10 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, November 29th, 2007
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vivien.mealhSeasiliincsiiews.co.uk — Is it surprising we
have super bugs! WHAT is happening to our hospitals? We are writing to you because we
were visiting our granddaughter who has been very poorly in the Royal Blackburn Hospital. At the front entrance, we saw in
patients sitting on a wall outside the building smoking', a cigarette in one hand and an intravenous drip on a stand in the other. This would never have happened in the “old days” when we had a proper matron in charge. Do you wonder why we have all these bugs? Not just that, we saw hundreds of
cigarette ends thrown on the floor outside the entrance. All this is walked back into the wards. We also noticed most people
walked past the hand dispensers pro vided to cleanse your hands before entering the wards.
CONCERNED GRANDPARENTS, Name and address supplied
Dangerous case of
pavement parking I WAS almost run over on the one way street by the side of Clitheroe’s newly-refurbished theatre while returning to the town centre from Tesco supermarket. Why was I in the road? I had no
choice because there were three cars parked on the newly-laid pavement and I could not pass safely. I saw a traffic warden and reported the mat ter to him. He replied that there was nothing he could do about it as this
was something the police have to deal with. Surely the majority of illegal park
ing is dealt with by traffic wardens and the fines are collected by the local council. Why can the remit for cars parked on pavements not come under the jurisdiction of the council? The revenue would be enormous as the problem has reached epidemic pro portions, and indeed I have witnessed police vehicles parked with two wheels on the pavement before now. This matter needs to be addressed
urgently as this practice is far more dangerous to the general public than a car parked on yellow lines or over staying in parking spaces. In particu lar those who are disabled, in wheel chairs or pushing prams. It would only need a few cars to be
targeted and fines levied to almost eradicate this dangerous state of affairs. The system whereby traffic wardens patrol the streets is already in place so it would only take a slight
change in the law to address this seri ous issue.
ELLEN LANCASTER, Castleview, Via c-muil
Always someone
ready to moan! I HAVE just returned home after two weeks in Brazil, supporting England’s cerebral palsy football team qualify ing for the Beijing Para Olympics in the Cerebral Palsy Football World
Letters to the Editor A dose of common
Championships. My son is the team manager and I had gone out to offer support. The competition had teams from
around the world, some who had players who were ex-Servicemen injured in conflict, but being socially included. To read the letters from Messrs Frankland and Dowles in the Advertiser and Times on my return, I am both annoyed and disgusted by their content and misleading state ments. As someone who has been involved
with Remembrance Day itself and the Remembrance Sunday parades for a number of years, I feel I am fully qualified to make a comment of a positive nature. I t is only every few years th a t
November 11th falls on a Sunday. That was unusual and presented minor problems of timing. In other years church congregations have their own remembrance service then all join together at the war memorial for a town act of remembrance. There was always going to be some
inconvenience this year due to the work being carried out in the Castle grounds. We have to accept this and it does not mean we are being disre spectful. The act of remembrance is open to all sections of our community, whatever their race or creed they are made welcome. The comment about CCTV must
mean that someone does not live in the real world. Vandalism is criminal damage. I am sure that those who have gone before and fought for our freedoms at the expense of their lives would be appalled at the way the Castle grounds have been treated by disrespectful and ignorant people over the years.
Unfortunately, the town council
has no jurisdiction over the Lan cashire County Council work and roadworks delayed proceedings slight ly, but did not mean the commemora tion was less sincere. Could someone tell me why is it
that there are always those who put pen to paper when something not quite the norm happens, just to snipe or make political capital? All they are really doing is putting down those who make things happen in their community.
ROLAND HAILWOOD, Clitheroe Town Crier
Proper time and
place for comment IN response to the Rev. Canon Dr Peter Shepherd, may I reiterate that I believe Remembrance Day is about showing respect for the dead during the First World War and others, and the priest is there to lead the prayers offered by the public in memory of the sacrifices they made. According to his letter, Dr Shep
herd seems to think it is okay to air political views on such an occasion because “to make them privately would be of little use”. All people have views on most
things, but there is a time and a place to divulge these, if at all.
PAUL FRANKLAND, Hcnlhorn Road, Clilheroe
sense is called for I AM a little confused over the confu sion regarding the annual Clitheroe Armistice Day commemoration on November 11th of our dead of both world wars marking the end of the First World War at 11 a.m. on November 11th, 1918. If the 11 a.m. start at the London
Cenotaph was good enough for our Queen, plus the many,.many thou sands of ex-Servicemen and women, their children and grandchildren, why oh why was it not good enough for Conservative-controlled Ribble Val ley?
Meanwhile in MacDowning Street,
PM Gordon Brown (who will retire on a pension well in excess of £2,000 a week, not £1,000 which I previously stated) has defended his decision to appoint Des Brown, Scotland Secre tary as well as Defence Secretary. The former six military top brass
were right when they said our troops feel insulted by having a part-time Defence Minister in charge and that Gordon Brown treated UK forces with “contempt”. I mean, even Ribble Valley Bor ough Council has three full-time hous ing management officers to oversee our council housing stock. Perhaps I am missing the fine detail, but please, please, please let us have more com mon sense.
BERT HARDWICK, Queensway, Waddington
Who needs a city
with this talent? THE folk music Friday nights in the New Inn, Clitheroe, are getting better and better these days. So much so that we have cancelled tickets for a
Manchester concert in a couple of weeks. Why go there when all you would
wish for is on our doorstep here in Clitheroe? What a great place to live! So thanks to the magical viola play
er of last week, the beautiful young singing bloke, the beautiful old singing-about-trains bloke, the con cert cellist who rolls up his sleeves every now and again and especially to the heart-warming Mike and Anna for making it all happen each week. Autumn Friday nights have never
been better! With lots of appreciation.
IvATY MARSHALL, by e-mail
Out of the mouths
of youngsters.. . PUPILS from Pendle Primary School, in Clitheroe, recently worked with Phil Dykes, manager of the towns Salthill Quarry Nature Reserve, to design informative new signs for all its entrances. As part of the project, they visited
the reserve and were very impressed with what they found, but also a little disappointed that some people do not treat this wonderful facility with the respect it deserves. In their classwork, they have written letters to the
Clitheroe Advertiser and Times high lighting the many good things, and the few bad ones, about the Salthill Nature Reserve. All were beautifully written, and
many illustrated too, and while we are unable to print them all, here is one to give you a flavour
Dear Editor, I’m writing to tell you about our
beautiful Nature Reserve and how lucky we are to have such caring peo ple who take their time to work hard on making it a wonderful place to be. However, we need to persuade the
people of Clitheroe to go on nature walks and to treat the reserve how it should be treated. Recently I have paid a visit to Salthill Quarry. It was fabulous, but while we were walking we saw a lovely statue of an otter that in the past someone had thrown a rock at and broken its head off, then thrown it in the river, which, in my opinion, is appalling! It has now been repaired, thanks to
Fiona, the sculptress. Apart from that, visiting the quarry was as much fun as the fun fair! You would be foolish to miss a
nature walk with Phil Dykes. I feel we should change the way people treat our nature parks.
ABIGAIL SMITH, Pendle Primary School pupil, Clillieroe
Thanks for this
lovely tradition A TRADITION in Clitheroe will be sadly missed by adults and children alike, also the charities that benefited from the donations they received. I would like to thank Mr and Mrs
Brunker for our enjoyment in the last 12 years and that of other people.
MRS K SEWARD AND FAMILY Tower Hill, Clilheroe
Why not build our
own incinerator? IN a letter several months ago now, I argued that the Ribble Valley should take steps forward towards building an incinerator to avoid the need to
pay excessive taxes for landfill in future. I believe that Blackbum-with-Dar-
wen council is actively considering building its own incinerator to cater for their area. If Blackburn move first there is a possibility that in future Ribble Valley council tax payers might end up paying through the nose for their waste to be incinerated there. With the introduction of microchips in wheelie bins it is obvious that our apparently eco-fascist-leaning council officers have “pay as you throw” on the cards in the near future. If the Ribble Valley had its own
waste incinerator it could probably pay householders to produce more rubbish, our waste could become a valuable fuel. A small community like the Isle of Man can do it. They opened an incinerator in 2004 and I believe that the design even won an award, it sits neatly in the countryside like a piece of modern sculpture. They also produce 5 MW net, 10% of the
island’s electricity needs, from the waste incinerated, although 10% would be optimistic in the Ribble Val
ley as there are quite a few heavy industrial users. Nevertheless if a private company
can build and run such a facility in a competitive economy, it must save the Manx people a fortune in the long run. The IoM does not do the same amount of recycling as UK councils generally, but then the false economy of recycling many items becomes clear when everything has to go by ship. Perhaps the worst thing that can
happen in the Ribble Valley is for the council to follow the eco-lunatic idea of having waste treatment plants where selected rubbish is biologically and expensively turned into fuel for power stations. Such waste treatment plants could never hope to get off the ground in a real economy based on sci ence without political meddling and corporate lobbying. It is probably the most expensive
option on the table and I can imagine that the smell is far far worse than a straight incinerator of similar capaci ty. Perhaps the main problem to over come is the army of “ten bob fat cats" worried about the false money of property price inflation rather than the long term future of the communi ty. Between them have done more to harm the overall environment with their pet weight and speed limits, roundabouts etc. Where are all the forward thinkers
in the Ribble Valley, they are not gen erally on the council, which shows lit tle imagination of the future in its recent consultation document. House hold waste policy was not on the radar. I suspect that the silent majori ty would support the principle of building a household waste incinera tor at any convenient location locally.
GORDON PYE, Downham Road, Chatburn
Vote for the party
which helps OAPs IN reply to Bert Hardwick's recent letter regarding the present Govern ment, I would point out that Tory MPs receive the same privileges with regard to holidays, pay and pensions as the members of the party in power. While I sympathise wholehearted
ly with his struggle to make ends meet on a state pension, I would point out that it was Mrs Thatcher's Govern ment who severed the link between the state pension and average earn ings. It is this Government which is trying to restore the balance first by providing unprecedented economic growth over the last 10 years at the lowest inflation levels since the war, which means that his pension goes fur ther and secondly by pledging to restore the link between pensions and earnings by 2012. My advice to Mr Hardwick is to put away the vinegar bottle and vote for the party which recognises the plight of pensioners and is doing something positive to correct the disasterous policies of the last Tory Government.
STEVE DAVIES, Highmoor Park, Clilheroe
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Visitors flock for
Santa trip
VISITORS will be flocking into Clitheroe on the second two Satur days in December when they travel by train on the Santa Services. Ribble Valley Rail, Clitheroe Chamber
of Trade and the Market Traders have worked together to provide a festive shopping experience in Clitheroe. Santa and his two elves will be travel
ling on service trains on the two Satur days.
They will join the Clitheroe-bound
trains at Blackburn Station at 11-46 a.m. and 2-48 p.m. All services will stop at Ramsgreave and Wilpshire, Langho and Whalley. The services, as in previous years, are likely to be very popular. During the journey Santa will visit all
children on the train, listening to their requests for presents and leaving them with a free “goody bag”. Adults will receive a mince pie and glass of sherry as part of the festive celebration. On arrival in Clitheroe, the trains will
be met by a group of cartoon characters who will distribute sweets to the children and shopping vouchers to the adults. In the market area there will be a range of entertainment including Clitheroe Town Band. There will also be a wide range of fes
tive products on sale together with the opportunity to sample food. Going into the town the Young Enter prise Christmas Trade Fair will be tak
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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, November 29th, 2007 11 Top community award for Northern Rail’s energy
NORTHERN RAIL has won the top prize at this year’s Communi ty Rail Awards for its “energy and innovation” in working with the communities it serves. Northern Rail, which operates
local and regional train services across the north of England, was
named overall winner for its con tribution to community rail devel opment. In other categories, Northern
Rail came second in the “New Uses for Station Buildings” cate gory for its “Community Sta tions” project, which brings
redundant station buildings back to life for community use. Winning the top award at the Community Rail Awards comes
just a few weeks after Northern won Public Transport Operator of the Year at the National Trans port Awards 2007.
ing place in the covered area of the main car park where products made by the Young Enterprise teams will be on sale. The town itself will be decked with Christmas trees and festive lights and there will also be two bands playing on the streets and many of the colourful shops offering discounts to shoppers. Normal ticket fares will apply and are
valid on all services between Northern stations. No advanced booking is required and there is no extra charge for these services. There are connections from Preston
and the East Lancs line. For further details of normal service trains please see timetable information at Clitheroe Inter change or your local station, or log on to
www.northernrail.org
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