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bishop of Westminster, deserves praise for his recent visit to the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, to press for the rights of the unborn child. Abortion, or more correctly,
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100 years ago A LOCAL farmer had a curious experi
ence this week while leading hay. The horse was being backed into the barn when the uneven weight of the load over balanced the cart and the horse was sus pended for sometime between the shafts. • Appealing to the Highgate Bench for
a summons, a woman stated how a man and his wife had engaged rooms in her house, had paid no rent, and said they would not do so. They had insulted and assaulted her, taking in lodgers on their ’ own account. • Local cricket enthusiasts were to
make their annual pilgrimage to Whalley for the first meeting between Whalley and Clitheroe. The fight for the championship of the Ribblesdale League had reached a very interesting stage and it went without saying that teams were planning to play for all they were worth.
found it largely impossible to get off to sleep as the temperatures soared and, despite every window in the house being open, even the slightest breeze was notice able by its absence. This is not a complaint - I love hot weather - just a scene-setter for my open
I
ing sentence. You see, as I ’ve lain awake night after
night, the most amazing mixed bag of utterly random thoughts have been bob bing in and out of my head while both hus band and dog have been happily snoozing
in dream land. One question that kept popping up was:
why did God create the earth? Yes, I know it’s crazy in the cold light of
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day, but a t 3 o’clock in the morning, i t seemed worthy of thought! Far be i t from" me to question God’s
motives, but the world, as wonderful as it is, hasn’t exactly been free from stress, even if you take man out of the equation. Hurricanes, floods, natural explosions,
volcanic eruptions etc, etc, have caused mayhem for thousands of years. When
a weekly look at local issues, people and places r r NOTICEBOARD
S’NT the human mind a strangely com plex piece of equipment?.
In common with many people, I have
As I see it . • • by Shirley Whiteley
man is then introduced into this scenario, God must really have wondered why he
bothered. Doubtless my parish priest would be
horrified a t these observations, but he would have been equally horrified had I phoned him at 3 a.m. for a meaning-of-life
debate! Moving swiftly on, our dismal shoTOng
in the World Cup also gave me a little lightweight food for thought in the wee
small hours. I found the tears of our national squad-
grotesquely embarrassing. Reality check here, boys. This is a football match, not the end of the world as we know it. And, given their showing over recent years, could any one really be surprised at the outcome? Sadly, that little bit of light relief was quickly brought to a halt as I then pon-
LOOKING BACK 50 years ago
AFTER five years out of Test cricket, England selector Cyril Washbrook was recalled to the England team. At the time, the 41-year-old Lancashire Captain, who was born at Barrow, said: “When I take the field, I shall cease to become a selec tor and be just another player.” 9 Young men from Clitheroe and dis
trict due to register for National Service at the beginning of the town’s Wakes Fortnight could register by the seaside or wherever they happen to be on holiday. • “Julie’s Robret of Kilmeston”, a bull
owned by Mr H. Taylor, of Rimington, won second prize in the large class of Guernsey bulls a t the Great Yorkshire Show. • Photographs of bird life taken more
than 25 years ago by Mr Alfred Taylor, of “Overbrook”, Whalley, were to be includ ed in a permanent National Collection.
dered on the young local soldiers, the Pals - many of them possibly your relatives - who died on the Somme 90 years ago. Many of them were younger than Beck ham and Rooney; th e ir te ars I could understand. The futility of tha t massacre made me
'think of Friday’s first anniversary of the London bombings and the indiscriminate killing and maiming of so many innocents on their way to work. Why did it happen, I pondered and as
the death toll increases by the day I won dered: why are we sending our troops to Afghanistan and Iraq? The UNESCO constitution, written in
1946, states: “Since wars begin in the minds of men, i t is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be con structed...” If the hot weather returns, let’s hope our
politicians have lots of sleepless nights and perhaps they may then cons truct the defences of peace. For now. I ’m trying Horlicks, washed
down with a large Scotch in the fervent hope that my mind takes a few nights off!
MR FLEMING (B260606/2d)
MRS EDMONSDSON (B26060G/2C)
MRS POWELL with reporter Julie Magee, far right, and a United Utilities rcprescnlalivc (B260G0G/2b)
Cheers to our top water
FOLLOWING a Government watchdog’s praise for the quality of the Ribble Valley’s drinking water, reporter
Julie Magee look to the streets to find out if residents can really tell the difference between a glass of Clilheroe’s finest tap water and a glass of bottled water.
shows the overall quality of drinking water has improved for the 12th year in succession in the Ribble Valley. With th is in mind, th e
T 25 years ago
IT was a sad week for village education with two schools closing and a third shap ing up for the next stage of the fight to avoid a similar fate. And after more than 100 years, the axe fell on the schools at Bashall Eaves and Pendleton. “We are long past any bitterness,” said the Rev. John Cole, priest-in-charge of All Saints Church, Pendleton, “although, of course, there is a great air of sadness,” he added. • Guides and Brownies from Ribble
Valley troops were preparing to line the route outside the main entrance to Wad- dow Hall as Princess Margaret mrived for her tour. © A feasibility study was to be carried
out by the council before plans were drawn up for a housing scheme at Hurst Green. I t was proposed to build about 20 houses opposite the Eagle and Child pub.
Myth of woman’s right
would insist th a t abortion is always a destruction of life. The phrase, however, “a woman’s right to choose”, is a mistaken notion. Cardinal Cor mac rightly says th a t he is more concerned with the unborn child’s right to live. A woman, or a man, certain
ly has rights, but we tread dan gerous ground when those rights hold power over another human being, whether i t be a man over his wife, a wife over her husband, or a mother over her baby still in the womb. Life is sacred both before and after
birth, and a woman does not have “rights” over that person yet to be born. If we talk of rights at all, then the unborn child has a right to be loved and nurtured, not to he killed. Another factor which needs
stressing is that a great many adoptive parents long for a baby to adopt. Partly due to abortion, there are far fewer babies available for adoption than there would otherwise be, so that thousands of unborn babies are killed when they could be adopted into good, loving homes. There is no prob
lem in finding homes for babies. There is therefore no need to abort. Furthermore, with a falling
birth rate, we need more chil dren to compensate'for the age ing population. The country needs these children to see the light of day, and so to become young adults contributing to society. Thousands of termina tions means a squandering of our most precious assets.
Canon Rodney Nicholson,
Vicar of Si Paul’s, Low Moor and pricst-in-charge of
Chatburn and Downham
Clitheroe A d v er tise r and Times decided to p u t th e area’s tap water to the test, armed with a sample of drink ing water from the tap of a town centre establishment and th re e samples of b o t t le d water; Would residents immediate
ly be able to tell the difference or would a tipple of Ribble Valley tap water rival leading bottled water brands? Here are the results. Scott Holmes, of Low Moor,
Clitheroe, was one of those with razor sharp taste buds, who, w i th o u t h e s ita tio n , guessed th a t the fourth sam ple of water handed to him was local tap water. Despite th e fact he could
tell the difference between the tap water and bottled water samples, he said there was only a “slight difference” in taste. He added: “I’ve always thought th a t buying bottled water was a con.” Ben Parsons, of Great Har
Read. At only 24 years old, John’s work is
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making a la s tin g impression - three murals already decorate the street scene of Darwen through a project commissioned by Blackburn with Darwen Council. This latest project, a 7ft. by 12 ft. mural
of a jazz scene a t the village pub, came about after John’s work was recommend ed to manager Susan Burke. She wanted ar t work th a t would com
plement a series of forthcoming music evenings at the pub including jazz nights, which will take place on Friday nights.
h i s y e a r ’s annual report from the Drink ing Water Inspectorate
wood, also guessed which of the samples was local ta p water. However, he comment ed: “ I usually drink tap water, although I ’ve just started to filter it having recently moved from the Valley to Great Har wood. “The quality of tap water
here in the Ribhle Valley is a lot better.” Clitheroe couple Eric and
P a t ty Trotter , of Fairfield Drive, after much hesitation, singled out the tap water sam ple, but stressed that all four samples tasted roughly the
same. Although Clitheroe resident
Margaret Punchard also iden tified water from the Clitheroe tap, she believed two of the bottled water samples also tasted like tap water. Trudy Wilson, of Bracken
Hey, Clitheroe and Mr James Fleming, of Maple Avenue, Clitheroe, also guessed which of the samples was ordinary
tap water. Meanwhile, Tricia Beach, of
H ay h u rs t Road, Whalley, accompanied by her 17- month-old son, Ben, was one of three people who could not tell th a t one of the four sam ples was in fact ordinary tap water.
h e Punch Bowl at Hurst Green is like stepping into an atmospheric jazz club thanks to local artist John
MR and Mrs Trotter fell all samples tasted roughly the same (B2G0G0G/2a)
She said: “At home we
always drink tap water and I ’m very happy with it.” Anne Edmondson, who has
also always enjoyed w ate r from the tap a t her home in Pendle Court, could not tell the difference between the tap water and bottled water sam ples provided. Margaret Powell, of Well-
gate, Clitheroe, was convinced the tap water sample handed to her was bottled water. In total, out of the 10 peo
ple, who took part in the test, seven correctly identified the sample of local tap water. However, despite identify
ing the correct sample, the consensus seemed to agree with the Drinking Water inspectorate th a t the Ribble Valley’s tap water is a quality
product.This will he
music.to the ears of F ran k White, United U t i l i t ie s head of drinking water quality, who said the results demonstrate the benefits of the “massive and continuing investment in the region’s water network”. The Drinking Water
Inspectorate report revealed th a t th e company scored a 99.94% overall pass rate when it came to tests looking at the quality of water. The Ribble Valley’s water
supply, which is very soft, is from upland reservoir sources in the Trough of Bowland and can be supplemented with supplies from the Lake Dis trict. The supply is low in natu
rally occurring fluoride and is not artificially fluoridated.
John creates a jazz club feel to popular hostelry John, of Littlemoor Road, Clitheroe,
became a full-time artist after being made redundant in December. Always enjoying the more creative subjects at school, John gained a GCSE in Art from Ribblesdale High School and later picked up an NVQ in Graphic Design from Blackburn Col lege. John, who partly works from home, hut also from his uncle’s garage in Sabden, recently held an exhibition of his work at the Pendle Hotel in Chatbum. Our picture shows John Read with the
mural in The Punch Bowl. (G010605/2)
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