4 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, June 3rd, 2004
Speed work on danger road
by Margaret Parsons
A MAJOR Ribble Valley road which has seen 60 injury acci dents in the past five years, is to have its speed reduced and undergo massive improvements
this summer. The A671 Whalley Road through Read
and Simonstone is an accident blackspot. In all, 16 of the recorded accidents
resulted in fatal or very serious injuries. Dozens more minor accidents, which
have not been recorded, are also known to have taken place on the busy road from the A6068 Padiham bypass cutting through Read and Simonstone to the A680 Accrington Road at Portfield Bar, Whalley. Now the road is to be closed for several
weeks at Devil’s Elbow in Read during July and August so a major improvement scheme can be carried out by Lancashire County Council. Work will include strengthening Read
New Bridge at Devil’s Elbow, realigning the carriageway to improve the adverse camber, installing a special skid resistant surface and resurfacing and re-kerbing the footpath. The bridge work involves major struc-
tural work down to the river bed which will be reinforced with concrete. The work is due to begin on July 19th
and could take until early September. The road will be closed from Portfield
Bar to New Maris Woods ju s t before Read village and traffic will be diverted. The road is currently subject to the
national speed limit of 60 m.p.h. but this is to be reduced to 50 mph and there is a proposal to introduce a transitional 40 m.p.h. limit as you approach Read before the 30 m.p.h. kicks in. New road markings and signage will
also be introduced on the stretch. The scheme is designed to cut down on
the horrific number of accidents on the stretch. I t will be welcomed by Read and
Simonstone parish councillors and vil lagers alike who have campaigned for years for improvements. Traffic on the busy s tre tch will be
diverted through Clayton-le-Moors. But problems are expected in Sabden
where parish councillors expect a big influx of traf f ic on top of those who already use its narrow streets as a rat run. At the May parish council meeting PC
Paul Sherratt told councillors that the police were very aware of the expected problems and planned to put speed traps in Sabden to deter motorists.
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All the threes mean safety success at 3M
FOR the third consecutive year, 3M Health Care at Clitheroe has won a top gold award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). The prestigious award is nation
al recognition for the Up Brooks site’s management systems for health and safety and the continu
ous improvements introduced in recent years. The site’s environment, health
and safety engineer Mr Bob Wilkinson said winning the award again was a tribute to the efforts put in by employees to keep up safety awareness. In the past year these efforts
included a major European Health and Safety Week programme, which also involved a poster com petition with pupils at Clitheroe’s Brookside School. "The site has an excellent safety
record and the award is great encouragement for us all to keep
up the good work," Bob comment ed.
Safety co-ordinator Mr Philip
Hodgson attended a special RoSPA ceremony in Birmingham
to receive the award on behalf of the local site. Pictured celebrating gold are: left to right,back row, Andrew Birtwell, Dave Johnson,
Duncan Fielding, Paul Gaskell and Dave Cook; front, Philip Hodgson and plant manager Wayne Lenander. (s)
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A helping hand for Brazil’s impoverished street children
TWO local walkers are hoping to raise money for the street children of Brazil by completing part of an ancient Catholic pilgrimage. Mr Fred Uttley, of Simonstone, and his friend, Mr
John Cowell, of Cliviger, have set off to Spain to walk 150 miles of the Camino to Santiago de Com- postella pilgrimage which will eventually lead them to the shrine of St James the Greater. The pair started the 500-mile walk last year and
this year are hoping to raise more than £1,000 for the charity CAFOD, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. . Mr Uttley said: "I have been involved at St John's
Parish Church and CAFOD for about six years and go round to the local schools telling them about the work of CAFOD. “They have launched a two-year campaign for the
street children of Brazil so that is who we are raising the money for." Mr Cowell said his decision to raise money for
CAFOD came from his late mother, local charity fund-raiser Mrs Winifred Cowell, who told him shortly before she died that CAFOD was her chosen
charity. He said: "My mother passed away recently and I was going to raise money for a well known chil dren's hospital but she told me that I should raise it for the children of Brazil so that is what I am doing. “I am going to take over from her in terms of her
charity work so hopefully this is the first of many such fund-raisers." The pilgrimage dates back to the 9th Century
when the tomb of St James was discovered in what is now Galicia, north western Spain. Pilgrims soon flocked from across Europe and
before long the Camino to Santiago de Compostella became ranked alongside Rome and Jerusalem as one of the three main medieval pilgrimage destina tions. Although interest waned after the 12th Century,
the last 20 years has again seen the number of pil grims tackling the tough terrain of Northern Spain rocket, especially during holy years with up to 70,000 people visiting each year. Famous pilgrims include the present pontiff, Pope
John Paul II, who has twice made the journey, in 1982 and in 1989.
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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times’, June 3rd, 2004 5 Village fury over latest blackouts by Faiza Afzaal
A HURST GREEN landlord has hit out at United Utilities for being unable to supply reli able electricity after a six-hour power cut ruined his Saturday night sell-out function. Mr Steve Alcock, who runs the
the Shireburn Arms Hotel in the heart of the village, had more than 120 customers in the pub, all look ing forward to a song and dance extravaganza. However, at 6-55 p.m., just when
the drinkers were getting into the spirit of things, they were disrupt ed by the cut, which left up to 600 homes in the area without power. The failure halted the much-
awaited evening ceremony and power did not begin to filter back to parts of the village until the early hours of Sunday, May 23rd. The picturesque village of Hurst
Green attracts tourists from all over the country, but little do peo ple know that it has no gas supply and relies completely on electricity. With the high demand for elec
tricity, Mr Alcock has won the backing of all the villagers who claim continuous power failures, more recently three in a week, are not only plunging them into dark ness but are “crippling” them. “We are fed-up,” said Mr Alcock,
who has been running the pub for the past 11 years. “We pay our elec tricity bills yet don’t get regular power. “All the guests in the pub were waiting for a five-course meal,
instead they had to sit in a candle lit pub for more than six hours. “Luckily with the help of my
friends and the villagers we were able to acquire two generators that allowed the cabaret to perform. “Throughout the evening every
time we rang United Utilities, we were transferred to a voicemail ser vice. “I lost money over the weekend
due to no drink sales and demand an explanation.” To demonstrate their anger resi
dents are drawing up a petition, which is to be pinned up at the vil lage’s Post Office. Commenting on the latest move,
which is being backed by Ribble Valley MP Mr Nigel Evans, resi dent Mr Les Howarth, said: “We want to get to the root of the prob lem and we are hoping that the peti tion will raise awareness of our cur rent situation.” Meanwhile, traders in the village
have not only been disrupted by the loss of electricity, but have been turning customers away. Mrs Linda Peirse, who runs the
Eagle and Child pub, in Whalley Road, lost around £700 trade on the same Saturday evening due to hours of darkness. A few weeks ago she was forced to
close as there was no power to run the business. Due to frequent blackouts, which
have become worse over the past few weeks, the sub-postmistress at Hurst Green Post Office has had to •run a limited service by only selling
stamps. Mrs Debbie Taylor, who runs the
couple of weeks ago a power failure struck on Monday, which is the bus iest day of the week. “Pensioners were not able to draw
their pensions out due to the new electronic payment system.” As the evening power cut brought
Hurst Green to a standstill, ward councillor Jan Elizabeth Alcock, who lives a mile away from the vil lage in Hodder Court, was left trapped in her house. “My car was parked in the garage
and when the power failed I could not open my electronically-operat ed garage door. “I missed the annual Ribble Val
ley Mayor-Making ceremony. I am fed-up with United Utilities not being able to give provide an expla nation. But according to officials at Unit
ed Utilities, there are a number of reasons that cause the electricity to fail and they are looking into the matter. These could include rubble rub
bing against the underground cables and causing them to short- circuit. A spokesman for the company,
said: “We do apologise for any inconvenience, but there have been a series of faults th a t have hap pened as an unfortunate coinci
dence. “Our engineers and technicians
worked throughout the evening and in the early hours of Sunday to restore the power. “The original fault is still being
investigated and will be repaired as soon as possible.” Our picture shows a disgruntled
village’s post office, explained: “A Mr Alcock. (C260504/1)
No strings attached to this school visit!
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don School of Puppetry to put on workshops and a show for pupils. They brought with them all kinds of puppets from stick puppets to marionettes. Our photo shows Year 4 pupil Sally
Hickling (nine) learning how puppet theatre is done with one of the duo, Ida Marie Tjalve, watched by class-
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