Clitlieroe Advertiser & Timex, , /nig l j th, I !)!)!, i 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Bn ml eg 422331 (Classified) PRICELESS ASSET IN LOCAL TRADERS ON Sunday, we held a lunch party to cele­


brate the 300th anniversary of our home. We would like to put 011 record our grateful thanks


to those who helped make the event the great suc­ cess it was, with us having entertained over 300


people. First, our thanks go to the “Advertiser and


Times.” It was largely due to the newspaper’s edito­ rial that so many people were made aware of the event.


Coupled with this was the willingness of so many


Clitheroe shopkeepers, who displayed our posters. Thanks are due to Mary Parker and the staff at the


Hours spent on


T V have not been wasted


SURPRISE, surprise, Nigel’s been nominated for a top post in the Government’s summer


reshuffle. Surely, this is exactly


what Mr Wynne's letters to the "Advertiser and Times” have been predict­


ing. All those hours court­


ing publicity on TV have not been wasted,-have


tliev? I have watched most of


Nigel’s appearances on TV, yet 1 have not seen one programme in which


w iiv . | / I im iu t v .


Valley. 1 attended the meeting


at Mr Wynne’s house at which time Nigel promised to help us and, up to now, he has (lone nothing. 1 felt great anger when l read his closing statement in last week's paper, when he said he owes everything to the people of the Ribble Valley and that they are at


the forefront. No, Nigel. You are at


the forefront. We can only hope that you carry out your promises and. in our case, you haven't. I am puzzled by the fact


that Mr Wynne has writ­ ten several letters criticis­


ing Nigel, yet the only let­ u


ter supporting us came the Conservative


from the Conservative agent 1 n the It i b b 1 e


Valley. The more people I talk


to in Whalley about our


MP, the more I realise how disillusioned people


are with him. The people of Swansea


can’t be very happy with him either, because with­ out the people of the Rib- ble Valley, he would be


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he has been fighting for nowhere. Not very compn- the people of the Ribble mentary to Swansea, is it:


P e rha p s w hen t he


voters next go to the polls, they should think of elect­ ing a person from this area, because they are proud of where they come


from. We seem to have an MP


who is more interested in furthering his own political career than in helping the people who elected him.


MRS K. SUTTON, Queen Mary Terrace.


Whalley.


• Mr Evans tells us that a m e e t in g arranged


has for Monday


morning between hhnself, chief executive of Calder- stones NHS Trust Mr


Council staff supposed to protect our health


C. MV. James Ab.bott and tluee of the residents concerned


„a,i,u vv mv v.vv oncei ned. .


THE last two editions of the "Clitheroe Advertiser and Times” have carried statements from the direc­ tor of environmental ser­ vices, Mr D. Morris, and principal environment officer Mr 1). Hind, of the Ribble Valiev Borough Council, stating that all complaints relating to Castle Cement have been put before councillors at


the liaison meetings. 1 have letters from both of them that prove this is


not true. The video referred to


last week was one ol two I gave to Mr Morris. 1 hat


one showed fumes and dust falling over houses in Clitheroe within yards ol


the works and beyond, filmed on October doth.


1 !l ! l :!. f r o m a b o v e


ble Valley Borough Coun cil’s principal option for


u is p i .n 1


principal option lor wno nave vu 1


Grindleton. 1 presented this video,


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in person, to David Mollis ill his office. It was accom­ panied bv a letter which clearly stated: ” 1 would 'like to put on record the following complaints:- 1. Saturday. October doth, emissions trom t as tie Cement were unaccept­ able. I enclose a video . . . Th e second point


week, July lltli, | ^ ^ 1 J P


............... ...... ariier com- the cover-up?"


recounted an earlier coin plaint. 111 v first contact with David Hind. Oil Sep­ tember 22nd. a smog and stench outside tile main gram mar school was clearly attributable to Castle Cement. Indeed. I later learnt others had photographed the plume. yet Mr Hind wrote blam­ ing Tarmac. My letter asked Mr Morris: "Why


the cover-up' My letter accompanying


. ck-an now. Mr Morns


the video ended: “dissatis­ faction in the way such complaints are dealt with bv V0111* department. ’ Neither of these two


complaints — October dlllh llor September 22nd


— were presented !o councillors at the lollovving


liaison meeting. Are you going to come


health.


MARY Y. HORNER. Bollon-by-Howland.


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P ij r:n i i 'D H l y ;


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S. HARGREAVES. Ribble Avenue, Grindleton.


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Tourist Information Office, tickets.


for selling so many n j s i n g this event, we have been over­


whelmed by the kindness of traders in Clitheioc, who supplied us with food and wine.


We made a point of trying to buy from loc. ll> based shops and we think they cannot be bettued


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imSuartUKerr, David Brass and Byrne’s all assured us not to worry if we ran out of anything. Well, this actually happened on the day am btuf '


Kerr was there within half-an-hour with flesh supplies.


.............,.(• lU»c htftnl’ ic nnl Otllv to thill


Ulrue people to support local shops and traders. Wc havo a priceless assetset,


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having!”


JOHN AND BARBARA STEEN, Ellerbcck Hall, Slaidlnirn.


Puzzled by councils advertisement


1 AM somewhat puzzled by an advertisement in last week’s “ Advertiser


and Times.” The advertisement 1 am


referring to seems to be in fa v ou r o f the Local Government Commission’s


first option of eight uni­ tary au th o r it ie s for


Lancashire. This would mean that


the Ribble Valley and Hyndburn would merge to form one of eight unitary authorities. 1 am puzzled, because at the bottom of the advert it


states quite clearly: “Pub­ lished by the district coun­


cils of Blackburn, Black­ pool, Burnlev, Chorley, Fylde, Lancaster, Kibble


Valley and Wyre." Therefore, why is the


Kibble Valley Council, through its own leaflets and various articles in the local press, asking us to support a unitary Kibble Valley authority, while having a hand in an adver­ tisement supporting a merger with Hyndburn?


MR.1. GARNER, Windermere Avenue,


Clitheroe.


A merger with rural Craven is sensible and a wise choice


HAVING read Mr V. R. Bishop and Mr John Htickle’s letters last week, 1 agree the people of the Ribble Valley are going to suffer much increased tax­ ation due to Local Govern­ ment reorganisation.


1 once again reiterate —-


Ribble Valley’s best deal will be a merger with Cra­ ven. Any increase in the


council tax will pale into insignificance beside Kib­


unitary status and the commission’s draft pro­ posal for a merger with Hyndburn; in fact it may well lie a decrease.


Band 1) for Ribble Val­


iev between IDS! 1 and HUlf) is £ti-13.!l2 MINUS the par­ ish precept, whereas at Hellifield, in Craven, pay­ ing the highest rate in Band D is £0 li2. o ! l . INCLUDING the parish


precept, and, dare I men­ tion, our poor neighbours


in URBAN Hyndburn, who have to dig deep for


little return, their council tax for Band D being


£<iHS..Il. This point is certainly


worthy of pursuing, with further VAT increases to face next April oil fuel


bills. A merger with RURAL


Craven is a sensible and wise choice for Ribble


Valley.


JOAN PARKINSON. Campaign for Re-entry into Yorkshire, Waddington.


1 WRITE this letter as an update for the people of the Ribble Valley and anyone else interested who attended the public meeting on April 2!lth, lilll-l, chaired by Nigel Evans, concerning the burning of Cemiuel at Castle Cement.


On Monday


i f this lillil, I


• LEADER of the Ribble Valley Council, Coun. Bill


Fleming, pointed out that the joint advertisements were necessary because of the "misleading publicity” being generated by Lanca­ shire County Council and the Frier,(Is of I.ancashire.


“The borough council’s


view is quite clear,” he commented. “While we w e lc om e th e L 0 ca 1 Government Commission’s proposal not to carve up the area, we still prefer to pursue the case for unitary s ta tu s on o ur 0 w n boundaries.”


in these local meal


people for the tremendous help we received, but to *


m>The purpose of this letter is not only to thank 1


trad­


ers. Let’s not lose them. Let’s have a new motto “ I f you cannot buy it in Clitheroe, it is not woith


Town magic but parking is awful


MY wife and I have just spent a marvellous holiday


in Clitheroe. We find the town still


holds the same magic that it did the first time we saw it during the war years. I am afraid, unlike the


rest of Clitheroe, the car parking is absolutely awful, especially at week­ ends. Apart from Booths car park, there is nowhei e to park that is not a long way awav from the town centre. Even the small amount of parking oppo­ site Booths I believe will soon be taken up by


houses. When you are getting on


a bit, walking too far to shop really is not on, espe­ cially at weekends, when Clitheroe seems to be more popular than ever. Surely, with more car


parking available, lots of the small businesses in Castle Street and Moor Lane would not have had to close down.


R. .1. CHERRY, 221 Holmesdalc Road,


South Harwood, London.


S t i l l b e in g u s e d a s g u in e a p ig s


rang Mr John Isherwood at ' l l M i l ’ Lancaster, because we were being polluted yet again, and asked him for an update on what lias been done since


the meeting. The next phase is an


agreed intensive pro­ gramme with C a s 11 e


Cement, which may take until the end of the year. No monitoring has been done since the survey by Gib Environmental. The next liaison commit­


clean now. Mr Morris aiM


Mr Hind, with the rest of tile complaints? One can expect Castle


Cement to withhold com­ plaints. but hardly paid council staff, who are sup­ posed to protect our


tee meeting is to be a r r a n g e d b y C a s 11 e Cement, no date given.


These things take time


and, when everything is agreed, he will write to me. In the meantime, the burning of Cemfuel con­ tinues and we are still being used as guinea pigs.


Rents are really fair, Mr Wynne


WE now read that Mr D. Wynne is approach­ ing Mr John Major to help in his battle ove rent rises at Calderstones-owned houses on Bridge Terrace and Queen Mary Terrace.


This 011-going saga with


Nigel Evans, which we read about each week in the letters column, is turn­ ing into a newspaper ver­ sion of Kramer versus Kramer.


Although I have some


sympathy with Mr Wynne in the fact that he has not had the opportunity to purchase his house in the same* way <


or three-bedroomed prop *. U l t l i n - i . .......... •


erty with gardens hack and front in the Ribble


Valley. M r W y 1111 e a 1 w a y s


quotes percentages wrhen he quotes increases, but why doesn’ t lie quote actual amounts? This is because he probably knows that the rents are


IS tenants on


The Crescent and Kings- niill Avenue did, surely he was aware that Oalder- stones never had any immediate intentions ol d i s p o s i 11 g o f t h e s e properties?


ant in — ............ always found the rent


Having resided as a ten- the past myseli,


very reasonable and now that Calderstones lias decided to bring the rents to a more realistic amount, tenants s uc h a s M r Wynne, who are not happy, should look what it would cost to rent any two


very fair. Mr Wynne should also


bear in mind that he no lunger works at Calder­ stones and should be grateful that he has not been given notice to vacate the property to enable a present employee at the hospital to reside


there. No doubt we will all be


kept uji to date with the situation, but who will Mr Wvnne be contacting for help next, if lie gets no joy from Mr Major — the Queen, or maybe the


Rope? NON SYMPATHISER.


P r o t e c t fo o t p a th WRITE regarding footpath 2H in Whalley, from


I Church Lane to the former butchers shop at King Street.


.July Dth was the deadline for protests for altera­


tions'll) the footpath, involving 30 metres towards the abbey, 30 metres along the abbey wall and 30 metres bv the allotment, back to its present site along the"churchyard wall to Church Lane.


1 now write from an extract written b> John


Dixon, a well-known local historian and at thin. "The footpath you mention is ntdeed ancient and I ID. l m .


ought to be kept as it is. T he prt.posed s tt foi the Ki .ililimr


w.. - budding of 20 tl‘ houses is deplorable and, if_\wrk wo>ik goes ahead, a great deal of archaeologiciil infoima-l


S t that would .give us a greater( insight ndo he pre-abbey (possibly Roman) histoiy of Whalley would be lost.


"1 suggest that people in the village contact Ben


I Edwards, the county archaeologist, to get the site listed and protected. I further suggest vou get in touch with the Cumbrian Lancaster Archaeo-


LA11YB."


, 1 trust some further plan will be made to siuai-j ten up the corn mill and environs.


JOHN G. HARTLEY.


] S King Street, Whalley.


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