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j^^CNGOING to the letter from your ^P^Pionymous'reader of last week, if a


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periodically goes around every uni­ versity, as does the twisting and turning read “The Magus”, which , finishes with the answer in a dead language, i.e Latin. ■. I have to now ask' the question - time and time again - where is all the recycling going? The deafening silence of official responses is quite unbelievable. ; So once again, Ribble 'Valley Bor­


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ough Council (or anyone for that matter) - where is the use for what must now amount to millions of toniies of . recycled plastic, recycled g t e , recycled aerosol cans,'recycled paper. The mother of invention is necessity. ,If there was the necessity, Brussels wouldn't have needed to implement a European-wide direc­ tive, it would have arrived on its own. Holland never had the capaci­ ty for landfill, hence doing it since


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HARRY JOHNSTON, Rodhill Lodge, Boiton-by-Bowland


Europe: let’s have


the correct facts IS it anger that has prompted your


‘ faceless Europhile correspondent’s slightly incoherent response to the Aome truths contained in Mr Raw-


■■lorn’s letter? Whatever the rea­ sons, some of the facts need to be straightened out for the benefit of other readers: •


• ' ■ 1. Britain did not join the Euro­


pean Union. It joined the European Economic Community which was nothing more than a glorified free trade area. At the time the Houses of. Parliament and the British people were given assurances that the EEC


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was not going to become a European superstate. Those assurances have proved to be false. 2. It appears that for reasons of


her own Holland has developed alternative means of waste disposal long before Britain. That doesn’t inean everything in Holland smells of roses: for example they have a huge problem with effluent from intensive livestock production, so bad that the stink was reaching east­ ern England not long ago. 3. The EU to “aid Westminster”


in dealing with environmental and pollution issues? The people in the Ribble 'Valley can tell how useful that “aid’! has been. We don’t need patronising Eurocrats compelling us to meet their targets. 4. At the end of his letter your


Europhile correspondent implies that we owe our freedom of speech to the EU. That is such manifest rot that I don’t need to explain. If there is any reflecting to be done, it should be upon the fact that most of Europe owes its freedom of speech to Britain and the USA. It was Britain that held out in the Second World War when Europe had collapsed. More recently it was NATO, riot the EU, that won the Cold War, a victory that brought freedom to the Warsaw Pact countries. 5. Our freedom of speech is being


eroded. There are some subjects where expressing certain views will, have the police knocking on your door and a much wider, range of issues where the wrong opinion will be iriet with “you can’t say that”. How long will it be before anti-EU opinion becomes non-PC or even ille­ gal?-


P.T.WASDELL, Mill Farm Lane, Waddingion


We’re up too our


eyeballs in debt! SOME months’ ago - and not for the first time - 1 warned that Britain was living beyond its means. My contribution was rebuked by a


Labour Government supporter who thought the British economy, under Labour, was in fine shape. Brother! How wrong you were. This year the Government is bor­


rowing over £40 billion. Next year £43 billion. But hang on, £31 billion of 2009’s borrowing will be used to “service” all the Government debt we have. And so it goes on and on. The Government borrows billions


every year and gives £8.5 billion away on overseas aid; has spent around £8 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while telling us - British taxpayers’ they can’t afford free care for the elderly in England as it “would cost £1 billion and we don’t have that amount to spare”. : How different for many of your own constituents Mr Gordon Brown, who get their care for the elderly free of charge. Good luck to them, but


■ what about the English elderly,. Prime Minister? . Still not to worryin a few years’


time I will be 80 years young a'nd get an extra 25p per week on top of my paltry state pension, less 20% tax.


Just what I would expect from this Scrooge government. Open your eyes Labour supporter and see what an uncaring society


' Britain has become. Enough is enough! Britain is up to


its eyes in debt. Not a penny more should be given in overseas aid. Britain first please.


BERT HARDWICK, Queensway, Waddingion


Is stance based on


facts or feelings? REGARDING last week’s letter headed: “Keep Faith Within Your Own Homes,” God-less countries of the world have also indocrinated mil­ lions into oppressing their own peo­ ple (the last, I recall, was labelled Communism and they certainly practised it in the public arena not just in their own homes). Any individual or nation can use a


belief system to further their own or their country’s self-interests backed up, if necessary, by governmental military force. It’s worth reflecting that those


with the same belief system as their own country, who will not condone what is done in the name of their belief system, will also feel ill at ease or persecuted. 'We would be wise to test our own


hearts and minds, motives and reac­ tions against “them” and whether “our” religious or atheistic stance is based on facts or feelings.


. • There are people of all persuasions who will work for the common good and show "goodness and generosity" to their neighbours and will continue to do so even if it is not returned. There are others in all persuasions who use a belief system for their own ends and when thwarted in an aim resort to "badness and meanness" to get what they want. It has been so through out history -


good V evil, truth v lies, conscience v expedience...


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Consider the poor


bus drivers I AM a senior citizen (as opposed to an GAP) and like all those of my age, we rely on buses to get us into town and back. The buses in Clitheroe are first


class; the drivers are courteous and welcoming, but it is annoying when they reach a junction and nobody will give way.


• -1 can understand lady drivers because they never look left or right, just in front, probably thinking: “I must get something nice for John’s tea, and pick the kids up at 3 p.m. and. Oh, a birthday card for Aunty Ruth... and... and.” As for male driv­ ers, they probably think: “My car is


: better than all these. I’ll show them”. I . Come on drivers, think about the bus drivers. They are on a schedule and they don’t get mega wages. ■


■ ERICSNAPE, ’ Queen’s Rond, Clithcroc '


Thank you for


returning lost item MAY I say thank you to whoever it was who found my bracelet in Sains- bury’s on Saturday, July 5th, and handed it to the staff at the store. I’d been to many different places


during the course of the day before I realised it was missing and had given up hope of ever finding it. It has great sentimental value to me as it was a gift from my son before he went to live in America. Thank you once again to whoever


it was. I hope you read this. It is good to know,there are caring and considerate people around. The loose link has already been secured! •


A GRATEFUL MOTHER Can anyone help


me in my quest? 1 AM looking for any information on an Edward 'Wilkinson. He was bom about 1796 in Lower. Elker, Billing- ton, according to the 1841 census. He worked as a farmer at Lower


Elker Farm, Elker Lane, Billington. ■ Edward was married to Elizabeth Wilkinson. She was about 20 years younger and they had five children. In the 1861 census, they were as fol­ lows: Edward (16), Martha (15), Ann (13), Elizabeth (seven) and four-year-old Esau. I am trying to find the burial of Esau. He died at 11 Sunny Bank Road, Blackburn, on February 10th,,1917. The house he lived in was built in 1908 and was leased to Esau and family. He was a master photographer. I would be grateful if anyone can


help. I can be contacted at linda.hodgson67@ntlworld.com or by writing to me:


LINDA HODGSON (Miss), 2 Coiswold Close, . North Hykeham


Thank goodness


for our free NHS MONDAY, July 5th, 1948 - 1 hadn’t realised until a recent TV documen-. tary that Nye Bevan had only nar­ rowly achieved the inauguration of a National Health Service. The doc­ tors who so obligingly and ivith total professional commitment serve our communities now were initially under the umbrella of the British Medical Council, diametrically opposed to a state institution offer­ ing free medical care for all. ■This would also include the poor


who hitherto because of their pover­ ty had been denied health care beyond their means to afford. How many of my contemporaries


survive now because of heart bypass operations? I cannot express emphatically enough my appreciation of our


; unique British NHS after five weeks hospitalisation last year at the Royal Blackburn Hospital. ■ ■ Now I notice, along with many others, as a recipient of regular attention, the service offered by doc­ tors and nurses at the treatment room and the facilities provided by


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ROBIN PARKER, St Chad’s Avenue, Chalburn


Don’t need MPs


with an EU treaty FURTHER to my previous letter a few weeks ago, on the subject of a free vote on the Euro treaty and the way the Irish have shown the way on democracy. If we are to be bullied into (by no


referendum) being governed totally by the faceless at Brussels, then sure­ ly we don’t thereafter need to have our House of Commons or the House of Lords. 'We could then rid ourselves of


hundreds of MPs and save millions of pounds in the process, same with the Lords; we can get rid of that antiquated House as well. Then to take it to its ultimate con­


clusion we really don’t need the monarch so that lot can go again saving millions on them as well. All this money we save can then


offset the cost that we have in being a member of the EU.


R.J.M.LOEBELL, Edisford Road, Clitheroe


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