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THE village of Read is to be immor­ talised in a special book by an Ameri­ can author. I t will appear in a unique antholo­


gy that features villages whose names have a literal meaning. Writer and photographer David Jouris has spent the last eight years travelling through Western Europe for his book. To illustrate Read he gathered


pupils and the headteacher from the village school, Mrs Joyce Shaw, under the sign reading The Padiham Express, a sister paper of the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times.


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and he photographed a couple of locals jousting! And in the South of England he


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his job as a cartographer. Compiling atlases, he saw for himself the many varied names of villages and that is


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A FORMER pupil of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School has qualified as a solicitor and is joining Forbes' personal injury team., Leonie Woods joined Forbes as a trainee solicitor in September


2001 and spent a large proportion of her training contract in the personal injury departments at Blackburn and Accrington. Her training also involved a period in the employment law


department a t Forbes and three months working in the legal department of the Co-operative Group in Manchester. Peter Dugdale, a personal injury partner a t Forbes, said:


“During her training contract, Leonie was particularly attuned to the needs of. our personal injury.clients.^


.• “ She demonstrated particular success in trip and slip claims,


road traffic accidents, employer's liability and clinical negligence. We are therefore delighted that she has joined the team.”


THOUGHT f o r t h e w e e k


THROUGHOUT the Ribble Valley, churches are celebrating the annual har- ■ vest thanksgiving - and what a marvel­ lous year it has been! ; After the struggles of recent years, we


see smiles once again and a sense of renewed h o p e-a fresh start. At Chipping, there was a baptisin;


during the main service, of alittleguT born to a fanning family - but that is an exception today. Whereas 50 years ago, eight out of 10 children baptised were from the farms, with two out of 10 from other occupations, now, the ratio is reversed, with eight out of 10 from non­ farming backgrounds. r On most farms it is the fanner, alone,'


who works there, with ' the.; wife employed elsewhere and the child/ren having moved into other occupations. The result is fewer farms.but larger land


areas, with the redundant properties let or sold to people from a non-agricultur-


■ al background. " These changes are being embraced


with help and advice from the various agencies, which is proving to be very ; successful. Such readiness to change is


• not new -indeed history shows clearly that'change is constant. Our visitor books regularly have the names of peo-' pie whose families moved to the new world in earlier periods - Australia, New Zealand, Canada, North America-and they return to their roots, grateful. • Amid the change there is the.constan- cy of the created order which, despite the accuracy of recorded data in recent years suggesting climate change, never- : theless produces for us four distinct sea-. , sons.. ...


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world means that we have all-the-year- round fruit and vegetables, be it straw­ berries or whatever, from so many dif­ ferent countries.


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; . As rural and urban societies become less distinct, there are lessons to be


- learnt from each other; but learn, too, the lesson of the cityrtype who had a wager with the countryman! The city ' type thought the countryman a bump­ kin, but the countryman knew that God gave us two ears and one mouth. They agreed to ask each other questions to see who was the brighter and to pay the other if he failed to answer. The city-type, with more money than the countryman,'would pay £ l , the,


. /O f course', transport and a “smaller” •


.. other"50p. The “less-educated” country­ man would put the first question and he said: .“What has three legs and two wings," but cannot fly?” The city-type


could not answer, so he gave the coun­ tryman £1, as agreed. The city-type then returned the same question to the countryman, who did not know, either and;handed over 50p as agreed, then went away smiling. " There are important values among


the rural community which are “not for sale” yet, while a t the same time the more business-like approach of the wider society can be taken on board and its benefits enjoyed. In the Christian celebration of Har­


vest thanksgiving, we look to the one who is “the same yesterday, today and for ever”, whose goodness faileth never.


: In that sense there is much to celebrate every dayl


Rev. Arthur Siddall,


Vicar of Chipping with Whitcwell and Diocesan Rural Officer


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when he came up with the idea for the book. He always has to hire a car to get to his destinations as the villages he needs to visit are usually quite remote. After leaving Lancashire, David


was heading for a tour of Europe, taking in Italy, France and Germany. He has signed a deal with a publisher and his book should be in print later this year. Our pictures show a group of pupils


from Read Primary School taking their village sign literally. (C080903/2)


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Does any company have to face pressure like this from above?


PEOPLE who are cynical about the local authority - they include colleagues past and present - need to search their consciences and look a bit harder as more and more Government demands make running a borough one of the most difficult tasks in modern


Britain. Did someone say th a t knowing one


was to be hanged on the morrow con­ centrated the mind? This must certainly be a thought


looming large in the minds of everyone connected with Ribble Valley Borough Council. For, in a few years, some could be prematurely retired and the rest working for and bossed by strangers from an as-yet unknown point on the compass miles awayl Possible reorganisation does not have


to affect present performance and everyone a t the council is well aware that their commitment to the area and _ its people must not falter, however" uncertain the times. An interesting feature of the last


reorganisation was that, in the last year or two of their lives, doomed authorities lashed out with spare cash on things they may not have otherwise have pro-, vided, a sort of farewell, deathbed pre­ sent to ratepayers. Bets are on that the Government will stop that happening this time!


jW There are not many businesses run as


tightly these days as councils. Not many head offices send out as many demands as Whitehall does, with the political rather than practical overtones of some things making them hard to" stomach. However, people who work in local government learnt to grin and bear this years ago. A revolutionary (for local govern­


ment).new “best value” approach has had a remarkable range of effects, including the appointment of consul­ ta n ts to look a t management and departmental structures. Lots of navel contemplation here.


., But other Government moves are


: impacting directly on the public, of which the Licensing Act 2003 is a clas­ sic example. Few commercial firms are faced with a change like this! . When fully implemented, which is many months ahead, the Act will put .the alcohol, entertainment and late-


. -night food licensing system into the hands of local authorities. "There is a long, wide, ra f t of new


ideas and a revolutionary aspect is that people selling alcoholic drink will have a personal-licence that they will take into a new job, like a lorry driver would take his HGV licence, a pilot his flying licence or a solicitor his practice certifi­ cate. People with a premises licence will be


able to apply, subject to Government and local council guidelines, for what­ ever hours they want it to operate and for whatever purposes they wish. A hearing on the application will only be needed if there are objections. .' The amount of work needed to sort


out all this is tremendous, especially as currently the Ribble Valley is covered by three different court areas. The alco­ hol records of each need collecting up and rationalising, with the help of a £6,000 computer system. ., All told, the council expects to deal


with some 400 premises and is getting no money from the Government to start the scheme; it is sceptical of an assurance th a t the fees from licences will pay for the system. • Those of us who feel that the coun­


cil is, in general, a pretty good one are still waiting for reality to dawn on its secret £70,000 compensation payment in a planning case. As th e weeks go by and no more


information is forthcoming so th a t other people shall be warned about what can go wrong, this writer wonders how on earth the Tories who are in charge believe that keeping at least an outline from the public is honourable conduct. Is it not time a local council taxpayer


(which the writer is not) found a way of mounting a challenge under one or other of the Government’s “new deals”?


r L O O K IN G B A C K - i 100 years ago


A LABOURER appeared before the Mayor at the Borough Sessions for deserting his wife and four children, who had become des­ titute and chargeable to the Union. The relieving officer said that relief had been granted for three weeks and that amounted to 11 shillings, but then two children had to be buried, at a cost of 31 shillings. The prisoner said he had left to look for


work, but owing to the severe weather could not obtain it and he was unable to keep him­ self. He was committed for one month’s hard labour. ■ Chatburn by night was considered


.the lamps having been defrayed by public, subscription. . . . . . . . . ■ A youth living in Salt Hill Terraces


more congenial and free from danger, as the streets of the village were lit for the first time. The scheme was promoted as a com­ memoration of the Coronation, the cost of


who was summoned for lighting fireworks in the highway said that he did not know it was against the law to let off fireworks in the street. A fine of five shillings plus costs was imposed.


50 years ago


THE decision was made to discontinue classes in practical textile instruction at Clitheroe Technical School due to insuffi­ cient demand. The looms in good order were transferred to other colleges, obsolete machines were sold at scrap prices and the weaving shed closed. ■ Anxious to protect the amenities of the


road through the Trough of Bowland, the rural district council appointed a sub-com­ mittee to inspect the proposed route for overhead power lines. ■ An 18-year-old Ordinary Seaman from


Waddington, serving on the cruiser HMS Bermuda, was helping with disaster relief on the eathquake stricken Greek island of Zante. The ship had dashed from Malta to the


island, and he and his shipmates helped dig survivors from wrecked buildings and pro­ vide food for the homeless from mobile can­ teens set up by the Royal Navy detach­ ment.


25 years ago


AFTER four years of keeping staffing lev­ els “screwed down”, Ribble Valley Council was urged by its management team to take a more constructive line a t the annual review of the establishment. Chief Execu tive Michael Jackson expressed severe con­ cern at staffing levels. ■ A London developer unveiled plans for


a big new supermarket in Clitheroe. The proposal involved the demolition of disused garages between Wellgate and King Lane and the construction of a,7,300 sq ft store. The developer said th a t two “household n&mes” in the supermarket chain business were interested in the site. ■ A new 90 ft chimney and cupola were


brought into operation a t the Castle Cast­ ings works. In concert with a new furnace, they were designed to go a long way towards solving the grit and smoke problem which had plagued householders in the Brook Lane area for so long.


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CRICKETING barman Adi hopes to prove a big hit in C| bringing a taste of South Afric ble Valley. After three years in South i


has returned to take on t l licensee/manager at the populai And customers at the town ca


ry can soon expect to see some 1 tails on offer alongside traditioj “I worked in bars in South j


plement my income from crickl oughly enjoyed the whole expeq love their cocktails and are ■ ‘shooters’ too - if anyone do | what a shooter is then they shoif the Buckl,” said Adam. A native of the Fylde Coasl


played for St Annes CC, Adal given the chance to try his arm f


in 1999. “South African Dave CaUagj


professional and he asked me t paid amateur. I played for botl beth CC and Pirates CC an l summers there before moving | nently for two years.


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