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I WO U LD just like to take this opportunity to say thank you to the people who supported the Liberal Democrats in the Gen eral and county elections last week. Although I am very dis­


Thanks to aii w^en will your newspaper challenge company to prove Cemfuel is safe?


w h o w o r k e d f o r m e


appointed that we did not take the parliamentary seat, I am pleased that we held our two county divi­ sions and that Labour remained firmly in third place. I trust tneir candi­ date enjoyed working for Nigel Evans. ■ I want to thank all the


TH E R E was a time, not too long ago, when I s tou t ly defended your impartiality. It is still the case that you afford space to letters and comment from i n d i v i d u a l s and RATS/Air Watch, but, after your article on the Knox report into childhood cancers on


May 1st, N.O MORE! Once again, you have allowed Castle' Cement’s


people who worked to try to win the seat; my agent, leaflet writers, deliverers, canvassers, office staff, councillors and all who helped in many different ways. I would add further thanks to those who have been with me from previ­ ous campaigns, especially B ertha: Bradshaw, who. was my agent in 1983 and 1987. My proudest moment


was in March, 1991, when R ib b le V a l le y peop le elected me to Parliament at the by-election and got rid of the poll tax.' That is a piece of political history that our people made. Thank you again and


good luck. MICHAEL CARR.


Philips Road, Weir, Bacup.


e v e r -r e a d y p u b l ic ity machine to move into gear, rubbishing Knox with their “experts” with­ out giving the full story. Let me pose YOU a few


questions:- 1. Have YOU read the


report, because if you had you would have seen that its findings were in pre- “Cemfuel” days; in other words, it was highly dan­ gerous'when COAL was the fu e l . Is that not crucial? 2. You would have


noticed that the manufac­ turers o f solvents, also factories making bitumen products, were HIGH in the cancer-causing pecking order. And what is “Cem­ fuel” but solvents, and what does Tarmac use but bitumen? And for that matter, what does ICI make but chemicals? 3. A flip through Knox’s


“ airborne drift” would


have told you that he did not consider this to be a factor, BUT he did take in to a c cou n t p lum e ­


grounding, which we all know canNOT be eradi­


cated here and which has the effect o f concentrating pollutants. Is THIS not


relevant? 4. Did you seek the


views of the members^ of the local medical practice: do THEY have a copy of the report? Is there one in the library? Do YOU have one?


5. Why, if the Health , ,


Authority has known that a "proper survey of health issues was needed", as it has for five years, did you not ask them what bids for funds they have made, in that five years? 6. Why, when you claim


to represent the people of Ribble Valley, have you not asked Prof. Knox for HIS comments, because an idiot could spot that we have a veritable nest o f those industries which figure so prominently in his findings? Or Prof. Con- nett, who condemned the site as TOTALLY unsuit­ able in the video shown to councillors at their “special


meeting^’? 7. Rather than always


quoting Castle Cement’s bank of negative experts, when will you challenge the firm to PROVE that


“Cemfuel” is safe, because to simply state that “ no study has found against our emissions” as they


continually do, is abso­ lutely meaningless, when N ON E H A S B E E N DONE! When will Castle C em en t p r o d u c e the “ e x p e r t s ” who have PROVEN “Cemfuel” safe? 8. And lastly, will you


be f o l low in g up Mr’ Edwards’s question to Castle Cement (May 1st) about their insurance against health claims? ' Will you simply continue to help Castle Cement to rubbish everything which might sa fe gu a rd our health, or will you do what any reputable journal SHOULD do, investigate properly, and THEN pres­ ent a balanced view? As they said when I


were a lad, some hopes! I bet you daren’t print


THIS! J. D. MORTIMER, Green Drive, Clitheroe.


Tim Procter, who wrote last week’s story, com­ ments: Of course we dare print the letter! The Clith­ eroe Advertiser and Times certainly claims to repre­ sent the people of the Rib­


ble Valley and plans to retain its ability to go on


doing so. This rules out making technical, financial or insurance judgments or


I feel terribly betrayed by party


CONGRATULATIONS to Nigel Evans and his agent, Marcus Johnstone, on their victory


in the General Election. A startling statement you may think, but let me


explain. A few weeks before the election, the Labour candi­


date, Mr Johnstone, admitted to a meeting of party members in Clitheroe that he had no chance of winning the seat in the Ribble Valley and he had no intention of • giving up his day job. When he was challenged at the meeting to stand down and leave the way open for a candidate who had a chance of giving the voters someone who could win the seat, namely Mr Can*, he refused to do so. Even when he was told that a. lot of Labour supporters tactically vote in the constitu­ ency, he still refused to stand down. So it can be of no surprise to him that, when you total the votes given to Labour and the Liberal Democrats, you get a


total that would have seen the Lib-Dem win the


^ I* wonder, when Mr Johnstone was canvassing for votes on the doorsteps, whether he was honest enough to tell the public what he had admitted in_ private. I am a member of the Labour party who feels ternb y betrayed by the antics of the party in the Ribble Valley; look what happened at the local elections when Bert Jones had the casting vote and voted the Tones back in power. You have to question the motives of the party when they do things like this. The bottom line is that it wasn’t as much the votes Nigel Evans got that won him the seat; no, it was the votes that Maicus Johnstone got that sealed it for him. Hence my open­


ing statement.


DAVE WYNNE, Billington Gardens, Billington.


Clitheroe now totally isolated


THE electorate of Clith- eroe-Ribble Valley deter­ mined its own fate on May 1st, when the individual electors,- contrary; to the.


regional trend, recon­ firmed their Tory ways and re-elected their Tory MP, together with their Tory county councillors, with the final indignity for me of choosing a Liberal Democrat to represent the Clitheroe county seat and putting the Labour Party in third place by one vote.


Well, as the Prime Min­


ister said on May 2nd: “When the curtain closes, you move off the stage.” It is my intention to now move o f f the Clitheroe local electoral stage. Whatever the regional and county Labour Party


invite me to do for the New Labour Party during the next four years, I shall consider the wider county


scene. -• •’ - • a v 1 Clitheroe is now totally


isolated, both nationally, regionally and locally and I will no longer be able to use my in f lu e n c e at County Hall to protect non-statutory or other ser­ vices that I have sup­ ported for the past eight years. The T o r ie s and the


Liberals will now have to deliver those services they claim the Ribble Valley would get anyway. We will now see who has had


the power. Clitheroe Skillshare,


subsidised transport ser­ vices, schools and homes.


for the elderly extensions, Clitheroe Youth and Com- munity Services, are now all in jeopardy. The contention o f the


L ib e r a l s , who h av e claimed that all these improvements in Clitheroe from the county council would have come anyway, can now be put to the test. County Coun. Sutcliffe


must now protect these services far better than the retiring county coun-. cillor, R. Howel Jones. All the rail services pro­


vided with my assistance as Cl ithe ro e ’ s Labour county councillor must now be exposed to the tiny Liberal representation at County Hall.


Hall can only protest with RON PICKUP. The Liberals at County


John made an associate of local law firm


A ' FORMER pupil of Ribb- lesdale High School, Clith­ eroe, has been made an asso­ ciate of local law firm Forbes and Partners.


Clitheroe-born solicitor Mr John Bennett (pictured) began his


career with Forbes and Partners 14 years ago and the company supported him through several years of part-time studying for his law degree at the University of Central Lancashire and Legal Practice Course. He is based at the Cannon Street branch of Forbes in Accrington, handling


personal injury claims. • “The status is generally given in


recognition of a person’s commit­ ment and' dedication to the firm


and to its clients, so it’s quite


an accolade," explained Mr Ben­ nett. “ It doesn’t change the work we do as lawyers, but it does mean


getting more involved in the man­ agement of the firm as well.”


Two of his colleagues have also


been made associates, Mrs Helen W o r d e n and Mr R u s s e l l Blackhurst.


Mrs Worden, who also gra­


duated from the University of Central Lancashire, specialises in family law at the Northgate office, Blackburn, and Mr Blackhurst, a keen amateur portrait photogra­ pher, is a member of Forbes’ cor­ porate insurance team. The com­ pany employs 180 staff at seven offices.


an even smaller group of voices and it will be for a Labour county council to assess which priorities


should come first. I wish to thank all those


people of Clitheroe who trusted me with their vote on Thursday and I wish them well for the future. I offer my continued sup­ port when I can.


I need to move on to I


offer my services to other parts o f Lancashire to ensure that the people of North-East Lancashire secure their share of a new prosperity that a new Labour Government is committed to deliver and a new Lancashire County Council has the determina-1 tion to implement.


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allegations outside our scope, which could involve us in legal problems and ev en c o n s t r a in t s on


reporting. Nor do we want to lose


credibility by going round asking distant professors questions which could not p o s s ib ly have proper answers without detailed, i and e x p en s iv e , lo ca l


research. Part of Clitheroe cer­


tainly has a veritable nest of industries which figure


prominent ly in P ro f. Knox’s report — a matter entirely for the relevant’ statutory authorities. We will carry on reporting their actions and prompt­ ing them where we think justified, hence our fax to the health authority this week reflecting local con­ cern. But the authority has problems of its own, with many calls on cash and staff resources from


half a million people. Castle Cement, which,


as reported elsewhere, is being taken to court over


its emissions, does not have the “bank” of experts


mentioned by Mr Hamil­ ton. The ones we quoted last week were indepen­ dent and have nothing to


do with the firm. Nor does Castle Cement have to


prove anything about Cemfuel, as its use has


been approved. Companies have rights;


just as much as people, and at least the “publicity machine” g iv e s some answers and broadens the discussion base. If there is too much slugging and punching from critics, whose time may be better spent pushing authority for proper research, Cas­ tle Cement could decide to put up the “no comment” shutters. That would help no one, except itself.


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