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A VERY dry spell indeed hit the town this week. The River Ribble was reduced to almost a trickle and the anglers’ desire was for rain. The river was in an awful state from the moss and weed, which had been accumulating so rapidly during the past few weeks. ® Considerable excitement was caused in the
neighbourhood of the Clitheroe Liberal Club this week when flames were seen shooting out from the roof. A number of men at once set to work to extinguish the fire, tearing off a portion of the roof in order to facilitate their operations. In about an hour their efforts were successful. The outbreak was supposed to be due to a fire in the chimney of an adjoining cottage. The total dam age caused was estimated at £10. • Very many people were saddened to hear of
the death of former Clitheroe Town Councillor and a member of the Board of Guardians, Mr Benjamin Jordan, JP, of Pimlico Road, this week. Mr Jordan was also for many years licensee of the Starkie Arms Hotel.
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www.clitheroetoday.co.uk a weekly look at local issues, people and places We’re backing a life-saver!
Ambulance urging motorists to "slow down for summer". The message comes in a bid to
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reduce accidents and serious injuries on the hundreds of miles of country roads and narrow lanes criss-crossing the Valley. I t has received the backing of
police forces, and road safety organi sations. Ten thousand free car stickers ask
ing motorists, motorcyclists and farmers to take extra care will be dis tributed across the North West. We have 500 available a t the front counter of our office, 3 King Street, Clitheroe, BB7 2EW. If you are unable to reach our
office, send a stamped addressed envelope with your name and address and we will post one to you. In the last few weeks, the charity’s
emergency helicopter has attended an increasing number of accidents involving farm vehicles and motorists right across the region. With the school holidays under
HIS newspaper is today backing a major campaign by the North West Air
way and the substantial number of tractors, trailers and combine har vesters working from early in the morning until late at night, motorists and farmers are being asked to "slow down for summer". North West Air Ambulance head
of operations Paul West said: “A car or a motorbike is always going to come off second best against a 10-ton tractor and trailer. “We are concerned that people are
simply going too fast on country roads, and have no idea what’s round the corner - it may well be a huge combine harvester crossing the road to get to a field. “We urge motorists and motorcy
clists to slow down for summer.” The campaign has been sponsored
by the Greater Manchester DriveSafe organisation and is backed by the National Farmers’ Union which will be asking its members to pull over and let cars pass if a queue has built up. Motorists often forget that farmers
a t the wheel of a tractor are sur rounded by a cab with thick glass and often can not hear approaching traffic.
When accidents happen, it is often
the North West Air Ambulance which is first on the scene. The charity this week expressed
its gratitude to DriveSafe for spon soring the campaign, which is cover ing a vast area across Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire and Cumbria. The service receives no Govern ment funding and does not qualify
LOOKING BACK 50 years ago
HOPES of a new girls’ grammar school in Clitheroe within the next two or three years were shattered by the refusal of the Ministry of Edu cation to allow the inclusion of the school in the county council’s building programme for 1955-56. Plans for the new school were under consideration for some time, and the urgent need for it was stressed by the headmistress at the annual speech day in 1953. Subsequently, the county council was planning a deputation to the Ministry to urge re consideration of the position. ® Haymaking in Ribblesdale was well behind
schedule this year because of the rain, which fell almost every day. Anxious farmers were having to go out into the fields at every opportunity literal ly “haymaking between showers” in order to make up for lost time. ® In spite of the weather that was the opposite
of the sort one would wish for a summer holiday, Clitheroe this week saw one of the biggest holiday exoduses in its history. This was due to the rise in employment in the town and the lack of sunshine.
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circumstances: a handicapped child is born, a per son dies in the prime of his youth, a flourishing business suddenly runs into great losses, a young woman becomes a widow, cruel relatives deprive their blood relations of even the basic necessities of life. The list of course is endless. The result of all this more often than not is quite
predictable: depression, continued sorrow and sometimes severe anger and rage. The unexpected brings out from within us reac
tions that cross limits. The Qu’ran says that there may be various rea
OT always do our plans materialise; not always do our expectations fetch congru ous results; not always do our efforts bear
for lottery grants. I t has to find £65,000 each and every month to keep the helicopter airborne, and covers an area stretching more than 5,500 miles, serving a population of seven million people. Countless people already owe their
lives to the air ambulance. With a hit of patience and consid
eration, more lives could be saved on the Valley's roads this summer.
Fascinating piece of history keeps the experts guessing
by Rebecca Wright
A MYSTERIOUS piece of Clitheroe history dating back to 1870 is expected to make up to £250 at a specialist London auction. The discovery of a registered
envelope - sent from the British Ambassador in Russia to a house in Castle Street, Clitheroe - has stirred major interest in collectors. The envelope, addressed to
Mr J. H. Clarke, was posted on April 10th, 1870 - when Queen Victoria was halfway through her 64- year reign and Liberal William Gladstone was Prime Minister. Auction house Spink say that
the envelope, which has original wax seals on the back, is in “fine” condition and “appar ently from the British ambas sador to the Imperial Court. However the reason the letter
25 years ago.
THE board of directors of Ribblesdale Cement were to have talks during the next few months about a proposal to modernise its Clitheroe plant at a cost of £20m. So far no decision had been made to go ahead with the scheme. Emphasising that the scheme was still at the feasibility stage and subject to planning consent which the com pany was seeking, managing director, Mr E. Tel- low, said: “The company is, in fact, still consider ing the matter. It is hoped that a decision whether to go ahead will be made in a few months time.” ® Residents of Waddington and West Bradford
who were alarmed at the rising costs of keeping their homes warm and the threat of a cutback in oil supplies for central heating, were asking for high-speed gas to be piped in. At present, the villagers had to use electricity,
oil or solid fuel to heat their homes, but as well as being worried about rising costs, they were also concerned about the long-term future of oil sup plies for heating. North West Gas was looking into the matter.
Patience is a virtue
sons for such untoward circumstances. While explaining one of them it says: “And sometimes you dislike a thing and [in reality] there is great welfare for you in it and sometimes you like a thing and [in reality] there is great harm for you in it. Allah knows and you know not.” (2:216) It is thus expected of a Muslim to submit to the
Almighty in all circumstances with the belief that whatever has happened was best for him. We can
not always grasp the profundity of the Almighty’s wisdom.
u The passage of time, however, often tells how the “untoward” happening actually positively influ ences the course of our life.
Allah states in the Qu’ran “And certainly, we shall test you with something of fear, hunger, loss
of wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings to the patient.”
Indeed this is one of a number of verses in the
Qu’ran inculcating patience and extolling the virtues of it. The Prophet Muhammed, may the peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him, said that “whoever should be patient, Allah will give him patience and no one is granted a gift better and more compre hensive than patience.” So instead of becoming upset and frustrated and
simply giving up, we could do instead to put
fa.th in the divine will and wait to see how things ult. mately take shape. In short, “all is well even if it doesn’t seem to
end well.” SHERAZ ARSIIAD
Medina Islamic Education Centre Holden Street, Clithcruc
■Expe s trt THriiss on hand Sound subject for display
PUP.ILS a Edisford Primary School, Clitheroe. have been "get ting on their bikes" with the help of
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two professional cyclists. The Manchester-based cyclists
spent a day with a group of Year 5 pupils at the school to promote the
importance of cycling. Throughout the morning, the
youngsters took part in a skills course, and in the afternoon there was a talk highlighting the impor tance of wearing bicycle helmets, reflective devices and other safety
Our picture shows young cyclists
getting into action. (A 1 0 0 6 0 4 /3 )
THE history of recorded sound is the subject of an exhibition a t Clitheroe Castle Museum through
out the summer. The exhibition, called "A
Brief History of Sound", chronicles sound recording from the pioneering experi ments of Thomas Edison to the development of CDs and minidisks. I t includes information
on the early recording media of tinfoil and wax cylinders, moving on to
shellac and then
vinyl.The early years of'wire record ing, reel-to-reel recording on paper and acetate tape are exhibited, along with modern formats, such as cassette and CD. Clitheroe Castle Muse
um is open every day throughout the summer from 11 a.m. to 4-30 p.m. Further details of the
exhibition are available from the North West Sound Archive on 01200 427897.
Fancy being on TV? DO you have a passion for history and home improvement? Are you about to start restoring your prop erty to its former glory? Would you like to have the project document
ed by the BBC? The BBC is looking for contribu
tors to take part in a new series doc umenting and celebrating the art of
restoration. I t does not matter if you are
doing it all yourself or shipping in a team of experts, as long as you have a project th a t is exciting and unique, have planning permission in place plus a realistic time frame. For more information, e-mail
restoring@bbc.co.uk or call 020 82257788
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was sent to Mr Clarke, of Clitheroe, is not clear as the let ter is missing from the envelope. Spink’s collectable specialist,
Mr Neil Granger, said: “It is a very unusual piece. We certain ly do not see items like this very
often. The clear postmark from Russia makes i t especially interesting.” The envelope is thought to
have been sent at a crucial his torical time, as in 1917 - less than 50 years after the envelope arrived in Clitheroe — Russia’s final Tsar, Nicholas II, was
forced to abdicate and, along with his family, later murdered, and Russia was declared a Republic. Items from pre-Communist
Russia have therefore become highly collectable. Mr Granger said: “With the right collectors on the day, we
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