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A PARTY of 30 men from Preston, visit­ ing Whitewell, were thrown into the River Hodder when a swing bridge from which they were watching people bathing, sud­ denly collapsed. They fell 20ft. into 5ft. of water, but all escaped serious injury.. • Damage amounting to £100 was


caused by a fire at Messrs Hanson’s chair works in Wellfold, when a outbuilding was destroyed. • Clitheroe volunteers took part in a


“sham fight” at Blackburn, the Bolton Battalion of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment being the enemy. • In a starling’s nest in Rowland,


amazed local people found a brass ring, a halfpenny, and a tortoiseshell hairpin.


youthful community of the Kibble Valley entertained for longer than the last? I, for one believe it will. The park is being run by the renowned


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“Gold Team.” Member Tim Funnell said: “The park provides something to do and


improves social skills as you make more friends there.” Tim also said that the skate park helps


the community because it “provides a place to go” and “since the park has been open, street skating complaints have decreased”. Tim explained that he believes the new


skate park will be more successful then the old one because of the time taken to plan it and also because “no one can really damage concrete and so far no one wants to”. On a dry day at the weekend, between 200


and 300 people use the park. Chris Ward and Nicola Lloyd, a couple


from Southport, said the park is “a good cross section between street and bowl, which gives skaters more diversity.” They added.


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Valley Matters To skate or not to skate?


a weekly look at local issues, people" and places A Royal toast


CELEBRATIONS to mark the Queen’s official birthday were


enjoyed by residents at Well Court Retirement Complex, Clitheroe. Thirty-five residents donned


litheroe’s new skate park has been open for almost six weeks, but has it been a success? Will it keep the


As I see i t ... . by ^ Joshua Pamphlett


that they thought it is “the best design in


■ the UK at the moment.” This highlights the popularity of the park among people travel­ ling in from different towns to use it. PC Tony Walsh, of Clitheroe Police,


believes this park will be more successful than the last because it “looks a lot better with the equipment. I t is also a much larger area with different activities for the skaters.” He commented: “I t is somewhere to go


and show what you can do and also builds confidence up, and it is nice to see not only teenagers using the park, but families and adults are able to go up and enjoy them­ selves as well.” Although the park seems very popular with the majority, there are some who have a few complaints, such as local skater Darren Wilson who said: “It is good, but there are too many kids hanging around at night, which stops people skating. The rules clearly say you are not allowed on


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


THE 1956 show of Clitheroe and District Agricultural Society was to have a new venue. Plans were being made for the show to be staged on a field adjoining the main Clitheroe - Whalley road just beyond Primrose Bridge. This site replaced the former one off Chatburn Road, which had been chosen as the site of the new girls’ grammar school • With county-wide publicity being


given to the recent launching of the “Keep Lancashire Tidy” campaign, Mr Jimmy Fell, chairman of Whalley’s Society of the Broom, had written an anti-litter song. • The new headmaster of Clitheroe


Royal Grammar School, Mr Gerald Hood, began his duties. He succeeded the late Mr Laiu-ence Hardy.


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rendous abuse of a young girl, the media delighted in bringing us the news in the most sala­ cious way possible. Most newspapers made the


judgement for us, ranging from “the sentence is too lenient” to “he should be imprisoned for life” or even “he should be hanged”. And this without being in court to hear a word of evidence, nor hearing any of the reports submitted to the judge by prisons, probation, psychia­ trists and doctors. Perhaps the accused was mentally ill?


HILE one of the most popular virtues is tol­ erance, the worst of


if you do not have a board or bike.” . Mr John Lancaster, founder of the Lan­


caster Foundation, opened the new skate park on April 29th, in the Castle grounds. After months of hard work, the £300,000- plus skate park was finally opened, to tempt teenagers away from disturbing the community and instead show their fancy footwork on a board or blades. This has been a tremendous success so


far with teenagers from Lancashire and beyond visiting the concrete ground which has been dubbed “best in the North West”.


red, white and blue and marked the occasion with a buffet pre­ pared by members of the in-house social committee. The occasion was kick-started


by a toast to Her Majesty’s good health, proposed by resident Mr Maurice Holden. During the birthday festivities,


residents tucked into mouthwater­ ing goodies and later enjoyed tak­ ing part in a range of fun-filled royal-themed games and quizzes. Our picture shows residents at


Well Court celebrating the Queen’s official 80th birthday in style. (A080606/1)


Terry celebrates success on his Castle career ladder


25 years ago


PEOPLE in the Princess Avenue - Pimli­ co Road areas of Clitheroe were to fight proposals to develop land near their homes for housing. • A plea to leave Clitheroe grammar


schools alone was made this week to the county council by Canon John Hudson, chairman of the joint board of governors. Commenting on the announcement by the new county council education “chief” that she was determined to introduce comprehensive education to Clitheroe, Canon Hudson said “it would be a pity to destroy a good set up”. • Calderstones’ diamond jubilee was


celebrated in fine style with a bumper gala which attracted around 3,000 people to the hospital sports field.


We must not judge “Judge not, that you may not


be judged,” Jesus warned us. Yet he urged his followers to


pass judgement in a new way, with the humility that comes from first acknowledging their own faults and with an honest recognition that any earthly judgements are pragmatic, superficial and provisional. It is only God who discerns the “thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Hebrews ch4 vsl2), and who is able to know our true worth. We should judge cautiously


and sparingly, when, we have no choice but to do so. All our ulti­ mate motive for making judge­ ments should be love. St Matthew also reports


Jesus’ advice to his disciples about dealing with wrongdoers. First, the person who has been


hurt must talk to the offender in private. If he listens, the matter must be taken no fmther; if he does not, a couple of others may be told. Only if he still refuses should


the offence be made public by being reported to the whole


church (Matthew chl8 vsl5- 17). St Thomas Aquinas studies


the passage in his exploration of Christian charity. In this con­ text, the point of putting others to right is not to relieve your own feelings, or to get them into trouble, or even to prevent them upsetting you again. The point is to help them, it is a part of love. St Thomas explains why we first correct our fellow believers in private; it is to pro­ tect their good name, the solid respect they have among their


peers. Reputation, as an exter­ nal good, is less important than goods of the body or soul. How­ ever, Aquinas argues it is the most valuable of the external goods, worth more than materi­


al wealth. We might ponder the collu­


sion in our society, in which fame and celebrity are absurdly overvalued, while we care so lit­ tle about reputations that a good teacher can lose his good name on the word of one dis^- fected child. We should bear in mind that “with the judgement that you pronounce you will he judged, and the measure you give will he the measure you get”. (Matthew ch7 vs 1-2).


A parishioner of St Michael


and St John’s RC Church, Clitheroc.


TERRY NELSON is celebrating after becoming the first production trainee at Castle Cement’s Ribblesdale works to achieve a National Vocational Qual­ ification (NVQ). The 21-year-old from Clitheroe joined


the company in 2002 as one of the site’s first production trainees. The company introduced NVQ Level I I training for its production trainees in Process Operation in the Chemical and Petrol Chemical Indus­ try. Terry is now working towards his NVQ Level I I I , which he hopes to achieve by November. I t is a first for the company, one of the


area’s leading employers, but five other pro­ duction trainees are currently working towards emulating Terry’s achievement in obtaining an NVQ. Terry said: “After leaving school, I went


to college for a short time and tried a cou­ ple of jobs, but I can honestly say this is the first time since leaving school that I f^l I am achieving something. The NVQ will stand me in very good stead in the future. “I ’ve had an opportunity to work in dif­


ferent parts of the operation, gain a lot of experience and achieve an NVQ in the process.” Arnold Marsden, Castle Cement’s Oper-


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BILLIN GTON pupil Ava Maclean has won second place in the sheet lead section of the regional heats of the Young Plumber of the Year competi­ tion held at St Helen’s Col­ lege. Ava, pictured, an Accring­


ton and Rossendale College plumbing student was one of only two first-year competi­ tors taking part against older plumbing students. She is the first female plumber ever to compete in the sheet lead sec­ tion. Course tutor Dave Berry


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because he is our first production trainee to achieve an NVQ since we introduced the scheme last year. We hope and expect him to be the first of many.” Terry is pictured with Gareth Price


(left), general manager of the Ribblesdale worte, and Mr Marsden (right).


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