Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 2233J (Classified) ADVERTISING FEATURE


GOOD fuel economy has become more important almost by the day in recent times — but Escort and Orion buyers know they can take it for granted. Yet “costs of ownership” include plenty of other cal­


Fuel — and other costs — cut to the bone!


culations as well — and Ford designers have kept them well in mind. Servicing, as well as repairs, are made easier and


cheaper by clever touches such as yellow highlighting of owner-check items under the bonnet, easy accessibil­


ity of bulbs and a single reservoir for both front and rear screen washers.


SOME o f the team o f Skipper salesmen, who have a key role in the launch o f the new range.


Top of the range


CABRIOLET ... RS 2000 ... Cosworth — the names of the very Lop models in Ford ranges trip o ff the enthusiast’s tongue with the confidence of k n o w l e d g e a n d , maybe, just a hint of envy. For ownership of these


elite cars is, frankly, not open to e v e ry on e and some are in short supply, however bottomless the driver’s wallet. Certainly there will be a


strung demand for the three Escort derivatives, the Cabriolet being avail­ able now, the US 2U00 next year and the Cos- worth US Turbo 4 x 4 in 1992. The Cabriolet has a 108


hp 1.(1 l itre engine, is available in five finishes, and has numerous new features such as provision for carrying water and snow port equipment. The hood is of special easy-fold design, with electric assis­ tance avai lable as an extra. Uprated sports suspen­


sion gives exceptional han­ dling, there are low profile


tyres, special provision for security of both car and contents, and leather upholstery is another option. The US 2000 will be a


three door car with a l.r>0 hp engine, and numerous features such as transmis­ sion, exhaust, brakes, ty r e s , l igh ts and, of course, suspension to match its power. A sophisticated engine


m an a g em en t s y s tem arranges optimum power and economy in all condi­ tions, and a simple yet brilliant eletronic ignition innovation eliminates all moving parts in this sys­ tem, as well as reducing electrical connections.


The Cosworth Escort


will be a “ flagship” model for both rally and road customers and is a unique structure using some parts of the standard version and many other special ones to accept its in-line powertrain.


There will be 220 hp


available, and so many refinements in engine management, transmission and other areas that Ford see the car as a collectable


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THE managing director o f Skipper o f Burnley is Mr Les Dcardcn, pictured here. lie joined the com­ pany 12 years ago as assistant accountant and has been at the helm since 1985.


classic from the moment it goes on sale. A prototype should be


available soon so that numerous events can be entered for engineers to test the new model in live action.


A year or (>,000 miles, whichever comes first, are the


service intervals. Working closely with insurance inspectors and the


repair trade, Ford closely studied the most common areas of the new cars likely to suffer collision damage and designed them accordingly. Inevitably, vehicles do have bumps — but the new range has “part panels" available to minimise costs and, in the long term, insurance ratings.


Ask about the full range...


THE spotlight is firmly on the new Escort and Orion range this week, but Ford has many other cars in its range. You can ask Skipper of llurnley about them all! You can also shop round as much as you want for a


new vehicle, but you will inevitably end up back in the light, airy, not to say friendly surroundings of Eastern Avenue. The simple reason is that Skipper is a main dealers,


and will not be beaten on price, whether a trade-in is involved or not. This status also means that only the best used vehi­


cles are offered for sale at Skipper’s. Anything that is not top class, however happily and generously taken in part exchange, does not get the firm’s name on it. And, of course, there is a cast iron guarantee with every sale. Servicing, repairs and accident damage, whether or


not covered bv insurance, are all carried out by Skip­ per’s skilled teams, using the latest equipment and techniques.


They are happy to work on any make of vehicle and


membership of a 16-garage nationwide group with var­ ied franchises can be very helpful sometimes if a part is hard to find locally.


Clitheroe A d ve r t ise r & Times, September 13th, 1390 9 My plan is cheaper!


I WOULD like to submit my plans for the pedestrianisation of Castle


Street. I have no qualifications for such matters, but I would not charge the


council £45,000 for my plans. To begin with, I would leave Lowcrgale, Duck


Street, Church Brow and York Street as they are. From Shawbridge, traffic would enter on a


one-way system and proceed left to Lowcrgale or straight on up Wcllgate, turning right at the National Westminster Bank, into York Street. I would close o f f King Lane to traffic other than


taxis. Traffic entering from Whalley Road would proceed up Moor Lane as usual, hut then be directed on a one-way system down Parson Lane, where it could go straight on to Huwdlnnds or turn right into Station Road. (Incoming traffic from Bawdlands would have to turn left into Station Road. At this junction I


would have traffic lights to control the flow o f traffic. I would have a multi-storey car park built on


the existing car park adjacent to Booths Supermarket. From Waddington Road, traffic would enter


Railway View Avenue on a one-way system, turning right into King Lane, where it could then go left to Station Road or right along Railway View Road. Railway View Road would be one-way, taking traffic from Station Road to Waddington


Road. King Street above the Railway View Avenue


junction would he closed to traffic, other than disabled drivers. I would have a pelican crossing across Station


Road to the market for pedestrians from the car park and railway station.


MRS L. LEE, 59 Whalley Road, Clitheroe.


[Dangers to exercising our dogs


AS a responsible dog owner, one. wonders whore we are supposed to exorcise our dogs safely and without!: meeting objection. • Wo are unable to,


g


o In the parks and! astlo grounds and


It seems that wo cam no longer gownlk-: Ing around the local: countrysldo for fear-.


• of being confronted: e i th e r by mon


: e xp o s in g th em ­ selves or youths deliberately barring tho way and exhibit­ ing ^ th re a te n in g behaviour. (I would


IT ’S more than two decades since Ford revolutionised the small family car market with the 1988 Escort, offering more choice than ever before


to buyers in the class. Lots o f people have fond memories


of this range and indeed it’s a tribute to everyone that so many examples are still around. Hut official Ford figures emphasise


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the progress made in auto en g i­ neering since then ... a comparable model new Escort has 28 per cent more power with its 82 horsepower engine, a 24 per cent higher top speed at nearly 98 inph, and 20 per cent quicker acceleration to 82 mph, cur­ rent figure being 15.8 seconds. Best o f all, the average miles per


gallon figure o f very nearly 45 is 27 per cent better! Over the years there have been


continuous developments in design, with the f irst front wheel drive Escorts being introduced in 1980 and rear drive ones being dropped just a year later. The 1981 Escort won the coveted


“ Car o f the Year” award as well as many others, and later came more winning improvements such as lean burn e n g in e s ,a n d a u tom a t ic transmissions. Ford is used to success with the


Escort and is making sure more is on the way with the new range, combin­ ing a broad range with high stan­ dards and the best driving dynamics.


>'llko ;to express my: ■ most gratoful thanks: to the'kind’gentle­ man who came to: my assistance on.


- one such occasion). ; It has become oil


too frightening to take tho lovely walks:


. wo have onjoyed so m u ch - fo r many years.


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The ‘opera lot’ and talk of the good old days


A FEW months ago I had a surprise visit from a lady called Sallie Baldwin, who was over from Tenerife for a holiday and visiting rela­ tions in the Clitheroe area.


Some readers who used


to go to the musicals ill the K in g Lane Hall w i l l remember her as Sallie Wareing, of Whalley, who used to take the suu- brette/eomedienne roles with Geoff Seowcroft as her partner. Sallie met some friends


of mine in town here and introduced herself as being one of the “opera lot” of some years ago and when she was told that I was still around, she expressed a wish to call on me to talk about the old days. I just happened to be


g a rd en in g w ben t h i s attractive lady came up and told me her name. Of course, I could instantly recognise her doing her


even there got involved in the shows which were pro­ duced by the residents of her apartment block. Comedy was her line,


really, and I can think back about her roles and the verve and vitality she always displayed with her wonderful partner, Sccnv- c r o f t . You could be guaranteed a laugh when they appeared. There was also an unrehearsed inci­ dent when a real live don­ key came on stage in “The Desert Song" in 1988. The poor donkey had'


stage fright on the first night and misbehaved! There was a cleaning up operation and then the curtain was taken up. Of course, someone had to


comedy roles in some of giggle and that started the the old shows. She started taking part in the musicals in the King Lane Hall in 1933, until the war, anil then after the war was in a number of musicals here before joining the Accring­ ton Operatic Society. A fte r her retirement


from the amateur stage and from her working life, she moved to Tenerife and


chaos . . . the curtain dropped again and the cast and audience tried to con­ trol themselves and even­ tually it got going again with the cast concentrat­ ing on lines and songs. When I think of Sallie, I


think of her with her dark good looks and bubbling personality and, as a line from her song says, “ they


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No decision yet on auction mart site


IN your recent edition, Mrs Parkinson chooses to ignore the facts; the lady recognises the consequence of the Government’s economic policy and offers nothing to compare the situation, other than to sug­ gest that abandonment of the council’s auction mart scheme will solve the weakness of the Government’s current financial management of the country.


1 look forward to the


elections of 1991 to test what the people think of this Government’s present record. At the last council meet­


ing I drew attention to Government action of July Uth, 1999, that will add something in the order of £60 per head over every­ body’s poll tax in Ribhle Valley, which passed over the heads of every mem­ ber of the council and the Press present, who must find my warnings too diffi­ cult to comprehend, and the Secretary of State for the Environment knows little of our town centre redevelopment scheme. The qu es tion s now


being posed about the via­ bility of the market are both premature and specu­ lative. Tile exercise to date has been to identify a developer who would he


Fact-finding- tour by MPs


THE Trough of Howland is among the locations to he visited by a special fact-finding tour of north­ ern MPs and MEI's. The event, organised by


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the North West NFU. i's part of a long-term cam­ paign by farmers to create a b ro ad e r public and governmental understand­ ing of the hill farming way of life. In the shorter term, the


visit will also focus on the recent signal from Brus­ sels that the EEC is con­ sidering a reduction in support for farming in the uplands. ’The visit is being held


on September 28th and the delegation will visit vari­


ous hill farms ill Lanca­ shire, including John and Edward Parkinson's Hard­


ing Farm in the Trough of Howland.


Missing truck


AN Iveco 17-tonne truck was stolen from Clith-


eroe’s Salthill Industrial Estate last week. It is a 1810 curtain-sided


wagon in two-tone blue witli "Barbecue Rectella" written on the side, its registration number is B5S7 ODC and it is valued at £6.090.


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prepared to enter into a partnership agreement to develop the site to the best interests of the bor­ ough using the best prac­ tices of private enterprise. What more can the lady want? I well understand the


doubts and worries of traders, but they do have a vested interest in how th e m a rk e t s i t e is developed.


The council will have to


make a decision when a redevelopment plan is pro­ duced. An acceptable model is not yet to hand and all the interested par­ ties will, 1 hope, have ample op p o r tu n ity to in f lu e n c e th e f in a l decision.


COUN. RON PICKUP, 9 Lingfield Avenue, Clitheroe.


don’t make ’em like that any more....’’ I bear with sorrow that


Sallie died in hospital on August Kith in Tenerife.


EDMOND CAMBIEN, 45 Holland Prospect, Clitheroe.


Town is 40 years


behind the times


SEEING the picture and reading the piece regard­ ing B a rry and s tre e t cleaning I would like to make the p oint that although Barry is a good worker, questions need to be asked of Kibble Valley Borough Council: 1. What about the rest of the filthy streets? (Only the town c en tre ge ts swept.) 2. Clitheroe Market was c leaned Monday and Wednesday before, now very rarely, if at all. 3. You could graze a flock o f sheep on the grass growing in the channels of the streets and roads. 4. What were the require­ ments in tile contract won by Lancashire County Council from Kibble Val­ ley Borough Council? Surely not one man to swe ep C l i th e r o e and Longridge? Litter-bins arc no good


— instead, they should be out on the streets. Also, the toilets in the


Castle grounds and the rest of the town must be the worst in the country. We are constantly being


told of the way forward, but we are 40 years behind anywhere else.


HAROLD PUNCIIAKI), 8 Manor Road, Clitheroe.


Helping to repay wartime debt


THIS year we are commemorating the 50th


anniversary of the Battle of Britain. But while we remember with pride the crucial vic­


tory won in the skies over this country in 1940, we should also be reminded that even the youngest of the men and women who made that victory possible arc now nearly 70 years old. The Royal Air Forces Association is committed to helping all those men and women who have served


in the Royal Air Forces. As each year passes, we are finding that an


increasing number of these people tire facing hardship directly associated with old ago. As a consequence, it is becoming more and more difficult to meet the requirements of till of those who need our help. If any of your readers know of members of the


Royal Air Force family who are suffering distress, we would he anxious to hear from them. . We know that we will have to raise more than


Vim. in our 1999 Wings Appeal if we tire to he able to fund mir work in 1991. May 1, therefore, ask your readers to help us by


giving generously to our collectors during our Sep­ tember appeal, or by sending a donation to me at the following address.


SIR KEITH WILLIAMSON, President, Royal Air Forces Association, Portland Road, Malvern, Worts. WR14 2TA.


Bookworms’ feast


THERE'S a reading bonanza on the cards for Ribhle Valley hookworms. Some 11,009 hooks will he on offer ill the United


Reformed Church Hall on Friday and Saturday next week. Included will be 5,999 works of fiction, 3,000 non­


fiction and 2,099 children's hooks. Organised by Kibble Valley District Libraries, the


hooks include old stock from Clitheroe Library, other branches within the Kibble Valley and libraries’ throughout the county. The sale runs from 19 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Septem­


ber 21st and from 19 a.m. to 4 p.m. on September 22nd.


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