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le) said that not a ; had come from jple for the present The Mayor, Coun. jltom (Wilpshire), it in some towns iders who did not te were regarded as *
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if more security in >wn. Coun. Mrs olgate.(Whalley) hat the opportuni- neras might not be again. "People
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in our eight years THROUGH the columns of your newspa per, may I gratefully pass on my thanks to all who supported our recent St Patrick's Night celebration at the Sidings. Particular praise must go to the London
Marathon mothers, Sue Brooks, Shirley Foster and Annie Parkinson, as well as Paul Gilbraith, Russell Keighley, Fraser Butt, David Tattersall, Yvonne Blake, Sandra Taylor, Michael Brooks, Carol Thomas, Michael Beckett and Andrew Stanworth for their efforts. We raised £2,000 for the UK National
cerning the state of the village and some, sadly, who would like nothing better than to disrupt.
Through the years I have been saddened ,
to see the lay of the village destroyed or "redeveloped" to an extent that some of the village I knew and once loved has been
erased forever. First, we had the old war bunker (surely
a part of Whalley's historical effort/part played in the Second World War) demol ished under the pathetic excuse that drug users were (allegedly) using it when, really, anyone with one brain cell could see it was really demolished to make way for yet more houses, industrial units, etc. Then we have the dreaded light pollution
Asthma Campaign, with more to follow after the marathon on Sunday, April 22nd. With respect to Mr Morley's comments
- - However, I do wonder whether there are any other residents in Whalley who would settle for being potentially disturbed for five and a half hours at most by a lawful charitable event once every 2,924 days. I rest my case on this point. As for the pro-
in last week's edition, I apologise to anyone who found the noise level to be unreason able. This was never our intention. I am assured by our contracted entertainers we were not operating at full volume, and we concluded proceedings before our autho rised Ribble Valley Borough Council enter tainment licence 2 a.m. deadline expired. The event was the first to be held on the Sidings Business Park since purchase on March 15th, 1993, some 2,924 days ago to March 17th, 2001.
. posed QE2 playing fields car park, if it is to go ahead, I would suggest initially a lower risk 10-space facility to see if it is used for its main purpose. If it is a success, then consideration could be given to extending it. If it isn't, then the QE2 trustees should purchase it and repay the cost to the tax
payer.
would consider a similar arrangement at the Sidings, which is potentially closer to
Alternatively, and subject to contract, i . , t
the village centre. We would construct it at our expense,
and the parish council could lease it from us for, say, £1 per annum for three years, when the effect of the Calderstones devel
opment will be more clear. If the car park is a success, then normal
el as secure as pos- e declared, p. Ford says tha t will increase the
orkload by reveal- tions which would
rwise unseen and :ed. "We welcome will have to pay for 3 to deal with it on jr monitoring con- 1," pointed out the "We have already
iny hours of time leme. Cameras are community effort . specifically police
s alive, riving, hasises
n strengths at airman Mr Brian
and different activi- he most recent, line g, has proved to be uccessful." luncheon club served meals last year, but ooks, reserve cooks, s and drivers were
; said: "Please ask .
3s how you can worthwhile club. I we can continue
the 55 and over a of Clitheroe and e Valley in every ble." ib had more than bers and kept as . e as it could. Line was a good exam- a. course entitled ters for the terri- is planned after iut there was more so for patrons of jridge, keep fit, dancing, the lun- ib and other activi-
ane is invited to the leeting at the club day evening April
sey for a club
i and the Saronic i, then to Delphi, i and Thessalonica i. The sight of peo- ring cricket in the Corfu Town sur-
i number of mem- 10 had perhaps for- hat Corfu was once ti colony. final stage of the V covered Rhodes, nia, Crete,and the par t of Cyprus,
commercial terms are introduced. If it is a failure, then parish councillors' personal guarantees are called in to cover our losses. Any takers from the council?
ANDREW RONNAN, The Arches, Whalley, Clitheroe.
Stop this dictating to
Whalley villagers AS I was born and have since lived in Whalley for a long time, I was prompted by your correspondent P. Morley's letter, which raised some very serious issues con
from the tennis club and its recent exten sion with a third tennis court. Tennis is okay, but do we have to have so much floodlighting, particularly when only one or two couples are playing in all weathers it makes the Millennium Dome look like a candle. Indeed, it can be viewed I believe, by the Hubble Telescope, such is the mten- sity with which they illuminate. Selfish, selfish, selfish is what I have
haps have turned it into a business park? - or maybe even a university or college bene fiting the local community and bringing interests from outside to benefit from it, also a medical hospital as opposed to a psy chiatric one or, if the worst comes to the worst, even a multiplex cinema bringing both employment, wealth and popular entertainment to the area - perhaps to entertain the youthful element of the vil
lage?Let's face it, Whalley badly needs a very big kick into the here and now of enter tainment. The nearest thing Whalley has to a tourist attraction or anything of his torical value is the abbey. What else is
there?I hope that those businesses who claim to have customers from as far as Cheshire are now satisfied with the fiasco they have created over a car park, which I believe will benefit only them and no one else locally. Stick to selling and stop dictating to vil
lagers who are fed up with your bickering, or leave and find business elsewhere. And stop trying to turn Whalley into a dread
come to know about some villagers - and now, international bright young (don t think so) outsiders moving into the now over-developed housing "projects' spring ing up left, right and centre in the village - real interests, it appears to me, in con- tributing, or should I say not contributing, except to make money for themselves. And, of course, we have the all-things-
ful "new" .town. ■ THE IMMORTAL BLAYLOCK.
Our fishery followed
bright-and-beautiful" silly plans to build a car park in Whalley. Why, for heaven s sake? I mean, good grief, is Whalley so busy that this is warranted? It is all about money again. The Teletubbies seem to me to be more active than the parish council, and they are imaginary children's charac-
ters! Perhaps the parish council would like to
turn its attention to a few more fundamen tal problems of the village, such as dealing once and for all with the destructive little thugs belonging to the "there's- nothing-to- do-for-youngsters" brigade, and ensure that the police deal with those youngsters who gather in the village causing damage to property, race cars up and down George Street and harass pedestrians, etc. And what of the shops in Whalley and
strict MAFF code I WAS disappointed to read the letter from Anthony Cooper, who criticised the open ing of Stocks Reservoir to anglers. The decision to open Stocks was any
thing but cavalier. I consulted with my neighbouring farmers who have supported the opening of the reservoir, as the entire reservoir is fenced off from all grazing live stock, and I have prohibited all access across farmland. I am also following a strict code or con
issues in this area of the world than Ms Holder, I find it disappointing that your editorial team did not see fit to check into or clarify the author's background for your readers. Kay Holder is, in fact, the vege tarian campaigner for Animal Aid - as any one visiting their website could see for
themselves.
I am appalled that her organisation is using the crisis being suffered by our farm
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ers to promote her own cause with "round robin" inflammatory, secondhand misinfor mation that has clearly been sent to every newspaper in the land to promote "Veggie
Month".Her claims as to farmers blaming for eigners", ramblers, and "wild species" for the foot and mouth crisis are all, frankly, absurd - as.anyone who has friends in the farming community will know all too well. I t is time to support our local farmers,
over the telephone or from the company's office - unlike licensed taxis which you hail in the street. However, local authorities have the power to attach requirements to a private hire vehicle driver's licence, it the
authority thinks it is necessary. Sadly, some local authorities do not
think it is necessary. They say that people with assistance dogs can always get a taxi from a taxi rank., But that is not easy if you are struggling to get home from the supermarket with your shopping bags or stranded outside a restaurant on a Satur day night. As we all know, there are not taxi ranks on every street corner. If you or anyone you know who uses an
Countryside Alliance has obtained a copy, Mr Foster claims Lord Burns' Report proves that "hunting is cruel". Moreover, Labour MP Alun Michael made a similar- ly remark last week when discussing the result of the Lords' vote on BBC 2's
"Despatch Box". Such foxy propaganda is all too common
among many backbench MPs who have chosen (whether they have read it or not) to misrepresent the inquiry's report, some times brazenly, to try to give respectabili ty to their own bigotry against people who support hunting. But these MPs have been rumbled - by those responsible for the first Government-instigated inquiry into hunt
and not give credence or publicity to an organisation which is cynically exploiting the current situation for its own ends, and whose website does not even show them to
be a registered charity. OLIVIA ASSIIETON, Downham. O Our correspondence columns are open to
all and, we believe, readers make their own judgements about letters like the one men tioned. We are, of course, on the alert for anything unfairly misleading - Editor.
The open and shut
crisis time case I ASSUME that the relevant authority has placed a similar advertisement in the Craven Herald encouraging people to visit the Ribble Valley in this time of crisis. (Feature, page 10, March 29th CAT). What crisis you may ask? Well, it's and
duct set out by MAFF and the ASGFM to prevent the spread of foot and mouth. All the anglers who visit Stocks Reser
open and shut case - so the Government would have us believe.
voir drive over two disinfectant baths, both on arrival and departure. They also have to disinfect their feet and the landing nets. I wonder if Mr Cooper took such pre
the Calderstones glorious redevelopment - yet more houses too expensive for true vil lagers to buy, no doubt. Well, let's look at what shops are on offer in Whalley in terms of those allegedly purported for local com munity use, against those said to be bring ing in revenue for the village. We have countless hairdressers, one supermarket selling food and groceries, several estate agents, several antique shops, an optician s, restaurants, cafes, one bank (which will probably be closed at some point in the future), and umpteen designer label fash ion shops. I leave you to decide which is essential to local people. As to Calderstones, would it not have
been more sensible, if those who claim to want more business and revenue brought to the village are sincere and honest, to per
BEN DOBSON, Fisheries Manager, Stocks Reservoir.
Absurd and cynical
farm misinformation READERS of Kay Holder's letter, headed "Farmers are responsible" may have assumed that she is a long-time, long-dis tance subscriber to the Clitheroe Advertis
er and Times. She lives in Tonbridge, Kent, and clearly
has some trenchant views on farmers and the foot and mouth crisis, which you saw fit to publish in last week's issue. As someone more closely involved with the farming industry and countryside
sure you can
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nying disabled people. This is very good news, but the story
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Foxy proposals of the brazen bigots
THE foot and mouth crisis has, quite rightly, overshadowed the passage of the
hunting bill through Parliament. Nonetheless, the hunting "issue" contin
ues to obsess MPs and to fascinate the media. Given the fact that the House of Lords has now, with strong cross-party sup port, resoundingly rejected MPs' proposed ban, it might be instructive for your read ers to learn what two peers who were mem bers of the Independent Hunting Inquiry committee had had to say on this issue before the vote.
Both Lord Burns and Lord Soulsby ,
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state that." During his own speech, Lord Burns, the
chairman of the Hunting Inquiry, com mented: "Naturally, people ask whether we (the committee) were implying that hunt ing is cruel. The short answer to that ques
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