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I'm told, there's not much that GPs can do with tummy bugs of this type. How ever, keeping a list of sufferers would not only have shown the scale of the problem in a truer light, but also have helped to map the outbreak. Come to think of it, I wonder how
ment Agency's session in the parish hall and obtained the freephone number (0800 807060) for notifying the agency of complaints. I have used it fully sinca At first it seemed that whoever investigated had no sense of smell because I regularly received letters confirming "no smell detected". But recently the agency has agreed, on
a number of occasions, that there was an odour and action was necessary by them. Management was required to turn down the kilns or stop them altogether. My concern is that management at the
factory is supposed to be monitoring emissions. If it can act when required by the Environment Agency, why is it not made to take action itself before the odours and dust pervade our lovely coun tryside ? It is clear to me that many people in
those who lost income, but don’t have a doctor's note, feel about this approach, given North West Water's insistence on having said note as a pre-requisite for any compensation! Finally, to North West Water, it would
have helped if your letter saying "please boil water" gave some inkling as to why, and saved me a telephone call. We don't all work for companies with on-site health centres.
JOHN DICKINSON, Pimlico Road, Clithcroc.
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months and, although I was aware of the presence of the Castle Cement eyesore from whichever direction one approaches Clitheroe and the surrounding villages, I had naively assumed th a t, as we approached the year 2000, the various enforcement authorities on the environ ment, health and safety and local mat ters, would have ensured that the man agement of Castle Cement was such that the company did not pollute the atmos phere we are breathing. I very quickly realised how wrong I
but when, if ever, does she sleep? I have lived in Chatburn for only 15
Castle Cement. She really is so persistent on our behalf,
Scheme should have
a higher local profile MANY local people and walkers from further afield will know the beautiful walk between the Lower and Higher Hodder Bridges. Many, families will have picnicked on
the bank of the Hodder, close to the lower bridge, at a place often referred to locally as Paradise. Situated on a large bow of the river,
Paradise is a most picturesque setting and could be described without exaggera tion as a local beauty spot. Recently, North West Water built a
Chatburn object to the odours and dust and seem to have a number of reasons for not using the freephone number to com plain - apathy, friends and/or family work at the plant and are concerned for their jobs, or they are just worried about complaining to an official body. Workers should not have to fear for their jobs - it is perfectly practicable to run a plant with out problems. The more people use the freephone
hard core road from the lower bridge to the weir, just beyond Paradise, ostensibly in order to repair the weir and to replace a small building at the weir. The construc tion work was a considerable nuisance at the time; access for walkers was tem porarily suspended, kingfishers common ly seen along this stretch of the river, sen sibly moved residence, and the beauty spot was not enhanced by the construc tors' vehicles and building materials. They have left a hard core road, an
number to complain the better. You can ask for your details to be kept confiden tial from Castle Cement. Remember, 0800 807060 (free).
DETERMINED, Chatbum.
Potteries visitor
slams local smog WE found your recent headline regarding a demand for action on Castle Cement very interesting. We have just spent a week's holiday in
the Ribble Valley, renting a cottage in Clitheroe and we were aware that the quality of the air here is not very good. I t was beautiful weather every day
other than the Thursday and we took advantage of this, visiting all the lovely villages. Driving back late afternoon, we were always noticing a hazy smog over the town. We saw this, either from the Waddington Fell area, or returning from Blacko, via Downham. In fact, the smog appeared to be reaching as far as Blacko. Stopping for ice cream in Chatbum, we
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was to have made that assumption and I was soon hot-footing to the council offices to obtain information about the odours in and around Chatburn on more days than I could count. Only when the wind is from a northerly direction can I walk out of the house and breathe "fresh" air, as one would expect in a pret
experienced a most revolting chemical smell, which we had detected in Slaid- bum and outside the cottage in Clitheroe. It did not spoil a lovely holiday, but it
Valley.
JOHN SMITH, Chapel Avenue, Milton, Stoke-on-Trent.
advantage for some whose mobility is more limited, but perceived by many as an unwelcome replacement for the old path. Paradise has almost recovered from
people to choose between a number of options which they would not have cho sen in the first place and the necessity for which they may question. Hopefully this letter will provoke more discussion.
D. A. PRICE, Hodder Court, Stonyhurst.
So much of our
lovely greenery lost AS a resident living in Chester Avenue, Clitheroe, I strongly object to Bell Way Homes wanting permission to build houses in the field next to the children's playground area. This will create a risk to residents and
needs more housing. This is just the next stage in the sys
tematic, irreversible ruin of what was once a lovely area of a traditional market town and should not be allowed to con
tinue.
J. BROWN, Waddington Road, Clithcroc.
God thinks every
one of us is special I WAS deeply moved to read the letter from someone who signed their them selves "an ordinary human being" in last week's issue of your newspaper. I just want this person to know there
children from increased traffic. Parking in this area is already causing no end of problems. Traffic using Milton, Cowper and Chester avenues has difficulty approaching Waddington Road. We have traffic coming out of Milton
are some people who are compassionate and caring towards individuals who some would class as different. No one should go through life having
Avenue from out-of-town motorists tak ing a short cut along the unadopted road by the children's play area and the speed of some of these cars is so dangerous when young children come from the play area. If this housing development transpires
what seemed at the time as an unneces sary and expensive industrial develop
ment. However, it would seem that North
West Water is not quite finished with this part of the river. We suspect that rela tively few people were aware that there was a public meeting on March 12th to choose the site for a new pumping station along the Hodder. Among the proposed sites was the weir mentioned above. Indeed, although this site was added to the options at the last minute, as far as we can gather, it would seem that it is likely to be the favoured site for the pumping station. At least North West Water will not have wasted money on the road that now becomes quite crucial and part of the argument for choice of this site. Apparently the purpose of the new
there could be 50 more cars. Then there is the question of schools, with the existing ones already overcrowded. The doctors are already stretched to the limit, as are other services. People around this area and others
to face this kind of prejudice. I am sure these bullies are in the minority and don't deserve to be given a second thought. Any self-respecting human being would be hurt and humiliated by these remarks and I hope that just writing your feelings down helped you to unburden and lighten your load. What a very brave person to have suffered for so long and still to have been able to retain some dignity. I found this letter extremely moving
and hope that it made some people stop and think before ridiculing people who are unique in their own right. Always remember, God thinks every
have had such a lot of pleasure looking around this field and the gorgeous views beyond. Please, please don’t replace it with huge big houses. We've lost so much lovely green pasture in Clitheroe, never to be replaced.
M. PROCTOR, Chester Avenue, Clithcroe.
Irreversible ruin of
was apparent to us there is certainly an air problem in Clitheroe and the Ribble
pumping station is to allow the higher reaches and tributaries of the Hodder to retain more water which, in turn, will increase spawning of fish. There may also be increases in the amount of water avail able to be pumped and in the efficiency of water provision from the Hodder, but we are told that the latter is not the underly ing reason for the plan. We presume that the scheme will not increase the risk of flooding along the Hodder. The Ribble Valley is a very beautiful
place and needs to be safeguarded from unnecessary or undesirable development, however important the developer. I t is quite amazing that such a scheme does not have wider consultation and a higher profile. I t is an interesting tactic to ask
this lovely area THE land off Milton and Cowper Avenues, known as Chews Farm, is now under threat from yet another housing development. The proposal is only at the planning
stage as yet but, as we are coming to realise, this is purely a formality. The developers will get their permission - let's face it, they always do. When the second stage is applied for that will also be grant ed, despite the protests of local residents, many of whom have lived all their lives in the area. The residents of Milton Avenue, who
one of us is special for who we are, not how we look!
M. HOLDEN, Moorland Road, Langho.
Hedge cutters make
too clean a sweep I LOVE our tree-lined country lanes, fresh and green in spring, shady in sum mer, and revealing their naked beauty in winter, but how long will they remain? Before mechanical hedge cutting was
introduced, the farmers marked the saplings in the hedgerows which would be left to mature into trees. Nowadays the hedge cutters make a clean sweep, leaving only the old trees standing. Many of these are covered in ivy and quite a few have dead branches. To be honest', these branches make me afraid. I remember the great storm of 1987.
chose to live in a quiet cul-de-sac next door to a green field, will end up like so many others, living on an entrance to yet another housing estate. Their property will be devalued and quality of life spoiled. Let's face it, Clitheroe hardly
The woods behind my son’s house in Hampshire were devastated. Our science mistress was killed by a tree branch which fell in her own garden. Couldn't the old trees be properly
pruned, and new trees allowed to grow to replace them? Whose job is it to do this?
PATRICIA WARD, Mellor Brook, Blackburn.
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