Idin-roe T J.W (E d ito r ia l) , Letters


(Advertising). Burnley 1,22381 (Classified)


Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, December 1st, 1 1 Shedding light


Let’s stop this abuse of on clearance car spaces for disabled work at quarry


I WOULD like to suggest that sunietmng should bo douo (par ­ t icula r ly wi th th e Ch r i s tma s


shnppmp boom approaching) to pros out tho misuse of parking


plaoos sot aside for the use of the disabled. I h av e a red p a rk in g p a s s


issued by Lan c a sh i re County 1 ouneil, but last Wednesday my wiie (who is the only dr iyer of our ear) dropped me in the civic


car park and went shopping at booth's, I here, it took her 20 minutes


lo yet a space (she would not use a p r i v i l e g e d p a r k i n g p la c e because I was not with her). As


pre-arranged, having completed my business on foot wi th the


safeguard of my hefty walking- stick, 1 waited half an hour for


her at the ent rance to the civic


c a r p a rk ( th o s e t im e s we r e c h e c k e d on my w a t c h , n o t guesswork). U n t i l j u s t a few m i n u t e s


before she arrived, a "disabled” p a rk in g place j u s t inside the ent rance had remained empty, studiously ignored by a number of dr ivers (most of them in the upper age groups); but then sud­ denly it was filled by a “rep," if ever I saw one, who shot into it,


seized his jacket and briefcase


We don’t want VAT on gas


1 WoN’Ilh |{ i( anyone watched last week’s p ro g ram m e on “p r iv a te e r s ."


The programme showed


h" w t h r r h a i rmu n ami 111ivcl<11*s nt' nrwlv-pr iva-


t i > «• il < I' rrolllr 11) 1111


• o 111 pa n i r s liail < ihai IVS ullllnSt


11Yr rmrht . They dal this 1) v a I In\v■ i li t' I h r s l iaru pr iur- and profit fiuvcasts In hr >rl ton low. Ti l ' ' » in\


r ninirtit did


this t<> riu' iiiirap* people lo invr.-t .


What is oliMVite about


thi> is that ordinary people t hfi iipuh higher prices


and t iov’eminent -suhsidi>- iny taxes are now pay­ ing unemployment benefit lot hoiL-and.- of people who h a v e l o s t t h e i r j o b s i hroiiirh pnvnt isat ion. Now we read that the


chief executive of British < i- to tret a 7:V; pay


rise, on top of tho increase in tras pr ices announced this year. Ill the next few Weeks, the ( lovernment expects


to push for nine-and-a-half per cent VAT on iras. ( ‘an our Ml* Mr Ni.uel Kvans please tell US how he feels about this? I ean tell him that the


vas t ma jo r i ty of Kibble Valley voters do not want VAT on ^as. To iM this th rough Pa r l iament , the Government will have to vote on it. How will he Vote'.’ Will he he allowed to Vote?


1). WYNNK. !» Qurcn .Mary Ter race,


Mi l ton Rond. Whal ley.


© l . K 1 7 / f/iN In f f tuhl lent mu t in accepted anl i f an the it mil cs i t indt iK] that tin // wa t( In t tli tcil nr etnidenst <i at tin E d line's d i s e r c t iu n .


out of the back of his company saloon car and ran out. As he went, I asked him if he


IN response to last week’s letter, entitled “Creatures without shelter,” regarding .sends


was entitled to “disabled” park­ ing and was rewa rded wi th a mouthful, plus a clear indication of where 1 could go if I didn’t like it. Could not the traffic wardens,


who make dr ivers’ lives a misery if they pause even to drop a pas­ senger in the shopping st reets, do some th in g to cut out this abuse?


( IKOROL FROST, 25 l ’cndle St re et West, Sahdcn.


lowing points: We are not opening out


the woodland. We are, in fact, coppicing the mature h awth o rn s c ru b a round the edge of a small glade, not the quar ry floor.


This allows light to pen­


e t r a t e bene a th the haw­ thorn, where only ivy can tolerate the dense condi­ t io n s , an d e n c o u r a g e s


All this housing puts pressure on our services


IT seems to me that the planners have gone mad! Ail over Clitheroe houses are either mushrooming or about to, and some of them are a blot on the landscape. I re fe r par t icular ly to the development opposite


the g ramma r school and the ones at Harrow. 1 have no qualification or know­ ledge on th e m a t t e r of p lan n in g , but sp e ak as someone wi th a concern for the envi ronment and the interests of people in general. The open fields opposite


the grammar school and at Harrow were pleasing to


th e eye . At Ha r row, 1 notice the new buildings h av e b e en c ommen c ed only a few feet away from the house at the end of a long e s tab l ish ed row of houses, which had a very pleasant aspect. The new bui lding line


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The p r e s en t iUlpu.-.-e.


however, leaves the Post Office in what is becoming a c r ippl ing u n c e r ta in ty . Wi thout a last int ro d u c ­ t i o n o f t h e c h a n g e s


needed, the Post Office is in d a n g e r of going into decline and the key public s e r v i c e s , s u c h as th e n a t io nwid e n e two rk of post offices and delivery to every address at a uniform a n d a f f o r d a b l e p r i c e , which are so important to ev e ry hod v ev e rywh e r e , w i l l u n d o u b t e d l y 1m- threatened. 'Fhe Post Office Hoard


and the Onion of Commu­ n i c a t i o n W o r k e r s a r e therefore both right to re­ affirm thei r determination to press Government for the commercial f reedom n e e d e d to s e c u r e th e future of this vital public service.


K lt lC BUACKWKIX. Chairman.


Fast Lancs Post Office A d v iso r y C om m i t te e .


What a contrast!


I RKCENTLY returned from Holland where three towns had each invited several hundred of us to come for one day to celebrate our liberating them from the Germans 50 years


ago.


W h e r e v e r we w e n t , people of all ages would


s to p an d we lc ome u s , always with the same mes­ sage: "Thank you for our freedom.” Na tu r a l ly , we vis i ted th e g r a v e s of o u r de ad


comrades. St i l l, a f te r 50 years, schoolchildren lay a single, weekly, flower on every grave. A l i t t l e le s s th a n 50


voted for a generation that desecrates graves and for a Press which seeks to lay any anil ev e ry blame on " th e au th o r i t ie s” r a th e r than the real culpr i ts — self-indulgent parents and s p o i l t , u n ]> 1 e a s a n t children. If you doubt what I say,


y e a r s ago, we r e tu rn e d home, rightly to vote for a we l fa re s t a t e and, u n k ­ nowingly, for five decades of undreamed-of prosper ­ ity. We also seem to have VETERAN.


Holland.


I r e fe r you to yo u r own ar t icle last week on the Armist ice Day vandalism a t t h e c e m e t e r y a t Caldcrstones. W h a t a c o n t r a s t to


and aspect look positively ugly. Th e f ields which were taken up there were good a g r i c u l tu r a l land, f low do the “faceless plan­ ners” get away with it? Obviously, a balance has


to he s t ru ck b e twe en a rural landscape and houses


which may be desperately n e e d e d , b u t t h e r e is already a lot of new build­ ing in an d a r o u n d th e town. F u r l h e r m o r e , a s


reported in the "Ulitheroe A d v e r t i s e r and Time s ," th e he a l th c en t r e is no


longer able to cope with th e p r e s e n t populat ion, never mind an imminent increase in numbers, and the schools will soon be in a desperate situation with regard to places for new p u p i l s . I n d e e d , some already arc. There may he increased


p r e s s u r e o n o t h e r r e so u r c e s in th e town.


Why did the planners not provide for the se inade­ quacies when the go-ahead was given for more hous­ ing developments? It is a case of p u t t ing the cart before the horse. It is ab o u t t ime th e


planners were made more accountable for thei r deci­ sions — to the residents.


for instance, who will soon have to cope wi th pro b ­ lems a r i s in g f rom th e ext ra surgery on Railway View. With foresight, this could have been avoided.


1 feel very concerned


ab o u t in c r e a s e d t ra f f ic c o n g e s t ion, in c r e a s e d unemployment, more has­ sle for parents over choice of scdiool and s t r e tc h e d services , such as heal th and police, etc. 1 hope my f e a r s w i l l p r o v e groundless.


MRS. ). MARSH, H! Lancaster Drive, ( ’Iitheroc.


Destruction must cease


1 AM afr.i iil th a t smi i f r e s id e n t s of the Kibble Valiev do not share ( ‘min. Fleming's views mi losing o u r d i r e e t »» r n f development.


Ket us hope our H a n ­ n i n g (* o rn m i l t e e m a y


.reconsider, before it ir> too late, how to preserve mir


how


beaut i ful rural her i tagi an d s e e t h a t p l a n s in future a r e more sympa-


t h e t i c t o t h e i r


surroundings. Then, perhaps the van­


dalising of our rural areas for u n n e c e s s a ry d e v e l ­ opmen t , d e s t ro y in g our hedgerows and t rees to please the d ev e lo p e r and the urban spread, may cease for a little while.


A Ul l i l lLK YALLKY UHSIDFNT.


clearance at Crosshill Quarry, the Lancashire Wildlife Trust would like to make the fol­


woodland wi ldf lowers to grow. This, in turn, increases


th e n umb e r of in se c t s . Only a small par t of the hawthorn scrub is being cut. so as to minimise any disturbance to wildlife. The a t tempt at coppic­


ing. which th e a u th o r r e fe r s to in h e r second point , was not , in fact , coppicing, hut the removal of h aw t h o r n f rom th e quar ry floor. As the quar ry Hour sup­


ports a flower-rich grass­ land. hawthorn removal was carried out to ensure the survival of these ran* wildflowers.


hazel tree.- on the quar ry floor, as this will counter ­


We a r e not p l a n t in g


a c t a l l o u r e f f o r t s described in the previous


paragraphs. T h e t r e v s w i l l b e


plan ted in a completely d i f f e r e n t p a r t of th e reserve, around the edge of the small glade men­ tioned in the first point. We do not in t e n d to


open lip the scrub around the quar ry floor anymore. We agree that the floor is vulnerable to damage by mountain and scrambl ing h i k e s a n d w e a r e


addre s s ing this problem by talking to the hikers on


site and informing them of the value of the reserve. We are also considering


s e t t in g up a v o lu n ta ry warden scheme and enl ist­ ing the help of local peo­ ple. This will help with the paths’ problem. L a n c a s h i r e Wi ld l i fe


T r l i s t . w h i c h is t h e region’s leading conserva­ t ion c h a r i ty , man ag in g ] over n\ nature reserves , j


a p p r o v e d by K n g l i s h i Na tu re . Oi th e ro e Na tu- ; ralists. the Kibble Valley ( ‘onse rval ion Group and the Kibble Valley ( ‘oimcil. All tin* work described


above is steered by a com­ mittee made up of repre- M - n t a t i v e s o f t h e s e organisations. We are very happy to


aibwi-r any questions and discus s any points th a t \ \ visitor’s want to put to us. . We an* even happier to receive offers of voluntary help from local residents!


KIM COVFKDALF. Kcservc manager . Lancashi re Wildlife Trus t . ( ‘uerden Pa rk Wildlrle ( ’e n t r e . Shady Lane. Kamher Bridge. Preston. PKo dAl ’.


Wishes of people are forgotten


DK.MOCKACY hoi which two wars to achieve.


is nut only a word generations have


Hut. in this inwu. till-


leader uftlii- Cunservat ive Par ty ami his crazy gang


furgi-t what d emu r ra c y im-ans, fur fidluwing the


p a r ly lines they, forget, eumpletelv tile visi les of the people of the Rililile Valley anil t 'l itheroe. P e t i t i o n s a r e put in


ilt islhins. complaints are ignored, just like a dicta­ to r sh ip rul ing. Hy com­ plaints, I mean the large number of people who did not want the h unt ing of ( 'emfuel. Ignoring the six months'


morator ium proposed hy th e Li l ieral Democ ra ts ,


the t 'o n s e rv a t iv e s car ry on doing tile opposi te of


Moving out


MOVES tire afoot to pro­ vide e x t r a space for tho


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r e t r e a t ami co n fe ren c e cent re for the Hlaekburn Diocese.


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Bumper charity auction


A BUMPER charity auc­ t ion organised by Cl i th­


eroe Lions has raised £600 to h e lp th e fami l ie s of young disabled children in the area.


The auction, which took 3 9 KING STREET/ WHALLEY


place last Fr iday evening a t S t H e l e n ’s S u n d a y School, Waddington, was


held in aid of the Ribble Val ley Cros s roads Ca re


At tendants Scheme, which aims to help alleviate the st rain felt by parents with disabled youngsters.


The Crossroads scheme


is now in its fourth year of existence and, although it r e c e iv e s some f inancial


h e l p f r om t h e 1 o c a 1 author i ty, it does rely on


v o lu n t a r y d o n a t io n s to cover running costs. Memb e r s of Cl i the roe


Lions have praised local people who donated goods for the auction — many of whom themselves benefit from the Crossroads Care sclu-jie.


hut a svm fought tw


w h a t t h e m a j o r i t y of f ’litheroe wants, hy pollut­


ing the a tmo sp h e re for a n o th e r six months and forgetting tin* damage that may lie caused by this lit­ tle-known fuel. So to tile leader and his


gang, remember that tin people of Clitherue and tin


l t i ld d e Va l iev pill you


th e re to rep re sent the i r interests, hut now we are fed up. Hy vote we put you in. by vote we can kick you out and then all your little ext ras are going to stop.


P<;<> LONCIII, 22 I lcnthorn Road. Cl itlicrue.


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