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A SERVICE of light proved an illuminating


experience for the large e o n g r e g a t i o n w h o attended All Hallow’s


Church, Milton, on Sun­ day ev en in g . Guest preacher was the Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Rev. David Smith, who spoke about darkness and the light at Christmas when .Jesus was born. Joint choirs of Mitton


Night” , “ Shine Jesus Shine” and “Jesus Bids us Shine” conducted by Mrs Val Atkinson accompanied b y o r g a n i s t Mr I . Atkinson. The offertory taken dur­


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and St John’s Church, Hurst Green, sang the Candle Song”, “Peace to


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Thumbs down to new fuel


A NEW fuel based on waste paper and plastic will not be used at Castle Cement’s Clitheroe works. The company is cur­


rently waiting for the go- ahead from the Environ­ ment Agency to burn the


David (centre) with the vicar of All Hallow’s Church, the Rev.John Bir- beck and members of the


fuel at its’ Padeswood help cut productions costs, works, in Clywd. How- preserve jobs and improve ever, the company has environmental^ standard:' said its has no plans at at Padeswood.” present to burn similar The company would material in its Clitheroe start burning the new hu: kilns.


aging industry waste paper which cannot be recycled, sawdust and low-chlorine plastics. It will act as a p a r tia l replacement for coal A company spokesman said: “The new fuel will


of materials such as pack- agency. Surgery dates


NIGIiL EVANS, MP, has announced the dates for his last advice surgeries for this year. Constituents can see


him at the Clitheroe head­ quarters of Kibble Valley


Conservative Association on Railway View between 10 n.m. and 1 p.m. on December loth and betw- ween 10 a.m. and 0 p.m. on December 20th.


Raised £350


THE coffee morning held by Friends of Fur and


£850. The chairman would like


Feather at the Unit Reformed Church raisci


to thank all l host* \vh worked on the event including the ladies who helped in Miss Briggs’: absence due to her illness, and all the members of the public who supported it.


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Even Socrates complained about the youth of his day!


I WRITE in reply to J. Green’s letter in last week’s issue commenting on the youth of Sab- den. Whenever you read a letter which states “I am 59 and when I was a lad”, you know what the rest of the letter will say.


yes, the children were out making their own enter­ tainment, but their expectations and knowledge of the outside world are much greater than those of children in the ’40s and ’50s, so we should not condemn them for wanting more. I took the opportunity of talk­ ing to some of Mr Green’s contemporaries — they remember being bored, so perhaps memories over the


Whalley at night. Most parents these days would be concerned about their children walking around late at night. I walked around the village at the weekend and


Come on chaps, it


is 1996!


I HEARD the news last Friday morning


that the Conservative Club in Whalley has voted yet again to exclude women from its membership. I am amazed, nay


gobsmacked, that in 15)5)0 we still have men who feel so threatened by members of the opposite sex that they have to discriminate against them. What is wrong with the pubs in Whalley? Surely, if they need a place to go for a q u ie t d r in k , th e r e a re enough rooms in the pubs to


do this when the need n me see how the


arises. i I cannot for the life


presence of women could disrupt the run­ ning of this club. Perhaps the men


1 am not so sure where Air Green has been, but the world has changed since he walked hack from


years can be selective.Working with young people for over 30 years, the problem of boredom has always been aired by them. Perhaps it would do us all good to remember this quote: ‘‘Our youth now loves luxury. It has bad man­ ners, contempt lbr authority, disrespect for older peo­ ple. Children nowadays contradict their parents, chat­ ter before company, gobble their food and tyrannise their teacher" — Socrates, 325) BC. So come along Mr Green, don’t join the band of peo­


*den teenagers want is somewhere to meet. Is that too much to ask for?


JOHN SHORTER Whins Avenue, Sabden.


Railway station work is an investment for our future


THE political argu­ ment being conducted in your letters column recently lias included comments about the P la t fo rm G a l le ry ,


which I believe are ill- informed and poten­ tially damaging.


involved in the operation of the building, I would like to put the record straight.


On behalf of everyone


station building used to be in a pretty rundown state.


The Clitheroe railway council worker! hard to get


position in the town and was worth renovating, the


Because it has a key


outside funding and spoil* sorship to do it, and did it well enough to win a national award. The Plat­ form Gallery is now a popular and successful attraction and the adjoin­


ing railway booking office is a valuable amenity, run by a local company and appreciated and used by a great many local people.


station are actually very low and this joint venture between council and local enterprise is now a well- run business, achieving a sales turnover currently exceeding £G,000 a week.


Tlie running costs of the


created employment for local people, and provides


This in it ia t iv e has


a substantial income for considerable number of local artists and craft makers. The building attracts visitors to Clith- eroe, and is an important addition to the mixture of interesting and high qual­ ity shops in the town, which is envied by other areas.


on the station was a very good investment for the future, and that there is wide public support for what has been achieved


I believe that the work


KEITH TAYLOR, T o u r ism a n d A r ts


Officer, Kibble Valley Borough Council.


whosocialisc together are more likely to stay together and at the last Budget the Chan­ cellor was bragging about measures he was introducing to


that they do employ a barmaid, so why not have female members? Su re ly , families


are frightened they won’t be able to com­ mandeer the snooker table all the time. Or is it the thought of a d o o r in th e c lu b marked LADIES that would be too upsetting to look at? I see from the news


All I want for Christmas is a 4x4 motor — I think!


THE festive season is nearly upon us and what I really want


from Father Christmas is an off­ road four-wheel-drive vehicle.


allowed to own one? Will I have to get a “pass” in aggressiveness, driving too fast on narrow country roads and general discourtesy to other road users? Or am I totally unsuited to join this elite group?


The only thing is — will I have to pass an aptitude test before I am


allow old ladies to cross; give way at junctions, whether told to or not; avoid


encourage married couples. Are the club mem­


You see, I am a very kind driver. I


hitting rabbits, pheasants and other wildlife. I dip my headlights and, as a


bers so out of tune with their own party th a t they feel that when the going gets lough, the tough do a runner to their drink­ ing hole? It is sad that in this


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ror — the glow that causes perspira­ tion to start and knuckles to whiten. Within seconds it is behind you, two sets of headlights at high beam, bullbar intimately nuzzling your bumper! You touch your brake lights to let it know you’ve seen it — you speed up to escape — whatever you do only seems to make it keener. So in desperation you put your left indicator on and allow it to roar off into the night. You start to breathe again — and suddenly you are blinded as from an alien space ship and almost come to a shivering stop as another one is coming towards you like a raging bull — with the obligatory two sots of headlights on full beam!


reformed ex-townie, I drive so far to the left on country roads that I have my offside wheels permanently on the grass verge. This allows for real tow­ nies coming towards you, as they seem to assume that any narrow country road is one-way in their direction. This does, however, not allow for


day and age women are still discriminated against in some sec­ tions of society. But, cheer up girls, the hoys are no longer afraid of bingo — the excuse they used 15 years ago. D. J. WYNNE, Billington Gardens Billington.


never quite sure whether they will come from the front or the rear, but come they will!


And so the story continues. You are


something which causes me to arrive at my destination in a state of near terror. You see, I travel the same route twice each day, between Longridgc and Red­ der Bridge via Kemple End, and this is where I encounter the “Beasts of the Forest of Bowland!”


neys take place in the dark, they are at their most rampant! Picture the scene: You are driving along peace­ fully, at the correct speed for the road and* weather conditions, and there it is in the distance, in your rear view mir­


At this time of year, when my jour­


Once I get my dream vehicle, shall I be the exception to the rule and prove that there is such a thing as a “nice” 4x4 vehicle driver, or should I have a complete character change? If I did the latter, perhaps I could stand up better to the menace of the lorries thundering to and from their Lon- gridge depot along the totally inade­ quate Whittingham Road or lurching towards you while waiting at the traffic lights at Broughton? But that is another story!


So you see, I’m now in a quandry.


and their keepers, a very merry Christmas and a happy and hopefully reformed New Year!


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ple all too ready to knock our young people — they are our future and*we should invest in them. All the Sab-


To all the ‘knockers’ I say: ‘‘If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem”.


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WE ARE looking for schools and com­ munity groups to take part in the Imperial Cancer Research Fund’s 15)l)(> “Sing Out Against Cancer”. Last year, 000 schools and organisa­


tions raised more than £4(5,000 by sing­ ing carols during December. The money raised goes towards vital research work and it is thanks to this research that thousands of cancer suf­ ferers have this year been successfully


CAROLS TO FIGHT CANCER Please join in. To find out more


CAROLE MILLIGAN, Area Appeals Manager, Imperial Cancer Research Fund.


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