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Bishop urges prayers for Iraq : m his last Easter sermon


CHRISTIANS wereurged;


'to pray and protest for "a- new beginning" to renew the "human mess" afflicting Iraq., .. Preaching his last Easter


centres'


luct they.are selling and whose att5-:n 1 is “if it is not on the shelf wedo,: nave it”.


hose shops who choose to open on a , Hay can do so, and the tourists have ' benefit of many eating options'at ■excellent restaurants, such as


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ievine, the Emporium, Maxwells, ■penny’s, or many of the hotels serv- lfood and beverages, such as the in and Royal, Old Post House, Rose ICrown and White Lion - apologies Iny I have missed. Is Mr Barker Tvare of these options? s a shopkeeper and mother, I also [ a home to run. I also want the lux-


lof some time with my family and p time to meet up with friends, he time when they are at home is on pay. For the foreseeable future I do


Jsee my shop opening on Sunday. I Mr Barker has so many good ideas Improving things, perhaps he could


|r his views and support to the nber of Trade and/or Clitheroe the


mmMn 100 years ago


|Pope received in private audi- 4r Justice Walton, on behalf of


lonyhurst Association, and Mr Irt Colley, head student of. |hurst College, who presented ness with a magnificently illu-


Ited address in book form, I by all the community and stu- at the college.


Ihe Surveyor and Inspector of Jices was instructed to examine (port thereon, when Alderman son complained to the Health


|ittee of certain nuisances at the vorks and at Pimlico, caused


|ally by the former not being in r condition and also that Pim- 5 not sewered.


It a meeting of the Board of Ians, Mr R. C. Assheton, C.A., Id for so long worthily filled that Iwas re-elected to chairman, as Iso his able lieutenant, Mr W. |n, vice-chairman,


nday was Primrose Day and.the delicate flowers were noticed


ng many a buttonhole. ;A‘ r :•« 50 years ago


t reported that the sight of


yith ladders tending the gas i on the streets of Clitheroe l be a mere memory in five


| for the system of street light- Clitheroe was about to be


led by electricity. Apart from ] the town a more “up-to-date” | , the chief advantages of the i would be the savings in fuel nd the men’s wages.


. party of 20 Clitheroe Parish l choirboys travelled to Chester


Idral at the invitation of the [They sang Evensong, the first at the Parish Church had pro- Ithe choir for a cathedral service.


|>ys responded to the honour with ne choral singing.


|he largest grouped audience of 3.C was found in a battery cabin i poultry farm of Mr. Edward


I in Wiswell. A group of 600 hens ] to the wireless from 9am to a. The purpose of this bizarre


f:e was to get the hens used to a ound noise, so that when people bd the cabin, the noise made


|not frighten them. 25 years ago


JAGE vandals diced with Ion the new Riverside housing ■ h, Low Moor. They wrecked


Irickwork, but warnings from , |e agent indicated that mason- 1 scaffolding that was inter-


Iwith could topple on them. Jig one night six sections of |wall which had just been fin- vere demolished. Further dam- i prevented by the action of


|e watchman.


■he adjudicator at Clitheroe’s Innual Festival of Plays compli­ ed the venue, the town’s Civic le said: “I had heard about the but I didn’t believe it until I saw Jiyself. “I am very impressed - it llike a civic hall, but something par and well-nurtured.” The Fes- pas considered to be one of the | the country.


■ t Ribble Valley will be home to


one of the rarest species of trees A SPECIES of tree which is rapid­ ly becoming one of Britain's rarest is to be planted in the Ribble Val­ ley. ■ The black poplar, the majestic tree that provided the backdrop to Constable's masterpiece the Hay- wain, is represented in Lancashire by only an estimated 200 exam­ ples. The problem is made worse by the fact that there are only two female trees in the county, and no male'frees anywhere near. That,' couplecl 'with'the loss of much'of . the black poplar's natural habitat, has meant that the tree cannot reproduce from seed. ; Lancashire County Council's ecology officer, Mr Peter Jepson, said: "We intend to plant more black poplars this autumn near the Rivers Ribble and Lune. By planting male and female trees close together, we hope that they will begin to seed and produce more saplings.


"Our aim is to set up a Lan­


cashire Black Poplar Project to grow a supply of trees for landowners, community groups and schools to plant in their own grounds." There are only about 7,000 o f .


the trees left nationally and only 600 of these are known to be female.


The trees traditionally grew on lowland river flood plains on banks


"of sand and gravel, thrown up dur-* ing floods. Modem river engineer­ ing and.flood defences has effec­ tively destroyed much of this nat- ural habitat. . Most of the trees survive main­


ly in hedgerows and near rivers and ponds. It is thought that the tree was extensively planted after the First World War to provide a solution to the shortage of trees felled during the war. Many of the trees in East Lancashire date from that time.


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SOME 150 people took part in ?Whalley’s annual Good Friday procession


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of witness. The walkers assembled


as usual at the Sands and stopped for readings, hymns and prayers at


. several points on their way into the village. ' Slaidbum Silver Band


led the procession and the occasion provided another example of the village’s churches work­ ing successfully together. Our pictures show the


band, left, preparing for the walk(C180403/lb), and the procession of wit­ ness, above(C180403/l).


Plea for caution as another biker dies


EVERY year, motor cyclists are killed on roads in the Rib­ ble Valley. The Easter weekend brought


another motorcycle fatality, this time on the outskirts of the Rib­ ble Valley, near Lancaster. > A Longridge man was killed


and his wife, the pillion passen­ ger, injured.-


r - In Lancashire/ 362 motor cycle


riders and pillion passengers were killed or hurt between April and September last year. The Lancashire Partnership


for Road Safety is urging motor cyclists to beware of the dangers of speeding, given that bikers are seven times more likely to be involved in a crash, and have a fatality rate of four times that of car drivers. . , According to the Royal Soci­


ety for the Prevention of Acci­ dents, the number of motorcycle accidents peaks in the spring and summer. Sunny days and light evenings


bring bikers out in force along Lancashire's country roads, par­ ticularly those around the Ribble Valley that lead to the Trough of Bowland, on to Lancaster and the Lune Valley, and the A682 leading to Kirkby Lonsdale - a popular haunt for motor cyclists. Powerful machines, often


capable of . going up to 200 m.p.h., can speed along the wind­ ing country roads and have a high chance of losing control. . Sixty per cent of motorcyclist


fatal accidents are on rural roads, with one in five of them due to losing control of the bike, through rider error or deceptive bends. Carl Fogarty, Blackburn's


four-times World Superbike Champion, is supporting the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety and its'campaign and said: "I loved racing, pushing the bike'to the limit and battling to take the lead, but those were things I did in races. Driving on


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the roads is very different. Tempting as it may be, the coun­ ty's roads are not the place for bikers to test their driving ability and push their bikes to the limit. That should be kept for a safe and controlled racetrack environ­ ment.". According to Department of


Transport figures, motor cyclists account for 18% of road deaths and injuries, a disproportionate­ ly high number considering motor cycles make up only 1% of road users. The Lancashire Partnership


for Road Safety is warning motor cyclists that mobile speed,


' cameras will be targeting roads along routes widely used by bik­ ers to try. to get them to reduce their speed. Police motor cyclists' were in evidence oh popular routes for bikers around the Rib­ ble Valley in the weeks leading' up to Easter. According to Linda Sander­


son, communications manager for the partnership: "As part of our. drive to work towards safer roads, we will be introducing a number of initiatives to reduce the number of motor cyclist deaths and injuries. Education and awareness-raising will be a priority, and we will also be using mobile speed cameras to try to encourage bikers to slow down.". • The Lancashire Partnership


for Road Safety is committed to reducing the number of casual­ ties on Lancashire's roads and


/has developed a strategy to deliver’the Government's 2010 road casualty reduction targets by 2005. In Lancashire, this will mean a


total of 40 lives saved, 580 fewer people seriously hurt and 760 fewer people slightly hurt. It aims to make Lancashire a safer place in which to walk, cycle and ride, by concentrating on the three primary causes of road- casualties: speeding, drink-dri­ ving and non-wearing of seat belts.


Artistic treat follows meeting


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MEMBERS attending the March .■ and Art Gallery, Museum Street; meeting; of the... East Lancs Blackburn; from July. 12th to the ME/CFS Support Group were end of August. . . treated to a display of art.


The next meeting will be on Fri-


A S ./ H I CD N 5 9 K in g S t r e e t , W h a l le y


/ Following the AGM, member day, May 23rd, at 7-30 p.m. in Mark Best showed some of his. Wilpshire Methodist Church Hall, paintings and prints of local and when the speaker will be Dr Janet Lake District scenes.


Roberts. Inquiries can be made to


He will be holding an exhibition Jeanette Birch on 01254 88250 or of his work at Blackburn Museum Barbara Moody on 01254 723380.?


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Bridge club winners


WINNERS . at Clitheroe Bridge Club on Monday were: NS, Mr and Mrs R. Ward, Mr and Mrs R. Blakey; EW, Mrs J. Bowker and Mrs K. Higson, Mrs I. Park and Mr B. G'uha. Winners on Thurs­


day were: NS, Mr J. Higson and Mr E. Ormond, Mr’J. Pol­ lard and Mr B. Guha;. EW, Mr J. Renton and Mrs B. Wilson, Mr D. Platts and Mr P. Hewitt. New members are always welcome.


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sermon as Bishop in Black- burn Cathedral, the Rt Rev. Alan Chesters underlined. Christians' duty to pray for; the Foreign Secretary, Black­ burn MP Jack Straw. ■ ; The Bishop said past months.had been filled with Vas much gloom as I can ever remember. "Firstly, as the inevitability


of war with Iraq grew, prayer and protest did not seem to be answered in the actions of either side," he said. ■ "War came, and the horror


of human suffering, which for Christians is encapsulated in


Jesus', crucifixion, was hourly on our television screens. The horror,of war was in our homes. , "Sensitive people entered


into that suffering as they have done into Christ's suffer­ ing for 2000 years." . The Bishop added: "It is not for us, but for the histori­ ans to apportion blame.- “Liberation / of an


oppressed people with a tyrannical ruler was the aim.


: "A costly price has been paid, and for many families


■ this Easter Day is spent in mourning for the dead or car­ ing for the injured.


- “In that human mess we


. celebrate the new life of East­ er, the promise of a-new beginning. . i “We must pray and we must protest in whatever way


we can that such renewal comes to Iraq. "We have a Christian duty


as we continue to pray for the . Member of Parliament for this/town, and his heavy responsibilities to insist on that."- The Bishop also referred to


the forthcoming local elec­ tions, by pointing out how Christian "Good News" first spread beyond the Jewish community.- In the Bible, "Peter the Jew


is transformed from the old way of looking down on some people into seeing that in the new Easter life all are made by God." The Bishop added: "As the


local elections approach, what a powerful message that offers us for community relations in East Lancashire."


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