Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, June 5th, 2003


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T A R O T C A L L


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For a complete reading of your stars this week call the number next to your star sign. Scpt'24-October22


If there are tensions in relationships at work or at home, you will need to find a way out of differences without nuking your actions too obvious. Use your ingenuity to find a middle way. Don't be too submissive or too pushy. Luckily your happy*go-luck streak will pull you out of any problems.Although there are challenges, certain other tensions or anxieties are diminishing.You will feel able to ask loved ones for what you want. Socially make sure you push yourself forward more confidently. Call my Aries line to hear more.


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Piuto around now is beginning to make you examine what is no longer necessary in your life. Whether It is old financial or emotional


agreements or other attitudes of mind, you need to see what has past its sell by date, and let it go.You know you can rely on good support at home or from those dose, in the family.What goes around, comes around and it isn't always the difficulties. Aim to spend time out with fun friends. Examine your life and see how you're futfiling your goals, your ideals and your ambitions. Call my Taurus line to hear more.


The Sun across from Pluto in the heavens can bring an intense mood in close relationships or out at workYou will not be happy with taking superficial explanations for anything.You want to get right down to the


proces s, where j you review and then get rid of inessentials from your en there i: is a real possibility today of attracting new experiences and developveloping better relationsh tips. Be clear that there ar _e_______ always In life if you look for them. Call my Libra line to hear moreT


roots of situations. Although you may feei stuck this life.Then


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Whatever has become confused or delayed around cash matters needs a sensible strategy to get it rolling again.You may feel puzzled


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S A G I T T A R I U S


If you feel blocked with a close partner and that they are not budging an inch, do not get discouraged.Thcre are powerful pressures working behind the scenes, which will allow you to turn your life round very soon. In a few days time you will look back and know that your efforts did make a real difference, just accentuate the positive and find easygoing workmates for a light-hearted chat Circumstances may not have changed very much around you, but suddenly you feel as if the sun was shining through the clouds. Call my Gemini line to hear more.


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Certain people at work may be demanding that you do what they wantTroublc is you basically want them to do what you want So there may be a stalemate. Just be tactful but firm. Maybe you cannot change


everything you would like, but you can probably make more of an impression than you imagine by the way you rise to the problem. If a retail therapy spree seems tempting, don’t go too wild. Money should [ come in but there’s no point in letting it all slide through your fingers.


to put your feet up and have an indulgent time. But don’t waste the pod energies around.The more you can put out positive vibes, the letter things will come back to you. Call my Scorpio line to hear


No? i3 d« -h


Try to wind down rather than get too uptight with close partners for a few days. It may take an effort, but staying cheerful In spite of the circumstances around you may just be the easiest way to sail through


In good form. Stay calm and serene, and just smile gently if they get sully or too tricky. Luckily your confidence will be high. OK so maybe you re over confident or glossing round the fans, but never mind. If you think big. look across immediate hurdles and see a better future, then all will be well. Call my Sagittarius line to hear more.


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There may be secret pressures around or a situation which makes you feel trapped. But you can still make room for the creative changes in vour life, which really want to happen.Try to let go of old patterns of


idiaviour that have been holding you back. You will benefit greatly


from abandoning what is not in your best interests.Just don't get over- optimistic about one cash situation, assuming that everything is going


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If you're willing to learn from loved ones' reactions and be flexible enough, then you can make significant progress. You just need to be


quickiy.Though frankly you won't be bothered to try hard since your confidence will get a real morale boost.You won't save money or work too hard or be practical. Call my Leo line to hear more.


secure enough in your identity that you can take feedback from those tloso.Try to sec where you could alter course just a little bit, whether in your behaviour or your attitudcs.Then the way ahead will clear


to be wonderful. Be more grounded. You just need to move out of your negative feelings without going too far the other way. Call my Capricorn line to hear more.


advantages is part of a School pal used to play


bus. He would sometimes come without his lunch money, and I would take him home for his lunch, which suited my parents, as he would play the piano for a while before we both returned to school. Bill’s first piano teacher was George Oldham, of


school concert and, as there was no orchestra, he played an arrangement for solo piano and orchestra. Bill lived in Padiham, and came to school on the


Accrington. He was a very well-known teacher, and brother of Derek Oldham, a pre-war operetta star. Bill often performed at Accrington Arts Club, before, and even after, he moved to London.


STANLEY ALLEN, Linden Drive, Clitheroe.


Time for us to identify


If you are too unco-operative and demand total control yourself, it may not get you the results you vrant Maybe you are absolutely right, but


being right does not necessarily mean you win. If you end up In a push pull situation, that would be a real waste of energy.There should be at least the odd couple of hours when you will be able to really relax with no one nagging at you to be dutiful. Your relationship with dose partners wilt improve. Call my Aquarius line to hear more.


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Don't lose your sense of humour at home. Crack a joke to break tension and lift everyone's spirits. If everyone is becoming obsessed about tricky situations to which there is no obvious answer, then either find a new solution or be patient. Don’t get yourself into narrow vision


! of your world and sound self-righteous. Stay open to feedback, be | flexible, be tolerant. If you keep talking and keep looking then life will I present you with just the idea or the encounter you have been waiting I for. Luck is around if you give it a chance. Call my Virgo line to hear ! more. To hear more, call 0906 589 4 170


If anyone In a position of authority at work or at home feels as if they re pushing you around, don't let them. But don't respond with more of the same. Use a little subtle ingenuity to find a third W3y, and then you will be able to smile triumphantly. Because this is really not a time to be grumpy or over-hard-working. The Suns flowing aspect to lucky Jupiter, will bring silver linings to any tricky situations and generally makes for an upbeat time. Call my Pisces line to hear more.


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supporters of this change I REFER back to the little spat in the council cham­ ber last month after the election.


wonderfully named “Overview and Scrutiny (Resources)” and “Overview and Scrutiny (Services)” Committees.


Namely the removal of opposition chairs on the


brought in on the advice of central government as an alternative to the executive mayor/cabinet scenario


Just a reminder that these two committees were


ing” worked. Indeed the only time a “scrutiny” was attempted it was vetoed by the Conservative admin­ istration because then, as now, the Labour Group was not a group, being represented by one person. On the broader scale we have to ask why we voted


(favoured by some councils) on the wave of “stream­ lining” the committee system! I never understood then or now how the “streamlin­


piano in the hall, and ask us to give him three dance rhythms — waltz, polka, etc. — and three different well- known times, and he would improvise on them, weav­ ing the times and the dances into one another. He played Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” at a


piano in return for lunch I WAS sad to read of the death of my old school friend William Bleazard. Bill (as he was then) and I went through CRGS in the same form. At the age of 13 or 14 he would sit down at the


at all if an important part of the machinations of our local government have now been so neutered. And then ask ourselves how it is that the BNP suc­


ceeds in Labour strongholds because the voters are ignored.


and if so can the opposition parties face up to it and face a recorded vote to identify the supporters of this “regime change”?


BRUCE DOWLES, Whallcy Road, Clitheroe


Bins are too prominent in


this unspoilt village I WAS surprised to see the recycling bins had been placed in the centre of the car park at Dunsop Bridge.


would hope the council might consider relocating the bins to the side of the car park or behind the public conveniences.


This beautiful unspoilt village is in a unique posi­ tion and has many visitors from near and far.


MRS P. BENNETT, Lancaster Drive, Clitheroe.


Heartfelt thanks to those


since our launch in February 2002 has been an out­ standing success, exceeding our income target by £12m. to enable us to fund even more vital research into the prevention, treatment and cure of cancer. Our volunteers have played an integral part in this success and have been unfailing in their support for our cause. Cancer Research UK has nearly 700 shops across


who support our cause IT is Volunteers' Week this week and I am writing to your newspaper to express publicly my deep gratitude to the many thousands of volunteers and supporters of Cancer Research UK. Many of your readers will be aware that the year


the UK that depend on volunteers, many thousands more raise vital income for the charity by fundraising


Could they not have been placed in a less prominent position? While I am in total agreement with recycling, I


Are we seeing a similar conservative trend here —


in their local communities; volunteers also help in our offices and at events. With the invaluable support of our volunteers and


thousands of other amazing people giving their time to Cancer Research UK. Thanks again to all our supporters and volunteers for your continued support.


BARONESS HAYMAN, Chairman, Cancer Research UK


Concerns at new methods


of paying out benefits YOUR readers may be aware of worries about the Government’s changes to the way benefits are paid. Since April, some people have been unable to collect


ment to move to the new system have not done so. It is not clear what is to become of them when their order books are withdrawn.


Account and special arrangements should be in place to meet the needs of vulnerable people.


It should be made easier to open a Post Office Card


issue, I would ask them to please write to me at Conservative Central Office, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3HH.


If your readers are concerned about this


OLIVER IIEALD MP, Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions


most vulnerable in our local communities and the arrangements for relations or friends to collect bene­ fits for them are inadequate. So far, almost 40% of those asked by the Govern­


next two years. It will put local post offices under threat because some people will stop using their counter services and shopping there. It will also make life more difficult for many of the


their pension or benefits in cash at their local post offices. They have to have the money paid into a bank account, or to open a Post Office Card Account and then withdraw the cash. But the Government has made it too difficult for people to open these Post Office Accounts. This new system will apply to everyone within the


Cancer Research UK would like to welcome all mem­ bers of the community to join us in our vital work. From just a few hours a week your readers can join


vention, detection and treatment of all cancers in research centres across the UK. Our supporters should take great pride in the knowledge that they have helped to make a real difference to people's lives by raising the money that funds our world-class cancer research. But the challenge of defeating cancer continues and


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young Queen Elizabeth was abou crowned. Mrs Holgate reached a personal


donors, our world-class scientists, doctors and nurses are making great progress in the understanding, pre­


WHEN Mrs Mamie Holgate cele her 50th birthday, Mount Everest h been climbed for the first time a


of a different kind last week, when s ebrated her 100th birthday with thn ties, at which she was surrounded by ly, friends and well-wishers, and re the traditional telegram from the Q The first party was on her birt


with an entertainer, was held in St Church Hall, Sabden, for friends an ily, and on Sunday a barbecue for he ily was held at Oak House, the Cli


and her friends at the house, and si visited by the Mayor and Mayoress Ribble Valley, Coun. Alan Yearin Mrs Susan Yearing. On Saturday, a buffet party, con


May 29th, and was held at Littl House, Sabden, where she lives. A special buffet tea was made f


home of her granddaughter, Mrs Y Carter. There, Mrs Holgate was joined i two daughters, Jeanne and Ruth


Restaurant hope


AN application has been made to change the Ethos Gallery, York Street, Clitheroe, into a restau­ rant.


has been submitted to the Ribble Valley Borough Council Planning Depart­ ment, and comments on it can be made until Friday,


The gallery’s plan (0466)


June 20th. Other plans are as follows:- Clhhcroe: Outline application


for re s id e n tia l dev e lo pmen t (resubmission), land off St.Paul’s Close (0463). Use for sheet metal working, th e M eta l Work off Woone Lane (0465). Use as b u i ld e r ’s y ard an d s to rag e of building equipment, the Builders Yard, D erb y S t r e e t (0469). Lightweight timber-clad first- floor extension sp an n ing over ex is t in g f la t- roofed a re a , Clitheroe Health Centre, Rail-


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side Ribchester, and the decision to revert back to mid-week show dates, the time of year when agricultural shows are tradi­ tionally held, are being attributed to the upturn. Organisers have taken a considerable


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The sunny destination of Paphos, Cyprus, was the setting for the wedding of Deborah Grace Winckley to Lee Alwyn Cowking in Agios Kyriaki Church. The bride, a legal executive who manages


and Dixon, is the son of Mr Russell and Mrs Anne Cowking, of Burnlea, Grindleton. The bride, given away by her daughter, 14-


Her bridegroom, a builder with Cowking


and the bride’s daughter, Laura, also acted as bridesmaid. They wore lilac two-piece dresses featuring bodice and skirts. Best man was the bridgroom’s brother, Mr


Nigel Cowking, and page was Master Cameron Smith.


Hotel, Coral Bay, Paphos, the couple spent their honeymoon on the island, and on their return will continue to live in Church Close, Waddington.


Following a reception at the Coral Beach


year-old Laura Bethany Winckley, wore a full- length pure lace gown encrusted with dia- mantes and pearls and featuring a train. She carried a trailing bouquet of cream flowers. Dame of honour was Mrs Rachel Welch,


the family law department at Houldsworths Solicitors, is the daughter of Mrs Irene Spencer, of Waddington, and Mr Michael Cox, of Clitheroe.


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Council is currently re­ writing its strategies for Sport and Recreation, Out­ door Recreation and Arts and Heritage. They are aiming to use


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Man charged with robbery


the Royal Mail sorting office in Chester Street, staff were threatened and several mail bags stolen.


A THIRD man has appeared in court charged with an armed robbery at Clitheroe sorting office last month. Michael Phillips (20), of Blencam Way, Manchester, appeared before Blackburn magistrates and was remanded in custody to be dealt with at Preston Crown Court. He was due to appear with his fellow accused yesterday. During the incident, at


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