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the so-called Rule of 85. This means that council staff can retire


at 60 without suffering loss of pension providing their age, plus their length of service adds up to 85. The majority of Ribble Valley Borough


council staff, as reported in last week’s Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, joined that walk-out. While I am not about to start deliber­


ating the rights and wrongs of this action - although I have to admit that as I get older, anything designed to protect pen­ sion rights and my ability to retire while I’m still verticle has significant impor­ tance! - a story in last week’s Daily Tele­ graph caught my eye. That much-maligned group of workers, our Members of Parliament, are getting


very worried. Apparently, the Parliamentary Pension


Fund is facing some major difficulties. The black hole in its own pension pot has almost doubled to £49m. A number of factors are responsible, in


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Scholarship award for CRGS’s Karl


ast week saw one of the biggest one-day strikes in decades when local authority workers downed


The Government has already said quite


As I see i t . by Shirley Whiteley


been experiencing for a fair few years now. Welcome to the real world boys! However, this is where the similarity


ends. Because whereas the rest of us are now


being told that we will have to work until we drop, invest every penny we have in schemes which will doubtless be raided on a regular basis, or pray that our numbers come up on the lottery, MPs will do it dif­


ferently. Apparently, in a written statement


issued just before MPs left to enjoy the Easter recess, Geoff Hoon (Leader of the House, and Government Actuary) ruled that the Exchequer contributions to the fund would have to increase from 24% to


26.8%. Mr Hoon added that the Government


was “required” to follow the actuary’s rec­ ommendations. Put simply, the taxpayers - that’s you


and me - will be topping up our MPs’ fund to the tune of £1.2m. per year. Well, that’s good news, isn’t it? Unfor­


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ISTiIttI P Garten Fumllure 100 years ago


CLITHEROE members were represented at the half-yearly conference of the Gen­ eral Union of Carpenters, Joiners and Painters. Held in Lancaster, the unem­ ployed issue was discussed and a resolu­ tion was passed that in the opinion of the meeting the solution to the problem was the shortening of hours and the limitation of apprentices. • Easter cards were being sold by Mrs


Chesebrough - tobacconist, stationer, newsagent and jeweller - on Castle Street, Clitheroe. • The Clitheroe Times reported an


extract written by Lord Ribblesdale’s son, a student at Eton, describing how the struggles of the working classes, especially those in rural areas, moved him to “con­ vert to socialism”.


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


WHALLEY’S streets were left full of lit­ ter at the end of the Easter holiday last weekend. Thousands of people visited the village over the course of four days, but during the period the streets were only swept once by the county council. By Monday evening the aftermath of the vis­ itors was clear, with pavements and gut­ ters choked with fish and chip and ice cream wrappings. • An Easter bride at Clitheroe Parish


Church, Miss Patricia Yelland, received good wishes by telephone from her parents 10,000 miles away in Australia. Miss Yel­ land married Mr John Houldsworth, a for­ mer engineer officer in the merchant serv­ ice, and used her bridegroom’s parents home, in York Street, to receive the call from Australia.


clearly that taxpayers cannot be expected to bail out the thousands of people whose pension schemes have collapsed, and it will be pressing ahead with the abolition of Rule 85. And while the Cabinet Office insists


that MPs will not have larger pensions as a result, their pensions certainly won’t be less; they will be protected, and they will be able to retire at 60, provided their age plus service as a MP totals 80 years or more - they have a Rule 80 which appears to be sacrosanct! Now, I would never be churlish enough


to deny anyone - MPs included - a decent pension and comfortable standard of liv­ ing when they retire after a lifetime’s work in this country, but surely, what’s sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. Why should a select group of 646 peo­


ple who already enjoy numerous benefits, a good salary, and expenses the rest of us can only dream of now sit back and allow the hard-pressed taxpayers of this coun­ try to bankroll them even further while at the same time telling those same taxpay­ ers that, unfortunately life’s tough and they will just have to learn to live with it. Traditionally MPs were elected to serve


and protect the interests of their con­ stituents, not the other way round. So, come on you men and women ol


Westminster and do the job for which you are so very well recompensed by the rest of us.


sador for the Ribble Valley. Karl Barnsley, of Wadding-


A


ton, will travel to Germany in July as part of the Daniel Thwaites Scholarship. The 17-year-old Clitheroe


Royal Grammar School pupil was chosen by Sir Bill Taylor, of the Lancashire Youth and Community Service, to repre­ sent the region during the two-


week stay. The scholarship, which


OUR picture shows Sir Bill Taylor with Karl Barnsley (s)


Andrew is a book lover


A 25 years ago |


A 350-STRONG petition protesting j against change at a busy Clitheroe road | junction received no encouragement from i Ribhle Valley councillors.


j Resident and traders in the Salthill area |


of the town claimed that a re-designed | layout at the Whalley Road-Queensway | junction to encourage motorists to use the ; inner bypass instead of the town centre ■ was a hazard and totally unnecessary. • Plenty of sunshine and the host of


equally bright attractions made for the spring Saturday fair at Bowland County | Secondary School. The £600 raised was to | buy much needed school equipment. • Improvements which cost more than :


£7,000 was almost certain to be complet­ ed at Clitheroe’s Roefield Bam this week­ end.


for the week


(<HE drew a circle that shut me out. Heretic, rebel a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to


win. We drew a circle that took


him in.” (Edwin Markham) We spend so much of our life


keeping other people out of it. Private rooms, private clubs, private beaches, private roads - with all of them the point is the same: this isn’t your property, i t ’s mine; keep out. But, of course, in a sense a circle that


The world is round


shuts the world out is needed by everyone. We all need our own space. If you were to draw a circle


around your life, who would you include? A few may draw a circle no bigger than them­ selves. Most would go a bit fur­ ther to include their families and friends. Others would draw a line at the edge of their own parish community or town or political party, their own race and colour, their own religion or country. Too few people have a heart big enough and compas­


sion to draw a circle large enough for all. The smaller the circle, the


smaller the person. A strong person is not afraid of others and a wise person will always welcome another. A wise person knows tha t


when you draw a circle to shut out another you do more dam­ age to yourself than anyone else. You effectively put your­ self in solitary confinement and lock it from the inside. You deny yourself the richness of another.


The older we get surely the


bigger the circle will become. Only when we have Jesus in the centre of our lives we need not be afraid of anything or any­ body and we grow in wisdom, able to draw no circle smaller than the first one ever drawn on Earth. In the beginning God gave the world its shape - he made it round. MARINA BARRETT


St Michael and St John’s Catholic Church, Clitheroc.


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to first place in February, although he is still only half-way to receiving a blue certificate for reading and reviewing his first 10 books, after joining the club a few months ago. His mum, Mrs Teresa


Atkinson, said: “He is a good reader. They read lots, of hooks at school, but it’s something different and he does enjoy.it.” In his review Andrew


wrote about the book’s main character, Josie Jump, who longed to be a jocky like the rest of her family. “One day Mr Jump hit


his thumb,” wrote Andrew. “Mrs Jump dropped a horseshoe on his toe, Jimmy Jump got a splinter in his bottom, so they couldn’t ride in the race. So Josie had to ride in the race.”


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n ew Relay Read­ ers’ Club reemit has received a boost to


his mission to achieve a gold certificate. Six-year-old Andrew


Atkinson, pictured, who attends St Michael and St John RC Primary School, in Clitheroe, won the Relay Reader of the Month Award for his review of “Miss Jump the Jockey”, by Allan Ahlberg and Andre Amstutz. He was runner-up in December and graduated


works in conjunction with the youth service, was started by the Blackburn brewery almost half a century ago and offers students from the age of 18 the


TALENTED Clitheroe pupil has won the chance to be an ambas­


opportunity to explore and experience international living. Karl, who is a member of the


Ribble Valley Youth Theatre and hopes to study acting at university, will'join two leaders and 10 other young people from across Lancashire for the trip. They will stay with local families and participate in environmental projects. Sir Bill Taylor, who said that


the suitable candidate must be an active member of the com­ munity, added that the scheme was an excellent opportunity for the chosen young person. “Karl is a very personable


young man, who will be a great ambassador for us all," he com­ mented.


Brothers make music double


Schools’ Symphony Orchestra- so for two brothers to be picked together is a double accolade. Stonyhurst pupils Rory and


I


Ronan Mellows will join the five-day residential NSSO Sum­ mer Course at Wellington Col­ lege on July 18th, which culmi­ nates with a performance by the orchestra at Reading Uni­ versity on July 22nd at 2-30


p.m. Rory and Ronan were audi­


tioned earlier this year. Rory will play the violin and Ronan


the cello. “We are all very proud of


them,” said Greg Mann, Stony- hurst’s director of music. “They are fine musicians and


their success is justly deserved. I t is a significant achieve­ ment for a youngster to be


selected for the NSSO but for two siblings to be in the orchestra together is highly unusual.” Rory, 16, is working


towards grade 8 on the violin and Ronan, 13, is working towards grade 7 on the cello during lessons at the college.


Couple’s delight at hi-tech prize A


T is an honour for a young musician to he selected to play in the National


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