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SN’T 24-hour news coverage a fantastic modern-day, revelation? I have, of course, always loved watch­


ing, reading and listening to the news. I regularly read the nationals, albeit


online nowadays, as with twqvjroung children and a husband to runaround after I rarely get the chance to sit down


and read a paper. Radio Five Live is always on in the


car and the house. I always make time to catch up on the


local news - whether in print or online and as a couple we try to make a point of watching the 10 o’clock news whenever


possible. Now my children are getting older


they, too, are starting to take an interest in current affairs and enjoy “News-


round”. I think it is great that we can now read


local and national newspapers on the Internet and catch up with the headlines whenever and wherever we want. And it is all thanks to the desire for


constant current affairs coverage. Nowadays from the second a story


As I see i t . . by Natalie Cox


breaks you can monitor its progress minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour and


day-by-day. I t ’s great for conversation. In recent


weeks we’ve enjoyed some great dinner table debates about “hot” topics from that week’s news, speaking as we do from a position of the knowledge gleaned from different aspects of the media. From the age of 111 had set my sights


on a career in newspapers. All my work experience choices and


the decisions I took about what to study and where were all geared towards my


ultimate ambition. I have always felt very privileged to be


100 years ago


AN advert by J. R. Garlick, of Wellgate Mews, announced the arrival of the “finest car hearse in Lancashire”, com­ plete with rubber tyres. Claiming to have the largest stock of


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hearses and up-to-date clarances and funeral cars in the district - the business offered its vehicular service for funerals and weddings, complete with matching horses “at one minute’s notice”. 0 Capt. Worsley-Taylor, of Moreton


Hall, presided over the annual prize dis­ tribution at Whalley Technical School, where there was a good attendance of stu­ dents and parents. 0 Clitheroe Central boasted of their


new signing, A. Broderick, of Oswaldtwistle. Preston North End had previously tried and failed to sign the highly popular inside left. 0 A lecture about the “uses and abus­


es” of alcohol was given at the Old School in Church Brow. The meeting was addressed by Mr W. N. Edwards, of Lon­ don, who told the assembled throng that the talk was being held in connection with the Lancashire and Cheshire Band of Hope Union with the aim of teaching chil­ dren the simple laws of life and health.


LOOKINGBACK 50 years ago


YOUNG road safety experts representing the Ribble Valley won the first round of a national competition which had the top prize of a holiday in Madeira. The local quartet was Frank Taylor, from Ribbles- dale Secondary Modern School, and John Rycroft, Keith Taylor and Ann Birtwell, of CRGS. Questions put by Supt. A. McCartney were all based on either the Highway Code or the Ministry of Trans­ port booklet “Safe Cycling”. ® A full scale attack on a deadly fungus


which could destroy grass was launched on a bowling green in the Castle grounds. The target of the assault was fusarium and the mission was led by John Hall, the Parks Superintendent of Clitheroe. © Doctors reported a drop in the num­


ber of new-cases of flu, but an official at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance office in Whalley Road report- ed'a 600% increase in sickness benefit claims. The epidemic, which had cut school attendance by half and brought factory machinery to a standstill, was said to be on the wane, but elsewhere in the paper the flu, together with bad weather, was said to have forced people to stay at home during the September holidays.


This wonderfulworld of wall-to-wall news update


able to follow my dream and get a job doing what I always wanted to do. Since I started on my journey towards: becoming a reporter I have seen changes ..to the way news.is covered.


-> Two decades ago when I first set foot;


in a newspaper office on a work experi-j ence placement, typewriters and carbon paper were used to write copy. When I started work in 1995, the type-'-


writers had been replaced with comput-i ers and as journalists we embraced the ease they brought to the way in which our stories could so easily be altered as the hours passed and the story changed. Now, with the exciting addition of


reporting via the Internet, we can all play our p a r t in bringing,the news - locally as well as nationally - to readers within minutes of a story breaking pro­ viding coverage 24-hours-a-day, seven- days-a-week. Amazing steps forward have been


taken in reporting the news even in a short space of time and to have helped play some part in that process has been a real privilege.


OUR picture, taken at the Highwayman, shows, from the left,


Stosie Madi, of Wee- zos, in Clitheroe;


Gemma Taylor, of the Inn at Whilewell;


Michael Ward, head chef of T


the Highwayman Inn, Martins Ritins, of Vincents, Riga, and his colleague Einen Ozols; Jamie Cad-


man, head chef of the Inn at Whitewell;


Marita Baltina and Svctlane Matull, of the Latvian delega­ tion. (s)


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Latvian celebrity chef is Valley’s guest


highly regarded chef, Martins Ritins, when he visited the region. As part of a project arranged by Lan­


T 25 years ago


A NUMBER of Ribble Valley farm work­ ers were made redundant following the takeover of the Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Withgill estate by a syndicate of farmers from Lancashire and Yorkshire. The sale, which had gone through at a reported figure of £2m., had left the men bitter at their treatment by the CWS. © Determined Ribble Valley councillors


were digging in their heels for a long, hard battle to save the district education office in Clitheroe. They were making a strong plea to the county’s Policy and Resources Committee to shelve the proposal to dis­ member” the local education administra­ tive set-up. They said there would be seri­ ous detriment to the education service provided for the public if the move was


given the go-ahead. 0 A Langho referee who had officiated


a number of matches at Clitheroe FC s Shawbridge ground was preparing for European action this week. Mr Joe Con­ stable, of Moorlane Road, was running the line in the UEFA Cup match between FC Oporto and Utrecht, in Lisbon, F°r;d" gal. Before leaving Heathrow, he said. “I t ’s a fabulous trip. You only dream about being given a match like this.


Oswaldtwistle MilgS s h o p p i n g v i l lage


ji iCallinq All Designer } Makers Of


cashire Rural Futures, Mr Ritins and a spe­ cialist bread technologist visited the North West to impart some of his country’s best bread-making secrets to aspiring bread makers and local chefs. At the same time, colleagues from Latvia


visited Lancashire’s artisan cheesemakers to find out more about making and maturing fine cheese. While possibly little-known outside his


native country, Mr Ritins’ restaurant, “Vin­ cents”, in the Latvian capital city of Riga, is a local legend and has been visited by, among others, HRH Prince Charles, Elton John, B.B. King and opera star Monserrat


OP chefs from some of the Ribble Valley’s finest eateries greeted and exchanged ideas with Latvia’s most


Caballe. Latvian breadmaking is a proud tradition, with recipes passed from genera­ tion to generation and described as creating “wonderful peculiarities of baking across the historic regions of Latvia”. The exchange visit was part of a much


wider programme, which includes securing funding for Lancashire’s cheesemakers to work towards gaining important “Product of Designated Origin” (PDO) status for Lancashire cheese. Latvia also has a strong tradition of engaging its young people with food produc­ tion so, to bring this to Lancashire, Bob Kitching, of Leagrams Dairy, Chipping, will visit 20-plus local schools soon to show chil­ dren how cheese is made. Andy Pickard, Project Manager at Lan­


cashire Rural Futures, said: “This initiative has arisen from a visit made to Lancashire by Latvia’s Ministry of Agriculture and a


T H O U G H T for the week


Indeed it is unfashionable.


We live in times when only 7% of the population attend church weekly and when, for many, organised religion seems old fashioned and out-of-date. Remote even, or irrelevant. I have been a Quaker for


more than 20 years, but walk­ ing down the street, who would know? Quakers don’t wear dis­ tinctive clothes anymore and I don’t wear a badge advertising the fact. Even if I did mention it, it might not mean very much.


return visit by some of our cheesemakers to Latvia. “Lancashire cheese is a unique and out­


standing product made in three forms - Creamy, Crumbly and Tasty. Following the visit to Latvia, our cheesemakers offered to share some of their secrets in maturing cheese with Latvia. Similarly Latvian bread is highly acclaimed. There seemed an ideal opportunity for our producers to each share


' something of our recipes for success. “Creamy Lancashire cheese is often pro­


moted as being ideal for cheese on toast, so it seemed a match made, if not in heaven, at least across Europe!” One of the stops on Mr Ritins’ busy tour


was The Highwayman Inn, near Kirkby Lonsdale, recenctly acquired and refur­ bished by the Craig Bancroft and Nigel Haworth, proprietors of Northcote Manor and The Three Fishes.


Come and join us!


'T is not always easy to talk Those of us in Clitheroe talks and meetings and a big involved, always opposed to f aoriv nnon mi fiiinHav nt. f.hft war. and camnaiffnino: against


Quaker leader, George Fox, had a vision on top of Pendle Hill in the 1650s, but many of us might also think that Quakers died out not longer afterwards. Or we might think of por­


ridge, or peace. Or confuse Quakers with one of the many other religious brands. Well this week is National


Quaker week..The 25,000 Quakers in Britain are all active trying to let people know that Quakerism is alive and well and what it stands for.


Meeting House in Sawley. This. week I will be talking about my faith. I t is special to me, after all,


and unique. George Fox, before he came to Pendle Hill, knew that everyone could have direct relationship with God without any need of minister or text. Quakers have practised this


direct form of spirituality ever since, worshipping in silence in


•a circle, sharing “ministry” as they have felt led to. At the same time, Quakers have been very socially


slavery and other social injus­ tice. Elizabeth Fry, the Quaker prison reformer, is on the £5 note. For Quakers, we are all lending our hands to God, knowing th a t each of us can make a difference and th a t together we can do even more. Every day in every place our choices count. Quakerism is


' not just about what happens in the Meeting House: come to Sawley on Sunday and let’s talk about faith for a change.


BEN DANDELION, Sawley Quakers


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