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Letters to the Ridiculous


tree plan WHY is it when people are so desperate for an excuse they start treating people like idiots or children? I know Mr Jagger is des­ perate for a valid excuse,


but felling trees to combat supposed crime is plain daft. Why not defoliate gar­ dens as well to prevent bur­


glary? There will be vandalism,


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no matter what preventa­ tive steps are taken. A bet­ ter youth policy in summer, as well as more policing of known areas, would be far better. Far more effective than blaming it on trees, I would have thought. What are we to make of


the excuse given by some that whatever views the Castle had in the 12th Cen­ tury should be the same today? Well, let me say plainly, this is the 21st Cen-


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POTFEST in the Park July 27/28/29th


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ending with a further 200 from all over Europe


POTFEST in the Pens Aug 3/4/5th‘


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tury, not the 12th. The Cas­ tle was proved to be an unreliable defensive struc­ ture as early as the 17th Century. Today's battles are with global warming," not with the odd roving band of armed Welshmenl Of course, in today's battles it's trees that are a better


defence. I ask the council to recon­


sider and drop this unpopu­ lar and unnecessary plan. The more excuses Mr Jag­ ger comes up with, the more ridiculous the plan sounds.


JOHN DUBOWSKI, Castlegate.


Proper debate


is now needed SO Coun. Backhouse rep­ eats the facts that only 41 trees out of 690 trees and saplings in the Castle grounds are to be felled (Advertiser and Times, July


19th). What concerns my


| be left with 41 poisoned stumps. And for no good


friends and I is that all 41 are in one place, on the Cas­ tle Mound. The Mound will be denuded, and, according to English Hertitage, we will


| reason. The time of felling is


approaching, and we feel (like Catherine Britcliffe in Letters last week) that there should be a proper debate about this issue.


JAYNE PARRINGTON, Woone Lane,


Clitheroe.


Hazard to children


WHEN there has been heavy rainfall, raw, untreat­ ed sewage appears to be dis­ charged from the sewage works, in Henthorn Road, into the stream which flows directly, in a few hundred metres, into the River Rib-


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I ble.I believe that the evi- I dence is there for all.to see on the branches of trees at the stream's edge, and among the pebbles in the


I woods by the stream. (1The woods are a popular


piay area for local children. During the recent, but:


I of the stream and spitting the water out of their


short-lived, hot spell, chil­ dren were out playing in the stream, often diving head first into it, coming up out


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mouths.The hot spell was fol­ lowed by thunderstorms and torrential rain. I saw the water turn a nasty grey colour and the sewage smell rose from its surface. The children returned and


played in the water. I spoke to the children,


| boys aged between 12 and 14 years, and pointed out


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the potential dangers to them. Even when I explained to them, in even­ tually rather crude terms, I am not sure that they understood what harm swimming in polluted water could do to them. They said: "We are only having a laugh."


ing about the tourist office


Clitheroe Town Council for the colourful displays they have provided. MRS JEAN ENTWISTLE, Chairman, Clitheroe Civic Society, Chatburn Park Drive, Clitheroe.


ning of the 21st Century, what I believe to be untreated raw sewage can still be discharged straight into a stream? I write this letter in a bid


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to inform parents of the potential danger that their children, unwittingly, may be putting themselves in.


STEPHEN LEE, Henthorn Road, Clitheroe.


Who rips off


the taxpayer? AS the foot and mouth dis­ ease still spreads in the Val­ ley and beyond, there is still a debate about how it is spreading - some even blaming the Government itself.


TWO recent items in the Advertiser and Times demand some comment. You mentioned Slaidburn Silver Band's first overseas trip to France in 1986. This was a time when antipathy to tourism was at its height in the Ribble Valley. I was in my own right an elected member of the North-West


Tourist Board. These two items on


suggests there is a deep- seated realisation that


progress is not being made. The business difficulties


of quite well-known hostel- ries over recent years are a sign of the true reverse trend. Itis not in the scope of this letter to pinpoint what has gone wrong. How­ ever, I ask you, Mr Editor, if I may be more positive and suggest basic princi­ ples. Tourists are every­ where but here — to get them you need imaginative


marketing. to France.


purpose of Slaidburn get­ ting that first no-cost invite


It works and that was the ,


tourism in the Advertiser and Times 25 years apart caught my eye. It is years' since I have made any pub­ lic comment on the subject, having other priorities. Recent years have given me the opportunity of foreign


travel. In 1986 I was asked to organise the establishment


debate, I have heard that farmers can purchase the foot and mouth disease for £2,000. This is only an unconfirmed rumour, but it


Well, to add fuel to the


makes you think. Also, I still see on my


journeys along the A59 the daily routine of hay or grass-cutting in fields that only three weeks ago con­ tained animals that were


culled. One can see machines


c le an e d or chemically treat-. start-up. This resulted in ed, so who is to blame for the invitation to Slaidburn the continuing spread of the


moving around the area wiutnouu


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disease? The Government has


announced th a t i t is to investigate the high cost of cleaning the farms affected by foot and mouth (Europe, £10,000; England, £100,000). Well, I would suggest they take a look at the high wages th a t are being paid out. I have been informed that people are being paid £1,000 per day for what, is just a labourer's


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ip. So whovjs ripping pfLthe 'taxpayer thistime? '


CONCERNED CLITHERONIAN.


Colourful new plant displays


' HOW very pleased our late chairman Mrs Beryl Cas­ sidy would have been to see the new plant troughs in Clitheroe town centre. She had long advocated


private funding responsible for the launch that Ribble Valley be given an input into the inaugural event as part of the price of my involvement in the media


and to the then Mayor, Coun. Fred Green, a former newspaper executive him­ self, to take part in a Bastille Day weekend. I t included a fly-past of


of a no-change express coach service to Paris, which was the first service from the UK to hold an EEC licence. The service has now developed across Europe under the brand name Eurolines, which I am sure many readers may have seen on European


roads. I insisted to the public-


offers twinning opportuni­ ties. So what does Clitheroe do? Go for a twin to France as far away as it could, Rivesaltes. And what has been achieved except friendship and jollies for


The European Union .


some?I t is fashionable to have more than one twin now, so the policy can be adjusted,


can't it? If the suggestion of the


city fathers of St Omer, Arras, Le Touquet and other channel ports had been taken up for links when they all visited the Ribble Valley Mayor's Par­ lour more than once, busi­ ness and social links could have been developed that in the day of the Channel Tunnel would have been more realistic. The 2002 golden jubilee


don to the Valley in mid­ summer; another day in 1975 50 people went on a December Saturday to the Slaidbum Christmas Fayre from Margate. Past straws in the wind


that lie neglected today. ANTHONY MELVILLE


PERRY, Hurst Green.


Ship news


from USA YOU may recall the "Clitheroe at War" exhibi­ tion displayed at Clitheroe Castle Museum from Feb­ ruary 17th to March 4th


this year.The Clitheroe Advertiser and Times kindly adver­ tised on our behalf a request for information on "HMS Castleton", Clith- eroe's adopted warship. One of the Clitheroe Market traders, Mr George


Stirland, who is an ex-navy man, came to see our exhi­ bition and made some inquiries among his associ­ ates and has supplied us with quite a lot of informa­ tion on the warship. We were thrilled to receive a let­ ter and photographs from a gentleman in America who had actually served on HMS Castleton during the


2nd World War.


D. MARY HORNBY, Custodian, Clithcroe Castle Museum.


the French Air Force and also a paratroop drop on to a war memorial in a place


will be a great holiday, a time the Ribble Valley can be buzzing next year. Can I suggest that in the next four weeks, all those intersted in making this an exciting and memorable celebration use the conventional tourist channels (and maybe as a catalyst the good offices of the Mayor's Parlour) to examine how best this Val­ ley can make a new begin­ ning to promote itself as a tourist resort in the outside world, using the Royal year as a chance to do it. Just now huge colour


where the Gestapo had murdered 6,000 forced


workers.Your paper was not one of the 50 newspaper, radio and TV organisations pre­ sent.. When you came to _ record it as a 25 years event,


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lamp checks I WONDER if your readers can help me with my hobby, which is collecting brass embossed colliery lamp checks, or tokens and tallies as they are sometimes


called. These are brass discs


jt is little, wonder that the-


"’detail in your column did not reflect the facts of the weekend, nor of its private- ly-raised finance. These events of some


. mote such an idea? /, For Christmas excursions One major brochure, extols the Ribble Valley,-Where the


time ago offer a positive aspect to the present con­ troversy over the tourist information office. I have to say that everything I have seen in that office and its positioning fulfils anything positive one could expect in the infrastructure neces­


floral decoration to bright­ en up the town and had been somewhat disheart­ ened by the lack of response.


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A RIBBLE VALLEY businessman, William Francis Bowen, told the policeman who stopped him as he drove, home late at night that he had just had "a wet" from a bottle of whisky as he ate fish and - ; chips in


Clitheroe. Bowen (49), of Higher Warble Hay Farm, Mellor, admitted driving with excess alcohol and was banned from driving for two years, fined £200 and ordered to pay £55 costs. Mr Daniel King (defend-


I ing) said Bowen had been "flabbergasted" when he


was told he had supplied a reading of 93, against the


legal limit of 35. Mr King told the court


Bowen ran Bowen Plant


Hire with his two brothers and his duties were mainly delivery and maintenance of


the machinery. On the night of the


offence he had taken a part to a farm and, while there,


he had accepted the fanner’s invitation to have a drink. "That was not enough to


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put him over the limit and he set off for home," said Mr |


"He stopped in Clitheroe


for fish and chips and there just happened to be a bottle of whisky in his Land Rover. He took a swig from the bottle after his supper. He felt perfectly fit to drive."


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Council has recognised its duty to conservation and tourism and has created a solid base. But the nit-pick­


brochures are hitting the travel agents' shelves pro­ moting the winter and Christmas seasons. In Europe they mention the excellent Christmas mar­ kets. Why cannot we pro-


customers are to stay. Well, not quite - they will find themselves at the Preston


with the name of the col­ liery on them as well as the miner's number. The miner would draw this check along with his lamp from the lamp room before going down the mine. I am trying very hard to


health care SPECIFIC opportuni­ t ie s to improve the I health of local people are being identified by a spe-1


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area. The Ribble Valley Prima- I


ry Care Group is implement­ ing plans to evaluate its spe­ cial school nurse/ health visi­ tors service, assessing and doing what it can to meet the needs of rural communities and continuing to implement the teenage pregnancy and National Healthy School | Standard programmes. An East Lancashire I


Health Authority report says that progress has already been made in several other areas of health care. There have been improve­ ments to mental health pro­ vision in the Ribble Valley, a clinical governance plan has been developed and an audit programme for anti-coagula­ tion services and asthma | drawn up. The needs of older people I in particular have been |


addressed by a pilot medi­ cine management project, I improvements to day care and schemes to help with transport, gardening and alarms for cold weather and | carbon monoxide.


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many last year, I passed Cologne, where the Christ­ mas market was in full swing. On one single Sun­ day there were more than 1,000 British coaches with more than 50,000 "Brits",in that single city. I saw eight Lancashire


are: Hill Top Colliery, Fir Trees Drift, Salterford Nos 1 & 2 Colliery, Nabb Col­ liery, Old Meadows Col­ liery, Copy Colliery, Deer- play Colliery, Huncoat Col­ liery, Reedley Colliery, Calder Colliery, Moorfield Colliery, Clifton Colliery, Thorny Bank Colliery, Grimebridge Colliery, Towneley Demesne Col­


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