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Armistice Day I AM pleased that this year's Armistice Day will have a special input from chil dren, for as we move into the new Mil lennium, the sacrifices made by our ser vicemen during the last century must not be forgotten by future generations. August and September 2000 held a
the countryside within that envir In addition to
like to say thank Mr David Brit parishes of Sabi
row. I feel that, in;
works tirelessly his efforts go uni pie.
special significance, as this was the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and it must never be underestimated. But for the bravery of our young fighter pilots, the whole civilised world would not be celebrating the Millennium. My good wishes go out to all who will
be attending services of remembrance this year. The Mayoress and I will be at the new Whalley and Billington War Memorial. We regret not being able to attend the services at other parishes and the two main centres - Clitheroe and
Longridge.
COUN. CHRIS HOLTOM, Mayor of Kibble Valley Borough Council.
Protests can take
another form I BELIEVE in a high fuel tax. We should not take the consumption of our earth's resources for granted. I also understand the sincerity oi
can take another form rather than indis criminately subjecting millions of ordi nary people, families —
But the plea must be made: protest , . .
dren - to severe disruption of their lives: even the deprivation of provisions in our stores that is now threatened.
mothers and chil-
ROBIN PARKER. St Chad's Avenue, Chatburn.
Tireless work of
our lengthsman I WOULD be obliged if you would per mit me, through your Letters Page, once again to say thank you to the staff of the Ribble Valley Borough Council who worked throughout atrocious weather conditions to clean up the road sides of Pendle Hill after the usual Hal lowe'en festivities. Although the debris left by the visi
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those who engage in protests against the tax.
direction of the repair and mai stiles, walls anc tryside features for granted by make our passii side easier, cleai 1 do feel that
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ANTONY HAW Pendleside Clos
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Letters to I Write to: The Editor, Clitheroe Advertiser ai
,rt Times. 3 King Street, Clitheroe BB72EW Editorial e-mail: clither.,
c.editorial@rim.co.uk discard their rubbish
onment. the above, I would just you to the lengthsman, Iges, who covers the len, Wiswell and Bar-
pite of the fact that he for the three parishes, ecognised by most peo-
-esponsible, under the parish council, for the
which are usually taken most of us, but which ,g through the country- ier and more pleasant, a little public recogni-
itenance of footpaths, numerous other coun-
: done by these worthy would not go amiss.
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‘Essential supplies gtonyhurst assets ,
the leaders of paign. They m that they alio reach the emi their previous her, but it is important fot this. With due rc
.. , ‘Squandering’ of
claim just not true . AM writing t statements tha
d you out of concern over t continue to be made by the so-called fuel cam-
iy believe their assertions ved essential supplies to ■rgency services during .vildcat action in Septem- just not true. And it is the public to recognise
hauliers on tl not qualified t the NHS. Alii reach the emei was not suppl users. It mu: almost one rr NHS and to a all dependent of teams, the Even look
narrowly, fe\ nurses or hea run on diese sustain a fu Meals-on-w vices providt and local au ruption. Taxi drive
tors was not as bad as last year, it was still heartbreaking to see the way in which people who have no concern for
spect to the farmers and e picket lines, they were 0 understand the needs of iwing supplies of diesel to •gency ambulance services ,'ing fuel to essential NHS t be borne in mind that illion people work in the n extent, because they are on each other as members r are all essential workers, ng at this question more 1 family doctors, district 1th visitors have cars that fuel. They just couldn't
I LIKE many others with a long con nection with Stonyhurst College, have read with mounting dismay recent media coverage of events unfolding m that institution. 1 was the 25th family member of 28 to be educated there and we spanned a period of 200 years from 1801 to as late as the 1970s. With several world-wide universities,
Operations were cancelled and patients couldn’t attend out-patient clinics. The consequences were devastating and I strongly believe that, had the action continued for a longer period, the pro- testers would have had blood on their hands. This must not be allowed to hap
pen again.
season imminent and other infectious diseases taking their toil of frail elderly people, the task of ensuring that every one receives the care they need will become more acute. I think it is impor tant that these people who are behaving in this reckless way should be held responsible for the consequences of their
As we head into winter, with the llu r,
actions. PROFESSOR DR JOHN
R. ASHTON. Regional D ire cto r of
Heiilth/Regionul Medical Officer,
NHS Executive, North-West.
I uhlic
in drawing rooms where Stonyhurst men meet is —
The single question whispered at peril should it close.
do with present upsets. In the early 1990s, Fr General SJ and Fr Frovimcial SJ produced a blueprint called the Pret- erential Option for the Poor which looked at how the Jesuit assets could best he used. Old boys here in Lan cashire see the institution sliding into day-boyism, with only the very rich Ribble Valley families able to afford the good education, or those who can per suade academia to finance a bursary. In a changing world should Stony
That is a question that has nothing to in uproar.
date? In my opinion no, but it needs a radical new approach to face up to its future in the new Millenium. When the society and then the boys came here, they integrated themselves into active
Has Stonyhurst reached its sell-by , , . .. ,
local society. From that tradition there is a possi
ble blueprint to make this a great insti tution of which all, whatever religion or denomination they may espouse from Muslim to C. of E„ from Methodism to Catholicism, can be justly proud. In the philosophers' tradition, if day-
members of parliament, the Cardinal Archbishop of the time, my family established a memorial trust in perpetu ity to finance a science faculty of special eminence in memory of a family mem
ber of the Jesuit community. That Jesuit was educated in France
11 quota of home visits, leels and other vital ser- •d by the voluntary sector thorities faced major dis-
between hos; The firm th waste fron Greater Mai withdraw its NHS stal
u -s who move blood supplies ij litals couldn't access petrol. it removes environmental i hospitals throughout ichester reluctantly had to
services. f couldn't get into work.
and your older readers may remember that in my 1970s tussles to bring tourism to the Ribble Valley, 1 intro duced civic and business leaders in the Valley and in the North-West to the North-West of France, with which the college has special historic links. Tourism has come to the Valley, and what we said so controversially in the 1970s is now, 30 years later, accepted without question by community lead-
ers.The Society of Jesus and its Provin cial Fr David Smolira SJ, and the gov ernors, have a heavy duty laid upon them by the bizarre antics which appear to have been perpetrated. Anybody in touch with Stonyhurst,
ever more inaccessible to the majority, the assets of an organisation that t^ e s the message of Lourdes and the promo- tfon ofwM-wide faith, wi th ^ lp for the oppressed and those least able to fend for themselves, should not be squandered to prop up the egos of rich Lancastrians in large cars roaring twice
a day through Hurst Green. Stonyhurst deserves better.
ANTHONY PERRY, Hurst Green.
‘Dinosaur’ got his
hurst continue thus? It came here because it was so remote, to what was a crumbling stately home with boys seek ing shelter from oppression in a Europe
hypo facts wrong IF it were not such a serious event in the life of a 15-year-old child I would have been amused by J. E. Alcock's letter las week, which told us oceans about J. E.
^T o sign one’s name JP, yet not com ment on the fact that Clitheroe Royal Grammar School has clearly failed to obey the law of the land seems incon gruous. Surely a JP is not condoning breaking the law! However, not only does this JP appear to have a dubious knowledge of the law, but it is quite clear from their letter that they have no knowledge whatsoever of diabetes, nor of the problem encountered on the trip. For example, "hyperglycaemic, the
boyism was phased out and a link-up made with one of the two obvious Lan- cashirc universities, a faculty of consid erable intellectual capacity could be established, with all the residential and conference and lecture facilities any uni
versity would ever want. The question must then be, what
should such a faculty do? What about university work into the social conse quences of global warming? Stonyhurst has a weather station and had an inter national reputation in the past in that field. What about a faculty looking at the social consequences, in Britain, of disability and the world-wide social consequences of chronic illness. What about a faculty devoted to the study of social and civil co-operation between religions, rather than the theological
issues?
better used in such ways as that, instead of being derisorily as low as 581st beneath CRGS in government league tables that are meaningless for this institution with its multi-ethnic, multi-
The buildings and assets would be ,
ability traditions. Great change is uncomfortable, it
or Eton or Winchester, or any other great school, could recount aberrations down the years. But this institution is different, with a very special history.
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in which we live must come and, as inflationary private education becomes
-
costs jobs, it can hurt careers as we have •ecenlly seen. But change in the world
term used by J. E. Alcock, is the oppo site of "hypoglycaemic", the problem encountered, and therefore requires
exactly the opposite treatment^ As an ex-Clitheroe Royal Grammar
BEMUSED. Which school might
I have attended I AM researching my past, and wonder if readers are able to furnish me with any information regarding evacuees to Lancashire during the Second World
, , ,_ where my mother worked for a short
War, of which I was one. I know we stayed in the Roebuck Inn,
time, in Clitheroe. I would be grateful to know of schools
attended.
J. E. ROBERTS, Flat 11
Fairholme, Southover High Street,
Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1JB.
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— Who really runs Britain/ EU regulations EC91/440
ordered British Rail's pri vatisation and fragmenta
tion. Over the years since,
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Britain's rail network has descended into chaos. EU finance ministers
though. Are we now voting for a political irrelevance at parliamentary elections - and; who really runs British affairs? Over to you Mr Evans.
decreed that there must be "no change in policy on oil taxation" (8.9.2000). Prime Minister Blair tells us he will stand firm on fuel taxes even though he knows the vast majority of British people want to see a fall. Public views don't matter any more, it seems. The question does arise
THE chairman of Business for Sterling in the North- West claims that he wants Britain to stay in the EU, but keep out of the Euro
currency. It can be done, but only
at the cost of weakening British influence and ensur ing that we are less able to affect the making of crucial financial and economic decisions, which will inevitably affect us. In his letter, Mr Briggs presented a one-sided por
trait of the Euro in which all was doom and gloom. He did not mention that average economic growth across the Euro zone is greater than in Britain. He failed to point out
in the area, somewhere near Whalley Road, Clitheroe, which I may have
School teacher, I would suggest that you make sure of your facts before display ing dinosaur attitudes in public.
Meanwhile, Shell had an
80% rise in profits. Obscene yes, but peanuts when com
pared with the amount of fuel taxes government
screws out of us. Remember, high taxes on
fuel are, effectively, a tax on food.
BERT HARDWICK, Queensway, Waddington.
Euro story has two sides
has fallen against other cur- ' the past two
rencies in — . years, but no one should
read too much into short term change, unless they also want to point out that the value of the pound has gone up and down like a yo yo over the past few decades. In time, the USA boom will come to an end and the underlying strength of European economics will reassert themselves. Only then will the Euro get a fairer hearing. Together with France
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that EU unemployment is falling fast. He failed tij mention that industrial pro ductivity in most Euro zone countries is greater than in Britain and getting greater. He glanced over the fact that companies within th'e Euro zone can now compete among themselves on a level playing field, without having to worry about cur rency fluctuations affecting their business. It is no wonder that the
and Germany, Britain is one of the three big players within the EU, but increas ingly, major financial and economic decisions will be taken only by those coun tries within the Euro zone. We cannot afford not to
have our ministers sitting at the tables where those deci sions are made, ensuring that full account is taken of British interests. I want Britain to be
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opinion polls suggest that a majority in this country are hostile to the Euro, when the likes of Mr Briggs are so keen to ensure that people only get to hear one side of the story. I t is true that the Euro
strong at the heart of Europe. Organisations like Business for Sterling need to decide whether they want our country to be able to shape those decisions which will inevitably affect us, or simply to live with those decided by others. In the long run, they cannot have it both ways.
JOHN HEMINGWAY FCA
(retired), Denbigh Drive, Clitheroe.
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