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hedgehogs AS winter at last starts to slack en her icy grip on the Ribble Valley, its native hedgehogs will be emerging bleary-eyed from their long hibernation and seek ing out their first feed of spring. With the ground still hard,
that might not be easy and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society has issued some useful advice on how we can all help the hedgehog this spring. First priority for waking
hedgehogs mil be to replenish fat reserves used up during hibernation. Some meat-based pet food
and fresh water left out in a quiet comer of the garden will provide a welcome meal for a visiting or even resident hedge hog. Gardeners tidying up after
winter should be careful to check for hedgehogs when mow ing lawns for the first time or strimming borders. Piles of leaves or other winter
debris should also be examined carefully for any “late sleepers” before burning. Motorists should also take
extra care at this time of year as the search for. food will mean many hedgehogs will encounter roads to cross. The British Hedgehog Preservation Society sells a clever little ultrasonic whistle that is quick and easy to fit to vehicles. As wind is pushed'through
the device, it emits a high fre quency whistle to warn animals that the vehicle is approaching. To find out more about the
whistle or about membership of the British Hedgehog Preserva tion Society, send an A5-size stamped addressed envelope to: BHPS, Hedgehog House, Dhus- tone, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 3PL. Membership costs £7.50 a year for a single person.
BRITISH HEDGEHOG PRESERVATION SOCIETY, Shropshire
Call the Newsdesk on 01200 422324 Regional issue
- have your say MAY I congratulate not only Anthony Haworth, of Sabden, for his piece in "Valley Mat ters" -Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, February 26th, but also the editor for featur ing it. In the Government material
issued recently, the estimated annual charge on council tax for a new Elected Regional Assembly (ERA) is given as initially 5p per week (£2.60 per annum). But there was infor mation not yet given by the Deputy Prime-Minister at the public hearing in Blackburn on March 4th. 1. If the existing North West
Development Association is doing a good job in building a better economic infrastructure for the North West region, and attracting much investment and, for example, European funding, why is it necessary to have a statutory Elected Regional Assembly (with its bureaucracy) as well? 2. If (and it's a big "if") there
is any real substance in the Government's assertion that the ERA functions will include many from central government (other than presumably the NWDA), then should not the existing "Government Office for the North West" (at Sunley Tower, Piccadily Plaza in Manchester) be merged with, or be taken over by, the pro posed Regional Assembly organisation? Surely GO-NW wouldn't need to continue!
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Arts event THE creative future of Britain is under threat. School teachers today are struggling to find time to fit arts subjects into a crowded national curriculum. A recent survey showed that
despite creative industries being worth more than £67 billion a year to our national economy, 80% of UK teachers are hard- pushed to find time for the arts. This means thousands of
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don't just mean the obvious. Certainly, we need dancers.
(This doesn't necessarily
mean tha t the ERA - if it comes to fruition as planned by current Government - should be located in Sunley Tower, Manchester - presumably there will be County Hall, Pre ston available if Boundary Committee's preference for Lancs/Cumbria "unitary authorities" is confirmed by John Prescott between now and June!). On that current and related
Local Government Review - i.e. who should Ribble Valley Council merge with?- we know that the Government's Bound ary Committee has had its instructions to assume a "yes" majority vote in the autumn regional referendum question and that "status quo" for the present two-tier areas like Rib ble Valley is not allowed as an option for the simultaneous "local" referendum. Many (I believe most) peo
ple in Ribble Valley support most definitely the stance taken by the Boundary Com mittee so far (as in the Decem ber 2003 draft recommenda tions) not to recommend any division or partition of the existing principal local authori ties' areas in East Lancashire - including Ribble Valley - sub ject to the one exception which has local support at Whitworth (i.e. the proposal accepted by the Boundary Committee for Whitworth township to move from south-east Rossendale to the northern part of Rochdale metropolitan borough). Many, if not most people and organisations in the Valley,
actors and painters but we also want architects, graphic design ers, acrobats, jewellery makers, journalists, cake decorators. The list is endless as there is
so much in our day-to-day lives that we take for granted but for which a real artistic talent is required. The more people we have to
help inspire a new generation the better. And we need all lev els, from recently qualified graduates to high-profile profes sionals and everyone in between. I cannot think of a better
way to stimulate the talent of tomorrow than by introducing them to the talent of today and that's exactly what Big Arts Week does. I t encourages artists into
schools to share their knowl edge. I urge all artists to get involved - 1 am. To become involved, please the website at
visit
www.bigartsweek.com, or you can send an e-mail to
info@bigartsweek.com or call 020 7654 0023, by Friday, April 15th.
Thanking you in anticipa tion,
HARRY ENFIELD, Big Arts Week Patron
are also most strongly against Ribble Valley - or any part of Ribble Valley- being subject to annexation to the existing Blackburn with Darwen uni tary authority in any two uni tary authorities scenario for East Lancs. Anthony Haworth in his letter mentioned the "Labour moguls," but it’s also the Conservatives on Black burn Council who want to take over parts of the Ribble Valley, especially the nine or 10 south ern Ribble Valley parishes between Billington and Balder- stone. The "Back Off, Black burn" campaign has started from Mellor - co-ordinator Emma's phone no. is 0770 900 7318.
• The February 23rd "door" neatly closed for responses or further modified proposals to the Boundary Committee, despite the sham of their leaflet (non)distribution - the Bound ary Committee is blaming another Government body, the Central Office of Information.
Brief family trip
to a funless fair “IT’S not much fun at the fair.” The words of my five-year-
old daughter when we visited the “fun” fair last weekend. We went at teatime, hoping it
would be a bit quieter. My daughter had been excited all week.
Unfortunately our visit was
shortlived -10 minutes to be exact.
There were groups of youths
walking around with cans of beer and inevitably a big fight broke out.
It was frightening for me. I
cannot imagine how it must have felt for a small child. She took a long time to calm down before she, in her wisdom,
RIBBLE Valley Council offices. Will they have a fuiure? Final recommendations of
the Boundary Committee are only weeks away. It has up to May 25th (which means it can be before then). As soon as he receives them, John Prescott will decide on his local govern ment options for the later bal lot. What we do not know is whether we then get a further chance to try to comment on his choices for the Lancs, or Lancs/Cumbria, "local" ballot. There's also the proposals to have a regional fire service, and possibly merge Lancashire and Cumbria Police. So, if you haven't yet sent in
your views or you want to find out more, here are the address es: Deputy PM, c/o Office of the DPM(ODPM)- Local Government Review NW, zone 1/B6 &A4, Eland House, Bressenden Place, LONDON SW1E 5DU- or by e-mail to
yoursay.northwest@
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ov.uk. .
ALAN SCHOFIELD, Clavton-lc-Dale
asked me: “Mummy, where were the policemen? They should lock them up for being
so naughty.” How could I answer her ques
tion when the exact same thing was going round in my own
head? It is inevitable that the fair
attracts youths. Would it hurt or stretch resources so much to have one police officer patrolling the fair? That way, everyone could
have fun. In this day and age it is laughable that such a ques tion has to be asked! It should be obvious to the
police that in such a situation their presence is not only required but essential.
MRS COOK. New Row, Wiswell
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Please support this
worthwhile game club THE Ribble Valley Netball Club annual meeting took place on Sunday at Clitheroe Rugby Club. One of our main issues is the desperate
need for sporting facilities for young people in the Ribble Valley. The council is fully aware of this, therefore we are amazed by the Ribble Valley Borough Council’s objec tions to the proposed sports pavilion at Ribblesdale High School, as mentioned by
R.Postlethwaite (Letters, February 26th). Ribble Valley Netball Club currently has
more than 200 members between the ages of seven and 18, just under half of who are trained at Roefield Leisure Centre by our coaches, our members paying Roefield direct. The majority train at several sites -Rib blesdale High School, the grammar school and on the astro turf at Roefield. These facilities are paid for on an hourly
basis making it costly for our members. During certain times of the year, e.g.
exams, mock exams and parents’ evenings, the Ribblesdale Gym is unavailable to us for the seven hours per week needed. This means the 80 members in our advanced squads who train have to find alternative facilities, which is not always possible or they are forced to cancel their training session. Despite our appalling lack of facilities, the voluntary committee manages to distribute
letters and kit, cover for absent coaches, arrange tournament, league and friendly matches, organise fund-raising and social events, all by racing round various venues on several nights of the week. We have 20 squads, entering leagues in
Manchester, Bolton and Blackpool (10 squads went at the beginning of March) and tournaments as far away as Nottingham and Wales. Over the last six years, three teams have
qualified for the Nationals and 10 members have been selected to train with the England squad. However, the ethos of our club is anyone
who wants to play netball is welcome, our social squads aim to accommodate this, but due to lack of facilities we are nearing capac ity.
We are keeping children off the street,
encouraging them to take part in sport and enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Any support would be welcome.
SARA THOMPSON, LISA DERBYSHIRE, LESLEY McCABE, Chairman, secretary and treasurer of the Rib ble Valley Netball Club
Change this unfair
housing allocation I REFER to the article in the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, March 18th, about 500 people chasing one house.
Discovery turns literary world on its head. . !
IT is quite common to find newspaper headlines promising that local achieve ments will revolutionise this or that field of
activity. But this time there is more than a grain
of truth in the claim. Local resident ex-teacher Mr Charles
Pearce has made an astonishing discovery which will turn the world of Shakespeare studies upside down and lead to a whole sale revision of the prevailing views of Shakespeare and the influence of his work. Mr Pearce, who has degrees from Leeds,
Manchester and the Open University and who has also studied at the University of Oxford and at Central Lancashire, Preston, was browsing through some old docu
ments. "For security reasons, the location must
remain secret for the time being," explained Mr Pearce. And there he noticed that some manuscripts seemed different from the rest. "From previous study I recognised the handwriting on the manuscripts. At first it was extremely difficult to decipher because the script - known as Elizabethan Secre tary Hand - is not too familiar to us nowa days. And even in Shakespeare’s day it was
easy to make mistakes. You'vb only to look st soihg oxsmplGS
(see illustration) and to imagine a printer or compositor working against time by the light of a flickering candle or torch to see how confusion can arise." As Prof. R. B. McKerrow writes in his
classic book: "An Introduction to Bibliog raphy for Literary Students';,".. .docu ments are in the hands of various degrees of informality and carelessness, and some of these are by no means easy to read. It is this sort of mis-reading which is at
• the heart of the outstanding discovery, for it shows that Ribble Valley played an astonishing and far reaching role m the nrrmlr nf ShnlfPSnPflrG.
Jlamnrlet prince of D e n m a r k
players appeared at Hoghton Tower, near Preston. Until now there has been no evi dence that Shakespeare ventured any fur ther into Lancashire. But it now seems cer tain that Shakespeare was fundamentally influenced by the rural economy of Ribble Valley and the Forest of Bowland and especially by the abundance of sheep which formed the basis of the wealth of the
area. "The manuscripts I have discovered
make it clear that, given the easy confu sion of the letters H and L, that Shake speare originally intended his deepest "tragedie" to bear the title: "Lammlet," which would reflect the deep impression our countryside made on him. It was pres sure from Cotswold pig farmers that made him alter the title. He did, however, reassert himself with the famous lines from Othello - "An old black ram.. Is tup
ping your white ewe" Shakespeare's indebtedness to Ribble
Valley,.the Forest of Bowland (and his love of puns and word-play) is underlined by the original title of his "comelie comedye - All's Wool that Ends Wool". "And," adds Mr Pearce, "It's surely no
coincidence that a classic of children's lit erature is Lamb's (!) Tales (1!) from Shake
speare. "I am delighted that these discoveries
.should be first revealed in a local publica tion and in the very month in which Shakespeare's birthday is traditionally cel ebrated. This will put us firmly on the lit
erary pilgrimage trail." Mr Pearce is also co-organiser of the "DiKVxla "\7ol1p\r SVlPPnTfVst..
Probably two thirds of these people will
be outside the Ribble Valley. My grand mother has been waiting for two years for a bungalow, worried that her landlord may want to sell the house she rents privately. When she rang to make an appointment
with the housing officer, he/she was not available but said they would ring back. They did not so she called in only to be met by a very unhelpful lady. There was no interview room so she had to discuss her worries in front of other people only to be told she would probably end up in The Joiners. I know of people who have been housed from Blackburn, Oldham, South- port and other places outside our borough. Come on Ribble Valley Borough Council - alter your unfair system.
N. B. PATTERSON, Whalley
Who is to blame for
this boy’s activities? I WRITE regarding the article in the March 18th edition about the youth banned from parts of Whalley because of his “nuisance behaviour”. Firstly, it seems obvious that the only
reason this “boy” is not in prison is because he is too young. It is only a matter of time. But we must ask ourselves why? The article on the “boy” certainly made
eye-widening reading. It is quite unbeliev able to read that a 16-year-old boy has done so much wrong. It would be fair to assume the boy has no parents, but, unfor tunately, I know that he has - two of them in actual fact. Yes, the boy has done bad, but who is to
blame for this boy’s very bleak demise and future? Name and address supplied, but withheld by Editor
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MEMORIES of life in and around Calderstones Hospital in its heyday are recalled by a new computer website. It has been set up by a former
nurse at the Whalley hospital who now lives in Folkestone, Kent, and is keen to rekindle old friendships. She is Carole Goodsell (nee
Whittaker) who started her nurse training in 1964 and has many happy memories of her time at Calderstones and the people she shared th a t time with. Writing on the website, she
comments: “They were very memorable days. “I made lots of friends and acquaintances and I would like
to keep in contact with them! “It was a community where
we lived, worked, shopped and we even had our own staff club where we could have a few bevvies after work. “A lot us us moved on to pas
tures new, but I hold in the high est esteem, Calderstones - the place where I trained - and the friends I made while I worked and lived there.” The “Calderstones Friend
ship Rekindled” website fea tures lots of pictures, both old and new, and a message board so that visitors can make con tact with long lost friends. To find out more information,
visit the website at
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