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March was dry, mildl month I
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Event hits right note for charity
A DAY in the sun with Slaidbum Silver Band at West Bradford on Sun day raised £285 for the Three Rivers Park fund raising group to add to the £3,560 they have already raised for Chil dren in Christie's.
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are now gearing up for their big event of the year - three days'of activities over the Gold en Jubilee weekend from June 1st. Events include the
The busy fund-raisers
Royal Regiment,,of Fusiliers, inflatables, a clown and face painting and even a boys' band will be playmg.
There will also be an ,
show teaih’/rbmiBIaidc- pool, and oh June' 2nd a sports day will include a '
appearance of the Cul pepper ,W^tem C h ^ ty
donkey derby. [
On June 3rd, a street party will be held.
Advertisement sign refused
A PROPOSAL for an advertisement sign a t KAMS Service Station, Simonstone, has been rejected. A Government App
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TH E R E were concerns th is week in Clitheroe about what was being interpreted in some quarters as an about-turn by Dr Stephen Morton, Director of Public Health for the East Lancashire Health Authority, which ceased to exist a t the beginning of this month.
Critics claim th a t he
had always sof t-ped a lled on issues su r rounding allegations of harmful emissions from Castl6 Cement's Rib-
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"blesdale Works. But in what was idrtu- ally his last act for the authority - a report to
-" the Environment Agen- ’^cy in response to C^tle -'^/Cement's appUcation for ,^new Integrated Pollution
'/Prevention and Control " regulations - he was scathing about standards
®” the emissions of carbon and sulphur dioxide from ■“ kils five and six were
a t the plant. His report stated that
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His recommendation to the health authority
'^'abiUt^thktthe't^okilios-•
"^theiruse". '
Eeferring.to the prob'-i.
® 'was for it to request fur- 3"ther remedial action on ” ”kilns five and six "or an early discontinuation of
^ °plant in North'Wales came on stream, he
■''’'reported: "We would not' want
approval tor continued to support
I fuse, over a further four ^ears or more,.at their current level of perfor-
UKmance." He described the per-
eals Officer has dismised an appeal into the Ribble Valley Borough Coun cil's refusal to allow the 1.3 by 2.5 metre sign.; The decision le t te r ' pointed out th a t addi tion of the sign would lead to an excess of advertising material on the site. I t would be "unduly
intrusive", especially when illuminated a t night. ■
] Monday lover the Research's l/Irs Mavis
phe twins, and Mrs
Diesel theft
THIEVES stole diesel fuel worth £200 from a ■ coach parked in Station Road, Gisburn: The theft occurred some time last week and police are investigating. ,
-q<dioxide and particulate bo'matter. sWi The third kiln, num- -niber seven, did not escape
eri.iDr Morton's criticism. . n jHe said the kite "appears laJto exceed benchmark -rhstandards for nitrogen blioxides and particulate ■fo matter". no Veteran campaigner committed to moth- Mrs Mary Homer said: balling these kilns as
.ccformance of the two kites noas "relatively poor" for emissions of sulphur
•ifi,"This is a U-tum, noth- Ylfing more and nothing Je less". 'While he -was director
of public health for the East Lancashire NHS
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Health Authority, Dr Morton, had frequently countered allegations that the Castle Cement stacks were causing ill health.
report, the last before he joined the newly-created
Even in this la te s t
"General- ' these
investigations are reas suring and the authority has more information on exposure, and on health status, for the local pop ulation aroimd Clitheroe, than for any other part of the health district. 'IThe health s ta tu s
of the .report shows that health
report posted on the. Internet, by CANK, the
-^^^wbuld'sEutdoTO m three; .c ^ p a ig n against;a new. ^ fefouryearawhenanew.' kiln in North Walei
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said: " I t is interesting th a t now, with the Padeswood
approved, we hear for the first time of East Lan cashire Health Authori ty's concerns over pollu tion, when, all the.time, they have been saying there is no health risk. Is this coincidence or indus try before people a t the local health authority?" Mr Ian Sutheran, gen
plan
eral manager of Castle Cement, said this week: "As Dr Morton has already stated in previ ous reports, there are no health issues that can be directly attributable to kites five and six. We are
soon as Padewood kiln four is successfully com missioned." Dr Morton was
unavailable this week for further comment.
Walkers’ trek around Barley and Roughlee
s^fiTHIRTY-ONE mem bers of Clitheroe Ram-
“ biers’ Association enjoy- fed a walk led by .Mr jNeviile Wardle.
the rain came down and everyone received a drenching, but had dried out half-an-hour later. At Roughlee, the
{ ■ Starting from Barley
*'‘^an d -a -h a lf mile round tr ip , passing between lower and upper Black Moss reservoirs and on to Mountain Farm., ■. Unfortunately, the clouds descended and
|lnformation Centre, the ®*walkers took a seven-
group climbed up to Noggarth Cottage, where members stopped for refreshments and the inevitable ice cream.
. The homeward stretch took the ramblers along the bank of. White Hough Water and back toBarley..
Stonehill
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is generally good with no evidence of increased levels of those diseases attribu ted to common a ir pollutants such as respiratory disease, heart disease or lung cancer." . News of Dr Morton's
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www.eastlancashlrTOnllne.co.uk - New future looms for mill relics THREE 100-year-old looms
.which clattered for nearly 90 y e a rs a t a C h a tb u rn mill m ig h f 'b e back in useful employment again later this year.
. • But this week they were expect ed to be taken to Staffordshire, •
' The looms were saved from the ' scrap merchants when the mill closed.and the building was. demolished. ” Their rescue was effected by Mr
-where a-village community pro- 'ject:wants to restore them and put them to use once more. • :
Alan Townson, who was an elec trician a t the mill and the third generation of his family to work there. His father was a former manager.
• The looms have been stored at
the haulage yard of F.HiMyers Ltd, on Salthill Industrial Estate, while Mr Townson, of Greenfield
• The loonas have been gather- ■ ing rust in a yard since Victoria’ • Mill closed in 1991.
• Avenue, Chatburn, sought a way • of bringing them back into use locally. He had even offered them free to “a good home.”
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Mr.Townson said: ''It is a great
pity that part of Chatbum's her itage is disappearing. My family has been involved with Victoria Mill for three generations and I am disappointed th a t our local community has not wanted to make use of the looms. "But I am very pleased th a t
they are going to weave again and in a village that ob-viously has a great community spirit.'' The new home was found after
some detective work on the Inter net by another Chatburn resi dent, businessman Mr John Bot- terlll; '
He said: "I feel sad to think
that the looms are leaving the -vil lage, but they are going to a good home."
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: The looms are going, to The Loom Room project a t Lower
Tean, Staffordshire. Project co ordinator Stacey Harvey-Brown smd: "We wanted three Lancashire looms because they are so versa tile, and to discover three in such good condition was a great find. "Our village is totally behind
this project. I t has brought the community together. ".In time, we want the project to
become commercially viable and provide employment in an area that needs revitehsing", She is appealing for history
about the Chatburn mill, so that a permanent display on the histo ry of the looms can be mounted . Our picture shows Mr Townson
with the looms.
Dispute over a grass verge halts building of homes
by Vivien Meath
A NEIGHBOURHOOD dispute over the ownership of a grass verge has halted a bid to build four cot tage s in a so u g h t-a f te r a re a of Clitheroe. Angered by what he sees as the contin
uing infill urbanisation of the town, a retired Clitheronian has made a stand. Mr C.S. Wilkie's actions have halted
granted planning permission, at the second attempt, almost 12 months ago and the sale of the land being ■virtually agreed. To improve pedestrian safety, a condi
tion of the permission was that a footpath be formed -within a grass -verge which fronts Mr Wilkie's property. The grass verge, claims the retired
Moorland School proprietor, is his. So incensed is Mr Wilkie th a t he has now taken the dispute over the ownership of the verge to the Land Registry and intends to fight all the way.
work to build four mews-style cottages in the rear garden of his next door neighbour's home in Ribblesdale Avenue. This is despite the development being
The neatly mown verge, planted with trees, has signs of relatively recent fencing,
which, claims Mr Wilkie, was partly taken down last month. Mr Wilkie's home, Suimymede, built in
1905, adjoins Northmede, the property where planning permission was granted and wWch is currently on the market. ■ "I have been here 27 years. During that
time I have maintained the grass verge in front of my property, which was main tained by my predecessors before me. I am • a preserver by nature. I objected to the plans for this'development and I don't think we have the right to niin things in this way," he said.
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Mr 'Wilkie believes that the development land, for'sale a t £200,000, has been sold.
Northmede, he claims, is on the market for £250,000. Before the four homes can be built, plan
: maintained afterwards. At the time of the application, the coun
cil received six letters objecting to the development. Issues raised included the destruction of
ners have ruled that both the footpath over the land Mr Wilkie claims to be his, and the sightline improvements, should be car ried out. The features would need to be '
numerous trees, the access road, which also serves other properties as well as Moorland School, being very narrow and congested, and tha t granting the application would set a precedent and be an invitation to owners of neighbouring properties to make similar applications which would be diffi cult to refuse. A large field at the rear of the Ribbles
dale A-venue properties is owned by the occupant of the property neighbouring Northmede. And, with other substantial housing developments having taken place in the area, many residents are already ask ing how long it will be before that, too, is built on. Despite objections to the plan for the
Michael McGlynn, and a local builder, whose board has been erected on site, will have to sit and wait until a decision is forthcoming from the Land Registry. As i t stands, if the verge is found to
four cottages, permission was given. For now, Northmede's owner, Mr
belong to Mr 'Wilkie, then the situation will continue to be one of stalemate unless the parties involved apply to Ribble 'Valley Borough Coimcil for the footpath condition to be lifted or appeal to the Planning Inspectorate.
famous firm had the youngsters up to their elbows in dough.when sheL-visifed thein a t their Ribbleyalley .venue..; - ' ' As well as being shown how bread is’made, the- children were all gi-ven a piece of dough and te-vit- ed to create their own hedgehogs. The Warburtons rep
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Parliamentary humour E7G(ffifSSc?sl;fibiite to charity worker
AT the meeting of Clitheroe and District Masonic Fellowship, held in West Bradford Village Hall, the
guest spe^er was Mr Kenneth Hargreaves. He gave a talk on the humorous side of Parliament, which was well-received by the 34 members present. Arrangements were made for a trip to Port Sun
light and the Albert Dock, Liverpool, on June 10th, to which all members and friends are welcome. The next meeting will be held on May 13th at 2-
30 p.m., when the speaker will be Mr J. Entwistle, of' the Red Cross.
CLITHEROE'S branch of the Save the Children Fund was represented at the charity's 2002 area conference. The event began with a two-minute
silent tribute to the Queen Mother. Respects were also paid to the late Mrs Christine Hampson, a Clitheroe Save the Children Fund supporter for more than 20 years.
tives to combat child poverty and pre vent child labour. Round-the-world yachtsman Mr
Keith Moore told of his experiences in the BT Global Challenge race, which he used to raise £700,000 for the char- ity.
The Clitheroe branch is to hold a town centre street collection and flag
Video and platform presentations ' day next month and a celebration focused on the charity's latest initia- beauty event later in the year. .. •
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