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\ A few facts about the old print works site


MY attention has been drawn to a letter from Conn. Graham Sowter in the August 12th edition of your paper in which he suggests that the owner of the old Barrow Print Works site is mischievously pre­ venting office development from taking


place there. As the accused developer may I,


through your pages, offer him and your


readers the following facts: • Since 1987, when we bought the site,


we have designed and obtained planning permission for half-a-million square feet of office accommodation and five acres with planning permission for a hotel, pub, petrol station etc. That is enough employ­ ment space for 4,000 jobs. • We have invested more than £lOm.


in the site and, working with the econom­ ic development officers of the Ribble Val- ley Borough Council and the Ribble Val­ ley Enterprise Agency, have sought to gain some return on that money by attracting employers to it. No one concerned in this effort has ever


suggested that we have proceeded with less than full vigour.


• Because we were able to obtain EU


funding, we were able to build an office building of 20,000 square feet and offer it for rent, in small suites, at £8.50 per square foot (against the £13.50 a square


foot that it actually costs). Even at this heavily-discounted rent,


demand was so weak that it took more


than two years to fill the space. • Grants are no longer available for


office space in the Ribble Valley and we therefore cannot compete with grant- aided schemes in neighbouring boroughs. • Ribble Valley is a seriously difficult


place for employers. It has an ageing pop­ ulation and a shrinking pool of people of


working age. The problem is made worse by govern­


ment policy which effectively bans new housing developments here, even of social


or affordable housing. Housing has become so expensive that


young people have to move away to find homes they can afford and this reduces the availability of staff, even for existing


employers. Since 1995, we have been trying to


engage with Ribble Valley Borough Council in a joint effort to address this problem, including offering land outside


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the enterprise park for social and afford­ able housing. The simple truth is that the best hope


for employment in the Ribble Valley is in ensuring an adequate supply of afford­ able housing for people of working age and in start-up businesses working from home; the model proposed for live-work units at Brockhall Village will do nothing but good for the community. Coun. Sowter’s suggestion is that we


have invested £10m. at the enterprise park and are now trjdng our best not to get a return on it. He may find this amusing, but your


readers may think it more appropriate to consider the imminent prospect for the Ribble Valley of a senescent community, supported only by pensions and property gains. And to make every effort to reverse


that trend and secure a prosperous and healthy future for the community in gen­ eral and its young people in particular.


HUGH GEDDES, The Gatehouse, Barrow


Residents’ decision to


help make progress I REFER to my letter of August 5th re. Brockhall Village planning application. After further discussion, and in order


to move towards a speedy conclusion of the building work in Brockhall Village, we, the residents of Bowling Green Cot­ tages, have decided to withdraw our objection to the planning application to build a live/work unit on the bowling green.


PAUL TAYLOR, Brockhall Village


Let’s debate issues


that really matter ONCE again there is conjecture on the return to Parliament of a bill to ban


hunting with dogs. What is this ridiculous obsession with


hunting? Do backbench politicians not have


anything better to worry about? To waste Government time on this


issue is absurd in view of all the other issues the Government ought to be priori­ tising, such as health service, education, war, transport, to name a few. This Labour Government seems to spe­


cialise in over blowing the trivialities and blowing over the important issues.


LOUISE BOWMAN, Inn at Whitewell, Whilewell


Your letters. . .


• The Editor welcomes letters on any sub­ ject, but correspondents are reminded that contributions may be edited or condensed, must not exceed 350 words and should reach us by noon on Tuesday. Letters with noms de plume are now only


accepted for publication if the editor agrees that there is a valid reason for the writer's


identity to be withheld. Letters can be sent by post to the


Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King


Street, Clitheroe BB7 2EW, or via e-mail to vivien.meath@eastlancsncws.co.uk, via fax to 01200 443467 or texted to 07799696447. Letters submitted by any of these meth­


ods must, however, include the writer s name and full postal address.


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Ghostly tales


for TV show WAY back in the autumn of 1996, I started the Clitheroe Ghost Murder and Mystery Walks. My interest in the subject of


ghosts, murders and mysteries is purely tourism related. I thoroughly enjoy tourism


and have always been proud to fly the Ribble Valley flag. Nothing would have pleased me more than working for the borough council's tourism department. I did apply on two occasions


for two posts in the tourism department, but sadly did not have the necessary qualifica­


tions. I therefore started my own


business. Top Hat Produc­ tions, and took my tours into Whalley, Kendal, Skipton, Blackburn, Darwen and Accrington. This year has been excep­


tionally busy and I have taken in Samlesbury Hall on a regu­ lar basis, but also a most unusual heritage tour based on the international best-sell­ ing book: "The Walk to Nab End," by William Woodruff. This is a coach tour and


takes in areas and buildings named in the book. Much to the delight of


Blackburn-with-Darwen Council's tourism department, this tour has taken off. In May I conducted a Nab


End tour from New York. The book does have strong links with New York and Boston. My tours have received


some considerable financial help from Blackburn-with- Darwen and Hyndburn Bor­ ough Councils and I am very grateful to them. I recently had a telephone


call from the cult TV show: "Most Haunted," and have been invited to take part in three episodes. I have chosen four Ribble


Valley stories for the first episode. The first, Waddow Hall's Peg O'Neil; The Punch Bowl, Hurst Green's Ned King; the Swan and Royal Hotel's Victorian lady and Whalley's white lady. The producer has asked me


to contact any Ribble Valley resident who has had a visit from the above ghosts and would like to interview them on the show. I would like to hear from


anyone who has a story. Please call me on 01200


426821.1 recently took part in a BBC TV programme called "Inside Out," to be shown this autumn, regarding the issues around the Bashall Eaves murder. I am sure this too will make


interesting viewing and fur­ ther contribute to visitors to the Ribble Valley.


SIMON ENTWISTLE, Littlemoor Road, Clilheroe


Course is a real


must for drivers I READ with interest your article about "Training to become a better driver" on page 27 of your paper dated August 26th, then turned over the page to read the letters, in particular the two responding to S. Eam- shaw's letter regarding his speeding, in your previous week's Advertiser! I would like to recommend


that S. Earnshaw, and any other driver who believes that speed limits are there to be bro­ ken, should pay the £20 and benefit from the course. Several years ago, when my


elder child was learning to drive, I had read a amilar arti­ cle in y;our paper and decided that m'y child should attend once the driving test was passed. I decided that I would attend too, so the total cost was only £30 as there were two of us, plus our petrol costs. I had considered that, after


more than 25 years virtually accident-free driving, I w ^ a good driver, and was surprised at how much I learnt. I beheve that it w ^ thanks to the driv­ ing course, and becoming more aware of what other road users migliL do, that I correctly antic­ ipated what two other drivers did, on separate occasions, and was prepared to react instantly and without panic. Had I not


MR ENTWISTLE, suitably attired for a ghostly trip round Clilheroe and surrounding areas


been on the course I do not think I would have been able to avoid a nasty motorway acci­ dent on both occasions; although having been involved in the first, I would not have been there for the second. I am also far more aware that my driving is not perfect, so endeavour to keep within speed


limits. Both my children went on


the BARSA course and have never put a scratch on my car. I know I can not protect them and prevent what the future may hold in store, but I do believe that the BARSA course made them much better drivers and, hopefully, will keep them safe on the roads. How much is your safety on


our roads worth? The BARSA course is well worth it.


J. CARTER, Moorland Crescent, Clilheroe


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this project? I AM collecting plastic bottle tops the proceeds from which, will eventully provide a dialy­ sis machine for a local hospi­ tals. If any reader would like to contact me, tel. 01200 426337,1 will arrange a collection. Thank you all for your help.


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