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about my 93-year-old father, who has become very unsteady on his feet, and 1 was worried that he may have a faU. He was in sheltered accommodation and had a very caring warden, but she had a lot oi other residents to consider and, even though I spent as much time as P°sslble with him, I didn't feel it was enough. Also, my health was not as good and I have to go into hospital for surgery, which means 1


Recently I had to make a decision . .


will be out of action for some tune. _ Yes, there are care packages which are


| He has a lovely en-suite room, cup ol tea in the morning and choice of eating in


totally suitable for some people, but at what cost? Possibly more than full-time care. Also, different care workers come m and there isn't the continuity; as my father is profoundly deaf I felt this would be confusing. Therefore the decision was made with his help that he should go to Lowfield House in Clitheroe.


1 his own room or in the dining room. What a change in him. He is extremely happy, spends all his time downstairs with other residents, his wit has come back, plus his laughter, he thinks the staff are wonder­ ful, the food is good and he is full of praise for the way he is looked after - a trip round the market place, playing domi­ noes, never on his own — it's given him a new lease of life and confidence because there's always someone there. Another thing that's very disconcerting


enough for their kindness - how sad Abbeydale is now closed.


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I care homes left I READ with great dismay the article


. about the proprietors of local care homes meeting with Mr Nigel Evans, MP. for


the local area. I t saddened me to read that govern­


ment policy is now to keep people m then- own homes and not to fund where there is


"^ totally agree that each case needs to | be looked at yery carefully and different


people have different needs. I personally have had quite a lot of


to buy the Castle CLITHEROE CASTLE was in the Honorof Clitheroe.


put up for sale and the people of Clitheroe got together and thought the Castle would make a good war memorial for the men lost in the war.


During the 1914-18 war, the Castle was ; .■■


In remembering the dead, they thought of the future generation.


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experience of family members going into emu My mother was in Abbeydale Care


what they did, weavers, winders, warpers, tacklers etc., contributed a certain sum every wB€k.


The workers in the mills, according to ' Southworths doubled what their


employees contributed and contributed a large amount to the scheme. Those women who did not work in the mill held what they called America Teas. Cards were printed for these events and each party holder invited 10 people and these 10 invited another 10 each and they made


a 'cohection/were made. People who had left Clitheroe sent money. No, the Castle was not given, it was bought by the people for the recreational use of future genera­


tions.


court, putting green, bowling green and playing field, also a bandstand with an


The land was planned out for a tennis . enclosure for seats. . The Steward of the Honor of Clitheroe „ ,


was allowed an office at the Castle. In 1921, the war memorial was pur­


chased, again by public subscription. In 1919, when the soldiers were demobbed, they lined along the Castle from the gate­ house and it was consecrated as a war


• acquired a turret from the Palace of West­ minster. It was brought to Chtheroe and placed in the Castle grounds: He paid for the making of the rose garden around it. There is, I believe, a law that states


m William Brass, the MP after the war,


that all war memorials should be looked after by the local authority. I t should be protected and people employed, to look after it. A copy of the relevant document is in the town council offices in Clitheroe. There was such an outcry when the


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is, if these homes were to close, what s going to happen to the now middle aged as they get older? No matter how much capital they have, there's going to be no more homes left if needed. Finally, yes, the old adage is true,


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someone in that war and they have looked after their Castle and are very upset with Ribble Valley Borough Council because of the neglect and vandalism the Castle has


They have, the right because they lost Who is getting it . . •


^/should like the Castle to be used as it used to be. A park superintendent, the


greenhouses back, growing bur own flow­ ers, attendants around to look after things


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and stop the vandalism. .. , After ail, who sacrificed to buy this war


memorial and paid for its upkeep? Just think about that.


ETHEL PENNY. . Agency‘defends’


Castte Cement L I WISH to respond to your article last week headlined; "Dioxin danger allegation is a 'misinterpretation', claims-Castle


Cement".


Friends of the Earth of misinterpreting the results of the Ribble Valley Lillands air monitor on March 20th, 2001. Friends of the Earth only sought to


In this article, Castle Cement accuses ! ' ,


give the facts when they were interviewed by your reporter and were fully aware of the Government advisors’ standards for air quality which, for reasons best known to them, are based on 24-hour averages. _ The monitor issued 19 WARNINGS


right on pollution? IN response to the article by Mr John Turner concerning air pollution from Cas­ tle Cement on March 20th, the PMlOs were a t very high levels for over three hours; the Video evidence from that day shows that only part of the main plume of smoke was passing the Hillands monitor, so the readings would have been even worse if it had been recording the centre, not the edge, of the smoke... ^ _ I have a copy of a letter from Dr Mor-


The mile-long stretch of road is o^en moorland, populated by sheep wandering


on to and across the road. _ T _ I made this point on BBC Radio Lan­


cashire a couple of weeks ago and prompt-


“r S S l y d th l r ^ t lk e n or X . Well! i S r y madam but I prefer to believe


the evidence of my own e y e s . - / ; , • „ „ Only yesterday I saw at least half a


dozensheep on this s tretch orroad


ton, Director of Public Health, East Lancs, in which he quotes from a paper which raises concerns about people who


including a ewe with two lambs among the cars on the Wellspnngs car park, at liberty to have a lick at the undisinfected


tyWhatt is^tepoThto/posting notices


have existing health problems being at risk from "short-term deteriorations ui air


quality". Short term and transient are phrases favoured by the Environment Agency in letters to complainants to excuse themselves from taking any action. t Of course we understand the law per­


telling us not to walk on the hill when the sheep are coming down to us. Maybe one solution is to put the


notices closer to the ground so that the sheep can see them and know to keep off the road. Or better still, nail one to the dispatch box within easy reading distance


aining to pollution levels being ayeraged


out over a 24-hour period, but this is of no comfort to anyone who has to endure lev­ els such as those recorded on March 20tn. Mr John Isherwood told the newspaper


and eight ALARMS. This signified that levels of PMlOs, particulates said to con­ tain cancer-causing dioxin, were consider­ ably above the 50ug/m3 safety figure list­ ed on the monitor report sheet. During the day the monitor recorded average readings for PMlOs of 91ug/m3 over a three-hour period, and an average of 128ug/m3 over two half-hour periods. Fig­ ures of up to 155ug/m3 were recorded dur-


ingtheday. cleanerair.


from Castle Cement during the above- mentioned period was 6ug/m3 in much


. The average PM10 reading up-wind ' Dr Stephen Morton, the Director of ,, _ . ,


, ing the agency "did not undertake mci- • dent investigation due to a foot ana mouth outbreak in the 10km area . So who is getting it right?,I would hke


that the incident on that day was investi­ gated by an officer from the agency. I have a copy of a letter from Mr Shatwell, say-


Gastle Cement to be more pro-active - after all these years it should be aware which weather conditions cause plume grounding and action should be taken before any member of the public has to


differ : According to Mr Isherwood, the com­


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LYNDAENGLAND Worston.


, Pointless foot and


gatehouse was pulled down because it were listed. That is why the gates at the entrance to the Castle were made a war memorial to the Second World War. The South African war memorial was


removed from the Market Place and placed in the garden of remembrance


"there's no place like home", but I'm sure i would prefer to be in a good care home than having a number of people corrnng m and out, and with this there would be 24- hour care, not just a package for as ana


when. KATHLEEN M. ROBERTS, Rishton, Blackburn.


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along the side of the memorial. The only payment made when using


the facilities was the hire of the equip­ ment and a charge for using the chairs m the bandstand enclosure if there was an event taking place, such as pageants, cot­ ton queens, Maypole dancing etc., other­ wise it was a collection. Why do Clitheronians have the right to say what happens to the Castle?


Public Health for East Lancashire, stated in a letter, which is on the public n?2jst®r at Ribble Valley Council offices: "We do not know of any threshold below which we can say that particulates are not harm-


fUlCastle Cement stated that Friends of the Earth "misinterpreted" the figures from the monitor. I am sure that when your readers see these statements they will realise that there was no "misinter­


pretation" of the facts. The readers of this letter now have ... . i


these facts as I see them and can riiake up their own minds as to why the Environ­ ment Agency defends Castle Cement m the pollution of our Valley, as was so clear­ ly demonstrated in last week's publica­


tion. ALANG.EGAR, Waddington.


mouth propaganda THE Government has been in for a lot of criticism lately for the handling of the foot


and mouth crisis. Well, I can't help feeling that a lot of


the precautions taken are not much more than political propaganda to make us peasants believe that something useful is


^Ireahse that this statement will gener­ ate howls of disagreement in some quar­ ters, but let me point out just one of my


reasons for holding this belief. I see that the Edisford Bridge camp site


has got a disinfectant barrier a t its entrance. This may well be a very sensible precaution, but why is it that this rela­ tively safe site has got this cover when the road over the Nick 'o Pendle has got no


such protection?


plaint from Friends of the Earth is a red herring". Maybe he should transfer to sea pollution, because he is not being very helpful about air pollution!


of Mr. Blair. INCURABLE CYNIC, Clithcroc.


Our people treated


like guinea pigs NO, we didn't misinterpret^the figures (Dioxin danger allegation last week.) The point of our alert is that these hor­


rendous figures were only measured at that particular monitor, at that particular wind direction and at that particular wind


P Our observers report that the obnox­


ious emissions can be spotted at least 50 /o of the time, day or night, meaning that such figures can be measured with the right instruments somewhere in our val-


ley.This has at least three consequences; First, we believe that anyone with a res­


be absorbing high levels of a dangerous substance. As these dioxins also accumu­ late in the fat of grazing animals, farmers


Second, the vegetation in the area must , ,, _ .


piratory defect or illness is at risk of seri­ ous harm


and their customers are being exposed to increasing risks, in our opinion. Third, the average figure for the 24- hour period, according to our information,


: is one of the highest ever recorded m Eng­ land. Surely it would not be tolerateh m any of our most polluted cities.


We do not wish the people m our valley ■


to be treated as guinea pigs, any longer; serious health disabilities in, say, 20 years time can be prevented by prudent use of the environment now. When weather con­ ditions are not conducive to high level exhausting of dangerous gases, will some­ one please stop the pollution until they


are. BILL KEMBERY Chairman, Friends of the Earth.


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Wl date Members of Simonstone


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with Read WI will meet tonight to debate the resolu­ tions. There will also be a mini-horticultural show.


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The Lancashire District around! Association of the National old new]


iiSSOClaUUXi ui tut* l^auiuuai o iu new. team.


Vegetable Society organised a zines oul talk by Mr Bob Herbert, in Ribble the.Black Bull, Ribchester, on the growing of the long car­


rot. Field day disco There is to be a Ribchester


field day fund-raising disco on Saturday at 8 p.m. in Ribch­ ester Sports and Social Club. Tickets are £5 available from the post office or on the door.


Play success Ribchester Amateur Soci­


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shop will be open on Wednes­ day from 7 to 8 p.m.


will be ini garden o| room.


sent the f | of "Brass! May 31sif 15 p.m. Weath


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ety's production of J. B. Priestley's "When We Are Married" was a great success. Attendance figures were among the highest for some time.This was a very well- rehearsed play and perfor­ mances were polished . . . no one, however, can legislate for the unexpected. During the Friday performance, in the. first act, much hilarity was caused by an uninvited guest on stage in the shape of a very large bee. As one of the actresses is allergic to bees she spent an agonising 20 minutes on stage before exiting — very


quickly.


a large cigar to smoke. As he actually does smoke cigars all should have been well, except that the cigar was broken and he spent a frantic few minutes unsuccessfully trying to light


Another actor was handed , , ,


it, Finally, the increasingly drunken photographer, in character not real life, swayed onto the stage about to begin a complicated section involv­ ing the use of tripod and cam­ era. Unfortunately, as he picked-up the camera from behind the sofa a leg of the


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