Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial) 14 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, September 30th, 1999


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| Write to: The Editor, Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroe BB72EW) | Overwhelmed by


| get-well wishes THROUGH your columns, I would like to thank all the people who sent me get well wishes after my accident with the cow in July. I was both very heartened and overwhelmed by the response - it is great to know that so many fnends are


thinking of me. I was particularly touched to receive . . .


two mega-sized cards from Brookside School, which is on my normal delivery walk. Every child in the school had signed his or her name and had drawn a


picture for me. I am most grateful to all the children and their teachers. When the accident happened, I frac­


on a fake premise WHILE sympathising with the Rev. Atkinson's views on the Millennium cel­ ebrations, one must point out that they are entirely based on the fake premise that the Millennium represents the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of


Jesus Christ. It doesn't. The writer pays lip service


to the true facts by "allowing for a little historical inaccuracy." One should never do so. To be inaccurate is to mislead. Jesus Christ was born at the begin­


tured a bone in my back and lost all feel­ ing and movement from the waist down


as the spinal cord was affected. After an operation, the fracture is now set and after nine weeks in bed it has now healed. Unfortunately, I still feel noth­ ing below the waist, so it looks as though I shall be in a wheelchair from


nowon.


I am now busy learning how to do everything just using my arms and once I have mastered this I will be able to


, come home.


Valley Show 1 Would like to thank


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people who are very kindly taking turns to walk my dogs and I hope it will not be too long before I can take them out


I would like to especially thank all the . „ ., , „,,


myself. ALISTAIR JOHNSON,


Osborn One Ward,


The Spinal Unit, North General Hospital, Sheffield.


© see story on front page | Slowing the traffic


| can decrease safety I WRITE in response to several articles


we have seen in the press recently regarding more pressure on the


motorist.We are told that the speed limits are to be reduced and a tighter control on people caught exceeding them by use of


machines. Firstly, I am not against a review ol .


speed limits, if common sense were to be applied. Take a good example of the Chatburn Road area by the grammar school. There is a 40 m.p.h. limit on this road and when the pupils are moving around the area, 20 m.p.h. can be too


fast.


acceptable, and maybe at dead of night, 50 m.p.h. could be considered a safe speed. Should not a little discretion be allowed in driving? While it is against the law to exceed the designated speed limit, more emphasis should be put on the danger posed to the public, which could equally occur while still driving within the limit.


At other times of day, 40 m.p.n. is .. , .


offers no room for sensible judgement of road conditions by the bulk of motorists who drive sensibly within a reasonable margin either side of the limits, the Police, government ministers and MPs


The use of cameras is too clinical and . included.


the whole of the EU, and possibly the world, and to slow traffic down further we are approaching the point where the country will grind to a halt for very lit­ tle gain. I know this has been said many times before, but we would be better having less traffic police and more on true law and order in the areas of theft


We have the best accident record in .


and violence. I am all for alternative forms of trans­


port to the "one man and his car”, which should be avoided, but our alternatives are pretty abysmal, buses and trains irregular, expensive and never going to


the place you want to go. Most days I cycle to work and


applaud the work of Sustrans, plus local council and Government initiatives to promote safe cycling to school and work. However, I find it hard to find any sense


© Copies sent to Nigel Evans MP , _ „ „„


ning, not the end, of Year One. The 2,000th anniversary of his birth thus falls at the beginning of the Year 2001, not the beginning of the year 2000. The Millennium represents simply a change in the calendar and has no particular significance for the Christian religion. It is, therefore, entirely appropriate that it be a secular celebration. In a year's time, we will see the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ which should be a wholly religious festival, uncontaminated by government. This year let us render unto "phoney


God's.


R.I. SNOWDEN, Claremont Avenue, Clitheroe.


Thursday market is


not doing well I WOULD like to question the com-' ment in your newspaper of September 16th, that the Thursday market "is


doing well."


the market on a Thursday, the advan­ tage is that the Thursday market is not


On the occasions I have cause to visit .


doing well. There is space to park, even on adja­


cent streets. There is space to walk, space to contemplate the wares cabin holders have conscientiously displayed.


are only few and random customers. My sympathy is for the boredom of


There are few buyers - because there


the stall holders, waiting for custom that only occasionally comes. Yet it is they, the cabin holders, who


L e t t e r s to th e E d i to r Celebrations based


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tion. I t was real; is still real for those children of any age, race or creed who. are left to endure the thuggish nature of bullying inside or outside of school. For, it would be naive to say the least, that it stops inside the school gates, as what I've just described should emphasise. What I have just described has


What you have just read is not fic­


buying loyalty? It reminds me of stories of Victorian or feudal times, when everyone was beholden; body, mind and soul, to the man with the money and


the powerl • Makes you think, doesn t i t /


J. M. MORTIMER (Mrs), GreenDrive, Clitheroe.


stayed vivid in my mind for all those years and is only part of the nightmare tip of the.iceberg I endured at the hands


of bullying. I have felt compelled to write about it


because I have - as I am sure others have, too - recently watched a very well-made ITV dramatisation about the very same thing. After all these years, I still feel the


Message for a


effects of this. What happened to me was terrible and should never have hap­ pened. Although I now know why I was picked on with such savagery - oh, and by the way it wasn't just pupils, it was also teachers, too - purely because of my physical appearance, it does not make up for the years it has taken away


Tony" that which is Tony's. Next year, we can render unto God that which is


from me.As I write this letter, someone, some­ where will be going through the exact same torment I went through, and it is time that somebody stopped it, as it destroys far too many lives at the most important time in life. There are those naive enough to think the effects of bul­ lying stop when you leave school. They


do not.


these people now I just ignore them and life experience has taught me that I no longer have to fear them. Some have even gone on to criminal activities. "Understand them," I already hear


Oh, I am not bitter. If I .see any of „ , ,


flower pot thief HERE'S hoping the thief who stolethe purple flower pots from my front garden on Saturday night has stolen a copy of the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times as well - then they can read this letter. 1 have been ill for two years, I was in hos­ pital for six months and underwent another operation last week. My garden is my pride and joy and it gives pleasure to me and to children and the people who walk past my house. The pots only cost £4.99 each, but you do not know what you have cost me in pain and


anguish. BARRY CUNLIFFE, Stamford Place, Clitheroe.


Flooding problems in West Bradford too


HOW very interesting it was to read the letter headed: "County's utter failure on road flooding", concerning flooding out­ side three houses on Edisford Road. "Failure" in itself sounds both dis­


someone cry? If they want understand­ ing, then picking on a defenceless child who never did anything to them is sure­ ly the cruellest and wrong way to go bout it. I am angry, though, that I should have stood up to them better than I did and, maybe, things might have turned out differently. But my own opinion is, why should I have to, to


begin with? I would like to be able to say that bul­


have to incur the losses of investment, because there has been no response of


lying does stop when you leave school, but sadly I cannot. The stigma stays with you into adulthood and you can bet that somebody, somewhere will pick up on this and the whole cycle begins again. It is more insidious, calculating and malignant with adults, though. Ironically, I now am qualified to hon­


support for a Thursday market. Meanwhile, the stalls are empty, a


spectre of skeleton structures, with no


one to occupy them. I would welcome the enterprise to


invest £135,000 for an innovative "con­


servatory style roof." Meanwhile, I propose the money be more compassionately used to subsidise


the losses of cabin holders on Thursday, compelled to open under Ribhle Valley Borough Council dictates.


R. PARKER, St Chad's Avenue, Chatburn.


Price of bullying


too high to pay IT is home time from school and a young boy waits for the bus home. Standing alone, away from the main group of children for the bus, he is sud­ denly surrounded by a gang. Without warning, they begin spitting, shouting and then kicking and lashing out with


arms and legs.


out success; there are too many of them. I t lasts for several minutes, the boy's uniform dripping with filthy saliva. No one comes to help or stop it, despite it being in broad daylight and on a busy


The boy tries to defends himself with­ . ...


in slowing down traffic and making it unsafe by motorists spending more time looking at the speedometer than the road.


and John Prescott, Minister of Trans­ port. RICHARD DUGDALE,


Park Avenue, Clilheroc.


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begins crying until the vicious mob of schoolchildren start getting worse. It lasts several minutes more. The boy now lies on the ground, arms round his head in a futile attempt to shut out what is happening to him. Still no one comes. Suddenly, again without warning, the group disperses, walking away shouting and name calling of the most atrocious


Clitheroe street. The boy becomes distraught and


fashion.


bly shocked and unable to understand what he had done. He does not tell his parents because of the shame and fear of


The boy goes home on the bus terri­ , .


what will happen if he does. That was 16 years ago and the boy is


now a man of 31.______________________ -----------------------------------------------------------------------— — now a man of 31.


sor anybody or anything. Is it truly philanthropic, or is this a subtle way of


Stallholder Elsie is retiring after 51 years j A CLITHEROE market stallholder is retiring on Saturday, 51 years after „ . ,


| she first set up stall in the borough. Mrs Elsie Smith is one of selling drapery and carrj/


the market's longest-serving stallholders and has rarely missed trading on a Tues­


day or Saturday since she came to Clitheroe more than five decades ago. Before becoming a mar­


ket trader, Mrs Smith had worked alongside a friend of hers in a Blackburn shop


ing out alterations. The pair then decided to move into the markets and set up their first stall in Clitheroe, where Mrs Smith has worked ever since. Eventually trading alone,


Mrs Smith moved the busi­ ness into a brick cabin and then to her current location


£19.50 (J h iS j tM A S


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when the market was revamped in more recent


years. Mrs Smith, who has two


sons and three grandchil­ dren, remembers trading m the days when Clitheroe Cattle Mart was located at the market and the auction


was held there. Selling hosiery and ladies'


fashions, she has become a familiar face on the mat ket, not only in Clitheroe, but also on stalls in Preston, Leyland, Morecambe and Todmorden, where she trad­ ed until 1976, when her hus­ band, William, died. Since she started 51 years


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heartening and depressing. However, when "failure" is prefixed by the adjec­ tive "utter”, then that failure becomes complete, extreme, total and unquali­ fied. Now we reach the depths of


despair! I would hope that this is not the case.


"On the spot reporter of Clitheroe" may care to visit West Bradford —


galows.


ours degree level. I went on to do this because I couldn't get back at those bul-


lies, whether adult or child, any other way. So, I proved myself in other ways and, if I ever meet any of these people again at some point in life, I shall take great pleasure in shoving this inescapable fact in their faces. I will not


splash - or paddle - along the bottom of the first field, until arriving at the great "meeting of the waters", by the junction with Bowland Gate Lane. Here the fun really beginsl By now, the little stream has become deeper, wider and much faster flowingl Wading on towards West Bradford Village Hall, the rushing, gushing, torrents form a most impres­ sive lake, covering both carriageways, as the waters, draining off the sloping fields above, are expected to squeeze into a woefully inadequate six-inch


From there, he or she could happily , , , drain.


apologise for that comment because thy deserve it and it's as simple as that. Bullying is evil and should not be tol­


erated, allowed to happen or to take any other form. The price of bullying is too high to pay. And its effects last for years, sometimes longer. Bullies are extremely good liars ana


our fair share) either brake suddenly or swerve. Cyclists do likewise. Pedestrians simply get well and truly drenched, both underfoot and by the spray, as they make their way to the village hall, the playing fields and the children's play


Speeding vehicles (of which we have , . , ,


well practised in the art of acting as the victim. In their cowardice, however, lies their weakness, for without the group to hide within or behind, they are nothing. They are not innocent, but take away the innocence of those left bewildered, tortured and just simply terrified as they become the bullies' target for what is, basically, their own security. Other­


wise, why hide in a pack? I will finish by simply saying: don t


let anyone, child or otherwise, go through what I did at school. It is easy to let happen, but almost impossible to undo afterwards.


HOPE IN THE FUTURE. Sponsoring returns


us to feudal days THURSDAY morning and our copy of the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times


drops on to the mat. A chronicle of local events and news, with regular features such as Valley


Matters and Dish of the Week. Plus, in every issue, at least two


items, usually with photographs, of Castle Cement sponsoring something or other - kit and equipment for football and cricket clubs, computers for schools, wild life projects and even the binding of


"The Clitheroe Gospel." Castle Cement seems willing to spon­


lar, Grindleton Road, on the left-hand side leaving the village towards Grindle­ ton, starting by the last couple of bun­


in particu­


to collect donations a few days later. Karen Sadler, head of fund-raising development, says: "We thank all our volunteers enormously for their dedica­ tion to our work in communicating the cancer prevention message and ask members of the public to give as gener­ ously as they can." A recent report published by WUKI\


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says that as many as 60 to 70 per cent of cancers are preventable through dietary choices and by not smoking or using tobacco in any form. WCRF is translating this and other research find­ ings from their report to provide up-to- date practical health advice which will enable each of us to lower our risk of


cEiiccnWCRF has over 350,000 supporters around the country and provides a wide


. range of free information leaflets, book­ lets and a quarterly newsletter designed to help people make the move towards a healthier lifestyle and so lower the can­


cer risk. For more information, write to the .. address below.


TERRI STRONG, Community Fund-raising Co-ordinator, World Cancer Research Fund, 105 Park Street, London W1Y3FB.


Is breast milk best in Kibble Valley?


IT is alarming to read the report from the Belgian authorities concerning the amount of dioxin poison found in meat raised on land around incinerators and to couple this with the British report which showed that these selfsame chem­ icals work their insidious way to the top of the food chain to concentrate them­


selves in mothers' milk. Dioxins are one of the most deadly


/■hornioak known to man and are known to be emitted from several sources in our beloved valley at levels permitted for


incinerators, as in the Belgian studies. Farmers, mothers, indeed shouldn't


we all he clamouring for someone, the health authority, the Environment Agency or even the polluters them­ selves, to pay for a study to investigate whether the food grown in our local environment is safe? We need to know, too, is breast really best in the Ribble


Valley?


W. A. KEMBERY, Knowsley Road, Blackburn.


Agency’s fishing role


area. No footpaths herel Lancashire County Council has been


faces a big cut BEFORE coming to power, the Govern­ ment published Labour's Charter for Anglers, in which it was supportive to angling and recognised the need for change in the relevant legislation. I t was as a step towards achieving


approached many times by individual residents, by the representative council­ lor and by the parish council. Although there has been little response so far, let us hope that "utter failure" will not


apply in this case. Unlike "on the spot reporter", our


ELAINE MARSDEN, West Bradford.


Chance to prevent


risk of cancer DURING the week of October 11th to 16th, approximately 100 volunteers in the Ribble Valley area will be helping the World Cancer Research Fund, the only major UK charity which focuses entirely on the prevention of cancer, to raise funds with which to further its vital work in the fight against can- cer.WCRF provides cancer research and education programmes which expand our understanding of the importance of our food and lifestyle choices in the pre­ vention of cancer. By joining WCRF in its fund-raising endeavours, you too could play a part in helping WCRF save


countless lives. Volunteer collectors will be posting


fund-raising envelopes through hun­ dreds of letter boxes and then returning


particular battle hah not been ongoing for 20 years - although it must be get­ ting near, and it certainly seems like it.


Against this background it is surpns- published.


this that Jack Cunningham appointed the Legislative Review Group. At the time of its appointment, he committed not to interfere with the funding of angling until the report w a s


ing that the Government has now announced a 30 per cent cut in funding to the Environment Agency (EA), which had already been cut by 50 per cent over the last few years in order, it appears, to fund the pet passport


scheme.Such Draconian cuts will severely impact the EA's quality of service to fisheries at a time when European legis­ lation is putting more pressure on EA


services.Given that current Govenmient fund­ ing is largely spent on rivers with salmon or sea trout runs, it is likely that these rivers will be hardest hit, with sig­ nificant staff reductions at a time when there is both local and international concern with the conservation status of


salmon.Any help or influence your readers can bring on local MPs or central gov­ ernment to reverse this decision would


be welcomed.


JAMES CARR, Chairman of the Regional Fisheries, Ecology and Recreation Advisory Committee to the Environment Agency, Cumbria.


Fire leads to alarm advice


HOUSEHOLDERS have been urged to get smoke detectors fitted following a cooker fire in Slaidburn on


Saturday. A ring had been left on


and cardboard on top of the appliance was set alight in the fire, which happened at around 10-10 a.m. The cooker was damaged


by fire. Fire-fighters, who were at the house for 20 minutes, had to ventilate the smoke-filled premises. Station Officer Dave


McGrath said fortunately Saturday's fire was discov­ ered, but he urged other people to get smoke detec­ tors. "If you look after your smoke detector it will look after you. It does not sleep when you sleep," he said.


ago, Mrs Smith has not missed many days at work, only taking two days off a year to go on a week-long holiday, but even then she still sometimes made it back in time for the Satur­ day market. "I would never dream of missing a Satur­


day," she said. Speaking about her days


behind the stall, she said: "I have enjoyed it. It has been nice and I shall miss it." Mrs Smith also thanked every­ one who has been a cus­ tomer and a friend for the last 51 years. (280999/20/9)


Greener future


SOWING the seeds for a greener future are pupils from Stonyhurst College. They are to participate in


a scheme designed to restore British woodlands, organ­ ised by the Keep Britain


Group; It involves gathering and


re-planting the seeds of tra­ ditional British trees and woodland plants on October 10th, which has been desig­ nated National Seed Gath­


ering Day.


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