See for yourself


LAST week you allowed a nom de plume, “Truthful Grindleton Resident”, to insinuate I was lying.


would give me their name, I would invite them to come and see the grease on my windows.


If the person concerned


As for the smell, I have had John Isherwood and


h i s a s s i s t a n t ( H e r Majesty’s Inspectorate of Pollution), Peter Parkes (C a s t le C em en t) and David Morris (Ribble Val­ ley Borough Council), all at niy front door and have had to invite them inside, because the chemical smell was filling my hallway. When the National Physi­ cal Laboratory (mobile


monitoring van) was here last August, they came in response to my telephone call and, even though the w i nd h a d c h a n g ed d i r e c t io n when th e y arrived, they picked up traces of hydrocarbons in my porch. Only several weeks ago,


Mr A. Brock, of the new E n v ironment Agency, stood outside confirming the smell. If I am not telling the


truth, then are you accus­ ing all these people of lying, plus the rest of the village people who have smelled it and complained?


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S. HARGREAVES (Mrs), Itibide Avenue, Clitheroe. # ON r e f le c t io n , we should not have allowed th e use o f th e word “truthful” in the nom dc plume accompanying last week’s letter and we apo­ logise for any inference it applied concerning the writers of previous letters — in c lu d in g S. H a r ­ greaves — on the subject. As for the use of nom de plumes (sec adjoining le tte rs ) , as is common with most newspapers, we feel it is necessary to offer this opportunity for anonymity, providing the w r ite r ’s name and full address are included in confidence. Totally anon­ ymous letters arc never printed — editor.


Why allow


nom de plumes?


I THINK it is about time that the Clitheroe Adver­ t ise r and Times es tab­ lished a rule that anyone submitting a le t te r for publication put their name and address to it. Of late, some ra the r abusive letters have been published in this newspa per under pseudonyms. T ’akc “Trut -hful Grindle- ton . Res „................ _


'


pie, whose letter was pub- bo as open, accountable Scratch the surface m any lished last week.


ident”, ~ ---------- ? for exam- . a..n...d aspirin’s MP's should where wages


my own position public as I firmly believe unit MPs pirins 1


Many Grindleton resi- ble at all times. dents are concerned about


o th e rs are not. Would “Truthful” have made this insinuation if they had had to use th e i r name and address-! I think not!


LYNDA ENGLAND,


The Meadows, Worston.


a re low


pollution from Ca stle The p re v io u s MPs’ and poverty, fo r MPs, Cement and to call oneself salary level of £14,000 is including those in my own •Truthful” implies tha t slightly more than double party, to even contemplate


and you will find low-pay


the salary I earn as a fur­ ther education college lec­ turer. While I do not share the hair shirt argument that MPs should be paid almost nothing, I imagine I would jus t about have managed to get by on a


No shame in the truth


WHO is the “Truthful There is no shame in Grindlcton Resident” of telling the truth. I reply as last week who is so truth- a truthful Clitheroe resi- ful that they cannot even dent whose house is in sign a letter to the local <iirect line with the Castle ------ ------' ’u *t' " : ........... Cement chimneys when the wind blows from the north-east. I can truthfully say that


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one day la s t summer, while attempting to paint my house, I inhaled the f ume s f rom C a s t l e C em e n t ’s p lum e fo r approximately one hour and subsequently had to go indoors feeling physi­


cally sick. When I rang and complained to HMIP, I was asked to describe the smell and then truth­ fully conceded, by letter, th a t it was indeed the fum e s f rom C a s t l e Cement’s chimneys that were swirling round my house at the time. I can also truthfully say


Democracy itself is the real loser


I HAVE been conlactccl on a number of occasions, in recent (lays, about the issue of Mi’s’ pay and in particular how I would have voted had I been Kibble Valley’s Ml’. I am more than happy to make


have few complaints!


and transparent as possi- Lancashire constituency. my adult life. including Ribble Valley,


Parliamentary Candidate,


voting for a pay rise of K'hble Valley, such a magnitude is insen­


sitivity beyond belief to many o f th o s e th e y represent. To his credit, my Con­


servative opponent, the sitting MP for Ribble Val­ ley, voted against the pay rise. It remains to be seen, however, whether he will accept the new, inflated salary and I very much hope that he will continue the laudable position he took in th e House by


ME ANIN GLE SS p l a t i t u d e s


OP WATCHDOGS


sa lary double the one shown th a t those who which allows me to enjoy a aspire to be MPs a i tu tm. lifestyle about which I can next General Election are


which MPs vo ted for is-simply to represesit .1md themselves is completely fight for the intei c without any justification, the people of Lanraanire,


The salary of £4:1,000 to get rich. My motivation not motivated by a (lesiie


particularly in an area the county in which I was such us Kibble Valley born, brought up and edii-


MARCUS JOHNSTONE, P r o s p e c t iv e L a b o u r


cated and in which I have lived for the majority of


IN re sp o n se to M r c a t k i n ' o T C K t f e if he was serious in h


er res wi l


ro e ’s mid d le - c la s s


m bYs, ^


, - these columns the coiu stern


RATS, but the heading to alternative fuels with coal Elizabeth Gardner s etter. ?Jlcement wins is harmful


“No close down, ju s t an end to toxic burning .


seems to sum HP th


of everyone w ithw h om t have discussed the Cem­


plete the picture is the reason why the Govern


Wh -y follow film fads? PAN ■invnne ulease tell me, especially anyone from the h ;t ,


one was driving, knowing well it was either po ic ambulance and meant emergency.


American film.


accepting only a three p e r . cent pay rise. Perhaps he would like to clarify his position in public, as I firmly believe the public has a light to know where he stands. If elected as Ribble Val­


ley’s MP at the next elec­ tion, I would be delighted to receive a salary even rem o te ly close to th e £34,000 which so many MPs consider to be inade­ quate. I would, therefore, not accept the 20% pay rise and would consider myself exceptionally fortu­ nate to be earning £34,000 or even anything remotely approaching it. By voting for such a


to slow down and watch for some visual appearance before deciding to stop or move over.


First reaction is to think “What is that * J. ‘ Why do we have to follow American film fads. f > ,


Can’t we stay sanely British and react fast to a sound we know means “emergency”?


DORIS BROWN, Whalley.


W h ic h to i le ts w e re p ra is e d ?


I QUOTE from the article on page seven in last week’s Clitheroe Advertiser and Times regarding the


on the awards. Clitheroe Tesco store, the council WCs and the public conveniences at Downham have all been


Loo of the Year competition.................... ....... i ^ “Once again the Kibble Valley is hoping to clean-up


praised in past years”.


that both my daughters’ as thma has worsened


noticeably in the last two years since Cemfuel burn­ ing began, but, of course, the science is not on their side — nothing can be proved yet and scientific


“truth” is a lot harder to come by.


ROBERT SMITTON,


Buccleuch Avenue, Clilheroc.


la rg e r i s e , th e MPs responsible have brought even more public contempt on politics and the political process. This comes on top of a string of “sleaze” alle­ gations and at a time when politicians of all parties are held in lower esteem than ever before.


___ _ who oppose our (lemoeracy begin to take heart. I hope that by mat­ ing th is le t te r I have


cratic system is eroded in this way, the s in is te r forces


. V •_ ___i i


loos, but for toilets that are looked after by caring and committed management and staff. Would tne council be so kind and state in your illustrious paper which Clith­ eroe loos were praised, as a recent letter submitted to you by a lady decried the toilets in town?


Judges are not only looking for pleasant, hygienic


A. DICKINSON, Whittle Close, Clitheroe.


No m o n o p o ly o n h o n e s ty WHAT makes R. Mayor, of Clitheroe, assume that Thn'vn'if jnsni- is flpmnp- the man who returned his wallet was a Christian?


raev itself because when The implication that Christians have a monopoly on Se^nublic’s confidenreln hone^ or any other v>rtue is an insu.lt to


.. Lwin/Jc nf ihn iinmn. other religions, as well as to humanists and other .1


JUDITH C. SOWTER, Whalley Old Road, York Village, Langho.


of


law-abiding citizens who recognise no particular belief system.


• LETTERS fo r publica­ tion must be accom­ panied by name and address as an^ indica­ tion of good faith, even i f the tvriter wishes to use a nom de plume.


. . • What we hear now is this imbecihe s \ o v v m n g


noise like “Starsky and Hutch — a hears as part of normal background if watching an


i«


fuel saga. What we need to com­


simply, no research been (lonei hence no


j evj(ience! w h y


has


University wanted only £20,000 to undertake it m


been done, when Sheffield Been uuuc ■


1 9 9 5 ? B e c a u s e th e Environmental Protection S cience and Re se a rch F o u n d a t io n , i .e . th e Government, refused to


p o ^ e S l y what l ^ v r o ^ with the old English c ie n t im p o r ta n c e to


R ic h a rd Courtney, a recognised author ity on


sanction it on the grounds not have suffi.


“neOneawould KwTmmedilteiy to get o v e r d o n e ‘"“ our for this? Mr side fast if this urgent sound was approaching


combustion speaking at a ...........


consistent refusal of Castle Cement, on commercial grounds, to publish details of what i t sends up its chimneys, plus the fact that the location in a val­ ley of Castle’s Ribblesdale works will never permit


public meeting, a t Clith- eroe Civic Hall, in 1995. I f you add to this the


th e to ta l c e s sa t io n of plume-grounding, then the


posturing of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Pollution (now th e Environment Agency) should be seen for w h a t


smokescreen! I t is to the great credit


i t i s — a


of the Clitheroe Adver­ tiser and Times that this matter is given so much a t te n t io n . F a r b e t te r , surely, the outraged howls of whingeing NIMBYs than the meaningless plati­ tu d e s of G o v e rnm en t watchdogs!


J. D. MORTIMER,


Green Drive, Clitheroc.


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