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festive period, nor 2008. Instead I am going to write about a more serious mat­ ter.


The other week while flicking through


the pages of one of the nationals I read about a 14-year-old girl who took her father to court after he had smacked her. The 42-year-old father was ordered by


a court to complete 50 hours’ unpaid work and pay £60 costs for giving his teenage daughter a “back hander” when she yelled abuse and refused to go to school. I was shocked when I read this. Now,


ITH Christmas over for another year, and the New Year festivities part of the dim and distant past,


As I see i t . . . by Faiza Afzaal


don’t get me wrong. Hitting children is wrong, but I believe a light smack on the bottom can work wonders if children have a tantrum or disobey their parents. How else are parents supposed to dis­


cipline unruly children without the fear of court action these days? While some might say that the dad did right, others will argue that there are other ways to discipline children. But it is frustrating because what are those “other ways”? I believe if children cannot respect their parents, who will they respect?


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Clitheroe Weavers’ Association, secre­ tary Mr A. H. Cottam reported that trade had been anything but good and a large number of looms had been stopped and several mills closed down for a week. He said the matter required urgent attention. • At the meeting of the town council,


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medical officer Dr W. E. Barker spoke about the severe epidemic of measles which had led to the closure of all Clitheroe’s infant schools and three fatal­ ities. The committee also heard that the Chief Constable had been authorised to have the cells and dayroom limewashed and thanks were passed to Coun. Grime for the gift of a billiard table to the police.


50 years ago


THE road was blocked on Devil's Elbow between Read and Whalley this week 50 years ago, when three lorries were in collision. One lorry ended up with its tail in a hedge. The front was wedged under another lorry, carrying a load of barley from Wakefield to Wal- ton-le-Dale. A third lorry involved was damaged at the back, but driven away. • Designed by Rdtarian George


Calverley, who died the previous year, a speaker's desk in oak was presented to the Clitheroe Round Table when they met at the Victoria Hotel on Monday. • Twenty-seven years' work by Mr Clifford Moorhouse, of Sabden, was wiped out following the discovery of fowl pest on his farm.The entire stock, including 1,250 adult birds, 300 pullets and 3,000 day-old chicks, as well as 1,500 hatching eggs were destroyed. As a precaution, about 600 birds at nearby allotments were also destroyed.


25 years ago


A DELEGATION of workers from the Ribble Valley were hoping to go to Lon­ don in the next few days to plead for Government help to save 30 jobs at their factory - the chair and table manufac­ turers, Berry’s at Chipping. ® Churchgoers in the Ribble Valley


were recreating a style of worship which was hundreds of years old as part of the local week of Christian Unity. In fact, they were turning back the


clock to the first or second century when an “Agape” was staged at St James’ School, in Clitheroe. Those attending the Creek-style “love feast” had been asked to arrive with food for sharing in a Jacob’s join-style buffet meal.' ® Members of the Trinity Youth


Centre, Clitheroe, were preparing to roll up their sleeves and take up the chal­ lenge of cleaning up Mearley Brook, Clitheroe.


for the week Motivation is hard FTEN the most diffi-


)cult challenge to improving our life, to


making a change, or to imple­ menting a plan is finding out how to motivate ourselves to take the first step toward a goal and then to remain con­ stantly motivated. Have you ever really thought about what motivates you? What gets you going when there are constant dis­ tractions? When your intellec­ tual and emotional energy lev­ els are low, how do you turn things around? Or when you are working on one project that is taking lots of your time, how do you stay focused and motivated to keep going until the project is complete? No matter what activity or goal you wish to pursue, there


must be an effort to make an intention, to think clearly about what it is you are about to undertake and for what rea­ son. It is narrated by Umar ibn Al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) that our beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The reward of deeds depends upon the inten­ tions, and every person will get the reward according to what


he has intended.” (Al- Bukhari). The hopelessness that fol­


lows a loss of motivation can be transformed into optimism by turning to Almighty Allah and seeking His assistance and guidance. Rather than making supplications to Allah for help, it is tempting to languish in self-pity, to rationalise lack of


planning and to recast inten­ tions. The danger, clearly, is that the more you suffer from low levels of motivation and cite more you become distant from Allah, a cycle begins to form, and it seems as though you can never break that cycle. Sitting down to seek a private audience with Allah and appealing to Him for His assis­ tance and guidance is some­ thing that should become sec­ ond nature to us. Why? Because there is no more pow­ erful means of restoring high levels of motivation than by turning to Allah and coming to terms with the weak state of


. our faith and our focus. Making sincere supplication


to Allah to help us to be more motivated is a good thing, but as we have mentioned above, it


is critical that we start off with making sincere intentions first. In the Qur’an, Almighty


Allah tells us: “Remember Me, I will remember you. And be grateful to Me and do not reject Faith. 0 you who believe, seek help tvith patfent perseverance and p r a y e f l^ Allah is with those patiently persevere” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:152-153). After reminding us to


remember Him, Allah promis­ es us that He will remember us. When seeking assistance, we are to do so by persevering patiently and with prayer, even when it seems that all hope has been lost. SHERAZARSfl.AD,


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www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk Valley Matters a w e ek ly look at local is su e s , people and pla c e s Where will it all end? I am not married and have no children


yet, so I do not know what it is like to be a parent, but one thing I do know is that as a teenager (which wasn’t so lon g «^ . if I did anything wrong and dared t jG F behave in front of my parents, I was pun­ ished for it. This way I got the message that in no circumstances will my disre­ spectful behaviour be accepted. In the “good old days” if children were


naughty at school they would be caned and would be too scared to tell their par­ ents about it in case they were hit again! A light smack can make the child realise parents mean what they say, but even that’s not accepted now. It all comes down to political correctness gone mad - again! I wonder what is going to be ne.xt - a


parent being sent to jail because he shouted at his wayward child!


College old boy second to racer


Formula 1 prodigy Lewis Hamilton, to finish as a runner-up in The Times “InGear Man of the Year” award. Adrian (47), who is attempting the


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first ever single-handed north to south solo circumnavigation of the globe, is currently wintering his vessel in Nor­ way and tvill complete his voyage in the spring. He is appearing at the Collins Stew­


art London Boat Show, at ExCel in the London Docklands, on Sunday, Janu­ ary 20th, where he will be showing a film and giving a presentation on his Alpha Global Expedition. He will be accompanied by his ex-wife Louise and their two children. Adrian was a boarder at Stonyhurst


during the 1970s, where he excelled in a wide range of sports and took a particu­ lar interest in voluntary work for hand­ icapped children. He was introduced to sailing aged eight and, as a teenager, was inspired by Sir Francis Chichester’s epic voyage in 1966/67 on Gipsy Moth IV. In the autumn, he will be returning


to Stonyhurst to talk to pupils and par­ ents about his adventures. He commented: “To be considered for The Times InGear award is a great


o r m e r Stonyhurst College pupil Adrian Flanagan, was recently pipped at the post by


honour made more so by the calibre of the contenders. My congratulations to Lewis - an inspirational guy and a wor­ thy winner.” He added: “I would not have been as


well prepared for my single-handed expedition without my education at Stonyhurst, which taught me to live and learn independently and encour­ aged individualism and free thought. I was allowed to pursue my interests out­ side the classroom and to believe in my convictions.” Adrian, pictured, set sail aboard his


38ft stainless steel sloop Barrabas to attempt the first-ever single-handed, vertical circumnavigation westwards via Cape Horn and the Russian Arctic, knowing that the challenges ahead would test the limits of his endurance. He is only the 14th solo yachtsman to


successfully double Cape Horn west­ wards against wind and current, record­ ed the first non-stop UK to Hawaii sail (18,000nm) and is the only yachtsman to have ever sailed Russia’s Arctic Coast along the Northern Sea Route single-handed. Among many adventures, Adrian has


been washed overboard, dislocated both wrists, suffered two knock-downs at Cape Horn and been tracked by pirates off Brazil.


New site agreed for Royal Lancs


planning permission for the event to be held on land between Barton and Bilsbor- row, owned by the Duchy of Lancaster. Despite a wave of public objection,


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which included concerns raised by local people over traffic congestion, councillors decided to approve plans for the 300-acre site just off the A6. They did, however, add an extra condi­


tion that no music festivals could be held at the showground. Unseasonal downpours led to the can­


cellation of last year’s Royal Lancashire Show which should have been staged on the Salesbury Hail site, near Ribchester. The oldest agricultural show in the


country, July’s event last year was to be the fifth and final time it was supposed to be staged at the picturesque showground. Some 60,000 people had visited the pre­ vious year’s event.


Holiday spot back to normal


tation in their wake, but as Clitheroe- based personal travel adviser Colette Byrne discovered, the area is recovering fast. Colette has just returned from a tour


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of San Diego and Southern California after being picked as part of a special del­ egation sent from the UK to assess the impact of the wildfires. She was one of 40 agents from across


the UK who toured the area affected by fires, which caused more than a million people to leave their homes in October. “'The recovery effort is amazing,” said


Colette, who is a homeworker with Future Travel, part of the Co-operative Travel Group. “The size of the area that was dam­


aged was enormous, but already the signs of recovery are there. “The good news for the local economy


is that the tourist industry in San Diego is very much open for business. “One of the reasons for our trip was so


that we could now take this message back to the UK and pass it on to our cus­ tomers and allay any concerns they may have had about booking their next holi­ day.”


iiVendy is named as new top cop A


n outstanding officer with almost 30 years’ service has been


appointed as Lancashire Con­ stabulary’s new Assistant Chief Constable. For Wendy Walker, pictured,


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it will be pretty much business as usual, as she has been acting ACC since July 2005, impress­ ing fellow officers and members of the Police Authority with her command of the demand­ ing role. Now she has been con­ firmed in the post and com­


mented that she was absolutely thrilled. “I’m over the moon,” she said. “It will be an honour and a pri-vilege to be part of the Senior Officer team on the Constabulary and I am looking to serving the people of Lan­ cashire.” ' Originally she trained as a


teacher, gaining a Bachelor of Education degree and complet­ ing her teacher training in Liv­ erpool before joining the police in 1981. Since then she has worked all over Lancashire in


ILDFIRES which swept south­ ern California last year wreaked havoc and left devas­


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