12 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, May 22nd, 2003
Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified),
www.clitheroetoday.co.uk National open day will encourage the use of camping barns
CAMPERS are being encouraged to leave their accommodation for up to 30 people. Camping tents at home when they visit the Forest of Bow- barns have been around for over 10 years, provid-
Walkers, cyclists and other visitors to the area individuals. , , ,, . . ing simple “stone tents” for families, groups and
are being offered the use of camping bams, which Their profile is being raised by a National Open provide roomy, dry and affordable self-catering Day, in which barn owners in Chipping and Hurst
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Green will be taking part. Visitors can look round the barns, talk with owners and find out more about the growing network of farm buildings which are being converted for campers. Mrs Mary Kay, of Hurst Green Barn, said: “I hope that these open afternoons will encourage peo
ple to give camping bams a try . We get all sorts of visitors here, from walkers and cyclists to Scouts, Duke of Edinburgh Award Groups and families. The barns are ideal for people who love camping but not the hassle that goes with it.” The camping bams are located at Clarke House
Farm, Chipping, and also at Greengore Farm, Hurst Green, and they will be open to visitors on Wednesday of next week betwen 2 p.m. and 4-30 p.m. For more information, telephone Mrs Kay on
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The otters are back in force
THE BOOK AGAINST GOD by J published in hardback by Jonathan £12.99. James Wood’s first adventure in
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demanding judgments are deliv sometimes astonishing loftiness a writer still in his 30s.
atheist passionately consumed I tion of God. While he is busy failii living or to write his thesis, Tom piling a Book Against God - an i satire of religious belief.
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OTTERS are back in the Ribble Valley - and they are on the increase. The Ribble Valley was one of the places
highlighted in a report issued by the Environ ment Agency which stated that otters are returning in large numbers to land in the North West from which they were driven 50 years ago when Europe suffered the wide spread use of toxic pesticides. According to a survey carried out by by the
Environment Agency and Wildlife Trusts with help from water companies and English Nature, areas inhabited by o tters have increased five-fold in the last 25 years. In the North West, out of 322 sites sur
veyed, 110 showed signs of otters compared to just nine in the first national survey carried out in
1977-79.The Ribble was one of four North West rivers where there is evidence of otters. The others are the Eden and Lune catchments in Cumbria and the River Weaver in Cheshire.
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complacent. Otters are not increasing as fast as we would like in some areas and we will need to protect the otter from the motor car r which continues to be one of the biggest threats.”
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ic scale. He is charming, sensitivt he is Oxford educated; and he h~ beautiful concert pianist, Jan loves. This means he really has t to be a loser. But Tom puts in the ging out a PhD for seven years, lr his overgrown student’s means compulsively in a way that invit" The son of an Anglican vicar
it is disappointing to have to Wood’s first novel is in fact very g ers all the things that Wood tick; temporaries for not providing: st terisation, deeply moral comedy, fully poised prose. Hero Thomas Bunting is a lose
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and charts. Elegant graphics set ening statistics on subjects like th the region’s water supply, and po LINDE
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