■ , Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22828 (Advertising). Burnley 22381 (Classified) WADDINGTON


O T I S G R A N D


^ - and the ,


DANCE KINGS , plus


THE RAY MINHINIS BLUES BAND


Fr id a y 2 7 th Apr il E6/E5 ' COLNE MUNICIPAL HALL 8 p.m. M y b lo o d y v a le n t in e


plus DANDELIAN ADVENTURE Monday 30th April 8 p.m. - E6/£5 In advance


ROBERT PERRY plus


Tuesday Sth May 8 p.m. - £7 or £6 In advance CHICAGO Blues Genius


PHIL GUY plus BABE WIRES


Fr iday 11th May - E4/E3 in advance SILVERMAN HALL NELSON


THE BIG TOWN


PLAYBOYS plus


THE HOT LICKS COOKIES Friday 18th Ma y E5/E4 in advance


Sll VERMAN HALL NELSON


i GILL SCOTT HERON


Monday 21st May £7.50/£6.50 In advance


MUNICIPAL HALL COLNE 8 p.m.


Tickets available trom: __ m In Pendle —— —


Box OHice, 61 Albert Road., Colne. Tel. 0282 864721


Saturdays to a.m.-4 p.m. Box office now open Tourist Information Contro. Nelson. Tel. 0282 692890


EAST LANCS FOOTBALL LEAGUE


SATURDAY, APRIL 7TH


WHALLEY v


COACH HIRE HODSONS OF GISBURN


-------------------T H E F A M IL Y F IR M -------------------- ESTIMATES FREE


12 to 53 SEA'I ER LUXURY COACHES FOR ALL OCCASIONS


T e l: GISB U R N 4 4 5 3 9 4 da y GISB U R N 445751 e v enin gs


NELSON K.O. 2 -1 5 p .m.


Sponsor: WIREX of Gt. Harwood


Precision Wire Eroding


WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11TH


WHALLEY V


OSWALDTWISTLE CLITHEROE YOUNG FARMERS For loads of anysize please contact Geoff Wearden on:


MUCK HAUL WHALLEY 822669


(R o u n d C llth e ro e ) 5 0% GOES TO C H A R IT Y


CHATBURN METHODIST CHURCH


CHURCH ANNIVERSARY PALM SUNDAY, 8TH APRIL


Preacher:- Rev. A. Ward Jones (Formerly of Chatburn)


Services at 10-30 a.m. (Family Service) & 6 p.m.


Everyone Welcome NIGHT FOLK


At BLACK BULL Old Langho with


FLATBROKE and


LAMMERGEIER and FRIENDS


MONDAY, APRIL 9th RECORD FAIR


Longrldge (0772) 783795


Chipping (0995) 61391


-OF THORNLEY & CHIPPING


7-12-53 Seater Coaches S Minibuses - Private Hire - Contract Hire - Excursions — Tours Y/edding Cars - 24 Hour Taxi Service - Airport Transfers


YORK


Pay & Half Pay Excursions for April & May Good Friday April 13th 9.30 a.m.


'


GRANGE OVER SANDS & Easter Sunday April 15th LAKE WINDERMERE


12.30 p.m.


SKIPTON & GRASSINGTON Thursday 19th April 10.30 a.m. BLACKPOOL CLEVELEYS FLEETWOOD


Friday 20th April 9.30 a.m. ' Friday 20th April 9.30 a.m. Friday 20th April 9.30 a.m.


THE BRONTE COUNTRY Sunday 22nd April 1.30 p.m. RIBBLE VALLEY VILLAGES Sunday 29th April 1.50 p.m.


& CRAFT CENTRE SETTLE, RIBBLE HEAD & Sunday 6th May 1.20 p.m.


INGLETON WELSH ALPINE TOUR


Bank Holiday Monday 7th May 7.40 a.m.


£5750


£4.75 £3.90 £3.50 £3.75 £4.00 £4.20 £2.00


£4.20 £6.50


The pick-up point for all the above excursions will be the Bus Stop - Market ' Place - Clitheroe


26th May - 2nd June


10th - 12th August 7th - 9th September


5th 2nd


zna - 4111 Nuvemuei LONDON CAPITAL CITY


All bookings accepted at the the above numbers and brochures and booking facilities are now available at


7th October 4th November


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EDINBURGH TATTOO ' NATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL &


8 days £155.00 ] 3 days £89.00 3 days £74.00


DURHAM CITY THE COTSWOLDS & BATH (Roman City) 3 days £79.00


■ 3 days £69.00


Festival Hall SUNDAY


MARKET Gisburn


FLEA


Sth and 22nd APRIL 11 a.m. — 4 p.m. Enquiries Tel:


Cleveleys 824918


RIBBLE VALLEY FOOTBALL LEAUGE


Aitken Shield Quater-FInal


Ribchester SATURDAY, APRIL 7th


Whatley — v —


B


V THIS SUNDAY . APRIL 8TH


Turf Moor, Brunshaw.Road, : -10-30a.m. — 4 p.m. .


At the CENTRE SPOT ' . '(Burnley Football Club)


Trans Pennine Fairs : 0532-892087


SOROPTIMIST


INTERNATIONAL OF CLITHEROE


JUMBLE SALE


GRAND


Low Moor Church Hall 2 p.m.


Saturday, April 7th Admission 10p


Tea and homemade biscuits


EMMANUAL K.O. 6 -1 5 p .m .


Sponsor: P. Poole


Heating, Plumbing & Electrical


Both Matches Played


at QEII Playing Fields, Whalley


EXPEDITIONS PRAH


SCOTTISH TOUR ’90 FORT


WILLIAM


8 days from June 2nd For further details:- T e lep hon e


C lith e roe 29350 BOWLAND


COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL


Riversmeade


CHEESE AND WINE


. EVENING (Including French Cabaret)


Fr iday, April 6th — 7.3 0 p.m.


.Admission Adults £2.00 —


. Accompanied children 50p I Tickets available trom School or P.T.A. members


| The meeting due to take place on Monday, 16th


April will now be held on Monday; 23rd April in the usual venue.


A.E.U.


IN D IST R E S S ? SUICIDAL?


NEED H E L P ? Ring the


SAMARITANS ANYTIME


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105 NEW PARK STREET BLACKBURN


15 MARKET SOUARE NELSON


Pendle Club Lowergate


JUMBLE SALE


SATURDAY, APRIL 7th 2-00 p.m.


Admission: 10p


Tea and Biscuits available


Clitheroe Community Hospital Social Committee


MORNING Mayors Parlour


COFFEE in the


SATURDAY, APRIL 7th 10 a.m. — 12 noon


Admission 30p Bring & Buy end Cake Stall


Proceeds to Hospital Friends and other charities


THE Civic Hall, Clitheroe, pulled out the stops for its third annual coffee morning in aid of the yearly Drama Festival. . . by providing visitors


with live organ music. The organist was Mr Sam Wase, of Walton-le-


looks right in there.”


plans are afoot to hold a series of Sunday after­ noon popular music concerts — starting with Clitheroe’s 21-year-old Paul Lee in May — to raise


He has offered to sell it to the area for £1,400 and , .


SATELLITE SYSTEMS


i Said Civic Hall manageress Miss Barbara Cul­ len, who organised the coffee morning: “Sam just walked in off the street.one day on a visit to the town and asked to look around. He immediately fell in love with the hall and offered to sell us his Hammond organ, because he thought it would fit


in so well.”


cal entertainment and the morning raised £160 for festival funds. Visitors included Ribblc Valley councillor Mrs Myra Clegg, who is chairman of the Drama Festival, the Mayor and Mayoress of Clitheroe, Coun. and Mrs Pat Shepherd, and the Mayor and Mayoress of Ribble Valley, Coun. and


Visitors were certainly impressed by their musi­ , , .


Mrs John Cliff. There were cake and white elephant stalls and a


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Two are fined for taxi’s bald tyre


I Sarfraz. I Although Sarfraz was not the driver, he admit­ ted using a motor car with a defective front tyre when he appeared before Clitheroe magistrates.


A BALD tyre brought a £75 fine for Clitheroe taxi proprietor Mohammed


I Sarfraz (29), of Hall Street, said his drivers took home their cabs and were responsible for main- taining the lights and


St Catherines Church W e s t Bradford


CLOTHES AND KNITWEAR


A SALE OF BRANDED


SATURDAY, APRIL 7th 11-00 a.m. — 4 p.m.


In the Sunday School Easter Stall and Rattle.


Home made refreshments on sole Admission Free


CLITHEROE


LADIES BRANCH APRIL


. MORNING TUESDAY, 10th APRIL


SHOWERS COFFEE


At the Conservative Club '


. 10-00 a.m. — 12 noon Tickets 60p Including Hot Cross Bun end Conee


' Gilt S ta l l .


BARTHOLOMEWS CHURCH


ST.


EASTER WHIST & DOMINO DRIVE


Chipping Village Hall


SATURDAY, 7TH APRIL 7-30 p.m.


Admission: £1 Including refreshments ■


Proceeds to Church Funds UNITED CHRISTIAN


FELLOWSHIP Will Meet On


SATURDAY, APRIL 7th


In PENDLE COURT, Hayhuret Street, Clitheroe


★ 7-30 p.m. ★ SPEAKER:


REV. C. FOSTER Everyone Welcome


: Meadowside’, Grindleton, was also fined £75 when he admitted a similar offence. Clarke said he' had only been driving for Sarfraz for one week. He had been told the damage could have been caused by over inflation of the tyres.


tyres. He said the driver was new and did not rea­ lise how fast the tyres on a taxi wore out. The d r iv e r , Charles Roger Clarke (38), of


MEMORIAL HALL HURST GREEN


WHIST and DOMINO DRIVE


EASTER


WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11th


To commence 7-30 p.m. prompt


Admission £1.00 Including refreshments


MORNING ASSOCIATION


COFFEE


IN AID OF THE DIABETIC


SATURDAY, 7TH APRIL, 1990


i 10-00 a.m.


In The United Reformed Church Hall


Bric-A-Brac. Cake Stall. Perfumes by Rennalssance


Tickets 25p


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Dale, who is at present loaning his Hammond organ to the cinema building, because he “thinks it


Committee, said: “The musical entertainment was such a success that we are hoping we will be able to raise enough money to make sure the organ is a permanent fixture in the Civic Hall.” Our picture shows Sam striking a successful


Miss Cullen, who is secretary of the Festival chord with his listeners.


j The return of the Great Social Commentator


Sunday, April 8th 8-00 p.m.


Five membera from LINDISFARNE— Alan Hull, Steve Cunningham, Rod Clements. Ray Laidlaw, Mart/ Cragga —


plus Billy Mitchell (from Maxi &) and Ged (Hedgehog Pie) Grimes. Rock and laugh the night eway. Tickets £6.00 Concessions £4.00


mnwaiti


Ita party time with the chlldren’a favourite characters, the:


Join Mr Happy and his friends at their party


Tuesday, April 10th 11 a.m. and 1-30 p.m. Tickets £2.50 Special party rate


If you don’t like BLUES, steer well clear of The Mechanics over Easter weekend.


Tickets still available lor some concerts


THE FESTIVAL STAGE AND ACOUSTIC ROOM FREE EACH DAY_____________________


ROY HARPER Friday, April 20th 8 p.m.


Say “ainger-songwriteri' and that’s R o / Harper. Twenty years o f superb music from Pink Floydto John Renboum.


Tickets £6.00 Jazz at The Mechanics


MIKE WESTBROOK BAND Off Abbey Road Sulto


Sunday April 22nd 8 p.m. Mike Westbrook has lovingly recreated one o f the


masterworks o f pop music for this suite. Come alongand hear what has delighted audiences all over Europe.


Tickets £5.00 Concessions £4.00


LOWER BUCK INN


Waddington C L ITH ER O E


28705


Food Served Daily


Lunchtime and evenings


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METHODIST CHURCH CHAPEL


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Arts and Entertainments Centre Jazz at Padlham Town Hall


DUDU PUKWANA QUINTET


; Friday, April 6th 8-00 p.m. Exciting, rhythmic African Jazz


Tickets £3.00 Concessions £2.25


ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND


SUNDAY, APRIL 8th Services 10-45 & 6-00 Special Preacher


Rav. Clifford Foster (ofColne)


SATURDAY, APRIL 7th ANNIVERSARY


CONCERT ★ 7-30 p.m. ★


JO E & CLARE The Norths LeadiryjDuo (As seen


TICKETSC1.00


* * * * * * * * * * * * * FESTIVAL HALL * GISBURN


DOMINO DRIVE


WHIST AND


Saturday, April 7th at J 7-30 p.m.


* * * * * * * * * * * * * *


Admission 80p — * Including Supper


* y *


Riot was men with wicked minds


_


NOBODY can say that the job of a minister is not full of surprises.


| At 4-30 p.m. on Satur­ day I was fishing, or trying to fish, under the instruction of Nonhan Harrison — fisherman extraordi­ nary — on Churn C l o u g h a b o v e Sabden.


by the Home Secretary, Kibble Valley MP


Mr David Waddington I


I of the fly on the end of the line. An hour later, I was getting reports of what had happened in . the anti-poll tax demon­ stration and on Sunday I was down in London getting the first-hand reports from the police and going round the streets to see the vanda­ lised shops, the burnt- out cars and other relics of hours of criminal


It was a beautiful after­ noon and my only care in the world was the state


. violence. I An ugly crowd gathered


Poll tax is unpopular. I know of no tax which is loved and the rates were heartily detested.


as I answered questions from the Press and a vil­ lainous lot (not the Press, but the crowd') they looked.


But one thing that can be said for poll tax is that it has already succeeded in one of its aims — bringing home to people, lots of them for tne first time, the appalling cost of local government, in which many officials and


councillors fondly imag­ ine they can go on for ever and ever increasing spending without any regard whatsoever for those who have to pay the bills.


It is bad luck on councils like the Ribble Valley, who have to send out the b ills and incur unpopularity for the sheer irresponsibility of the Lancashire County Council, which claims to be so concerned with the interest of the poll tax


llayers and yet is hell-


A person running a busi­ ness soon discovers, I imagine, that the cus­ tomers are on the way to becoming his ex-cus­ tomers if he pushes his prices up any further and he has to set about cutting his costs.


je n t on pushing up expenditure yet again and at a rate which can­ not possibly be justified.


The county council thinks its customers will stand


anything. They won’t, Bu t back to


j the riot, Pulling out the stops for drama festival


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It was not mindless hoo­ liganism. It was sheer wickedness, orches­ t ra te d by men with wick ed minds and encouraged by politi­ cians ever ready with weasel words about their dislike of violence, b u t e v e r re a d y to inflame tempers and support law .breaking by


•.premises damaged, with cars and their passen­ gers attacked and inno­ cent members of the public assaulted.


because that and


Koaqiiqp h a


was, with hundreds of shops


i is what s w h it business


E v e ry day, someone comes along and con­ fronts me with a job I n ev e r th o u g h t was


Parliament.


Twice now I have been present at the swearing in of a new bishop. I have had to read the oath which the bishop repeats line by line. The bit about “all the spiri­ tualities and temporali­ ties thereof’ is not for the faint of heart.


mine.


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r. Yrt-.1,V) t‘ Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, A p r i l 5th, 1990 , , 3 ,


_llfng for non-payment of the charge for local services approved by a democratically-elected


I have also summoned f o rw a rd th e new Knights at an investi­ ture and have had to endure the BAFTA Awards and ceremony, at which stars of cinema and television indulge in an orgy of self-congratu­ lation which lasts for not less than six-and-a-half hours.


There came a stage when I said goodnight to the Princess Royal, who looked at me strangely, and a friend took me on one side to explain that I was o n ly h a lfw ay through the ordeal!


Shortly, we break up for E as ter recess, but I have to be in the chair of the World Drugs Sum­ mit in London, .'so no chance of another peace­ ful afternoon at Churn Clough for a while.


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