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Ciitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified), www.eastlancsnews.co.uk 10 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, January 13th, 2000


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tute of Directors North West Region, the competi­ tion is open to all entrepre­ neurs from this region who will be under the age of 40 on the closing date of Feb­ ruary 14th. Judges will include repre­


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waiting to happen YET again, I feel that I have to voice my deep concerns, first as a parent and also as a coach operator for the provision of school transport in the Ribble Valley around some of the more rural roads in the area. As you are probably already aware, I


local charity - although I am sure that councillors would be too embarrassed sim­ ply to bank that without first making their financial commitment to the new centre crystal clear. The Ribble Valley is privileged to have


write to Lancashire County Council each year with regard to the lack of salting on our roads, especially roads which carry our


that I am ignored in my quest.


the skills of the Trinity Partnership and the generosity of the Lancaster Charitable Foundation at its disposal. Together they are a winning combination.


children to and from their schools daily. And each year, it is with yet more concern


Some of our children begin their jour-


neys in the more remote rural areas as early as 7 a.m., and I feel quite strongly that this is when our roads are at their most dangerous through lack of salting. I have on numerous occasions voiced my concern to the county council, both at Whalley and Preston, and still nothing appears to have been done. Just in our area alone, I could take you


NORMAN IVISON (Rev.) BBC TV Producer, Clitheroe.


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views and news WHAT a refreshing change it is to hear a trader, Ben Brindle, actually say what I think most local people think about our


town centre. Some of the big stores should be encour­


on several roads, which both I myself and my drivers have to negotiate every day, which are lethal. I am tired of hearing the county council playing the same record


over and over again. Can 1 again emphasise that I am not in


my car with only myself or, maybe, one more passenger. We are carrying between 30 to 57 passengers aged four to 18 on most of our routes. These are your children. Please, as I have said, can we have more


aged to come to our town. I don't know the reason why they don't, but perhaps any­ body who does would like to reply and put the people of Clitheroe in the picture. Congratulations also to John and Rose­


Stop playing politics


with children's future THE Lancashire County Council's Schools and General Services Sub-committee has suggested that Clitheroe Grammar School amends its admission policy from 2001/2002 onwards to admit pupils resi­


dent in the Ribble Valley only. Either this is a very naive call, or one


deliberately intended to court controversy. Either way, they should be experienced enough politically to suggest changes that have at least a remote chance of being


taken seriously. CRGS has consistently, over a number of


years, taken in 100 pupils from the Ribble Valley and 20 from outside. This, despite the fact that numbers living in the Ribble Valley have increased tremendously over the last 20 years. CRGS's offer to increase the number of


doesn't have to be that way. For the odd item, you can always fold a


small plastic bag so it will fit in your pock­ et or handbag anduse it over and over again. String bags used to be common;


they too take little space. For the weekly shop, there are the more ,


permanent bags which many large stores ; practically give away; it only takes a little , thought to get into the habit of remember- • ing to take them with you. Also, at the ■ checkout it may be necessary to politely ask the lady doing the packing to use your


bags.Or you could use a cardboard box from ■ the supermarket if you can readily get


them recycled. No doubt there are other alternatives,


suggestions.


mary Lancaster. Not only have they helped their workers with the share ownership at Ultraframe, but they are putting some­ thing back into the town with their gen­


erosity. How refreshing to hear good news in a


new Millennium. Yes, there is hope!


action and less talking? There is a very seri­ ous accident waiting to happen. Once again, I ask the county council to


help by seeing that our school routes are regularly salted to make driving conditions safer for the transportation of our children.


HEATHER HODSON, Hodsons of Gisburn, Deer Park Garage, Clitheroe Road, Gisburn.


A BBC TV producer


moves into town I AM delighted to be one of many people supporting the Trinity Community Part­ nership and the Lancaster Charitable Foundation as they develop the Civic Hall in the near future. However, it isn't true to say, as your arti­


C. A. JACKSO N , Littlcmoor Road, Clithcroe.


Surely we must not


let crib vandals win I WOULD just like to comment on the crib kept up town over the festive period and, hopefully, have this letter printed for the council to read and take note. Firstly, I would like to point out how


much pleasure and enjoyment the crib brings to my two young children, and I have seen the same reaction on other chil­ dren's faces when up there - a sort of magi­ cal atmosphere. As soon as the Christmas period began, I


was pestered throughout for them to visit the crib. Even before it had been put up, my five-year-old started asking when it


cle last week suggested, that along with Trinity's Geoff Jackson I will be running the new centre. I am very much a late­ comer in my involvement with this exciting project, having only recently moved to the


Ribble Valley. I was pleased to join Geoff and John


Lancaster for a photo , but hope my bosses at the BBC don't get the wrong idea! All the work so far has been done by the


Trinity Partnership's Civic Hall Steering Committee which consists of a wide range of determined and far-sighted people, well qualified to find the necessary full-time staff and to turn a failing cinema into a lively district arts centre. Those of us who can help further their


would appear. They were very concerned to discover


Jesus missing when visiting the crib on the morning of New Year's Eve, which left them very worried. How do you explain this to a five and a two-year-old? We had the same problem when someone stole the


angel last year. Unfortunately, we must expect mindless


idiots to do these things, so why was a Per­ spex screen not put up but, far more impor­ tantly, why, as I understand it, was the


camera not on? Surely, we must not let the vandals win


vision need now to support them in what­ ever way we can. That, of course, particu­ larly applies to the local authority who have just made a tidy £100,000 from a


MRS G. LAMBERT, St James's Street, Clithcroc.


Direct influence’ of the Advertiser and Times story


MAY I, on behalf of the local group of Friends of the Earth, comment on Castle Cement's decision to aban­ don its appeal against the Environment Agency refusal to allow two Cemfuel mixes on site during the tri­ als ol Cemfuel 2 on Kiln 7. Press coverage has varied,


age tanks are interconnect­ ed and balanced, hence it is not possible for two different Cemfuel mixes to be stored on the site. 3. Before Cemfuel 2 is


hence I will quote directly from Castle Cement's own news release of January 4th, which noted the "concerns expressed by the Ribble Val­ ley's Chief Executive in the December 29th Advertiser and Times" as directly influ­ encing its decision. Having previously passed


burnt on the site, the pipework from the tanks to Kilns 5 and 6 will have been removed; Kilns 5 and 6 can­ not therefore burn Cemfuel I, or 2, during the Kiln 7 tri­ als. 4. Barring any unforseen


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so, please, for the sake of the children, don't make them miss out, and keep the crib going, but take the necessary precautions.


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places to Ribble Valley pupils to 130 goes some way to redressing this imbalance. Far from the accusations of wanting to "cream off" more good students, the governors of CRGS are making a genuine offer to help alleviate the ongoing problems of sec­ ondary school shortages. The lack of concern from County Hall


JOHN GRAHAM, Moorland Road, Langlio.


Vivid personal stories


about short-term place shortages is worry­ ing to all parents who have children leaving Ribble Valley primary schools in the next few years. The LEA should accept this offer and stop playing politics with our children's future.


STUART FINCH, Ribblc Valley Schools for Ribble Valley Children,


Whalley Road, Wilpshirc.


The problems of too


many plastic bags IF it is not too late for New Year resolu­ tions, may I make a plea for more thought­ ful use of plastic bags. When you weigh up the number of plas­


tic bags we collect - and throw away - every time we go shopping, then multiply it by millions for the population of this country alone, the mind boggles. Plastic bags are not easy to destroy or recycle. It


from 1900s wanted I AM researching a BBC1 documentary on the experience of childhood at the begin­ ning of the last century and I am interested in stories from Advertiser and Times read­ ers, now in their nineties or hundreds, of


growing up in the 1900s. An Edwardian childhood was very dif­


but the main essential is awareness of the , problem and making an effort to get into the habit of acquiring as few plastic bags as possible. Perhaps other people have further


ferent from today's. For many it meant poverty, strict discipline based on a seen and not heard attitude from adults, and going out to work at a very young age. Boys and girls had few toys and had to


invent many of their own games and enter­ tainments. A huge gulf separated the class­ es - at the top, rich children led pampered lives, while at the very bottom, 50,000 boys and girls had a tough institutionalised childhood in the nation’s orphanages. If you have vivid, personal stories of the


1900s or know an elderly relative who has, please write to me.


SUSAN TILLEY, Testimony Films, 12 Great George Street, Bristol BS1 5RS.


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two votes of no confidence in Cemfuel, it would have been surprising had Ribble Valley Borough Council not objected, and Castle Cement's linking - and tim­ ing - of the objection to its withdrawal decision is con­ venient, to say the least, particularly since the clos­ ing date for objections to the Secretary of State was mid-December. Whatever the real rea­


circumstances during tri­ alling, this situation will apply until completion, when the pipework connec­ tions to all kilns will revert to the pre-trial status quo, as at 3 above. 5. On completion of the |


trials, any application for authorisation to burn Cem­ fuel 2 in Kiln 7 on a perma­ nent basis must be based on what has been burnt (con­ stitutes, per centages, etc.) during the trials. It is therefore in Castle


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sons, however, it is impor­ tant that objectors are aware of the present situa­ tion, and thanks are due to Mr C. Smith, of the Envi­ ronment Agency, for provid­ ing the following informa­ tion on January 6th. 1. The existing stocks of


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Cemfuel (Kilns 5 and 6) are within the Kiln 7 specifica­ tion and will be used up in Kiln 7 before Cemfuel 2 is brought on site. 2. The two Cemfuel stor­


Cement's interests to burn Cemfuel 2 at the maximum, that is 40, per centage to coal, which will put the Kiln 7 system under the greatest strain, as the agency intend­ ed, and as campaigners have demanded. But the use of all three kilns at once during the trials could badly distort the results, as campaigners have consistently pointed out.


J. D. Mortimer, Group Co-ordinator, Friends of the Earth, Green Drive, Clitheroe.


Judge’s marking problem


THE first meeting of the New Year for Ribblesdale Cam- era Club featured the Inter-club Photographic Alliance folios for both home-processed and commercially processed


prints. "In the absence of any recorded commentary or written


notes, it was sometimes difficult to interpret the judge's


marking," said a dub spokesman. "However, Ribblesdale did reasonably well in the trade processed section, coming sixth, with 22 points out of a possible 30 from the three best-marked pictures from three


different workers." Derek Williams's imaginative still life, "Aramis apres


£35 mition is spent on eating out in tbe ELN circulation area.


Rasage", was the top-marked print, with eight marks. In the home processed section, a creditable fourth posi­


tion was gained, immediately under a triple tie for the top place. John West scored a perfect 10, with his "Ring a ring a Rosie”, but his second print, which gained 9.5, was elim­ inated under the rules of the competitionl The judging night for the third open competition is


scheduled for next week. "This is an excellent opportunity to see the best pictures


produced by members who have, otherwise, little chance to show their work," said the spokesman.


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