i Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, December 5th, 1996


Clitheroe


Jf2232b(Editorial), 622323 (Advertising), I


Burnley U22331 (Classified)


V a lle y M a t t e r s _ ____ _ weekly look a. local Issues, people and p'»«s —


TERRY CATTERMOLE


& SONS * old oak beams and new oak beams and cut to order


* Trees topped and felled * Fencing supplied and erected * New and second-hand timber and sawmllling


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(01200) 423732 Mobile: 0973 428449 MICROWAVE OVEN


REPAIRS (All makes)


Repairs and servicing by qualified staff


• Leakage checks • Fast free estimates • Low rates • No “call-out” charge


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■' BUILDERS 7 - MERCHANTS


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- ; WHALLEY ROAD .ACCRINGTON.


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S P E C I A L O F F E R


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Tel: A. Wright 0 1 2 0 0 4 2 6 3 8 5


O p t ic a l Se r v ic e


40 PARK AVENUE. CLITHEROE. LANCS. Telephone: 01200 429024 Proprietor P.S. DIXON


* Qualified Technician * 25 years Experience *


Same Day Repairs On All Broken Metal & Plastic Frames Multifocal Lenses from £68.00 Per Pair Bifocal Lenses from £39.00 Per Pair


Quality Gents & Ladies Fashion Frames from £15.00 (Always in stock)


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OFFICE/SHOP CLEANING AVAILABLE Daily, weekly or monthly cleaning arranged Ironing service also available


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FOR FURTHER DETAILS D BARRIE D


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• Free Estimates • Special Rates OAP • • No Job Too Small • All Work Guaranteed •


Telephone: Whalley 01254 822248 Clitheroe 01200 443524 Mobile 0973 401853


• Member of Federation of Small Businesses •


CABINET MAKER


Free standing and fitted furniture,


designed and made to order.


Gary Wilson


01254 882356 01200 427988 (eve)


DEREK LEIGH TV RENTALS


Portable/Rcmote/Teletext from £7 per calendar month New 21” Remote T V ..........................................£10.50 New Teletex T V .................................................... £12.50 Discount for annual payment


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For all your domestic and commercial joinery needs.


For a friendly and personal service contact R. & P. Hargreaves


Joiners and Building Contractors The Workshop, Hall St, Clitheroe. Tel: 01200 426929


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(01254) 822883 evenings


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Cars & Carpets Caravans Trucks Office


Steam Cleaning, Paving, Patios,' Conservatories etc


Private Homes


MICK WOOD - CLEANING CONTRACTOR Tel: 01200 444024 Mobile: 0973 841510


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Tel: Clitheroe 425552 QUALITY & VALUE AT UNBEATABLE PRICES


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Quoins and Copings masoned to any shape or size


Also


Large selection of reclaimed DELIVERY SERVICE


NORTH WEST


RECLfiMfiTION LIMITED Tel: 01282 603108


REMOVALS Furniture Refurbisher


John Schofield Telephone:


Clitheroe 429217


Domestic, business, clearance & deliveries


Tel: 01200 441810 PAUL


ASHWORTH Q u a l i f ie d P a in t e r & Decorator For all


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excellent taste. I wonder if you know that lobsters have


I


f asked what they know about lobsters, most people would probably first describe their


many unusual features, such as being able to hear with their legs and taste with their feet. They actually chew food with teeth inside their stomach. The fact that they are good to eat is well known among their fellow sea creatures, which are so often baf­ fled by the lobster’s ability to escape by


suit of armour which covers almost all its


running backwards at high speed However, the lobster’s best defence is the


body. Its thick plate armour overlaps to cover its tail and lower body. The fact iw it finds armour essential is obvious from


m!6 4ie t."1? 6 “ if* ? tound on the outside of the lobster illustrating how often they


have foiled their enemies. Without this protection, the lobster would be extinct


and this leads me to this wee4 m ^ t ~ In his prison cell, St Paul had dady con­ tact with Roman soldiers and he noted


What a world we live in!


to be cutting taxes, the Government has been indulging in some cre­ ative accounting and we, and people working for local authorities,


T


hey have done it again. In an effort to appear


As I see it


are going to pay for it. At a recent meeting, Rib­


no choice between public or private sector provision, a denial of years of rhetoric about the importance of the freedom of choice. Of course, the real cost of


most of us will know a man or woman, a public servant, whose life is going to be affected by the Govern­ ment's unwillingness to shoulder its responsibilities and raise enough money to finance public expenditure. And every council-tax payer will feel the effect of increases considerably higher than the rate of inflation. The way the Government


ble Valley Borough council­ lors were discussing the question of salary cuts for staff. Already the chief executive has agreed to go to help reduce the wage bill. Over the months to come, officers and council­ lors will be racking their brains again to cut budgets that they struggled to cut last year. So the chances are that


Government’s unpopulari­ ty that they have lost con­ trol of most councils in the


looking after Lancashire’s elderly will still have to be met, but Sir Paul’s sugges­ tion is a typical piece of Government sophistry with a good dose of anti-public service dogma thrown in. You shift the deck chairs on the Titanic around a bit and trash a few thousand council jobs by throwing them overboard, put a bit of profit someone’s way and claim you are governing. Lancashire has to cut almost £53 million from a budget of £1,005 million. The Private Finance Ini­


thinks is illustrated by a suggestion from a Minister, Sir Paul Beresford, that Lancashire County Council could save £15 million by transferring the residents of council homes for the elder­ ly to the private sector. As the council points out, this would mean not only uprooting all its residents from the place they regard as home, but would also involve sacking 2,500 staff, large-scale redundancies which could not take place in time to make the savings the Minister claims. The suggestion would also mean that the elderly would have


tiative is the same sort of thing. The country needs something, a new health centre, a new hospital, a new road. The Govern­ ment’s bright idea is to get business to build it and lease it to the organisation that needs it. The sophistry is that public spending has been cut. The fact is that private business is making a profit and the public will be lumbered with the cost for years to come. This year’s budget, and the


country. So Ribble Valley Borough Council’s chief executive will leave in the spring, not because councillors were wrong when they made his appointment, but because the Government has failed to allow them to maintain the terms of it. Those terms were presumably part of the Government’s policy of paying people properly in a modem mar­ ket place and even then were, I suspect, consider­ ably less than the gentle­ man could have earned in industry. And members of the staff


of Lancashire County Council and Ribble Valley Borough Council face more uncertainty as officers and councillors again go through the miserable busi­ ness of trying to meet the public's aspirations with­ out the means to do so. Sometime soon, someone


settlement for local author­ ities, is more of the same thing. To stand a chance of re-election the Government believed it had to seem to give the public tax cuts. To even make this seem possi­ ble it had to shift taxation elsewhere. Where better to put it than on local author­ ities, where luckless grass­ roots Conservative activists have seen their numbers so reduced by the


Budding tennis ace is Junior Reader of the Month


enjoyed the book a lot because I like detective books.” He attends Brookside County Primary School, Clitheroe, along with his sister Rebecca (seven) and brother Luke (five). An interest in reading obviously runs in the fami­ ly, as both Benjamin and his sister were recently


presented with the bronze award for reading 10 books. Benjamin’s favourite author is Roald Dahl and he has read several of his books. But tennis is Benjamin’s number one hobby and


he wants, one day, to have his name in lights along with Becker, Agassi, Sampras and Borg. Proud mother Mrs Julia Dyer said: “He practises two or three times a week at Edisford dome and his ambition is to win Wimbledon.” Benjamin also likes playing football and is a Man­ chester United fan.


THE highest honour in the Rotary organisation has been awarded to a Holden man for his hard work and dedication during 37 years’ service. Mr Eric Walmsley (79), a


suprise. There are several members worthy of the award at the club and I am


member of Blackburn Rotary Club, was made a Paul Harris Fellow at the club’s 75th annual charter dinner at the Foxfields Country Hotel, Billington. He said: “I t was a great


honoured to receive it.” The Paul Harris Fellow award is presented for out­


■* Rotarian is honoured


McDougal awarded Mr Walmsley with a Paul Har­ ris Fellow silver medallion and a special lapel badge at the presentation. Mr Walmsley joined the


Blackburn club in 1971 and was club president between


1983/84. He is a retired chartered surveyor and has also been the district youth


exchange officer and is cur­ 4*f for the week


their protective armour ’ to consider the spiritual a for the Christian soldier Jesus Christ. He describe Codas their protection fn evil. Paul pointed out ho breastplate of God’s appn speed them on their wa


good news of the God. A : stop the fiery darts aiii Satan is also needed, as wi salvation and sword of thi


tBy considering these won


Paul was. If we know that ‘*e


o realise how sound the J odU.°ur^t^fSkf


words of the Lord, asJesu hour of temptation, we^ ourselves.


■samhanceonthewo, By parrying the thrusts o M


Joe Stansfield


rently editor of the club magazine. Before joining the Black­


standing contribution to the Rotary movement and clubs rarely honour mem­ bers in this way. Club president Mr Ian


burn club, he was a me her and past-president Padiham Rotary Cli which he joined in 1959. Mr Walmsley was b<


and raised in Cumbria.! work first took him Yorkshire and later Bla bum where he was a ch


tered surveyor at Thwai Brewery. Outside the Rotary Cl


Mr Walmsley was a k< cricketer and only reti: from the sport at the agi 65.


and has lived in Holden 26 years.


He is married to Christ


TENNIS-MAD Benjamin Dyer's ambition is to win the Wimbledon championship, but w hen not dreaming about the centre court he can be found with his head buried in a book. The Clitheroe eight-year-old is content, for the time being, just to hold the title of Junior Reader of the Month for his review of Anne Digby’s “The Silly Postman Mystery”. In his review, Benjamin, of Linden Drive, said: “I


why we had to introduce car parking charges. Can you see now why we had to explore every way of rais­ ing revenue? Could we have had any grounds for com­ plaints to Ministers, if we hadn't?” Even though this sacrifice seems to have had no effect on the way the Govern­ ment treats the Ribble Val­ ley, I shall have to say that I am sorry and th a t I understand. What a world we have allowed our leaders to make for us!


Tony Cliff


is going to say to me: “Now perhaps you understand


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