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the way of a journalist on his path through the Fourth Estate. Not so. “We wondered whether you would


T this stage in my working life, I thought that I had tack­ led most of the jobs that come


by Leigh Morrissey


“We hope you can make it —• it involves an overnight stop at the Gib­


like to test drive the new Chrysler Neon,” asked the polite young PR lady on the other end of the phone. Are you sure you have the right


bon Bridge Hotel, with dinner and breakfast,” said the sweet lady. - "The Gibbon Bridge?”, I inquired,;


person, I in turn wondered, pointing out that my name was Leigh Morris­ sey and was she aware that I knew absolutely nothing about the things that go on under the bonnet of a car. I could have continued, to empha­


sise the point, and told her about the time when my car was playing up. I went to my garage, tried to describe the noise by making a sound that had passers-by wondering about my sani­ ty and was told rather sharply: "It sounds like the driver to me.” Is that expensive, I asked. Well, I did once hear someone refer to a driveshaft!


grasping my inability to get the tape in the cassette machine of a later vehicle to travel the right way — a task I hadn’t even mastered when I said goodbye to the car four-and-a- half years later and took delivery of my present Mondeo, which — yes, you’ve guessed it — has a similar devilish music-making contraption which has a mind of its own. Perhaps she had confused me with,


She might also have had difficulty


someone off "Top Gear”. Then my ears pricked up.


bringing swiftly to mind the fact that < this was the Ribble Valley establish­ ment which was recently voted the best hotel in Britain?, “Yes”, she confirmed. "Now then,” I said, “I think I am


tion had nothing to do with my abili­ ty a t tes t driving cars. The offer, which saw me rubbing shoulders and trying to talk sense with the cream of the country’s motoring correspon­ dents attending the national launch - .of the Neon, came about because I knew the PR chap who had organ­ ised the week-long event at the Gib­ bon Bridge.


free that night and the Neon sounds' an exciting car.” I was in on the action. But,‘I must point out, the invitia­


who used to work as a junior reporter on the weekly newspaper at Nelson where I was assistant to the editor, thought it would be a good idea to invite the local newspaper to such a prestigious event in its circulation area.


Peter Rawlinson, a Burnley man -


A bright lad, Peter has obviously done well for himself and, as the Press and PR director for Chrysler Jeep UK, has come a long way since


V S S & U G S 8 T fo r th e w e e k


sparrow had one day flown into her home. I t was so tame that it perched on her finger, chirping away most enthusiastically. After finishing its sparrow chatter, the bird flew off through the open window, leaving her to wonder about the visitor. Later that day she received a tele­


A


FRIEND once confided in me about a strange experience. She had been suprised when a


chirped away for some time as did the ’ one in England.


Few people realise how much a sparrow contributed to the earlv


spreading of Christianity in this country. In the seventh century the t2 , Northumbria. Edwin^hesi-


ated to forsake his old ideas and


Pbrisr W!le\ h>s ?ueen accepted Christianity. Missionary Paulinius


phone call from South Africa, inform­ ing her that her sister had died a few hours earlier. The informant, anoth­ er sister, than told her about the visit of a sparrow to her home in South Africa. I t was at about the same time as the visitation by the sparrow in England. There, too, the bird had


had been sent by the-popet^ Northumbria. Edwin listened care-


the decision to become a Christian until the great council of 627 AD


U h' y, t0PaUlV n^ but did n° t make said he had considered the possibility


y died and two sons been killed in ssIh I6' ? “


t An old earl, whose wUe had recent- J0d up a t the council a n d :-


• it into the night. That reference to the sparrow moved the king more than the words of Paulinius and was the prime factor in the decision to embrace Christianity in the North of England. I t was this king who built


of life after death. As he was speak­ ing, a sparrow flew into the lofty hall and, af ter flying around for some time before the eyes of the brethren, it spied an opening and flew through


he cleaned vehicles for "Honest Peter” at his secondhand car pitch in Burnley to raise money to buy his first vehicle, a Jaguar 420, which he set about renovating at the age of 13.


He has also travelled the world organising test drives in such exotic places as Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and the Arizona Desert, but he reckons his choice of the Ribble Val-


: ley for the Chrysler launch was on a par with all of these. ■


“I remember years ago racing — at legal speeds, of course—round some ter rif ic Ribble Valley roads and thought that East Lancashire would one day make a great destination for a national test drive,” said Peter.


.Jo u rn a lis ts who visited and were greatly impressed with the local area and the award-winning Gibbon Bridge Hotel. The cost of the launch, ...Peter reckons, ran into six figures. '•1


As well as the Neon, the spotlight was on the Ribble Valley itself and the event will certainly give the area another boost as word of the beauty of the Centre of the Kingdom flashes round the world.


< • •And the Neon itself?


I managed to switch it on with no dif­ ficulty and the colour was rather nice


, ■ but wisely 1 left the cassette play- er well alonel


The Ribble Valley launch of the Neon, which went on sale on June 6th and is being imported by Chrysler into the UK from America, t was a huge hit with the 90 top-flight


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. a n d t h e c a r w a s a v e r y n i c e c o l o u r !


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Manners really ao maketh the man


V a l l e y M a t t e r s , ^ e k l ,


lo c a l i— r- P » P l e • * * * * . ' 1


I T is a trait of advancing years to believe, to borrow a line from a


well-known musical, that "things


ain’t wot they used to be”. Were summers of yesteryear, for example, really sunnier? Was there less crime? Were our streets cleaner and friend­


lier? Were standards and discipline better


in our schools? Maybe not.


mist with a set of large blinkers to think th a t nothing had changed. Sadly, things have, often for the


But, equally, it would take an opti­ \


certainly in mind if not exactly in body, and yet I am realistic enough to accept th a t the world as I view it today is not just as pleasant as I


worse. At 53,1 regard myself as youthful,


recall in my younger days. I was heartened and yet at the same


time disheartened, if you get my drift, to read the thoughts — not a million miles away from my own — of the Rev. Digby Anderson, the edi­ tor of a new book, "Gentility Recalled”. He laments the break­ down of traditional codes — man­ ners, in other words — which, he claims, have resulted in a society characterised by rudeness: loutish behaviour on the streets, jostling in crowds, impolite shop assistants and bad-tempered drivers. •Mr Anderson says that the cumula­


When people lament the disinte- gration of law and order, he says,


what they generally mean u n t e M manifested by courteous forms ol social contact.


The assistant priest and sociolo­ . .


gist, who founded the Social Unit 16 years ago, points out that


England has more criminal laws than ever before and a better-equipped police force, but, without mutual respect between people, we will never achieve a sense of peacefulness m


society.He lays the blame for the decline in manners on Bloomsbury, neo-Freudi- anism, feminism and 1960s sexual


freedom. And the s ta te does not escape criticism; its interference, in his view, having eroded responsibility and infantantilised swathes of the


population. Mr Anderson believes a return ol


order will only be brought about by a return to good manners. I t is the decline of manners, he


claims, that causes young people to get drunk and urinate in people’s gar­


dens.


tive effect of today’s decline in civili­ ty and good manners — apparently trivial, but often offensive — is to make everyday life uneasy, unpre­ dictable and unpleasant and he argues that, because it is encountered far more often than crime, i t can cause more anxiety than crime.


manners have been seen as repressive. But they are like a language — they simplify life. Once you have the rules —which may be arbitrary, like a lan-


“For too long,” he says, "good ....


guage — that’s it.” Mr Anderson is hoping that the


central idea of his book — the bring­ ing back of manners into our society —will drip into public consciousness. His views may be controversial and some of the do-gooders whose


• ... b S h t “ b out much of soc iety’s i over recent decades have


S a l in e mav well take issue with them, buT I found the good clergy­ man’s words like a breath of fresh air.


I t is clear to me th a t a return to


good manners would tak e us down the path of a more equitable society where civilised people abound and life becomes a much more pleasant expe- ,


rience. * .


,as community spirit is concerned but is not completely free of some of soci- cty’s ills, could benefit.


nation where the collapse of. good manners is threatening our society with such destruction.


; .


un pleasant s itu a t io n s like th a t recently experienced by a neighbour of mine. He held the door of a bank


Then we might see an end to


open for a young man with a child in arms and, when he felt forced to ask the unresponsive individual whether a thank you might have been in order,


was told to * * * off." : L.M. • “Gentility Recalled”, edited by


Digby Anderson, is published by The Social Affairs Unit, 5/6 Morley House, Regent Street, ty lR 5AB, and costs £15.95 (plus £2 p&p).


Even a town like Clitheroe, which is in something of a timewaip as far


| Power to the elbow of Mr Ander-


son, I say, in his one-man battle to turn back the clock and reverse a sit-,


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•the church that was eventually to be York Minster, an edifice that can be described as a a vast and beautiful monument to th e sparrow that


■helped bring Christianity to the North. :


Joe Stnnsfield jfl


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