Clitheroe Advertiser <£ Times, October nth, Ihtlti 15


C l ith r rw 4‘ Letters


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Refuse to pay until problem


J SKK on the "Off Street J arising Places Order” in last week’s Advertiser and limes that all classes of


addressed


vehicle will be expected to pav narking charges. >\ouid someone from


Kibble Valley Borough Council care to explain how motor cyclists can be v^l’vvted to "pay and dis­ play” without having u n s e r u p u l o u s d r i v e r s removing their parking stickers to attach to their own vehicles? 1 will refuse to pay any fee until this problem is addressed. furthermore. I would


Figures for parking charges income wildly optimistic


I SUBMIT the following observat ions on car parking charges:-


to make money to ease the council’s budget shortfall; the annual costs will be £61,500, with income estimated at £101,000; profit, therefore, £39,500. However, this is only some


They have been introduced


also be interested to know "hy the council has made no provision for separate motor cycle and bicycle secure parking. I am sure that if all the local motor cyclists were to simultan­ eously use the car parks in Clitheroe, taking up a parking space each, there would be uproar and yet more congestion in town, but surely they would be within their rights once they had bought a ticket. 1 would have expected the council to be promot­


by March 31st, 1997.


I believe the figures for income to be wildly optimistic. The counci


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will do well to break even. It will take an awful lot of short-stay


20ps to turn profit! The attitude of Clitheroe day


£10,000 more than that originally anticipated for the current finan­ cial year when the decision to introduce charges was taken, i.e., £30,000 for 1990/1997 (April to March). Clearly, on these figures, less than £20,000 can be realised


visitors (workers) to pay £1 to use the long-stay car parks is crucial to profit. As these people arrive early, they will have the pick of the streets to park to save their £1. And, unless the current restrictions on Station Hoad car park (Booths) are policed by the new warden(s), they can, of course, stay there all day! What is paramount is for the


straight away by returning to the manufacturers tne machine at Mit­ chell Street. Who in their right


mind is going to pay to park there?


cial decision for the council (not for the town or its livelihood) and must therefore be viewed as a speculation to an accumulation of


Car parking has been a commer­


lots of cash. Failure to achieve that, with or


without fine tuning, will be a gross injustice to the “more than 10 compulsory redundancies already caused this year in the name of good housekeeping.


council to monitor daily the situa­ tion to ensure profit margins are reached. Money could he saved


BRUCE DOWLES, Whatley Road, Clithcroc.


‘Achievement’ of the Tories has been social poverty for the masses


SUBSEQUENT to your publication of my let­ ter in the last edition of your newspaper, I hope some of your readers saw the Granada TV programme on the “Commission on


ing two-wheeled transport instead of the endless pro­ cession of cars through the town centre looking for non-existent, free parking spaces, but sadly this doesn’t seem to be the case. Perhaps a rethink is in order as it does seem that the council has its priorities wrong.


NIKSKEAT, Colthirst Drive, Clithcroe.


Mysterious ways of the Lord


ON Saturday morning, at approximately 1-30 or 1-


45, someone damaged my car on the drivers door and I would like to point out to the person con­ cerned what could happen. My car is on Motobility


lease and I am responsible for the first £75 of damage repairs. If I do not have this repair done, then I could lose the car, which could mean that my wife would have to do the main shopping in Clitheroe on her own because, owing to


my disability, I cannot use public transport and I would like to point out that my wife is not in very good health also.


responsible to think of the old saying: “The Lord works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform.” I know this to be true, because the Lord has h e lp ed me on many occasions.


I would like the person


JIM ANSLOW, Old Row, Barrow.


servative idea is 20%; 32 minus 20 means the Dutch people have 12% more of their resources to share


among needy communities.


Poverty” headed by Lord (now a sir) Tummin. The programme illustrated, in specific details, gen­


eral aspects 1 was trying to present in my letter. The programme lasted an hour. How much space


have you today? Some salient points. 1. Minimum wage introduced by Churchill in IJOJ.


Britain for two people (i.e. a couple), £94. 4. Minimum wage in Holland, between £5 and £0 an


3. Pension in Holland for one person, £140. Here in .. 5. Minimum tax in Holland is 32%. Here the Con­ ,T „ an hour.


Abolished in 1993 (which party was in Government in 1993?)2. But we still have “only” 4,000,000 children living in poverty.


hour. I have a friend with a family (as one illus­ tration among many) who works in catering for £2.80


As the Dutch minister observed, in Britain you are more “individual”, and the individual is held


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responsible for his personal poverty. And this is what a clergyman, Mr Dale, was preach­


tially also society, has the responsibility. Times change — 19th century, 20th century, but


Britain does not change with the times. The “achievement” of successive Conservative


ing against in Victorian times. The individual cannot crawl out of his poverty: not only church, but essen­


governments has been the political implementation of social poverty on masses of people in this country. Strange, they make no mention of this achieve­


ment in their political manifestos. PS. Could Mr Evans MP please return, as urgently


R. PARKER, St Chad’s Avenue, Chatburn.


Peaceful haven


THE short note about PSA seems to ers’ Institute m Whalley Road. I am have stirred a lot of memories for us told the staircase was made of stone. A “old uns ”


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a few stops up the street to mention the building which is Dawsons shop, the three letters.


Rechabites has no connection to PSA. They had a meeting room on Eshton Terrace, which is now used by the


I have found that the Order of


grown up Sunday School — a family affair, where parents would take all the family along with them. The Sunday service would start about 3 p.m. with some hymns, a talk by some local preacher and, now and then, a noted singer would take part in the service. The name of Isobel Baillie was


Spiritualist members. I am told that the PSA was a sort of


mentioned. Where the meetings for PSA took


place is a bit uncertain. Most of the comments said the services took place in the building which is known as the sociul club in Wellgatc, next to the cof- fee house. Then there was the Weav-


I have had a few telephone calls and dances, and also mentioned was part of near the station.


lot of us will remember the upstairs room, as it was very often used for


took her along with them and she received a book prize for being a regu­ lar Sunday School attender. This was often the idea in various other Sunday schools in town. Obviously the PSA was a popular meeting place, where you could get a warm and friendly atmosphere, a good talk by the preacher, some nice music and good friends about — all these being so necessary for a steady life and peace of mind, not in the “rat race”. Hasn t the world changed? The meetings were a peaceful haven and you knew that the folks there had similar thoughts and appreciation of good friends.


One lady aged 88 said her parents


EDMUND CAMBIEN, Holland Prospect, Clitheroe.


I WOULD like to thank Miss Bradford for her let­ te r in your issue of October 10th. For weeks I have written letters and this is the f i rs t time anyone has commented on them. One gets disillu­ sioned; I got to thinking


Little milk of human kindness


as possible, the job seeker’s form I asked him to fill in for me. I shall need it very soon.


Further points on quarry plans


ON Tuesday,, October 8th, I was present at Rib- ble Valley Borough Council Planning and Development Committee meeting. On Thursday I read the report of this meeting in your newspaper, that is the part ot it that concerns the reactivation and extension of Bell­


man Quarry by Castle Cement. May I, through your letters column, draw atten­


tion to some of the points discussed at that meeting, which were either missed or not made clear in the


' e®The application is already lodged with Lancashire County Council. Ribble Valley Borough Council is


asked to comment as the interested authority. • Ribble Valley Borough Council cannot decide it


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this application should “rest in the hands of the Environment Secretary”. If the application is refused by LCC, Castle Cement may demand a public inquiry. • The plan by Castle Cement to extract 30m tonnes


SPECTACLES AT WHOLESALE PRICES


over 30 years is not a “smaller scheme”. The planned area for quarrying is smaller, however, as the tonnage at 30m, instead of 25.5m tonnes over 40 years


- H^NGE GIF SUNGLASSES;


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amended in 1994, is more intensive. • It is my understanding that Castle Cement cannot


would also stop.


tial problems relating to the lowering of the water table and to its consequent impact on streams, springs and wetlands, not to mention property, over a large


0 No mention was made in the report oi the poten­ , . - .. . „


a'* A strong case exists for further and detailed investigation of the use of rail to import rock from other quarries owned by Castle Cement.


ing the construction of the New Bellman Knoll spoil heap, on the immediate residents of the area, i.e. Wor- ston Park House, Rydal Place, Mnldlewood and Chat- burn, the planned hours of working being seven days


O The “horrendous” impact of the workings, includ­ .


per week, 12 hours per day. • How different is the present application to the


last one (93/94)? There are some differences, but many similarities, especially in scale and environmental


im®aRibble Valley already has two large quarries, the addition of a third and the sheer scale of the total


makes one wary. O What has happened to the restoration promised ,. to be considered a'factor?


area would not be a public amenity. The above are some of the issues discussed at the


• The restoration plan looks attractive, but this , .. .


meeting. There are others. I have also tried to add clarity to a couple of areas marked by “quotes where 1 did not feel that details were made clear.


MARY GYSBERS, The Willows, Worston.


Don’t miss this opportunity


no one reads them. Miss Bradford has bro­


ken the ice and I treasure that. It will give hope to others who are waiting for


replies. She also points out the


real reason for my letter: that the Rev. Peter Shep­ herd was too highbrow. I quote from her letter:


• THE Environment Committee — a Parliamen­ tary Select Committee — is following up its June, 1995, inquiry into the burning of second­ ary liquid fuels in cement kilns (i.e. hazard­ ous waste such as Cemfuel) by holding a fur­ ther inquiry, with


“Peter Shepherd gives us solid food, not milk. It takes some chewing but we derive nourishment


A. DICKINSON, Whittle Close, Clitheroe.


bers — MPs — will visit Clitheroe on November


from it”. But even solids go down


extended scope,on November 27th. The committee mem­


better with a little milk of human kindness.


6th, when th e ir pro­ gramme will include meet­ ing and talking to as many members of the public as possible at noon in the council chamber, Church S tre e t , Clitheroe (for about one hour). Please do not miss this important


opportunity. In addition, I am told by


v the committee that it, is


ing letters from ordinary members of the public — men, women and children. They want to know your feelings on the continued use of Cemfuel at Castle Cement. Your concerns can cover any part of the ^ process — transport, stor- ^ age, burning, fumes, waste dust, the cement itself etc., or anything at all which concerns you.


ery interested m receiv­ Please write as soon as


possible to: Mrs Caroline Hand,


Specialist Assistant to the


Committee, Environment Committee, Committee Office, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA.


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HALF a century of Bolton-by-Bowland Young Fa rme r s ' Club was marked by a special service of thanksgiving in the village on Sunday.


St Peter and St Paul played host to present and past young farmers and the Rector, the Rev. David Mewis, dedicated a bench to commemorate the anniversary, to be used by the village and by visitors.


The historic church of


by Rebecca Whitwell and Alastair Howard, after which all present were invited to join the club members for a plough­ man’s lunch in the village hall.


Readings were given


church are members and of f i ci al s, p a s t and present.


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CLITHEROE fire-fight ers averted a possible explosion when they dragged a car away from a blaze in the garage of a Clitheroe house.


Car pulled to safety in blaze


u s i n g b r e a t h i n g apparatus, entered the smoke-filled garage on Shireburn Avenue origin­ ally believing the vehicle to be alight. They released the handbrake on the car, which had a full tank of petrol, and dragged it on to the drive.


Two of them, who were


electrical fault had caused a chest freezer to catch fire. The freezer and the roof of the garage were damaged by the fire and the car was damaged by


It transpired that an


smoke. The incident occurred at


3-30 p.m. on Wednesday last week and the fire­


fighters took half an hour to deal with the situation.


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