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on a whistle-stop tour of the Ribble Valley? Or was it carrying a clandestine film crew, capturing yet
interior designed as a mini-office, was Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans’ Mobile Surgery, trans porting him on his annual outing to meet the people of the constituency. This is the third year
that Mr Evans has taken to the road for a week and visited almost every town and village within the large Ribble Valley con
f you happened to look out of your window one day last
Dunsop Bridge, I gained first-hand experience of
very early in the day, is prepare for all weathers. I joined the mobile surgery in Wiswell, where we sat outside basking in the morning sunshine.' By Pendleton, however — the next stop — the sky had darkened and we cowered in the van, while the rain pounded on the roof and the thunder roared. The inclement weather
life on the road. The first lesson, learned
did not seem to deter con stituents. At every stop there were people eager to . speak to their MP about matters that concerned th em . The s u b je c t s c o v e r e d w e re v e ry diverse, but some did seem to recur. The ques tion of village bobbies and the potential threat to this
vital service was a worry to many. Another concern
stituency. With driver Keith Branskill, he plans a gruelling schedule to,
ensure that he gets to places as far apart as Simonstone, Fulwood and Dunsop Bridge. In each of the 34 stops he spends almost an hour talking to constituents and dealing with their problems. Spending a day with
him, travelling through the picturesque villages of Wiswell, Pendleton, Chat- burn, Bolton-by-Bowland, Slaidburn, Newton and
was the future of village post offices, struggling to survive in small communi ties. The level of council-
tax charged in “desirable areas,” such as Newton and Slaidburn, was also causing villagers some anxiety. One asked: “Why should we pay such high council tax when we are provided with so few
facilities?” At every stop a local
councillor joined the sur gery to give Mr Evans a local perspective. They
were able to alert him to any problems facing a par ticular community and to help him deal with constit- u en ts ’ q u e r ie s . Mrs Dorothy Pearson, borough councillor for the Bowland, Newton and Slaidburn area, expressed her sup port for the surgery. She said: “I t ’s good for Mr Evans to be seen in the rural surgeries. People can’t say that they haven’t had the chance to show him any problems.” Watching the surgery in
action, it is clear that a lot of hard work goes on behind the scenes, in addi tion to the five days of travelling. All the cases dealt with throughout the week are carefully filed and Mowed up, and while all problems cannot be solved, most can be tack led in some way.
that the work that goes i into the mobile surgery is
Mr Evans is convinced
w o r th w h i le . H o .oaidZf am going to the constitu ents rather than them having to come to me — that’s the way it should be. People often feel that their problems are too small or insignificant to bring to a normal surgery. But this way they can come and talk to me more informally. I t breaks the ice for any future prob lems, when, hopefully, they will be more willing
to approach me.” Barry starts his ‘innings’
| A KEEN cricketer has taken up the position of president of Clitheroe Lions Club.
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| der member of Clitheroe Lions 10 years ago.
He is well known in the
Ribble Valley as a local parish councillor and the president of Clitheroe Cricket Club. Mr Barnes is married to Mary, a local magistrate, and has four
I children. He said: “I ’m looking
forward to my year as president. Lions Interna t io n a l has r e c e n t ly launched its biggest-ever fund-raising campaign — “Operation Sight First” — in which it hopes to raise in excess of £100m. world wide to try and eradicate cases of blindness. This is an enormous campaign and Clitheroe Lions will be playing their part.”
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THE mo b i jc s u r g e r y i s r e a d y f o r a c t i o n , as Nigel Evans and cou nc il- 1 o r s M r s T e r e s a W i l- cock and Mrs Dorothy Pear son (right) lis- t e n to o n e Newton lady’s point of view. Our reporter C a t h e r i n e Need ham looks on.
Looking out across the
fells, on the road to Dun sop Bridge, he continued: “Going out into the vil lages like this also brings back, on a real basis, how beautiful the constituency is. You want to fight so much harder for it when you see it at first hand.” My day on the mobile surgery, with its storms
_ Evan sL ■ - .JIS; x-
ana sunshine, c e r ta in ly - showed
me.that an M P is-- expected to do .far more than just cast':Ws vote in . Parliament (more about._ that next week when I take a look at our MP’s first year of office). The people of the Ribble Val ley, who bring their prob lems to Nigel Evans, expect results from their man in Westminster!
New facility at Instant . Search
PIONEER of the “telecot-' tage” within the Ribble Valley, Mr Anthony Cap- stick, has added a new. facility to his business in fo rm a t io n bu re au , Instant Search, which o f fe rs companies the chance to obtain informa-" tion on other businesses, without having to foot the costs of setting up their own on-line computer QVQtPTYl Mr Capstick (35), of
P en d le to n , ru ns the bureau from the telecot tage, in George Street,
| Whalley. The new link-up with
Companies House enables Instant Search to provide access to information on who is behind any limited
company in the UK. Anyone can ca ll the
bureau to find out who the directors of a particular company are. The company uses the la tes t communications
technology to transmit information to businesses and journalists worldwide.
for the week
WRITING a regular series for years inevitably leads to a certain amount of repetition. I like to introduce a bit of novelty and fresh ideas, but have eventually to get back to the essential basic fare. The basic truths
of our Christian faith do not change. We all need salvation from sinfulness, and the first essential is to feelthat need. It is all too common to find people saying: “Well,
I ’m as good living as most folks around here, and a lot better than some!” It is sad when people are so dead spiritually to be unaware of their need. Spiri tually eyes need to be opened, and a sensitivity to one’s own short-comings is essential.
When some of us wont in .'.utiiii.v School we didn’t
seem to pick up much from the labours of our teach ers, but the words of the hymns we sang remain in our memory to come and help us in difficult times. I am thinking of “Ask the Saviour to -help you, com fort, strength and keep you. He is willing to aid you, He will carry you through.” Another hymn that has helped'me is “Trust and obey, for there s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and
obey.” . When Pastor Niemuller, imprisoned by Hitler for
denouncing his ways from the pulpit of his Berlin church, was-put in a concentration camp, he was
often in solitary confinement. They even took his
Bible away. I mot him in Naples, en-route for America. A few
of us were honoured by his presence in a Toe H meet ing at Wesley House. He told us how he valued the hymns and scripture passages he could readily recall while left on his own for weeks at a time, together with a consciousness of the abiding presence of
Christ. Whether we realise it or not, we are always in the
presence of our risen Lord. True, the majority of us live as though He did not exist. This is a tragic reality of our life in the main today. On the other hand, when we have had our eyes opened to the fact that the source of our previous dissatisfaction is a lack of spirituality,' we gradually develop a spir itual capacity, for sensing the presence of Jesus in our everyday life — “Closer to us than breath ing, nearer than hands or feet.”
‘ Is this a new idea to you? I f you read the gospels, and especially the accounts of the resurrection, it may become more and more logical to you. “But we never can prove the delights of His love until ALL on the altar we lay,” is another very true hymn message.
Just trust and obey. , • JOE STANSFIELD
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