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I Write to: The Editor, Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clithcroe BB72EW Editorial e-mail:
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criticism. I AM writing in response to the letter from R. J. M. Loebell in last week's Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. I am the geographic
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'■. I am more than happy to investigate concerns about policing in the area and am always available for contact via Clitheroe Police Station.. We are trying with our
inspector with responsi bility for Ribble Valley.. ;
the station is connected directly to the eastern ■: communications room at Blackburn - which is where all the telephone calls for the Ribble Valley , area are now directed. All 999 calls on mobile tele- ; phones do go through to national centres before being passed to the appropriate area. . R. J. M. Loebell men
this farewell eulogy, but I have witnessed and expe-i rienced Geoff's ever-cor- dial and obliging assis tance to the more elderly and infirm, even reach ing out in whatever help he can offer to the house bound. Farewell to Geoff and Sue, and a thank you on
L would not presume
partner agencies to reduce crime and disor der in the Ribble Valley. I know the police do not always get it right, and we are anxious to improve the service we offer. However, it is disap pointing when mislead ing statements are parad ed as reality 1 I t is true th a t our
beautiful area is targeted by travelling criminals - that is why they are a specific issue in the cur rent Crime and Disorder Act strategy. Through various
. This arrangement is mutual - they regularly' help us, as happened in the recent floods. We do maintain a presence 24 hours a day, seven days a week across the Ribble Valley. Targeting crimi nals is not always an overt activity, and I would not expect R. J. M. Loebell to see us in some of the places that my staff spend time, par ticularly in the early hours! We rely on the commu
efforts, including valu able help from residents, we have made some excellent arrests for bur glary and other offences in the area, committed by people from County Durham, Morecambe, Liverpool, Manchester and the'other towns in the East Lancashire area. In a recent arrest, the
tions staff being called away to Accrington and , elsewhere. -Yes - they are deployed, occasionally, to assist neighbouring areas.
hehalf of us all. ANCIENT VILLAGER
Keep the
noise down! I AM writing on behalf
. of all the happy parents and residents of
think it is the Lancast ers, for once again wak ing our children at 10-20 p.m. with a fireworks dis play that shook our win dows with seemingly never-ending and repeti tive thuds. Yes,
concerned, I
nity to. support us, and I welcome debate based on facts. The next Police Authority Community meeting is at; Hurst Green Village Hall at 7 p.m. on September 11th. I look forward to seeing members of the commu nity there. INSP. ROBERT E. FORD
Farewell to
pursuit of the vehicle eventually ended after it had passed through three other divisions and the helicopter, motorway and dog patrols had been deployed. Would a local force have these resources available? ’ The police station at
our friends FAREWELL to our vil lage postmaster of Chat-
burn. I have often reflected
Clitheroe is closed at night because very, few people visit us - the mobile telephone means' that everyone now rings us. Having the station open all night is not the best use of a trained per son - they are now work
ing outside. The telephone outside
on the essential personal ities of village life: vicar/minister, school teacher, bobby, pub- owner and Chatbum has its chippy too. I have never taken the
•astheydo? Do they realise that
everyone else take my hat off to them for their success and their many contributions to the community. But, if it is the Lancasters, do their contributions give them the right to have as many fireworks displays
I along with
many parents will be tired at work on a Mon day morning due to their tearful children being wakened in such a thun derous way? Add to that the heli
copter coming and going - it's like living next to an
Army basel ANNOYED PARENT, Clitheroe.
Car park is
facility of a post office for granted, but never so much appreciated the obliging services and courtesies that Mr Geoff West, now leaving, has offered over these past years.. .
for everyone AS a resident and ratepayer in the Ribble Valley and someone who frequently uses the sur rounding countryside
Edisford Road area of Clitheroe to thank the family
andTts amenities,! was very annoyed to find the
car park on the Black Hills above Sabden had been taken over by a passing group of itiner
ants. -- ... During the last three ,-
the , to at the council offices appeared quite compla cent and informed me there was nothing he could do. .Might I sug gest that if he and his colleagues
put their
brains in gear they would realise there is. I t
impossible for high vehi cles to get on to the site in the first place by putting up substantial headroom limiters. Perhaps then the
should be made
weeks they have succeed- .' ed in depriving regular users of the parking facil ity and appear to have operated a business from the car park. This is a public car park for all to use and not somewhere for all and sundry to park their caravans and lorries for three weeks at atime. The gentleman I spoke
ter has been taken seri ously and we are making further efforts. If you would like to
detail. HUGH GEDDES, Pilot Properties Ltd., . 1 Kingsland Passage, London E8 2BB
A foolhardy
• gal immigrants, mostly only here for what they can get. Once here, some peo
business IT appears that we Eng lish are becoming a somewhat stupid nation of peopled Over the last few years we have allowed into this country tens of thousands of ille-
contact me here (tel. 020 7275 7676) we could arrange to meet and dis cuss the matter in more
grants who landed there. Government, figures show that it is costing the taxpayers £10,000 per person per year to keep them there. Now the Government
Trust would like to thank everyone who has been involved with the charity since it began 28 years ago. We would like to
has announced that these illegal immigrants are to have private med ical treatment, again all funded by the taxpayer. So how stupid are we
.out more money per week to house, feed and keep them fully fit, yet we pay out a pittance to our own pensioners who have worked all their lives for a well-deserved
money spent on clearing up after these visits could be put to a more worthy cause. R. J. E. McILROY, Carleton Avenue, Simonstone.
A delicate situation
PLEASE may I, through your columns, reply to the resident who wrote to me anonymous ly on May 30th about a problem in this village? Thank you for your
helpful letter, which has only just reached me. We are aware of the unsatis factory state of affairs to which you refer and have been trying to control it but, as you point out, it is a delicate situation which presents certain
. difficulties. Nevertheless your let
ple have gone out of their way to ensure that our hands - the indigenes' - are tied behind our backs, when it comes to our desire to send the1 illegals packing back to' where they came from. The Government tells
us that it is costing us, the taxpayers, a fortune to keep them here while the political asylum cases are looked into. The cost runs into mil lions of pounds each year and is rising as more and more cases flood this once green and pleasant land. We are now informed
when we are asked to bury our heads in the sand on this question of illegal immigrants and told that it is not politi cally correct to speak o u t . about it? How foolish are we that we are'asked to pay
express our deep grati tude to all those who have volunteered as potential blood stem cell donors as well as those that have helped raise the funds necessary to run the register. You have all played a vital role in assisting us save thousands of lives. Shirley set up the
retirement? As for private medical
treatment; how many millions of our own indi genes, who are ill and are waiting for months and even years for treatment, have been given the choice of state or private treatment? I t is a sad state of
world's first register of blood stem cell donors, the ANT, in 1974. She hoped to find a donor for her son, Anthony, but sadly no donor could be found with the same tis sue type. Unfortunately, he died in 1979, but Shirley was determined to carry on with the reg ister to help others. Shirley had said: "My greatest, reward has always been knowing that my little boy didn't die in vain." The trust has provided
affairs that we now live in a country that pays out more to illegal for eigners than the average working indigene earns in a year - and that's before deductions. So how foolish are we
that we foot the bill to build special camps for these people at the cost of hundreds of millions of pounds. I t will also cost hundreds of pounds per week for each illegal person to be fed and looked after for the many years they remain before their cases are looked into. On the island of
to stand by and let it happen? I t's no wonder tha t
about 52,000 indigenes are leaving England each year to live on the Euro pean continent. CONCERNED CLITHERONIAN.
Work will
Cyprus, Britain has a small military base which now houses hun dreds of illegal immi
Time capsule is buried in foundations of new church
| ^NEWSPAPERS, photographs and coins have been preserved in a plas-
j : A' solid silver trowel used to lay the | original foundations of Chatburn Methodist Chapel in 1883 was again
ley church.
, called on to help bury a time capsule | under the base of the new church on Saturday. During a service to dedicate the
I tic box which has been buried | under the site of a new Ribble Val
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continue THE recent sad death of Shirley Nolan OBE has created a lot of interest in her life's work. The Anthony Nolan
donors for 3,500 trans plants and is determined to carry on the work that Shirley began. Thank you for your help with continuing her work. If you would like to
find out more about the life and work of Shirley or know more about the trust's activities, please look at our website,
www.anthonynolan.org. uk. We should also be delighted if donors on our register who we may have lost contact with over the years, could inform us of any change of address by emailing newaddress@antho-
nynolan.org.uk or writ ing to the charity at the Anthony Nolan Trust, PO Box 1767, London, NW327R. RUTH DODD Regional Controller, The Anthony Nolan Trust
- year-old Joe Shirtcliffe and mem-1 •:bers of the Readstone United | >'■
■ * DIGGING for victory are three-1
J1 With coach Mr David Byrom I I'1 (left) and manager Mr Peterl
Junior footb; ’ under-nines football team.
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• ?work, bedding plants at Read CEi x Primary School as training for thisl Sunday's Ribble Valley Charity| ? Shield Tournament.
Shirtcliffe, they put in some spade I
!,- which is to be played at Clitheroe| -■-FC's Shawbridge ground.
; Messing about ‘ V-'.i
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i’ Readstone United is forwarding! various teams in the competition,!
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. - A BOAT trip on the 9i. canal proved to be an ..j . enjoyable summer event for Clitheroe Speakers' s t
' Club.
" The event was organ- ' r ised by Wharfedale 1 Speakers' Club, Otley. Conditions were perfect- 7,-for the three-hour cruise,
Aln their,favourite pas-
Y’time 5- speaking.-Memr ,.bers of Skipton'and - |';jWetherby Speakers' ’
|; from other clubs on the : trip from Skipton.
Fourteen members S and guests joined friends ]
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l jh as all on board took, part _
| site of the new chapel the minister, the Rev. Stephen Foster, and church treasurer Miss Ida Dugdale laid the
| capsule. Having inquired about what type
| ware Container would be most suit able because of its indestructibility. ■ Among the contents she included in the capsule were a souvenir newspa-
of box to use for her capsule, Miss Dugdale was advised that a Tupper-
| per reporting the Queen's Golden Jubilee, last week's edition of the • Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, cut tings about the demolition of the old church and plans for the new build ing, a message from Mr Foster, as well as stamps, a CD and a service | leaflet from Saturday's dedication of
I the site. Around 60 people attended the ser
vice which was held on the founda tions of the new church in brilliant
| sunshine. Led by Mr Foster, the Rev. Chris
Cheeseman and the Rev. Richard Atkinson, the service included hymns, readings and prayers and a collection taken for the building fund raised £244. . Our photograph shows the time
t- P . * £ 2 . 6 2 £ 1 . 4 9 £ 2 . 9 9 £ 6 . 9 9 P I 0 . 4 9 t l U i 4 9 £ 9 . 0 9 £ 1 3 . 9 9 £ 1 0 . 4 9 m r IP! DAVISON -
A honeymoon on Par- 1 adise Island followed the £ wedding at Higher Par- 1 adise Chapel, Horton-in- 1 Craven, of Miss Char- ]
The wedding was the ,
lotte Elizabeth Parker ] and Mr Mark Anthony < Davison.
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capsule being buried under the foun dations for the new church. > (J030802/1)
Wedding party target
I WHILE wedding guests | were dancing the night away, a thief was hard at | work in a Ribble Valley,
hotel. ■ He misaligned securi
ty cameras so th a t no one would see who
| entered three guest bed rooms at the Stirk Hotel, Gisburn. Guests returned to
| their bedrooms m the early hours of Sunday morning to discover the
| thief had visited.. A guest
Barnoldswick found a from
I ring, cash and a wallet, | to a total value of £113, had been taken. A guest from Burnley
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lost- property worth £800, including a laptop computer, purse and cash. A guest from Skipton
lost a wallet, jeans and a hair dryer. (Police are making
inquiries and appealing for witnesses. . • ..
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first to take place at the ■ old village chapel since its refurbishment last year and only the sixth
since 1964. The bride, a hydrolo
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Gome along to one of our
r and mountain biking. ' Her bridegroom is the : son of Mr P. Davison, of
gist, is the daughter of Mr and Mrs M. J. Park er, of Ghyll Grange House, Silsden. She is a keen sportswoman and enjoys gym, golf, squash
- Barnoldswick, and Mrs ; J. Ritson, of Horton-in- ’ Craven. He is the direc- - tor at Bizzie Lizzies, - Skipton, and plays 0 rugby for Skipton * RUFC first team. He .- also enjoys golf and S mountain biking. . The bride, given away 1 by her father; wore a
i Volunteers : VOLUNTEER street - marshals are needed for., s Clitheroe’s Torchlight
r procession. r. Full training in "street 5 safety" will be given to
: On the evening of the - procession,-it will. be_ the ,;
■ anyone coming forward.
call into Student Services to find out about courses and student finance or call us on
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■- expected; to. throng, * Clitheroe’s town centre,;
streets. . ’
-- marshalls* responsibility - i to monitor the crowds,;
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