘is; a
den’s - policeman isirfcp ’ ^ ^ '^ '.P o h c e to ffic e rs 1982, living with'hii' J a n e i n t h e
in 1980. He has b e e n S a ^ ' ’^ ? ’.aiI? e dm a in ly at - ‘ “l1
'^y- u e Govern-
housel’Hiri, w i f e ! ;w o r E ' nett has-saidhe woul^aiso M n i io / fa n ’ a 7 Ta » ._ 1 I
served on .the''Juvenile - Athj e uUC?(ioV cheme Bureau until it- disbanded •
-0111 nutnUon and relax- although;tPC<Bur--
IF, members of Clitheroe Lions and Round Table d o n ’t p a t ro n i s e Mrs Favell’s shop, then they can be labelled as Philis tines and take it in good humour like anyone else. . But-we are offended when she accuses us gen erally of not using Clith eroe shops and businesses. It is quite simply not true, as she would discover if she took the trouble to s p e a k to h e r fellow trader's.
Offended by Mrs Favell
A't t lie:same'time, blind -g io h .g c a p i ta l p ro- -
. . . , b she should .' fnclusiori of phase' 3A - ^ ,;th e ansWer; ris there
or additional facilities pro- . muo to make it the °f Potentlal j :“®.t°mers on vided there Abmpor^ily
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• “maternity panel” of mem- p e r ip h e r a l u n i t s a t bers first, considered a Accrington. Victoria and,
1 was present when the . P rom is e s th a t th e , 1 IN the few. months that remain before mem- -
that the police and .court costs far, exceeded the £1>0 : fine. How daft can-wc get! ■
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Keen to support traders
■ ,We;are a group of peo ple who' are very keen to support our'local area whenever and however we can and are; very conscious of the fact that the people of Clitheroe and the sur rounding Ribble Valley are some of the most gen erous'- people in the coun try, who can always be reliedhipori for support
I 'CA N NO T le t , Mrs- Favell’s 'comments go un answered. >As the wife of the immediate past chair man’
of-.Clitheroe Round Table, T;must protest on behalf of the wives of the R o u n d 1.' T a b l e r s of Glitheroe.. .. < -
'.' friends out shopping too! If Mrs Favell’s trade is
, my husband often shops with me, Sporting a Round Table sweatshirt or Round Table lapel, badge, and that we usually meet many of'our Tabler and Circle
'whenever our Tabler hus bands or our own organi sation, • Ladies’ Circle, are fund-raising. I can honestly say that I do virtually all my shop ping in Clitheroe and that
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