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MAY I, through your paper and as a mother and grandmother, ask the Rev. Arthur Siddall to clarify for whom the quote "Christian care, compas sion, prayers and sadness” were for, regarding the news story in last week’s Advertiser and Times?
Compassion and care for whom
(innocent or guilty) had a choice in life? Or for the poor, trusting little mites who had no choice, and who must suffer horren dous and almost unthink able terror and pain, and even death, at the' hands of the totally evil pro
Was it for an adult who
Illusion of fair play in politics shattered a long time ago
VIVIEN BRADFORD (let
ters, August 7th) accused me of a “spiteful personal attack” upon the Rev. P. W. Shep herd, without giving any evi
dence to prove her case. Mr Shepherd has accused me of
being many nasty things. I do not worry. They are false, but he has the democratic right to say them. But surely I have the right to be
concerned when I read what is going on in our country. Take the following three instances, the likes of which can probably be multi plied many times over.
ducers and users of child pornographic literature, photographs and film? What did Jesus say —
“Suffer little children to come unto me!” IDA BROWN Moor Lane, Clitheroe.
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I READ with interest your front page article in last week’s paper about the proposals for changes to the facilities at the sports complex in Edisford Road. While I am all for peqple being able to have a wide
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range of leisure activities available to them, I think it would be a good idea to use some of the space pro posed for outdoor tennis courts to provide a much- needed skateboard and in-line skate rink for the local children.
it were used for tennis, but, more importantly than money, it would provide a safe place for the children. At present they can only use the pavements and roads and accidents have already happened. Children’s lives are more important than making money.
!This probably wouldn’t make as much money as ll
LAURA BAILEY, Hazel Grove, Clitheroe.
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luxury flat in London is getting £600 a month in housing benefit. She also claims dole money and has not worked in the five years she has lived in Britain (The Express, March 5th, 1997).
A Russian shoplifter living in a
here from Brazil has cost this country an estimated £250,000
• • • » • » * . An illegal immigrant who came ,
(reported April 15th, 1997). He has boon given a flat in London for
which he receives housing benefit, on top of d isab ili ty living allowance of £115 a week. We are told he is considered to be too infectious to fly home because of his condition, which includes AIDS, secondary syphillis and TB. “Too infectious to fly home”, but not too infectious to be put in a flat in overcrowded London. The mind boggles! An 84-year-old ex SAS soldier
coward, so I’ll admit to being cau tious.
wing thugs who injured 200 police officers — including one black PC — during a so-called anti-racist demonstration.
the police of some of the 80 Left- .«nr0Driate use of traffic calming is to in ■ ---------------- ------------------ everyone use more fuel. The extraminoraca-
P Some time ago, the national i TOTALLY agree «-/w —
ress carried pictures issued by Lius p o l i c e u i a u n r c v i
My point is this. Discussion and debate are the fuel of political life,
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(The Express, July 16th, 1997) is said to be very sad because he is having to sell his medals to pay for a nursing home. A land fit for heroes! What a sick joke that has
become. In reply to Mr Shepherd, the
words “racist” and “racism” are used frequently in a perverted attempt to frighten the majority white population into keeping quiet on race and immigration subjects. He calls me a coward because I use a pseudonym. I served eight years in the army, full-time and part-time. I was called many things, but never a
PERHAPS the Rev. P. W. Shepherd writes what ^ (’oes^ . f 5® ^ a s n o t anyone ^ ^ d e l ib e ra te ly expected these days, instead of defending his own faith to his utmostbut itwasnot a yc^ e
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burn and demanding his death. So do not lecture us ab out to le ran c e , Mr Shepherd.
have their Islamic Studies Centre — on the same day that Mr Shepherd applies for, and gets, permission for a Christian Studies Centre in Islamabad.
By all means let them
D. W. BROWN, Highmoor Park, Clitheroc.
f o c iifViot. lio rlnps because he f66ls that it is Christians who were burning Salman Rushdie’s book on the streets ot Black seu out. lo e death
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appear to be delegated! to the employees and, as stated, only come before the committee if objected to by the electorate, where is the confidence required by the applicant?
As most applications S i « w i N e w —--- ' • ---- J50 units, tnen alter xne,
given to a councillor by his q?n nn;t;^ then afterthe precedence over those l u t i o n a n d m ak e rt^d they returned ;to The conclusion, ....
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electors and, as that coun: lbcal plan inspector had' given by the full counciL cillor is not represented in .
» iJOU units, biieu a u c i w l c , r ; — ■
after the event, retrospec tive rubber stamping will continue. The public, therefore, takes the same course, by example; build first and apply later.
over-loaded with applica tions, hold more meetings and expand the commit tee; !It is forgotten-that: the public delegates plan ning matters to the coun cil; it is not for the council to-shuffle that responsibil ity on to others, otherwise
If the committee is so nil io r m e mo u iiic a tiu ii . .
the decision process until nFt-nv fVto Avon!. rAtrnsnee- .
in q u iry . Then, upon planning matters .have rec eip t of the appeal much greater importance inspector’s report, they than the whole or the bor returned to 350 units plus ough council. Any person 50 extra for good measure, wishing to build, convert These decisions were or construct any property taken as nil for the full is perfectly entitled to con-
for the modification proved, is that officers m • m t .________ _ n lo r itiin
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the local plan of nil .will!^ c iv ic !p r id e in ; th e se have to be changed to 400,. mat ters.
by order of the Secretary . JOHNS. CHADWICK,.!,’ of State’s ruling upon'-the Moor Edge, ; ■■.V : .’
appeal report. Whalley.
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retrospective decision making is the Calder- stones affair. Housing and development figures for this site were given as nil at the local plan inquiry; A : few months later, at
A prime example of le aa. s vs m i l re IS IMP I11Q Tnontn - i .. -
theuc • . -In this example, the on to the A59. This change — ftlll
------ .•r ■. i ' .• would also cut traffic pol- everyone’s brake pads last
much longer. We have all been ripped off long enough. •
council and 350 for the sider that due process ■wm1W~nFqn~pi^npl"the- car employed officers. The 350 .planning isr deftned^and s with pvtra units only exists on paper.
Now the modification to ! Vo,There i s £ sad lack' of ’ stronger cars., If cars were ' m
, manufacturers, to, puna
stronger, the recent tragic double fatality at Sawley might not have happened.
G; PYE, C h a tb u rn .
Stonyhurst misses out on TV challenge
roundabouts, etc., but if the Government was sen-' ous about road safety it would introduce annual eye tests for all drivers. It
S a fe ty will be the excuse for keeping the
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why elect councillors at all?
planning b rief requiring Lime ligureswer oject, i .u
but, frankly, the British Left and their fellow travellers shattered my illusion of fair play in politics a
this letter see or hear a fair and -------- ---
papers and the majority of local newspapers like the Clitheroe. Advertiser and Times, this subject would have been swept conven iently under the proverbial carpet many years ago. Thank heavens for a free Press!
“DEMOCRAT” Except for a few national news- : . , . •;
Death traps could not have been designed better onjy logical reason I can see tor in
long time ago. When, if ever, did the reader of
balanced debate on immigration, with all its consequences, on TV or. radio?
alleged improvement to the A59 is a classic case of this approach to road design. Rough calculation shows that
repairs. The new £1.5 million
sumption of all through traffic using the new sec
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: roundabouts at Barrow are totally unsuitable for - the large number of lorries
; The congestion caused by the present roadworks will still be there after the cones have gone. The latest roundabout has only one lane through it, unless everyone drives a Nissan Micra. Both the new
tion of road will be dou bled over the original design.
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dents keen all the garages busy and, ?1 course, there’s ^ A T on all the extra servicing and
could have made a better job of it. Of course, the road designers can .hide behind th e p e rv e rs e m theory that making roads
dtraps for cyclists, it is oubtful whether they ■
ore dangerous makes them safer! Not very long
ago, Lancashire had some of the best, well-thought out new road designs in the country; now it has
some of the worst. An eastbound 38 tonne
lorry is likely to consume
an extra one litre of fuel by slowing or stopping, then accelerating to cross each of the new round abouts at Barrow. With current rates of excise
duty, this produces a gain to the central Government
of up to 40p per round about, or 80p extra than
the original road design. It would not be too bad if the extra revenue was used to ■ provide better services for the local community, or to reduce the council tax. The grant received by the local authorities is being cut in real terms,' even though they are sanction
ing and paying for road schemes which increase the total revenue paid to central Government. p It is time all the local
The council correctly used a nil figure, as the figures were subject _ to a ™
and g o t ,rid of all the wasteful and unnecessary, roundabouts and traffic islands. The two new roundabouts on the A59 could be replaced by part-
oliticians got together r , 5. further public representa- proper S^P. * , A
tion anil also approvals of give way turn for Clith- the borough council. So eroe .woukL prevent turn- much fo r p la n n in g mg traffic from obscuring democracy! ■
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the girls of St Anne’s School, St Annes. But the boys can have some conso lation, their opponents were anything up to two years older than them.
Its team was beaten by
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