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THE Lancashire County Council election campaign en ters its final week today, with a total of 17 candidates contesting the four local divisions. All three main parties,
David^Becsley (Ind. Andrew M&tcalf (Lib. Grace Abbott (Lib. Dem.) Francis Clune (Lab.) Leisha Gattney (NLP) RLGGP)
The candidates
plus the Natural Law Party, are fielding candi dates in all four seats and an Independent Raving Looney Green Giant candi date is also in the running. Labour is defending the Clitheroe division and the Conservatives are hoping to hold the Ribble Valley North East, Longridge and Ribble Valley South West seats. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats are again making an all-out bid to change the voting pat tern, while the NLP has produced four candidates from the Skelmersdale area. Across the county, 99
seats are on offer. Labour currently holds 50, the Conservatives 42 and the Liberal Democrats seven. P o llin g day is n ex t Thursday. The line-up for each of
ting candidate):
ClitheroeNicola Mary Holmes (NLP), Ledburn, Ash- hurst, Skelmersdale. Richard Howel Jones
headmaster of the town’s Brookside County Pri mary School. A former mayor, he has been a Rib ble Valley councillor since 1982 and a Clitiieroe town- councillor for the same period, serving as Liberal Democrat leader on the borough council. He is a lay preacher and is con nected with Trinity Meth odist Church. * Ron Pickup (Lab.), of Lingfield Avenue, Clith eroe, a retired borough treasurer for Clitheroe, ■ has held several key roles on the county council. He has served as vice-chair man of the Finance Com mittee, chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding N atura l Beauty, and chairman of the Education Buildings Sub-committee. He obtained a law degree
the four local divisions is as follows (* denotes sit
(Lib. Dem.), of Warwick Drive, Clitheroe, was deputy head at St James’s School in Clitheroe and
(Con.), of Park Avenue, Clitheroe, is a retired head of department at Stony- h u rs t College, Hurst Green. For the last six years he has served as' a town councillor at Clith eroe, having also served as a borough councillor. He served two consecutive te rm s as Mayor of Clitheroe.
at the age of 55. P a t r ic k S h ep h e rd
Sheila Nixon reports
Ribble Valley North East A lb e r t A tk in s o n
(Con.), of Crowtrees Road, Sabden, is currently an inspector in a local com pany. A former deputy leader of the borough council, he has chaired the Finance Committee and is currently chairman of Sab den Parish Council. He has previously served as Ribble Valley Mayor. Alan Geoffrey Barton
Valley councillor and is building his own house in Barrow.
(Lab.), of Jubilee Street, Read, was a full-time lec turer at Bury College until recently. He still lectures part-time in further educa tion and has lived in Read since 1972.
Lowcroft, Ashhurst, Skelmersdale.
RLGGP), of Whalley Road, Sabden, is a char tered engineer who is now employed as the Ribble Valley Council caretaker. He is a member of Sabden Parish Council and has helped to raise over £4,000 for charity in two years. David Evans (NLP),
David Beesley (Ind. ____
Dem.), of Clitheroe Road, Barrow, was brought up on a local farm and has served with the Royal Artillery. He is a Ribble
Andrew Metcalf (Lib.
The parties have their say — Conservative
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VALUE for money — that is the Conservative Party’
s.pledge to the peo ple of the Ribble Valley as we move towards the Lancashire County Council
e lFor°far too long Lancashire has suffered from the waste and inefficiency of the Labour Party, aided and abetted by the Liberal Democrats. This came to a head at the February budget meeting, where the Labour Party deaded to lew the highest council tax charge of any shire county m England or Wales. -fhe Liberal Democrats, for their part, could not even put forward alterna
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The Conservatives on Lancashire County Council are committed to a seven n o in t action Dlan if they win control on May 6th: •
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P 1. A £10m vocational training, trust — which will create places in Further Education colleges for students thrown out of colleges by
Labour cuts. 2 £2m e x t ra school g ran ts — res to r in g cuts imposed by Labour. ....................... — Labour
LABOUR Lancashire County Council is a caring and efficient local authority working hard to bring jobs and investment to Lancashire and maintaining good
edA?present Labour maintains its good track record because of its one-seat majority Ron Pickup’s record is there to be seen of good Labour decisions in
C Ahvo°te for the Liberal Democrats will result in a hung council, which can onlv mean indecision, when strong leadership against the Tones is needed. Jl vote for the Conservatives will lead to privatisation of as many semces
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hands on. Our aims are;
w ^ l l cnntimeVo develop funding'opportunites for Lancashire businesses. S p ^ ra t te n tb n ^ l l br^venPto those" threatened with redundancies. Interven-
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to greater success for individuals, the Ribble Valley and Lancashire.
(home helps and others) as they can persuade the market to accept, to the dlSB V t h S t i o n epC
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ti'on is required if Lancashire's economy is to
survive.Labour Lancashire,, through Lancashire Enterprises, will make that challenge work. Leyland Dai intLeC Irvention is an example of the Labour County Council at work.
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could have been prevented in this time? • Education.
1 ^ f s ^ lV f f every county asset they can lay their
to do away with an elected Police Authority and appoint Government nominees. ... 4iiha9
We supiport Lancashire Police and believe they should be accountable to t ..hie elected Lancasllire Policy Authority. We oppose Tory Government proposals
•“ Crime and police. police. ..e
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Since 1989, Lancashire has lost 46,000 days of police time. How many crimes ..1.) 1.__
build more nursery schools, to increase classes. We will demand an equality ol treatment for Lancashire schoolchildren from central government in the funding
We will continue to seek ways to improve*educational achievements, to for Lancashire's fu tu re is th e Labour ^ a r ty , with a series oi pohwes
to me et th e challenge of th e '90s and men and women dedicated to make th e j change.
to the Conservative proposal of 25% and S Democrat bTeve that education is the main priority in the accessible to ordinary people. Th.s can be done in severa
this by streamlining the bureaucracy at County Hall and realising some of ^ Conducting formal public consultation meetings on council tax and budget the county’s assets, including the waste disposal operation.
nbilitv to pay — local income tax. When the council tax passed through monev_savJ}lcYdeas Parliament^ tne Liberal Democrats proposed that people living alone should money saving meas.
— Natural Law«
m u r rea] power in society lies with the wealthy. Successful people show by th em s u c ce s s th a t th e y a lre a d y h a v e the support o n a ma^^a
ae™ole 'Wenthegovernment makes mistakes, it is a mistake to hWme the g ^ r U m t The £u f t lies with the stress in the nervous sys-
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terns of thei people, which causesithem to " “l“^ t?onUof natural law. Those who All problems in £ . aF ° “ usedI by «
live in accordance with the laws & possible to bring one’s life support of natural
into accord° with natural lawby any intellectual process, because the laws of nature are too complex t o l e i g W r .
, f consciousnCss, however, nStoe This ran only be achieved through the simple practice of the technol sciousness remains so stressed. ^ M S W o S ^ i n accordance with all the aws of — Ind. Raving Looney Green Giant
1MOCRACV could end in five years in the Ribble Valley.” he Lancashire County Council and the borough councils are soon to be laced by large “unitary authorities" and it is quite likely the Ribble Valiev, nuse Of its geographical spread and relatively small population, will be red out between our neighbouring “big brothers.
W Ribble Valley Borough Council has a good record for providing ser- We will campaign for it to stay independent and the town and parish
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nrils to be givenmore powers - Vr1*
. . . • tn fho tippc R of our local communities, we will fight to local peop e controlling their own affairs
strengthen our local police force, improve local.bus services, slow down tiaffic and ensure our children are offered places m our local Ribble Valley schools, to
n£We also want to move Ribble Valley Borough Council's “nuclear bunker’’ to a golf course and “creosote” de-fences to stop councillors sitting on theml
Bring back the Whalley Arms!
“Bee there” on May 6th and vote for the Ind. Raving Looney Green Giant Party candidate, David Beesley — you know it makes sense! .
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The Liberal Democrats beheve local government should be financed not by P ef tings ’bejng aimed at soliciting active participation from the community, a property-related tax (such as the council ta x ^ b u t by_a_tgx jelateu-tfi a getting up staff and public suggestion schemes with rewards for practical
Because of this we will restore Labour’s £2 millionicut in education and fund ww 3 „ 0Dle^ a] |v need- .
, proposals, before setting them and with the times, places and formats of such ogy of natural law which we advocate. ^ ^ co n g c lo u s _ nrrfessional coherence-creators of specific size in strategic locations, cspeoallyl ^We also propose a more rapid way to increase coherence in society, ^oups of * . „ „ „ „ „ j
near the scat of government, national or local. Governments tend to make their derisions fn ciUcT^th high crime rates and, in this atmosphere which leads others to commit crime, they often come, out with inappropriately aggressive |
P°Our3groups of experts will neutralise this influence and enable governments and'votersTo make more sensible decisions. We thus offer our hand of support to every poliUcal party to bring harmony and progress to every level of
ad^ e wralthv are the only group capable of implementing this policy, as the Government is Stable to provide the necessary funds, as long as national con-
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Liberal Democrats want to sue a county council that is more open and ^
coming county council elections. We believe that it is essentiul to invest in « Devolving power to neighbourhood committees of education, because more investment will lead to more skills, which will lead their own budEets to provide even more localised services wherever practicable
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tive proposals. This should come as no surprise to most people. as the Liberal Democrats (in their various guises) have a long record of supporting th e L a b o u r Party at both local and national level.
Ribble Valley South West* Christopher John Holtom (Con.), of Hollo- whead Close, Wilpshire, has a long record as a bor ough and county council lor. He is currently vice- chairman of the Ribble Valley Direct Services Organisation and has served on the Community Health Council for eight
years.Joseph Louis King (L ab .) , of Downham Street, Blackburn, is a retired local government officer, having been based at the county council’s divisional headquarters in Blackburn. He is a former policeman and former B la ck b u rn borough councillor. Graham Sowter (Lib.
Teresa Wilcock (Con.)
Longridge Grace Abbott (Lib.
Dem.), of Belmont Court, Longridge, is a psychiatric nurse for Preston Health Authority, who has lived in the area since 1971. Her | children were all educated locally and her main con- cems are the care of the | elderly and the mentally
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- ried with two children, he ' is branch secretary for | Nalgo. Leisha Mary Gattney
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Dem.), of Whalley Old Road, Langho, is a com puter consultant and part- time lecturer, who-is cur rently the constituency chairman for his party and has been politically active since 1981.Michael Stuart Sulli van (NLP), Ashhurst, Skelmersdale.
- councillor for the past fo u r . She has been involved in-many volun tary organisations over the year, but her special areas of interest are com munity care and nursery provision.
. (Con.), of Lower Lane, I Longridge, has lived in Longridge for 30 years and has .been a,coun,ty
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close. We will fight to retain them, whether in town or country areas. 5. An Environment Committee — which will be established to co-ordi
&T Developing care a t home — and in Day Centres for those in need. Conservatives -mil achieve this by cutting out waste on out-of-date institutions. In short, Conservatives will cut out waste and bureaucracy so that we
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Labour and its natural allies, the Liberal Democrats, have shown, all that they can achieve— only a Conservative vote on May 6th can make a difference.
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