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Clltheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified),
www.eastlancashireonline.co.uk 12 Clltheroe Advertiser & Times, August 2nd, 2001 Clitheroe 422324 (Editor!
W r i l . to: The Editor. Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroe BB72EW Editorial e-m» i l^ .h
Croe.cdit.rial(girim.c,ruk A need for si:
wild places SINCE hearing of the council's plan to fell 41 trees in the Castle grounds, I have wanted to write to you to express my concerns. My husband, two-year-
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old son and I, live in the Eshton Terrace area of Clitheroe. I was fortunate in having a rural upbring ing and wanted something of that gift for my child. We are most fortunate in
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having the beautiful park at our doorstep and we enjoy it every day, in all weathers and seasons. For my little boy, the large open spaces and the garden areas and
- the- quiet, shady areas among the bushes and trees where birds, insects and stones can be found, are a wonderful world. A mature park with so
many hidden areas, where you can sit, listen, look and reflect, is a rare delight.
At home, my family and
I continue to enjoy the trea sure our park is, as morning .
and evening birdsong car ries across to our home. To remove almost all the
trees from the rocky out crop below the keep will destroy the feeling in this area of the park and the particular beauty of the keep, partially hidden among the trees. To remove such mature
trees will change the whole atmosphere surrounding the old castle, let alone greatly alter its appearance. Such work will seriously
damage all life that exists among, and at the roots of these trees and rocks. This will take years to re-estab
lish. The beauty of the path
way and steps around the keep, and the views, depend on the presence of these
tr<In the rush of daily life, there is little time to stop and reflect in such a place.
There is a great need for such beautiful gardens and wild places. To have this at the centre
of our town is a gift to us all. This must not be allowed to happen to an area so particular in its size, characte^'and beauty. I urge the council to reconsid er, before this mistake is
irreversible. MRS LEONE WILSON, Wilson Street, Clitheroe.
Only ‘a few’
objections? I THOUGHT that readers might be interested to know that English Heritage has informed me that it has not instructed the Ribble Val ley Borough Council to remove our beloved Castle mound trees, and that any funding given is totally unconnected with the issue. Their only input was to advise the council on a
point of law that scheduled monument consent for the removal of the trees was not required, so long as the roots were not removed. English Heritage has dis
Valley Borough Council going to tell us when it is going to start felling? Or is it going to do the deed with out any real debate? I would like to take this
cussed the proposals with the council, but has been informed "that there was consultation locally on the plan, and tha t few objec tions were raised". I cannot begin to imagine
the tidal wave of letters and petitions that our blinkered council would consider con stituted a large amount of objections! D. ROBINSON, Albermarle Street, Clitheroe.
I t’s not too
late to stop AS other writers have warned us th a t the time must be near for the conclu sion of the Castle trees saga (if not concluded when going to press), is Ribble
opportunity to ask the council to have the courage to take one step back from this course of action. I say one step because that is all that is needed, to pause, to take in more opinion and to ask itself the simple ques tion: "Are your reasons and motives sustainable?" The reasons for felling
seem to change with every publication of this excellent newspaper, from the simple, "they spoil the view", to the more extreme, "they are somehow helping vandals" - shades of Vietnam and Agent Orange methinks. All the views I have
sought from others show them against the tree felling and having a growing dis quiet about the handling of the situation. I say again to . the council, it is not too late
for that step back, or will the Clitheroe Advertiser have to replace the trees in their Castle logo with tree fellers perhaps? JOHN DUBOWSKI, Castlegale.
How will
felling help? WE now hear Mr John Heap say tha t the reason for cutting down the trees is that they are damaging the Castle mound. I t is the first time this
reason has been given dur ing the recent furore and the latest in a long line of spurious justifications. English Heritage doesn't
know about any alleged damage. And since he must leave the roots (which pre sumably are the alleged cause of any damage), how will cutting down the trees prevent further damage? Why doesn't Ribble Val ley Borough Council just
admit that it is wrong and allow a proper discussion to take place about the Castle, the grounds and the trees? What is the council fright ened of? Is it not aware of the issues being played out in the wider world? JO HARDING, Shawbridge Street, Clitheroe.
Destruction
on target IN reply to "Concerned Clitheronian's" observa tions on the foot and mouth issue. His assertion that people
are being paid £1,000 a day for a labourer's job is ridicu lous. A farmworker is paid £10 an hour for cleaning and disinfecting. Would "Clitheronian"
like to be working a pres sure washer for 10 hours a day, covered in wet, webs, dust and worse? As for the deliberate
spreading of the disease, no one but an imbecile would pay money to start an out break to involve neighbours and the local rural business community. After farming for 30
years, to have a healthy dairy herd and a flock of sheep compulsorily pur chased by MAFF (now DEFRA), and slaughtered within 24 hours as part of the "contiguous cull" is hard
to take. The standard of cleans
ing demanded by DEFRA means that hay and silage cannot be housed in the usual silage pits and barns, hence the abundance of black and green big bags of silage dotted around the meadows of our village and beyond - unsaleable, from an infected area. We also remember our
farming friends so far free of the disease in their live stock, held in a stranglehold of DEFRA's ridiculous movement licences even within their own holding. The pastures are bare,
lost to feed Mr Hitman’s appetite for building a con crete house, so out of keep ing with the English coun tryside - in fact, to coin a royal phrase, "a veritable carbuncle". Now the site of a Bronze
Age settlement - that really is something to leave for future generations! MRS P. CLAYTON,
Wiswell.' New bridge is
inappropriate I AM writing to comment on the proposed triple span bridge at Calder Foot. As chairman of the Ribble Fisheries Association, which represents the major ity of angling clubs and riparian owners on the mid and upper Ribble and the whole of the Hodder, I have been very concerned about this structure, which might be appropriate in an urban setting, but not in the rural tranquillity of this part of
animal welfare standards at crisis point, new cases of foot and mouth are happen ing every day, b u t don't make the headlines any
more. The Government's exter
' ! More of our
suppliers are just a stone’s throw away
y'-:
(So David beats Goliath again!) During the last week or so you may
have heard a certain high-ranking Royal wisely urging us to support local producers and “help living communities survive within our glorious countryside”. Happily, we’re proud to say that Sustain
has recognised that Booths sources almost 25% of produce locally - and that’s more than any other supermarket group... including the big five.5 So you can buy,
confident in the knowledge that your local supermarket supports local suppliers more than any other.
mination of the farming community is going well, following the steel, mining and fishing industries. CONTIGUOUS CULL, Bolton-by-Bowlnnd.
Service and peal of bells
IT must be very tempting for newspaper writers to give up on the crisis of the countryside after all these
| weeks and months. I t is also very tempting
for Christians and the Church to pretend it is all over and there is nothing more that we can do. Let us just congratulate ourselves, pack up our bags on this one, and move on! The people who are most
the valley. As I understand it, the
bridge has been approved, but the very substantial funds required are not yet available. Also, the major need from the ramblers' point of view is to have the Ribble Way close to the river in the Mitton area where a considerable diver sion is needed at present. This association is not against a bridge in princi
ple, but it believes strongly that a much more appropri ate and less costly location would
be.across the lower Hodder a t Winkley. This would better satisfy ram blers, anglers, farmers and riparian owners and would allow for a structure much more in keeping with the surroundings rather than the obtrusion th a t is
planned. The Ribble Fisheries
I sequences which strike a t I many people's livelihoods and not ju s t ^he leisure
industry.
affected by foot and mouth would dearly like to think it • is all over as well. That much we all have in com mon. The difference is that many of us are in a position to walk away and forget. There are far-reaching con-
On Saturday we shall ■
have another service of prayer a t 9 a.m., not 10 a.m. as previously, and this will be followed by a peal of bells. The bells will ring out as a sign of encouragment to all of us that our lives are thoroughly inter-depen dent, which also ,means we have also an inter-personal responsibility towards each
other. In an age that has made
it so much easier to please ourselves, usually at some one else's expense, itlis a nuisance to be reminded th a t our lives are fragile when we lose respect for the laws of nature and the call for justice and goodwill in the community and nation. CANON PHILIP DEARDEN, The Vicarage,' Church Street, Clitheroe
Preserve bur
| discovered. What a pity if, after years of unspoilt beauty, all this is
local history ARE there any local histo rians who could pinpoint the area at Clerk Hill that was the old Roman fort? Because, according to the book, "Window on Whal- ley", in the late 1970s this area was excavated and found to be an even earlier Bronze Age settlement, where implements and jew ellery from that period were
Association is not just con cerned with angling, but with the whole environment and ecology of the rivers. For this reason we are at present fighting for a change in the water abstraction system from the River Hodder, which has been a disgrace for far too long. We believe that a com
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bined structure across the lowermost part of the Hod- der could incorporate a new weir and abstraction point with a new river crossing. In this way two environ
' This is an opportunity for local and county councils, United Utilities and the Environment Agency to indicate their dedication to enhancing the environment in the most appropriate
mental blunders could be replaced by one project which is environmentally acceptable and beneficial.
way. KEITH B. SPENCER,
Heap Street, Burnley.
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