www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 01282 478111 (Advertising), 01282 422331 (Classified) 12 Clitheroe Adver tiser&Times, Thursday, August 7th, 2008 A word of warning


to real shoppers MAY I preface this correspondence with wholehearted approval relating to Booths stand against commuters who left their cars in Booths car park all day as it is obviously so convenient' for the train station. •;


' However, genuine shoppers please


read o n . ..- On July 16th I received a parking.


charge “reminder” through the post telling me that on June 26th my car had exceeded the two hours allowed and that I.was duly being fined £80 ' for the transgression. I rang the number given on the'


form to tell, them that I hadn't : received the initial notification of my fine and was told that it wasn't the company's fault that I hadn't received it, as the date it was issued was defi­ nitely July 2nd. I asked to speak to the manager and eventually discussed ■ the anomaly of having received a ■ reminder before any other notification with him. •: Gary reiterated that it was not the


company's fault that I had not received the initial notification,but told me, more importantly, that if I could prove that I had spent over £30 : in the store on the day in question,: then the penalty would be waived. May I say at this point that after meticulous scrutiny of the written A4 “reminder” sent to me, there was absolutely no mention of a proviaonah, waiver. Had I not spoken to Gary, the manager, in person I would not have known that such a waiver existed. I replied that I would provide the proof. and our conversation ended.


- As you can imagine there followed


frantic searching for the receipt relat-'. ing to June 26th. No handbag or “bag for life” revealed such a document. I visited the store and asked if; they . could let me have a copy of my trans- J action on the day in question; .The; supervisor was most helpful and went to check with the accounts depart-; m'ent, but they do not keep records going back that far. Mmmm, what , options of proof were left to me? ;. Thankfully my bank statement


revealed the requisite sum moving from my current account to Booths in Clitheroe on June 27th. I sent a copy to "Parking Eye", together with an explanation that the actual transac­ tion must have happened the day before (ie: the 26th) as we left the Kib­ ble 'Valley extremely early on 27th to


• travel down to the New Forest in order to.participate in Round the; Island race on the Saturday. Thank goodness I'd used my debit card that day rather than cash.


This crossed in the post with a ■A protest at this parking charge notice from the same ■


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. company, dated July 2nd, but sent on July 17th. I asked for-vmtten confir-: mation that my bank statement and accompanying letter had been, received by them. None was forth­ coming, so on July 30th I rang "Park­ ing Eye" again asking if they'd received the relevant paper work from .


,me. A gentleman called Len con­ firmed that it had been received and; that my account was now marked closed.


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invidious policy READING about the transport bias against pupils from 'Whalley who will be attending Clitheroe Royal Gram­ mar School, the question arises: what would be the county policy if the grammar school was nearer "Whalley than Ribblesdale High School? I am certain that the green-eyed


goddess who inspired the discrimina­ tion would find ample grounds for


■ r asked how I would have known ■ this unless I'd telephoned and Len ■ replied that theirs is a paperless com-, pany and no letter is ever generated to allow customers to know.that their fine is waived. lam surprised that a supermarket


of the high calibre and quality of Booths uses a car park management firm that resorts to bully-boy tactics like ."Parking Eye'!. I write,this as a cautioVary .t'ale'’.tb''all'Bdb'tlis''cus-'i


• reversing this decision.: - . ' ■ This letter is not about a compari-


. son of the grammar school and Rib­ blesdale, which are both fine schools.


; It is a protest about a stupid, invidious policy.


; : In the Ribble Valley we are blessed with excellent schools: how sad that


' anybody should seek to tinker with them through the back door by a sneaky attack on their bus fares, par-'


Recycling: a response from Ribble Valley Borough Council


A RIBBLE Valley. Borough Coun­ cil spokesman said; “An anonymous : contributor last week asked why; glass, cans and plastic bottles were.’ collected together, and claimed that a recycling contractor in Darwen had refused to accept the mixture. “This week, Mr Rush suggests


the Chinese buy our recycled rub­ bish and ‘turn it into roads’. We sus­ pect someone'has been having fun at Mr Rush’s expense! “The council chose a co-mingled


collection service in order to retain, a weekly collection of non-recycla-


-ble waste and ensure the service was v as efficient as possible. The collec-.


: tion of npn-recyclable waste and one recycling stream each week in a sin-.; gle pass has saved the council from '■ having to double its fleet at a cost of; around £1.2in., as well as increase its refuse collection workforce by ; almost the same proportion, if we ;■ were to have followed the example


. of most of our neighbouring author­ ities.


• .


: “Our mixed recyclables are trans­ ported to Glass Recycling UK in


tomers to retain their receipts for at ' least a month in ca^ the same thing • happens to them. " '


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SUE HIND, ^ Horlon-in-Cravcn; %


■


Thank you to all after our accident.


■ I WOULD like to thank everyone who; came to our help on Saturday, July.. 19th, when we had a bad car accident at the junction of Pimlico Road and Pimlico Link Road, in Clitheroe. To the fire service, police, para­


medics and especially Joanne, the young nurse who came to help Joe, and stayed with him until help came -


■ thank you all so much. Also grateful thanks for to the North 'West Air Ambulance and crew.


D. CHADWICK (MBS), Cliiheroe,'


for the recyclables and the council also receives recycling credits for


diverting rubbish from landfill. This reduces the net cost to taxpayers of managing our waste. GRUK may well make a prof it - they are a busi-


■ ness, after all - but the fee that they -■ pay to the council, net of the cost of transport, is still a better deal than that offered two years ago by the contractor ii^Darwen. It may be that in futufeRibble Valley recy­ clables are processed along with those from the rest of Lancashire - in Lancashire - but that decision has yet to be made. ; “Both writers feel that our work­


- THE council’s Slrccl Scene Manag- ■ cr Graham Jaggcr with one of the. wheclie bins prior to the intrbduc- : tion of the scheme (A20020G/3a)


Barnsley, where they are mechani­ cally sorted into; constituent streams, with glass processed on site and other, materials sold to special-' ist markets; GRUK pay the council


The least the county council can do


immediately is to publish.two lists. The first is of those villages whose chil-- •dren wiU have free transport only if they attend Clitheroe Roy^ Grammar ' School. The second is of the names of


- those'eounty coimcillors who voted in favour of this'warped policy.’^ r .; v :.';


NORMAN THORPE, - . 'MiUonRoad,';. Whallcy - - / '-■


— We must all strive


to aid environment AS a regular viator to recycling/landfill centres in and around Lancashire (sad person that I am, sometimes I even take my wife for a trip out) and being a fairly late convert to the recycling fra­ ternity I have made the following obser­ vation..


; : It appears to me that the sites are


becoming busier and people are filling the non recyclable sldps with plastic. bags containing all kinds of rubbish as - they cannot be bothered to seperate i t '.


• into the two or three'appropriate bins. ■ :Thishasmeantthatthenon recycla­


ble skip has to be replaced more often in a week and thus causing delays at the site. If this is the case then maybe it has implications both financial and other for those who run the sites and that the much hoped for increase in recycling will not be as was expected.I wonder if this is the case or just my imagination 'We all need to do our utmost to save


our environment not only for us enjoy­ ing it now but for generations to coma


IAN BROWN, • ChulburnRoad . Clilhcroc • .


Recycling: silence


is deafening! WELL, what was the official response' to my questions: “How much recycle


ticularly, as poorer families -ivill be the , material is being generated and, what


force should not have to suffer abuse or criticism as they go about their work and we wholeheartedly agree. ■ ■ “If householders like your corre­ spondents wish to separate-and recycle their waste via the house­ hold waste recycling centres that is their right.'However, theirrubbish will ultimately be recycled in just the same way as'their neighbours


■ who use Ribble Valley Borough Council’s service.”


big silence. I’ve had three calls from other, members of the concerned ■ ; brigade, all guessing or passing on


. hearsay, but an official response, noth- ■:ing., .


. So, I wonder, as this exercise costs


• money (our money) would the public auditor investigate, please?


..; However, the ongoing saga of Rod-


Y hill’s rubbish collection. A few weeks ' ■ ago Coun. Ranson visited me and my ' ■ neighbours, asking us to “give it a ' V chance”. ■ ' So, being public spirited, we said “OK.”'He then asked what bin requirements we “thought” we would need. 'We agreed three non-recycle, two recycle and one for garden waste. He went away, indicating deal done.


'What turned up? Two recycle, two non-recycle, which wasn’t even what we had been originally allocated, i.e. threeofeach. . 'While we’ve been away on our holi­


days, a letter from Mr Jagger has arrived, reminding us that we suggest­ ed fencing in the bins.'


;.r I told him at the time that we;


would only fence them in once we were sure we had the right amount of bins: and it was working. -


- ' ; This week we are down to two bins,


for seven families, the other two hav­ ing been stolen (again, something we. warned would happen). So, where from here?


, : This mess is ongoing. Mr Jagger


suggested at our meeting that other councils were watching to see how Ribble Valley had managed to not only cap the cost of rubbish collection, but taking in inflation, they had actu­ ally reduced the cost. They should note, it’s easy when you make a com­ plete hash of it. Is it working? - no, i t ; isn’t.


Mr and Mrs Public Auditor note -


I’m making an official complaint that this council is wasting our money 'investigate please. _. -


. ; Aones.ixj b ^ ih e bmM'Iv’'*?'iu‘?i-Vt4UU^A%'is‘the.use and IwKere’is.it gdiri^” .-^a; i'biris'for seven fariiilieVu'rgently arid' L,McarIey,SyKel.Clilhcfde'%'u.^'.;o'st',''« . ■- ’1®"’ have our quantity of: ,STEVERUSH, t i . i www.clitheroeadvcrtiser.co.uk


note we are not i ones. HARRY JOHNSTON)


Rodhill Lorlge, • Bolton-by-Bowland ; ‘


Why does no one ;Wrilclo:fifcEdi(or,'5iihcVocAd;^^^^


respond to us? IT seems that every .week we read about wheelie bins and recycled waste - I have sent four e-maik to Ribble


.Valley Borough Council, but have not received a reply. How are we supposed


to “work with the council” if they don’t want to work with us? . The only semblance of a reply I


have seen recently was that of Mr Heap who basically said that the .


■ RVBC were still trying to get the sys­ tem right. Seems strange when they have been practising in 'Whalley for two years. How long is it going to take to get it right? r believe some employees are away


from work with stress and others are recei'ving abusa They are only carry­ ing out instructions. If you have a problem speak to the person in charge and leave the workers alone to carry out their duties. After all most of the RVBC employees I have spoken with agree that the new recycling system was always doomed from the outset / due to bad planning. ■ . . 'Where does our recycled rubbish go? Why can’t someone just tell us that the Chinese buy it and turn it into roads. Or is that because someone is


■ making a profit from our rubbish and not passing any of it back to us? Instead we constantly have to suffer


increases in our council tax payments for services that “cannot be right first time”. Surely it does not take Einstein to work out that when we were origi­ nally asked to recycle we paid a visit to ■ the tip and placed different products in different homes. Even down to the glass being separated into different colours. ■ V


■ How is that now we are expected to


sling all our so-called recycled waste into one bin. 'Who sorts thiuugh it and separates it? Answen no one -; we sell it to the Chinese., Like last week’s writer, I have never


used the new recycling bin, but prefer to visit the tip every month and place my collected items into the relevant containers. That waste is recycled for our future use, that in our new bins is not, but does raise excellent revenue fortheGovermnent. Last week Bert Hardwick wrote


about the council’s index-linked pen­ sion scheme. This has been a long-run­ ning disgust of mine. 'Why, when Gor­ don Brown has almost managed to ' wipe out all other company pension


■ schemes vrith his stealth taxes, do we have to contribute to a council pension scheme through our council tax?


" . There are lots of people that cannot afford to contribute to a pension for themselves because they have to pay a


pension for someone else. Even more


. disgraceful is that pensioners, who struggle to cope financially thera-


; selves, find that they too are con­ tributing to someone else’s pension. ' My research suggests that almost 25% of our council tax is money paid:


into a pension pot for certain council’


• employees. How much better off would you be if you could save 25 % o f ,


. your council tax? The problem is tha t ' ; as more and more people start to draw the pension the dearer the scheme is to


; run and the more money needs to go into it. Unless something is changed your council tax will rise every year, to pay third party pensions, and some years it will see large rises.


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A WAR .veteran and well- respected former Clitheroe


. LOW MOOR has lost one of its most mem­


orable characters. . Clitheroe’s torchlight procession veteran Mr


James (Jim) Vose, pictured, has died aged 78. Born in Clitheroe in November 1929, he


attended St Michael and St John’s school after which he worked at Atkinsons in Clitheroe and . Castle Cement. Mr Vose and his family were among the first


people to move into Greenfield Avenue in 1954. Then later he moved into the flats in Ribble Way until he suffered a severe brain stem stroke. Still not wanting to leave Low Moor, he ■


moved into St Ann’s Court, where he was able to care for himself with the help of his family and his very dear friend, Nellie. Mr Vose always played a key part in the


town’s torchlight procession with mascot “Percy. the Pig”. Percy began his outstanding career many years ago and he carried many public fig­ ures on his broad back in several processions. Mr Vose’s first procession was back in 1936 -


when he was aged only six or seven at the time and he took part in every one since then. He was a very community spirited person and


as a life member of Low Moor Club, he will be remembered by all as a number one bingo caller along with his “chicks” (daughters Anne and Lynn) selling the tickets, a very keen card play-


■ er and taking on the role of Father Christmas. Mr Vose enjoyed his holidays in Majorca at


the home of his eldest daughter, Anne He used to say he had two daughters living


abroad - Anne over the sea in Majorca and Lynn over the river in Billington! He was also very proud of his granddaughter. Gemma, and most special great-grandaughter. Eve. In the seven years since his stroke, Mr Vose


enjoyed holidays in Llandudno and Eastbourne with his friend, Nellie. (s)


man has died.. ■ Mr Vincent Cunningham- died in hospital at the begin-, ning of July - ju s t one week before his 90th birthday. He was born in Henthorn


Road in 1918, the first son of Charles Mitchell Cunning­ ham and Alice Robinson. He attended the Wesley Day School until he was 11 ; when he went to the town’s


grammar school. An exceptionally bright


• pupil, when he left at 18 he joined the Electricity Board. When the war broke out, he was called up and joined the Royal Engineers, which sub­ sequently became REME


/ (R o y a l Electrical and Mechanical Engineers).


• He spent the first part of the war in France and was evacuated from Dunkirk. He had a very lucky escape as his regiment was deiayed in reaching Dunkirk and the ship sailed without them. It was subsequently sunk and all lives lost. After a short time in Eng­


land, Mr Cunningham was sent to North Africa, where


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A lifelong supporter of Ex-grammar school pupil the torchlight procession


Soon after marriage they


went to live in Manchester. Mr and Mrs Cunningham


never had any children, how­ ever they were very proud of their nieces Francina Michele and Janette van de Geest. • Mr Cunningham’s hobbies


included attending pottery classes and he was fascinated by colle ct ing all sorts of china, particularly tea cups. His family have paid trib­


ute saying: “He was an extremely kind and generous man who would go out of his way to help - in both small and big ways. ■ “He would drive anybody


he stayed until almost the end of the war, returning via Italy. He spent five years in the African desert, not once returning home in all that time, but spending his leave in Cairo, which he loved. When the war ended he was a staff sergeant. He returned home in late


1944 and shortly after mar­ ried his childhood sweet­ heart, Peggy - Margaret Mary Hayter - in January 1945, at St Mary’s Church,


Clitheroe.


anywhere, open his home to the homeless and give money and financial help to anyone he thought was in need or less well off than he. “Although he had not lived


in Clitheroe for many years it was his spiritual home and he continued to receive the Clitheroe Advertiser and


Times. “We will aU remember him


as a kind and loving brother, uncle and great uncle. “He loved us and was as


proud of us and our various achievements as if we were his own.” (s)


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