^Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified)
Ratepayers face bill for young hooligans
W R E C K IN G sprees
. by school-age vandals i are costing Ribble Val- . ley ratepayers dear and ’ need to be curbed now. 1; According to borough • council engineering man ager Mr Graham Jagger,
' anyone who witnesses an act of vandalism must report it.
"' He is facing an escalating clear-up bill for repeated
'■ attacks on public toilets in ‘ Clitheroe, Ribchester and Newton and now has a fur-
1 ther £1,000 to find to right 1 damage from an assault last Friday night on the grounds of Clitheroe Castle. It is believed teenage tearaways were responsible
for smashing a "memorial"
wooden bench, taking up diverts to destroy the sur face of the bowling green, breaking lights and throw ing litter and glass beer bot tles to leave behind a scene of devastation. This followed just a week
on from another night of vandalism in the park, when the doors to the all- weather pitch changing rooms, built underneath the castle cafe, were rammed to cause £500 worth of dam age.
Said Mr Jagger: "Rather
than paying out money to improve our environment, we are having to fund repairs. In a sense, this is a double cost to local resi dents, whose money it is. In
paying for the repairs, they
are losing out on new and improved attractions and
facilities." He added: "It is our
understanding that much of this damage is by young people as it always seems to increase when schools are on holiday. While we are stepping up our monitoring efforts, we cannot be every where and I would appeal for anyone who does see anything to report it to either ourselves or Clitheroe
police." Clitheroe police can be
contacted on 01200 443344, while Mr Jagger can be telephoned at Ribble Valley Borough Council on 01200 452523.
Villagers turn their hands to Knitters
LOGGING is the lat est initiative to be tack led by a Ribble Valley
wood-cutting to raise funds jtake up the cause!
New trees are to be
church to raise funds. ■ Enterprising parishioners of St Bartholomew's, Tos- side, turned wood-cutters
i to fell four churchyard itrees, all of which were either diseased or damaged. Now they have chopped
the trunks and branches to make bundles of firewood,
• which are on sale, with • 'profits going to church cof fers.
planted next year, when the church council also hopes to launch a programme of regeneration for Plantation Wood. The small wooded area in
Longton Lane is on land belonging to the church. It is currently being surveyed by a specialist woodland agency, Yorwood, which will report on maintenance projects designed to safe guard the wood for future generations.
Tiny school’s future still hangs in the balance
•THE threat of closure still hangs over one of the small
est schools in the Ribble Valley. The governors of Gisburn Forest Primary School, Tos
side, have expressed serious concerns over Lancashire County Council plans to cut the funding available for
. teaching staff.
The tiny Tosside school, which has only nine pupils at present, and recently received a positive Ofsted report, "currently receives an estimated £9,781 per child, com-
. . . .
‘ pared to £1,476 at schools with more than 45 pupils, under a costing formula where smaller schools receive higher
' ' But, in accordance with the new Fair Funding arrange ments, the formula could be amended for schools with less than 26 pupils, which would lead to a reduction in fund- ' mg for the Tosside school by £13,200 per year, and a cut in
"pay-outs per pupil. .
the number of teaching staff from two to one. At present, the two members of the teaching staff cur rently employed have to deliver an 11-subject National " Curriculum, at two Key Stages, to children ranging in age
" from four to 11 and to all ranges of ability." • " The nearest Lancashire schools to Tosside are Bolton- by-Bowland CE Aided Primary School, Brennands Endowed Primary School and Gisburn County Primary
School, which are not easy to access.
_ . in a bid to determine whether the new formula change will be implemented, members of Lancashire County Council’s Schools and General Purposes Sub-committee
this week agreed to further consultations. Waiting lists slashed
WAITING lists at hospi tals serving the Ribble Val ley have been slashed, despite unprecedented win ter pressures, say NHS
chiefs. The figures for January
show that the number of people waiting for treat-
, ment at Blackburn, Hynd- burn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust hospitals fell by 115 to 5,583, in just one
•month alone. ■' In the North-West as a
'whole, the lists fell by '14,200 to the lowest list
position for nearly two
years. A spokesman for the
NHS said: "The January reductions are all the more impressive because they were achieved at a time when hospitals were having to cope with an unprece dented increase in emer gency admissions, as the biggest epidemic of viral ill ness in living memory swept the region. "The figures are a fantas
tic tribute to the commit ment and dedication of NHS staff at all levels."
Help on hand for parents PARENTS having to cope with children diagnosed
iwith Attention Deficient Disorder, better known as hyperactivity, now have their own local support group,
i Providing respite, advice and a diary of talks by med ical professionals on the condition, ELadd (the East Lan cashire Attention Deficient Disorder group) is to host a
:meeting at Peel Street Baptist Church, Accrington, on -Wednesday at 7-30 p.m.
. The meeting is also open to other carers, including
i For further information, telephone Mrs Jean Wadding- ’ton on 01254 236977 or Mrs Debbie Holgate on 012o4
823858. ‘Come and join us’
SENIOR citizens in search of something to do could find what they want at the Pendle Club in Clitheroe, said spokesperson Mrs Connie Bishop. In a "come-and-join-us" ety of interests."
appeal this week, she
| declared: "It is a friendly, active club offering a vari-
Our kindly readers rally round to help local charity
A special music and
magic evening has been planned for March 19th at the club at Lowergate, and this year it is hoped to start line dancing. Mrs Bishop added: "Why not come along and
give it a whirl?" The activities include:
dancing four nights a week; snooker with a competing team every night; active solo and bridge groups weekly; lectures and social gatherings on Thursday afternoons in the winter; coach trips and dancing at the weekends in the spring and summer; coffee morn ings; jumble sales; and cheese and wine evenings.
Floods havoc
(READERS of the Advertiser and Times jyvere quick to show their generosity to
• help a local charity. 5 Following an appeal by Mr John Bai- dey, chairman of the Clitheroe and Rib- jble Valley MS Society, for help in rais- iing funds towards a new minibus, a rapid •response was received from the Royal
(Forest Masonic Lodge, i; Members presented Mr Bailey with a
cheque for £250, which will be added to the minibus fund. It currently stands at £14,000, some £6,000 short of target. Mr Bailey, who is a willing would-be
guest speaker on MS and the society's work, can be contacted on 01200 424467. Pictured are members of the Royal
Forest Lodge presenting the cheque to Mr Bailey. (280299/07/05)
THE heavy rain caused havoc in Chipping on Tuesday with several vehi cles unable to get through the flooded roads. At least three cars had
to be pulled out of the river-like puddles at the Longridge side of the vil lage, and one of the local primary schools sent all its pupils home as a result of the bad weather.
KNITTERS from the Rib ble Valley have taken up the thread from the Women's Royal Voluntary Service by contributing over 80 balls of wool towards the world's longest scarf. As the Clitheroe Adver
tiser and Times reported three weeks ago, Ribble Val ley WRVS appealed for nee dle-clickers to help the national organisation's bid to knit a 23-mile long whopper of a neck-warmer. The record feat will end
with the scarf being cut up into blankets for people in need all over the world. Collection receptacles
have been placed in the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times office and at Booth's supermarket in Clitheroe. They will be at both sites
for one more week only, and while the organisation is grateful for the material its members have already received, more contribu tions would be welcome. The guidelines are: size
eight needles, double knit ting wool, 66 stitches, garter stitch only (no purl) in 5ft lengths (stitched together if more than one).
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MAGISTRATES have fined a Rib ble Valley man £2,000 for polluting
Mellor Brook with diesel oil. Stuart Taylor, trading as Stuart Tay
lor Transport, was also ordered to pay £974.02 costs to the Environment Agency, which brought the prosecution. Blackburn magistrates heard how the
agency received a report of oil on Mellor Brook on June 10th last year. An officer investigated and found the brook cov ered with a layer of oil, which smelt like
diesel fuel. The court was told how the source of the
oil was traced upstream to a highway drain, designed to carry only clean rainwa ter and then to the premises of Stuart Tay lor Transport on Myerscough Smithy
Lane. Miss Liz Bowen, prosecuting for the
Environment Agency, told magistrates that a diesel pump in the company's yard had been demolished and diesel oil was found nearby. Mr Taylor explained to agency officers that a lorry turning in the yard had demolished the pump and caused oil to start spilling on to the yard. The court was told that an estimated
200 gallons of diesel oil had escaped into the site drains and then into Mellor Brook. Magistrates heard that oil was found on
the brook downstream of Stuart Taylor Transport's premises at Balderstone
Bridge. The court was told that the company
was ordered to bring in a specialist con tractor to carry out a clean up operation on
the brook. Barnardos
A BUZZ of activity at Read CE Primary School resulted in a £1,000 b o o st for
Barnardos. Young pupils asked
friends and relatives to sponsor them to find as many "bees" as possible in a picture and as many words starting with the letter "b" as they could. The junior school
pupils' task was to answer history questions about the Victorians. The final total raised
was £1,000.92 and during assembly a representative of the charity thanked the children for their hard work and the sponsors for their generosity. Our picture shows Cyn
thia Schofield, from Barnardos, presenting a certificate to school pupils Stephanie Grainger (10) and Adam Sharpley. (020399/16/7)
Dennis and Barbara would like to thank all
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