■ 12 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, .Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Meadow flowers
look beautiful! . r WOULD like to congratulate those :
. responsible for the planting of mead ow flowers on two roundabouts on the ■, Clitheroe A59 b y p ^ they look beau- , tiful, p le ^ keep up the good work. .' J.S. BAILEY,- Clitheroe'■ .
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Perfect antidote to daily problems
• JUST a brief- letter to convey, thanks j to the person responsible for creating^ the mini wld flower meadows oh the' * tworoundaboutsontheA59.',- They look so bright and cheerful
and are a perfect antidote to the many problems of the day. Thank you and lets have one created on the
- one at the junction of the A59 and the A671; This is a good use of our money!
' JO.AN H.AYSELDEN,-,.. Nice little park . '
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goalscorer w i th -.88: goals,in -26,
-v..received two bins betiyeen several .appearances; He also later made his';v properties. The properties included
debut for Clitheroe Football Club a t ’ y three dwelling houses and a .small agelG. ' ■
. -number of holiday cottages. couple of consblation goals through-^took several weeks for the council to
Mike Brown, (centre half) and Ian . Sharp (centre forward).' Bright x; don't Hesitate to rernind us if we are
"discus the practical issues and work x with the council to a sensible com-
c. F/--‘Ft,;oi,’ nnVv nonpars to be rel-
: Park Avenue.-was four, goals down ' ■ Despite the fact that, the tenants •. Safety ( at half time but managed to score aS: of; the dwellings pay .council tax, i t
■ Street Rangers scored a further four, late with our
council.tax payments goals to win 8-2 for a well deserved;^;, though! ,'
The.landlord of our proper-.
Uheir victory, which might have been .,, ty had to’ (literally) beg the council: greater,- but for the brilliant goal-
sto.issue us with bins fqr each of the
keeper, Chris Nelson. ■ ' . ’ ^ . properties concerned. ■
■ ' The'teain was: Chris Nelson (8 -' Our property consists of five bed- •Park Avenue), Derek Parker (Breh- -; rooms and six pe'dple. 'We were given nand St);Peter Chatburn (
IS.Park ■.the same size bins asasmall one bed-
• Avenue), Nick Wood; (38 Park
-..room property with one occupant. A Avenue), John Pye (Waddington . -small property has a council tax pay- Road), Clifford Chatburn (15 Park ; ment of around £80 per month. The ' Avenue), Ian Sharp (Railway View),
noWlooks awful COULD someone please explain what happened to the park at Whal- ley-andwhy? 5-
' De’rek Cook (27 Park Avenue), Pete; ' : ’.Wightman (Chester Avenue),-Mike
' "Brown (capt) and Anthony Brown (both 10 Park Avenue).
It looks absolutely awful. Tarmac
now covers what used to be a nice grassy area, but it looks like it has been thrown down in about half-an- hour by a bunch of cowboys. I'm infuriated that this nice little
park now resembles Something from a rundown estate.
: ^ NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED
Thank you for tribute to uncle
derful man, deeply loved and how greatly mi^ed. I am honored to see my name, alongside my sisters^ in
: your tribute to him. I would respect fully like it to be known that Mr
• Cunningham leaves another niece and a nephew: Joanna Cunningham,
- of Alonyssos, Greece, and Mark Cunningham, of Darley Dale, Der byshire, who are the daughter and son of his late younger brother, Granville (Gren) Cunningham and
■ ' Patricia (nee Else) Cunningham. . Vincent Cunningham also leaves
his younger sister (my mother), Dorothy van de Geest-Cunningham, of Stone, Staffordshire. JANETTE VAN DE GEEST-VAN GRUISEN,
. Rhode Island, USA . Street team was
born 50 years ago PARK AVENUE, Clitheroe, is not a ■ street associated with the beautiful game,-but 50 years ago this month a
- boys’ football team. Park Avenue .. Rovers, was born.
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■ Seven of the players lived
in.the street, (which consisted of 46 houses' at the time - now. 75) and the remaining four lived within 200 yards. The first match was played at , Shawbridge, home of Clitheroe Foot ball Club.^ Park AVenue Rovers were well beaten byJocal rivals. Bright Street
■ Rangers,.: captained by,: David. Preedy, who was later to join the ■ club and become the club’s leading
..... ;; Twenty-five years ago, Ian Sharp,:
the leading goalscorer in 1958/59, became famous for producing-the, film “Who Dares Wins”.
• In 1960 the team was strength- ; ened and changed its name to Red Dynarhoes. It joined the Clitheroe and District Youth League finishing 5th in 1960/61 and 3rd 1961/62. ;
■ The team folded 46 years ago, but, four members (and sometimes more) of the originalteam meet once a month in the Lower Buck, Wadding-^; ton, to drink a few pints and remi-; nisce about the good old days.. Michael Brown, the team captain
THANK you for the warm and r respectful obituary written for my ' late uncle, Mr Vincent Cunningham. He was indeed a unique and won
from 1958-60, has match reports for all of the 50 games played as well as various statistics including, gbalscor- eres, appearances and positions. . MICHAELBROWN,'
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ChorKon Terrace, Barrow
. : ; . Trees were felled
within guidelines REGARDING the letter published , in the Glitheroe Advertiser on July 31st complaining about the use of the wood on Noddle Hill, I assume the writer is aware that trespass i s , illegal?
, . Othenvise how else are they aware
of the condition within the wood when there is no
public.access? Trees have been felled within Forestry
of the other trees. Access is required to ensure safe operations and replant
ing, hence the use of diggers for a safe 'track. If “name and address sup-
, plied” felt so strongly about this they could have approached me instead of complaining to police and newspa-. pers, however they prefer to hide and - snipe. NIMBY? ' DAVID BALL,
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, Brook Slrc’ei, Cliihcroc •
' x . Please give us
bigger bins!: RIBBLE Valley Borough;Council- are ‘Iwheelie taking the biscuit'! over • the bins situation. .
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■ Despite receiving a letter several months ago informing me that our . property was to receive new bins, we
e.xpected monthly pajmient for our property is £207 per month.
• J ,We live in a rural area so the coun- •;cil don’t provide us ivith street light-
- irig'.'We never see a road sweeper. .' ■There is one policeman in the village • two miles away. We don't trouble the
' council too much do we? Perhaps they might consider issuing us with I'bins large enough for the properties
X concerned? v ; NEIL and KATE SHEPHERD, Higher Greenbank Barn,
: ‘ Whalley Road ■
Bin collection is apantomime
. MYSELF and several neighbours recieved a leUer from Ribble Valley Council, dated May 6th, informing' us tha t new wheelie bins would shortly be delivered to bur proper-
■; ties, that our collection would, remain the same, and to leave them at the edge of our properties where
• we had always left our bags. Great, I thought, full recycling at last! Sure enough bins were duly deliv
ered and put into use.' Alas' none of - them were collected. Must have missed you, couldn't find you, lorry too big was the selection of reasons; given from the council on the Jirst week to us. OK; teething problems I thought, bear with them. . Over the next six weeks our bins
were never collected at the tinie and place given by the
council.This resulted in a number of futile e-mails and phone calls to the “helpline” at- the unresponsive council, and several
Commission guidelines for the welfare conversations with helpful council- lors (who clearly have heard it all
before). :In July w e received a letter instructing us that our bins should
allow iis bins for each property! They- : all our bins have been collecteu up, h ^ reared i t e ^
never to be seen again, by two sepa rate goods vehicles which had no trouble reaching us and finding us. -
■ 'We have been issued with plastic sacks again, but
they.can t be col-
■ lected from where they have always been collected, we now have to put them in our vehicles and drive them to the council’s latest designated point. I wonder if they will get col-
.lected or left lying around our beau tiful valley like a lot of other refuse containers throughout the week. Ironically the -ivorkers at the sharp
end know the issues, perhaps if the. officials had included them in the planning and visited the sites before issuing various instructions from afar this pantomine could have, been
avoided? . How long will it be before the spin
doctors at the council claim a fantas- . tic money saving, increased recy cling, success and invite interested parties to come and gaze at their efficiency? There won’t be much mention of satisfaction and service
levels though. A DISGRUNTLED VILLAGE RESI DENT
Be positive about
new waste service MAY I try and provide some context and background to the, stories on waste collection that have appeared- in your columns in recent weeks and months; ' ; ' ■
; The council’s officers have pro-vid- ed some responses but these can never provide a full picture (for one th in g .th ey remain unfailingly polite). My perspective comes from the fact that for the past 11 years I have been RVBC’s elected represen tative on Lancashire "Waste Partner ship, a forum for all 15 councils in ' Lancashire (county, two unitaries and 12 districts) where the county’s
■ waste strategy has been formulated. For the past two years I was its chairman. As a result of starting the
■ .partnership early (in 1997), Lan- : cashire is now one of the three best performing counties in England as regards its was.te management arrangements. I will also
stick.my neck out and
: now be walked , to'a point sorae'400 ..yards away from our. houses and would be collected there. Unfortu nately the point identified by the council was private land and, need less to say, the owner was not best pleased to have a gathering of wheel-. ie bins every week causing an
; obstruction-on his land, even if .the residents could have got them there (for some itjwould be physically
. impossible,.even if the heart.had been willing); -..
.; In early;August we received a fur- .i ther. letter, from the council inform
e'd the site . Of .course we were informed 'after the,event, so no; chance of a face-to-face meeting to
predict that Ribble 'Valley will, in under a year’s time, be the best per-
. forming district in Lancashire as . regards the proportion of its waste that is recycled or composted. This ■ is due in large measure to the imagi-
, native and efficient way our officers • have designed the waste collection arrangements-and also to the unequalled enthusiasm to co-operate with the scheme by the majority of residents.- . ■ '■ :•
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■ -Alone among Lancashire districts we have retained a weekly collection for residual waste, but our collection
ing us that an official had now -visit- ■ costs have risen less than any other area. The capital investment (some grant-aided and some provided by LOG) has been huge; on a fleet of
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and a new'waste transfer station as ■- well as the wheeled bins; Yet the..^ effect on council tax has been mini-WB' mal.
. V '■ , . Kibble Valley is fortunate in that
the majority of our property consists of detached or semi-detached prop- erties with gardens. Other districts with tower blocks, a lot of flats and maisonettes, a high proportion of terraced houses,-houses in multiple- occupation etc, have faced much big ger collection problems.:
Our problems stem mainly from Irom
„ , L not- theresi- terraces and isolated rural properties ; with long drives.
Many people don’.t like change
and some resistance was to be expected, especially when in some
ways the pre-vious service was almost too “user friendly”. : It should really be no great hard
ship to take your waste to a place that you will be passing anyivay sev eral times a week.
- ... : In doing so, you will be helping to
save fuel in vehicles that only do around 7--8 m.p.g. and making your
-contribution to keeping the council tax down, not to mention reducing
.-.the wear and tear that 26 tonne vehi cles can inflict on narrow country lanes. Think of it as your contribu-
■ tion to the greater “green” agenda. Two other small points to make.
First to counter the oft-heard con tention that “I pay a small fortune in council tax and the only service 1 get is the refuse collection”. Waste collection costs an average
of less than £1 per household per week. Second to point out that Rib ble Valley has a very small number of staff to plan and carry through major changes like this new collecr tion system. - . People have been taken off other
jobs to cope with the peak of queries and complaints, but it’s just not pos sible to give immediate replies if everyone phones or e-mails in the first week. More temporary staff is no answer since local knowledge is essential and complaints are usually site-specific. If people are patient, their problems ivill be addressed, but someone has to be at the end of the queue. So, let’s all try and be positive
about our new service, celebrate the fact that we are set to have one of the very best performing waste serv ices in England and do our bit to push the recycling percentage even higher. If, like me, you think our refuse service is excellent, tell the staff when you meet them and help to balance the complainers who are always the first to reach for their pens.
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COUN. GRAHAM SOWTER, Lungho
850 employed iii
UK at firm’s peak LAST week’s page one story related to the possibility of 20-plus redun dancies at Ultraframe, Clitheroe. The article incorrectly states that
Ultraframe employed 500 at its peak.'At the company’s peak; there were around 850 employees in the UK and a further 500 in the United States. We would like to offer our^
- thoughts and best wishes to all ex-^ colleagues employed at Clitheroe and hope that sales improv-e over the coming months.; . t,. .. THREE EX^EMPLOYEES,
. Names and addresses supplied • We'apologise for (lie error, but
(lie figure was intended to refer to (lie employees at the Clitheroe works, not Bristol and (lie US - editor ■
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Eagle has landed as Kevin swoops torevamppub
AN award-winning Lancashire pubr lican is to expand his food empire; when the revamped Hondo’s restau rant at Barrow opens its doors this
autumn. To be renamed “Thy Eagle at Bar-
row”, the lavish restaurant is under the new ownership of Lancashire entrepre
neur Kevin Berkins. The former butcher, whose sausages
have collected a host of awards in recent years, currently owns and runs the much- lauded Fence Gate Inn, near'Burnley. Now, thanks to securing funds with the
'aid of Ainsworths Chartered Accoun tants and Nat West bank, Mr Berkins. has been able to buy and develop the
Barrow building. ■ “I’m very excited about th'e new ven ture,” said Mr Berkins, who holds count less awards including National Free house of the Year 2007 and National
Sausage.Champion. “The Eagle will, carry a similar ambiance and menu to Fence Gate, but will allow me to take my ambitions a step further.”
Ian Dugmore, Ainsworths’ managing
• director, said: “We were delighted to be - able to secure the finances for Kevin. As a local company we understand the importance in supporting other local
businesses. . “Following the success of the Fence
Gate Inn we knew Kevin had a solid business plan, so raising
the.finance to expand his business was easy.” The building, which is being developed
by David Holme Construction, will have a purpose-built smokehouse as well as a deli where the local produce will be sold. Mr Berkins is also looking forward to his venture benefiting other local busi
nesses....-.,-.- ,He said:.“We endeavour to use prod
ucts that are sourced and produced local ly.'There is such a' wealth of good quality food in Lancashire which should be cele brated.”
. - ■ Our picture shows entrepreneur Mr
Berkins outside the former Mondos restaurant at Barrow, with David Holme and Ian Dugmore. Is)
Beside the lake, below the trees for Wordsworthian ramble
A DOZEN intrepid ram blers set out from White Moss car park, near Gras mere, and followed the winding track, up to AlcockTarn. . : .'Unfortunately the
beautiful views over Gras mere were obscured by rain and mist. The route descended steeply from the tarn and after crossing the road went across fields to the splendid Millenni-
kum Bridge and Grasmere *'church.:l;,
After looking a t the'
Wordsworth graves, the group had a lunch break- in the Wordsworth gar
den. . They then continued
the walk around Gras-, mere, at first on the road, "and then on the lakeside
path. I . - . - . ; The original plan had
been to climb Loughrigg. However after starting the -steep climb, as the steps
: were verysliiipery and the summit;wreathed in mist.
the group decided to walk around . Rydal Water instead. ■ They followed the track to the old quarries and theq to the footbridge at Rydal. . After a refreshing cup of
tea at.Rydal Hall, the group followed the bridle way, a route that led them back to the car park. The rain persisted all day, but
■ could hbt entirely' spoil a walk in siich a beautiful place. ■ ■
A 19-YEAR-OLD man has appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged with robbing a 17-year-old girl in Clitheroe town centre.- ,
... .. '. x.-;. Drew John Allison, ofrBridge Street,
Teenager charged with robbing girf ^ 19-YEAR-OLD man has appeared- Blackburn, was sent to Preston Grown
Court charged with robbery. He was remanded on bail, but was
told that it was on. condition that,he does not enter Clitheroe. .
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Has anybody seen Suzie?
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD black and ■white cat called Suzie is missing from home.
:.l . . Owner Mark Guiver noticed the
feline was missing from his home in West View, Clitheroe, on Thurs day evening and believes she may have disappeared sometime between 7 and 9 p.m. Although Suzie, who has a black
smudge on her nose, does come and go from the house she has never been out overnight. Mr Guiver is appealling to peo
ple to check their garages and gar den sheds in case she is trapped. Anyone with information can ring Mr Guiver on 07966 026428.
Remanded on bail to
answer driving charge WHALLEY man Stephen Richard Cross- ley (29), of Moor Lane, was remanded on bail by Blackburn magistrates charged with failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis. . ■
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