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"” ~Oup scar eazer Marjorie Orr has prepared a more in, depth horoscope for you. • , For a complete reading of your stars this week call .the number next to your star sigiv
March: 2 1 iO^
Having jolid results to show for your efforts will be important to you and you will not be shy about demanding your rights or stating your worth-Though you may be spending larger sums than usual,a touchy, compulsively. With Mars, your ruler. In contact with Uranus, tou^ BOing to be looking for new things In life. You want to be off the • beaten track, out of routines, off to find a bit more cxciicmenLThc key is to do that without causing serious disruption In your life. OH my Anes line to hear more. • : ..
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To hear more, call 0906 589 4165 TAURUS,
Straight ahead will be your motto of the moment, and if obstacles or people get in your way. you’ll get Impatient, sweeping them to one side not always
diplomatically.You realise you need to shake yourself out of situations where you havenY faced up to people, you’ve been over-compromising Try adding a veneer of tact since that can be a faster way of getting your own way since you will ruffle fewer feathers, and arouse less resistance. Call ny Taurus line to hear more.
To h e a r m o re , c all 0 9 0 6 5 8 9 4 1 6 6 GEMINI,: V, May‘2 1
Over coming weeks you may not be clear why you feel frustrated, or what Is sticking to you. But you need to listen to the subtle cues and pick up on the undercurrents in your surrounding atmosphere. As a
treat ^ Is week make it a priority to do something new and innovative, more cxclung than usual.What you really need to aim for Is creative
change.You want to be turning your life into a little bit of a revolution, but doing it in as steady a way as you possibly can. Call my Gemini line to hear more. .
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To hear more, call 0906 589 4167 . CANCER
For the next few weeks with energetic Mars In your house of friends and future hopes, you will want to throw your energy wholeheartedly into all manner of team efforts in a highly optimistic
way.Though you’ll have to watch how your step slightly. It depends how over-impulsive you are normally. If you are quite hot headed then the influences around could just send you flying Into situations that you might have been better to stop and think about a little bit clearly and closely. Call my Cancer line to hear more.
To hear more, call 0906 589 4168 ; : July :24-August '23-:
Into a dynamic phase, you’will be hugely ambitious, very determined for a few weeks and intend to work hard to gain your ends.Anyone who tries to order you around will not going to be your most popular
figures.your flavour of the moment But if you can avoid falling out with them, then you’ll find that everything does feel a little bit more entertaining than usual, just keep a few trump cards up your sleeve and
be discreet about Important plans. Call my Leo line to hear more. To hear more, call 0906 589 4169 VIRGO
August-24-SepC‘23
Over coming weeks you will feel set free from certain
rcstrictions.Your mind will be more active than usual and you will be cunous to learn more about almost everything. Anyone who disagrees with you will have a fight on their hands as you defend your posiuon with vigour and vehemence. Remember that gentle persuasion often works better than brute force. You will feel restless and Impaocnt. and certainly don’t want to be stuck in a rut doing the same bonng old things. Call my Virgo line to hear more.
. To h e a r m o r e , call 0 9 0 6 S 8 9 4 1 7 0 : To h e a r m o r e ,
c.all 0 9 0 6 5 8 9 4 1 7 6 Service provided by luslon-ICS Leeds, LS2 8JA, Calls cost 60p per minute at all limes.
You will bo thinking fast, and perhaps spo.iking sharply at times over coming weeks in a busy schedule. You will not be suffering fools or slowcoaches gladly. Just watch out that you don’t go too over die score, because if you leap into situations without having thought them through very dearly.Uien itwon’t work
well.So try and settle to some limits, but make some changes as steadily as you can In your life. Call my Pisces line to hear more.
‘ - To hear more, call 0906 589 4173
• Work will now be moving a'little ftistcr-but you must feel it is expressing your real personality before you will settle to any kind of routine. You will be bouncing with renewed energy, vitality and . enthusiasm though loved ones may not always feel like keeping up. Luckily you will want to walk your own road and on the wild side a little bicAt times you may be slightly reckless. Watch you don’t go flying off into doing anything too foolish. Call my,Capricorn line to
■ hear more. To h e a r m o r e , call 0 9 0 6 5 8 9 4 1 7 4 ..
Work may be fmstrating with Mars now moving across the lowest area of your chart for a few weeks. Just recognise that achievements will come later on. Backtrack to unpick misakes if necessary and be patient You will find it tricky at home to put up with restraints and
restrictions, especially with cash. Anyone who is trying to push you around is going to be told exactly what you tliink of
them.This is very much a time to stand up for yourself. Call my Aquarius line to hear
more. \ To h e a r m o r e , c all 0 9 0 6 5 8 9 4 17 5 .
In a hard working phase of a few weeks, you will knuckle down';
dutifully.You will approach your chores with determination, an eye for detail and cake a good deal of pride in doing a task svell. Pay as much . attention to keeping fit as you do to being efficient At homo loved ones may find you a touch erratic.Whatever anyone else wants, you ■ want to do something different and will have no one interfere with whatever’s going on with you. Call my Sagittarius line to hear more.
To hear more, call 0906 589 4 1 7 1 . SCORPIO
Close partners at home and at work may be in a fiery and rather provocative mood for a few weeks. Don’t project your anger onto others and make yourself feel badly done
by.Stand up for yourseif.and take control-Just watch you’re not slightly accident-prone. It could. happen because you’re moving too fast o r doing something with . equipment going wrong. Sometimes fuses fly o r computer equiprnent. goes haywire when Uranus is around. Call my Sco«r)io line to he^r.
■ more. " - - - ' t T o h en r m o r e , call 0 9 0 6 5 8 9 4 1 7 2 , ' You are at a point now where you will want to make more money In
• partnership with others so you will be trying hard to co-operate. Just - be slow but steady In negouaung or discussing new agreements. Sort out past mistakes and cut your losses before you move
on.You know. you need to take a few risks. The influences around this vireek will . shake life up a little bitThcy give you a cliance to try and see that life ; has broader horizons. Call my Ubra line to hear m o r e . . ; ^ v.- v ,
I am supporting our very
1 Write to: The Edilor, ClUheroc Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clilheroc BB72E>V Editorial e-mail: vivicn-mealli@casllancsnews,co-uk Get real Mr Parker, where else would you get to see
efficient health centre I WAS amazed to read an article in last week's Adver tiser with the headline: ,^'GPs' appointment system is given the thumbs down.". I strongly disagree. I maintain it should be "thumbs
up." ' V Who is this retired policeman with a big chip on his
shoulder complaining that he could not get a morning appointment on the day he rang up, but he was given one at 2-30 p.m. This was not good enough, however. l am surprised that someone who is retired finds
such difficulty in keeping an afternoon appointment. What other activities can a retired policeman with back injuries be involved in? I think the article is flawed. How can such presump
tions be made based on one man's dissatisfaction? Jour nalists should do their homework before writing an article which, in my view, is clearly biased. I should like to express our support and approval of
a very efficient health centre and for everything they offerus.
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DAPHNE GREENHALGH, Up Brooks, Clitlicroc
Appointment system is a
step in the right direction I FEEL I must write in support of the appointment system used by the Castle Medical Group. Firstly I take exception to the headline above the
article: "CPs' appointment system given thumbs down". How can 90 % of a survey in favour be a justifi cation for this headline. I am sorry to hear that Mr Parker was inconve
nienced when he got an appointment at 2-30 p.m. on the day he asked for it, for what he admits is an ongo ing back problem that requires regular check-ups. In the "old system" people with acute medical prob
lems were often unable to see a doctor, never mind their own doctor, for at least a few days.: One had to be almost a medical emergency to get in "on the day". We know from Mr Mileham that around 100
patients per month failed to attend when their prob lem subsided two weeks later, thus blocking out gen uine patients who needed to see a doctor.
your doctor on the same day? Certainly in my expert-. ence people in large cities may have to resort to Acci dent and Emergency to get medical help or access an Internet service for advice. : In a political climate against increased direct taxation (from which the majority of NHS funding is derived) an under-funded service has to make the best use of resources to meet, the needs of patients. I think this system is a step for- • ward in the right direction and I applaud the excellent service my family has had from this practice over the last 35 years.
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YVONNE BUSH, Waddinglon .
Whalley parking has been
a long-standing problem IT is a shame that "Whalley Village Resident for 40 Years" does not feel able to reveal his or her name. Do the "Whalley Mafia," whoever they are, carry out death threats? • ' The situation regarding car parks in Whalley h£«
been ongoing for 20 years—at least - and it looks like it will continue for another 20 years. I ask myself as a "non central resident" if Whalley is still a village? The writer talks of the problems for those who live
planning permission to create a "hotei". I now imder- stand that some residents of Biiiington want Broad Lane to be iit aiong its length so that pedestrians are safe from passing traffic, (With a reduction m traffic, all pedestrians would be safe).
_ that is being destroyed. Whatashamel
Unfortunately, as I understand it: 1. . Henry V I I I didn't destroy Whalley. Abbey.
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2. Lancashire County Council chose not to relocate the school because of cost, i What cost to the
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village as a whole in not doing so? 3. Calderstones Park was given planning per
mission, but we now know it was not necessary. Thank you RVBC!
4. Vale Gardens are not used by anybody! 5. Does Whalley as a village need a bus station? 6. Apart from the concrete waste of money (the
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Millennium fountain) what use is Vale Gardens? . 7. Concrete the lot and make a fantastic car
park. Or else employ private wardens charging £20 per day to visit Whalleyl
PAULMORLEY, Wliallcy
centrally, how selfishl Car parking problems in Whalley Caravan site plan is the
extend beyond the centrel The writer talks about Church Lane, but, the Sands
and Broad Lane, cannot be ignored. They are both an extension of Church Lane. Indeed any traffic restric tions on one affects the others. Twelve years ago Broad Lane was a very quiet lane, straight and relatively narrow. Local users were sensi
ble and polite enough to wait at either end for cars coming in the opposite direction. This situation slowly stopped so that cars met one third or two thirds along the length of Broad Lane. Vehicles have in the past years carved pacing places into the side of the lane and LOG have made passing easier by Tarmacing the passing places (which didn’t exist). Broad Lane is now used as a "rat run" to the centre
of the "village". Consequently as the."carving" contin ues the lane is becoming a quagmire. This problem has been exacerbated because of the
Calderstones Park development, where an allegedly promised school has not been built. Whalley school is to be further developed and Whalley Abbey is to seek
thin edge of the wedge AS I write, it seems likely that the planning applica tion for 80 "permanent caravans" to be sited in a remote and rather boggy field at Dutton will go before the borough council's planning committee on February
10th. . There has been much in your columns recently \
about the concern felt throughout the area about cara van park developments as a substitute for housing. It was certainly a surprise to us to find that for planning purposes, "caravans" and "chalets" are virtually the
same thing. One of our grounds for objection to the Horseshoe
Woods proposal in Dutton is the illogicality of planting a "new village" of maybe 200 people in a rather wet green field two miles or more from the nearest shop. But if the application were to be granted, the green field becomes a brown field, and what happens next? This type of application is the thin end of a very nasty wedge. As a group, we resist this application not
only for this reason, but on a number of other grounds which are valid "planning reasons" for its rejection. These have been made known in a large volume of letters sent to the planning department. But I would like to add another point. All of
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us living in the Ribble Valley, or any other beautiful place, must be aware that we hold it in trust for future generations. As a group, we feel passionately about this and object to this proposal which bears no relation to farm diver sification and offers no benefit to the existing population. This application is, we believe, nothing other than "rural asset stripping" and we are confident that our councillors will recognise it as such and reject it.
BRIAN CHAPMAN, Chairman Horseshoe Woods Action Group, Stoneygate Lane, Ribchester
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this argument ONLY 25% of voters put Labour into Gov ernment at the last General Election. So, quite right, Gary Titley, Labour MEP,
who wrote that a high turnout in future elu tions will give extremists less chance of wiii- ning seats in the region, (January 29th edi tion). But who are the extremists? For instance, less than 24 hours prior to
reading Mr T i t le y ’s letter, I read that a Labour councillor, in a nearby town, had resigned after he was found guilty of miscon duct for standing for election while disbarred. I t turned out that he had spent time in
prison for assaulting two police officers. I hope voters remember this at the future by-election. They do deserve better. ■, On a broader front, the only weapons of mass deception I see are the Labour Govern
ment.' The latest two deceptions being the war
- What a nasty Government this lot is. Some will disagree with me, but as I see it, we should aim to get all sides of the argument.
with Iraq - regime change is what it was all about - and their manifesto U-turn by voting in favour of tuition fees.
BERT HARDWICK, Queensway, Waddington
A bizarre shade of
whitewash this is! DID you witness on television the hitherto
I sedate and composed Judge Hutton snarling with almost animal viciousness: “Well the BBC screwed it”? Very erudite phraseology! Especially as
I self has “screwed it”. For a programme broadcast on refutable
I polls indicate that 90% of the population 1 think that the supposedly learned judge him-
judgement, the BBC is uncompromisingly
I castigated. For a war that has destroyed the infrastruc-
I ture of an otherwise stable country and under- I taken on irrefutable erroneous information, a government is fully exonerated. A weirdly bizarre hue of whitewash indeed.
ROBIN PARKER, St Chad’s Avenue, Chatburn -
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Open in local hu
YOUNG people from thi being urged to share a democracy by joining t|
council. Elections will be takir
February and March tcL Lancashire Youth Coun| UK's Youth Parliament. Members of the YoutU
meet with Lancashire Coil net four times a year to tf as public transport, re e j sports and social provisipT The county's 12 distrid
each elect three young pi Two of them will heed Lancashire Youth CouJ
year and the third indivl UK Youth Parliament foj Anyone aged 11-25 is I
district youth council \4 once a month and is full| ing young people with: needs and from the care si their needs are fully cons| Lancashire County Cc
ty Coun. Hazel Hardingl ing forward to welcomin people to our district you coming weeks.
I "We have enjoyed livil
Youth Council's Executhj put forward challenging I arguments on many issuJ "Many people wrongW
people are not interestej have seen that the young f have a healthy interest hr and are keen for their vol Any young people waj
tion on joining their dif should call: 01772 532831
Driver stj from cn
A CAR being driven! towards Clitheroe collidJ a bridge wall before fal hand bend and crashing! Blackburn magistral^
ver. Dale Graham Coui after climbing out of thel
vehicle. And a subsequent brel
son, pleaded guilty to! alcohol. He was fined £5l disqualified from drivini Counsell, who gave a
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he was more than three r drive limit. Counsell (35), of Netn
grammes of alcohol in 111 against the legal limit J agreed to be referred to| bilitation programme! successfully, will reduce F Mr Dermot Woodha Counsell was employed j
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print demonstrator. “He travels the lengtl
country and his businel 40,000 and 50,000 miT
Woodhead. “IthasbeeH him that he will lose H
period of disqualificatid He said Counsell had
friends in Waddingtonl leave his car and take al where he would spend '
house. “During the night t
ment and he took the vj - priate for him to leave,'T
PendleGli b r id g e winners
Clitheroe, were; M rs . Dukinfield, Mrs Maij
Doris Farnsworth. > ' Winners of Friday!
Mrs R. Kiddie, M. ,Yl
’ second) and M. Berl fourth).Solo whist J evening were: Mr R. 1
: : M. Holding. Line dan ' ; Thursday at 1-30
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welcome to attend ani I Broad Lane, The Sands and Church Lane have suf-
ficient existing regulations on them as they stand, but they are not enforced. Broad,Lane is a country lane
you • by Robbie Robins
YOUNGSTERS from] ble Valley have agal winning trophies in t| cashire Clubs for Younj
Competition. During 2003, membel
youth club at Trinity Ytl tre took part in a -variety [ As their skills increasetj their competitive abilitie.'l eral trophies now gra| homes. The five-a-side footb|
made up of Michael H(l Tom Hall, Thomas Egll Rigby, Chris Fort, Daniej David Walmsley, Zak He
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