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ra aid’s head


e generated every if McDonald's is


; amounts of litter," ; Coun. Sowter. isked th a t a more 1 report than the one


lly asked for goes to imittee and that due. eration-be-given-to-------


■ironmental factors,


laid: "The plan was >d to enable further . assessment, but it


ot go fair enough, in ng the unease that I ler members of plan- )mmittee.have about plication. tre think there are suf-


grounds to refuse


(plication, we should > cowed by the fact dc Donald's might . . We should have the ;e of our convictions."


orkshops r children


10 GRAMME aimed eeping children , in ieroe out of mischief g the summer has been


ihed. e Platform Gallery is


.borating with the d Cinema to hold chil- s workshops through- he summer. le PG Club will run on sdays and Thursdays the end of August. ' wide variety of work- s will offer activities unk sculpture, banner­ ing, pottery, circus , mask-making, percus- ind shield-making, le workshops will be. in conjunction with Iren’s film favourites "The Iron Giant," "A s Life" and "The Bor-


rs". orkshops start at 9-30


jen to children aged tor over.


jr more information, >hone: 01200 423278.;


or.10 a.m. and the club :


Two are hurt 0 men were hurt when nladen 18 ton skip loiry •turned after colliding 1 the railway bridge at alley Road, Langho on isday.


’he lorry was travelling rards Clitheroe when the p lift bars s truck the


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Ige. The road was closed four hours while the r was righted and


ved.


iver S tu ar t Wallace suffered cuts and bniis-


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d passenger Geoffrey cliffe suffered severe


to his face and head. l men were treated at ibum Royal Infirmary.


es stolen orations outside


1 house in Rim- ne.Rimington, arget of thieves


i'i diameter sand- res were removed ■ tops of the . They were val-


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Claim that disease is being spread more by ’ ‘


b y Robbie R obinson


FOOT and mouth dis­ ease is being spread more by DEFRA oper­ atives than by the farm­ ing community, claimed local farmers, rural businessmen and mem­ bers of the public at a special meeting in Clitheroe this week. At the meeting, in the


a t home on standby," he claimed. "These people


don't care. They are getting thousands and we are get­


ting nothing." He said th a t his inn


employed people from eight village families, so reduc­ tions in staff meant less income for them, less spent


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Ribble Valley Borough Council chambers, they also agreed that the reopening of the footpaths systems was not only an error, but was in clear opposition to DEFRA’s demands for stringent biosecurity mea­ sures, continued farm access restrictions and movement controls which include signs keeping people off side-


roads. They were meeting infor­


. to discuss a way ahead for local rural people. Mr John


mally to air their views about the personal effects of foot and mouth disease and


-Barber of Lancashire Rural Stress Network chaired the meeting and fielded the


Grants to help businesses


with problems


GRANTS of up to £15,000 each are on offer to help businesses in the Ribble Val­ ley h it by the financial impact of the foot and mouth epidemic.- Business Link East Lan- ■


cashire is spearheading a recovery campaignfor local businesses, particularly


’ those in rural areas. . As well as grants, Busi-


' ness Link East Lancashire is . offering advice and consul­ tancy to help business recov-


• ery.The assistance is for busi­ nesses with 50 or fewer employees where sales and incomes have been hit as a


' result of the foot and mouth epidemic. Priority business sectors are tourism, includ- ing hotels and catering,agn-


..information technology, training and towards inter­ est on commercial loans - taken out to finance restruc-


i culture services and retail. Main areas for financial assistance are marketing,


■ T h e m o n ey is f rom the . Rural Business Recovery


•” turing or recovery. ; ' : ■


Fund from the North West Development Agency Euro- pean Regional Development


- Fund.


. because of the epidemic : should telephone Business Link free on 0800 696 696 to find out about grants and business assistance. . Grant decisions will take around two weeks after application and the closing date for applications is Sep-


Any business in the Rib­ ble Valley that has suffered


. , tember 30th 2001.


Hymn sign of the times


A FORGOTTEN hy- . mn has been uncovered recently and has reso­


nances for today's foot . and mouth crisis.


; Mason Neale in 1866 and ■ appears in the July edition of the magazine of the


i t was written by John


: parishes of Slaidburn and Tosside under th e t i t le "The C a ttle Plague


Hymn".


• farmers" in the hope that it might help people pray through troubled times. . The hymn was found by the librarian a t the Royal


I t -“ras printed as "spiritu­ al fodder for foot and mouth


.


emotional and sometimes angry debate. The difficult position of


the rural inns, cafes and restaurants was highlighted


by Mr Peter Hey, of the Hark to Bounty, Slaidbum, who said he was losing


£1,500 a week. He told the meeting: "I have explored


most avenues of help, but most are a blind alley. I can have a deferment of VAT payment, so what little we do get means we will have to pay our VAT bill once the Government says the crisis is over. If our customers can't get here we suffer and as DEFRA! is not control­ ling the disease, it's not going to go away.


people at £240 a day sitting was sure th a t birds and "DEFRA is employing '


in the village shop and so on. The effects, he said, went well beyond his own


business. The farmers there were


generally opposed to vacci­ nation.. Most did not know the latest information on virology and were still bound by the marketing arguments put forward by the NFU and the Govern­ ment that slaughter is still the only solution. Mr Andrew Bristol asked: "How can we change EU


wildlife were spreading the disease, but th a t had not been examined by the Gov­ ernment and DEFRA. He said: "There was no-one


' more careful than us about ' biosecurity." He seemed surprised when informed that the Government dare not, it was claimed, consid­ er a slaughter of wildlife as there would be a public out­ cry. He;said: "They don't give a damn about the killing of our animals, though, do they."


He was also incensed .


about the use of the word compensation. "It's not compensation," he said," it's compulsory purchase. We would rather have our ani­


mals than the money." . . Mr Barher said that he


policy?" However, after some dis­


cussion there was a more relaxed atmosphere as the information regarding a


forthcoming EU debate on vaccination was put for­ ward and some Handouts on virology were distributed. Mr Bristol said that he


feared ordinary people would be forced out of the countryside and it would be filled with a rich elite who had. access to the best of everything and sent their children'to'private schools.


' He wanted to know how people felt about the way ahead for'small businesses, farmers markets and other ways of. keeping country people employed.. Mr David Coupland said: "They are


CURRENT foot and mouth slaughter statistics released by D EFRA for the;Settle/Clitheroe


rectangle, are as follows! - ?1 : •.


Infected premises: 9 7.''': Contiguous premises culled: 391.


' Slaughtered on suspicion:.?


pushing the small man out. Small is a dirty word. Small shops, small farms, small works, just being pushed


" by John Turner


out."There: was agreement that farmers markets and the purchase of local prod­ ucts was a way to support all local businesses. Mr Bristol said: "Everyone needs to look for the Red Tractor on'what they buy, not the Union Flag." He said: "All this is polit­


ical. All these Eastern European countries will take over • our farming because they are cheap. Then when they put up their prices, everyone will come back to us, but we will be finished and we won't be able to feed ourselves." The conclusion drawn


was th a t a formal public meeting with speakers on virology, government policy and the presence of NFU representatives and the MP for the Ribble Valley, Mr Nigel Evans, he planned as soon as possible. I t is intended to use the


meeting rooms at Clitheroe Auction Mart. Notice of the meeting will be given once it is has been arranged.


Number of animals slaughtered. Cattle: 41,702.


;


1 Sheep: 239,113. Pigs: 182.


deer.and alpaca). Help us put a local cost to b y V ivien M e a th .


DESPITE the £2.2 bil­ lion cost of foot and . mouth to the nation, resources can not be found to estimate the cost to the Ribble Val­


ley., The Government's resp­ :


■ ures in our- own area was disappointing. ' In a written question to


onse to our request for a breakdown of costs and fig-


' the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Valley's MP Nigel Evans asked how many animals, on infected and contiguous premises, have been culled in the Rib­


information is not available in the format requested.


The Settle associated clus-' ter includes the Ribble Val­ ley and an additional area to the east currently extending as far as Ilkley. To sub-divide the area as requested would incur dis­ proportionate cost." As a result of the reply,


disinfection and cleansing, as well as compensation for compulsory slaughter of


affected livestock. Throughout the outbreak .


we assume tha t our ques­ tion relating to the cost of the operation in the Ribble Valley alone (compensation to farmers, DEFRA's for­ ward allocation centre based a t G.isburh, vets,


"slaughtermen, hauliers, dis­ infection operatives etc.)


will not be answered. Our question regarding


the cost of the foot and mouth outbreak to-date, received the following reply. "Our current estimate (as at


ble Valley as a result of the' foot and mouth outbreak. The response was: "The


’ July 9th) of the direct cost of the outbreak to the Exchequer is around £2.2 billion. Among other things, this includes cost of


* premises have been affected in the Ribble Valley alone, along with the numbers of


in the Ribble Valley, many of our readers have asked why we have been unable to break the figures down to reveal ju s t how many infected and contiguous


animals culled. - We believe th a t any


information we give must be as factual as possible and


it was our hope th a t it would be possible for DEFRA to release the fig­ ures apertaining only to our


area. Now in order for us to try


and paint as accurate a pic­ ture as possible of the losses to the Ribble Valley alone, we are asking farmers to contact news editor Vivien


tomorrow of many


FROM midnight tomorrow, many footpaths across Lan­ cashire are to be reopened, although a vast section of the Ribble Valley will remain closed to walkers. The news has upset the


cashire County Council's Countryside Service staff started removing the "path' closed" signs this week in


time for the weekend. Mr Bacon paid tribute to


National Farmers' Union. It expressed concern that many of the paths to be opened were within part of the area currently defined by DEFRA as being subject to special animal movement


controls.' ' "We are deeply worried


that the reopening comes at


a time when the farmers within that area are subject


■ School of Church Music. The RSCM press release


states: " I t acknowledges •both the suffering of ammals


: and the human hardship


which follows loss of live­ stock through disease."


■ ' ease but rinderpest, which causes death within days,


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' The great cattle plague was not foot and mouth dis-


• wiping out herds and destroying livelihoods in a very short time.;


to some of the strictest con­ trols in the UK," said NFU


policy advisor Mr Rodney Bacon. "The reopening of the footpaths within the area will be seen by farmers as contra­ dicting the advice on bio­ security issued since the beginning1 of the foot and mouth crisis and recently reinforced in a video sent to every livestock farmer." The Government is revok­


ing the order that closed all rural footpaths in the county •• on March 1st this year. Lan­


the patience shown by mem­ bers of the public. "It is tnily appreciated and we belieye that they would have been.«■ willing to wait a! little while longer until we; were a t a,., stage when special, controls could be lifted," added Mr


Bacon. Rights of way m the fol­ . .


lowing area (see shaded part of map) will remain closed due to the high number of confirmed cases of foot and


■ mouth. All the land in Lancashire .


that lies to the north of the M65/A6068 and east of the following boundary: the western boundary Tunning from Burnley junction 10 on ■ the M65 and following north­ west along the A671 through Padiham to meet the B6246 at Whalley, continuing along the B6243 through Whalley and Great Mitton to the T junction with the B6243; east along the B6243 to the


first road left of it which passes through Bashall Eaves, Cow Ark and Whitewell and in to Dunsop Bridge: at Dunsop Bridge left on to the Trough Road to Marshaw and continue on


. Rakehouse Brow and Quern- more Road to Quernmore; continue north-westwards


out of Quemmore on Wyres- dale Road/Langthwaite |


Road until the road reaches M6; continue northwards up


the M6 until it reaches the Cumbrian border.


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A summary of the current | situation is available on the


county council's website | www.lancsenvironment.com


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. record of the losses to. our own farming community will he recorded in the Val­


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• Number of cattle. • Number of sheep. • Number of pigs. • Number of goats. • Number of exotics. Sadly, it seems, that this


f


ley's history. And, for the record, as a comparison, the continuing


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Goats: 66. Exotics: 155 (including buffalo,


ALTHOUGH members


of the Berry family have lost their livestock due to foot and mouth disease, they are still counting on a cash crop


from their grass. The one particular award


they are looking to is the one on a grassy knoll, beside the A59 Clitheroe to Skipton Road, near their farm at Horton-in-Craven. After painstakingly


put all our energies into our other business - and we're lucky to have the activity centre to fall back on. "Foot and mouth has


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caused* a lot of distress nationwide and particularly in our area, where 25 neigh­ bouring farms have been


F O R B E S s o l i c i t o r s


wiped out. "We wanted to hit back


marking out the hillside, Mr Mark Berry and his wife, Mrs Hilary Berry, have drawn out the website address of their fledgling toy retailing business which is having to more than take up the slack until Mr Berry can get back to farming. The. address.is catching


the eye of every Clitheroe- bound motorist or bus pas­ senger using the A59. Mrs Berry set up Ribble


Valley Activity Toys five years ago when she found it was not easy to try toys for her children before buying them at existing toy stores. She said: "As a result of the foot and mouth prob­


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and do something unusual, so we came up with the idea of spraying our web address in large letters across a field. "It's a very busy road, so


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23 CASTLE STREET CLITHEROE


people can't fail to notice the writing and, if they're curious, we hope they'll visit our website to.see what we have bn offer," said Mrs Berry, whose family had 150 cows and 200 sheep put


down.


■ She added: "Even though we receive compensation, it


,


doesn't actually pay for anything except the price of the animals. Fortunately, we can still make a living out of the toy business, but many others aren't so


lucky." lems, we’ve been forced to vw -------- w


eye on the road, the website address is www.ribbletoys.- co.uk4Bergtoys


For those who keep their .


Another casualty of the epidemic THE foot and mouth epidemic has claimed yet


an,The RihbfeValiey Poultry Society has cancelled its 2001 show, which would have been held at Clitheroe Auction


^M rs Christine McNeil, who recently took over as secre­ tary of the society, said: "It is a bitter disappomtment for usall, and especially for me, being my first show. We left the decision as late as we possibly could, but due to the ongoing serious situation, had no option but to cancel.


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