10 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, July 31 St, 2008 Control your dogs


near children I VISITED the river at Edisford : today with my two young children ' and my nieces, dged two and three years old.


' ■ ' Unfortunately, we were continual­


ly interrupted and somewhat disap­ pointed by some very thoughtless dog owners who didn't have their,, dogs on a leash and allowed them to run freely,


, ^ ^ . My niece was left petrified after


one dog headed straight towards her to get a ball she was playing with. It


seems that the dog was simply play­ ful, but neither my niece nor I knew this. The sight of a dog charging towards you, or a small child you


’ have with you, can be quite horrify-, ing - especially when you do not have any idea what its intentions


are.'-- Another disgraceful owner allowed


his dog (a type of bull terrier which appeared a little intimidating) to jump into the river with children


.who were swimming and playing. I t . barked in quite a threatening man­ ner at some children in dinghies, but the owner was not remotely both­


ered. I understand that dogs need to be


exercised and that there are many careful owners out there, but those who clearly aren't should be held ■ accountable.


■ I would like to ask dog oivners to . please ensure they keep their dogs on a leash, particularly now that chil­ dren are off school for the summer holidays; you are spoiling the fun and relaxation of many families.


MRSMIGGINS,


■Longworih Road, Billinglon


Make your views


known on event I AM writing to endorse the views


...expressed iii a letter printed in this newspaper on July 24th on the recent "Music Event" at Sawley...


... ,I first wrote to the;.Clitheroe Adveritiser and Times, my local councillor and my MP about the use of this site in August, 2006, and urged other people, disturbed by events, to do the same.


, , In 2007 and 2008,1 spoke as.an


objector to the "Beat Herder, Music Festival'! at the Licensing Sub-Gom-


tWrilc toFrhelMitor.'Clilhcroe Adrcrtiscr andTimes,_3 lUng StrM^^^ If I had parked in a disabled space


not only would I have got a ticket, but probably a mouthful too! My mother approached the lady and told her that my son was also dis­ abled, but wouldn't get his sticker until he was five, to which she replied “good for him!’/.: -


■


My son has the disability known as autism and, though he doesn't


; look disabled, still deserves respect, ' 'Though I would never tar all mature people with the same brush as th is . very ignorant lady, let it be a lesson. Sometimes society call the young for being rude; What sort of an example was she?


JOANNE JACKSON (MRS), Richmond Terrace, Clilheroc


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We have suffered from all this noise


^ AS a Sawley resident I totally agree with the letter you published last week and, like that letter writer'and


- so many other Sawley residents, I am saddened by the negative impact


: had on our community. . We’have suffered from a large increase in traffic through our small village, rendering walking along the road hazardous at times, especilly


; given the fact that at its narrowest point the road has no pavements. The noise from the music event was very intrusive and so is the regu-


■ lar quad bike use of both Dockber Farm and Noddle Hill.at the top of


' Sawley Brow. The wood at Noddle Hill has been devastated by diggers and quad bikes and the wildlife has disappeared. Gone are the quiet evenings when we could walk up Sawley Brow and watch the deer


. coming out of the wood to graze. Since the new owners bought the


,


wood, they have chopped down trees and wrecked the flora on the forest floor. Virtually, every evening now, rather than peace and quiet there is the constant drone of quad bikes and


mittee Hearing. On both occasions,: ,..the noise, eveh penetrates to the the licence.was granted;. • ■ : , -Vother side of .the river., ,


I need not repeat the a r g um e n t s ’ So come on Sawley residents, don't made then and by last week's corre- i e t these people spoil our tranquil vil-


• spondent; but I do urge other "ob jec- ■ lage. Write or, phone the council and tors" to.make themselves heard," the Forestry-Commission and make throughtheproperchannels; ; --^ your voice heard.^ ;


of glass, cans and plastic bottles are collected in one bin? It is so th a t , Darwen refuse to accept sortiiig plastic which has glass embedded in it, so that it can be transported to Barnsley (I think) at our further expense and to the environment, where it is dealt with. But how? I cannot believe they separate the glass out of the plastic, can you?; , , Knowing this fact, I shall not con-


. tinue to use my blue bin, but return to collecting item's separately and, , once a month, taking them to our' local recycling centre in Edisford. ■ May I suggest your other readers


do similar, if they are able and, if they aren’t, to return to taking glass and cans to Booths car park or some-


, where nearer them, to ensure that .some recycling does take place. I have no reason to doubt what I


have been told, as I was very puzzled at how hazardous glass was being included ivith other items, when pre­ viously it was sorted further by


colour!- - ' - . - Meanwhile, please be considerate


to our bin men. They are really not to blame for this fiasco. ■


■ ■the events at Dockbar Farm have . NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED Someone’s stolen


monkeys’ shades! OUR grandma has the monkeys in. the monkey puzzle tree on Pendle Road, Clitheroe. Grandma gives a lot of time and


hard work dressing the monkeys for everyone to enjoy.' Lots of people tell us how much they love them and their different outfits. The monkeys have been happy in


their summer hammocks, but they have had their sunglasses stolen. We think this is a horrible thing to do as they make us smile and laugh. We hope whoever has done this feels bad


■ ■ and says “sorry”. ■ SCARLE'TT, FINLAY AND


"WILLOW REYNOLDS, , ‘ Sahhill Road, ■ • ■ = • Clilheroc


• ' ■ ' " If; anyone knows the where-^


abouts of the missing sunglasses,; please drop them into our office at 3


, King Street; Clitheroe; and we .will ; ensure they are returned -EDITOR.


NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED ’ NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED Try living off an , ; : g a p ’s allowance!


Some older people Don’t blame bin i ;


can also be rude men for this fiasco. AND they call the young! . • . , I t ’s not often I feel compelled to ■.


write a letter, but while out shopping at my local supermarket with my four-year-old and family I drove'


. onto the car park behind a lady who drove past two vacant disabled spaces and straight into the only parent and child space availablel . '


; ¥ As' a parent T kindly asked .the dally; if she could move further up M '. ■d coiild have the space, to which she r screamed at me “I’m disabledl". - ;


; ;vl replied by saying that there were; 'two spaces designated for her, need-, dess to say she carried on ranting and: swearing at me in front of my family , , calling me rudel


them; “do you like the new system?” His answer was an emphatic “no” and he listed a variety of good rea-’ sons why, including verbal abuse; badly thought out and organised, : very inefficient and costly, and non- eco friendly, to name a few.'


;


' LOW^pay, Steve (letter, July 24th),-: t r y living off a sta te pension ofs


THIS morning, I was leaving my home when the bin men arrived to ing my council tax out of . which', collect my bins,' so I asked one of ’ comes £21 in every £100 to help pay, for council workers’: index-linked- pension scheme.', ■ '; ■


• £94;45p and having to pay every-;; thing in full (bar a bus pass), includ-s;


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Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 01282 478111 (Advertising), 01282 422331 (Classified) carries a knife, David Cameron


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• appears to want to double the primn population, which is alreac'|mt record levels and the highesWn Europe. These figures for knife-carryin'g


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many town hall bosses are just as greedy as these MPs. MPs and some council-chiefs are


paid a lottery win every year, while many council ratepayers and income taxpayers pay a second mortgage every year in the form of council tax and/or income tax. We, the general


• public, are being bled dry. . ' In conclusion, I would be grateful


! if just one of those council strikers in the Ribble Valley could explain to


i me why I should pay so much out of my small pension into their pension . pot; Surely that’s not too much to


ask, is it?. ' • BERT HARDWICK, : -


Quccnsway, ■ Waddinglon


You do not know


what survival is MAY I make comments on the letter which appeared on the letters page from S tev e ’Davies, re. council


■ employees. Yes, I do agree they do a remark­ able job, a job which a lot of people


■ wouldn’t do. But Steve Davies indi- cates that th'ey find it difficult to survive on their pay. Can I suggest that Steve try existing on a retire­ ment pension, then he would know ■ what survival meant.


MARIE STIRZAKER (MRS), . Bolland Close, Clitlicroc


Increase detection


to cut knife crime WHEN Tory leader David Cameron recently said: “If. you are carrying a knife and you are caught, you should expect to go to prison. Plain, simple, clear”, he was effectively launching a plan that would put a penny on the basic rate of income tax. The.Home.Office’s 2006 Offend­


ing;' Crime and Justice Survey reveals that 3% of 10 to 25-year-olds admitted to carrying a knife in the


•' past year, equivalent to 334,167 peo­ ple. . ■ .. , .


. .,. .To imprison them would cost £4.9 billion a year, equivalent to a penny :;on income tax. This is based oh the


annual price of keeping a prisoner, behind bars, on top of the cost of


building the additional 1 0 prison places that.would be needed


tq house them all. ):The average sentence currently given to under-18s caught carrying a -


;knife is 3.4.monthSi'Base'd on this sentence, nearly..JOO,000 10 to 25- year-olds would be behind bars at


: any one time. Housing these people alone would cost £3.8 billion. ; ;The capital cost of .building the


,: ’ He and his colleagues obviously do ' . not deserve the abuse. They are the , v : wonderful folk on the front line, who ■ : work so hard.on our behalf, at the . dictates of the people paid for by our ;r council taxes,who are wasting our , money.


Did you ever wonder why all types • They write the rule book..Also',. . ' '


1 ' Now th a t ’s what;I call taking; advantage of the public at large. Financially, as a pensioner I would,; . ■be treated better if Td been bomlii:: ■ Germany or Italy ^ they know hoiv' ’ to help their, senior citizens,'unlike ■ -Great Britain.'A lot of Britons must : now be spinning in their early graves. i ' .The’l940s Government pledged: “■We,will look after you from the cra- dle'to the grave.’’ Most establish­ ment'jioliticiahs make siire they are)


: ip0,000 additional prison places (equivalent to 40 titan prisons) would mean an annual cost of £1.1 billion through having to pay inter­ est on the debt caused by building ' the prisons. .


■ . . : . .


- These figures demonstrate just ; how little grip on reality David Cameron has. 'The Tories have been.


-just as irresponsible in threatening ■ prison as Labour has been in pledg-; . ing hospital visits for offenders; By promising to imprison everyone who ;


Your letters. . . • The Editor welcomes letters on any subject, but correspondents arc reminded that contributions may be edited or condensed,, must not exceed ,3.'50 words and shouid reach us by noon on Tuesday.:.: . . Letters with noms de plume are only accepted for publication if the. editor agrees that there is a valid rea­ son for the writer's identity to be withheld. ■ Letters can be sent by post


Clitheroe Advertiser and T im c^ King Street, Clitlieroe BBT 2EW, via e-mail to vivien.meatli@easllanc-


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also demonstrate the total failure of the Government to get a grip on the knife culture that exists in parts of this country. ■ .


• Instead of chasing headlines.


Labour and the Tories need to come down to earth and forge a consensus on what works, such as hot-spot policing, intelligencerled stop and search, and restorative justice. .The evidence shows the best way I


to cut crime is not by posturing on penalties, but by increasing detec­ tion. COUN. ALLAN KNOX, ■


. Liberal Democrat Parliamcnlary -. Candidate for Ribble Valley, WooneLane, ■ Clitheroe '


Leave ragwort, it’s


doing no harm I AM hoping to make contact with the person who is currently destroy­ ing some beautiful and important wildflowers at our nature reserve in Salthill Quarry. ; The flowers in question are rag­


wort, a member of the daisy family, whose bright yellow florets are cur­ rently to be seen in many places across the countryside. However, there is a sinister side to ragwort in that it contains a toxin which can be


. fatal to horses if it gets into their hay.


On the other hand it is an impor­


tant food source for the beautiful cinnabar caterpillar, which turns into an equally impressive day f Ijnng moth. Understandably, farmers do not


like ragwort and generally try to remove it from their fields. However, on a nature reserve, where hay is never removed off site and where no grazing stock is allowed, we welcome the ragwort. Children and other vis­ itors delight in seeing the bright stripy caterpillars which totally devour most of the plants before the season is done. The striking red and black moths flying across the mead­


ows. ' “ • - . So I make a plea to the person cur­


rently.pulling out the ragwort at Salthill. Leave it alone, it's not doing any harm, in fact on the contrary, it's


. important for the wildlife and brings a great deal of pleasure to many of our other visitors.


. : . ■


PHIL DYKES, - Lancashire Wildlife Trust. ■ ■


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f!hanges to improve our health


A NEW telephone system is ringing the changes at Clitheroe Health Centre. The high-tech new sys tem, which


includes the Castle Medical Group prac­ tice, Pendleside Medical Practice and the Treatment Room; will come into effect from tomorrow, August 1st. Both GP practices have written direct­


ly to all of their patients to notify them of the new numbers. The Internet-based system has been


introduced because it is more efficient, much safer and easier to. manage, once people have got used to it. Phil Mileham, practice manager for


the Castle Medical Group, explained: “It gives practices the options of being able to deal with patient calls more efficiently ■ and helps patients to be put in contact with the right people. “When it is peak time during periods of


' high demand, such as early mornings, patients will know where they are in the queue rather than the phone being engaged, which can be frustrating. In such circumstances, people will know they have got through to the right num­ ber, but that we are busy at the time and progressing through a numbered queue.” He added: “Clitheroe Health Centre


went through a million pound makeover, last year, which has modernised the building, the waiting room and the doc­ tors’ rooms. The last piece.in the jigsaw is a revamp of the phone system. We have moved into the digital age with a new Internet-based system which is con­ siderably more efficient, much safer and easier to manage. The only change will be the phone numbers.” Linda Underwood, practice manager


for Pendleside Medical P'ractice, said: “Everyone registered with a doctor at Clitheroe Health Centre will receive a let­ ter explaining what the new numbers are. We will also be putting up posters and making leaf lets available for those, patients who may forget to make a note


of the changes. “We also recognise that we are all crea­


tures of habit and any change takes time to get used to. For this reason if patients continue to dial the old numbers they will hear a message telling them the right


number to dial.” The new telephone, numbers for


Clitheroe Health Centre are: 01200413500. -


• General inquiries and podiatry: .


• Pendleside Medical Practice (Mam reception and Out Of Hours): 01200


413600. • Castle Medical Group (Mam recep- -


tion and Out Of Hours): 01200 413535. • Dispensary: 01200 413585. • Treatment Room: 01200 413588.


Students celebrate success TWO students from the RibblerValley were among the high flyers at Myer- scough College when the awards cere- ■ monies took place. ’ . ,


James Stephenson, from Stonyhurst, won the North West Farmers’ Trophy for


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will continue his career on his family’s farm. Richard Everett, from Mellor


Brook, won the Croft Goode Award for BA (Hons) Garden Design Top, Up.


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Clitheroe Advertiser A^Umes, Thursday, July 31st, 2008 11 Four to face court over cemetery damage


FOUR teenagers have now been charged after two chapels and a cemetery were vandalised. The extensive vandalism was


caused at Ribble 'Valley Remem­ brance Park (formerly Calder-.


s ton es Cemetery), in Mit ton Road,'Whalley. Local people were outraged after


gravestones were smashed and two Chapels of Rest at the privately- owned cemetery were ransacked.


The four 16-year-olds, one from


'Whalley, one from Rishton-and two from Great Harwood, will appear before Blackburn Youth Court today. Whalley’s Community Beat


Manager PC Justin Brown has been leading the investigation. He said: “The arrests and


charge come as a result of infor­ mation from members of the pub­


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