Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Class...-.., Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, March 25th, 1999


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Letters to the Editor | Write to: The Editor, Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroe BB72EW Bowing down


to Mammon? I AM sick of Sainsbury's even before the store is open. I know that in this material age


we must all bow down to Mam­ mon, but does that also include the relevant authorities, who con­ trol our highways? It seems to me that Sainsbury's


has been allowed to do whatever it wants with the roads around its site, causing numerous delays and


hazards. Could its wonderful project


managers not have done some of this work at weekends? I suppose not, as after all the cock-ups, March 30th is sacred. And Sainsbury's does have the blessing of Tony Blair so all must


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J. S. KENT, Fairfield Close, Clithcroc.


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challenged THE recent letters from Mr R. Parker raise several issues which must be challenged. First, let me declare an interest


I - I attended CRGS seven years | after him and have business inter­ ests in the leisure industry. Now to the inaccuracies. Mr Parker says th a t "Italy


overtook us in the Thatcher years." Not so. The statistics to which Mr Parker referred includ­ ed a 25 per cent loading to take account of Italy's "black econo­ my" so admired by Mr Parker. The Italian Government, without


I publicity, quickly retracted the figures. Mr Parker says that "Spain. . . is estimated to overtake us soon."


| The Spanish economy is heavily supported by EU grants, but still suffers from 20 per cent unem­ ployment. Not a success story. Mr Parker describes our coun­


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smuggling benefits the ultimate consumer. The market "on the street" for smuggled spirits is rela­ tively small. Smugglers make- bulk sales to business-customers who do not pass on the benefits to their own customers but who share the profit with the smuggler. | There are no Robin Hoods in this


try as "with one exception, the most impoverished country in Western Europe." Nevertheless, we are the record largest contribu­ tor to the EU budget, our pay­ ments being very considerably larger th a t those of I ta ly or Spain. Some impoverishment! I t is not true to imply th a t


trade! Mr Parker rightly objects to


the outrageous prices paid for drink in this country, but giving support to the criminal elements


| in our society is not the best way to resolve the problem. He places the blame squarely on excise duty and ignores the manner in which the breweries maintain the integrity of their inflated price lists by means of restrictive buy­ ing covenants in their trade loan


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and lease agreements. There may be many issues in


say dictum, "Mens Sana in cor-


our society to which one objects, but it is dangerous to encourage objectors to take the law into their own hands. Would Mr Park­ er's admiration extend, to illegal action by car owners protesting against the b la tan t ly an t i­ motorist policies of our local county and borough councils - or to illegal action by his fellow citi­ zens incensed by the Govern­ ment's lack of an effective immi­ gration policy? Surely not - where would it end? In his letter Mr Parker cites Mr


pore sano". Now, it seems, the essence is


computerised academic-ism to present with obsequious ingratia­ tion to visiting OFSTED bureau­ crats. Good for the "league tables”. One serious omission from my


initial letter. I mentioned my elder daughter and son had unequivocally preferred the more liberal, comprehensively embrac­ ing education offered at Black- bum College. Our third child was "miffed" the


Laurie Hardy as one of his mas­ ters. To the best of my knowl­ edge, CRGS has always taught honesty, ethics, responsibility and respect for the rule of law. I am sure it was not,Mr Hardy who provides Mr Parker with his alter­ native viewpoint. Turning to Mr Parker's rejec­


tion of school uniform, it seems very sad that an old boy should deny his children the value of a. CRGS education oh sucli narrow grounds. I don't suppose he liked wearing the uniform any more than I did, but in life we soon learn to do things we don't always like. In practice, the issue today is not really very relevant. Some of the CRGS pupils one sees nowa­ days wear their uniform in a slovenly manner which would never have been tolerated when Mr Parker and I were at school. Let them be grateful for the flexi­ bility which they now enjoy, not be critical.


R.I. SNOWDEN,


Claremont Avenue, Clitheroe.


Thank you for


all this space IT is gratifying you offer so much space to those of us who recall not only with nostalgia b u t with appreciation the all-round educa­ tion offered by Clitheroe Royal Grammar School when Lawrence Hardy was headmaster. I could not include everything


and everybody in one letter. I was so happy to see a correspondent had made reference to Harry McTear. I t is an aside, but not an irrelevant one, to Dick Bleazard, who patrolled and controlled the corridors and classrooms. There were characters in those days. But, please, my reference to the contents of Eric Allen's letter. I


had not .known that there are now large shutters across the front of the pavilion.' Tread this with dis-


belief and shock. 'I do not'subscribe to the dubi­


ous axiom "wars are won on the playing fields of Eton", but I do know characters, personalities and comradeship were formed and developed on’the playing fields of High Moor. And this is no longer


so. I was brought up to under­ '


stand, from my mother, th a t Clitheroe had been founded on the three "L's" - lime, Latin and


law. Latin is going out of fashion,


but I presume the CRGS motto, "In Saxo Condita", still exists. And there used to be another everyday Latin cliche, or should I


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obvious reason. In the wild, albino birds are at


ington before the turning into


a disadvantage and short-lived, mainly because their greater con­ spicuousness makes them more liable to predation. In addition^ lack of pigment weakens feather ( structure causing them to weaCk. more quickly. This particularly!, affects the flight feathers and may^ impair mobility. Lack of,pigment .y, also effects the'retina ofltlie eye ' leading to impaired vision in bright light.


letter had not mentioned that she also had automatically chosen Blackburn College because of the positive and successful experi­ ences of her elder sister and broth­ er there.


ROBIN PARKER, St Chad's Avenue, Chatburn.


Oxbridge success


decades ago WHILE congratulating Clitheroe Royal Grammar School on its success in the Oxbridge entry stakes, I would like to mention the unusual success of the 1945 sixth form. I doubt if the form entered


more than 15 at the most and yet it secured seven Oxbridge places. I t was also a time when Oxford and Cambridge were the pre­ serves of the public schools. The largest Cambridge college admit­ ted only five per cent from gram­ mar schools that year! I can't vouch for Laurie Hardy's


pride in the fact, but he was very keen th a t we should form a Clitheroe-Cambridge Society, including the undergraduates from other years, whose entries had been delayed by war service. As he assured us, we could then "invite distinguished speakers!" I'm afraid we had other things on our minds, but he took an interest in our progress and wrote to us personally.


DR HARRY BRIERLEY, Sycamore View, Upper Poppleton, York.


Albino birds


in the wild THE pure white cock pheasant seen in the Hurst Green area is almost certainly an albino. A true albino lacks all body pig-


mentymd therefore the colour of theiblood shows .through the bare


parts, resulting in red' eyes and pale pink bill and legs. Very occa­ sionally a bird wilLhave-white feathers, but normally coloured


bare parts. I personally have not seen an


albino pheasant, though melanis- tic ones with extra pigment are reasonably common. There have been at least four albino carrion crows in the area in the past few years and an albino black-headed gull was at Stocks Reservoir last summer. A jackdaw with some white feathers is currently in the Turner Street area of Clitheroe. Members of the thrush family seem prone to this par tial albinism and this is particularly noticeable in blackbirds for an


Dairy farmer organises a walk round premises for colleagues


WHALLEY dairy farmer Colin Middleton has done his best to blow a breath of fresh air into the lives of local counterparts - quite


literally. Mr Middleton, a cus­


tomer of Barclays Bank for many years, hosted a "farm walk" at his home at Little Mitton Hall Farm, at the suggestion of the bank's Skipton-based agricultural manager, Mr Peter Warbur-


1 ton. Around 20 local dairy


farmers took advantage of the invitation to walk around Mr Middleton's premises to hear how he organises his business and to exchange ideas with each


I other. Mr Middleton comment-


I ed: "Hosting an event for my bank manager and a group of fellow farmers was


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more demanding than the small groups of young farmers I am used to. How­ ever, the benefits to all con­ cerned more than made up


for it." Mr Warburton added:


"Our agricultural team understand how farmers can sometimes feel a little isolated. The idea behind the farm walks is to enable farmers to share their


knowledge and experiences with each other to enable them to establish best working practices. "There was no set agenda


for the day. It was an open forum, which proved to be a great learning experience." Mr Middleton is pictured


left with farmer Mr Derek Slater, who also held a farm walk at his premises.


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. Albinism is genetically con­ trolled and results when both par­ ent birds pass on a recessive allele. I t is not due to mutation. A single recessive allele may be carriedy but not shown, and it is therefore possible that two such "carriers" may mate and produce another white pheasant in the area. As birds and mammals keep a ,


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Station Road. I wonder if other readers have


.Elephants are


them.'. ’■ ':' Ti ‘ HANNAH PLATTS:! , ■; Station Road, ' T _ Rimiiiglon. ' V- .'\.V y „


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again in danger ON reading the disturbing news t h a t e l e p h a n t s in.-jihe. w i ld 'a r e


once again going tq^be subjected to "lawful" culling,‘I can,do no better than draw your attention to a very small section of Heath- cote Williams’s marvellous piece of prose, "Sacred Elephant".


constant body temperature, high j environmental temperatures will not cause mutations in them, ; although they may do so in cer­ tain micro-organisms. In any case, "global warming", which may be a normal long-term fluc­ tuation in the earth's climate, is insufficient to have this kind of effect.


ANTHONY COOPER, Regional Representative, British Trust for Ornithology.


Fantastic performance


I FEEL I must write after being privileged to attend the premiere of "Drop in the Ocean" at Rib- blesdale High School last week. What a truly fantastic perfor­


mance! From the acting and the


singing of the students to the words and music provided by the teachers - what a wealth of talent we have in our community! Congratulations to all involved


at Ribblesdale. I can’t wait for next year's production.


P. WARBURTON, Clitheroe.


My strange


experiences MY name is Hannah Platts and I am a 15-year-old student at St Augustine's High School, Billing- ton, and I live in Rimington. After reading the "Spooky


Story" in last week's Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, I thought I would tell you about two


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strange experiences I have had. On Christmas Eve last year, I


was travelling from Chatburn to Rimington about 8 p.m., when on the old bridge, I saw a strange pale-coloured figure in the road. I t seemed to almost float around before disappearing. At first, I wasn't too scared as I was unsure of what it was. But three weeks ago, I saw it again and I was scared and I froze on the spot. I later discovered that quite a


seen any of these very strange local ghosts or knoyv more about


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Rogue or game Elephants are mowed down


without discrimination In a viperous cull By the bureaucrats of ecology Who see fit to pass judgment


:on them for ruining their own landscape.


favoured baobabs since antiquity, Preferring the juicy core, rich in


Though elephants have felled ;


calcium, To rummaging through safari-


lodge dustbins. , The Nandi and the Masai


know the elephant As a survivor from an older


order, And defer to its seniority


RICHARD BENNETT Waddington Road, Clidieroe.


Loving the


amateur theatre IN a recent issue of the Advertis­ er and Times, I wrote about "The Stage” newspaper. I now have a


bit more to add. I am looking a t a headline


which says "NODA is 100 Years Old and Still Thriving in its Role as Champion of the UK's Ama­ teur Societies". On February 13th, 1899, a


In matters of land tenure. When will we ever learn?


group of amateur musical theatre actors met a t Manchester’s Grosvenor Hotel for the inaugura­ tion of a new association, which was destined to become the largest theatrical organisation in


the UK. The body was christened the


National Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Association. The group dropped the word amateur to give


the initials NODA. N O D A . protects and advances


the interests of its members-cur­ rently 2,300 amateur groups.


The day-to-day operation is


handled by a staff of eight and the body is totally self-financing. At its heart is that it works for all those in amateur theatre, regard­ less of their age or ability, whether they perform or are involved in technical or administrative roles. The unifying factor is tha t


few people in Rimington have seen the same thing. She is know locally as a old lady who was run over by a stagecoach many years


ago. I have also heard of a "legless" ghost on the road through Rim­


these people all love amateur the­ atre and it should be remembered th a t the word amateur comes from the Latin amo, meaning I


love.


EDMOND CAMBIEN, Bolland Prospect, Clilhcroc.


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