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village have their say BALDERDASH and poppycock thought I as I jumped on my high horse and decided to trot around Slaidburn after Mr M.G. Diack, of Lancaster’s claims.
posters on any of the 18 homes, the Bounty nor the Health Centre), still no posters in Church Street: not on the Youth Hostel, shop, church, farm, school nor the 20+ houses as I meandered merrily.
a hive of rebel activity. But no, ’twas not to be. Not the 19 homes, nor the shop nor the Old Chapel, not the agricultural supplier nor the cafe displayed the signs of tension alluded to by Mr Diack when he says villagers are being “forced with a design and outsized building” we do not want. Neither are many of us "at the end of our tether” - although possibly some are when Mr Diack writes. Finally I found the WMD of his epic letter -
two signs on the village green (one printed, one hand made - and very well done, too, I must say) plus a petition on the local notice board (signed by a lonely contributor). “Around Slaidbum” Mr Diack? The signs are barely a yard apartl I t seems Slaidburn is not declaring itself an
independent republic to protect the ugly edi fice that is the Methodist Chapel.
In Slaidburn democracy lives on; those will
ing to attend meetings and vote for the pro posed village hall have held sway. Don’t you
just hate democracy when it does not agree with you? Yes, the chapel has a long history - but does
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maybes naw”. I do not know about Methodism and I made
the last question up, but if. their founder saw the opportunity to improve life for the majori-
the Methodist Church not preach looking for ward, not back; being positive, not negative? As Kenny Dalglish might sa: “Maybes aye, •
Ponderingly I wandered up Townend (no
what is in the heart that counts, bunkum”.
who voted in the meetings, have the final say? I was not actually a voter, because, like Mr Diack, I do nt use the facility — so why should
Why not let the people of Slaidbum parish,
I have a say? Oh dear, questions on “democra cy” again.
STUART CHARLES MACKINTOSH, Rock House, Slaidburn.
Hmmm, I thought,, maybe Chapel Street is Was not the idea to
, the diversion of the A59 between Langho and the top of Sawley Brow was to reduce vehicular traffic in settlement areas.
reduce traffic ? I MAY be getting something wrong, but I thought that the whole point of constructing
actually put traffic back on the roads that were meant to be addressed by the bypass!
The trial inaugurated on August 4th will We moved to live in the centre of Clitheroe
tedious and the alternative via the Pimlico Link Road is protracted.
but then don’t they all? The “direct” route through Chatburn is
ving experience I really do object to this. The Highways Authority needs to get its eye
back on the ball. R. SHAW, Clitheroe
A warning to owners after pets are killed
As a person with almost half a century of dri
12 months ago. After several trials of the vari ous alternatives I came to the conclusion that by far the best route to the centre of Clitheroe when approaching from the east is down Pendle Road. Particularly now that a mini roundabout has been set up at the Waterloo Road junction. Yes, the right turn does have some hazards
At first we did not take any notice, but were
alarmed when we heard the sound of scurrying in our back garden.
in a frenzied attack on our children’s pet rab bits.
. t h a t t h e i r r a b b i t h u t c h e s Eire m a d e s e c u r e or to keep t h em inside a shed or garage overnight. We hasten to add that our rabbits were in
their hutch and secured by a latch. Somehow the dogs managed to get the hutch open. We have been told that this is not the first
start to our son’s birthday!
time that an incident like this has happened in this area, so it seems that someone is not ensur ing their dogs are secured at night. To conclude, this incident made a wonderful
BARRY AND JULIE BLEASDALE, Hcnthorn Road, Clitheroc
Give me trees instead
of industrial units LIKE Brigid Hardwick has done, I too want ed to venture into the sensitive issue of cutting down trees so we may see. I, too, like to view the Castle Keep, stodgy and solid, but some how nobly defiant - on its lofty prominence above the trees. But what else have the planners of our town
done? Along the section of what is termed the “inner bypass” to the junction with Highfield Road, they invited the Hurstwood Develop ment Group to raise industrial units of con siderable metallic monstrosities. Should these units not have been consigned to the new
industrial development area north of the town? Do the planners not realise there are real
people who live in a residential area opposite these monstrosities? And we are real people who daily mav have to nass them nnH if wo
sadly it was too late to save the rabbits. Our warning to other children is to ensure
We went outside to chase the dogs off, but My wife and I quickly got up to see two dogs
town is obliterated by industrial units. I think I prefer trees.
ROBIN PARKER, St Chad’s Avenue, Chatburn
I will be back for next
year’s county show I WAS a t the Royal Lancashire Show last Wednesday. Yes we had to wait for a while, so what? The organisers did a wonderful job, so did the police.
to Ribchester. I shall certainly be there. A big thank you to Rennie Pinder, chairman of the organisation.
MRS LAURA BAILEY Hazel Grove, Clitheroe
Reports of this death
are a bit premature! REPORTS of the demise of the Ribble Valley Borough Council ("No date yet for Council Death Sentence", July 31st, p. 3) may be a little premature. As part of the run-up to a Referendum on
Regional Government for the North-West, the Boundary Commission is requiring each bor ough council to put forward a number of options for the arrangements it would prefer for a future unitary authority. The only option we may not put forward is the status quol This exercise presupposes that the Government will get a “Yes” vote for the North-West Regional Assembly in the forthcoming referendum. At the moment we have a two-tier system of
very unlikely to be largely rural, and would most probably be dominated by the urban con cerns of our larger neighbouring boroughs. The only way to prevent the demise of Rib
ble Valley Borough Council, to protect the spe cial rural concerns of our borough, and to keep the decision making closer to home, is to give a resounding “No” vote to Regional Government at the referendum.
COUN. THE REV. CHRIS STERRY, The Sands, Wh alley
The Ombudsman was
and was investigated for six months before it " was stated that “Schedule 5 of the local Gov ernment Act 1974 provides that the Ombuds man may not investigate complaints about
“the Ombudsman found in favour of the coun cil” is untrue. The matter did go before the Ombudsman
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action taken in matters relating to commercial transactions”. This meant my complaint was outside the
apology, but to date no acknowledgement was received.
Ombudsman’s jurisdiction and therefore the investigation was discontinued. I have written to the council asking for an
A recent article in the national press states ryfcriTin'riffc
that more than 100,000 children leave primary school each year without mastering basic swim ming skills which could save their lives. This being the case surely local authorities should encourage local teachers to hold lessons in their pools when they are not being used. My experience was discouragement. • High hire charges, almost double that charged for casual hire, taking into account
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more than 20 years and a helper with school swimming lessons, I feel strongly that there should be plenty of opportunities for children to be taught to swim at an affordable price and in their local pool. This, after all was why the
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pool time although the teaching pool had been
unable to investigate REGARDING the news story about my leav ing Ribblesdale Pool (CAT July 24th), the statement made by Mr Winterbottom that
A YEAR of fund-raising by wivil of Waddington Masons resulted il a big cheque payout to charity. [ The ladies’ committee, whicl has been holding events througll
local goyernment, county and borough. With the Regional Assembly there would still be a two-tier system, regional and unitary - each a much larger unit than the present. The only results of this will be to increase bureaucracy and move the decision making further away from the people. A future unitary authority is
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