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mented on how they could not remember a December so dry, clear and free from frost. Although there had been some rain, the mildness of the season was shown by the fact that autumn flowers were still blooming in the gardens. • At the Clitheroe fat stock show, the
championship for the best animal in the show was awarded to Messrs. J. Whittaker and Son of Grindleton. • The parishioners of Grindleton, at a
gathering in the school, welcomed their new vicar, the Rev. F. G. Ackerley and Mrs Ackerley. • The extension and reopening of the
all boys and girls 15-years-old and under. The task for the boys was a drawing of a local institution or an object of interest. The task for the girls was to write a short essay on boys or Christmas. The prize for the winner was a Christmas treat.
choir gallery at the Congregational church was celebrated by special services on Sun day. The gallery was previously found to be too small for convenient use. It was extended a short distance into the body of the chapel, at a cost of £70. • A Christmas competition was held for
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Guide to tradesmen who are... A ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE
Valley Matters The new heart of the Valley
a weekly look at local issues, people and places
AFTER tuning in to 87.7 PM for the first seyen days of Ribble Valley Radio this col umn just had to become As I Hear It - for at least one week! What an amazing experience listening to
Ribble Valley’s new radio station. As a member of RVR’s Management Commit tee, I know that the first 12 months of fund-raising and planning have brought equal measures of frustration, apprehen sion and ultimately excitement as, at 9 a.m. on Sunday, November 27th, Paul Elms launched into the first “Welcome to Ribble Valley Radio”. At last, Steve Suttie, RVR’s station manager could relax a little, although there was still the pressure of delivering a schedule of programmes 24/7 for four weeks until Christmas Eve. Sunday’s first day broadcasts from St
Mary’s Centre, on Church Street, were typ ical of the first week, a delightful mix of talk and music by raw and experienced pro gramme presenters. Paul Elms’ first live show introduced presenters talking about their programmes. Late Sunday afternoon brought John
Barber’s Country music collection, Mau reen Fenton’s Creative Writing Class and Sheraz Arshad’s inter-faith discussion pro gramme: “Among Friends”. Paj (Paul
As I see i t . • . by Geoffrey Jackson
Johnson) and Simon Whipp finished off a well-presented first day with a range of music to wet the appetite for the following week. The next seven days have included wide
ranging programmes covering folk, blues, heavy rock, as well as more mainstream presentations. But it has been the range of information
about local issues and events that has cemented programmes together. This has got to be the essence of community radio - local presenters (including two roving reporters from the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times) - local information - promoting community cohesion. I am looking forward to the next three
weeks’ broadcasts. By Christmas many more listeners will have phoned 01200 427999 to promote their organisation’s events, to ask for dedications, or to say how
LOOKING BACK 50 years ago
PUSS IN BOOTS was advertised for
took place at Clitheroe Auction Mart. Ten fair cattle were entered for the show, but the champion for Best Animal Award was a cow called Aberdeen Angus, owned by F. Wood and Son. He was a really good type of beast, very well fleshed and light of belly, with beef in every line. • Councillor A. Brooks of Whalley
the Post Office’s appeal to “Post early for Christmas” was successful. To cope with the rush of parcels and cards, the regular postal staff were supplemented by 50 pupils from the grammar school.
XHOUGHT fo r t l ie w e e k
THERE was blood on the ground in that bleak stable when the baby was born. There’s always been blood at
a birth, but after the 70-mile trek to Bethlehem the confine ment must have been tough. And that is really all we know about it! I t was not until 30 years later that anyone noticed that there was something spe cial about that baby.
appealed a t the monthly meeting of Clitheroe Rural District Council. He asked councillors to support any action to prevent unnecessary tree-felling. The con cern was for Spring Wood - adjoining Whalley Golf Club. • Despite “snow chaos” in Clitheroe,
the “Grand Pantomime” season. Produc tion ran throughout December and early January. I t was produced by Edmond Cambien and a full orchestra was under the direction of Mr P. H. Robertson. It was described as having plenty of “catchy tunes” and “thousands of laughs!” • The Christmas Prize Show of fatstock
much they are enjoying this new Ribble Valley experience. I am sure that presenters and listeners, like me, will miss tuning in to RVR after December 24th. But don’t despair, RVR hopes to stream radio pro grammes on the Internet prior to another month-long broadcast in early summer. In the meantime RVR’s committee will be preparing an application to OFCOM for a permanent broadcasting licence as long as it can raise a further £20,000 to cover its costs. Thanks go to the Lottery Awards for All,
the Ribble Valley Local Strategic Partner ship, Clitheroe the Future, and the Lan caster Foundation for helping to fund our first one month broadcast. If you have not yet tuned in to 87.7 FM,
give it a try, and then phone in to tell us what you think. Better still, send informa tion about your own community group or volunteer to make a programme of your own. I believe that RVR through its 45 volun-'
teer presenters and technicians, and through its thousands of listeners, is likely to be the new Heart of the Ribble Valley. You can help make this happen. • Geoffrey Jackson is a member of Trin ity Partnership and Ribble Valley Radio.
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www.clitheroetoday.co.uk Handy tips for winter
HELLO and welcome again to Whalley Beat.
the day and I cannot beheve I have already eaten my 15th Advent cal endar chocolate! As Andy Williams once sang -
Christmas edges ever closer by
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year” - but to go hand-in-hand with all the good stuff th a t’s going on during this time, we now find our selves experiencing cold,, dark, frosty and wet weather so please spare a thought for your local Police Community Support Officer as he treks alone and cold through the streets! If the kettle’s on, a lengthy chat over a cockle-warming cup of belly-warming hot stuff would be cracking! I’m also partial to a fresh ly baked mince pie so before you kindly invite me in, it might just be worth checking you’ve got adequate pie-supplies first! Moving on, if you have been tun
ing into Ribble Valley Radio since its launch a few weeks ago, you may have heard John Barber’s weekly programme, which is on every Tuesday afternoon from noon. Earlier this week, yours truly was
found selecting a few songs and chatting to John about the joys of working in Whalley and Billin^on.
Tips for the winter months
handy winter advice. If you’re going out for the
Finally, please take note of this
evening: • Invest in a time switch, which
will switch a lamp on/off at inter vals during the evening. • Leave a light on in at least one
room, not just the hallway. • Leave a radio playing, prefer
ably on a talk station. • Close the curtains so that peo
ple cannot see directly into your home. This is particularly relevant at Christmas, when presents may be on display. • Even if you are only leaving
the house for a short time, for exam ple, to pick children up from school, always make sure that all doors and windows are closed and locked. When out alone during hours of
darkness: • Always be alert and look confi
dent. • Avoid shortcuts and dark,
deserted areas. • Walk in the centre of the pave
ment, away from bushes or build ings. • Walk facing the traffic 0 Carry a torch 0 To avoid delay, have your keys
Miith p e s o Jason Taylor
in your hand when approaching your car or home 0 Why not purchase a personal
attack alarin, but do keep i t at hand - not at the bottom of your handbag. Finally, on those cold, frosty
mornings, don’t leave your car unattended outside your house with the engine running, or a shop while you pop in for a paper. If you do, you are a prime target for an oppor tunist car thiefl As always, if you would to get in
touch you can e-mail me at
jason.taylor@lancashire.pnn.police. uk or leave your messages on my voicemail service 01200 458772. Please remember that this number is for non-urgent matters and should you require immediate poUce attention, please ring 0845 1 25 35 45 or 999 in the case of an emergency.
25 years ago ANGRY residents of Clitheroe’s Taylor
Street were seeking a meeting with the Ribble Valley Council’s borough engineer after their houses had been flooded for the fourth time in two months. They wanted the council to act quickly to come up with a permanent solution to the flooding. • Voluntary redundancies were likely to
be introduced to reduce the number of Ribble Valley Borough Council staff. An agreement had been reached between the council and the local Nalgo branch to implement voluntary redundancies if staff cuts were called for in the establishment review being undertaken by the council. • Punters from Clitheroe’s Station
certs were taking place across the Ribble Valley. Pupils at Chatbum CE School had a full hall for their Christmas concert, a packed audience enjoyed St Leonard (3E School’s two-night nativity production and children from St Paul’s Church, Low Moor featured in their musical play “Star”.
Blood on the ground Our amiable atheist, Dr
Jonathan Miller, in his recent TV series, has been pointing out (yet again!) what most Christians have known all along - namely that the Nativ ity stories ARE stories. They are tales spun by Jew
ish master story-tellers - tales told to defend Mary’s purity and Joseph’s responsibility. Tales told to celebrate an
event of global spiritual signifi cance.
Yet beneath the drama and
music that will dominate our media, our meetings and our meals over the next 10 days there is solid history. That birth may have been painfully private, but within 33
years there was blood on the ground again. This time it was outside
Jerusalem in a death that was powerfully public! Enjoy your Christmas celebrations for all the treasure they enshrine, and be sure there is hard history within all this excitement. There is mystery too - mys
tery which we will explore and experience in the middle ol April.
IAN ROBINS, Anglican Pricsl
Hotel brought chaos to the town centre with their antics last Saturday afternoon. The regulars held a fancy dress march around eight pubs in the town and raised £267 for muscular dystrophy. • Nativity plays and Christmas con
By Faiza Afzaal
PLANS to introduce a 40 m.p.h speed limit on a busy Langho road have moved a step closer. A meeting was held last week
between members of Lancashire County Council, Ribble Valley Bor ough Council and the police to dis cuss what can be done to crack down on speeding and the volume of traffic in Old Langho Road. The move follows concerns
expressed by county and borough councillor, Chris Holtom about the sheer volume of speeding traffic on Old Langho Road, which he says is extremely worrying. Coun Holtom revealed that the
road has a speed limit of 60 m.p.h and fears that pedestrians could be injured by fast travelling motorists if the speed limit is not reduced. Last month he called for reduced speed limits and more warning signs to warn motorists to slow down and to prevent someone being injured. His plea won the backing of
members of Billington and Langho Parish Council, who for years have been campaigning for traffic calm ing measures in the village. They added that there are no signs to show what the speed limit
is and explained that the situation had got worse over the years since the introduction of Brockhall Vil lage. They claimed that some peo ple with high-powered cars had been spotted speeding at 80 m.p.h. and it was frightening. With regards to the meeting last
week, a county council spokesman said: “We held a district liaison meeting with Ribble Valley Bor-
Pupils’ charity pyjama day
A PYJAMA day and raf fle raised £200 for Chil dren in Need at the Acorns Nursery at Oakhill Col lege, in Whalley. Staff and children dressed in their pyjamas and dressing
gowns for th e day and sold raffle tickets for a cuddly Pudseybear. The children also made chocolate bears, biscuits an d buns, which th ey sold to p a ren ts an d staff a t the college.
ough Council and the police to look at the possibility of reducing the speed limit to 40 m.p.h. “It was a productive session and
we now await the formal views from both parties before looking into the scheme’s feasibility. We will have an answer early in the New Year.” Our picture show Old Langho Road. (B071105/3a)
■ IN the Valley magazine next week, nativities galore as the area’s primary schools prepare for Christmas. Make sure of your copy by ordering it now with your local newsagent.
40 m.p.h. plan to curb speedsters
IT was a case of “eyes down” for Whalley’s senior citizens who attended a spe cial Christmas lunch and played bingo. The Dog Inn, Whalley,
was the venue for the festive event, which was organised by landlord Mr Norman Atty, along with pub man ager Mr Nigel Riley, and the village’s Police Commu nity Support Officer (PCSO) Jason Taylor. On arrival, all the guests
enjoyed a festive drink and were served a Christmas dinner of turkey and all the trimmings, giving all those
Pensioners enjoy some festive fun Commenting on the fun-
present the perfect opportu nity to have a good chat. During the afternoon,
everyone enjoyed three games of bingo. Prizes for the line and
house included bottles of wine, boxes of chocolates and general Christmas stocking-fillers. Vouchers were also kindly donated by the Dog Inn Football Team, Dawson’s of Clitheroe, and Whalley butcher S. Tyldesley. Finally, guests had a go at
some brain teasers and a general knowledge quiz, with more cracking prizes.
filled afternoon, Jason said: “Having arranged numer ous events for the young people of the village in the past, I thought Christmas time would be the perfect opportunity to bring together some of the older residents of the village.” Our picture shows Whal
ley’s senior citizens, Stan Mather, Doris Cheetham, Maureen Mather, Joan Shorrock, Phyll Hargreaves and Irene Smithson, having a “cracking” time at the Christmas lunch. (A121205/8)
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