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•Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified)


www.clifheroetoday.co.uk Letters to the Editor — ^^rite to: The Editor, Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Ciitlieroc BB72EW Editorial e-mail: vivicn.mcalh@eastlancsnc\vs.co.uk Speed awareness course


was a real life-saver RECENTLY I was clocked at 38 m.p.h. in a 30 m.p.h. zone at Penwortham. I was given the alter­ natives of a fine and penalty points, or a Speed Awareness Course,-which was more expensive, but meant that the episode was finished with. I chose the latter and I ’m very glad I did,


because I soon realised that although I have been driving for 52 years without any problems, a lot of things have changed in that time, especially to do with the voluine of traffic, changes in road signs and the speed of modern cars. The course was held at Burnley Football Club


and the morning session was conducted by two very pleasant men who set out at once to make us feel at ease. There was a PowerPoint show of the various hazards and how to avoid them, questions and answers, and group sessions. I t was very informative and helpful. No one was condemned, no one intimidated.


After that we were divided two to a car with a driving instructor and took it in turns to drive around the area. Then the instructor took over the driving and commented on the various situations that arose. Then he told us what we had not done right during our drive and made suggestions. We drove again over a different course and both felt we had improved. Returning to Burnley there was a summary of the course and that was it. • I thoroughly recommend anyone offered the


course to accept it. The original offence is wiped out, but you cannot do the course again for three years. On the way home, I feel the course helped to save the life of one Clitheroe boy. As I turned down the dreaded Henthorn Road,


which is sometimes used as a racing track, I was in third gear (recommended in a 30 m.p.h. zone) and started scanning the horizon (they were very hot on this scanning for trouble). As I neared Whipp Avenue I saw the head of a


boy coming down the avenue on what I assumed was a bicycle. As I was nearly at the junction, the boy appeared, not on a bicycle, but on a scooter, and careered straight across into Siddows Avenue without stopping. , I was doing less than 30 m.p.h. and could brake


in time. It I had been going faster, or been in fourth gear, or hadn’t seen him in advance as a hazard, he might well be dead now and I don’t suppose he even realises it. It was a salutory lesson. We all need to be more


careful.


R. L. CARTER, BIcasdalc Avenue, Clitheroe


0 The above letter is being reprinted this week


after a large portion of ft was accidentally omit­ ted from last week’s Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, due to an error in the production process.


Decisions were made


before we even spoke ON June 14th 2005, we attended our first Ribble Valley Borough Council planning committee meeting and hopefully our last. We endured almost two hours of anxiety, wait­


ing before our valid and strong objections to an application were heard. Why we bothered to attend and speak we will


never know. Why we spent a day taxing our brains to put together, as succinctly as possible in the three minutes allowed for our relevant points, we


will never know. It was a total farce, because looking through the . .


agenda we found it was all cut and dried before the doors ever opened. All our time, effort and traunia were to no avail, the decision was just passed as in


the earlier printed agenda. We left along with a number of other people


equally exasperated with their results. ^ ^ broken-hearted, because after 95 years and three generations of ownership we are going to building stuck in front of our living room and be


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room windows, cutting out the sky, closer than in any street in a town.


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MR AND MRS A. CLAYTON, Pendleton Road, Wiswell.


‘Born and Bred’ showing on TV in Tinsel Town!


DURING a recent holiday in Western USA, we stayed in Hollywood. Wondering just what Amer­ ican TV was like, we browsed the channels and discovered one without adverts, which depended on public subscription. What should we come across but Pendle Hill


and a Lancashire accent - they .were showing “Born and Bred” in Tinsel Town! We felt quite at home, but wondered what the


natives (of many nationalities) made of the goings-on in the Ribble Valley of the 1950s.


GRAHAM KINDLE, Moorland Road, Lungiio


Sbop at Homebase with


all our blessings IF Mr Davies is so enamoured with the range of goods on offer at Homebase, why does he simply not continue to amble the eight or so miles to Accrington whenever his DIY cravings take a grip of him? This would then leave the quality independent


local traders to go about their business unhindered by the irritation of having an unnescessary down­ market “national” on our doorsteps. Perhaps Mr Davies should stick to snooker, he used to be quite good I believe!


NICK HARDMAN, Grindiclon


I appear to have stirred


up a hornets’nest IT would seem that my letter has stirred up quite a response. I can only thank both Mr Shackleton and Mr


Hanson for their detailed explanations of their ori­ gins and have nothing but admiration for the way they have worked hard and built up their busi­ nesses. I wish them every success in the future. But that is the whole point, they are so large


now (much larger than most people would recog­ nise as a small family concern) tha t they have nothing to fear from Homebase. However, they and others missed the main thrust of my argu­ ment. Several times I pointed out that what Clitheroe


needs is a dedicated DIY centre and no one has put forward a rational argument against that. After all, garden products are'only a small part of Homebase's business and along with most people I would not dream of buying plants from there any- way.


For the good reasons of quality, service and


advice to customers put forward by Messrs Han­ son and Shackleton they admit they won't lose any business to Homebase, so what is all the fuss about? It was gratifydng for Mr Shackleton to confirm


that I 'was correct in saying that his is not a small family business - paying £45K rates and having 30 employees. Judging by its size, Hansons isn't far behind either. Compare that \vith the three employees on duty


at Read Garden Centre and the lone middle-aged lady at Longsight Nurseries on the afternoon I visited them and you can see where I am coming from. It is the true small businesses we need to protect; the big boys can look after themselves. Mr Suttie is quite correct, I have recently


bought a house in Clitheroe and since I am also retired I am busy doi.ng DIY jobs and re-stocking my garden - hence my recent visits to local garden centres and to Homebase at Accrington which have given me some insight into the discussions.


However, his implied suggestion that I am looking for a job is quite wrong since I have no intention of coming out of retirement! To deny Clitheroe a DIY centre because Home-


base also sells a few pot plants seems very short­ sighted especially as no one has yet put forward a valid argument against a proper DIY centre. Finally, we should all be grateful to Mr Duncan


Smith for giving us a lucid and detailed explana­ tion of the law and the position of RVBC in his “As I see it” column, which in itself negates all our arguments anyway.


STEVE DAVIES, Highmoor Park, Clitheroe


Were small businesses in tbe past considered?


I WOULD like to reply on the subject of Home- base do-it-yourself store regarding planning per-


mission. Mr Hanson (of Hansons’ Garden Centre)


objects on the grounds that there are enough stores in Clitheroe and Homebase would take trade away from local shops. Did Mr Hanson consider the small, local pet


shops when he launched his pet products business? Likewise, did Mr Shackleton consider what effect the opening of tearooms would have on local cafes and tearooms?


R. PENNINGTON, Cringle Wav, Clitheroe


Loyal customers will always return after a time


READING the letters published on behalf of Shackleton Bros and Hansons reflecting on the quality and value of their businesses, what is their problem? Surely if their customers are so loyal they will


return. We buy our bedding out plants from a little vil­


lage store in Gisburn at extremely low prices, with maybe a plant or two thrown in for free by a won­ derful Yugosla'vian lady. She doesn’t have a tea/coffee shop, but the


humour and banter she gives while browsing and choosing from her wide variety of plants will whet anyone’s appetite. Even reading the opening/closing time notice on


the shop door will bring tears to your eyes with laughter, but she hasn’t written to complain about the possibility of Homebase opening. We, and our families, always go to the DIY


stores for garden containers, hanging baskets and compost as the prices reflect our pockets, not the name of the garden centre we get them from.


JOHN FARMER, Whalley


A fascinating flea market


find could be invaluable LAST year, while researching a family by the name of Kelsall, I came across a website produced in 1994 by Andrew Kevin Kelsall Pearson, of Clitheroe. The Kelsalls were fishmongers connected with


Manchester, Liverpool and Cheshire, but original­ ly of Burslem, Staffordshire. r tried to contact Mr Pearson because I had


found a large document concerning his family at a flea market, but unfortunately, the e-mail link on this website did not function in 2004. If this gentleman is still in the Clitheroe area,


perhaps he would like to contact me. My e-mail address is: barbara.preston2(gvirgin.net (tele­ phone 0l254 395313).


BARBARA PRESTON, Accringlon '


Don’t make the same


mistakes as I did THINK before you take drugs, as it will ruin your life. Because of drugs I have done a lot of


damage to myself and others, stealing anything I could get my hands on. My mind was not all there because of


these illicit drugs, from LSD to cocaine, heroin, amphetamines and cannabis. I also like a drink, but I have never had a problem with drinking moderately. I only started drugs because I thought


the drugs were good, but I am now 32, without a job, house or children, and I have a lengthy criminal record that caus­ es me anxiety. If you would be tempted to take these


drugs, always remember that it will give you a mental illness, as this is what hap­ pened to me. I was admitted to Queen’s Park Hospi­


tal for treatment. I did not learn the first time. I went


back on the drugs again and was admit­ ted back into hospital six times. It makes me mad that I have done this


and I know now that I should keep off the drugs or they will kill me before I am 40. I am going to start a catering course at


college, look for a live-in job and try to do the right thing. 'That is now my goal.


® Editor’s note; The writer of this let­


ter, a Clitheroe man, showed considerable courage by bringing it in person to our office. He gave his full name and address, but


asked us not to publish them as he is, in his own words, “deeply ashamed” of the things he has done through drugs. He is determined to make a fresh start, and we wish him well.


Your le t te r s . . .


© The Editor welcomes letters on any subject, but correspondents arc reminded that contri-- bntions may be edited or condensed, must not exceed 350 words and should reach us by noon on Tuesday. Letters with noms de plume are now only


accepted for publication if the editor agrees that there is a valid reason for the writer's identity to be witidicld. Letters can be sent by post to the Clitheroe


Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroe. BBT 2EW, via c-maii to vivien.meath@east- lancsncws.co.uk, via fax to 01200 4434G7 or texted to 07799G9G447. Letters submitted by any of these methods


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


TV OPPORTUNITY


This summer, we're filming a series for ITV Granada. It will feature interesting people that have helped shaped the character of the North-West. Do you


know someone with great tales to tell? Is there an unsung hero in your neighbourhood?


Or maybe someone with an unusual hobby or pastime?


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