20 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, June 3rd, 2004
www.clitheroetoday.co.uk
Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified)
'Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Adveriisihg), Burnley‘42233't (Classified)
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www.cntheroetoday.cb.uk Letters to the Editor Write to: The Editor, Clithcroc Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroe BB72EW Editorial e-mail:
vivicn.mealh@
castiancsnews.co.uk — Pat on the back for
council’s Fair Trade I WOULD like to thank Ribble Valley Borough Council for taking an interest in Fair Trade goods. In addition to the coffee and tea that
most people know about, Fair Trade sells such a lot more such as raisins, roasted and mixed nuts, sweets, sul tanas, orange and other fruit juices, rice, pasta, muesli, jams, honey, wines, toilet and kitchen paper and a lovely range of clothes. Our church has recently started sell
ing Fair Trade foods on Sundays. I do, however, feel that Clitheroe’s super markets could be more supportive. Let’s make Clitheroe a Fair Trade
town. I was also pleased to learn that Rib
ble Valley Borough Council has grant ed the temporary use of its chambers for the purpose of Friday prayers to our friends in the Muslim community. Good luck Sheraz and Rahman.
Hope you get your permanent site soon.
LAURA BAILEY, Hazlc Grove, Clitheroe
Thanks to you both
from all villagers WHEN Martin and Abigail came into our village, Chatbum, to take over the Post Office and the little shop, I recall observing to them it was a magnani mous commitment to offer the facility of a shop being open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., every day of the week. I have been asked to express through
your columns the appreciation of vil lagers, including myself, for the invest ment Martin and Abigail have made to the shop facilities. I t can be recognised that a costly
investment is also a personal invest ment. But the enlargement and wider
space offer a greater comprehensive range of goods for the people of the vil lage. There is an amenable sense of space and light. The spacious convivial atmosphere
of the shop is an investment also for the benefit of the village community. And for this, the village community
wants to record its thanks and appre ciation.
ROBIN PARKER, S( Chad's Avenue, Chatbum
It was not us, says
environment group THE noise auditors who have been parking their car in Mr Parker's street - see letters May 27th - are not from the Environment Agency. Noise levels do not fall within the agency’s regula tory powers. Castle Cement commissions its own
independent noise audits, which are carried out by a private company. Mr Parker also alleges that "the
Environment Agency sends two mem bers on expenses from London to stay at a hotel in town to investigate a prob lem that is not a problem". This is entirely untrue. The Environment Agency has
regional and local offices throughout England and Wales. Environment
Thanks for a really great holiday win
■ LAST year at the Royal Lancashire : Show, I entered a competition organ ised by the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times to win a holiday in Pontins. Much to my surprise, my name
was.chosen and I won a holiday for four people to any Poritins self-cater ing centre. After a lot of thought I decided to
take my mum, dad and sister. We went to Pontins at Prestatyn
in North Wales at half-term and had a great time, swimming, trampolin- ing, playing mini-golf, tennis, aer- oballetc. I thought I would write to you to
say thank you for organising the competition and for the holiday.
ANTHONY HOWE, Chatburn Road, Clilheroe
Officers work solely in the area in which they are based. Any agency staff who carry out regu
latory and investigative work relating to Castle Cement’s Ribblesdale works are based at the agency’s area office in Preston. They are not brought in from London or any other region and do not use hotel accommodation.
SPOKESMAN, Environment Agency NW Region
An honour to meet
this kindly gent I WOULD like to write a small credit towards a gentleman and his housing company, who are going to rehouse my wife and I in Clitheroe after we were given notice on our current property last week. The gentleman in question is a Mark
Greenwood from Great Harwood-based Liberty Property Group. The company specialises in trying to provide first rate accommodation all at reasonable rents. At first glance you may ask why I
need to personally thank this man and write a letter to my local paper. The fact is Mr . Greenwood
approached me after he unintentional ly heard me inquiring about property in one of the Clitheroe’s estate agencies. I had not even noticed th a t Mr
Greenwood had entered the agency behind me, while I was making inquiries about a local property to rent. When I left the agency and made my
way to the next on my quest list, I was approached by Mr Greenwood, who offered his hand in friendship and told me that he ran Liberty Property Group. He told me that he is the founder of
the company who caters for people that do not have the kind of money that is required for a lot of the properties in the Clitheroe area. He also told me that he knew how
difficult it was also to find a landlord who was amenable to pets such as dogs etc. I gave him my details and informed
him that I had a dog and he said leave it with me, I will get back to you as soon as I can. He did just that. He got back to me
three days later and told me that he had a property in Clitheroe that was suitable for us and our dog.
ANTHONY is pictured in Pontins at • Prestatyn, North Wales, (s)
To cut to the chase, Mr Greenwood
and his company have a humane side to the way that they do business. Indeed the way that Mr Greenwood
approached me and the way that he was genuinely concerned for my predica ment, made me warm to his kind man ner and his almost charitable approach to helping people less fortunate than himself. In a world where most people are
treated like another number, it is a gen uine honour to meet people like Mr Greenwood who know what it is like to struggle when trying to find suitably priced appropriate accommodation. Thank you very much Mark and good
luck with Liberty, in the hope that the Christian attitude that you exemplify may pass on to others in the real estate business. I look forward to becoming one of
your tenants.
PHILIP JOHN WATERHOUSE, Parson Lane, Clitheroe
Without knowledge
or compassion? IF my friends’ car breaks down, I hope I would give them a lift. If my neighbours’ house burns down,
I hope I would help them. If I see a complete stranger having a
heart attack in the street, I hope I would call an ambulance. If people are fleeing persecution,
threats or torture, shouldn’t we offer them a place of safety, a refuge, asylum? The BNP leaflet for the forthcoming elections calls for an end to asylum for ever. I t asks us to turn our backs forever on
the bullied, the raped and those made homeless. Either the BNP does not understand
asylum or they are forever incapable of feeling sympathy for others. Ignorant or without compassion,
which is it?
JO HARDING, Wilson Street, Clithcroe
Protect our lanes
from county council! HAVING lived in Tosside all my life until recently, I should like to comment
on Lancashire County Council’s contro versial "Quiet Lanes" and "Greenways"
scheme. I expressed concern to LCC about
the recent re-signing of roads and the
scheme in general. LCC states: “The traffic levels on
the ‘Quiet Lanes’ are already very low." If this is the case, then why is the
scheme necessary? LCC assured me that reduced speed
limits will not be imposed, yet the study report for the scheme generated by JMP Consultants Ltd., and avail able on LCC’s website, states that reduced speed limits may be necessary after a period of monitoring. The report also makes patronising
remarks about how locals have found it difficult to grasp the concept of "Quiet Lanes." LCC and JMP Consultants fail to
understand that these lanes are vital transport links for local residents, rural businesses and farm traffic. The report refers to the "Bowland
Toolbox." This is a collective name for a variety of potential methods of traf fic control and includes the redundant gate posts already seen in the area. It discusses the use of painted road
surfaces, paved sections, insertion of chicanes and false cattle grids. It is obsessed with the desire to make
all "Quiet Lanes" uniform in width and suggests breaking up the Tarmac where the width is exceeded. The most worrying suggestion is the
benign neglect of road surfaces, hedges and ditches, in the belief this neglect will reduce traffic speeds. LCC assured me that the scheme is
low key and low cost, yet the report estimates the cost of implementation to be £525,000 and suggests further funds may be required. LCC claims that it is preserving the
character of the lanes, but I fail to understand how the proliferation of signs, traffic calming measures and benign neglect will help to preserve their character, which has remained rel atively unchanged for centuries. These lanes do need protecting -
they need protecting from LCC and its desire to create a rural theme park.
LUKE DUGDALE, Oakfield Avenue, Barnoldswick
Help is on hand and
it’s not too far away I WOULD like to respond to the arti cle written by ME sufferer Rachel Bar nett last week.
I too have ME and have been ill and
unable to work for nearly four years. I am 45 with three teenage children. For three years I was very, very ill
and tried a number of different treat ments.
Since joining “Rainbow Tai-Chi”
classes with David Ellis over a year ago I have experienced gradual, sustained, significant healing and recovery. At the class I go to in Skipton there
are two other ME sufferers and a woman with chronic asthma, all of who
are recovering well and feeling the ben efits. David also runs a healing class in
Skipton which follows the Tai Chi class on Monday afternoons.
He has finished classes for a long
summer break but is due to start again in September.
He also runs a class in Clitheroe at
“Equilibrium” in Moor Lane on Wednesday afternoons.
For details, contact David Ellis on
01756 753188. If you call him before he leaves for an extended trip he could take your details and put you on his mailing list for details of his classes and workshops. Alternatively you could ring him in
September and ask him for details then.
Best of luck to any other ME suffer ers out there!
ELIZABETH GARDNER, Ribble Lane, Chatburn
Building project
that should unite MY direct ancestor, Isabella Spencer, was the co-founder of the Slaidburn Methodist Chapel when it was built in 1821. Its history is well-documented, and
by all accounts, it was a community effort which brought together the peo ple of the village. It is, therefore, a great pity over the
last four years to have witnessed the plans for a new village hall in Slaid burn turn out so disastrously, and in the process, divide the village. I opposed the first two sets of plans
simply on the grounds that the chapel and adjoining buildings were to be completely demolished. I gave my gen eral support for the third set of plans as they intended to keep most of the buildings. Having read Mr Diack’s letter in the
' Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, I have to agree with his general tone. How many times will it take before the cur rent (unelected) trustees of the build ings get it right? Surely the villagers of Slaidburn can
have little confidence in them; I have none left! I t really is time for the trustees to consider their positions and let others have a go who can try to repair the damage already done and take on board the views of a large number of people in the village who are still not happy with the proposed plans. I really would have thought that a
new village hall would have united a village community. This is what should have happened. I hope this may still happen in the
future.
CHRIS SPENCER, Black Bull Lane Fulwood, Preston
Your le t te r s . . . ® The Editor welcomes letters on any subject, 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 edi tor agrees that there is a valid reason for the writer's identity to be withheld. Letters can be sent by post to the Clitheroc Advertiser and Times, 3 King
Street, Clitheroe BB7 2EW, via e-mail to
vivien.meath@
eastlancsnews.co.uk, via fax to 01200 4434G7 or texted to
0779969G147. Letters submitted by any of these
methods must, however, include the writer’s name and full postal address.
M e rd fe te s -R e n z
Atlas Internationa], part of the Atlas Group, established in Costa Blanca for 25 years, with more thon 50,000 happy clients. Prices range from £45,000 and include the land.
Fight to save this
invaluable service I LEFT school 35 years ago with no exam qualifications. I grew up in local authority care
homes and was moved around, some times staying only a very short time in any one home. In those days, you were not encour
aged to stay on, but to leave and get a job to prepare yourself for life in the “grown up world”. The only exam I ever passed was my driving test at the age of 17! I was never able to apply for any
jobs which required certificates. And then I found my interest in
computers, but how was I supposed to use them properly? I popped into the Skill Share IT cen
tre in Henthorn Road. There I was encouraged to learn at my own pace. I could not go on a college course as
you just have to “get on with it” there and I would be left behind. But not by the wonderful staff at
the centre led by manager Melanie Kilminster. From basic computer use to more
advanced and up-to-date courses i.e. ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence), I could learn whatever I wanted to at my own pace. I have now passed two exams and
am working towards another. My confidence has grown and I love
using the computer. I can write letters, design posters,
compile a basic spreadsheet and am working on presentations. However, the centre has been told it
must close as there is no funding left. Therefore, it has to leave Clitheroe
the centre as I did and see for them selves.
I.must also add that some of the
tutors work voluntarily and their patience is wonderful. Please save this valuable communi
ty centre.
PAM KENT, Croasdalc Drive, Clitheroe
How can the young
afford a home? I AM disgusted at the way greedy businessmen are buying properties in Clitheroe and surrounding areas for lets or to sell on. My son and many more like him
cannot get on to the bottom of the property ladder. We are creating a new generation of
tenants and many young adults are not getting the chance to live where they were born or be independent.
A CONCERNED PARENT, Name and address supplied
Can you remember
MR SIMON O'ROURKE with staff and scheme users counting down the days to the closure of the IT Learning Centre closing (C100504/5)
and go to another town, which means we will lose such a valuable asset to people like myself. Plenty of money is put in place for
sport and leisure facilities and for the young people of the town. While I agree that that is right, the older generation also have a right to
carry on learning and finding new interests. So please councillors, protect a ser
vice to the ordinary folk who still want to
learn.The funding runs out and the centre is due to close on July 31st. Can I please invite any councillors or bodies interested to just pop-in at
the MC5 concert? I AM writing to see if your readers can give me any information on a rock con cert supposedly held at Clitheroe Cas tle in 1967. It was by a then unknown American
group called The MC5. They were soon to become leg
endary and indeed the surviving mem bers have recently re-formed and are playing a series of concerts this year.
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Your memories are
worth sharing I AM currently in the process of researching a book which takes a nos talgic look at village life between 1930 and 1970 and I wondered if any read ers could help me with their memories of growing up in a Lancashire village? The book covers all aspects of vil
lage life such as rural industries, coun try crafts, transport, customs, fetes and fairs, village sports, country pur suits, village shops, the village hall, the church, pub, the village bobby, school, clubs and organisations, art, music well-known characters or anything else to do with village life. Perhaps there was something unique
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nity celebrated great occasions such as VE day and the Coronation? The book will be published by a
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