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Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) Thanks to all
who worked for me
I WOULD just like to take this opportunity to say thank you to the. people who supported the Liberal Democrats in the General and
county elections last week. Although I am very dis
appointed that we did not s take the parliamentary
held our two county divi sions and th a t Labour remained firmly in third place. L trust their candi
eat, I am pleased that we
date enjoyed working for Nigel Evans. I want to thank all the
Letters
When will your newspaper challenge company to prove Cemfuel is safe?
THERE was a time, not too long ago, when I stout 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
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
Ber.tha Bradshaw, who was my agent in 1983 and 1987.
allowed Castle Cement’s ev e r - re ad y publicity machine to move into gear, rubbishing Knox with their “experts” with out giving the full story. Let me pose YOU a few
May 1st, NO MORE! Once again, you have
questions:- 1. Have YOU read the
was in March, 1991, when Ribble Valley people 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
My proudest moment good luck.
MICHAEL CARR. Philips Road, Weir, Bacup.
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 fuel. Is th a t not crucial? 2. You would have
“airborne drift” would have told you that he did not consider this to be a factor, BUT he did take into account plume grounding, which we all know canNOT be eradi tcated here and which has
“Cemfuel” is safe, because to simply state that “no study has found against our emissions” as they
pollutants. Is THIS not relevant? 4. Did you seek the
he effect of concentrating
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
allegations outside our scope, which could involve
continually do, is abso lutely meaningless, when NONE HAS BEEN DONE! When will Castle Cement produce the “ e x p e r ts ” who have PROVEN “Cemfuel” safe? 8. And lastly, will you
half a million people. Castle Cement, which,
us in legal problems and even c o n s tra in ts on reporting. Nor do we want to lose
credibility by going round asking distant professors questions which could not possibly have proper answers without detailed,! and expensive, local
be following up Mr' Edwards’s question to Castle Cement (May 1st) about their insurance against health claims?
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 help Castle Cement to rubbish everything which might safeguard 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
Will you simply continue
noticed that the manufac turers of 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
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 of 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
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
quoting Castle Cement’s bank of negative experts, when will you challenge the firm to PROVE that
ble Valley and plans to retain its ability to go on
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.
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 \vay open for a candidate who had a chance of giving the voters
A few weeks before the election, the Labour candi .
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 foi
votes on the doorsteps, whether he was honest enough to tell the public what he had admitted in private. l 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 Marcus Johnstone got that sealed it for him. Hence my open
ing statement.
DAVE WYNNE, Billington Gardens, Billington.
Clitheroe now totally isolated
: is ter said on May 2nd: “When the curtain closes,
• in third place by one vote. Well, as the Prime Min-
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
. is my intention to now move off the Clitheroe
you move off the stage.” It
local electoral stage. Whatever the regional
and county Labour Party consider .the wider. county
invite me to do for the New Labour Party during the next four years, I shall
scene. Clitheroe is now totally
isolated, both nationally, regionally and locally and I will no longer be able to use my in f luence at County Hall to protect non-statutory or other ser vices that I have sup ported for the past eight years. The Tories and the
all in jeopardy. The contention of the
for the elderly extensions, Clitheroe Youth and Com munity Services, are now
L ib e ra ls , who have claimed tha t all these improvements in Clitheroe from the county council would have come anyway, can now be put to the test. County Coun. Sutcliffe
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.
subsidised transport ser vices, schools and homes.
Clitheroe Skillshare,
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
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people of Clitheroe who trusted me with their vote on Thursday and I wish them well for the future. I offer my continued sup
must now protect these services far better than the retiring county coun-. cillor, R. Howel Jones. All the rail services pro
■ county councillor must now be exposed to the tiny Liberal representation at County Hall.
vided with my assistance as Clitheroe’s Labour
i. Hall can only protest with RON PICKUP. The Liberals at County
John made an associate o f lo ca l 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.
Bennett (pictured) began his career with Forbes and Partneis 14 years ago and the company supported him through seveial years of part-time studying for his law degree at the University of Central Lancashire and Legal Practice Course. He is based at
Clitheroe-born solicitor Mr John
the Cannon S tre et branc}j. °[ Forbes in Accrington, handling
personal injury claims. “The status is generally given in
recognition of a person s commit ment and dedication to the fiim
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.”
been made associates, Mrs Helen Worden and Mr Ru s s e l l
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
Blackhurst. Mrs Worden, who also gra
offices. Two of his colleagues have also
port when I can. I need to move on to
offer my services to other parts of 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 tion to implement.
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tainly has a veritable nest of industries which figure prominently in Prof. 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
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,
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