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major factor in the decline in song bird numbers,’ at least in so far as it applies to native predators. Where I suspect that we do agree is


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on the damage caused by exotic species such as the grey squirrel and mink and domestic predators such as cats.


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ANTHONY A. COOPER, BTO Regional Representative - Lancashire East, Chairman - East Lancashire Ornithologists’ Club, Peel Park Avenue, Clitheroe


Humans are real UlOUSwl.LOMrOVECty' And they call this a


better service? I AM just one of several local busi­ nesses that value the 6 p.m. mail col­ lection from the King Street postbox in Clitheroe. However, as my fellow users_wili;


have noticed, there has been a notice- stuck to it for the past few daysy see- the picture above.


i This begins on a positive note: “In


order to provide you with the best possible service we are continually reviewing the collection of mail serv­ ice.” So far, so good, I thought, per­ haps they’re going to extend the col­ lection time to 6-30 p.m. I read on... “From 26 June, 2006,


the final weekday collection will be at 5-30 p.m.”


Only in the surreal world of Royal


Mail could forcing their customers to post their mail half-an-hour earlier represent “best possible service!”


MICHAEL LOVERIDGE, (Solicitor), Well Terrace, Clitheroe


On one point we


what the British Trust for Ornitholo­ gy does is to harness the efforts of thousands of amateur bird watchers in a variety of bird population and habitat surveys, whose results are then collated and analysed by profes­ sional ornithologists. Indeed, the figures he quotes for


are likely to agree I READ the letter from Keith McDougall of Songbird Survival with interest. I would first like to emphasise that


song bird population trends are all derived from BTO surveys. The BTO has a deserved reputation


for the integrity and impartiality of the results it publishes, because it is not and never has been a campaign­ ing organisation. I am therefore somewhat puzzled


by Mr McDougall's statement that Songbird Survival is at variance with the BTO in this instance. I do not intend to repeat the points


I made in my earlier letter on the sub­ ject of predation by sparrowhawks. Song birds are still with us despite


having been predated for millions of years. I must therefore agree to differ ,\yith his.assertipn,that predation is a


cause for conern AS a birdwatcher, I am rather puzzled by the letter from Keith McDougall of the “Songbird Survival” organisa­ tion. Personally I think th a t birds of


prey are a wonderful sight, and a glimpse of a sparrowhawk is a rare enough thing without their numbers being reduced, as Mr McDougall pro­ poses. , But there are broader issues a t stake here, beyond anyone's personal


^liking for any particular species. Mr ■ iMcDougall's illogical hostility to ■Sparrowhawli seems. to be similar to


|. th a t'ex p re s sed by some pigeon ■ Janciers and some supporters of game, • ibird shooting. ' Why does Mr McDougall disagree


with the RSPB and the British Trust for Ornithology, who have both shown th a t birds of prey are not a major cause of songbird decline?.How does he think that birds of prey and song­ birds have managed to co-exist for tens of thousands of years if the for­ mer cause the extinction of the latter? After all, a lover of insects could fol­


low Mr McDougall’s “logic” and argue for a culling of songbirds on the grounds that they are killing and eat­ ing too many insects. The major threat to the survival of


so many species of wildlife today is not the activity of other species, it is the activity of humans. Birds of prey have been endangered by human activity at least as much as songbirds have. Our concern should be to pro­ tect both sparrowhawks and songbirds from extinction at human hands.


PHIL WEBSTER, Queen Street, Whalley


Let us have a few


more varied shops TODAY I received a leaflet for yet another takeaway. How many do we need in Clitheroe? I have counted six fish and chip


shops, some with Chinese/Cantonese. I have counted nine other types of takeaway. Maybe somebody will put me right on that. There are also butty and chicken


takeaways to be counted. There is all the rubbish to be counted, which is left all over. Why can’t we have some­ thing useful, like a People’s Dispen­ sary for Sick Animals (PDSA) for people who are on benefits and have animals. But please, no more charity shops.


MRS K. SEAWARD, Tower Hill, Cl i thcroe, , ,


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Dad (27) exposed himself to teen - court told


A 27-YEAR-OLD man inde­ cently exposed himself to schoolgirls while he was driving around trying to get his baby


to sleep. Blackburn magistrates heard


that Martin Delamere, pictured, committed offences in Rishton, Langho and twice in Whalley and had indicated to police there might have been other incidents. Adjourning the case for pre-sen­


tence reports, the magistrates warned Delamere th a t prison would be an option for the sen­ tencing bench. . Delamere, of Whalley Road,


LAS'T year I spent some time back in the UK after living here in Australia


So glad to hear the Castle rose garden is due for a facelift I was very happy, therefore, to read


.3fpr,d5 years and was sadddened to see 'fiowithe Gastle grounds had been -allowed to deteriorate.’


Could you help this


worthwhile cause? I AM a lipreading teacher in Accring­ ton. I have been teaching lipreading for


more than six years. I am also hard of hearing. In December 2005, with the help of Mel Diack, I started a new project for hard-of-hearing people in Hyndbum and Ribble ’Valley. The project provides lipreading


classes, tinnitus support groups, hard of hearing clubs, communication awareness training (not deaf aware­ ness) for service providers and pro- ■vides an information booklet detailing local and national services available for adults with an acquired hearing loss. We also provide, a befriending


scheme for hard-of-hearing people who have become housebound because of their hearing loss. More information can be found on our website (www.communicationforall.org). We are currently lookingfor organi­


sations who will sponsor our project and enable us to pro'vide a much-need­ ed service for hard-of-hearing people and their families. We have received some of our fund­


ing from the European Social Fund to train a trainee lipreading teacher and enable us to take on and train one vol­ unteer. We would be grateful if you could


help us to spread the news about our project through your newspaper.


ANGELA JACKSOisr, Kirk Roud, Church (Tel. 01254 301997)


Social historian


needs your help I AM a best-selling social historian and I am compiling a book about “Bidtain’s Lost ’Villages” from which a.


the Castle should be lts cFqiraing ’ Australia


television series is also under consider- .ation. In the 1920s and 1930s, when much


of the upper Hodder Valley was flood­ ed by the construction of a dam and reservoir, the village of Stocks in Bow- land was lost forever. All around Great Britain there are


villages such as Stocks which were abandoned for varied reasons, and I would .love to hear from anybody who has information about them. Some were farming communities,


mining or fishing villages. Others were torn apart by the building of motor­ ways. Did you live in Stocks in Bowland,


of what life was really like at Stocks, or any other since vanished community. If you think you can help in any


or are you descended from someone who did? Do you know of anybody who came from such a community? Do you have any old photographs


way, please write to me at PO Box 2770, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 9XD,or you may e-mail bucktonhen- ry@tiscali.co.uk or visit the website


www.swanhosting.co.uk?henrybuck- ton. HENRYBUCKTON


Tokens and tallies


from mining days I WONDER if you readers can help me with my hobby, which is collecting brass embossed colliery lamp checks or


tokens and tallies as they ^re some­ times called. These are brass discs with the name


of the colliery on them as well as the miner’s number.


along with his lamp from the lamp room before going down the mine. I am trying very hard to obtain


The niiner would draw this check


OTme lamp checks from the many col­ lieries that once operated in the Bum- ley, Accripgton.aqd Rossgndale Valjey


the article about the revamped-Rose being improved! Garden and plans for the futi^e.?'.^^ Clitheroe is a beautiful


and Brisbane,


areas. I have listed below the names of some of the collieries from which I am trying to obtain a lamp check. They are: Hill Top Colliery - Fir


Trees Drift - Salterford No 1&2 Col­ liery - Nabb Colliery - Old Meadows Colliery - Copy Colliery - Deerplay Colliery - Huncoat Colliery - Reedley Colliery - Calder Colliery - Moorfield Colliery - Clifton Colliery - Thorny Bank Colliery - Grimebridge Colliery - Townley Demesne Colliery - Scait- cliffe Colliery - Bent Colliery - Accrington Collieries. I would very much like to hear from


so I so pleased to hear it is


Clayton-le-Moors, pleaded guilty to four charges of intentionally exposing himself and was remand­ ed on bail until July 17th for the preparation of reports. He was ordered to sign the sex


offender register immediately and the period for which he will remain on the register will be decided when he is sentenced. Mr Neil White (prosecuting)


said there were some “worrying aspects” to the allegations, which all involved schoolgirls. “A rather unusual aspect is that


during these four incidents he had his son, who was one on Saturday, with him,” said Mr White. “He also indicated there could


be more offences, but would only confirm or deny them if specific


details were put to him.” Mr White said the first offence, on February 20th, occurred in Moor Lane, Whalley, at 11-20 a.m. A 13-year-old girl riding her


horse saw Delamere drive past a couple of times before he stopped. “He got out and asked her for


directions and as she was giving them he exposed himself and began to pleasure himself,” said Mr White. “The girl went home and told


her parents.” On March 24th, three girls, two


aged 16 and one aged 12, were making their way home from school and were in Pendle Drive, 'Whalley, when Delamere pulled up alongside them. He again asked for directions


and asked the girls to come closer. As they did so it became appar­


ent he was sitting in the car expos­ ing himself, said Mr White. On May 18th three girls were in


a rear alley near Brook Street, Rishton, _ when Delamere approached them exposing himself with his hands in his pockets. “All the girls were aged 16 and


when they returned to school they reported the incident to staff,” said Mr 'White. On May 22nd Delamere was


seen hiding in bushes in Whalley Road, Langho, by a man who lived across the road. He was immediately suspicious


because he had seen Delamere in the same place two months'earlier. A 16-year-old girl out walking


her dog approached the bushes and Delamere undid his trousers. “The witness was concerned and


left his house and he was able to take the registration number of the defendant’s car,” said Mr ’White. “The police are concerned that loitering in bushes might be an acceleration of his conduct.” Miss Lesley Halliwell (defend­


ing) said Delamere was “shocked and distressed” to find himself in court for the first time in his life. He was in a long-term relation­


ship and they had the one child who had been with him on each occasion. She said Delamere and his part­


ner both worked at a call centre in Preston, where she was a manager. “After the traumatic delivery


their sexual relationship came to and end for some considerable time,” said Miss Halliwell. “He doesn't know why he com­


mitted these offences, but he won­ ders if that had something to do with it. “At the time he was off work


looking after the child and each of these offences was committed on the spur of the moment while he was driving round trying to get the baby to sleep.”


any one who once worked at and can I remember these collieries working and I any help they can give me in trying to I obtain any lamp checks from them I would be very much appreciated.


PETER WALL, 5 Cherry Grove, Norton,


Stourbridge,


West Midlands, DY83YL


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


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Police appeal for change in road lay-out


POLICE are asking for a change to the road lay-out following a fatal crash on the stretch of the A59 at Sawley


the incident that led to a head-on collision on the three-lane section of the road on Tuesday, March 9th. But all agreed that the head-on crash


Brow. An inquest heard conflicting versions of


occurred in the middle lane where cars travelling up and down the hill are both entitled to be. The inquest heard th a t Michael


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Police seek owners


DETECTIVES in Black- bum have recovered 38 ■vin­ tage Corgi model buses and vans after a police opera­ tion and are keen'to re­ unite them with their owner. The collectors’ items are all in their original boxes and estimated to be worth around £15 each. No one has reported these items stolen, but DC Leo Cook thinks they might have been stolen in a domestic burglary. He can be con­ tacted on 01254 353560


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