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County first as solicitors get mediation approval
TWO local solicitors have achieved a county first by being formally approved by the Legal Aid
Board to provide mediation. Irene Chenery-Baker and Carol Maher (pictured, with
the former on the left) are two of only three people m Lan cashire to gain the distinction, which means that a wider variety of services can be offered to separating couples. In addition, the firm of Irene Chenety-Baker & Co, is
the only solicitors' practice based solely in the Ribble Val ley which has a Legal Aid Board franchise in family law. Mrs Chenery-Baker said: "In many cases a mediator
can help couples make their own arrangements for their children and decide what to do about issues such as the house, maintenance and pension, which avoids the acri mony and expense of court proceedings.^ "However we recognise that mediation is not always appropriate and that many people need expert legal
I advice, which Carol and I can provide.
, Recruited by law firm .
I Bridge and Preston. _____________ r •
RIBBLE VALLEY solicitor Ms Nicola Phelps has been recruited by law firm Roscoes.
She will work between its offices m Blackburn, Bamber . . / .
, Ms Phelps (35) lives on the outskirts of Chaigley with
her husband, Anthony, also a lawyer, and their three chil dren.
t h o u g h t f o r t h e w e e k
I friend who surprised him by saying that he could, with the Lord's help, have quick relief
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from this condition. . In the ensuing conversation, his
friend said that in St John's gospel, ch 3 vs 1-16, even Nicodemus, a man learned in the scriptures and a member of the Jewish high council, | needed the advice the Lord gave
Christian minister who began to feel greatly depressed confided in a
him about being bom again. Expectantly the pastor, normal
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wisdom. "I feel sure that over the years,
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great joy, containing, as it did, so much encouragement and inspira tion to the recipient. The letter lightened the burden of the dis tressed pastor and inspired him to write letters of thankfulness to over 30 helpful friends. Counting their enthusiastic
replies as blessings the hitherto dis tressed one regained his normally cheerful attitude as he knew that
Jesus had chosen to minister to his
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his great goodness to you? Maybe it is now time to begin to
repay that debt of gratitude to the person who was so helpful to you in tlie past few days. Try writing your
. sincere thanks today. The helpful ness of a letter of appreciation knows no bounds. Blessings remembered and shared can become double blessings, i Joe Stnnsfield
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Getting to the facts by Jean Hayes
terbox clicks shut after our postman has slipped a few letters
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through the door. I am sure, unless of
course you are deeply in debt and dread more bills being delivered, that you
will agree with me. I t is because I wanted to
find out more about the postal service that I found myself driving along the A59 from Whalley to Clitheroe on a dark, cold morning at 4-30, with snow on the verges from the pre vious evening. I reported to Graham
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□ AS the Royal Mail re-iterates its message to post early for Christmas, Whalley resident Jean Hayes spent a day accompanying (below) Hurst Green postman Terry Pearce on his
rural round. This year is expected to be a bumper one, with an ,
anticipated 226.5 million cards and letters in the North Wales and North West division alone. The Preston and South Lakes operational area wil handle over 41.25 million items of mail, the second
haste - behind rural role of Royal Mail
highest in the North Wales and North West Division. Our area’s mail centre at Preston has recently ,
installed a new Integrated Mail Processor, part of a national £200 million investment, helping to sort let- |
ters and cards at the rate of 30,000 an hour. Staff at Royal Mail and Pnrcclfofce Worldwide are
fully prepared to handle the biggest Christmas post in history. This
involves.trains, road vehicles, high-tech equipment and, of course, the nation's 143,000 hard-j working postmen and women.
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Dalby, the delivery office manager, a t Chester Avenue, Clitheroe, at 5'a.m. The depot serves some 310 square miles, one of the largest areas in the country, with 13,500 delivery points, many of which are scat tered around the hills, cov ering beyond Stocks Reser voir to the north, Whalley Nab and Billington to the south, half-way along Lon- gridge Fell to the west and east to the edge of Barnoldswick. Graham directed me to
Terry Pearce, who has almost 25 years’ service with Royal Mail, and who was already busily sorting mail into the areas and houses on his round. He has very few "terraces," mainly farms and houses around Hurst Green and Stony- hurst. After, further sorting of another delivery from Preston, we set off in the van just after 7 a.m. We departed as the lady arrived to clean the now- empty
sorting office. Our first deliveries were
on : Kemple End, Terry r e v e r s i n g , e x p e r t l y , d o w n
tracks from one cottage to the next. The temperature
was around three degrees Centigrade and still quite
icy in places. There were several gates
to open and tracks of at least half-a-mile to negoti
ate.1 One of the farmers we met breeds Highland cattle which, he told us, were able to withstand the weather encountered near the top of Longridge Fell. They gazed at us through a gate with chickens running around in the yard. We came across sheep, ducks and a waste collection lorry blocking our way and eventually arrived at Stonyhurst College, turning a corner to see the imposing facade. Staff and pupils were arriving for another working week. The Hodder was rushing
along under Lower Hodder Bridge and Cromwell's Bridge..We. then headed
back to Hurst Green, mak ing deliveries to farms and houses that we might never see in the ordinary course of
events. About 10-15 a.m. we had
a short breakfast stop in the Eagle and Child's car park,
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with some welcome coffee as the temperature did not seem to be rising at alll The only "on foot" deliv
eries are in Hurst Green, where there are more ter races of houses, but also many little back corners and lanes. Some interesting names, reminiscent of past times in this historic area of the Ribble Valley, were Lambing Clough Lane, Weaver Cottage, Bailey Green Cottages, Quality Row, Stockbridge Cottages and Smithy Row. The piles of mail were
gradually disappearing as we headed in the direction of Longridge, with more lengthy farm tracks en-pas-
sant. Terry had-been surprised..
to find his school teacher had retired to a cottage on his round and he always has a pleasant word with her. He feels that, as a postman or woman becomes familiar
with their round, they often notice anything amiss, especially in rural areas. Many of the staff told me that Thursday is usually the busiest day of the week. Terry's job, and that of other postmen and women at Clitheroe, covers sorting, delivery and emp tying of various boxes en- route back to the office. When I see Graham, my postman, coming down the path, I now know what he has had to do to ensure his deliveries reach me. Of course, Christmas is
just around the corner and there were many red envelopes in the racks at the start of the second week in December. People were run-
.ning alter us to give,us little, piles'of Christmas cards to
take1— " It
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locally and a number travel to work by bicycle. I feel that one of the main advan
tages, especially at this time of the year, is that a post man or woman will arrive home with two or three hours of daylight remain ing, whereas people who begin work at the usual 8 a.m. or 9 a.m. arrive home in darkness. In fact, several employees told me that they are used to their early morning start and have a short rest in the afternoon, so that they are able to spend the evening with their family. Of course, on a nice spring or summer's day, when the sun rises early, Terry's round must be a totally different experience to a cold December day. I know that I would not enjoy rising at 4 a.m. each
. day,.but.,as.a.!one-of/.it-was " ‘an enjoyable, interesting
and informative experience. My thanks to Terry and Graham and all the very pleasant staff at Chester
Avenue, Clitheroe.
Rebecca dances into the news as reader of month
PIROUETTING Rebec ca Bentley rests her danc ing feet by settling down : with a good book - and now her la tes t read has
won her Clitheroe Library's Junior Reader of the Month award. A pupil a t Brookside
County Primary School, Rebecca (seven) read and reviewed an adventure from Sheila Lavelle's Ursula series, "Ursula a t the
Farm". Rebecca, of Hayhurst
Street, Clitheroe, saves her reading for between tap and ballet classes. She also enjoys swimming, painting and drawing, and is keen on helping baby -brother Christopher (two) get to grips with his first books. Below is an extract from Rebecca's prize review: "I love Ursula books and
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I would like to read more. Ursula went on a school trip to a farm and saw some cows and pigs and collected the hens' eggs. She goes with Ben the sheepdog to the hillside to collect the sheep and bring them in to
the barn to have their fallen into a gully and could babies.
not get back up again. “They went over the hill Ursula turned herself into a
and there was a mother bear to get i t out. The sheep, who would not come farmer was very, very
back because her lamb had pleased." Business Link post for Yvonne
A LOCAL woman has been named as one of four new directors appoint ed to the board of Business Link
East Lancashire. Mrs Yvonne Carter, who is managing
director and joint owner of Allcare Home Care Agency Ltd., which operates in asso ciation with Allcare Appetising Meals Ltd. and Allcare Nurses Agency Ltd, received notification of her new position following an extensive poll among the 1,700 members
of ELTEC and the Chamber of Commerce East Lancashire. Her past achievements include being a
heat entrant in Granada TV's Flying Start competition and she was also named as
runner-up in last year's East Lancashire Business in the Community Awards. She is currently undertaking an NVQ
Level 5 in Business Management and takes an interest in the Young Enterprise
scheme.
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