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A P I O N E E R I N G scheme for the blind


and partially-sighted has opened a new chapter in the life of


retired Slaidburn teacher Mrs Doris Leeming. At the age or 8(i, the


years have taken their toll on h e r eyesight and in recent years she has found it impossible to read the books she loves.


Bus makes regular calls on her village and, miracu­ lously, she can read again! The scheme is operated


Now the Rural Vision


by the Preston and North Lancashire Blind Welfare Society and is said to be the country’s first mobile r e s o u r c e c e n t r e for visually impaired people in rural areas. Through exhibitions in


by Sheila Nixon


Uural^ Development Com- Development Commission miss ion and when i ts


chairman, Lord Shuttle- worth, decided to see how things were progressing, he asked to meet a local resident who benefits from the service. Mrs Leeming, who


Afterwards, Mrs Deem­ to S00 if we reached on 01772 744148.


everyone m need.” Anyone interested in


ta u g h t a t B ren n an d ’s Endowed School, Slaid­ burn, for 14 years and was head teacher of Bashall Eaves School for IS years, proved a prime candidate for the occasion, said the scheme’s d ire c to r, Mr Peter Taylor. She now owns a writing


ing said: “It is an excellent scheme and very well run. I am now looking forward to using my magnifier and reading good, classical fic­ tion again. “My writing has a l s o ------- -


become very untidy, so the writing frame should - assist me in this respect. _ ... Luckily my distance vision


is still good.”


learning more is asked to Leeming and other I epi e telephone project organ- sentatives of the Rural


iser Mr Kevin Loncrgan Vision Bus. gC


scheme costs £24,000 a j*3np year to run and it was


Mr Taylor said that the HlO


such places as village halls, sheltered housing schemes and GP surgeries, the bus reaches people who are unaware of the help available. I t is said that for every single regis­ tered blind person already on the books, the service is identifying one unregis­ te re d p erson who also needs assistance. The scheme has been


frame and magnifier, sup­ plied by the local welfare blind society, and can read and write again with ease. Mrs Leeming has also learned about the free


hoped the grant from the -------- • commission and o th e r • . sources would continue to roll into the cofiers.


telephone directory ser­ vice operated by British . -


to identify many more Ribble Valley people in - • .v. need of help and the bus,


The immediate aim was r-


Telecom for those who herty, would continue to . cannot read numbers in *»«ke ''eK“ ’


- • , the directory and often ™ral comminut es


feel isolated because of Mr Taylor added: looi this.


meeting Lord Shuttle- not re a l ise they have worth when he visited reached the point where West Bradford Village w.e can be of service, in


launched with the help of a £12,500 grant from the


She had the honour of many people and they do eyes ight creeps up on


Hall during a tour of the the Ribble Valley, Tor Ribble Valley last week to instance, the number ol see a variety of schemes people registered is 400 funded by th e Rural and this could possibly rise


PENDLE’S MP, Mr Gordon Prentice, who


Cemfuel a real witches’ brew, says MP


says that Cemfuel is a real witches* brew


Cubs to pay for use of pitches


FROM April 1st, Clith- eroe’s Cubs will have to pay to use the Clitheroe Castle Field pitches. For many years they


have had free use of the two pitches and are cur­ rently the only footballers playing there. They are the only players who have free access to pitch facili­ ties in the Ribble Valley. The annual charge for


THOUSANDS of peo­ ple living in the Ribble Valley are crying out for a s tu d y on the a l le g e d e f f e c t s on h ea lth o f Cemfuel, stated Pendle’s MP, Mr Gordon Prentice, in t h e H o u s e o f Commons. Mr Prentice, whose con­


by Vivien Meath


n ew E n v i r o n m e n t Agency, which opens on


April 1st. He said he had toured


stituency covers Nelson, Colne and West Craven, w a s s p e a k i n g in an adjournment debate. He said he was astonished th a t , as far as he was aware, the E ast Lanca­ shire Health Authority seemed to have made no serious attempt to collect data from GPs in the area. “ On e wo u l d h a v e


senior teams for pitches without changing facilities is £100 and junior teams are charged at half the s e n i o r r a t e at o t h er p i tch e s in th e Ribble


Valley. Counci l lor s fe l t the


situation where the Cubs were the only organisation to get free access was an anomaly. I t was pointed out th a t Cubs in Lon gridge were already pay ing Tor facilities. It was agreed that charges of £50 per pitch per year should be introduced to contrib­ ute to the cost of pitch marking and maintenance.


the Ribblesdale works during what was his first visit to a cement plant and had raised not only his own concerns but those of his Pendle constituents and of people in Clitheroe who had been in touch with him. Ribble Valley’s MP, Mr


thought that it would have been simple to contact GPs and ask them about the number of prescriptions for inhalers and whether the incidence of asthma had increased,” said Mr Prentice. Residents were crying out for "someone in authority, someone with r e s p o n s ib i l i ty — th e Government, or one of the other public bodies — to


Nigel Evans, criticised Her Majesty’s Inspec­ torate of Pollution over its handling of the whole issue of Cemfiiel being burnt at the Castle Cement plant. He reiterated his opposi­ tion to the plant becoming a waste incineration unit and reaffirmed his support for the local environment. ‘‘I would welcome a


debate. The P a r l iam e n ta ry


commission a study on the alleged effects on health." Describing Cemfuel as a


real witches’ brew, he said that what was happening in the nation’s cement kilns would, he believed, be the first real test of the


driven by Mr Chris Fla- t . t. ' . Vrv. to tl,e


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Our picture shows Lord .,|„0 toured West Bradtord Shuttleworth meeting Mrs


©Lord Shuttlcworth buiit wlth the


help of a grant from the commission. He was wel­


comed by the chairman of


the village hall and playing f ields committee, Mr David Sharp, and said he was “highly impressed" by the building and lacihlies.


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to task by the Ribble Valley MP, Mr Nigel Evans, who accused Mr Prentice PROTOCOL reared its head durin


a heated adjournment debate in th le Hou


and limits, adding that it was not an easy subject, but “it is important. I hope th a t, in the short time allowed to me, I have been able to convince the House of the priority th a t the Government attaches to having an overall, proper national system of regula­ tion and to the specific problems of the Castle Cement plant in Clitheroe. The Government is deter­ mined to achieve a satis­ factory environmental s o l u t i o n t o all t h e problems.”


a f te r th e d e b a te , Mr Evans said that “the area


In a statement released


must be cleaned up.” “The whole issue of


plume-grounding must be resolved a lot sooner than the given December dead­


line/’ he said. He asked why i t was


fuller health analysis of the impact of the burning


of Cemfuel and plume­ grounding,” he told the


Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Mr James Clappison, outlined the Government’s policy and system of regulation with regard to cement works, before referring to the burning of Cemfuel. He described its history


of Cemfuel could not be revealed and called on the company to release them. His concern for the


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of “gross misconduct and a gross infringement of eti-


S The subject was raised by Pendle MP Mr Gordon Prentice, who m taken f Commons over Castle Cement’s buring of Cemfuel.


uette” by the very fact lat the debate was taking place.


the Hon. Member for Pen­ dle believes that he can simply drop me a line to say that I would be able to sneak if I so wished in a debate on the subject of a cement kiln in my constit­ uency, affecting my con­ stituents, he has another thing coming.”


Mr Evans continued: “If


neighbouring MP of play­ Cing politics in the issue of


Mr Evans accused the


criticised by the Burnley MP, Mr Peter Pike, for visiting the Burnley consi- tuency to look at Padiham power station and com­ menting, without proper notification.


emfuel and was himself that the exact ingredients Advertiser and Times that Mr Prentice told the


health of his constituents and the local environment


had, he said, led to his opposing Castle Cement’s initial plan for a large


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u a r ry across the road rom th e R ib b le sd a le


will be more environmen­ t a l l y f r i e n d l y , ” he concluded.


Praise for village


THE success of a 15 strong Gislnirn firm has impressed the chairman of the Rural Development Commission. Lord S h u t l l ewo r t h


initiative


visited Phoenix Embroi­ dery, in Mill Lane, during a Lour of commission-sup­ ported initiatives in the Lancashire rural devel­ opment area, and was full of praise for the way the f i rm had created job opporLuniLcs in a small


villago. Lord Slinttloworth said:


“ I was in te re s te d to see th e Iiigli-I|iudity work done by a relatively small work­ force in ipiite a remote vil­ l a g e . .1 o i is a r e b e in g c rea ted in the village and th a t is im po r tan t.” Us ing computer ised


works. “I hope that any future plans of this nature


he had no wish to be the “ surrogate MP for the Rib bl e Va l l e y . ” His interest in the issue of Cemfuel was, he said, due to his constituency being that next door and his own interest in environmental matters. Mr Prentice is chairman of the Parlia­ mentary Labour Party’s Environmental Commi­


ttee. The issue, he said, was


not ju s t about Castle


Cement, but about getting rid of hazardous waste across the country. “I t was natural that I should take an interest in it,” he


raised the ma tte r in a Ho u s e of Commo n s ’ a d j o u r nme n t d e b a t e because he was still await­ ing th e Government’s response to the Environ­ ment Select Committee’s report on the burning of secondary liquid fuels in


stated. He described how he


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