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ONE of Trinity Communi­ ty Partnership’s most val­ ued volunteers, Teresa Ban- field, received an award for “Special Contribution to the Organisation” from the Council for Voluntary Ser­ vice. Teresa is pictured here


with Trinity’s chief execu­ tive, Geoff Jackson, and Dorothy Shears from the CVS. Maureen Hornby won


the award for “In Adversi­ ty ” and Sophie Swinge- wood won the award for “Youngest Volunteer”. The


volunteers support the sen­ ior administrator Elizabeth Daglish at the partnership’s HQ in Clitheroe. (s)


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VILLAGE loos are the apple of the council’s eye leaving officers


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energy-saving light bulbs. Principal surveyor Mr Rod Pearce received the award during a ceremony at the Kensington Roof Gardens in Lon­ don. He said: “This is a prestigious award and it is particularly pleasing that a small authority such as the Ribble Valley has held its own with larger organisations.” It is not the first time that public


loos in Ribble Valley have caught the headlines for all the right rea­ sons. The council-run eco-friendly toilet block in Church Street in


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Ribchester, which is also energy and water-efficient, could be the first in the country to be powered by a wind turbine if planners give the scheme the go-ahead. Our photograph shows the


Mayor of the Ribble Valley, Coun. Doreen Taylor, with the award and, from the left, Mr Pearce, Phil Thompson, the council’s senior building surveyor, David Johnston, the building contractor, and the Mayor’s Consort Gordon Taylor. (A120607/6a)


Healthy eating is favourite dish!


HEALTHY eating has been on the menu at a Valley village school thanks to support from Sainsbury’s. The Moor Lane store donated £150 to


Waddington and West Bradford Primary School to provide healthy goodies which enabled pupils to buy alternative snacks in their break time from the school’s healthy tuck shop, which is run by the pupils them­ selves. The supermarket raised the cash using a


new scheme which encourages customers to recycle plastic shopping bags. This not only reduces waste, but is also environmen­


tally friendly. Sainsbury’s Community Grants scheme


is funded entirely from the profits on sales of Bags for Life. Each costs lOp and is replaced free of charge when it eventually wears out. The bags are then recycled with all the other plastic waste at the store. As a result customers who buy a Bag for


Life are contributing to local community projects and helping the environment. Pupils Kane Taylor and Alice Green are


pictured receiving the vouchers from Steven Garratt and Rachael Lightowler, of


Sainsbury’s. (B080607/5) Youth denies charges


AN 18-YEAR-OLD Romanian has appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged with theft of £200 from a Clitheroe pub landlord and attempting to steal the same amount from another pub­ lican. Valeriu Sabin Muntean, of Broom Lane, Rotherham, pleaded not guilty to both charges and was remanded on bail. A warrant was issued for the arrest of


Sandor Anghel (25), of Staveley Street, Rotherham, when he failed to appear with Muntean on charges of driving without due care and attention, failing to stop when required and driving docu­ ment offences.


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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, August 9th, 2007 11


Gratifying to hear


these responses MANY thanks for printing my let­ ter last week about the litter left during a school walk between West Bradford and Brungerley. The follow-up that I have already


had has been gratifying. I have been told of four separate


sources all indicating th a t the cul­ prits were from Ribblesdale School, including confirmation that one of the organising teachers posted at West Bradford Bridge was definitely from Ribblesdale. Two of my informants complained


separately to organisers and in each case received a fairly nonchalant


reply. I ’m told th a t West Bradford


Bridge was a distribution point for b o ttles of water, which would account for the fact that I picked up so many between West Bradford and Brungerley. The last thing I would want is to


discourage school walks, but we do need a stronger sense of responsibili­ ty from head teachers and school governors.


EDWIN GRETTON, West Bradford


Teach respect for


the countryside I AM writing following the recent letters by Mike Smith and Edwin Gretton regarding the trail of litter left by a several hundred strong school party engaged on a 10-mile sponsored walk, along the Ribble on July 18th. I was out checking a number of


footpaths on that date and encoun­ tered the school party on the foot­ path which runs on the north side of the Ribble between Brungerley Bridge and West Bradford Bridge. I was shocked at the amount of lit­


te r being deposited on the route, mainly soft drinks containers. In fact it is no exaggeration to say


that the number of these discarded containers exceeded the number I have seen near feeding stations on some road races. These are, of course, immediately


removed a f te r the runners have passed. I would expect walkers to take their litter home. I spoke to one of the marshalls about the problem and he seemed


unconcerned. He said there wasn’t a problem as


somebody would be following on behind and would pick up. Clearly this was not done or was


not done properly, as local residents were collecting the rubbish the fol­


lowing day. The finger of suspicion points to


Ribblesdale School. If they are not to blame then the headmaster or the chairman of the governors should refute the allegation. Otherwise they should indicate


what they intend to do in future to ensure th a t litter is not left in the countryside following such an event. I t is good th a t schools should


encourage healthy outdoor activities such as walking, but they must also


teach respect for the countryside and social responsibility.


BEN BROWN Chorlton Terrace, Barrow


Editor’s note: Unfortunately, due to


the school summer holidays, we have been unable to get a response from Ribblesdale High School Technology College regarding these two letters.


Great service from


the Fun Factory IN response to last week’s article enti­ tled “I t ’s fun time 4 kids”, we feel unhappy that the previous owners have been misrepresented. Mrs Mayor set up the Fun Time


Factory with a partner and created a much-needed venue for the young children of our community. It provided a clean, safe environ­


ment for our children to play that allowed parents, grandparents and carers alike to relax and at the same time supervise their children. The staff were always friendly,


helpful and sensitive to the needs of their customers. The Fun Time Factory “abruptly


closed its doors” due to circum­ stances beyond Mrs Mayor's control. The locks were changed with very


short notice and despite pleading to gain entry to access contact numbers for the children’s parties booked for th a t weekend, the request was denied. We would like to take this opportu­


nity to thank Mrs Mayor and her staff for all their hard work on behalf of those who used the facility. We have benefited from the use of


the Fun Time Factory on a weekly basis since it opened its doors, how­ ever due to circumstances surround­ ing the departure of Mrs Mayor we have decided to use alternative facili­ ties out of town. Disgruntled parents


NICOLA TINGLE, GINA WARD and CATHERINE BARRETT


Evacuated AFTER


paying for goods! FOLLOWING your report of the recent Tesco bomb scare, I would like to point out that, contrary to what the paper may have been told by the store, it was not immediately


evacuated. I was doing my shopping when the


lights went out. The only information that was


announced over the PA system was that of there being a power failure. The customers were then asked to


proceed to the nearest checkout to pay for their purchases before leav­


ing the store. Although I fully understand the


need for calmness and order in these situations (I grew up in South Africa during the Angola war when bomb scares and drills were part of every­ day life), I can’t say I fully under­ stand the motives of a reputable, multi-national company putting profits before customers’ safety.


MRS V. WHITTAM, Sundalliolmc Farm, Bashall Eaves


Rise above these


personal insults GLEN PATE appears to object to reality television and those who take part in what he calls “a self perpetu­ ating circus of ‘celebrities’”. I t was a good art ic le until he


became personal. His particular aversion appears to


be to Vanessa Feltz and that is his prerogative. I can understand his annoyance at Ms Feltz’s “reported” adverse comments about the Isle of Man, for I have many happy memo­ ries of a honeymoon and subsequent holidays spent there and object to hearing it rubbished by anyone. Glen Pate, however, does himself


no favours by using Ms Feltz’ shape to censure her remarks. It is some­ what harsh to say that because she doesn’t like the Isle of Man Ms Feltz is shaped like a shark with a small brain and a large mouth! Is Glen Pate a perfect example of


manhood, so good looking he could take the sort of scrutiny Ms Feltz is regularly subjected to? After all, to infer that she is lack­


ing in intelligence is to overlook the fact that, despite all her many per­ ceived faults, she has managed to sustain a reasonable journalistic career for many years. It also smacks of envy to attempt


to denigrate Richard and Judy who are a great deal more intelligent and hardworking than their relaxed style conveys. Come on Glen, if this sort of per­


sonal insult was recorded on the despised “Big Brother” show you would no doubt write an article objecting to it.


TESSA GARRARD Hentliorn Road, Clitheroe


Bad news for lower


income families COUNCILLORS from Ribble Valley Borough Council (RVBC) may com­ plain about BBC “spin” over the mosque planning application, but th a t was noting compared to the RVBC “spin” concerning the pro­ posed housing transfer th a t has appeared in the,Glitheroe Advertiser and Times over recent months. The housing transfer proposal is


little more than legalised theft of valuable public assets, even though the transfer is being dressed up in RVBC propaganda as the best thing since sliced bread. If I were a tenant, the key ques­


tion that I would be asking is what is the prospect for massive rent rises in future? If the standard of housing is to improve, someone, and no doubt the occupier, is likely to have pay extra rent each week. I suspect that many lower income


families can hardly afford to pay extra in future for the alleged “five star” accommodation on offer. In a fair vote, perhaps those who receive housing benefit for the whole of their rent should be excluded from the poll. If the council house transfer does go ahead as RVBC planned, it will


probably be bad news for all local lower income families looking for a new home as private rents are also likely to increase to follow the trend. Given the recent change of


emphasis in Government housing policy to favour more new council housing, perhaps RVBC may end up building new council housing from scratch and will have saved nothing in either administration or refur­ bishment costs.


GORDON PYE, Downham Road, Chatburn


Editor’s note: Successive articles


in these coulmns have explained th a t RVBC has no choice but to proceed with a transfer of its hous­ ing stock in order to avoid massive rent rises for its tenants. The housing stock must, by law,


be upgraded to meet new standards. The council can only raise the money for such work from its coun­ cil house rents, whereas a “regis­ tered social landlord”, such as a housing association, has many other avenues open for raising the neces­ sary finance.


Not very funny, but


we back skatepark IN response to your correspondent from Great Harwood’s comments about the incident when my wife was given a fright by a youngster jump­ ing off a wall from the side of the skateboard park, perhaps I should point out to him that other people may not consider a frail lady in her 60s being frightened in such a way to be quite so trivial. Despite this, we both think that


youngsters in Clitheroe should have facilities such as the skateboarding park. We just worry for their safety due to its location next to one of the busiest roads in town.


MR R. SHARP, Ftilwood, Preston


This ‘care’ was not


up to standard BETWEEN 11 and 11-30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 31st, I had taken my young niece and nephew to Clitheroe Castle playground. Once inside the play area I noticed


some ladies sitting on blankets, who appeared to be with a group of chil­ dren of varying ages, some wearing sashes. “Appeared” being the appropriate


word, as a lot of the children, includ­ ing the youngsters wearing sashes, were given free rein to run and play on any equipment with little or no supervision. Being a primary school teacher I


was naturally drawn to helping these children, who were obviously strug­ gling with some of the play equip­ ment due to their age and the fact they were unsupervised. While helping one young boy, who


must have been not much older than two or three and seemed to be follow­ ing me and my niece around the


apparatus, a concerned lady approached me inquiring if I was the appointed carer of the young boy, as she had seen him fall quite heavily from the roundabout a while earlier and bang his head! Obviously, I explained to the lady


he was not with me and upon asking his young brother, who also approached us while playing, we realised the children had been “under the care” of the group of ladies still sitting a distance away on the blan­ kets, talking between themselves. The concerned lady then


approached the group and made them aware of the young boy’s fall. Shortly afterwards I left the park,


but I felt the need to write this letter as the supervision and care provided to these children was wholly inade­ quate. Whether these children were from


a playgroup, summer play scheme or an independent group of childmin­ ders, I feel they were left at risk of injury and perhaps much worse and their lack of care was completely unacceptable. I ’m just relieved that none of the children were my own.


NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED Can you help me


trace this resident? RECENTLY my wife and I visited Clitheroe, which we like to do every so often. I was born in Clitheroe Hospital


when it was called Coplow View and still had a workhouse. I t was with some pleasure that I


was able to visit the hospital and was taken on a conducted tour for which I was very grateful. Aluhough it did­ n’t bring back any memories. This all happened back in 1942


when my mother and father lived in Claremont Terrace, number 47 on the Pendle Road. My father was in the RAF and sta­


tioned at Wilmslow in Cheshire. I was three when we left to move


back to London where my parents came from, but my real reason for writing is to trace somebody who was born soon after me and also lived in the same house. Her name then was Doreen Steer. I


think she still lives in Clitheroe but can’t be sure. As we visit from time to time it


would be nice to meet up and talk about old times. I am sure there would be a lot to talk about. I hope that you can print this let­ ter and that she can be traced.


TOM WATSON 2G Tiberius Road, Roman Way, Andover, SP10 5JX Tel: 01261364075


Thank you for your


help at this time I AM grateful to everyone who has helped me through the traumatic experience of losing my wife, Betty. May God bless you all!


JOHN MONAGHAN, Warren Fold, Hurst Green


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