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l allow the Moslem communi ty of Clitheroe to have a mosque in the town. At the beginning of their
to Moslems IT is desperately depressing to read of the latest refusal, I think the eighth, of Ribble Valley Borough Council to
I them was based on proper I planning grounds, but this stage has long passed. At least two proposals have now been brought forward which were completely unexcep tional on planning grounds and
..they have been refused in the same way as all the
long struggle to build a place of worship for themselves, it was just possible to argue that the decision to refuse
others.- Regrettably, it is now
clear that our Moslems will not be able to have a mosque if they require planning per mission for it. Because of this, the Christian people have a heaven-sent opportu nity to demonstrate their faith in action. Between them, they own seven build ings in the town, mostly grossly underused, each of which could be used for a mosque without the need for planning permission. If the Christians of Clitheroe could free one of them up for sale to the Moslem commu nity, they could promote church unity and show, in practice, their love of their fellow
man.There are precedents for such acts of love. About 80 years ago, my late grandfa ther, Harry Isaac Hitman, was deputed by the Jews of North Cross in south-east London to buy a site for a synagogue. No one would sell him land for that pur pose. Eventually one of the churchwardens of the parish church volunteered to buy the land, ostensibly for him self but actually for my grandfather. He put his Christianity before his pop ularity and the Christian people of Clitheroe should combine to emulate him.
GERALD HITMAN,
The Estate Office, Brockhall Village.
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former agent has blown the recent controversy regarding the Civic Cinema out of all proportion for party politi cal
reasons.Mr Evans, who is an excellent constituency MP, would not have been doing his job if he had not for warded the concerns of a constituent to the relevant
have seen little or no alter ation, and on the strength of this, and the survey carried out on cinemas by the same department, fully justifies the Secretary of State's rec ommended Grade II listed status as "a fine early exam ple of a public hah, that has been given added interest by its conversion to a cinema" openly declaring the build ing protected for the public's interest and enjoyment, and gone far beyond the decision makers of the Ribble Valley, and a few telephone votes from readers of the local paper?The building itself also has wider importance; it lies within a conservation area granted "outstanding impor tance" and has historical value as well as contributing to the character and appear ance of the designated area for more than 130 years, thus an important element in a historic street where it would be confidently assumed that no application for demolition of a listed building in such a location could be entertained. The plans for a £3.4m.
put millions of pounds in-to this building, which has been standing for all these years, only to be told by an unelected group of "experts" (who according to him can only be criticised by experts) that out of the blue the building should suddenly be listed. That is why on earth, Mr Evans, their first reac tion is probably one of dis appointment that they can not accomplish what they set out to do. By refusing to acknowl edge his part in scuppering
I wonder, does this mean
that either. Mr Evans intends to play
the race card at the election
or,Mr Evans supports Michael Portillo's actions in attempting to destabilise William Hague's leadership of the Conservative Party? Where do you stand Mr
Evans?
DAVID BERRYMAN, Highfield Road, Clitheroe.
this project and then by flip Waiting for pantly rubbishing, the efforts
of those who have been try ing to achieve so much for the community, Mr Evans
many in this constituency.
ANDREW ROSE, '~ Highmoor Park, Clitheroc.
sra a s ; sssss&J— Try another
an answer IT is Mr Evans who is try-
. G d cine-
issue. i My letter had nothing
job, Mr Evans I READ with great interest Nigel Evans' statement on
arts centre/two-screen cine ma may well have been sub mitted with the best of intentions, but I cannot see how the planning authority failed to point out to the pre sent owners, the Lancaster Foundation, not only the severe limitations within the site for a development of this scale, but the detrimental effect a glazed four-storey building would have on the conservation area. A need has not been iden
your front page concerning the Grand Cinema stating that he was duty-bound to act after being approached by "a constituent". I think if Mr Evans had
whatsoever to do with my connection with the Liberal Democrats, but far more to do with the fact that I was bom in Clitheroe. I am a descendant of a
well-known Clitheroe family which can trace its roots back to the early 1500s. I attended Clitheroe Royal Grammar School for Girls, from where I went into the wider world to obtain my
training. I returned to Clitheroe in
taken the time to ask a majority of his constituents, he would have found a total ly different feeling among . them. But, as no surprise to • anybody he represents, he ' went in feet first, to the ■ detriment of the forgotten part of his constituency,
tified on the local plan for one more arts centre in Clitheroe and I wholeheart edly applaud our MP, Mr Nigel Evans, who deserves full credit for pointing out to English Heritage the impor tance of this unique cinema and the all-important con servation area of which we should be proud. NAME AND ADDRESS
SUPPLIED. • The options put to
readers were: A modest refurbishment
of the present Grand Cine ma building with no new build orA £3m.-plus community arts development on a prominent town-centre site. Editor.
The MP digs
a deep hole OH DEAR, how deep a hole is our MP, Mr Evans, trying
to dig himself? He has been disingenuous
authorities. Mr Evans has been criti
cised by a number of your letter writers for his con duct. I wish to know why they think that his conduct was unacceptable; he was doing what he should have done, and I am sure that if there had not been a General
1 such an important one. R I think it is totally deplorable that the issue has
Election in the offing, this I issue would not have become
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been perversely turned into one of political point-scoring instead of remaining a local matter.
RICHARD J. HOLDEN, Meadowside, Grindleton.
1 Importance
of cinema I WAS most concerned in the way that the telephone survey was put to the read ers of the Clitheroe Adver
in the extreme, claiming that he merely passed on information on behalf of a constituent about the Grand Cinema for English Her itage to deal with. So this is his duty as an MP, is it, to be a messenger and take any one individual's opinion about a building to English Heritage, be it a worthy
Clitheroe. I also think your own poll
why, I think, you had a poor response. I think if you had asked: should the building be de-listed and bulldozed to make way for the new arts centre? Or, should the Grand Cinema be updated? You would have had a more posi
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tive response. As for Mr Evans stating
he had to act on a request from "a constituent," I am one of his constituents, so I ask Mr Evans to please take some other line of work, as the one he is doing for me and my family is not what I want from my MP - stand ing in the way. of one of the most significant moves towards the 22nd Century Clitheroe has had the oppor
tunity of having. Mr Evans also agrees
that we are a tourist area. I was walking up York Street one day last summer when I overheard some visitors talking outside the Grand Cinema. One of the grown ups told his son that this "was" a cinema. The teenag er replied that it looked more like an undertaker's. RIP Nigel.
B. DEAN, Salthill Road, Clilheroe.
cause or not? Does English Heritage
correspond only with Mem bers of Parliament? Clearly not. This unnamed con stituent could just' as easily have approached ;English Heritage himself'or herself, but of course his/her inter vention would not have had as much impact as a timely word from a Member of Par
stand on race? I NOTICE that at the time of writing our local MP has not signed the CRE's Elec tion Compact.
, ried a Clitheroe man. I con tinued working as a midwife in the area, my final post being as a midwifery sister Bramley Meade. I
1947 and worked here for Queen Victoria's District Nursing Association as a nurse-midwife until I mar-
at ---------- - returned to college in 1956
I also minx your own pun to study public health and . i
asked the • worked as a health visitor in wrong6 questions? That is Clitheroe and district for22
years until I retired in 1979. During that time I taught
health education in several of the local schools and youth clubs. In my leisure time I have been a youth club leader, a. long-time member of the committee of the Old People's Welfare (as it was then) and served on many professional and char itable committees. I have also been a long-time active member of Trinity (former Wesley) Church. I detail these things as
impelled him to put at risk this wonderful project for our young people which has been discussed at such length in the local newspa
per? Maybe Mr Evans does
not read the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times; he just uses it for his publicity. I am still waiting for his
answer. Incidentally, l am very
proud to be a Liberal Demo crat and I am very proud of the Liberal Democrat coun cillors who, when they were in power on the Ribble Val ley Borough Council, intro duced business methods which have resulted in a sta ble financial position for the
council. '
BERTHA BRADSHAW, De Lacy Street, Clitheroe. ■
Challenge of
a trip to Peru ON Friday I was pleased to be playing with the Clitheroe Town Band in a concert for the members of
the Rotary Club. I am one of a group of
pupils from Stonyhurst Col lege preparing for the World Challenge Expedition to Peru in the summer of 2002. Thanks to Mr Bill Carter, the conductor, I was given the opportunity of giving a small presentation to the members of the Rotary about this expedition. A col lecting can was provided at the back of the hall for con tributions to my sponsor ship fund - I have to raise £3,000 towards the cost of the expedition. The response was fantas
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Smith, Mrs H. Anderton and the headmistress of Lancashire County Council Public School in Whiteacre Lane, Barrow, Mrs Varty of Clitheroe Hospital, then a workhouse, Miss D. M. Brockley and myself. When we sold the Kaydee Book shop we resigned from the club. The Kaydee Bookshop was started in 1946. • — I t was -a happy and
friendly club and we had a sister club in the USA in Port Townsend. We all had a pen friend in the American club. I kept in touch with mine for many years after I resigned, until we were "old and grey and full of sleep nodding by the fire”. During ration time, 1940
by the Rotary Club of Clitheroe was held at the Stirk House Hotel on Saturday and was attended by 190 guests. Entertainment was provid
ed in cabaret fashion by Janine Deakin on saxophone, followed by Sean McCree, British magic champion with comedian Mike Craig topping the bill. Dinner was tradition al English roast beef. The evening was supported
by many Ribble Valley busi nesses, which sponsored raffle prizes for the event. Overall, £2,000 was raised for the Sup porting Farmers in Crisis Fund, an NFU charity. Our photograph shows a
onwards, our sister club sent us stacks of food: Spam, corned beef and tinned salmon, packets to make cakes and trifles. It was like manna and we gave parties for the old men in Clitheroe Hospital - then the work- house. Mrs Varty was in charge of it and the old men looked forward to these par
ties. The Clitheroe club has
always done much good charitable work, right to the
end.My good wishes to all concerned.
K. H. BULCOCK, Parson Lane, Clitheroe.
Horses safer
tic and it is with extreme gratitude and appreciation that I write this letter to you to thank all those who contributed. Thank-you very much indeed. I still have a long way to
than vehicles I AM a little confused as to a female reaction to my friend and I while we were hacking our horses out round Withgill on Easter
Monday. I am writing in order to
go to achieve the financial goal and will be very grate ful to any of your readers who may be able to provide work for me during the school holidays, or may be willing to sponsor me. I can be contacted on 01200
proof that I do have the right to an opinion on the Grand Cinema which Mr Evans would deny me on spurious political grounds. I love my home town and
423841.
MARK GRIFFITHS, Claremont Avenue, Clitheroe.
want to see it served in the best possible ways. I would have thought it would be only courtesy for the owners of any building to be noti fied if it was proposed that the said building should be put forward for listing, to see if they had any objections. Did Mr Evans not know
A happy and Where do you in place?Much more was planned
that the Lancaster Founda tion had bought the Grand Cinema and that the Trini ty Partnership, through the foundation's generosity, has been responsible for all the improvements and facilities which have already been put
and had been reported in the Advertiser and Times. Which brings me back to my original question: what sort of duty does he think
liament. Mr Evans is taking his
friendly club AS a past member of the. Clitheroe Soroptomist Club I was so sorry to see from your picture in today's paper that the Clitheroe club is now a thing of the past. I recognised five of the ladies who were members when I was a member. Two ladies who founded
educate her as she was very unhappy about the situa
tion. First of all I would like to
stress that although horses can carry foot and mouth, they are carriers in the same way as walkers, dogs, cars, milk tankers and farm vehi cles, all of which are con stantly moving around the country lanes at Withgill. Both my friend and I
group at the dinner accompa nying the President of the Rotary Club of Clitheroe, Mr Peter Spencer, fourth from left, with his wife, Carol. (230401/7/6)
Greenft clarific; being
A MIXED message has! Government on farm diva
Valley Borough Council p| Issues surrounding the
introduction of alternative commercial use of farms often arise in the area. But a report to the Plan
ning and Development Committee reveals that "The Countryside - Envi ronmental Quality and Eco nomic and Social Develop ment" has caused officials to write to the Government seeking clarification of
some
points.The Government paper has implications for all agri cultural land, but the coun cil says it does not define just what they should regard as greenfield. I t introduces rules which seem to place an onerous and unnecessary burden on peo ple intending to diversify. "On the one hand we are
have spoken to the local farmers and they are happy for us to hack our horses out. However, the farmers are more concerned about other forms of transport in the area, such as cycles and cars, because they do not know where they have come from and can travel much further - at least they know where these horses are stabled and are confident that both horse and rider are adhering to full disinfectant proce
dures. Therefore, if the lady who
the club were one of the late headmistresses of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Miss W. Lumb, M.A. and the late Mrs P. Todd M.B.E. I cannot remember the first 15 ladies, but the late Miss- Dorothy Rushton was the first president. Other mem bers now deceased, Miss Elliot of York Street, Mrs E.
was driving a grey four- wheel-drive Mitsubishi still feels strongly about horses and riders hacking out, I am prepared to not ride my horse out if she is prepared to stay at home and not drive her car around the countryside.
MRS B. ROBINSON, Withgill Fold, Withgill.
, buildings. On the other hand we are being asked to ensure that development of greenfield sites is not allowed unless opportuni ties have been assessed for
being asked to encourage diversification of farms which clearly must involve development on existing land or within existing
l Top mu: appear piano
MUSICIANS of inter - again appearing at a ce
tival. Ribble Valley Interna
tional Piano Week, whicl takes place at the Cente naries Theatre, Stony hurst, from June 17th b 23rd, promises an excitin programme by major con cert-hall personalities. Leading British violinis
tiser and Times. Once choice was complete
demolition of the Grade II listed cinema to make way for a multi-million pound arts centre; the other choice was to retain the exterior
listed frontage. In real terms this must
■ information to English Her itage without himself being prejudiced on the issue. If that is the case, then pre sumably he would do the same for any of us who have an opinion on any old build ing in the town. Perhaps we should all individually write to him requesting him to contact English Heritage to pass judgment on as many different buildings in the town as possible. Would he do this? Obviously not. He then tries to muddy
constituents for fools. He says that he was merely doing his job passing on
mean support for demolition whichever way you voted. Buildings are listed in
their entirety. The scheme has been rejected and I can only seel this as a futile attempt to overturn the decision made by English
Heritage. As much as . I would sup
I an overwhelming demand for one more arts centre in Clitheroe, and it appears to be of little interest to the
port any plan which is for the good of the community, it has become perfectly clear from the 2.4% response to the survey that there is not
It is time now to look for Iward to the Lancaster Foun
readers of the paper, so what
opportunities.have.been lost? .
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'sale, first-class films to mail. Well, I wonder if it was attract a greater audience; as offensive as his final cpin-
dation improving the facilt-; To cap it all, he complains ties as to the terms of the of receiving an offensive e-
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behind this issue for party political ends" is a gross insult to the people of this community.
and professional manage- ment must appear, to those ment, rather than haying to ; who have invested so much- rely on the good nature of, time, money and energy in
volunteers to run the cihe- the project. He glibly won- . ders why on earth they
H .■Arethe critics.-of .English 'IxloiPt just go ott-and!md : •r;
eritage aware, that the (;anotherateforttearts cen nowers-that-be ar6: very i'trG.
keen to save buildings which My goodness, they have : M '
Tasmin Little and her du partner Martin Rosco open the festival on th Sunday, playing some of hi favourite music. Marti appears again on Monda lunchtime with Cheshii baritone Mark Rowlinsc in a programme of pastor
__ songs.Kathryn Stott perforr on Tuesday and will inti view Martin Roscoe abo his work. On Wednesd; Grace Huang, described a poised and graceful 2 year-old, plays a selection
the waters and fish for a few sympathy votes, which regrettably reflects even worse on him. It is he who tries to make a party politi cal issue of the matter by revealing that someone who opposed his point of view has had affiliations with a
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different party to his. Ninety-nine percent of
the readership of this news paper would have had no idea of Bertha Bradshaw's political persuasion if he had not told us.
She.is clearly too dignified to have done so,- which is more than
can.be said for Mr Evans. It is of course a red hemn'.To sug gest that people ai j
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