14 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, March 14th, 2002


Letters to the Editor ‘Enormous fun’ Why resurface


Write to: The Editor, Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Ciitheroe BR72EW I Editorial e-maiL- ciithcroe.editoriaI@rim.cauk


of ghost walks I WAS grateful for Tim Procter's article featuring one of the little storms which from time to time trouble Whalley's teacup. I would be glad for the oppor­


tunity to add a further com­


ment. . I count Simon Entwistle as a


friend, and I am an admirer of the ghost walks. They bring valuable attention to the tourism potential of Whalley and have an element of education as well as being enor­ mous fun. They do not glorify the occult,


a good road? THIS last weekend, work started on. resurfacing the old slip road from the A59 into Clitheroe and on the road into Barrow village. I drive on these roads on a fair­


lives, were married for 54 years, are buried together, and now some nameless person is stealing things which are left at their grave with love from their children. Will the person who is doing


My parents worked all their


ly regular basis and, when I recently saw the warning notices displayed that work was due to start on March 9th, I took the trouble to actually walk down the stretches of work in question. Considering the state of local


DISGUSTED. Getting a kick


or seek to stir up any sort of mor­ bid fascination with death. I'm delighted th a t someone with Simon's skills can continue to tell the village folktales in such a live­ ly and imaginative way. Every community needs its storytellers. I have no objection whatsoever


to the ghost walks - with or with­ out young assistants - passing through the churchyard, where I know that Simon takes the time to point out some of its finer fea­ tures. Our only objection to the ghost


streets and roads in Clitheroe, which are full of potholes, these stretches of road are by compari­ son near perfect. We have again reached that time of year when the council tax


to be levied is assessed, with all the attendant handwringing and excuses offered by local council­ lors that, though the increase is well above the inflation rate, it is not really their fault, but the Gov­ ernment's. Whether their claim that the


out of helping ON my way to Manchester, last Saturday with five teenagers, I found myself at the M65 round­ about with a flat rear tyre. Within five minutes of getting


the children out of the car and wrestling with the spare, a man pulled up to offer his help. He not only changed the tyre, but refilled the spare which was low and put two hubcaps on! He brushed aside my effusive


area in front of the Abbey gate is private property. However, nei­ ther the manager nor I have ever been so pedantic as to insist upon this. We do not know who it was who came out to drive away the ghost walk, but it was certainly not authorised by the Abbey management. From our point of view we are


will now be able to divert its attentions to more important matters!


CHRIS STERRY (Rev.), Warden of Whalley Abbey.


happy for the ghost walks to con­ tinue to stop outside the Abbey gate. I do hope the parish council


walks entering the Abbey grounds is that there are so many more positive features with which we would wish the Abbey to be asso­ ciated in people's minds. Regular guided tours offered by our Whal­ ley "monks” focus upon these. Strictly speaking, the cobbled


contribution from central govern­ ment is not what it should be, I don't know, but the money spent on services is under the direct con­ trol of these councillors, so per­ haps for once we can have an hon­ est explanation of the justifica­ tion for spending significant sums of money on these apparently unnecessary road works.


J.P.KANE, Shireburn Avenue, Clitheroe.


A ‘stop it’ appeal


ble to me and my family than people taking things from graves, and nobody can get any lower in our estimation.


which I put on for Remembrance Day, as my father was a prisoner of war for four years. Then it was a pot of tete-a-tete daffodils. There is nothing more despica­


to grave thief MY parents are buried at Wiswell and Whalley Cemetery and I would like to thank the person or persons who are taking things from their grave. First it was a vase, then a cross,


thanks and said simply that he gets a kick out of helping people. I t is all too easy to become


hardened and cynical in our fast- paced and crime-ridden world. Thank you to the gentleman from Clitheroe who stopped to take time to help. You know who you are and you made my dayl


CHASEY CRAWFORD USHER, Clitheroe.


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FOR some time Mr Charles Jepsdn, a teacher a t Oakhill College in Whalley, had a vision tO|turn p a r t of the mixed woodland in the col­ lege grounds into a


nature trail. Now that vision is a


reality and the! new nature trail and Kata- mavik was officially opened by local MP, Mr Nigel Evans, in the com­ pany of Coun. | Mrs Gwen Pye, Mayor of the Ribble Valley and: vari­ ous local guests, i Blessed by Father P.


Car full of stolen


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A CAR sped away from a side alley in Clitheroe after thefts from several stores in


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stopped by the police on the A59 and property worth hundreds of pounds was recovered, magistrates in Black­ burn heard. Claudine Shapcott


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Dillon, readings at the opening were given by Amy May and Claudia Yelland of Year 7j, and songs of celebration were provided by the children from the preparatory department.


land area has been trans­ formed into a delightful woodland walk about 150 metres long - with


An overgrown wood­ !


various bridges crossing a meandering stream flowing to a pond in which the ducks have already made home. A focal point of the


word for a quiet place for thinking and here people can sit in quiet reflection and absorb the nature around them. The creation of the


trail is the Katamavik which has a round circle of wooden logs and an alter dedicated to St Hilda, one of the patron saints of the school. A Katamavik is an Eskimo


trail is due to the many volunteers who have helped with its construc­ tion - the River Mersey Basin authority supplied expertise and some labour to help construct


the bridges and path­ ways; Castle Cement kindly donated the stones for the paths along with labour and machinery to create the walkways; and many local helpers gave up a lot of their spare time over the past year to the project. The nature trail is not only for the use of


Oakhill’s children, but is available to other local schools for nature, pond and stream studies, as well as the general public who can access it from Wiswell Lane. Pictured is Ribble Val­


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THE tradition of attracting key indus­ try figures to their annual dinner was maintained by mem­ bers of train enthusi­ asts group Ribble Valley Rail. ; At this year's event,


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(28), formerly of Airdrie Crescent, Burnley, and Daniel Charles Thomas (27), formerly of Old Stone Trough Lane, Kel- brook, admitted stealing groceries worth £216 from Sainsbury's, Clith­ eroe, and asked for a sim- ilar £119 offence at Tesco to be taken into consideration. Shapcott admitted


stealing three cam­ corders from Harry Gar- lick Ltd and Thomas admitted handling them. The court heard that a


member of staff a t a fourth store, Wool-


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(defending) said that heroin was the reason for the couple starting to offend in their mid-20s. Both had held respon­


sible positions in a busi­ ness owned by Thomas' father but after taking recreational drugs they were reduced to commit­ ting offences to fund their habit. The couple were now


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