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Lancashire Association of District Councils have in deciding that the Ribble Valley be carved up and the pieces presented to other authorities? In your report it was also stated that upwards of £12m would be saved each year. Where have we heard this before? I well remember when 1
protested about the build ing of a nuclear power sta tion at Dungeness, in Kent, back in the 11150s, we were told that we would all get cheap heat
without our local paper to keep us in touch with events that affect out lives? What right does the
WITH reference to the plan to carve up the Ribble Valley, I say well clone "for bringing the story to the ])eople who count: the residents of the Ribble Valley. Where would we be
ing and lighting. What a joke! We were told the same
when they privatised the water authorities — have you noticed a reduction in
the price of your water bills?
ings they talk about. It’s time that we, the people, were asked our views. What about a referendum? I ’m told we live in a democracy. If this is so, then let us decide the fu tu re of the Ribble Valley. I would say to the Local
Forget about the sav
the border in Yorkshire. It is a rural area like
ourselves and it has prob lems: it doesn’t want to be thrown to the wolves, i.e. Harrogate and district, so what about an amalgama tion of the two rural areas? It does not make sense to have a rural area mixed with an urban one.
people in the Ribble Val ley, act now. Write to the
So come along, all you
own petition, let’s have one for every street in the area that we love so much — the Ribble Valley.
with the area we live in, no place is perfect, but I cannot think of a better area I would wish to live
We can all find fault
commissioners at once, also sign the petition which is circulating in the Grindleton area. Better still, start your
clean, green rural valley — THE RIBBLE ONE!
MARTIN JAMES, Kingfisher, Meadowside, Grindleton, Ribble Valley.
report that a spokesman for the Lancashire ADC has said the Ribble Valley did not have enough resi dents. If this is so, then let us look east towards another area of the coun try — Craven, just over
Government Commission ers, please listen to the people who count, the residents, before you make your judgement. It is s tated in your
Is this another nail in Ribble Valley’s coffin?
potential outcome of the Local Government Commission. Therefore, the current m . r
equally significant effect on the future for residents of the Ribble Valley, as it will be influential in deciding who represents them in Parliament and to which Parliamentary con stituency they belong. The story so far has
imagine, could be said of the borough council wards of Bolton-by-Bowland; Rowland, Newton and Slaidburn; Gisburn and Rimington; and Grindleton and West Bradford. However, in the Con
Mr Nigel Evans said that those villages “should remain in the Ribble Val ley where they belong.” The same, you would
been that all three political p a r t ie s locally have opposed the propsal by the Boundary Commission to transfer the Pendleside villages of Read, Sabden and Simonstone into the Pendle constituency. In your paper last week,
the Boundary Commis sion, it is suggested in both their sets of propos als th a t these wards should be part of the Pen dle constituency. Surely the villages that make up these areas are as much part of Ribble Valley as S a b d e n , R e a d o r Simonstone?
servative Associations of Lancashire proposals to
public inquiry by the Par liamentary Boundary Commission has had a much lower profile in your paper. However, it will have an
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als such as this, at a time when the borough is being threatened to be chopped uj> into a myriad of small pieces by the local govern ment commission, is insen sitive, to say the least, and can only be described as yet another nail in the Ribble Valley’s coffin.
To put forward propos
Liberal Democrats have told us that proportional rep resen tat io n was a fairer electoral system. Under this system they propose, we would have constituencies based on natural communities, each
Finally, for years the
RECENTLY your paper has (rightly) given great coverage to the ,
this would be that, if there was a movement in popu lation, all that would hap pen would be that areas would lose or gain an MP. This would save an
expensive public inquiry with political p ar tie s employing barristers in an effort to gerrymander the changes to their own polit ical advantage.
ALLAN M. KNOX, Painter’s Cottage, 4 Painter Wood, Billington.
More quangos on way?
THERE has been a lot of talk about unitary councils and about them giving more local control, but so far little has been said about how they will be funded. Yet in the final analysis it will be money which will
decide when, where and who. The main idea seems to be to remove the county
Valley road mileage and road mileage in Preston. When both boroughs are responsible for road care and, if funding is to be done through council tax and by Government grant, who wijl be responsible for assessing the monetary requirements for each of the boroughs? I cannot see either the local councils or the Govern
councils and share the services they operate between the borough councils, but how will the difference in and structural and physical make-up of the various borough councils be financially equated? For instance, let’s look at the difference in Ribble
ment doing the necessary work required to make an assessment of each council’s costs. More likely is the possibility of some regional bodies being set up to do the work required, which, of course, means more quangos and more perks for the party faithful.
CLARIE GERRARD, 3 Springs Road, Longridge.
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and his Liberal majority party have never declared they are opposed to the lighting of the parish church nor to the repairing of allotment footpaths. Indeed, many of the foot paths have already been renewed and what remains will ultimately have to be repaired at even greater cost. Much of the town coun
cil budget is spent on the mayoralty, with a town
Bewildered by PR
request that, in future, a bit more “meat” is put on the bones of such political articles, in order that they do not get mistaken for blatant public relations exercises.
P. It. THOMPSON, 23 Southfield Drive, West Bradford.
New landlady
THE Brown Cow, in Moor Lane, Clitheroe, has a new "andlady — Mrs Lorraine Briggs, formerly of the Britannia Inn, Oxford Road, Burnley. Mrs Briggs, who said
years, was granted a pro tection onler in respect of the pub by Clitheroe
she had worked in the icensing trade for 18
magistrates on Tuesday.
a German-owned company and would very much like to point out to my German coileagues the tru ly destructive force of their (i.e. the EC’s) “draconian” packaging regulations and “crude trade barriers.” The only ones I am aware of are pretty sensible laws aimed at reducing the levels of unnecessary packaging materials. As such, perhaps I could
at reading both along and between the lines, I am still totally baffled as to the substance of this arti cle, other than as an irrel evant piece aimed at put ting our illustrious MP’s name in print. I, for my sins, work for
exercise IN last week’s copy of the “Clitheroe Advertiser and T im e s ,” I read with increasing bewilderment an article entitled “Critic ises recycling directive by EC.” Despite several efforts
hall staff supporting sub-
I SUSPECT your correspondent (Bob Crat- chit, December 2nd issue) is just another Liberal with a Tory belly quite happy to sup port greed over need, without the courage to sign his own name to the correspondence. Scrooge Jones (Mayor) stantially this ancient
(Clitheroe style) to read Mr Scrooge’s Ghost of Christmas Future, which prompted the old miser to change his lifestyle — Roefiekl needs more help from the town council.
RON PICKUP, 9 Lingfield Avenue, Clitheroe.
worth all the tea in China. The lighting of the church and repairs to roads on our allotments, together with all the other expenses, is but a small price to pay for our freedom from an elected dictatorship of a Tory Government hell bent on abolishing Lanca shire County and Ribble Valley Councils in the interests of unnecessary spending in the [last. I command Mr Cratchit
oralty because I believe this democratic voice of Clitheroe in the councils of local government to be
retention of Clitheroe Town Council and its may
mayors and two town halls, why do we have two councils dealing with Clitheroe parks and plea sure grounds? I personally support the
office of Mayor of Clith eroe. Let me assure Mr Cratchit that there are hundreds of people in the town who, on his argu ment “that the demands of the council tax is becoming increasingly difficult, because of unnecessary spending of the past,” will say that all the costs of the tow n c o u n c i l a r e unnecessary. Why do we need two
Opposed km c o m p u l s o r y ^ m e t e r in g ^
decrees tha t rateable value charging must end
new and substantially a l te r e d p r o p e r t ie s
Government has ordered water companies to impose water meters gradually on all their customers, nor have we been ordered to fit meters to all new prop erties by the year 2000. The 1989 Water Act
by the year 2000. It does not say that meters must be used instead. At present we meter all
to see meters retained as an option for those cus tomers who prefer them.
ANDREW HEWITT, Media relations manager,
Dawson House, Great Sankcy, Warrington.
North West Water Group pic,
Make sure paper boys and girls can be seen
cles, but don’t seem to know that they require batteries to operate them. Even an illuminated band or jacket would prove
IT has come to my attention on these cold dark winter mornings, while on my way to work, that the safety of paper boys and girls is in jeopardy, due to the shortage of illumination. Most have front and rear lights on their bicy
the parents of these children and all local newsa gents to make sure that in future the cycles and their riders are clearly visible to other road users, before the only light one of these youngsters is looking at is the one at the end of the tunnel!
CONCERNED MOTORIST.
sure the cycle is adequately lit, but surely the parents of these youngsters are equally responsi ble to ensure the safety of their children. So I would like to take this opportunity to ask
effective, but with many dressed in dark clothing they look like “shadows in the dark.” I know it is a cyclist’s responsibility to make
opposed to compulsory universal metering and has made its view known to Ofwat, the Govern ment-appointed regulator. Instead, w’e believe that a system of banded charges, based on property values and possibly linked to the council tax, would be the most suitable method of p a ym e n t fo r m o s t customers. Of course we would like
because, since they do not have a rateable value, we have no other method of charging them. We also meter certain types of business premises which use a large amount of water. North West Water is
THE letter from Jacqui N u t te r ab o u t w a te r meters (November 25th) contains a number of mis-statements. It is not true that the
electing anything from three to seven MPs. One of the advantages of
in and bring up children in. It is their future that we must fight for; they will not forgive us if we let them down. Let’s all grow up in a
Attempt to make MP’s seat safer
THE report in last week’s paper about Nigel Evans’ protest over the proposed move of Read, Simonstone
and Sabden out of the Kibble Valley Parliamentary seat was made to sound as if he was acting out of self
less principle.
Valiev constituency to remain rural, why is he pro posing that seven or eight other villages in Kibble Valley North East. like Grindleton and West Brad- foul,‘move over to Pendle? It couldn’t he to try and tip Pendle back from Labour to Conservative next
But, hang on a minute. If he wants the Kibble . time, could it?
seat also involve ditching the parts of Preston they regard as less favourable, while retaining the “best” bits and adding five “Tory” wards from South Ribble. In future, the'seat would include parts of three local councils, instead of two at present. Stripped down to essentials, what is paraded as a
The Conservative proposals for the Ribble Valley ..........
principled appeal for a rural seat is really a shameless attempt to try and make Nigel’s seat safer at the next election: or. as Lord Waddington once said notably in your columns: “a load of sanctimonious humbug.”
GRAHAM SOWTER. Whailey Old Road, Langho.
Gerrymandering
Real Yorkshire support each other's endeavour to see their two proud counties re-established on pre-1971
only to promote our Member of Parliament. While Mr" Evans fights for the retention of Sabden, Read and Simonstone in the Ribble Valley Parliamentary Constituency, he offers no such support against North West Conservative Area Office's submission to remove the five wards of Howland into the Labour Constituency of Pendle, which just happens to be Pendle Conservative Association’s representation to the Parliamentary Commission too! Such gerrymandering is unacceptable to the people
boundaries. The use of Ribble Valley as a postal address serves
of Rowland.
JOAN PARKINSON. Campaign for Re-entry into Yorkshire, Waddington.
TWO weeks ago, in the “Advertiser and Times,” the Conservative county councillor for Ribble Val
Explain yourself
ley North East, Albert Atkinson, quite mistakenly criticised Liberal Democrats over the possible move of Sabden, Read and Simonstone out of the Ribble Valley Parliamentary Constituency. He was strongly supported by MP Nigel Evans,
who also got coverage in your paper last week for his speech to the Boundary Commission inquiry on the same subject.
same time, the official Lancashire Conservatives’ submission to the inquiry recommends that at least eight other villages — Bolton-by-Bowland, Sawley, Newton, Slaidburn, Gisburn, Rimington, Grindleton and West Bradford — be transferred out of the Ribble Valley to Pontile. To tiuote Nigel Evans’ own words back to him and County Coun. Atkinson: “How do they explain
What neither of them told you was that, at the
that to the villagers concerned and why have they kept so quiet about it?” Did they think we wouldn’t notice?
COUN. GWEN I*YE, 3 West View, Grindleton.
. ‘ r Nothing is still nothing
joined with Lancaster. Nothing is still nothing, whichever council office it comes from.
VERA NEWHOUSE, Wellhouse Farm, Tosside.
voice” when we were joined to the urban (com pared with Tosside) centre of Clitheroe, which cer tainly takes “the lion’s” share of the funding. I cannot see that we should be any worse off
HAVING read the article on the front page of the “Clitheroe Advertiser ami Times” regarding bound ary changes, I am sure that the officials in Ribble Valley realise now how we in the former West Riding felt when our area was “carved up.” Several of us in Tosside felt we lost our “rural
week). The Friends of Real Lancashire and the Friends of
I APPLAUD J. A. Boucher’s “no desire to remove Lancashire from my address” (letters column last
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