20 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, May 13th, 2004
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Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified! _____
Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) Following a tradition
CYCLISTS from Oakhill College, Whal ley, held their annual Easter meet in Scarbor ough. They were continuing
Time running
out for protests CUSTOMERS have until May 17th to protest against the proposed closures of the branch Post Offices at Hen- thorn and Salford. I would urge all those who
have not yet done so to pick up a leaflet from either branch and p ro tes t to the Head of Area, whose name and address is given. The leaflet for the Salford
branch states that the alterna tive King Street branch is 0.4 miles away along hilly terrain - that means an extra 0.8-mile walk. I have not seen the leaflet for
the Henthorn branch, but the distance from there is much greater. The leaflet also states that
there are car-parking facilities within 50 yards of the King Street branch. The chance of finding one of the nearby on street parking places vacant is virtually nil. The alternative is to use the
pay and display car park behind the council offices. This may be within 50 yards, but only "as the crow flies”. Use of this car park would
involve a minimum walk of 250 yards both ways, and pay ment of an hour’s parking fee just to carry out a transaction at the Post Office. The leaflet also states that
there is a bus stop within 250 yards of the King Street branch; this would also require a 250-yard walk both ways and payment of fare. I do understand th a t the
Post Office has a responsibility to consider best use of resources. However, unless i t can be demonstrated th a t
the
branches are actually losing money, and there is no men tion of this in the Salford branch leaflet, then the level of service offered to the commu
nity by retaining them ought to be a major factor in coming to a decision. Perhaps I am being naive in
still regarding the Post Office as a public service organisation. I would hate to think that the
proposals are based on the prin ciple of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
ANTHONY A. COOPER, Peel Park Avenue, Clilheroe
What a great
show yet again WHAT a show “The Village Folk” in Sabden have again given to us. It was just as good and enter
taining as ever. To everyone, from producers down to cast and all who helped in any way backstage - congratulations! What do we get in this day
and age for £5 (including a hot supper)? Fun and laughter for everyone.
MRS DELIA GRAHAM Sabden
Family fears
over pet deaths I AM a concerned resident in Edisford Road. I have kept up to eight rab
bits over the past 15 years and they have all died naturally bar one. This rabbit would have been
13 years old next month, but one Thursday morning in early March I opened the back cur tains downstairs to discover the hutch was wide open. On going outside I found our
pet rabbit Pepper’s cage gnawed open and the rabbit gone. The whole family was very
upset. I contacted the pest control
officer, as we had called them out about a month before, because three rabbit cages on
Flower beds crying for attention
IN recent editions of the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times there have been sever al letters complaining about the flower beds within the Castle grounds and their lack of flowers. More recently, there have
also been complaints about vandals attacking the Castle Keep. I would like to add to this
growing list of complaints. As a former employee of
Ribble Valley Borough Coun cil Parks Department, I like to keep up with the lads and to also admire their work. However, walking through
the Castle grounds today, my first impressions were tha t the grassed areas within the Castle grounds are being cul tivated to make a film adap tation of "A Bug's Life." The grassed areas have not been cut all year and the
Edisford Road had been attacked and it resulted in two rabbits being killed. One of the neighbours gave a description of two dogs.
flower beds, sorry, weed beds, are just crying out for some attention. The Castle Keep is literally falling down. This entire structure needs
re-pointing and the fast growing elderberry trees pulling out of it. The Castle Keep and its
grounds were bought by pub lic subscription to honour the fallen heroes of the Great War and are also mentioned by many people as being the flagship tourist attraction for the Ribble Valley. So why is this wonderful
facility left to rot and deteri orate when it should be the pride and joy for all Clithero- nians and, in particular, a fit ting monument for the men for whom it was bought to honour?
PETER McQUADE, Whalley Road, Clitheroe
One of the descriptions fitted
one of the two pairs that had been seen wandering around the Edisford Road area, but nothing was done because we
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did not catch them in the act. This dog is still seen wander
ing around this area. I t was also disturbed by my neighbour when it was attacking my cage the first time. It is about time something is done before this dog attacks a child holding their pet rabbit. Do we have to barricade our
rabbit cages to prevent this happening again? People who let their dogs out
at night should know better and be prosecuted for their dogs’ behaviour.
J.M. DEVINE, Edisford Road, Clitheroe
Secret out after
seven years! ALL right-thinking people will agree that the time has come to let Mr Martin James ("What is happening to our country?" 6/5/04) into the secret: we've had a Labour Government since 1997!
PETER SHEPHERD, Eastham Street, Clitheroe
Guilty of being
rather naive “THE quality of mercy is not strained,” said someone, once. Mr Martin James has little
appreciation. Maxine Carr was a naive innocent.
She was appalled and
repelled when she realised a young man with whom she had chosen to share her life was the male monster we all now recog nise him for.
I t is not Miss Carr who
should be locked up. I t is the senseless savages on
our island, viciously vindictive, who crave retribution on a young person who was as naive ly ignorant as were we all until guilt was established.
ROBIN PARKER, St Chad’s Avenue, Chatburn
A marvellous ad
for our town WE would like to say how much we enjoyed watching “Who Wants To Be A Million aire” on Saturday. We though Bill Honeywell
was a great representative of Clitheroe. We think that the Tourist
Board should forget about any photographs of the area and just put Bill’s mug shot on the front, as he has certainly put Clitheroe on the map. Well done Bill, from all at
Dugdales.
THE STAFF Dugdales, Chatburn Road,
Your letters. . .
9 The Editor welcomes letters on any subject, but correspon dents are reminded that contri butions may be edited or con densed, must not exceed 350 words and should reach us by noon on Tuesday. Letters with noms de plume
are now only accepted for pub lication if (he editor agrees that there is a valid reason for the writer's identity to be with-
held.Letters can be sent by post to the Clitheroe Advertis er and Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroe BB7 2EW, via e-mail to
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a tradition dating back to 1894, when Tom Groom and six other Labour Church mem bers met in Birmingham to form a cycling club. As all were followers of
the campaigning Social ist newspaper called The Clarion, the Clarion Cycling Club was born. At its peak the club
had 130 sections and a membership of 4,000, but today the Oakhill section of the Clarion Cycling Club, which is based at Oakhill College
in Whalley, is just one of 22 sections within a national club of some 600 members. I t is also one of the
most successful, as evi denced by gaining four awards a t the club’s annual Easter meet. Ruth Coates was
named "Clubwoman of the year," Ben Addis received the "Harold Lamb Cup" for - the young rider of the year, Charles Jepson the "Bert Braithwaite Memorial Salver" for the best cycling photograph and the Oakhill section won the "Tom Groom Trophy" for the best "Clarion" section for the second successive year.
Serious crash at hlackspot
AN injured motorist had to be cut free from the wreckage of a car involved in a serious accident on the A59 near Sawley on Saturday morning. It is the latest in a string of acci
dents on or near the sweeping bend at the foot of Sawley Brow, leading to growing concern over th a t stretch of road. Two cars - a Citroen C3 and a
Ford Ka - were involved in Satur day’s accident, which happened just after 9-30 a.m. Local Fire and Rescue crews had
to cut away the side of the Citroen to free one of the occupants and the road was partially closed while the
, rescue work went on. The North West Air Ambulance
was also called to the scene and it is
understood a t least one of the peo- their details were not made public, pie injured in the crash was airlifted Our picture shows the wrecked to hospital.
Three people required hospital scene of Saturday’s crash, treatment, but they requested that
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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, May 13th, 2004 21 Keeping shop afloat
A SL AID BURN woman took money from from th e p o s t office where she worked as sub mistress to keep a second vil
lage business afloat. Barbara Maher (56), of Beck-
side, used more than £9,000 of post office funds to cover a cash
, shortage at the village store, which shared the same premises. Having pleaded guilty to two
offences of false accounting, Maher was given a 12 months’ prison term, suspended for a year when she appeared at Preston
Crown Court. Miss Anne Brown (prosecut
ing) told how an audit undertak en last June had uncovered “anomalies”.
Maher had told the auditor she
was aware of the shortfall and had taken the money to support the running of the shop, which she and two others had formed a limited company to buy. Although not initially involved
in post office work, Maher had stepped in to cover a vacancy and had first used post office money to pay a VAT bill for the retail
business. Miss Brown said that Maher,
who had no previous convictions, made more payments using such
money. Mr Simon Newell (defending)
described the situation as “des perately sad”, adding that it had arisen not out of any pre-plan ning or pre-meditation, but from
a combination of circumstances. He said that at one stage, it had
looked as if the post office would have to be closed, but village resi dents felt the facility was needed and one had even made a dona tion of £50,000 to keep it going. He explained that Maher was one of a trio involved in maintaining it, but there had been difficulties. Mr Newell said the post office
had been in a mess when someone else left and the defendant had taken it on her shoulders to run it on a temporary basis. He explained: “She hoped that
when the store was on its feet, she would be one of several people in a co-operative. But everything fell upon her shoulders and she was working up to 80 hours a week to
keep i t going. She fell into diffi culties with Customs and Excise
and VAT returns. “She made higher payments.
than should have been paid. For a period, she effectively transferred from Peter to pay Paul.” Mr Newell added: “She was
viewing this shop as one shop rather than specifically the post
office and shop. It was always her intention to
pay the money back when the shop was back on its feet.” The court heard that just days
before the audit, Maher had obtained a VAT return and had been able to pay some money
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