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;• theseldays to speakmot o f : t:how far the destination is, but ;:the length of time needed to.^ travel that distance. ; We’re forever looking for-


:. L '.100 metres record was ■ - J -^ re d u c e d to 9.72 se c - . onds.


. the quickest route. Last week my husband and I travelled to Iona off the west coast of Scotland. : We know from experience


- that there’s no quick way to travel to Iona. In fact a few


'years.aigo I met a young Japanese girl who, following a 12-hour flight from Tokyo to


. Heathrow, had spent three days travelling to Iona,


, although when Columba sailed there from Ireland in the 6th Century, it probably took about six hours. I sometimes wonder what


we do with all this extra time we save through fasterlnter- net speed etc. for we never seem to have enough time, certainly no time for God, or so we’re led to believe.


- Light travels at 300,000


kilometres - per second (186,000 miles per second) and yet God; who created light, offers to travel through life with us, for he created us in his own image. Not just me, but us. God is available right now,


today. , • If we decide to travel with


- him he.will remind us that we are travelling alongside others and that we need one another. He will teach us how to share and care for each other, gto--


: Iona community has a wi®! . Goose, symbolic of the Holy


, Spirit, as its logo. Apparently •larger birds like geese are


; among the swiftest, but when they are in formation they fly 75% faster.


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A 55-YEAK-OLD man died when he tried to climb over a gate. While out on a Sunday walk, it is believed the man attempted to scale a gate, but slipped and fell. He sustained serious head injuries and died two days la te r a t home. • The 128th anniversary of the


Downham Benevolent Sick Society was celebrated with the usual round of fes­ tivities and it was hailed a huge success. Scores of ■villagers turned out for the cel­ ebration. • Thieves attempted to escape with a


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council, uncaring and unfeeling, demand­ ing that she drag her heavy rubbish bin


" T ET me paint a picture for you. I A picture of a little old lady, frail I J and alone, and of the big faceless


■ half-a-mile down a rough farm track so it, can be collected.


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. This the very same council which takes her council tax, and because she lives out


1 in the sticks, the only service she gets for • all that tax is her bin collection. ,


' ■ Sickening isn’t it? Sickeningly simplistic, sickeningly headline-grabbing, and sickeningly


untrue. Yet this is the picture of Kibble Valley


which made the nationals and TV in the past week and had too many of us tut-


’ ting in disgust without considering the bigger picture, the true picture. . The truth is Kibble Valley Council, like others'across’the UK, is having to


: move to a wheelie bin system to meet the . recycling targets set for it, targets we should all care about if we care about the planet we live on.


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: : The tru th is this new system will . inevitably mean changes to the routine ; we have grown comfortable with. There


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are bound to be teething troubles, indi­ vidual cases and particular problems . which have to be resolved.


. The truth is the council does care and


will do all in its power to address each case and each problem, to resolve it as best it can, but that takes time. Nobody gets it all right first time. Yes, there are cases where people have


very genuine concerns, but these are resolved by working with the council, not declaring war on it. ■ Despite the lurid headlines, the council has never demanded people drag their wheelie bin half-a-mile or more for col­ lection. It has specified points where the bins need to be left for emptying, in order to


Looking Back 50 years ago


ALTHOUGH the day was overcast, about 1,200 people flocked to the grounds of Downham Hall when a gala was held for the Village Hall Fund. There to open the fete was one of Britain's most famous war leaders, Mar­ shall of the Koyal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, former head of Bomber Com­ mand and affectionately known as Bomber Harris. . 0 Lady Kibblesdale, widow of Lord


Kibblesdale, of Gisburn, died in New York aged 89. She was an outstanding personality of London and New York society for more than half a century. The first Lady Kibblesdale died in


1911, and in 1919 Lord Kibblesdale married the former wife of Col John Jacob' Astor, who died the the Titanic.


25 years ago


THE livelihoods of several Kibble Val­ ley publicans were under threat as costs and overheads spiralled and the reces­ sion continued to bite. AVhile trade was declining during the country’s econom­ ic slump, their rents, rates, heating and lighting bills had been doubling. O A proposal to launch a “united


front” against Kibble Valley primary school closures was put this week by the local association of the NUT. 0 Kibble: Valley MP Mr David Waddington retained his job as Minis-


: ter of State at the Home Office in Mrs Margaret Thatcher’s weekend Govern-


• ment reshuffle. He held the post for five months in the previous Government and was responsible for matters related to immigration. ■


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Clitheroe A d ve rt ise rs Times, Thursday, June 12lh, 2008 7


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M B T I C E B O A B B NOTIGEBOARD ’ ' ' a we'ekly look at local issues, people and place^^ ; ' • Not quite what it seems


work out the most cost-effective collec- i tion route in a very large rural area. Out in the country th a t collection


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point could be some distance from the owner’s home, but that doesn’t mean the bins have to be dragged between the two. ; Leave them at the collection point and : drop off your litter, bit by bit, when you are passing. I t ’s not rocket science. . For those in genuine need the council 1


has an “assisted list” and those on it will get the help they need. But why should ' Joe Bloggs in a two-up two-down terrace ■ in town pay extra tax so the council can buy extra vehicles, extra petrol and extra personnel to visit every far-flung corner of the borough? And the argument that people “in the sticks” ony get bin collec­ tion for their council tax is pure tripe. The borough council collects the tax,


but keeps just 9% of it, the rest goes to the county council to pay for education, social services,'the roads network... things we all benefit from, not to men­ tion the police and fire service. Now let’s look again a t that picture.


My five-year-old paints pictures like that..


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JPainting poses a problem.. .


:: A ; PAINTING th a t hung


:i ZA in the last saddler’s shop i ^ ^ i n Clitheroe has posed a mystery to a relative of one of the men in the picture. ■ The watercolour by artist A.


- Lord depicts a scene of bygone years. There are men working on saddlery in the painting, one of whom is the great-grandfa-. ther of Stephen Thornber... but . which one is a mystery.


; The painting hung in Cook's Saddlers, in Castle Street, and now belongs to Malcolm and Derek Cook, sons of the last saddler there, Noel Cook. ■ If anyone knows anything


about the painting, could they please send details to the


Clitheroe Advertiser and Times office, 3 King Street, Clitheroe,, B7 2E'W, and these will be for­ warded on.


Former pupil goes to the top of his class!


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A FOKMEK Clitheroe schoolboy has gone to the top of the class - . .


Mr Bernard Knowles has been


appointed principal of a new community college which is being built in Leeds.. Born and brought up locally, Mr


Knowles (53) realised his working ambi­ tion in 1979, becoming a teacher and get­ ting a job in his home town after being appointed to educate youngsters at Kib- blesdale High School in maths and PE. . As a schoolboy, he was a pupil at St


Michael and St John’s KG Primary School in Clitheroe and then at St Augus­ tine’s KG High School. He completed his teacher training qualifications at Chester ■ College after spending three years work­ ing in a variety of different jobs. ■


■ After teaching in Clitheroe, he took a ■ post at Longridge High School and then went to Blackpool and the Fylde College. Mr Knowles then moved to The Kad-


clyffe Schoql in Oldham where he worked for four years before being appointed


deputy head of a large school in Sefton , Park-,;Liverpool. Five years later; he became headteacher of a school in Wrex-,


• ham leading the way in appointing and recruiting'staff as part of a drive in the .:


■ 'Welsh'town, to replace its three schools; ■ ■with'two new ones.


IX -Y E A R -O L D


^ ^ F e n e l la Lamle is the, latest bookworm to be


named as Relay'Reader of • the month. -


, A piipil a t Waddingtpn


and West'Bradford Prima- : ry School,'she received heu:


• award for .writing: about


• :■ Nicola Baxter’s book ;“The Story of Beatrix Potter”.


His most recent appointment follows


'cipal a t the brand new; Swallow. Hill Community •College, which will have. 1,850 pupils aged between I I and 18. The college is due to open in September 2009 so I have 12 months to put strategies, policies and procedures into place. It will


be similar to the job that I did in Wrex­


ham.” Throughout his varied career in educa­


tion Mr Knowles has continued to remain loyal to his Ribble.Valley roots. ■ During-his time in,Wrexham his wife,Angela, and the couplels three . daughters, Rebecca, Amy and Katie, • lived locally, while he came back to the


' family home every .weekend. .: ; “I knew I wanted to be a headteacher


. and you ne'ver know_when you might get .-the next chance,’’.-,said:Mr Knowles. “I


;: have been supported by my wife enabling ;■ me to take theselchances. She was at home bringing the girls up while I was


working away.” With-one parent'who is a newly-


, appointed college principal and the other


.;-who is second in faculty and a food tech- i nology teacher, a t secondary level, it ; came as no surprise to the couple that


his success across the border. Said.Mr. ■Knowles: “Just before Easter l had a three-day interview for the post of prin-,


' their daughters would follow in their 7 footsteps. Eldest daughter Rebecca has '.• just completed training as a primary I school teacher, at St Martin’s and this :;September will, take up a post in Cologne: Amy is in her second year train-


’ ing to be a secondary school PE teacher “' while younger sister Katie is studying at Blackburn College with the aim of work- inginanursery (B290508/1)


, is our latest Relay Reader


' Fenella (pictured) said the three things she.liked-


i; best about the book-,were - Beatrix P o t te r ’s:love of


^ nature and the countryside,. ^ her love of animals and of


■ drawing and painting. : :: She enjoyed: the book


'“ because: “I like reading and i writing and.drawing the.


•' same as Beatrix Potter.”


Fenella added th a t her . favourite part of .the book. : was .“the story of .her. life;


• was good apart from Peter;. ■


■ Rabbit’s story, was turned; »down by six publishers.’!: ■, ; To accompany her award winning.review, .Fenella,


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