Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) 18 Clitheroe Advertiser &Tlnies, Thursday, August 18th, 2005 Raymond’s charity walk
CLITHEROE man Ray mond Pickup braved one of the hottest days of the summer to raise money for a cause close to his heart. Raymond, of West View,
I Write lo; The Editor, Clilheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clilhcroe BB72EW Editorial e-mail:
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spell disaster ARE the residents of Taylor Street, whose homes have too frequently in the past been sub ject to flooding, aware of what the future may hold for them if Castle Cement is granted the licence it is seeking to drain its flooded Bellman Quarry into Worston Beck and thence into Mearley Brook? As they will know all too well this brook flows past their houses and then on through the centre of Clitheroe. At present, in the middle of a
very dry summer the flow of Worston Brook has been meas ured in July 2005 as 0.0285 cu m per second. This flows through a section of 19mm depth by 1500mm width where it was measured. The licence that Castle Cement has applied to the Environment Agency for is to pump either 0.13 cu m per sec if the pumping goes through all 24 hours or obviously 0.26 if the pumps work only for 12 hours per day (most likely?) which is 10 times the present flow and volume. There is no reference in the application to stopping pumping in times of heavy rainfall; indeed one sup poses that it Yvill have to pump more at such times. It is times of heavy and prolonged rainfall that Taylor Street suffers and that is when Castle will be adding to the flood risk if the licence is granted. Questions arise that perhaps
could be answered through your pages before the August 25th deadline for objections to the Environment Agency. For example, what is Ribble Valley Borough Council’s view on this increased flood risk? Have the local councillors Mr Berryman and Mr Brown researched the situation and if so will they either reassure their con stituents or join CPRE in objecting to the licence? (Copies of this letter have been sent to all three). The Campaign to Protect
Rural England has other con cerns with this application as well. 1. Water has flowed from the
surrounding rock to flood the quarry which means that if the existing flood water is pumped out more ground water will flow in under the infiuence of gravity. This will lower the water table around the quarry and this must have a significant effect on the plants and animals in the increasingly de-hydrated area. 2. The chemical nature of the
water is probably very different to that which currently flows in Worston and Mearley Brooks. It is most likely to be much more alkaline. Who knows what effect this will have on the existing animal and plant life in the brooks? All that is certain is that they will be changed. 3. The temperature of the
pumped water and that of the two brooks will be different.
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NHS due to their cost - just £2.50 per person per day.
I am astonished that NICE
appears to have rejected over whelming evidence from people with dementia, their unpaid carers and health professionals that these drug treatments are both cost-effective and clinical ly effective. People with Alzheimer’s dis
ease deserve a much better deal. I am writing to local MPs to ask for their help in taking this forward, and I would urge all concerned readers to do the same.
GERALDINE MOORE, Chief Officer of Age Concern Lancashire
Keep the Castle
flag flying high WHAT a difference it makes with a flag flying on the Castle Keep. Travelling along the A59 or
THE Recreation ground, off Sallhill Road, is set for a £50,000 facelift (G060805/3) . Play area’s ‘vandalism hotspot’ tag nonsense
YOUR description of the Salthill Recreation area (last week’s Clitheroe Advertiser and Times) is very inaccurate. The area has certainly not
fallen into disrepair. In the past two or three
years, four new items of equip ment have been installed and this year the oldest item of equipment has been repaired. The area contains a half size footbail pitch and the grass is cut every week, in fact, last week it was cut twice. The area is popular with
children and young teenagers and quite a few mums especial
exacerbating the change to the ecology of the streams. 4. Lastly what reason apart
from saving its money does Castle have putting our coun tryside and town at risk with this application when it already has permission to pump water from Bellman Quarry via Lane- head via existing settlement tanks into the River Ribble? Should you share CPRE’s
concern you can write to Mr D. Edwards, Authorisations Offi cer, The Environment Agency, NW Central Area Office, PO Box 519, South Preston, Lancs, PR5 8GD. But objections must be received by August 25th.
D.WID KING, Ribbic Valiev District Group CPRE, Carr’s Croft, Riminglon
Fairly important
points omitted YOUR front page article on the possible transfer of the councils housing stock omitted some fairly important figures, which gave rise to major queries over
ly during the school holidays. A “hotspot for vandalism’’?
Such a description is nonsense. I don’t know how you define the word hotspot, but it does not apply to the play area. Incidents of vandalism have been few and far between, usu ally taking the form of laying down the goal posts. There is an occasional intrusion into neighbours’ property, but nothing that a decent fence would prevent. Where is the evidence of
crime and boredom in this part of the town? If PC Woodcock really
the whole business. The coun cil’s stock was valued in its lat est set of accounts at around £24m., which is a very conser vative estimate. The last 14 houses and six flats to be sold had an average value of £81,600 each, the last four houses all valued at more than £110,000 before tenant’s dis count. Yet the average value put on our properties by the council’s consultants is just £898 each. Yes, this is not a misprint - under £1,000 each! If the coun cil was to transfer its properties, it would receive a capital receipt of under film. The way this transformation
is achieved is by projecting a set of repairs, renovations and improvements over the next 30 years which add up to over £61m. We find it impossible to
regard these projections as real istic. Our houses already meet the Government’s Decent Homes Standard with a few trivial exceptions, e.g. only one percent of our properties are now without central heating and all have double glazing.
wants an example of theft and severe vandalism, he might check police records for April this year when I reported (complete with photographs) an incident of stolen chairs, which had been set on fire with accompanying damage to sur rounding trees, which took place in the woods on Salthill. We have yet to hear of any
follow-up from the police. I don’t know who provided
you with the information you published, it is very mislead ing. Having lived immediately adjacent to the field with the
most in low maintenance PVC window frames. Yet we are expected to spend over £60,000 per property (in 2005 £s, excluding inflation) over the next 30 years. Some average fig ures per property will convey the idea: Windows £3,218, external doors £1,340, heating £4,496, electrics £3,060, roofing £2,570, kitchens £6,764. This still leaves around £39,000 for expenditure on general mainte nance and other improvements. Can anyone who knows even a little about maintaining a home believe that there are not some seriously inflated estimates as well as a lot of double counting behind these figures? We know that our council
houses are among the best in the country and we have excel lent tenants who look after them and do not create the need tor excessive repairs. Around 70 other councils round the country, most with houses nowhere near our standard, have decided to retain control of their stock. We believe it is possible to come up with a business plan to ■ retain, maintain and improve
play area for 43 years, you should not be surprised if I claim to have more accurate information than that con tained in your article.
F. R. HONEYWELL, Wallaford, Salihill Road, Cliihcroe O We would like lo point out that all the information con tained in last week’s article was supplied by relevant local organ isations, with supporting quotes backed by the police. The coun cil has asked us lo stress that the project is, as yet, in its early stages - editor.
our stock in a way that meets our tenants’ aspirations, jmt avoids transfer to a remote and democratically unaccountable landlord. It is possible to stand up against the bullying that characterises the Labour gov ernment’s present policy on council housing and we will be urging all councillors to do so next Tuesday.
GR.4HAM SOWTER, MARGARET AND STEPHEN SUTCLIFFE
Ribbic Valley Borough Council lors .
Sufferers need
a better deal I AM concerned about possible withdrawal of drugs available for the treatment of
Alzheimer’s disease on the NHS.
These drugs are not a cure,
but are acknowledged to be effective in alleviating some of the symptoms for some people. Yet the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has said in draft guidance that they should not be available on the
just looking up from the town it makes the place look as though there’s something going on. I’m sure it must attract more visi tors and the people I’ve talked to say it helps to brighten up the town. I know we can’t fly the Union
Flag every day, but we do have a Town Flag, or a Ribble Valley one, we could even have one with a big “£3m” on it, now that we’ve let the Castle get into such a sad state of repair. I have been told this isn’t
possible because of the expense of putting the flags up. If we were to put one up on, say, St George’s Day, April 23rd, and then take it down at the end of the August Bank Holiday, that wouldn’t incur such an expense, would it?
WiM BARKER, by e-mail
Local films to
resolve crisis? I READ with interest the recent articles about the crisis at the Clitheroe Cinema and about the filming of the Worst Witch at Clitheroe Castle. It occurred to me that the
solution to the cinema crisis would be for it to reopen with a season of local interest films. This would ensure that seats would be filled and the cash cri sis would be resolved. Upon reflection I realised that there are many classic films with local connections and thought I would list them below as a help ful suggestion. A Local Season of Classic
Films- “Sleepless in Settle", “Watership Downham”, “Skip- ton the Bush Kangaroo”, “Wiswell Down the Wind’’, “Hurst Green was my Valley”, “Adam’s Rib Chester”, “The Grapes of Rath mell”, “An American in Padiham”, “Shal low Gargrave”.This lot should fill the cinema!
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SHARPSHOOTERS from Clitheroe Round Table have got the club’s sporting year back on track with a victory in the Area Clay Pigeon Shooting competi tion.
Ha’ving won three compe
titions on their way to the main area sports trophy last year, Clitheroe Round Table earned the reputation of being the organisation’s best sportsmen in the area. But in the harsh world of
sport you are only as good as your last performance, and results have not been going Clitheroe’s way so far this year. The club’s new sports
officer, Martin Gibson, has certainly found his prede cessor’s record a tough act
to follow. A first round exit in the crown green bowls followed a disappointing fourth place in the quiz and suddenly the memories of last year’s succeses were beginning to fade. Having been gently
reminded of Clitheroe’s proud traditions in the clay pigeon shooting event, Martin knew th a t an improved performance was required and a crack team of marksmen was assem bled from the ranks. With eight eagle-eyed representing
tablers
Clitheroe oh the night, the two selected to compete in the main event must have been feeling the weight of expectation more than most, but nerves did not
f o’
Round Table claims great sporting victory
show as Carl Price and Rob Stevenson combined to wrestle the trophy away from teams representing Blackpool, Preston and Rossendale. The six remaining tablers
were entered into the novices event and most acquitted themselves superbly. An excellent showing from Steven Lord brought home the second title of the evening. Clitheroe Round Table is
always on the lookout for new members, whether they are sporty or not, and anyone wishing to join should see the website at
www.rt552.org Our picture shows the
winning squad of Round Table shooters, (s)
was disappointed when he discovered he was unable to take part in this year’s London Marathon for health reasons, and so decided to enlist the help of friends from St James’ Church instead. He persuaded a group of
them to walk with him on a five mile sponsored walk from Newton to Dunsop
Bridge and back and man aged to raise more than £600 for the Friends of Chernobyl's Children. According to local archi
tect Ivan Wilson, who led the walk, Raymond was keen to go further, but was persuaded that afternoon tea was a good way to end the day. Anyone who still has
sponsor money for Ray mond is asked to leave it either at the Church office on St James’ Street or at St James’ Rectory on Woone Lane.
FOLLOWING a pictur esque rail journey along the Settle-Carlisle Line to Appleby, 22 members of Clitheroe Ramblers, led by Bryan Dobson, started their 10-mile walk from the former county town of Westmorland. In clear, sunny condi
tions, they left the station and headed north-east to Flakebridge Wood, where lunch was taken on the south bank of Murton Beck.
Ramblers’ rail journey Continuing along the
beck, the North Pennine Mountains were soon in sight, imposing themselves over the beautiful villages of Murton and Hilton. After a slight diversion along Hilton Beck, the walkers continued over Brackenber Moor to Cou pland before turning northwards along the River Eden back to Mar ket Town for welcome refreshments before return ing home on Dales Rail.
Extension plan gets go-ahead
PERMISSION has been granted to partly demolish an existing garage at the side of a house in Clitheroe, and build a two-storey side
and rear extension. Propos als for the development at Pimlico Road, which includes a conservatory, were given the go-ahead.
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Gamble cash and help sick children
A CHARITY casino night is to take place to bring more sunshine into the lives of sick, disabled and disadvan taged children in the Ribble Valley. The fund-raising event
will take place on Septem ber 9th, at the Shireburn Arms Hotel, Hurst Green, and follows the success of a campaign launched a year ago to open a branch of the Variety Club of Great Britain in the area. The campaign was
launched by generous High- moor Park resident, Mr Peter Dowdy (58), pictured, who decided to form the branch so money by the charity’s supporters in the borough would stay in the area. Mr Dowdy, who is the
managing director of Black burn-based TrendLine Office Interiors, called on business folk to back plans to set up a branch of the deserving club. Formed more than half a
century ago, the national charity raises money for holidays and Sunshine coaches to help sick, dis
abled and disadvantaged children across the country and abroad. The organisation, which
boasts the likes of Prince Charles, the Duke of Edin burgh and Prince Andrew as members, has provided around 4,000 Sunshine coaches to schools and insti tutions and with them the gift of freedom and mobili
ty Mr Dowdy himself sup
ported the North West branch of the famous club for 10 years, but yearned to improve the quality of life of local children, who through no fault of their own are less fortunate than others. He has taken the role of
branch chairman of the new Ribble Valley club and has high hopes that the first of the many fund-raising events will increase aware ness of the club. He commented: “The
casino night will give local people a chance to find out what the Variety Club is all about and at the same time, raise money for sick, disad vantaged and disabled chil dren. For the past year, I
have been working along side Ribble Valley people in setting up the branch, which will enable local youngsters to cash in on the benefits. “Every penny we raise
wall go directly to the chari ty and will be spent in the Ribble Valley.” Meanwhile, in addition to
the casino night, other forthcoming fund-raising events include a pro-celebri ty “foxes and rabbits” com petition, where celebrities and amateur golfers will be seen teeing off in the bor ough for charity. Other events include a
“knock-out” competition and a summer ball, which will be held next year. The casino night will start at 7- 30 p.m. with tickets priced at £20 each. The price includes live music, buffet and an auction. Anyone requiring further informa tion or wishing to obtain a ticket for the casino night is asked to call Mr Dowdy on 01200 429451, or committee member Mr Steve Alcock, at the Shireburn Arms Hotel, on 01254 826518.
Under-age sex charges
A READ pensioner has appeared before Burnley Magistrates accused of sex offences. William Thomson Kelley Black (72), of
Whalley Road, is charged with engaging in non-penetrative sex with a girl under 13 in June and two allegations of indecent assault, said to have taken place before November 1995. He was bailed until October 6th, for committal proceedings to the Crown Court.
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