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saw that he was reading a hook, but did not have a TV in his cell. He thought it would be kind


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to offer to arrange for a TV to be made available for him. “Thanks,” he said, “but no


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harles Colson tells of the time he visited a prison­ er on Death Row and


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100 years ago


AT the Bowland Rural District Education Sub-Committee, the clerk reported that the school attendance during September had been satisfactory. Out of a total of 747 scholars on the books, the average atten­ dance had been 680. Grindleton Lane Ends and Thomeyholme Roman Catholic schools headed the list with 100%. • The ancient Cockle and Mussel Feast


was held a t the Starkie’s Arms Hotel, Clitheroe with members of the council present. In the past the selection of Mayor had generally taken place a t this assembly, but this year the question was decided at the last council meeting.


major fireworks among its critics. The Health Improvement and Protec­


A ScfTtm (LuKtiUrt) LiolUd


tion Bill has been dubbbed “shambolic” and “a blow to the health of the nation.” Environmental health officers, whose duty it will be to enforce it, immediately branded it “unworkable.” I am probably among a minority who


have never smoked. Aged 17 I joined a newspaper office in


an era when the cigarette was almost as vital a tool as a notebook and pen to aspiring journalists. My background was not entirely


smoke-free - I lived in a terraced house where the heating came from a coal fire. Once a year we vacated the property, gathering in the front street to watch as my fath e r asssembled his poles and brushes and cleaned the chimney. My mother was always first to re-enter after the brush was spotted popping out of the chimney top - and woe betide the once-a- year chimney sweep if soot had seeped out. I rarely recall an occasion when it didn’t! The school I attended had a strict no­


smoking rule and anyone caught breaking it was immediately whisked off to the headteacher’s study and threatened with expulsion - if not expelled there and then! Memories of those days do not include my p aren ts smoking. All has been revealed! As a teenager my mother recalled trying “Passing Clouds” - con-


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Valley Matters This law is truly an ass


a weekly look at local issues, people and places


Dark tales of murder and mystery. . .


WEEK before bonfire night, the Government’s failure to impose a full ban on smoking has provoked


As I see i t . . . by Vivien Meath


sidered to be the ultimate in sophistica­ tion, a t outings to the local cinema. She was, she said “cured” during a Bud Abbott and Lou Costello film, when hilarity and a coughing fit led to smoke inhalation and near choking. My father admitted he started aged 50, when work­ ing as a site manager in the building trade. He stopped a t 60 - and never inhaled, but today occasionally enjoys a


small cigar. My first day in a newspaper office


involved opening a door into a cloud of smoke. Cigarettes appeared to aid the thought process and overflowing ash trays were certainly witness to that. My route to the office was mostly via stale smoke filled buses. When I was not work­ ing there, I occasionally carried out inter­ views and filed stories from a public tele­ phone box littered with cigarette ends. I refused the offer of a cigarette from a male colleague on day one - and no-one offered me one again. Yet, possibly because I never smoked, I


struggled to cope in smoke-dominated surroundings. In the past 12 months, two relatives


have died from smoke-related diseases - one middle aged and one somewhat older. Among those caring for them were


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


MEMBERS of the Clitheroe and Bow- land National Farmers’ Union joined together for their annual dinner and meet­ ing. Held at the Starkie Arms Hotel, the farmers were addressed by Mr N. Bargh, Lancashire County Chairman of the NFU who told them that Britain now had three times as many sheep as in 1945. • Radio-controlled ambulances were to


be used in the Clitheroe district. • Clitheroe’s population was decreasing


according to the annual report of the bor­ ough’s medical officer. At the 1951 census, there were 12,062 people in the town, but by mid-1954 this had decreased to 12,010.


T H O U G H T for the week


nurses who readily admitted smoking heavily off-duty. From the summer of 2007 smoking will


be banned in most places of work, pubs that serve food and enclosed public spaces in England. What, then, counts as “food”. Pubs


where smoking is allowed will be able to sell crisps and snacks. And it appears there is nothing to stop their customers taking in their own food or landlords pro­ moting nearby take-aways with delivery services. Pub and restaurant gardens are not


covered by the ban and beer gardens and car parks will be unaffected. Private members’ clubs, such as Conservative Clubs, British Legion Clubs and working men’s clubs, will be encouraged to vote for smoking bans. Offices will no longer be allowed to have smoking rooms, yet care homes and prisons which are classed as places of residence, will not be affected. Refuse collectors will not be able to smoke in vehicles shared with another, nor will lorry drivers or builders. For those pubs deciding to become


“non-food” pubs, there could be a signifi­ cant staffing problem as questions are already being asked as to whether they will be protected. Who then is going to protect the environmental health officers whose job it will be to police this? “The law is an ass” immediately comes


to mind on this one. Is it any wonder that it is already being dubbed “unworkable”?


AFTER you...Lydia follows David into Roscoes. (s) 25 years ago


A PLANNED extension costing more than £998,000 a t Clitheroe Girls’ Gram­ mar School had been included in Lan­ cashire Coimty Coimcil Education Com­ mittee’s proposed building programme for 1982-83. The extension would provide facilities for the extra 30 pupils a year in a new £130,000 sixth-form unit. • A special meeting to help Ribble Val­


ley teenagers beat the dole queues was called by youth workers who were alarmed a t the high number of school leavers unable to find a job. There were 50 young­ sters in the Ribble Valley unemployed compared to last year’s figure of 15.


Great investment


still had available to him, how­ ever short it might be. How do we value the com­


modity of time? How do we invest it? The first time I went to


Romania we were picked up at Bucharest Airport with two cars for the three-hour drive to the place where we would be working. I had never experienced driv­


ing like it. Thirteen of us packed in two


cars with luggage tied two-high on the roof. The two cars then proceeded to race through the mountains.


even overtaking round hairpin bends.


I realised half-way up the


mountain pass that the car in which I was travelling did not even have a handbrake lever - so I began to wonder what else the car might be missing! I t was at this point th a t I


claimed the promise of a verse from the Bible that says: “All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to he”. I trusted tha t God was in


charge of how long I was going to live.


We all have 24 hours-a-day.


but most of us have no idea how many dajra we will have. So how valuable do we recog­


nise time to be. Rob Parsons, who heads up an organisation called Care for the Family, says: “No one was ever heard to say on his deathbed ‘I wish I ’d spent more time at the office’.” Time is valuable. Think


today how you will invest it. Don’t build up regrets for


later in life. The Bible says: “Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise”.


BRIAN CLARK, Clitheroe Community Church


Following in dati’s footsteps - three times over!


FLEDGELING lawyer Lydia Kitchen is following in her father's footsteps for the third time! Lydia (23), has ju s t joined


Roscoes Solicitors, the Lan­ cashire legal practice where her father, David, is a partner. But the family cormections do


not end there....Lydia used to attend Clitheroe Royal Gram­ mar School - as did her father - and she did her law degree at Leeds University - just like dad! "It's all just sort of happened,"


said Lydia. "I always fancied law, but there was never any pressure from home. I was always allowed to make my own choices. Following in their parents’


footsteps is not uncommon in the Kitchen household. Lydia's sister, Hannah, is a social worker - just like Helen,


her mother. - . "Hannah and mum used to get


together for their private little chats about work, now dad and I can get our own back talking law!" added Lydia.


Inn aims for top award


ONE of the Rihble Valley’s best-known hostelries has been nominated for a top industry award. The Inn a t Whitewell has


been shortlisted in the Most Excellent Traditional Inn cat­ egory of the highly-regarded Conde Nast Johansens Awards for Excellence 2006. The annual awards are


based on responses from guest nomination forms, guest sur­ vey reports and regional inspector reports drawn from the hotels featured in Conde Nast Johansens Guides. Win­


ners will be announced on Monday, November 14th. Conde Nast Johansens is


now in its 24th year and its 2006 guides are the most inclu­ sive to date in terms of the number of properties which have passed the rigorous stan­ dards for inclusion, set and assessed by a team of dedicat­ ed inspectors. A spokesman for the compa­


ny said th a t the establish­ ments shortlisted for the awards represented the very best of the best independently- owned hotels.


Mally is champion


THE children’s novel “Miss Jump the Jockey”, by Allan Ahlberg, inspired one young bookworm to write a winning review. Schoolgirl Mally Jae How­


ell’s review on the book, which she said made her laugh a lot, saw her crowned the Relay Reader champion reviewer for September out of all the other reviews submitted from chil­ dren across the Ribble Valley. The Relay Readers scheme is


run by Lancashire County Library Service and encourages young people to read more hooks and write down their thoughts about them on a spe­ cial review sheet. The scheme then recognises


monthly winners for the best review.


Mally, (pictured), of


Greenacres, Read, wrote that the hook was funny and she loved the illustrations and the “bigrace”. The seven-year-old, who


attends St John’s Primary School, Read, explained on her review sheet: “The book is about a girl called Miss Jump, who really wants to be a jockey and in the end she is. She starts off with a rocking horse and all the rest are real jockeys. “One day before the big race,


Mr Jockey hurts his thumb and the other riders cannot race either, so Miss Jump steps in and wins the race.” As well as reading books,


MaUy’s hobbies include horse riding, judo and swimming.


THE tale of a Clitheroe murder committed in the 1960s is featured in a new book entitled “Lancashire Tales of Mystery and Mur­ der”. Compiled by Lancashire


author Mr Steve Fielding, the hook features a collec­ tion of unsolved mysteries and eerie murders - enough to send a chill down anyone’s spine. A chapter of the book is


dedicated to recounting the tale of the murder of James Littler. The 75-year-old retired


bricklayer was murdered at his home in Derby Street in January, 1964. Joseph Wil­ son Masters, a 22-year-old coalman, was subsequently found guilty at Lancaster Assizes of capital murder. He was originally sentenced to death, hut reprieved just 72 hours before he was due to hang at Liverpool’s Walton Jail. The incident shook the


town, with the case and Masters’ release from prison


15-and-a-half years later, covered extensively by the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. On his release. Mas­ ters said that, following his mother’s death, he no longer had any ties with Clitheroe, and would be looking to move away. The well-publicised mur­


der of James Dawson at Bashall Eaves in 1934 is also featured in the book. Mr Fielding is one of the


country’s leading authorities on capital punishment and is a contributor to a number of well-known crime publica­ tions. He is also the author of “Lancashire Murder Casebook”. The Clitheroe Advertiser


and Times is running a spe­ cial offer in conjimction with the publishers of the book with £1 off the recommend­ ed retail price of £7.99, postage and packing free. For further details contact Countryside Books on 01635 43816. The book is available from all local booksellers.


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