30 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Voices seek some Valley sheet'music
, I AM trying to collect as many songs and hymn tunes associated with the Ribble Valley as possible with a view to performance by Whalley-based choir Valley Voices, and possble- recording. .
. . . . . ■ I know of the Milton Allen songs
like “Old P e n d le ” and “Bonny Downham” , th e hymn tu n e s of Francis Duckworth like “Riming- to n ”, “Sw an s id e ” and “S to p p e r Lane” and the folk song “Slaidburn (or Sledbum) Fair”. If anyone has sheet music of these
or any other piece of music associat ed with the area, I would like to bor row them. ■ If you can help, please ring 01254 824312 or write to: 24 The Sands, Whalley,BB7 9TL. I would also like to thank all those
people who attended our first con cert at Whalley and helped to make it such a great success.
GLEN PATE, Founder-conductor, Valley Voices
Fixed procedure hi
for store opening HOMEBASE have a fixed procedure in place for opening a new store. The clock s tarts ticking when the
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handover d a te is agreed. The first step is to erect a large banner on the store (not the one already on the cor ner) announcing the opening d ate and th e s t a r t of the re cruitm ent drive, which ends with an open day when in te rv iew s tak e place. All recruitment and training is done in- house. From the open day training takes 12 weeks. Assuming the banner went up on
Monday, November 10th, allowing two weeks for interest to be aroused the open day could be November 24th. The earliest possible day the store could open would then be Feb ruary 16th, 2009. As Homebase will not comment, a
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date has not been set so my money is on the banner going up the first week in 2009 an d th e store opening the second week in April. Why? Recruitment rarely happens
just before a holiday - a business will not want to pay bank holiday days to brand new employees. Hence the first week in January. An E a s te r opening is also ideal for a DIY store. . This is speculation based on the information gleaned from someone who arranges recruitment for other stores. All this assumes the store will open a t all. One thing is a safe bet - i t will n o t open before F eb ru a ry 15th,2009.
LES BRIGGS, Highficld Road, Clilhcroc
Visitor’s fury over
store parking fine ON October 23rd I visited Clitheroe with a number of friends.
20 c a rav an n e rs? whov'visiHthe. Clitheroe area
about.three times a
'year. As is normal, we vis ited'the .•Booth’s
store.to do some shopping and h ad luncH and-visited other- shops in Clitheroe. - — - ■
ing charge notice informing me th a t I h ad ;p v e rs tay ed 'm y welconietn Booth’s virtually deserted car park by half-an-hour. . •
"'r, ”’ “■ V "Jf> “ii Tn the cu iten t economic climate, ! - .
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shooting a peregrine falcon. What e-vidence has he got of this and has he p re sen ted his evidence to the police? I ’m sure he should. - Pigeon racing has been going on in
Clitheroe for more than 100 years, during this time many outs tandin|K\ performances have been p u t up b j |fy
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do not feel th is is the best way of. encouraging busin e s s - to e i th e r . Booth’s or to Clitheroe itself. Neither myself nor my caravan
ning group will be sh o p p in g a t Booth’s Clitheroe store in the future. I could have u n d e rs to o d th e
charge if I had abused the privilege of parking by being there all day, but 30 minutes feels like desperation to ' me. ■ Additionally, I object to the store
having access to the DVLA in order to obtain my details.
ANTHONY B. MARKS, Salford, Manchester
Still more recycle
chances missed I AM pleased th a t a t last the Ribble Valley has finally got around to recy- . cling as most areas surrounding us have been doing this for a while now. I am, however, disappointed to
hear th a t some things are st il l not being recycled by the council. .My husband went down to the recycling , centre over th e weekend, amongst some of the items he took were, o u r : old dustbins, which are now of no use as we have the new recycle wheelie bins. He questioned th e s ta f f a t the
recycling centre as to what w ou ld . happen to the bins. He was told tha t th ey would n o t be recycled, b u t would go into landfill. Surely there must be some effective way of d is - . posing of these bins. Is i t not ironic th a t we h ave had th e old b in s replaced by more bins so th a t we can recyclel
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JUDITH GOODY, Kenilworlh Drive, Clilhcroc
Waste: the new
way forward I WAS reading in the Times online environment section that the bottom has fallen out of the market for recy cled waste. Local author ities are now faced
with the prospect of having to pay to indefinitely store the waste th ey col lect in the name of recycling. I t ’s not rocket science, but it must be obvi ous to any reasonable person th a t the generation of electricity from waste incineration is the true future. As I have written before, if th e Isle
’ of Man can do it, so can the Ribble Valley, b u t its important to get in- ahead of the curve. . Perhaps Ribble Valley. Borough:
■ Council could offer L an c a sh i re County Council a potential site for ■“ ' such an incinerator, spare room a t
We are a group of approximately ■■ ? th e cement works or more boldly;
5 :besidethe.!A59 o h the “white ele-; jf? p h a n t”j,alinost empty in d u s tr ia l :
.^ii^lhte at-Baifrpw Lodges.^ ' :<?iThefe is plenty of .water for steam
■ Ten days later, I received a park-,
■^•f^eneration; available and perhaps £|po.t'entia!^tb 'b u i ld ' la rg e i-scalh -glasshouses on the adjacent'agricul-^
'-• turaliland to make use of : any w ^ te - ^heat geherate'd.'
i-fiA'An incinerator project could create] A: long-tenri jobs for many local people,] perhaps the only objectors would be
ten bob f a t c a t eco-fascist-leaning property speculators. ■ “ -
GORDON PYE, Downham Road, Chalburn
No help atall to
Glitheroe folk LANCASHIRE County Council Vision n ew sp ap e r s ta te d : “L a n - . cashire L oc a l Committees b r in g together county and district council lors to take decisions over neighbour issues. Anyone can attend and speak a t the meetings. Agendas and rele- . vant documents are on-the council’s, website. The next Ribble Valley one is November'5th a t 6 p.m. a t Whal ley Abbey.”
■ Not being on the internet I had no -agenda; Highways was n um b e r seven on the agenda so I was allowed three minutes to speak, which ju s t happened to be the subject I wished to speak on. , I take issue with the above quoted by the paper. I t was a formal LCC
: meeting, no one was allowed to com ment.- I t must have been very upsetting
for the shopkeepers present'from Moor Lane, Clitheroe. They were given three minutes each to speak. The discussion with councillors on the top table and the LCC highways manager continued for 90 minutes. Three councillors from th e floor spoke an d those whose livelihood
• was involved could not speak again. As I understood from the manager. Moor Lane has to provide two load ing bays and disabled bays, remov ing parking spaces. ■ W h a t I c a n n o t u n d e r s ta n d is,
three miles away in Whalley the road is two or th re e times in len g th to Moor Lane (point to point of King Street), has no loading bay and no disabled parking. Half of i t is dou ble-parked cars. Buses can only con tinue when one stops a t one end to allow the other to continue. At th e meeting I appeared to be
the only member of the public to speak other than
Moor.Lane mem bers. There was no local newspaper to report. I came away feeling cheat- . ed by the advert. Why did LCC pay Whalley Abbey, a fee when there was one councillor
. from Wiswell, another and myself from Whalley?rEveryone else was from Clitheroe so surely Ribble Val-
. ley Borough Council offices should have b e en u sed . LCC do es n o t . apparently know its green policies. T suggest they stay in their ivory tower a t County Hall, Preston, as -they did no favours to the residents
■. of the Ribble Valley a t th a t very for mal meeting. •'
C. M. CLARKE .Whalley - ,
We cannot Mford
to lose customers IT-was with' some disappointment
: ■ that I observed the Lancashire Local A; Committee-reject the objections of. -;:the':pu_blic/traders regardin g th e V changes to 'o n - s tre e t p a rk in g on sMoor Lane,-Clitheroe.:
- While acknowledging that safety of
pedestrians, cyclists and motorists is of concern, perhaps we should be looking a t th e long-term implica tions of this decision. There has been a gradual erosion
. Clitheroe needs people from out of town to patronise the shops and keep the local businesses viable. People from nearby -villages and hamlets use Clitheroe for access to essential serv
of on-street parking in Clitheroe oyer recent years. However, the parking places lost have not been replaced elsewhere resulting in an accumula-,, tiv e loss of p a rk in g fa c i li tie s throughout the town., ■ ■
■ Clitheroe pigeons. The la te s t was Brian Scott’s superb second place in th e 2007 National F ly in g C lu b ’s Tarbes race,
when.Brian’s good hen flew over 700 miles jto her loft. The winning pigeon was flying nearly 200 miles less than Brian’s - a truly out standing performance.. Yo u r w r ite r ap p ears to have a
g ru d g e ag a in s t pigeon fan c ie rs . Pigeon fanciers are some of the most
>- generous people around. From our annual show in Blackpool more than £2m.- has been donated to charities since th e show began in 1973. Of th is , more th an half-a-million is going to ASBAH and £3,000 to Help th e Aged. Generosity indeedl Your writer’s lack of knowledge of pigeon fanciers is only surpassed by his lack
ices such as banking and h ealth - ■ related services as well as for shop ping. Many of these people use a car to get to the" town and need a con venient place in which to park, often for only a brief period of time. Clitheroe is different in geography
and character to other nearby towns. I t is this uniqueness in character th a t a t t ra c ts visitors from places outside the borough and on which the town is trying to build a thri-ving tourist industry. Increased visitor numbers mean an inevitable demand for parking facilities. If Clitheroe is to survive in the
- of knowledge of the peregrine falcon. He s ta te s th a t they are an endan-
: gered species. They are a t their high est breeding numbers in he UK since records began, that is factl I t is also a fact th a t i t easier to see a peregrine falcon in East Lancashire than it is to see skylark. If you are going to write letters to the paper then a t least get your facts - and e-vidence first.
BRIAN TATTERSALL, President North West Region of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association, (by e-mail)
future as a -viable thri-ving town, the ' problem of increased demand for parking need s to be addressed urgently. Whether we like it or not there is an ever-increasing number of motor vehicles on our roads and our modern way of life seems to depend on their use. Towns which ignore the need for convenient parking facilities - for general public use are in danger of losing custom with an inevitable long-term d etr im en t to th e local population. If people find it difficult to access
-the facilities they wish to use they are likely to go elsewere. Clitheroe cannot afford to lose potential customers during this inse-
. cure economic climate and should be doing everything possible to protect what it already has as well as looking
. forward to build
on.its stren g th s towards a prosperous future. Ine-vitably, the needs of motorists
• have to be considered if this is to be ; achieved and the parking problems resolved before it is too late.
B. REDHEAD (MRS), Knowsley Road West, Clayton-lc-Dale
I will respond to
letter in private WITH reference to the letter by Ian • Sowerbutts,- in reaction to mine,-: I cannot let go unchallenged the inac curate and misleading things he has?? said; b u t will be w r i t in g to him
- directly, as I do no t consider this suitable material for airing in public;
GORDON HILL, Lowergate, ^ Clithcroc, '
Make sure your
facts are right! I WISH to reply to the letter from K. A. Donovan,‘of Canada: In this -letter he accuses pigeon fanciers of
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terrific place! R EG A RD IN G the re c e n t le t te r complaining about the Juice Bar, I would like to write this response. Since starting at Clitheroe Royal
Grammar School Sixth Form in Sep tember, I can honestly say there has n’t been a single week day when I
-haven’t visited the Juice Bar with my friends. As I see it, it is a
great.place where
you can buy your lunch or a drink and chill out in a-relaxed environ ment. As a regular, I nearly always get a wave and a “hello” from the guys behind the bar, as do all my friends, and everyone else who goes there. - ■ - ' •; -
_ . The fact that the staff often come - and s i t on the -window ledge with us i. adds-to the friendly environment of th e place, so th a t you d e f in ite ly
• don’t feel intimidated as a “newbie” (newcomer). Overall, I can say th a t th e Juice B a r is a fantastic place, and I feel
- privileged to have such a brilliant facility so close by to the sixth-form college, and I ’m sure I am not alone in my opinion! - • •
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LINDSAY BEEVERS, C l a r k e w o o d C l o s c , ^ ^ ; Wiswell
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