; * * .* f . A '.- ed), www.clitheroetoday.co.uk Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified),1 www.clitheroetoday.cb.uk Helping hand to learn


A LOTTERY grant for teaching help and equipment is helping.young children in Clitheroe with their early learning. Pendle Pre-School has been funded to


Ld equipment for everyone


|nd He also mentioned the A.R.C. Addington Fund for tenant farmers, with which Prince Charles is very much involved, and talked about pastoral care in the farming community. Mrs Marion Wood thanked


set up in the village. Walks will be on Tuesday mornings, with those taking part meet­ ing at 11 a.m. at the social club with a packed lunch. The next meeting will be


the birthday party with hot­ pot supper in the Methodist school room on February 11th. Tea hostesses will be Mrs


led Heywood.


M. Garnett, Mrs P. Entwistle, Mrs D. Hammond and Mrs 0.


WEST BRADFORD Social drive The monthly whist and


domino drive took place in West Bradford Village Hall when there were 17 tables in play. Whist winners were: ladies-


J. Holden, Mrs Green, J. Waddington, E. Jackson, S. Tennant, J. Hartley. Gents-J. Procter, H. Lofthouse, J. Bul­ lock, J. Trainer, D. Bristol, J. Kenyon. Dominoes: M. Pye, F.


Lowe, F. Pye, W. Hustwaite, E. Fox, F. Cooke, M. Parker, G. Berry. Raffle: J. Pye, E. Aspin, W.


Marsden, J. Riley, J. Oddie, J. Bullock. The next drive will take


place in the village hall on Wednesday, February 19th, at 7-30 p.m.


New floor


Bradford Playing Field man­ agement committee it was agreed to have the floor in the main hall refurbished and to buy a public address system. Winners of the 250 Club


At the meeting of West


were: A. Hartley (£25), A. Meyler (£20), R. Cottam (£15), J. Dixon (£10), Mr Dugdale (£7.50), Mr Tyson (£5).


Gardening club An illustrated talk will be


given to members of West Bradford Gardening Club by


Mr John Lamb, of the Wildlife Trust. The meeting will be held next Thursday at 7-30 p.m. in


the village hall. Visitors are welcome.


WHALLEY Theatre visit The ladies of Cranford, as


featured in the novel by Mrs Gaskell based on Knutsford in Cheshire, will tell the story of their lives in Whalley Vil­ lage Hall on February 1st. Members of the HRT The­


Valley dairy farms


under microscope FARMS in Chipping, Slaidburn and Whitewell are to be put under the industry microscope as p a r t of a new project to improve farm practices. As part of the DEFRA-funded Forward


Farming Project, five dairy farms and three beef and sheep farms in the North West will become "demonstration" farms. Through the project, it is hoped to encourage farmers to learn from each other in the most practical way - farmer to farmer. The project is to be spearheaded by a group


of four agricultural colleges, one of which is Myerscough. Once the monitor farms are set up, there


will be regular "on-farm" meetings of farmers to disseminate technical, welfare, financial and environmental information and to pro­ mote good practice. The Myerscough College monitor farms are


split into beef and sheep and dairy farms and spread throughout the North West. Each farm will host four events throughout the life of the project. I t will run from this month until April next year. The farms have already been audited and information benchmarked against known standards for comparison. It is hoped tha t the farm events will lead to the formation of cluster groups, bringing farmers together for discussion to push the barriers further. In the North West, farms in Carlisle,


Kendal, Salmesbury, Appleby and Warring­ ton have been identified, along with J. Alpe’s a t Whitewell, Walker-Alpe’s, Chipping and M. Handley, Slaidburn.


Open Commons at


the weekend - MP A CALL to open the House of Commons


to the public at weekends has been made by Ribble Valley's MP. Mr Nigel Evans has criticised the Gov­


ernment's decision to cut the hours that the House of Commons is open to the pub­ lic for tours following the changes in the working hours of MPs. "The openness of the House of Com­


atre Company Sandra Hall and Rachel Laurence will tell the story of the ladies in the early years of Victoria’s reign who met to take tea and dis­ cuss, but only for a certain length of time, the happen­ ings of the time with a beguil­ ing mixture of humour, pathos and astute social com­ ment. “The ladies of Cranford"


and some of the men are con­ jured to exuberant life in a new adaptation of Mrs Gaskell’s famous novel by Miss Laurence and seen through the eyes and ears of one of the ladies, Miss Matty Jenkins. Tickets are £3.50, available from Whalley Post Office.


mons to members of the public is an important feature of bringing democracy to the people and opening up Govern­ ment," said Mr Evans. "It is their Parliament and they should


be allowed to see it. In a week when there is a non-sitting Friday, we have lost six hours and 50 minutes that the House is open to the public and when there is a sit­ ting on a Friday, the House is now only open for four hours and 40 minutes. Parlia­ ment needs to rethink its ideas and come up with new and more imaginative possi­ bilities of opening up the House to the public. I t should seriously look at the pos­ sibility of Saturday and Sunday openings. "The Government will soon wake up


and smell the coffee and realise what a cat­ astrophe has been created by these changes. I hope it is sooner, rather than later."


Fight Euro red tape


CUSTOMERS of a Ribble Valley health food outlet signed with a vengeance a petition which has been presented to the House of Commons. The petition, fearing that a European Food


Supplements Directive will severely restrict the number and range of health food products, was signed by 3,700 people. I t was presented to the Commons by Ribble


Valley MP Mr Nigel Evans, having been col­ lected by Helen Kimber, director of The Health Rack, a health supplement supplier in Dutton. Mr Evans said: “In this country we trust the


probity of the manufacture and the common sense of the consumer. Nobody wants this industry to be entangled in red tape from Brus­


sels.” He described the petition as “a loud and clear


signal” from the people of the Ribble Valley that they do not want their favourite vitamins taken from the shelf “by faceless Eurocrats”. .


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the tune of £4,796.21 to enable it to run a “Music for All” project, which involves learning about music and different cultures and religions. Mrs Christine Duckworth, music


teacher from the Early Years Education Service in Blackburn, will be supervising the playgroup for an hour every Tuesday and will teach music to children and staff. Next term, staff will run six music work­


Mr Cheeseman for an inter­ esting talk. A walking group has been


shops, which will be open to anyone living in the Ribble Valley who is, or has been, involved with pre-school children. A loan scheme will also be operated so


that other pre-school groups in the area can benefit from equipment and teaching aids purchased with the grant. These include games, books and toys


about other cultures, musical instruments, a r t and craft materials, a digital cam­ corder, TV and video, and CD-ROMs. ( Our picture shows pre-schoolers Robert Nelson and Charlie Dewhurst with Mrs Duckworth and playgroup manager Mrs Elaine Metcalfe, plus other pupils and teachers.


(C140103/2)


Police target 70,000 vehicles in a major campaign on stolen and dangerous vehicles


by Vivien Meath


POLICE in Lancashire Con­ stabulary’s Eastern Division stopped and checked nearly 1,400 vehicles during a three- week crime crackdown - codenamed Operation Exclu­


sion - in December. The crackdown took in the


division's three borough areas - Blackburn with Darwen, Hynd- bum and the Ribble Valley - and nearly 70,000 cars were "read" by the system. Officers used the Automatic Number Plate Recognition Sys­


tem as part of the constabulary's "Safer Streets in Lancashire" cam­ paign to tackle crime in the divi­ sion in the run-up to Christmas. Video cameras mounted in


marked police vehicles monitored passing vehicles and fed images into the ANPR system. This then "read" the registration numbers and automatically checked them against information in a series of databases. The ANPR system is capable of


reading more than 1,000 vehicle number plates an hour, identifying vehicles of interest regardless of speed or how busy the road is. ANPR does not monitor vehicle speed and is not a speed camera.


Det. Chief Insp. Neil Smith,


Eastern Division's Crime Reduc­ tion Co-ordinator, said: "ANPR is a cost efficient and effective polic­ ing tool that improves our ability to enforce the law, prevent crime, and detect offenders. I t is a vital tool in reducing the number of stolen vehicles. "It enables the effective deploy­


ment of resources based on intelli­ gence. I t can also play a vital role in reducing death and injury on Lancashire's roads by identifying unsafe vehicles and drivers with­ out the correct documentation." By deploying ANPR in highly


visible vehicles, the constabulary aims to reassure the public that it


is active in targeting travelling criminals, causing disruption to criminal activity, and making sure the vehicles th a t travel on our roads are safe. ’ The Christmas crackdown


resulted in 1,393 vehicles being stopped, 39 people being arrested for offences of th ef t, stealing motor vehicles, forgery, fraud, pos­ session of drugs, disqualified dri­ ving and drink driving offences. In addition to the arrests, 27


endorsable fixed penalty tickets were issued (which incur a £60 fine and three penalty points) and 82 non-endorsable fixed penalty tickets were given to motorists (these incur a £30 fine).


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