20 Ciitheroe Advertiser & Times, March 17th’, 2005


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Ciitheroe Advertiser & Times, March 17th, 20p5_ 21, Letters to the Editor — Write to: The Editor, Ciitheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Ciitheroe BB72EW Editorial e-mail: vivien.meath@castlancsnews.co.uk Sorry, but Fm not


fooled by this story AFTER reading the recent page one article about home having to be in a car for a homeless couple, I feel I have to write and say I just do not believe the Ribble 'Valley Borough Council and their so-called policies and proce­ dures. How is it tha t a couple can just


choose to move from Manchester, obviously from a home of sorts; get rented accommodation in our town promptly; get kicked out for not pay­ ing their rent, then go bleating to the council about how they are being forced to live in a car? ■Why was this couple given accom­


modation at the Joiner’s Arms? Be it temporary or not, we know as well as they that temporary accommodation in the Joiner’s Arms means staying there until more suitable permanent accommodation becomes available. I wouldn’t mind betting that they


walk out of there into a two-bed- roomed permanent property. You may well say: “Oh, but the poor


girl was pregnant and feared for the life of her unborn child.” Well, if the family who they wanted


to live near to so much could not give them floor space Instead of car space, in the circumstances, why should the borough council concern themselves? It seems to me that far too many


people are moving into Ciitheroe from surrounding areas, renting properties initially quite above board. Once they have their feet in the door,


you hear of them splitting up with their partners or losing their jobs, but by this time they are here where they want to be. Because they are no longer in a posi­


tion to pay their rents and council tax, they are residents here and eventually become the responsibility of the bor­ ough council. They either end up being perma­


nently housed here, or having their rents and council taxes paid for them, in accommodation of their original choice as opposed to the surrounding areas from which they came! I read that the young couple in ques­


tion do not wish to go back to Manch­ ester. Well, pardon me for being led to


believe that this makes everything all right then. So the council was moved by their


plight, well I certainly was not, or fooled. The council needs to take action on


behalf of the scores of young homeless people who were born and bred here in the town who cannot get a roof over their heads. The council's housing department


needs to s tart getting its priorities right. I believe in giving help and assis­


tance to anyone, but I would get my own house in order first.


MARGARET McTEAR, Addre.ss supplied


We must protect


this vital service I WAS concerned to read th a t the


future of our railway service is under threat of closure. This year is the 155th of the line’s existence. We have had 11 years of a


good service, brought into being by many dedicated people. I hope we are not going to get a rep­


etition of the situation in the 1980s when the closure of the Settle-Carlisle railway and of Ciitheroe railway sta­ tion was being considered. I was a member of the LCC plan­


ning and transportation committee and attended various meetings to put forward the views of Ciitheroe Town Council and Ribble Valley Council. I have been in favour of the exten­


sion of the passenger service from Ciitheroe to Hellifield, opening up improved services to Yorkshire and connections with the eastern main line to London. With the ever-increasing traffic con­


gestion on the roads and parking diffi­ culties in our towns and cities, it is imperative that we build on the service and make it attractive to many more passengers.


LEO WELLS Chester Avenue, Ciitheroe


Protect our railway


line at all costs THE proposed closure of our train line would be such a big loss to the people of Ciitheroe. I find it easier to use the train than


the bus with my wheelchair. I t would be such a loss to close our


station, so please, Mr Blair, think again.


MRS K. SEAWARD, Tower Hill, Ciitheroe


Junction is made


worse by markings IN response to Mr Cooper’s letter of March 10th, I totally agree with him that the Ciitheroe and Sabden junc­ tion of the A59 is dangerous by design. However, I totally disagree that the


previous road markings and signs gave southbound traffic, turning right to Ciitheroe, priority over those turning right, on to the A 59, from Ciitheroe. Those turning right off the A59 had


a Give Way sign and Give Way words painted on the road. They also had Give Way road mark­


ings (parallel broken lines) set back, ie they had to give way to traffic passing in front of them; and the only traffic that would pass in front of those lines would have been traffic from Ciitheroe, turning right on to the A59, as they would have had it been a roundabout. The traffic from Ciitheroe had simi­


lar broken lines to give way to north­ bound traffic. If you disagree, then please look at


the turning for northbound traffic turning to Sabden, which is similar. Another cause of accidents at this


spot is drivers assuming that this sec­ tion of “dual carriageway” is for over­ taking other vehicles that are turning off the A59. I t is not. If you disagree, look at the road


markings. They are: "Slow Down” words painted on the road, a cycling lane, a single traffic lane and a striped "no go” area, so drivers should stay behind any driver who is slowing down in front of them and not try to over­ take. No doubt drivers will continue to


disagree as to what is meant by these road markings and it is that which makes this junction so "dangerous by design". No doubt this is one thing on which we can all agree.


J R RATCLIFFE, Moorland Crescent, Ciitheroe


Help stallholders


keep warm and stay WE visit Ciitheroe market regularly and are saddened and alarmed to see many stalls around the ring leave. Those remaining find life very difficult in the winter months because of the cold and wind. Why cannot those responsible for


the market give these people some help by installing some protection in the area behind the stalls. We were told by the stallholders


that money had run out and they had to provide their own plastic sheeting, ’ which is just not doing the job.


FRANK and DAPHNE GREENHALGH, Revis Bungalow, Up Brooks, Ciitheroe


We must fight our


own panopticon row IN the Ciitheroe Advertiser and Times of March 3rd there were reports both that opposition to the proposal for a panopticon on Kemple End was con­ tinuing to grow and that in Slaidburn “the site’s owners claim” local resi­ dents want to forge ahead with the lat­ est plan to provide a village hall. For many of those who live beside The Green in Slaidburn, the village hall is their panopticon. Those opposed to previous village


hall plans have tried hard to compro­ mise, but despite the 15 reported requests for a variety of different win­ dow design changes, the trustees are recorded as saying “for many reasons, mainly of architectural integrity, it was decided to retain the proposed design”. Such nonsense shows that the trustees have learnt nothing. What has knocking two-storey high windows into the gable end of a 180-year-old building got to do with architectural integrity? Coun. Howard Douglas described


last year’s rejected plan as looking as if it had been created “to be more a mon­ ument to those responsible for it, than a building for the community”. Reten­ tion of these windows, which would be more appropriate in a zoo’s giraffe house than a converted Methodist chapel, seems to be a monumental statement and no more. These 21st century landmarks are needed neither on Kemple End nor beside The Green in Slaidburn.


S. WOOD, Chairman of (he Slaidburn Conservation Group, Chapel Street, Slaidburn


Taking time to get


the design right IN reply to Mrs Johnson's letter last week regarding the proposed skatepark, I may be able to shed some


light on the proceedings. I am a local skater and have been involved with the project for over a year now. I also run the skatepark project on


the following website (www.skate- clitheroe.freeuk.com/). The site is updated with progress


reports whenever I receive them. The current status of the project (as


far as I am aware) is that the plans were finalised towards the end of last year and a planning application was made just before Christmas. I assume that the designs are still


going through this process since I have not heard otherwise. We have also met with contractors


and selected a shortlist who have been invited to tender for the project. So things are progressing, unfortu­


nately it is a slow process. However, many projects of this


nature fail (by which I mean they are built, but are badly designed and/or constructed and hence are of little or no use). I am hopeful that the time taken to


do it right will result in a top-class facility that will be the best for many miles around.


ANDY ELLIOTT, Siddows Avenue, Ciitheroe


Teens in Whalley


need a place to go I RECENTLY read an article in another local paper about how resi­ dents of Whalley were told by the local police that they should be glad they do not live in Blackburn after complaints regarding the numbers of teenagers congregating in some areas of the village. I am only 26 years of age, so it was-


not long ago that me and my friends were "these" teenagers. However, we were always moved on


and told we could not be seen in groups of more than five. Yet it seems that this new “breed”


don't get this. I have seen them myself, at the end of George Street, in a group of about 25. I feel something should be done


about this and the same rules should apply to them as did to us. Surely the law has not changed that much, or is it that the police cannot be bothered any more? What was their answer? - to employ a PCSO to do the job for them.


Fair enough, he does try to do his


bit, but he is seen as not being the real thing so no attention is paid to what he says.


Sorry P(5S0 Taylor, you might not


be the weakest link, but that is how you are seen.


When my friends and myself would


"hang around" on street corners we would be visited several times a night to tell us to move on, but this new generation do not seem to be. There are a lot of elderly people th a t live in Whalley and some of


them must be afraid to be on the streets after dark. When we were th a t age we gave


them respect and would always chat to them as they walked past and


make sure that we would move out of their way. We never caused any criminal dam­


age either, we just needed somewhere to meet and chat.


I am not trying to take that away Y o u r l e t t e r s . . .


• The Editor welcomes letters on any subject, but correspondents are remind­ ed (hat contributions may be edited or condensed, must not exceed 3i50 words and should reach us by noon on Tues­ day.


Letters with noms de plume are now


only accepted for publication if the edi­ tor agrees that (here is a valid reason for the writer's identity to be withheld. Letters can be sent by post to (he


Ciitheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Ciitheroe BB7 2EW, via e-mail to vivien.meath@eastlancsnews.co.uk, via fax to 01200 443467 or texted to 07799696447. Letters submitted by any of these


methods must, however, include the writer’s name and full postal address.


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from the current teenagers - they still need somewhere to go, so I think it is about time something was done about it. What do the rest of your readers think?


ANDREW HOWE, Billington


Spare a thought for


our baby birds MAY I add an extra plea to “Call to protect nesting birds” on March 3rd. Baby sparrows cannot survive even a


few hours of chill. Sparrows’ attempts a t finding a warm place are almost pathetic. In an empty house with open win­


dows, sparrows built a nest in a dis­ carded paper bag and reared four young. Another pair built a nest in a tangle


of clematis montana covering a sunny wall. New owners of the house did not like the flowering climber and pulled it out. The baby birds were saved in the last hour. Starlings will also be looking for a


cosy comer and, if a house is being ren­ ovated, spare a thought for homeless starlings. We have had a tough winter and


some species have been having a hard time. Wrens and some of the tit family


cannot manage hard nuts, so I provide soft food. Some supermarkets sell plastic-cov­


ered mesh folded like an envelope. They take two slices of well-buttered bread, or margarine will do.


IRENA ZALAIEWIEWICZ, Hebburn Drive, Bury


Worthwhile use for


panopticon money THE Panopticon money would be bet­ ter spent on cleaning up the footpaths. I walk up Henthorn Road early


every morning and the dog walkers have already been out leaving dog mess all over the place. Some of the money could pay for a


full-time warden instead of a part-time one.


LAURA BAILEY, Hazel Grove, Cliheroe


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Youngsters treat their


mothers to special gifts PUPILS of Pendle Pre-School treated their mothers to a special Mother’s Day gift, courtesy of Tesco. The Littlemoor Road school, which edu­


cates children between the ages of two and four, kindly had bunches of carnations donated to them from the Ciitheroe store. The children, who were visited by


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Tracey King, customer service manager at the store, were told that they were to give the flowers to their mothers on Mother’s Day. Our picture shows Ms King with the children at Pendle Pre-school, along with some of the mothers. (B202305/1)


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■VANDALS scratched the panels of a ’Vaux- hall Zafira between 10-45 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. on Saturday while it was parked in Central Avenue, Ciitheroe, causing an esti­ mated £1,000 worth of damage.


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