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and horses was held in Clitheroe. The weather was fine and there was a good show of classes for buyers and dealers.


ib b l e Valley Radio (RVR) came into being thanks to this newspaper printing an article I wrote in autumn, 2004.


Within hours of the paper being pub­


lished, I had a steady stream of telephone calls and e-mails from the people who have since gone on to work extremely hard to lift my words off the page and turn them into reality. RVR was bom late in 2004. We were just a group of local people with a common ideal, to create a radio station that would provide access to all. In three short years we have conquered our original ideas and have marched on to become a leading light in the UK’s community media sector. It is thanks to the tremendous drive of our


volunteers, the amazing originality of our members and the dedication of our team that this fact is laid before you. R\Tl is the UK’s first community radio station to launch an Internet station. We are staffed by 47 volunteers, available seven days-a- week from our website. We are so advanced in our sector that we get regular requests for advice from partner organisations who have full-time FM licences. RVR is built from the community, and that is its secret of success in the scheme of


As I see i t . . . by Steve Suttie,


chairman, Ribble Valley Radio


things. Genuine local voices are heard on this radio station and our policy has always been to let our volunteers build their own programmes in their own style. We even have an Early Day Motion at


the Houses of Parliament (EDM 979) call­ ing for better resources and funding for this project, thanks to our ME So, imagine my surprise when I learned


that we had once again failed to attract a single penny in support from Ribble Valley Borough Council’s “Community Enhance­ ment” grants programme. How much more can you enhance a community than to offer it its very own, open access radio service? A radio station that will focus on all matters local, and won’t ask for a penny to promote the Great Days Festival, or Clitheroe’s first hobby fair, or Ciitheroe FC for instance?


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


TELEVISED in the BBC programme, “Behind the Headlines,” last week, a Clitheroe product - the Lodematic auto­ matic loader - was attracting considerable attention at the British Industries’ Fair, Birmingham. Q Five Clitheroe men were due to


board a Vancouver-bound plane at Lon­ don Airport all seeking a new life. They were Mr James Garlick, Mr Alan


Bartlett, Mr Robert Cottam, Mr Edward Cowley and Mr Stanley Jackson.


THOUGHT for the week


Party leader and from the office of Prime Minister. In about six weeks’ time we


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will know who will be the new Prime Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister. You could say: “It’s all change at the topi” Maybe one of those big white


banners with the words “UNDER NEW MANAGE­ MENT” should be hung over the door of number 10 Downing


o n y b l a ir has announced when he will stand down as Labour


Torchlight would get mega promotion too, or has Ribble Valley Borough Council killed that also?


It is true that RVR is the only community


radio station in the whole UK that does not attract support from its local council. It is also true that we have been promised sup­ port from our council leader Coun. John Hil on numerous occasions - dating back to 2005 in fact. Yet still we struggle along, such is the job in hand. RVR has asked this council for just


£8,000 to help us secure a full-time FM licence. I may add, that this application stated clearly that this would be a one-off application, that R\Hl will be empowered to generate its otvn funding once granted a full­ time licence. But still, we got nowhere. We have worked tirelessly to bring an


invaluable, exciting new community resource to the area, only to get our heads stamped on. If RVR should close down now, so close to realising the success of its own making, please Ribble Valley Borough Council - promise us that you will book yourself in for an eyesight test. To every­ body who has been involved in our success, at any level... I am genuinely saddened if to fail you now. We got so close, too.


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^AKING care of business’ was the motto famously adopted by Elvis, but could


it be claimed by Ribble Valley’s own “king of the blues”, Evans? Tory MP Nigel Evans is in line for


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a top award for taking care of the interests of smaller businesses and rep­ resenting their concerns at national level. The winner of the “Business- friendly MP/MEP Award 2007”, run by the Forum of Private Business (FPB), was to be announced yester­ day as we went to press (see our web­ site on: www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk for the news as we get it). The award is sponsored by Eng­


ELVIS PRESLEY or Evans MP - who’s (he King when it comes to taking care of business?


land’s Regional Development Agen­ cies (RDAs) and recognises the work of politicians who have excelled in understanding and representing the


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needs of smaller businesses. Mr Evans is well-placed to do so, wearing his other hat as the proprietor of a con­ venience store in Swansea. The FPB, which represents around


25,000 small and medium-sized busi­ nesses across the UK, asked its mem­ bers to nominate those politicians they believe have fought on their behalf. A shortlist of seven nominees has been drawn up, including Mr Evans. He was nominated by Terry Cook,


who runs Buccaneer Consulting in Chorley and believes the MP would be a worthy winner. A panel of five judges will decide


the winner of the award on the basis of the work each politician has done for owner-managers of smaller firms and the comments given to the FPB by its members.


Full marks for school’s design T 25 years ago


MINDLESS vandals rampaged through a Clitheroe cemetery, causing an estimat­ ed £1,500 worth of damage to seven cross­ es. The heavy crosses, made of either sandstone or granite, were pushed over and smashed in the Catholic cemetery, in Waddington Road. Some of the frag­ ments were then thrown over the perime­ ter wall into the road. Fr Jospeh Wareing, parish priest at SS Michael and John’s RC Church, Clitheroe, said he was saddened by such destruction.


Changes at the top Street when the changes are com­


plete! Why do businesses use those? The signs let us know that


something has changed, that there’s something new, something different.


kVhat about us? Whose man­ agement are you under? Do you want to see changes at the top? I’m not talking about who’s the boss at work or at home, but who manages your life? The answer is mostly likely that you’re the boss of your own life.


Christians believe that we


should give up managing our own lives and put ourselves under the new management of God. We do this by admitting that we have messed up running our own lives and by saying sorry to God for spoiling his gift of life to us. Jesus has taken the punishment for our mistakes so God can forgive us when we ask him to and give us a newstart. If we try to follow what Jesus


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yourseF under new management. MR .M.ARKC. SLEET,


Lxiy-niinislor of Wiidtlinglon and Grindicloti Methodist Ciiarclics,


lAce Churcli Chaplain of Clitheroe Community Hospital.


PICTURED is pupil Giles Rous-Eyre holding a replica of (he VC, with Mr Ormiston and fellow pupil Patrick Ptige. (s)


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e a m s from Rlbble Valley schools performed well when an annual inter-school “Technology Tournament” was held at The Hollins


Technology College, in Accrington. Their task was to design and build a


battery-powered vehicle that would pass throu^ a horizontal drain pip& The chil­ dren were given an electric motor, bat­ tery, cable, wheels, dowel, paper, strips of wood and other basic materials. They were given time to design their vehicle, complete with graphics for competition supporters Rotary and sponsors BAE Systems. Design portfolios and team work were


awarded marks, together with the quali­ ty of the vehicle build and its perform­ ance, against the clock down a test track. In all 33 teams took part this year, plus four teams of teachers.


In the “Basic” competition (for Key


Stage 3 pupils) John McCann and Bradley White, of St Augustine’s, Billington, did well to tie for the trophy against a four-strong team from Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School (QEGS), Blackburn. The Intermediate competition (Key


Stage 4) was won by St Christophers, Accrington, with Ribblesdale High School Technology College in second place. In the Advanced competition, winners


were QEGS Sixth Form, with Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Sixth Form a close second and beating the teachers’


team. Both Ribblesdale and Clitheroe


Rotary Clubs were well represented on the day, with members stewarding and judging the competition.


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PICTURED are John McCann and Bradley While, of St Augustine’s, with (heir winning vehicle and certificate, (s)


Famous myth about the VC’s origins P


u p il s at Stonyhurst College are well aware of the Victoria Cross and its history.


After all, as they move from class to


class through the school’s main hall, they pass paintings of no less than seven for­ mer pupils who have won the country’s top military honour for valour. Along with generations of schoolchild­


ren, they have also been taught that the medal is cast in bronze from a Russian cannon captured at Sebastopol during the Crimea War of 1854-1856. So it was something of a surprise when


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sented by Mr Anthony Ormiston, a for­ mer Coldstream Guard, who addressed the pupils on the history of the Victoria Cross. He told them about some of the out­ standing acts of heroism by holders of


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