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P a in te r a n d D e c o ra to r Est. 1979


Tel: Clitheroe 42 5 5 9 5


a weekly look at local issues, people and places compiled by John Turner;


one" was'made.to stand on its head when the British National


Party arrived for the weekend. There must'have been more police


in the Kibble Valley than there had •ever been before at any one time. At Gisbum Auction Mart there was


a large fleet of mini-buses each full of police standing by in case of trouble. There were several vans with police dogs in them and There were traffic, cones as far as>the-eye, courd;see,' because the police had mounted a traf­ fic check point there. Furtherj towards Clitheroe there were more! police standing by, there


was a group of police - including two from the mounted branch - standing


The man in the street could make full! use of this force to be reckoned with T


HAT hackneyed old phrase "You can never find a policeman when you want


",xf'r } As Isee i t . b y ;John:Turnei


shoulder to shoulder at the edge of the road facing just 19 protesters from the Anti-Nazi League at the entrance to the BNP rally field.


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. There was also a'large posse of police operating a road block at the A59 junction with Chatburn Road and others, apparently, were on stand­ by in Sawley and several dozen .were busy manning a road block in Grindle- ton.


1: There were even two trailer-borne devices which indiated speed to dri­ vers. • In the event there was hardly a


raised voice all weekend: There was probably more cussing and blinding from the vintage rally across the road


from vintage vehicle owners whose elderly engines were playing upt Whether or not there was a real


threat of civil disobedience anything like approaching the size of the opera­ tion mounted to curb it, is open to . debate.


; The authorities are bound to say the


gigantic operation was justified. They would say that, wouldn't they? . The debate makes it all the more


frustrating for people like those in Riverlea Gardens, Clitheroe, where, for some weeks, they have been com­ plaining about the behaviour of youths on a neighbouring car park. They say they have difficulty get­ ting hold of the police and just as


a little of what she


fancies has done Bessie a power of good for more than 100 years


EVERYTHING in moderation is the key to ajlong life, according to Mrs


Bessie Skeat. And she should know. Despite a liking for the occasional glass


| of sherry and cigarette, she celebrated her 100th birthday on Thursday with a family


| party and a greetings card from the Queen. Mrs Skeat has been a resident of the


j Clitheroe'Residential Home in Eshton Ter­ race for three years. Her son, Mr Leslie Skeat, who lives nearby in Wilson Street, was among those who celebrated with


[ champagne and a birthday cake. "She still likes her glass of sherry and a


I few weeks ago she enjoyed a cigarette," he said. "Her recipe for a long life has always been 'Everything in moderation.' She has never gone over the top in anything. She used to! smoke one or two cigarettes at


| weekends." The Mayorof Ribble Valley, Coun. Mrs Joyce Holgate, also called in to wish her


| well on her birthday. Mrs Skeat was born in Atherton, Man-


I chesteij the daughter of a collienand a mill | worker;


She lived there and worked as a'calder ' ‘ '■%- - LA


I until her marriage to Mr Harry Skeat, who worked as an electrician at Leigh: The cou-


| pie set up their married home in Leigh. They had two children, but, sadly, a I daughter died as an infant.


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Mrs Skeat and her husband lived at Leigh until 1954 when they moved back to


| Atherton and ran a grocery business. Mrs Skeat continued to run the business | after her husband's death in 1962.


, FOR HIKE | close to her family. (five).


,She:moved to Clitheroe.in 1999 to be - 'AM b


"She has really really felt at. home here”


I said Mr Skeat, pictured, right,'admiring ] his mother’s card from the Queen, with Coun Holgate and great-grandson Adam


. , , Transatlantic opportunity for quartet


THE search is on to find four young professionals to represent the Ribble Valley on an exchange trip to the ; American state of Ohio. The trip is being organ­


ised and funded by the Rotary Club of Clitheroe through the Rotary Group Study Exchange pro­


gramme and involves a four to five week "educational, cultural and vocational" stay. It is themed "Young Peo­


ple from Birth to Maturity - The Problems They Face,


' and The Problems They Cause" and so district pro­ gramme co-ordinator,


Clitheroe's Mr Roland Hailwood, is particularly


keen to hear from anyone aged between 25 and 40, whose job involves them working with young peo­ ple. This may be in the


teaching profession, social services, drug education,


youth employment, police, probation or youth work or in uniformed organisations. To be considered for the


team and to find out more, telephone Rotarians Mr Barrie Lancaster on 01200 422157 or Mr Hailwood on 01200 424240.


Eric decides tb retire and head for the hills CHEMISTRY teacher Mr 28 years, .was instrumental h


Eric Mansfield has decided in setting up the school’s •: to swap The classroom'for iverysuccessfulchess team.-v


‘ the mountains after a teach- ■ > Other happy memories o f :


• r t lilr Mansfield (57), of : include!the.yearly,trips,to fWaddin_gton;':says;the,time<


ing career spanning 35 years, h is t i in e a t , the. school ^J:hexav.es!inr


Yorkshireland,|


has,come to move on to new, the watereports camp in the - challenges after spending all, ..-South of France.


watersports or caving now;


iSI'Aft’ersperidihg^thiw'yearsSsbut'J';used;^ ;--'atCRbsegfOTeBoys’SchboIs;:':t’usedJ


:xMri:M£insf ield;spent s6me%cially ; challenging "caves? ‘.time-teaching ir


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TH O U G H T f o r t l i e w e e k


OME 65,000 representatives countries across the.


world are. currently meeting


| in Johannesburg for the Second Ea'rth Summit on Sustainable


| Development. This follows the Rio gathering 10 I years ago, which achieved disap-


| pointingly little. . • Put simply, the earth is too small to


I allow everyone to develop their stan­ d a rd of living as we in the West have, done. Some 20 per cent of the world's


| population consumes 80 per cent of the world's resources. , T


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■ America, which is the heaviest con-.: sumer, is beginning to realise that if i t . 'does not want more terrorist attacks,- it might be a good idea to limit its rav­ aging of the earth.


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"The earth is the Lord's'.' says Psalm 24, but wealthier nations have


. destroyed nun forests, allowed deserts to spread, increased carbon dioxide levels and dumped their toxic waste on the Third World. I am no scientist but I heed warn­


ings that the gradual warming of our planet will, cause far more flooding in


- and the recent ones in-Germany and much as the average person in the devel­ the years ahead. Are these flash floods, I , 4


Eastern Europe, related to sinister cli-: marie changes? Skin cancer from the sun is a far


greater danger than’ it was years ago because of the hole in the ozone layer


'caused by our emissions. Michael Meacher, the environment.minister, has said: "The world is going- very fast on to the buffers: very few people understand that." • • •


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. An air crash hits the news, yet the equivalent of 20 jumbo jets full of chil­ dren die every day-from water-related


diseases. . .. One flush of the lavatory uses as


oping world uses for a whole day's cook­ ing, washing, cleaning and drinking.


Tony Blair has said that by 2025


two people in three could be experienc­ ing some form of water stress. ,. j ■ This summit must succeed. Let's


!also do our part in small ways to pre­ serve our planet; such as by avoiding plastic waste and saving those bags, using the car less, recycling wherever possible rather than throwing-away, repairing rather: than buying new when possible, buying recycled prod­ ucts and using charity shops. ’ )


_ - ' •, ; . ■ . . . Rev. Rodney Nicholson ■


Vi car of St Paul's,-Clitheroe. ly i -S P R IN R EM O V A l mmXl: apnjt’o teach at {he school for^and now hopektp get back( t a .*<«•-. , \


: but! three‘years: teachinganfsjijrHe ^idi JLdon't dOjmuchf; ’Burnleysince 1967.*.


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much difficulty in persuading them to attend the scene. ; •


!) These are complaints repeated and


aired from time to time in a number of places, and the authority's excuse is normally shortage o f manpower caused by lack of funding.


j . There was obviously no shortage of


funding nor, manpower in the Ribble Valley during the BNP rally. Someone


■ in an ivory tower obviously made a decision about policing in the Ribble Valley that weekend.


i What about making a similar deci­


sion to cope with raids from out-of- town thieves, weekend drunkenness, violence, organised shoplifting, graffiti artists and the vandalism which besets the area almost daily? Perhaps, like most Government these days, it is all about profile.


i|LOOKING•£1 BACK


100 years ago


SEVERAL villages were en fete for. their own delayed Coronation celebra-| tions. At Chaigley a procession led by: Hurst Green Band marched from! Walker Fold to a field adjoining the! Craven Heifer, where dancing, sports and games were indulged in. Villagers partook of a splendid tea in the Craven Heifer and a ball and concert' for adults at the same venue conclud-: ed the day.


Chatburn was a mass of harmo-.


nious colour, tastefully arranged atop; its normally sombre appearance, with the Brown Cow taking first position for decoration.


□ A party of ladies and gentlemen were hunting the Ribble and Hodder


for otters and had good sport, with several long, though fruitless, chases, plus one fine 181b otter being run down by the hounds. Unfortunately, the sight so excited


Mr J. T. Tomlinson, a draper and keen sportsman, that he climbed up on to a railing, which split, causing him to fall and break a thigh. •


; • □ .The.Board of Guardians was


informed that Mr Britcliffe would not take on the relief station at Sabden for less than a shilling a week; .... •


50 years ago


TEST pilot Flight Lieutenant Peter Hillwood DFC, of Hurst Green, took the controls of a Canberra jet bomber on the first one-day double Atlantic crossing. The flying time was one minute


under eight hours and the aircraft spent two hours on the ground at Newfoundland before returning at an average speed of 605 mph. Flight Lieutenant Hillwood said: "It was rather more than just a routine job, but on the other hand there was noth­ ing particularly exciting about the flight.”


□ Members of Divisional Educa­


tion Executive No. 5, meeting at Whalley, expressed anxiety at the employment of children in agricul­ ture, although very few applications had been made for the release of schol­ ars for the hay harvest. - The concerns were raised when two


boys were kept away from school without permission after farmers had dif f iculty obtaining assistance through the employment exchange.


□ An appeal launched in aid of the


flood-stricken Lynmouth area in North Devon raised over £500 in its first week. Clitheroe schoolchildren were particularly active and set up stalls selling comics magazines, toys and groceries.


25 years ago


A KEEN Whalley angler was waiting nervously for nature to take its course after he swallowed a fishing fly when out at Sabden Brook. He bit the fly o f f the end o f his line but as he breathed in, down it went.


O Clitheroe Scouts floated a new


project after they were presented with a mould for slalom canoes. Over a period of 16 days and 48 evenings they built 21 canoes at an average cost of £25, assisted by leaders and Ven­ ture Scouts. The troop more than dou­ bled its fleet and was ready to com­ pete in the Windermere canoe race.


Cl A £2m extension to ensure future


prosperity and continuity of employ­ ment for the workforce was brought into operation at ICI’s Clitheroe fac­ tory. ■


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