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T ; AST month ! walked across Morecambe Bay.


■' JL - JN o t by myself I might add and not without a great dealofhelp.


. ■There must have been


around 500 of us, including a number from St 'James’ Church and others who were:


^walking to raise money for Open Arms International. As we walked I had a'great


I event in a sermon or an article ' as an illustration of faith. ■ ■ : As I never like to disappoint


my. parishioners, here is my-, attempt! One of the first things you-


' liotice as you walk across this' vast expanse of sand is that, at'


: various points,- there are i branches stuck into the sand.


, 100 years ago ,


A RESPECTED Ribble Valley man was honoured for almost five decades of service to a local organisation. Mr George Whalley was presented with a watch and gold chain on his retirement from the Low Moor Society. • Fish dealer William Geldard, of


Moor Lane, was fined 2s. 6d. and costs or seven days in prison for driving a horse and lorry along Sawley Road, Chatburn, without a light at 10-55 p.m.


Looking Back 50 years ago


YOUNG people over 14 who used chil-


. dren's playing erjuipment in Clitheroe's - parks were warned that they were likely to be prosecuted. • Entered by Lord Clitheroe, Down-


ham Daisy 11th won the Ralph Assheton Trophy for the best pedigree Ayrshire and also took the champi­ onship prize for the best pedigree Ayr­ shire cow a t Blackburn Agricultural Show.


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"¥■ AVE you heard of Marie Burnham? I—I She runs the biggest business in


' -L -L East Lancashire.- . She employs more people. She utilises more and more varied, cutting edge tech­ nology. She disposes of a bigger budget than anyone else. She is unbelievably pow­ erful and, if she gets things wrong, people die. Lots of them. In the strict sense of that much misused word, her responsibili­ ties are awful. She has only recently been appointed


Chief Executive of the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (she is boss of .the Blackburn and Burnley Hospitals) and it would be quite wrong to blame her for past mistakes, but anyone who knows a hospi­ tal doctor in this part of the country knows that the two hospitals are seething cauldrons of discontent. . . Over a G&T, the doctors are happy to recount anecdotes tha t make the hair stand up on one’s head and their most common complaint is that they cannot look after their patients to the best of their abilities because they now spend half their lives on the M65, shuttling back and forth between the two hospitals. I t’s a terribly sad state of affairs and it


A s I S e e I t . . .


the Burnley A&E has closed, folk who col­ lapse in Burnley have to wait too long for • emergency care and that the administra­ tion of both hospitals appears to have descended into chaos. And I can also offer praise to our sister


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is made much more murky by the fact that many doctors claim they are actively dis­ couraged from voicing their concerns in public. While she and her assistant. Dr Geraint Jones, the medical director of the Trust, spend a lot of their time telling the newspapers that everything is fine and that we have nothing to worry about, all the other doctors know that, if they said a word to the newspapers, their fate would lie in Marie’s haiids. I t is for that reason that I use my col-'


umn today to heap praise on one of Marie’s most senior employees, who has put his or her whole career on the line to give us the information to which we are entitled. In effect, the doctor confirms that the many complaints raised by Burnley councillors, on behalf of the people of their town, are true; in particular that, now that


newspaper, the Burnley Express, which has given Marie all the space she could possibly need to answer her critics and has elicited from her a statement which, to my mind, encapsulates everything that is wrong with our beloved NHS. : Marie has effectively said that she will not re-open the Burnley A&E, but that- she has everything in hand and, at some unspecified date in the future, she will do some unspecified things that, in some unspecified way, Tvill make everything all right. And then comes the ultimate NHS punchline. In the meantime, we should stop complaining and let her get on with


,_it. Now just try to imagine Tesco closing


their fruit and vegetable departnient at Burnley and transferring i t to their Blackburn store. Of course you cannot!


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Rebecca is all smiles Eleven-year-old Rebecca Smethurst,


11 honour for Valley student


^ A STUDENT from West Brad Za ford has graduated with First


.^T ^C la s s Honours from Lancaster University Management School.


. Suzanne Stevenson (22) graduated with a B.Sc. Hons in Management Sci­ ence (Industry) in July, and had her degree confirmed a t a colourful cere­ mony by the university’s Chancellor, Sir Chris Bonington, CBE. - Before going to Lancaster, Suzanne,


PROMISING young skater has been all smiles recently.


pictured, skated her way to a fantastic third place in a National Ice Skating com­ petition in Deeside. - Rebecca, who lives in Clitheroe, fought


her way to a highly commendable third position after beating 15 other entrants in the over-11 Level One category. The Year 7 Ribblesdale High School


Technology College pupil trains at the Blackburn Ice Skating school twice a' week and this is her first year at competi­ tion standard, (s)


Lucy’s holiday hopes 25 years ago


A WEST BRADFORD mother leapt into the mil! lodge behind her home to rescue her drowning toddler who, thank­ fully, survived. • A row was brewing in Whalley


about Sunday markets on the Queen Elizabeth II playing field, which vil­ lagers claimed were making their lives a nightmare. Villagers said the field had been turned into a sea of ruts, littered with papers and cans.


Lessons of life


-Earlier that morning, Cedric Robinson, who has been lead-


deal of ribbing from church members who suggested that I • might a t some time use this ■


-ing these walks for 45 years had marked out the path that we were going to take that day. What commitment! But of course this is nothing to the commitment of God, who came himself to live on earth, to experience the plight of human beings and to die a hor­ rible death. - But iCedric hadn’t ju s t marked the path out and let us getonwithit.


He was at the head of . the group of us leading the walk.


. Jesus said to his followers that he wouldn’t leave them help­ less, but send the Holy Spirit to be with them for ever. So in


estuary at Arnside, it didn’t seem very, far to Kents Bank on the other side, but as we walked we seemed to go in a


•very strange direction. Why was it th a t we were


walking south, away from our destination? Life, for those of us with


faith or with no faith, can take all sorts of twists and turns. Tragedies happen, mistakes have consequences.


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■ At one point we had to cross' the river. I t was only knee- high, but Cedric told us that last week it was up to their waists when they crossed. " Whether we were going in the wrong direction or fording


; the same way, those of us who have faith are led daily by ■ God. - Standing on the edge of the


, the river, the only thing to do i was to trust our leader. -


, . He knew what he was doing. In the same way those with ' faith trust in God that, what-'


ever the circumstances. He Mil bring us through. Finally, Cedric was not


alone in leadership. There were at least three other people with whistles making sure that we stayed on the right route. God has given over the task of lead­ ership to the Church. To be honest, sometimes we are not


- very good at it. We, just as all the followers on th a t walk, need to keep within the boundaries set for us and keep close to our leader following in ■ his footsteps. .


do the Morecambe Bay walk r | would recommend.that you take it. Maybe like me. you will ‘ find some lessons'of life as you


: So if you have the chance


do it. ' - ' . ' • REV. MARK PICKE’rT, St Jamc.s’ Church, - Clilhcroc


,


sound like lots of fun TALENTED young writer Lucy Woods recently spent two days at the Clitheroe


Advertiser as part of her prize for winning


the Rotary Young Writers Competition. Lucy (12) had just begun her long suihmer holiday


from Clitheroc Royal Grammar School, so we asked her to wrile’aboul what the long-awail- ■ cd summer break meant to her.


as warm as we’d like it to be. We shouldn’t let this put us off as there


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are still many other ways of having a good time without getting sunburnt. However, many people choose to go


abroad during the summer, but this year my parents ended up booking a cottage in Scot­ land for seven nights, just a few weeks before we planned to go (no surprises there!). After the holiday in Scotland, my parents ■ have one more week off work each so me and


- ■ my little sister will spend time with them.- I'm looking forward to playing outside, -


shopping, going to the cinema and meeting up with my friends, but my parents both


■instead (who are, hopefully, not on holiday, ' were for playing outside all the. time, but ^ ) ) ^ j


® \ o w I’m 12, playing outside just isn't as fun ^ s i t used to be. Hopefully ..I'll find some­


thing to do, possibly a sport like swimming or bike’riding, to take.up my .time. ; . Everyone deserves a break in the summer


;


holidays, whether it be one week or six, and; I think we should all appreciate these pre-


■ ^ cious times with our families andjriends,- ' and enjoy them while they l^ t . . -


.


•have to work for at least three weeks in the . school holidays. This.means' that my smter and I will probably end up going to a child- - minder, to airelative, or a to summery club,_ which can be .very boring, so I'm going to meet up with my friends as m u ch ^ poKible


all summer). ■\Vhen I was younger, the summer holidays.


I :■


h e summer holidays are a time for having fun and relaxing in the sun­ shine, but usually in England it isn’t


pictured, achieved A-levels in mathe­ matics, computer science, business studies and general studies a t Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. Speaking of her studies at Lancast­


er, she said: “I have been lucky enough to have enrolled on a very flexible degree scheme where I have been able to take a wide variety of modules. Highlights were those that involved a large amount of practical group work, such as those from the field of Project Management, since I feel th a t the skills gained, from these will be extremely useful in my future career. “I also undertook a 12-month work placement a t E;ON UK, which I


' found to be very enjoyable and worth­ while, and invaluable in clarifying my future career plans.” The Dean of the Management


School, Professor, Sue Cox, said; “We are delighted with Suzanne’s result. This is an excellent performance and a reward for her hard work. The skills she has developed will be very much in demand as she progresses through her


career.” While at Lancaster, Suzanne was


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heavily involved with Lancaster Uni­ versity Students’ Union (LUSU) and LUSU-organised events, through


.employment as a member of the , union’s Marketing and Communica­ tions team. She also acted as a student mentor for her college. Now Suzanne is taking a gap year to


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N contrast to the much talked about “doom and gloom” engulf-, ing the business world, Ribch-


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a major investment in new services. ■. The advertising and marketing


agency has started work on building a new photography studio at its Ribble.^ Valley premises. It. is investing,.,


£500,000 in the new purpose-built stu­ dio, which will feature "underfloor 1


•heating,, infinity coving,' changing rooms and showers. The drive-in stu­ dio will be big enough to construct ., four full room sets at any one time and. will be the most modern photographic. facility in the region. Managing director Mark Jones, pic-. !,


tured, commented: .“There is no deny- ing the economy is slowing down, but i t’s a t times like this that businesses need to have confidence in themselves. > In changing market conditions, th e y ,


: need to compete harder, widen their y range of services and look at every.’: new market opportunity. This is exactly'what we are'doing at .Work-


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