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Valley Matters MPs were once important!


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the House of Commons to hear Sidney Silverman, then Member of Parliament for Nelson and Colne, proposing the Bill that led to the abolition of the death penalty It was a great Parliamentary occasion.


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[Ought for the Week Lonely for love


T was the most terrifying TV I have watched for years - and it wasn’t a


choosing and the spending for a baby to fill a nursery. One of those women was a grandma, who had long term cared for her grandson during her daughter’s illness. But then the young family emigrated to New Zealand - leaving an emotional vacuum in her life. The second woman, openly admitting tha t she didn’t


■ want to cope with the sacri­ fice and much of a real baby, still desperately needed some focus for her frustrated mater­ nal instinct. And the husbands? They


were there all right - and as tragic as their wives. The


older husband - sitting in his car while his wife selected the bits and pieces that would make- her ideal baby - responded bluntly to camera:


“I have my hobbies, and she has hers”. The younger man, evident­


ly embarrassed, faithfully fol­ lowed his bride around the Harrods’ baby department as she pettishly chose expensive


matching outfits for the pre­ tend nativity. I watched all this in aston­


ishment, lurching from despair to genuine sorrow for these lost people, and anger towards those who were


exploiting their desperate need. All four of those folk needed to know that they^ were loved, and to know hovd to express love - affection - for each other in their various traumatic stages in life. All religions contribute to


this profound human need for love and search for meaning. The Christian Faith offers the supremely therapeutic insight that we have been created to give and receive love because we are each loved by our Cre­ ator.


IAN D.H. ROBINS, Anglican prie.st


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has been bestowed on three members of the Rotary Club of Clitheroe. Named after the founder


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of the worldwide Rotary movement, the award recognises exceptional serv­ ice and dedication to the organisation and its chari­


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OTARY’S highest honour, the Paul Harris Fellowship,


table aims, often over an extended period. The latest “Paul Harris


Fellows” at the Clitheroe Club are, pictured here from left to right, Barrie Lancaster, Jim Parker MBE and Stephen Dug-


dale. Mr Lancaster received


his award in January, but Mr Parker and Mr Dugdale


were on holiday at the time so had to wait for theirs. None of the recipients knew they would receive the award, although each knew that the others would. All three men have given


outstanding service to Rotary and to the wider community in roles includ­ ing magistrate and school governor.


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the question it was a matter of life and death and one had the feeling that the men sitting on the plush green benches had enormous power and were in dread of


little over 40 years ago, I had the great good fortune to be given a ticket to the Strangers Gallery of


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their terrible choice. It is a question, of course, that can never be finally settled and it has reared its head again, in recent weeks. Those five poor, vulnerable girls in


Ipswich, so miserable that they took heroin to dull the pain and so needy of the relief it offered that they went into the street to face whatever degradation was required of them to obtain it. It is difficult to imagine how a man


could have seen such vulnerability and taken advantage of it for sexual gratifi­ cation, but we know that such things happen. However, to have taken advantage of it


to obtain sexual gratification by murder is so egregious that it properly raised the question whether such a man should be


2a Years Ago


CLITHEROE Job Centre was besieged as interviews for vacancies, at the new Booths supermarket started. People were forced to queue along corridors as Job Centre boss Mrs Janie Mitch and two colleagues processed some 500 applicants. O Ribble Valley’s new housing scheme


for Hurst Green was to be named War­ ren Fold - subject to approval from the Post Office. 0 A local violinist was chosen to lead


a string quartet taking part in the final of the National Chamber Music compe­ tition for schools. Eighteen-year-old Sarah White and her trio of fellow musi­ cians were due to play pieces by Ravel and Beethoven.


Looking Back 50 Y'cars Ago


DURING February 1958, 8.96 inches of rain fell - the wettest February ever recorded at Stonyhurst, said the Rev. James Lawrence who was in charge of the college weather station. 0 Clitheroe Co-operative Society


announced that they were trying to sell the King Lane Hall, built in 1914 at a cost of about £10,000. In addition they were offering five cottages in Lowergate, one cottage in King Lane and 1,200 sq. yds. of land in the deal. The King Lane Hall, used as a cine­


ma, was in all but name Clitheroe's pub­ lic hall. It was used by local organisa­ tions for annual balls and by the operat­ ic society for its shows.


kept in prison, at the public expense, for the rest of his life, or whether he should be put to death, to rid the world of such monstrosity. It is a difficult question and I frankly


admit I do not know the answer. I wish Sidney Silverman and his contempo­ raries in the House of Commons were still alive to debate it. They took such questions seriously


and they would have taken their respon­ sibility for those five girls and their mur­ derer advisedly. Today, we can no longer look to Mem­


bers of Parliament to take responsibility for this question or to give us a lead on it. They have abdicated their responsibility for it to the unelected Commission and Court of the European Union. Even if the House of Commons and House of Lords were to vote unanimously for the reintroduction of the death penalty, it would remain illegal. I treasure my memory of that debate


led by Sidney Silverman. It reminds me of the time when Members of Parlia­ ment were important people who could decide important questions. While we remain in the Union, they are not.


li 100 Y'ears Ago


A MAN appearing before the borough sessions jokingly asked whether he could go to prison for his offence because he was doing badly at the mill. William Henry Parkinson, of Curzon Street, was appearing in court with three others for allowing the chimneys of their houses to be on fire. Each was fined, but Parkin­ son asked if there was any term of imprisonment instead, but he was told he would have to pay up. ® A large framed photograph of the


late Mr A. T. Robinson was unveiled in the Congregational Sunday School. Until ill health forced him to move near Manchester, Mr Robinson had worked as a tailor in King Street.


Highest honour for Rotarians


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Lawyer Thomas is named top notary


of the Notaries Society of England and Wales. Mr Thomas Hoyle - a part­


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ner at Blackburn-based law firm Roebucks - has been elected to the post after two years as the society’s vice- president. Brought up in Hurst Green,


Mr Hoyle (pictured) qualified as a solicitor in 1976 and was articled as a notary to Mr John Whittaker, of Mellon This year the society is cele­


brating its centenary and to mark the occasion a banquet has been held at the Tower of London.


Speaking about his election


Mr Hoyle said: “It is a great honour to be elected National President of this distin­ guished society, especially in its Centenary year.”


VALLEY lawyer has been elected as National President


He added: “The Notaries


profession is the oldest in the country having its origins in Roman Law when Notaries were appointed by the Pope or the Emperor of the Roman Empire. “Since 1533, with the Eccle­


siastical Licenses Act, Notaries have been appointed by Royal Authority under the auspices of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Court of Faculties. “Qualification is not easy


and exams have to be taken in international law, Roman law and notarial practice. Qualifi­ cation as a solicitor or barris­ ter is necessary before a lawyer can be admitted to the ancient office of Notary Pub­ lic.


“Notarial work is becoming


increasingly important with globalisation, cross jurisidic- tional contracts and a work­ ing knowledge of other legal


systems is essential in the astical Notary having been working life of a modern appointed as Registrar of the Notary.”


Mr Hoyle is also an Ecclesi- secretary to the Bishop, (s) T Banner exhibit


during Clitheroe Festival weekend and Rowland Festival later this year. The idea is that as many schools


and community groups as possible from across the Ribble Valley make a banner to express their school, group or a particular interest. For example the banner could be


about the wildlife garden at school or about a history project that classes have undertaken or a ban­ ner that sums up a Scout group’s activities. I t is hoped banners will be as


exciting as possible and with this in mind four, three hour training ses­ sions, with space for eight people on each, are planned for a representa­ tive from each group to attend. Artist Francisca Sierevogel will


show participants a variety of tech­ niques for banner decoration including printing, dying and sewing. Banners should be finished and ready for collection by Mon­ day, May 5th. The banner training workshops


to be held at the Platform Gallery will be on Friday, March 28th from 9-30 a.m. to 12-30 p.m. and 1-30 to 4-30 p.m. Saturday, March 29th, 9-30 a.m.


to 12-30 p.m. and 1-30 to 4-30 p.m. For more information or to book


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