16 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, January 13th, 2005
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I Letters to the Editor No to new homes, but
yes to caravans! I WAS appalled to read in your paper last week that planning officer Sarah West- wood, supported by Conn. Richard Sher- ras, finds that the only way to regularise the discrepancies in the site licence at Shireburn Caravan Park is to extend plan ning permission for an extra 72 new cara van spaces. The situation has come about due to
failures by the borough council to regulate what has been going on at caravan parks throughout the region. Shireburn is not the only site that this
has occurred on and I believe the newspa per has not reported these controversies as it might have done. As Conn. Frank Dyson points out: "It is
a hell of a way to do it!" How can the council justify the despoliation of our countryside against the wishes of local res idents? We can not build houses in these "no
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build" areas, so why should the council allow so many residential caravans? I t is cheap housing by the back door.
Plus, we will have added strain on already overworked services, such as doctors, den tists, schools, sewerage, and electricity and water supplies. This is not just a local problem, but a
national one that our local MP Nigel Evans could profitably take up with Par liament to update regulations governing caravan parks which are archaic and unclear.
MAUREEN BOWE, Piiylhorne
Scrooge is alive and
well in Chatburn! FIRST of all. Happy New Year, 2005, now that it has arrived. And now reflections of Christmas past and Christmas future. The renown of Mr and Mrs Porter, with
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wart volunteers erect the Christmas tree that decorates the village, a large box-like trailer is parked by the kerbside outside the shop. Dark and ominous in appearance, it is
nevertheless a promising harbinger of coming Christmas bounty - meat and poultry orders. The premises of Mr and Mrs Porter are
not adequate to contain the demands made for seasonal orders by the people of the village, and a much wider community. The refrigerated box structure helps to contain the mass of extra orders. Could you conceive that a “Scrooge”
takes exception to the seasonal, temporary parking of the trailer and complains to the police? Yet the past Christmas season this has
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happened. Insp. Ford, with his commend able commitment to problems his police force has to contend with throughout the area, has now to spend his time with a thoroughly honest tradesman to say this facet of his business, the trailer, is break ing the law. What motivates a person to submit such
a complaint? Envy, because of Mr and Mrs Porter’s successful seasonal trade? Doesn’t he or she realise this success or
trade is a service to the community? It is the community that demands and expects this service at this time of year. The service also helps the wider com
munity of people on the land in the coun tryside around here. They have a market for the excellent quality (hallmark of Mr and Mrs Porter’s shop,) of their own pro
duce. Mr Porter goes to the inconvenience of
storing and then using the trailer refriger ator to try to encompass the considerable demands of the community. The person who has complained may
please use the columns of your newspaper to qualify his/her objections. And before Christmas future, I hope
Insp. Ford can find on the statute books an exception to sanction the legality of temporary seasonal parking of an innocu ous van, for the benefit of our community.
ROBIN PARKER, St Chad’s Avenue, Cliall)urn
Tbis despicable act
showed no goodwill IT would appear that the true spirit of Christmas was not alive and well in all parts of Clitheroe recently. On Monday, December 27th, while
parked on the stretch of Henthorn Road between Garnett Road end and Siddows Avenue, my parents’ car was subject to a cowardly attack of vandalism between 9- 30 and 11-30 p.m. Both rear tyres were callously slashed,
which could have resulted in a serious acci dent, particularly as my parents are both over 80 years old. The cost of repairs was in excess of £100
- no small sum when solely dependent upon pensionable income. Perhaps the culprit would like to consid
er this and may think twice before behav ing so despicably in the future.
MRS J. L. EDMONDSON, Riverside, Low Moor, Clilheroe
Victim gives pub
scheme thumbs down IN reply to an article in the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times on December 30th, with reference to “Pub Scheme Voted A Hit”, I cannot disagree more with this article. I was assaulted in the gents’ toilets of a
Clitheroe town centre public house on the evening of Saturday, October 16th, 2004. Witnesses reported the incident to
members of the Pub Watch Scheme, who simply turned a blind eye to the happen ings of that evening, enabling the culprit to get off scot free.
NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED Village parking needs
police involvement REGARDING double parking in Sab- den’s main road. This is a nice, simple problem to be
decided by the police. Not by John Short er, who is under the illusion that this is his own private road and anybody who uses it is a rat (his favourite phrase). Perhaps they are attracted by his verbal
effluent.
MR W. JOHNSON, Bushburn Drive, Langhu
WRONG! Look right
for the Facts! No-one looks
in their local paper for a new job any more.
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2.7 million - living in the UK with heart problems, BHF has launched the Real Valentine Appeal, which aims to raise £1 million to fund 30 Heart Nurses around the country: nurses who will provide care and support for up to 10,000 patients. . These people are often suffer
ing needlessly as they do not have access to specialist care. This debilitating condition can greatly affect the quality of life
not only of the patient, but also those who care for them - that's where nurse support can make all the difference. I am appealing to you to take
home one of our koalas and host a raffle among family, friends or colleagues with the chance of winning a holiday in Australia! If anyone can adopt a koala
this Valentine's Day or if you would like more information, please contact me on: 01254 878 321 or e-mail me at: mccartn-
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CAROLE McCartney, BHF Area Organiser for Lancashire
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eastlancsnews.co.uk Dentists will be of
little benefit to locals so the "Health Chiefs hit back at critics" do they? I must say, I read the article (Clitheroe
Advertiser, December 16th) about the new dentists' surgery in Whalley several times, but I spotted very little hitting back. There was no explanation of why the Pri
mary Care Trust is so supportive of the plan to use a terraced family house in King Street as a dentists’ surgery, nor why this is preferable to a purpose-built dental clinic with its own car park on The Sidings. Neither was there any explanation of why
the dentists are setting up in Whalley when their existing 5,000 patients, who are going to get priority, are from their surgery in Accrington. Since Mark Wilkinson, chief executive of
the PCT, could not bring himself to explain either of these things, I will do it for him. The PCT is strongly supportive of the
King Street surgery because the dentists can be up and running in mid-January, enabling the PCT, I suspect, to hand out the substantial grant the pair will be getting at the earliest opportunity. This will help the PCT towards its target
for handing out its share of the £80 million in capital grants announced by Health Sec retary John Reid in July 2004. By comparison. The Sidings surgery only
exists on paper - it is not built yet. Although this is demonstrably a much bet ter site than the house in King Street, the PCT would not be able to hand out its grant until late 2005 - inconvenient for the PCT because it doubtless has targets to meet. Many people have asked why the dentists
are set ting up in Whalley when their patients are from Accrington. Some would like to believe that it has
something to do with providing NHS den tistry to Ribble Valley people. Sadly, I suspect the real reason could be a
clause in their employment contract which prevents them setting up in business within a five-mile radius of their former employer's surgery in Accrington. So Whalley is about to be lumbered with
this traffic-generating new business only because it is very convenient for the PCT and the dentists. That it will be inconve nient for Whalley residents and that it \yill have little benefit for the local community does not matter. Under the planning rules, an NHS den
tists' surgery falls under'the same use class as a mosque. Although traffic and parking were important considerations when the planning committee wanted to refuse a mosque, they do not seem to matter at all when it comes to an NHS dentist. Funny, that.
IVAN HARGREAVES, King Street, Whalley
Right, so who stole
the reindeer’s body! OWN up - who stole the reindeer's body? If anyone stumbles across a legless body
of a reindeer, could they please return it to whoever is in charge of lights at the council. I am writing this "lost and found" com
ment in respect of the bodyless reindeer run ning between NatWest and the library. I would like to thank all the Clitheronians
who individually lit up their own houses and gardens to make our town brighter and fes tive. I also would like to thank the local shopkeepers who also tried to brighten up our town and joined in the festivities. A special thanks goes to Bolland Prospect
who even lit up an area of our town visible from Pendle Hill and our town's Keep/Cas- tle. Even my two-year-old daughter, who has just discovered Christmas for the first time, appreciated the efforts made by individuals who tried to make our town festive and colourful. I t saddens me with all the individual
efforts made that the local powers-that-be who work in the ivory palace seem to have done nothing to get into festive mode. Come on!
Spend some money, get a few decent deco
rations and make our town shine, after all it’s our town, our money, our pride. Spending a few pounds on lights would bring in out-of- town shoppers, who would come in to see the lights - it’s not rocket science. Maybe I am expecting too much. Am I? The three crossroad lights looked nice and
so did the crib - shame that the reindeer did n’t want to hang about.
G.HESKETT, Clitheroc
Our roads are in a
shocking condition I AM disgusted at the state of the roads in Clitheroe and the surrounding districts. I have just had to pay a bill for £177.80p
to have a new oil sump put in, as I went over a massive pothole in the road which I could not avoid. The car was damaged and oil was leaking out. I have never seen as many potholes in the
roads. As for a bike or motorcycle going over them, well it is a wonder the riders do not come off. I thought Lancashire County Council and
Ribble Valley Borough Council were sup posed to maintain the roads, but I was obvi ously wrong. All motorists, beware of pot holes in roads, as you might end up, like me, with a bill to pay.
E. McTEAR, Darkwood Crescent, Chalburn
Best ideas are often
the most simple WHILE discussing our anxieties about property security over Christmas, my neigh bour suggested a brilliant idea - that the council should issue bin liners in bundles, like it does with the green garden waste and white paper liners. This would avoid attention being brought
to “houses on holiday” when bin liners are left tied to shrubs, etc. Plus there would not be the opportunity for bin liners to blow about as litter in windy weather.
VERONICA HARGREAVES, . Whinney Lane, Langho
Spare a thought for
animals in tsunami AS a new year'begins, the world is united in its shock and sadness at the terrible human tragedy following the Asian tsunami disas-
tor. In the face of such overwhelming human
adversity, it is all too easy to forget the ani mal victims of the crisis; be they valued f ^ - ily companion animals, farm and working animals that communities often depend on for their livelihood, or local wildlife. The World Society for the Protection of
Animals (WSPA) is co-ordinating animal welfare organisations around the world in an international relief effort to help the animal victims of this disaster. The tsunami crisis has left many dogs.
cats, and farm animals diseased and without food and water. Working with our member societies on the ground, WSPA has already sent initial aid to provide food and veteri nary supplies for starving and sick animals. The first of our trained disaster relief
experts has been despatched to Sri Lanka, while our experienced veterinarians are poised to travel to other affected areas. WSPA is concerned that an onslaught of dis ease may follow the initial crisis. We are therefore carefully monitoring the
need for animal vaccination programmes, in liaison with the World Organisation for Ani mal Health (OIE), including actions to help deal with disease outbreaks should they arise. In the countries badly hit by this disaster,
livestock and working animals can be \dtal to the lives of rural communities. Supplies of vital veterinary medicines, food and water, can make the difference between life and death for animals in the aftermath of the disaster. WSPAs relief team will be paying particu
lar attention to providing this support. Helping animals has a real impact on the
long-term process of people rebuilding their shattered lives, particularly in farming com munities. I would like to invite readers to visit our website (
www.wspa-internation-
al.org) where the latest information and opportunities to help our urgent relief work can be found.
MAJOR GENERAL PETER DAVIES CB, Director General WSPA,
Can anyone supply
details of my family? I HAVE been researching my family tree recently and have discovered that my great grandfather had a younger brother, William Baldwin, who moved to Pendleton vUth his young family from Guiseley in Yorkshire around 1898. He was a blacksmith and married to a
Mary Hardaker. They had four children, named Florence, Mary Alice, Ellis (a boy) and Doris. I would be interested to hear from anyone who may be connected with this family or may know anything about them.
JAYNE BALDWIN, Old Church Hull, Kirkcowan, Wigtownshire, Scotland. ('fd: 0IG71830138)
Make your puppy’s
life a very happy one WE are sure that some people may have received puppies for Christmas this year, despite all the usual festive warnings. We would ask people to consider making
a New Year’s Resolution to help their new dog have a great start to his new home by booking him some training classes. The Easter holidays are quite often the
worst for animal welfare organisations, like Dogs Trust, when the puppy bought at Christmas time - and not trained - becomes a nuisance. Our centres are already full so please
contact your local dog training club, which should be listed in the phone directory, to make sure your dog stays with you for life. If you are still contemplating life with a
dog then please remember the dogs at res cue and re-homing centres. For a list of Dogs Trust centres please call 020 7837 0006 or visit us a t our website on
www.dogstrust.org.uk Happy New Year.
CLARISSA BALDWIN, Dogs Trust Chief Executive
75% of people said that they
use their local paper when looking for a new job*.
Ignoring them is a bad
career move. That's a Fact!
*Source: The Newspaper Society
Help us bring sunshine to children If anybody can help us
WE are permanently in great need of new, used, foreign, British and all other kinds of postage stamps for “The Sun shine Fund For Blind Chil dren” and are desperate for more contacts in the UK and abroad. The stamps are sold and this
is how we raise much-needed funds for these wonderful chil dren who are in great need of specially adapted toys and everyday gadgets, holidays, help for parents and many other needs of blind and par tially sighted children through out the UK. Their school life begins at
the age of two years up to A- level stage. Many of the children have
other mental and physical dis abilities as well, not just blind ness, so one to one teaching and assistance is needed much of the time.
please could the stamps be left on the envelope with approxi mately 1cm left surrounding the stamp. Please separate into one
envelope for British and anoth er for foreign and mark the outside of the envelope accord ingly. We would also be grateful if
you could pass this message on to your friends in the UK and abroad so that we can make at least £2,000 this tax year. Last year’s total was £1,222.
One small envelope of stamps once a year is just as important as a giant box full. Please send stamps to
RN IB , PO Box 6 1 9 8 , Leighton, LU7 9XT. Thank-you for your help.
TERRI BUSH, Volunteer events co-ordinator
Your letters . . .
O 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 arc only accepted for publication if the editor agrees that there is a valid reason for the writer's identity to be
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