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t ’s not fair”, raged a foul- I mouthed British teenager, A faced with the harsh discipline


of an American “Brat Camp”. (Ch4 Tuesdays) The camp commandant responded


brutally - “Life is not fair”. He’s right. Where is the justice in a tidal wave


that sweeps aside the businesses, the families, the lives of thousands still uncounted and unidentified around the Indian Ocean? And if that is what nature can do to


us, how about the intelligent and enlightened human race? Recently I have watched with horror


the well-researched programmes on the Holocaust. I learned how the Nazi “final solution” built an industry to destroy the millions of innocent people whose race, or face, did not fit the Aryan model. Look hack in history as empires and


their armies have crossed and re-crossed continents, leaving behind the dead, the wounded and broken-hearted women. Look around now - at the imbalance


between wealthy “western” nations and the poverty in less-developed countries


100 years ago


CONCERN was raised this week by members of Bowland Rural Council, following a decision by Clitheroe Town Council to refuse the town’s fire service to attend fires more than two miles from the borough boundary. The chairman of Bowland Rural Council, Mr Garnett, suggested to the town council that perhaps an arrangement could he made, whereby the ruling could be relaxed on payment of a fixed sum each year. ® The Clitheroe Board of Guardians sought


permission to borrow money to build more isola­ tion cells at the workhouse, which would accom­ modate the increasing number of vagrants there. This request followed after many of the tramps were failing to carry out their day’s work, which they were obliged to do in order to receive lodg­ ings. While one of the men was making his escape over some nearby fields, chased by the workhouse master and his assistant, the rest of the inmates seized the opportunity to escape in the opposite direction.


relaxed, but thoughtful approach to "the challenge". Listed below are 10 dates covering


the last thousand years, rerninding us of significant events in British histo­ ry.


The impact of these events may


not have been immediate hut, undoubtedly, affected the develop­ ment of Britain in a profound way. The answers will be in the


Clitheroe Advertiser and Times next week, together with a scoring grade!


So, are you better than your hus­


band, wife, partner, son, daughter, mum, dad, brother, sister, friend? The young students in your family


may do better than those who are 60 and more. Will our editorial staff do as well as


the current members of the town's Rotary clubs? Surely all councillors will get full


marks. Does the town crier have to know all these dates? What about the police, farmers,


- LOOKING BACK ■ 50 years ago


TTir Bishop of Blackburn, the Rev. W.H. Bad- dolejL was officially welcomed to the Whalley Deanery at a gathering in the Clitheroe Parish Church school. The event, which was was held after the Bishop had confirmed 64 candidates from the Riht)lo Valley, was supported by many of the parishioners from the Whalley Deanery and greeted by speeches from the Rev. G. Greatorex, Rural Dean and Vicar of Read, Lady Worsley-Taylor, Mrs A. Hindley, of Read Hall, and Col. G. N. Robinson, of Chathurn. O A farmer from Waddington won a number of


awards in Canada for his prize herd of Guernsey cows. Mr Noel Dinsdale, son of Mr and Mrs Dinsdale of Cuttock Hill Farm, in Waddington, was a keen poultry keeper and member of the Clitheroe Poultry Society, before he left to work in British Columbia as a farm manager. Two of the herd, with one being renowned as one of the best in the country, won two first places for a com­ petition throughout Canada.


clergy, cashiers at the supermarkets and members of pub quiz teams? A final thought - on a more serious


note. Do you have three dates which you


think should be added to this list or, indeed, replace three of them, e.g. 1918 - voting rights for women. Send your views to the editor.


Dales: 1215; 1588; 1971; 1176; 1066; 1619; 1825; 1319; 1911; 1561.


25 years ago


CLITHEROE Football Club pushed ahead with plans to improve facilities at Shawbridge - oven though the ground was under threat of being swallowed up l)y a housing development. In Hie Ribble Valley Council’s consultative document suggesting how Clitheroe could develop in the next 10 years, the club’s home was part of a 28- acre site off Pendle Road ear-marked as a possi­ ble site for future housing. Club chairman Mr Cyril Whiteside got in touch with officials from the council’s planning department, but they were unable to give him assurances about the ground’s future. ® Work started on laying a pipeline across the


River Ribble to Clitheroe, due to arrivethe follow­ ing month as part of of a £lm. ICI plan to boost production at one of its major plants in Chesire. Under the plan it would link up with the combine Trans-Pennine ethylene pipe, which already bypassed West Bradford and Waddington on its route from Wilton, Cleveland, to Runcorn.


lUs not fair!


or hiding beneath the surface of modern cities. Look at the suffering in Iraq, Palestine, Israel and Sudan. A popular hymn says it all: “Still the


weary folk are pining for the hour that brings release.....And the homesteads and the woodlands plead in silence for their peace.” C. S. Lewis, in broadcast talks last


century, pointed out a strange contradic­ tion.


We human beings cling to the ideal of


justice as fundamental to human wellbe­ ing, although almost everything in life contradicts such an ideal. Life is never fair for the vast majority


of earth’s inhabitants, past, present and no doubt into our uncertain future. I t is this collapse of logic that leads


most religions to believe that life here is no more than a prelude, a beginning, a preparation for life on some other plane of existence. Our high instinct for justice demands


that we believe in something more than the unfairness of life as experienced on earth. That belief - in Karma, or in heaven —


finds different expressions according to the history and culture of the world’s


religions and sadly has been distorted by some religious extremists.


Muslim suicide bombers die in the


conviction that they go straight to blessedness.


Christian zealots have frightened and


bullied children and so-called heretics by threats of torture in hell.


St Thomas Aquin^, a great Christian


teacher, is reported to have said: “The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishment of the damned, in order that their bliss be that much greater!!” How’s that for unfairness?


But aside from these obvious corrup­


tions, there remains the quiet conviction, so necessary at times of bereavement and so universal across human experi­ ence, that death is an open door. We Christians are just beginning our six-week journey towards the highest fes-


Uval of our year - the celebration of Easter. For in the surprised and sometimes confused reports in the Gospels, we see


evidence that our founder, Jesus, is alive on the other side of death.


REV. IAN D. H. IlOBINS Painter Wood, BillintUon


Just too much paradise?


PROOF that you can indedd have too much of a good thing arrived at the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times office this week. We all know the Ribble


Valley is God’s own coun­ try, blessed with an embarrassment of scenic riches. But if you dine on


chocolate and cham­ pagne every day, you will soon yearn for bread and water. I t seems someone at


our local council might not relish the prospect of another day in paradise. When the weekly list


Noble gathering a t former family home


THE Noble family name will live on at Simonstone’s Higher Trapp Country House Hotel, their former family home. Some 66 members of the Noble family


travelled from far and wide to Simonstone for a grand reunion and to attend the offi­ cial opening of the new Noble Suite at the prestigious hotel, providing top class con­ ference iacilities. Cotton manufactiii’ers Mr and Mrs Her­


bert and Martha Noble married in 1896 and built the impressive semi-Tudor house as a home for them and their six children.


In 1950 the large home, in extensive


grounds, was taken over by Lancashire County Council and subsequently opened as an old folks’ home, with 25 residents. It closed in 1965, with county councillors cit­ ing its “inconvenient location” and “staffing difficulties” as reasons. The building was converted into a hotel


in 1966 and over the last decades has changed hands several times, with major renovation projects and extensions added. “The youngest person at the reunion was only three months old and the oldest was


94,” said Mrs Elizabeth Lowe, a great- granddaughter of Herbert and Martha. It was Mrs Sheila Noble, who married


Herbert and Martha’s youngest son, Brian, who cut the ribbon to declare the new con­ ference suite open. Plans for the latest reunion have been in


the pipeline since last summer, following in a long-established family tradition. Our picture shows Mrs Noble cutting the


ribbon with Jody Wall, Elaine Rocca (Gen­ eral Manager), Elizabeth Lowe and Mar- tyn Noble. (T160105/120)


Amy looks at the cost of your cash


FEE-PAYING cash machines are cropping up at convenience locations around the Ribble Valley. However, users should be


aware of charges. Five years ago almost all


cash machines were free, how­ ever, nowadays customers are charged at one in three machines. Pubs, clubs, convenience


stores and petrol stations are the most likely places where you will find fee-paying cash


machines. Although they may often be


WORK experience student Amy Cole, (21), of Gisburn, a journalism student at the Uni­ versity of Central Lancashire, investigates for the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times the rise of fee-paying cash machines


convenient in some isolated rural areas, they also tend to charge fees of up to £1.75 for cash withdrawals of any amount. The machines are primarily


owned by the retailers and can bring them benefits such as


To avoid such charges it is u .


recommended that people look out for a warning in the form of a sticker or on-screen message before they withdraw cash at a convenience location. The best way to avoid charges is to use your o it o


bank


earning commission on transac­ tions and increasing the aver­ age customer spend.


or building society to withdraw money. Getting cash back from supermarkets or department stores is also a free and conve­ nient alternative. Amy is pictured taking a


breather from work in the Clitheroe office. (CR070105/1)


Caroline’s perfect design


A FORMER pupil of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Caroline Cane, has made the perfect match when it comes to pairing her interests with her new chosen career. The 21-year-old, who lists interior design


among her hobbies, has joined Clitheroe estate agency Purple Willow. While now studying for exams that will


of Mayoral Engagements arrived, it was headed: “ORIBBLE VALLEY BOROUGH COUN­ CIL”. Was it a typing error or a Freudian slip?


qualify her for membership of the National Association of Estate Agents, Caroline will work as a property match consultant, mar­ rying up best suited vendors and buyers. Says Caroline, who lives with her parents


d


at Moor Field, Whalley: "I really enjoy TV make-over shows and anything to do with


interior design. I’m also quite practical so I like trying out my ideas at home and I ’m looking forward to helping people make their move." On leaving school, Caroline took a voca­


tional diploma a t Accrington and Rossendale College before joining a Chaigley-based import company as an administrator. When it re-located to Burnley, Caroline


decided she wanted to remain working in the Ribble Valley and responded to a recruit­ ment advertisement placed by independent partnership Purple Willow, which launched at the end of last month.


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