*14 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, May 22nd, 2003


Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified), www.clitheroetoday.co.uk


Write to: The Editor, Clitheroc Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clithcroc BB72EW Editorial e-mail: vivien.meath@eastlancsncws.co.uk ^


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i. or.i enthusiasm and gusto than usual. Having been held • by delays or low energy and less motivation you will


i now in your own birthday sign you will be bouncing responsibility for the long-term consequences of tho


For t.io m • t ?«.-*/ weeks you II be putung extra effort into getting the buag't into sin;) shape order.You will be determined to cam more and the chancr s w,!| be there, or manage what .you already have more sensiblj l i . .;,J, your spending is also likely to shoot up.With friends or team n,„ ..'s. you may find yourself rocking the boat a little, having the od-j rti'


.•teen to the dozen, you'll be skipping round a busier usual.There may be less time for depth or detail than ic»* you will be pulled in different directions, with more


Now moving out of an Intense, confidential few weeks, you will want more stimulating company over the next few weeks. Plan more travel if you can manage, or some other way of broadening your horizons.


Set your sights higher. OK so there will be some challenges around. It may be in your job, so expect sudden turns of events which you had not planned for.Watch that you're not stressed and strained.Take time out to wind down and chill out more frequently. Call my Libra line to hear more.


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With the Sun disappearing into your most hidden chart area for a few weeks, you’ll be concentrating on confidential matters, financial and emotional. Stand your ground to get fairer deals but be flexible as well. Something may begin to move out of your love life which you may have been hanging on to for security. Perhaps it wasn't as useful as you had imagined. Take a good look at your lifestyle and work out what you want to hang onto. Call my Scorpio line to hear more.


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You will want to share and care more in the coming weeks. Togetherness will be the key to your happiness at home and at work. But there may be unsettled moments at home. What you have to understand when the winds of change blow through, is that its basically


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With a pile of chores ahead of you, you'll be knuckling down dutifully to do as much as possible for the next few weeks. But for that you need to bo fitter.ro you will be reviewing your physical lifestyle, seeing • whether you could improve your diet, take up more exercise or get more rest.Try also to see if you’ve been sweeping resentments under the carpet or forcing yourself into situations that aren't what you


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Into a more sociable few weeks, you will be more dramatic, fun-loving, attention seeking than usual.Though Uranus across from the Sun may produce a few financial surprises. OK, so you don't want be doing boring, practical things like think about the budget Just don't be too recklcss.You'll be feeling alert quick-witted, very lively, but quite wound up as wcll.Try to turn your active imagination or ingenuity towards new


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Domestic and family security will be more important to you for the next few weeks. You will want to step back from your recent busy schedule to take stock, and put your/cct up more regularly. Though truthfully with Uranus around in your own sign, you witl not sit still for long. The influences will break you away from restricting circumstances.You may need a little courage but you’ll be glad that you found the confidence to put a foot into the unknown. Regard new as positive and alive. Call my Pisces line to hear more.


To h e a r m o re , call 0906 589 4176 S e rv ic e provided by fusion-ICS Leeds, LS2 8JA, Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Confessions of the cairn


builder on Pendle Hill REGARDING the recent articles and correspondence about the Pendle Cairn, I have to admit that I and two sons built the cairn on the skyline in the mid- 1970s, using stones lying around the area. The Scouts have come in for some unfair criticism


in the firing line and also the work carried out recently in removing the cairn from the skyline and its rebuild­ ing in a position where it cannot be seen from Down- ham Hall. There has been a lot of speculation as to the reason


for building the cairn, but they only rebuilt the cairn and restored it to its former glory after it collapsed. I feel rather embarrassed that I have put the Scouts


why the cairn is on the skyline - no, it was not for rit­ uals involving witchcraft or a symbol of any kind, nei­ ther was it built as a mark of defiance against the laird or citizens of Downham. The cairn was built purely as the turning point for


competitors in the inaugural annual Clitheroe Fell Race, which started from Castle Gate and finished at Ribbiesdale School as part of the Castle fete celebra­ tions: When the cairn was built, it had a long metal pipe running through the centre for a flag pole, and on race days the Union Flag could be seen fluttering on the skyline. Alas, in later years the race fell out of favour and


became defunct. Although the cairn was built to a high standard, the flag pole proved its demise as chil­ dren swinging on the pole eventually pulled the cairn over. In the 1980s, the Scouts rebuilt the cairn to its original design and adopted it. In our defence, the cairn did raise money for charity.


ing the cairn, it is time to face the consequences. Hav­ ing fled over the border into Yorkshire, I am prepared to return for punishment, but as I am rapidly approaching three score years and 10, I appeal for some leniency. Forty lashes may prove to bring about my demise,


but being pilloried in the stocks would be'acceptable. For the other culprits, my youngest son, Andrew, is now living in Australia and could now officially be con­


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At that time I was involved in organising running events in the Ribble Valley -1 0 km. and 10-mile road races, the running part of the triathlon and the fell race. All proceeds of these events went into the Rib­ ble Valley mayor's charities. Now that we have admitted responsibility for build­


sidered as deported; my other son, Graham, may be difficult to locate, as he has gone to ground in the Lake District. Maybe some good will come from all this, as the


time and effort in removing one blot on the landscape could have the impetus in searching out other blights in the Ribble Valley for removal or improvement.


ALISTAIR PATTEN My safety concerns over


school expansion plans FURTHER to the article in last week’s Clitheroe Advertiser and Times concerning the expansion of Whalley CE Primary School, I wish to highlight the following. I am not against building much-needed classrooms


in the above school as, with more and more houses being built in this area, it is only too obvious that not enough spaces are available. However, what does concern me is the increase in


traffic that will result, as the area is already congested, and an accident is just waiting to happen. A school governor has assured me that the local res­


idents’ views are to be considered, but as yet nothing has (to the best of my knowledge) been done apart from the public notices in your paper two weeks ago. I personally have sent out a questionnaire seeking


the views of local residents, as this will clearly affect them.


I would request that the planners and all those


responsible come down to the area of Whalley Prima­ ry School to see for themselves the early morning and mid-afternoon chaos.


What still concerns me is that land was designated


at the new Calderstones site for the obvious increase in demand for school places, not just for Whalley but for surrounding areas also. Taxpayers may not have to pay, but what price do


the local residents have to pay taking their lives in their hands trying to negotiate the already hazardous traffic problems? If the proposed extension is to happen, then a much-


needed footpath should definitely be part of the plans. I hope others will comment on this important mat­


ter.


D. BARNES, George Street, Whallcy


We intend to ensure our


town keeps its cinema IN reply to the letter on May 1st from M. Walsh, can I please point out that the Grand Cinema is closed for only a few weeks for soundproofing and refurbishment. When it re-opens, the cinema will be housed in the


rear half of the auditorium until early next year. You are right in saying that after that time Trinity


cinema and will go on doing so wherever it is. What ever happens we want to provide a cinema for our community. So please carry on coming to see the latest films and support your local cinema. LAURA BAILEY, Hazel Grove, Clitheroe


Chairmanship change will


backfire on the council THE brief, matter-of-fact report by Robbie Robinson at the end of his piece on the formal annual meeting of the Ribble Valley Borough Council fails to point up the full significance of the change to committee chair­ manships that the Conservative group forced through. The important job of chairing the main Overview


and Scrutiny Committee has been taken from a sea­ soned councillor and given to a newly-elected member with no previous experience of the council or its com­ mittees. This change not only goes against Government guidance, but also breaks an agreement previously made between the main parties that the committee should always be chaired by an opposition councillor. The change is thought to have been made against


the advice of the council’s Chief Executive and of its head of legal services.


Neither the fact nor the significance of the change


was explained to most Conservative councillors before the meeting. They were just expected, in time-hon­ oured fashion, to vote in support of their leader regardless of the issue and its merits. All except one did so. Several said afterwards that


they had been deeply unhappy about what they were expected to do. I suggest that their political courage and their political judgment failed them. Effective overview and scrutiny arrangements will be a key issue when the Audit Commission comes to review the way the council operates in what is known as Comprehensive Perfor­ mance Assessment later this year. In my view, this change alone can be expected to reduce severely the Ribble Valley’s chance of obtain­ ing a “good” or “excellent” rating. What I believe to be the Conservative


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trips down Wellgate WHEN I was walking home from shopping and the library I noticed a lot of digging going on a t the bottom of Wellgate. I saw some workmen knocking down the walls. I always thought that comer looked nice as


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Lowergate. At the opposite corner there is now a community care centre - I cannot remember what it used to be. As you carried on there were a few houses and then a confec­ tionery shop, a few more cottages, then Smiths Joiners Antiques - did they do funerals? There were then two or three rows of cot­


tom of the Old Hall Brow with two or three shops. I remember Kitty Bailey’s, a sweet shop, and next to it was Turner’s Shoe Repairs shop - did they make clogs as well? I recall a gents’ haircut place - if a chap in front of you, who was next in the chair wanted a shave as


■well, tha t mucked it up for you. I was not shaving then, I would be six or seven and going to the Catholic school. What next, why another smithy - was it


called Wilson’s? Seeing the new horse shoes being replhced was quite a thing. I remember some sizzling noises and smoke and wondering if the horse felt it. When I started school I think I was taken


tages, at right angles to the road - perhaps cobbled roads? - a few more cottages, perhaps, and a small shop selling religious articles. A few more steps and you were at the bot­


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Partnership will operate a temporary cinema until our new one is built. Myself and other volunteers enjoy working in the


LEARNING to speak scorching temperatures a for dangerous si tuat io ns training three Ribble Va the Queen’s Lancashire R through in preparation stint in Iraq. The soldiers will be among


deployed to Basra, in south tak e over from the Desert Rats. Their mission is to r~ establish law and order and m a in ta in calm through


h um an i tar ian and peace­ keeping tasks. Drummer James Kemp has


had to rearrange his wedding because of the trip to the Gulf.


The 22-year-old, of Clitheroe. was due to marry his fiancee Caroline Grime on August 9tl uary before they tie the knot. The young soldier, who wi


first birthday in September, s: to be going to Belize in Octot get married before I went. No’ it back because of Iraq.” Read soldier Pte Jamie Gru:


training a month ago, but the than happy to be thrown in at L/Cpl Martin Duckwort about his trip to Iraq and d


what to have no thing li with gin how I a* the heat Tenerife for that sure I ta sun lotic The Clit


served with the QLR for six time he has been to Northeri mark and Canada twice. He: in Northern Ireland should st for Iraq.” He added that he would ha out earlier. “All those who fou


Appeal on plan dismi


CREATING a house out of a ‘ would damage the countrysid ning inspector. An appeal into Ribble Va


Council’s refusal of permission at Higher Standen Farm, off ’


Pendleton, has been dismisse Mr John Whalley. He says in his report that thi


includes the original house and with permission for conve dwellings. Making a sixth dwelling


would create further urbanisati local and national policies sa countryside, concluded the in: Adding what would be a ne


the amount of rebuilding req tially-collapsed property, w countryside.


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A FRAMED picture has bi to Ribbiesdale Camera Club a leading member. Mr John West FRPS was


ly known for his creative a flair in the developing field manipulated photography. His widow, Mrs Jean West


illness. He had recently brou both the club and himself slide competition in Bare attracted entries from more tries. It was the high point o of international successes.


Kitchen gets g


A RE-SUBMITTED applica kitchen and conservatory at th den house has been approved. Officials of Ribble Valley Be


have passed the plans for 34 acting under delegated powers.


PVC plan app


A BUILDING at Cheetall Eaves, can be used for making tories, say officials of Ribblc Council. They have approved t agricultural use, acting under


Owner sees ca


A PEUGEOT 206 car was dri Main Street, Gisburn. The owner, who had only bet


there by a girl from Low Moor - for about six old pence a week - we had to come home for “wer dinner” and back again for afternoon classes come rain or shine; there were no school dinners then.


not always for the better - still the silver lining might come, along.


So days gone by - everything has changed,


EDMOND CAMBIEN, Boiland Prospect, Clitheroc


We had superb time at


the medieval market HAVING attended Clitheroe Christmas mar­ ket and enjoyed it, I was pleasantly surprised when visiting the medieval market on Sunday to find the entertainment and stalls were even better. The variety of the many hand-made items available was superb. My family and I spent three hours being entertained and had a most enjoyable day. We are looking* forward to the witches and wizards event next month.


KERRY GILES, ,


Lancaster Drive, Clitheroc


• WE continue to receive letters making valid points but which we cannot use because the name and address of the sender!is not given. Correspondents writing oyer a pseudonym must include this information-as a token of good faith - Editor.


registered vehicle a short ti watch. Police are making inqui


Police che up on cara


OFFICERS from Lancashire Motorway Unit will be targeti thy caravans today in a drive t ty on the county's motorways. During the summer, many


travel through the county with Many of these vehicles are in order, however sometimes car: used a few times a year and as s worthiness can be questionabl Insp. Peter Stas said: "All v


long journeys on the motorwaj good condition. This includes towed, such as caravans. A s such as a puncture on a carava disaster on our busy motorway "To reduce accidents and del


ensure that vehicles using the c way network are in a safe c enable us to do this we have s safety check area at the Vehic site at Cuerden at the end of tl “I t is a specially designed s


pose of examining and weight is located at the centre of a m section taking in the M61, M6


a framed picture of Venice t< memorial to her husband. Mr West’s death occurrc


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