14 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, August 3rd, 1995 Letters r e ta in lo c a l ri},-------— „ ,


CLITHEROE RAMBLERS will be giving full support to the Mayor of the Ribble Valley, and her colleagues, in her efforts to help retain a right of way along "Sawley 8" and will be encouraging as many members as possible to accompany her on the evening of the walk on August 16th.


the closure on behalf of the association, which has a membership of over 100,000, and has asked for its retention as a right of way on foot.


John Trevelyan, deputy director of the Ramblers’ Association, has objected to CUNARD COUNTESS


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Arts centre will be independent


ON July 20th, you published a letter from Mr Arthur Holmes, of Langho, criticising the Arts Council for support­ ing the proposed Arts Centre at Brock- hall Village.


the misapprehension that the Arts Centre will be privately owned and that the Arts Council grant will be mblic subsidy of private business”, othing could be further from the


Mr Holmes would appear to be under « N(


truth. The centre will be owned by independent charitable trustees and


will be open to all. I t is intended that the centre will be


part funded by Mr Gerald Hitman and part funded by the Arts Council and


that it will provide a significant boost to employment and tourism in the Rib­ ble Valley. HELEN PEMBERTON, Arts Project Co-ordinator, Brockhall Village.


and either a decision will be made or a public inquiry will be called. : Once again, it must be emphasised that, until a legal decision is reached, the path


The closing date for objections has now passed, the evidence is being examined,


A s h a m e d o f a t t i t u d e o f s o m e v i l l a g e r s


AS a resident of Whalley for nearly 30 years, I am thoroughly ashamed of the attitude of some of its residents and of the noti­ ceable lack of facilities we have for children in this village.


.areas for children to play with safe equipment. All that Whalley seems to be able to provide is toilet facilities for dogs, whose owners have not the common decency to take their pooches’


lages, that are nowhere near the size of Whalley, can provide reasonable


Billington and other surrounding vil­


take any interest in its children, then Whalley may well pay dearly in the future.


MRS S. BARNES, Abbey Fields, Whalley.


Cromwell might help


EVERY contributor to your recent “Letters” page had an axe to grind. One asked for a leader who would put Britain first.


May I suggest Oliver Cromwell? He would stop the lottery, nationalise religion and


make us all millionaires in a week. Bradford rioters would be told to integrate or emi­ grate; Luton parents would be brought to book; and


freedom of the press we would still be in the Dark Ages!


ers out


ALAN DICKINSON,


Whittle Close, Clitheroc.


Impressed with how MP helped


I WISH to p u b l ic ly acknowledge the support I have received from Nigel Evans MP. He intervened in a recent altercation I experienced with North West Water and, as a result, the situation has been resolved. I w a s e x t r e m e l y


impressed with the kind­ ness and efficiency of Mr


Evans and his staff. If other constituents are experiencing difficulties, I would recommend they contact Mr Evans. In my experience, the assistance is freely given and grate­ fully received.


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droppings home with them or make sure they do their unpleasant necessi­ ties on their own property. As a fur ther point, i t would be


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I AM w r i t in g to you reg a rd in g my ch arity


th e “ A d v e r t is e r and Times” regarding a charity night held at Rendezvous Night Club, Whalley, in March. The total amount raised on the night was £740.


work. An article appeared in


,92 football clubs asking for items to auction for Derian


the money raised from a football auction. I wrote to


This amount includes House. ' ..


the London Marathon, but, due to lack of train­ ing, I intended to postpone it until next year. How­ ever, I found out that my mother had. cancer of the throat and decided to run for h e r , donating the money to Macmillan Nurses. With less than six weeks training, I finished in under four hours and raised £250.


I was also going to run


■ I have now passed the £4,000 mark raising funds


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PHILIP WHITE, 10 Sutherland Close, Wilpshire, Blackburn.


RE your article in last week’s “Advertiser and Times” headlined “Castle warns of working problems with new system”.


Claim is nonsense


I believe Dr Slater is talking absolute rubbish. We were enveloped in blue fumes a few weeks


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plume-grounding i is b nonsense.


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on people’s health? have had Mr J. Isherwood (Her Majestys Inspec­


Can he prove this chemical smell is having no effect . ,


torate of Pollution), Mr D. Morris (Ribble Valley Council) and Mr P. Parkes (Castle Cement) at various times standing at my front door smelling the fumes. Also Dr Slater walked straight out of someone’s front


door into the fumes on Sunday, March 5th. Has he forgotten this? And what about all the videos in circu­ lation on plume-grounding which he has seen? Now we have the mobile laboratory. When will this


act or close it down, for the sake of the health of the children and the people of the Ribble Valley. Dr Slater has got the proof now — so why does


lem. How much more evidence does it need? Dr Slater should make Castle Cement clean up its


he not act on it? If people do start with more serious health prob­


lems in a few years’ time, what will Dr Slater say then — sorry? MRS S. HARGREAVES, .


Ribble Avenue, Grindleton.


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plaints about plume-grounding from the cement works; *1 il_1 lb ! - !— 1


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uous process on a constant stop-start basis and this threat should help to concentrate their minds on find­ ing an early solution to the problem. Once they have, resolved the problem, so that we are no longer forced, from time to time, to breathe the foul-smelling and


possibly harmful emissions, we shall be readier to i 11 _ 1_ !


accept the burning of Cemfiiel, provided that this is approved and regulated by HMIP. May I invite Castle Cement to let us know what'


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plans they have for reducing the problem of plume-grounding?


EDWIN GRETTON, Old Hall, West Bradford.


Not at any cost


TO those who may. aues- tion your impartiality,.. your recent story on the RATS meeting at Chat- burn must have made wel-1 come reading, it being


essentially factual, albeit with one omission, the


phenomenon of inversion. What th is means, I


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mean is that profits would be less, and any job' losses would be small. fry com­ pared with those already in the coal industry, which provided, the fuel before;


elected members have failed to act on the fund of £20,000 which .they alio-- cated for monitoring, •; I decided to write to Nigel Evans, who has referred ■ my query to the Minister: responsible. Whatever this brings, T; now view the “eccentrics”


and in the incineration field. Having heard how our


of RATS in a different lig h t. And if, as was


which I went with th e ' lurking suspicion that all this RATS stuff was the work of a bunch of local eccentrics, we heard, how- Castle Cement is paid to


burn materials so danger­ ous that they should be


• that jobs would go, but I guess what'theyTeally


plant, .well' away from habitation. : But we then heard that such materials as Cemfuel (orimulsions)are . being burnt as fuel in plants of; all'kinds, up and down the; land.' At; several of these.' surges in asthma and related complaints in chil­ dren have been — and continue to be — recorded on < the downwind side of chimneys.1. < ; ; If Cemfuel were banned as a fuel, Castle claims


claimed, plants such as Castle’s ARE waste incin­ erators by the back door, I .


doubt that I shall be alone.v As one who has been ■


.V a l le y h a s a lw a y s flourished on it and I hope always will,'and I wish • Castle and all the other- plants (Tarmac, Wadding- ton F e l l etc..;) .e v e ry - success. ..


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• But not at any cost, and •" certainly not our children’s a


health.; I t may be that-: Castle will suspend the- use o f ; Cemfuel, but I=:


say, it will all come down to who pays, and in what:


MR. J.D ; MORTIMER;} Green Drive,


C l i th e ro e . ''''' ’


somehow doubt it.; At the. end of the day; as they"1


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around Clitheroe for over 40 years, I fully support, the concept of a successful stone industry. Ribble .■


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be coming? No one seems to know. HMIPJias had three years to sort out this prob­


ple from Whalley and Clitheroe who have sup­ ported me.


Clitheroe 22S2U (Editorial), 22328 (Advertising). Burnley i22881 (Classified)


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