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S PE C I A L O F F E R
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QUALIFIED HOTPOINT/CREDA SERVICE ENGINEERS ~
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EFFICIENT FRIENDLY SERVICE
CLITHEROE 01200 443340 MOBILE 0973 358778
2 FRANKUN STREET. CUTHEROE N O CALL O U T CHARGE
PAUL ASHWORTH
Qualified Painter & Decorator
Tel: 01200 442134
for a free estimate
Electrical, Plumbing &
Central Heating Contractors
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Choose your own suite and have it fitted from as little as £199, also tiling and showers etc Timeserved tradesman with over 30 years experience
BATHROOMS £ 1 9 9
Free estimates
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on Sabden 01282 773173 (Evening calls welcome)
<fJOINER/HANDYMAN All household work undertaken.
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AND SERVICE TO ALL HAKES S] OF DOMESTIC APPLIANCES J ?
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No job too small • All work guaranteed 9 am - 9 pm
FREE quotations • All at competitive prices
Telephone: (01254) 722980 ...
NEED A CLEANER? DUST IMAGINE!
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* Free carpet cleaning for all new clients Tel: 01200 444524 16 YEARS EXPERIENCE
TERRY CATTERMOLE & SONS
* Trees topped and felled * Fencing supplied and erected * New and second-hand timber and sawmilling
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* Free estimates TRAPP SAWMILL, WHINS LANE,
SIMONSTONE, Nr. PADIHAM BB12 7QN Tel: (01282) 772417 Night: (01282) 772903 (01200) 423732 Mobile: 0973 426449
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A MEMBER OF CORGI AND NIC EIC
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Domestic • Industrial • Commercial & Agricultural Installations
FREE ESTIMATES Tel/Fax:
01200 426881 Mobile 0973 482286
D E R E K L E IG H T V R E N T A L S
4 Shlrebum Avenue, Clitheroe Telephone 424168 NO DEPOSIT TV RENTALS
Portable/Remote/Teletext from £7 per calendar month New 21** Remote T V ...................................... £10.50 New Teletex T V ................................................£12.50 Discount for annual payment
Minimum rental period 12 months Written quotations on request
T.V. & VIDEO REPAIRS, EX-RENTALS FOR SALE
Ribble Valley Council Approved Over 25 Years Service From Radio to Satellite
law . NO JOB TO° SMALL
From houses to hotels Quotes and surveys
WALLBANK AERIALS T e l : 0 1 2 5 4 3 9 2 6 0 9 / * p \
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OPTICAL SELECT T & M GATE, 124 PIMLICO ROAD
DRIVERS’ PRESCRIPTION DISTANCE GLASSES from ................................ £20
Tints............................................... FREE
Prescription Sunglasses and Swimming Goggles
•i All types of lenses and extras - v- } Large range of frames Inc designers t -
EMERGENCY REPAIRS -, often while you wait: Tel: Clitheroe 425552
TV AND VIDEO RENTALS, SALES AND SERVICE
Nibble tEelesfertuce
62 WHALLEY ROAD, CLITHEROE Te leph one 427280
Windows/doors
Hardwood, softwood & U.P.V.C. profile 22. At trade prices.
F or all your domestic and commercial foinery needs.
F o r a friendly and personal service contact
R. & P. Hargreaves Joiners and Building Contractors
The Workshop, Hall Street, Clitheroe. Tel: 01200 426929
Member o f the Small Business Federation Furniture Refurbisher
John Schofield Telephone:
Clitheroe 429217
A BLACKBURN BUILDING,
PLASTERING & ROOFING
EXTENSIONS,
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Telephone: Whalley 01254 822248 Clitheroe 01200 443524 Mobile 0973 401853
• Member of Federation of Small Businesses •
PETEHASLAM Painter & Decorator
Est 1979
Telephone Clitheroe
01200 425595 CHAIR
Tdeffone Qithvioe SEATING
4 4 2 1 7 3 1 1 H Alter 6 pm © L
C.C. PARKER PAINTER AND
DECORATOR Tel:
Clitheroe 425473
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I 01200 424627 | D. HARTSHORN
Joinery Manufacturers and Building Contractors
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References if required, Grant work undertaken. Special rates for O AP’s
Tel: 01200 443524 or 0973 401853 Member of Federation of Small Businesses
CLEANSWEEP
Cars & Carpets Caravans Trucks Office
Private Homes
Steam Cleaning, Paving, Patios,"' Conservatories etc
MICK WOOD - CLEANING CONTRACTOR Tel: 01200 444024 Mobile: 0973 841510
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FOR FURTHER DEIAILS
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FREE estimates, pick-up and delivery service
Range of fabrics to choose from
Telephone Kevin (01200) 448626
CABINET MAKER
/ am a maker of high quality fnx-standing and fitted furniture
From planning to fitting. I
offer pereonal attention and work of la*ting value
Gary Wilson
01254 882356 01200 427988 (eve)
; BUILDERS • MERCHANTS •
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For your building materials Trade & DIY
Crano off load available
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Painting and Decorating
All types of work undertaken with high class work guaranteed
Over 15 years experience
Tel: 01200 426138 R. BLACKBURN STONE SALES N6TCIR6L
PLUMBING & HEATING SERVICE
PROPERTY REPAIRS
FULL DRAIN CLEARING SERVICE
30 Years Experience 01200 426460
New and reclaimed flags and crazy paving setts, curbs, etc N E W
Heads, Ciils, Jambs, Mullions,
Quoins and Copings masoned to any shape or size
Also
Large selection of reclaimed DELIVERY SERVICE
RECLflMfmON LIMITED Tel: 01282 603108
NORTHWEST I ’ll stick with
ers of Ribble Valley Bor ough Council and of the party which I assumed was the Opposition (see letters,
page 10). They have invited me to take part in a public debate
on public spending and pri orities after some com ments I made about the Civic Cinema and car park ing charges. I am afraid I am going to decline. One of the health risks of
this job is taking yourself too seriously and the coun cillors seem to be intent on committing an industrial injury. Can you imagine John Major inviting half of Fleet Street in for a special ly staged debate at West minster after one of those tempests of criticism that he seems to come in for? Anyway, these men and
women are experienced debaters; talk about Daniel and the lions* den. I have heard some unlovely stories about how members of the public can fare when invit ed to address them, a recent debate on car park ing charges being an exam ple. The councillors would have me for a light supper and I*m too old for that kind of game. My job is sitting at a type
writer. Readers agree or disagree and respond if they feel like it. The coun cillors* position, having suc cessfully put themselves forward for election, is to run the Ribble Valley, inso far as this Government will allow them to do so. l*m the first person to agree that the Government does n’t make that easy and, like many people and a lot of
my typewriter O
uch! I certainly seem to have hit a raw nerve with the lead
A s I s e e i t .
councillors themselves,^ I would like to see them m charge of much more, with
a much freer hand. Which is why I am sur prised at this joint
approach. The Liberal Democrat leader in the House of Commons consis tently, and very effectively, criticises Government poli cy and it is the Conserva tive Government’s unpopu larity which has led to it losing control of most local government, even in the
Ribble Valley. So what are these two party leaders doing, cozying up like this? The leaders say they see
their role as fundamentally about balance. What about priorities? Are Liberal Democrat priorities the same as Conservative pri
orities? There is a General Election just over the hori zon and local councillors are the backbone of politi cal effort in a constituency
campaign.They are the politically literate, they are the people with the skills and the reputation on the doorstep to put policies over. So how are Mr Nigel
Evans and Mr Michael Carr going to react to the news that the two leaders of their prime infantry forces are tiptoeing through the fields of balance, hand in hand? Just to return, briefly, to
the letter, I know Mr Major has announced a new sports initiative. I believe i t ’s his third and playing fields are still being sold off. Obviously, the
sports and leisure manager was submitting a report; I simply said she was wast ing her time dreaming about grandiose plans when money was very
tight for what she already manages and when the council is so strapped for cash it says it has no alter native but to introduce parking charges. Did they come into the council’s
questionnaire? Nor am I against arts and
pro-sport, but anyone who thinks keeping the Civic Cinema open as a serious
contribution to art isn t using a definition of the term I would share. In the end it doesn’t mat
ter a row of beans what I say; it’s what councillor’s constituents think and do with their ballot papers
that counts. So here I remain, chicken,
cowering behind my machine, an occasional gadfly on the ample rump of the Ribble Valley Bor ough Council, available for swatting, but with the pen, not the rapier of experi enced duellists like council lors Howel Jones and Chris Holtom. Perhaps they might con
sider doing a bit of duelling with each other as the elec tion nears and their cham pions look to them for their support. And, by the way, the name is Tony Cliff.
T.C.
National Lottery funding has been head-hunted by a leisure consultancy firm. Ribble Valley Sports Offi
Sporting chance for council chief Rachel T
he council officer closely involved in the borough’s bid for
cer Mrs Rachel Rootes (33) will leave at the end of this month, just nine months after taking up her high- profile post. Her new position at the
Manchester-based firm of Strategic Leisure is a step up the promotion ladder. She said: “ I have been offered an opportunity to work outside local authori ties. In my career I have worked a lot in local authorities but I have final ly decided I need other experience.” Mrs Rootes (pictuered)
has been involved in putting together the bor ough council’s Lottery bids for Clitheroe Castle and Edisford sports area. She intends to keep in close
contact with the council to monitor the success of next month’s bid for money for improvements to the castle and the Edisford bid due to be submitted at the end of
the year. Her new position will
involve offering advice, including information about Lottery bids, to local authorities and organisa tions in the private and vol untary sector.
After studying English lit erature at Edinburgh Uni
versity and recreation man agement at Loughborough College, Mrs Rootes worked in various sports and leisure management jobs. Her previous job was at Wyre Forest, Shropshire. No replacement has been
appointed. The post is cur rently being advertised.
Congratulations to Rosemary
CONGRATULATIONS to Claytonle-Dale’s Miss Rosemary Fox who has passed her law finals at Chester College of Law.
Miss Fox, who attended Westholme School. Blackburn and New castle University,where she obtained a first-class honours degree in micro-biology, has been accepted to read articles at the prestigious
Manchester law firm, Addleshaws and Latham. She is currently employed as a para-legal at London firm Tavlor Joynson Garret.
■’ In her spare time, Miss Fox enjoys keeping fit, swimming and
piano Her proud parents are David and Angela Fox, of Ribch- ester Road, Clayton-le-Dale.
to take an interest in the people around us. We soon discover that, although the faces,
jirszoiuoE-Eir T
f o r t h e w e e k
here are many people milling around us and not a single familiar face. But that is only until we start
voices and mannerisms are different, our
new companions have had the same trials and tribulations as ourselves. It is a revelation to discover that, while far
away from home in the midst of people we did not know, we have been insulated from people rather than isolated.
This is due to our lack of concern and interest for the people around hr.
Wherever we go there is a need for con cern, kindness, thoughfulness and friend ship.
need f 6 ot?er. '?nely Pe°P*e ^ o also to learn to take an active interest in
ionsWpand tlus eventually means compan- Old folks will always welcome a visit a
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A little patience with a person afflicted with deafness or a short cheery conversa-
tion with ablind person will never go amiss.
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f.the best Places to find friends and Ionebness Is “
the fellowship of the s° ° " 0t be put off because you are in a
mately after the service, there is sure to be ~ o m he
trange place among strangers. y°U do not resh off imme-
0yr . behaPPyt0talkt0yOU
mostchurnh bt quicUy reciprocated and X r i™ ^ ? ^ Ve week niS
?ht activities,
ers y f n T Ws mixed bunch of follow- other
On. t 8^it “ t to 1113116 new friends, eac^ ^ em how to love each
other thpvh°aVery different from each Jesusl y had a common bond, a love for
Godsend on occasions. No matter where we find ourselves th.r.
~ S help are regarded as a
o L ^ ^ n d ^ 'P ° f Jesus * available to all that wil, banfeh tending C°mm°n b°nd "The<
9npb I*16 ?Uaker* call themselves eve™ church7 °f 11,6 Frl6"da of Jesus”,
of friend, vd, Cf n and should be a society 01 friends who love the Lord Jesus Christ. Joe Stansfield
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