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jewel in our crown AS I read th e sh o r t article (Clitheroe Advertiser, July 30th) that announced that after two years the “bottom path” in Brungerley ■ Park will never reopen,'Pasked - myself would anyone really care? : The fact is that Brungerley Park ; is a little known and underused


: jewel in Clitheroe’s crown. Certainly y anyone under the age of 65, unless j they live in the. locality, will m o s t)


'likely never have set foot in this-; beautiful and peaceful spot bythe Kibble,


. I say, 65, because it is my rhother’s generation who will ju s t about; recall the P a rk ’s heyday/ when


; Brungerley was a focal point of the town, a place to be seen in your Sunday best, to picnic by the river, ■ to play on the gondala,swings that-i:


were once'there and go ice skating ■ in winter. ---


' .. ■ Yet Kibble Valley Council clearly .


wants us to visit Brungerley Park; Money has been spent on creating , the Sculpture Trail. ’ And I applaud the work that Kib- .


blesdale'Nursery does with The Wildlife Trust to 'g e t scores of young children" and their parents -


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■ many for, the first time - on.Welly Wal^ during holidays. If indithardto believe that noth;; ■


ing could have been done sooner to ;• reopen this path - it is obvious that ■ the longer things are left, the more , expensive they are to repair. - , The “alternative route” is not a


real alternative: it is a 45 degree incline which limi ts 'those with walking difficulties or those pushing a pram. '


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. I t seems to me that diverting the path “indefinitely’!, is the easy way


: out and the excuse of our local bat population’s psychological well­ being is ju s t th a t : - ,a n excuse.


environmental and cost-effective means constantly. It is possible..! It is'a shame that this key part of


Brungerley will now-be lost to future generations and I wonder. what precedent this now sets for the


• • rest of the park? ' . ■ For any reader with a hint of nos­ talgia about Brungerley Park;- and;


.. the wider area may I ‘ draw atten- ; tioh . to : my! cousin’s ' website


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CLITHEKOE man Mr Chris Tat- tersall and his guide dog “Bobby” were the giiest speakers a t the Manor House iii Chatbum. rAs part of a Guide Dog aware­


ness day, Mr Tattersall gave a talk' and taught the basics of reading and writing Braille. As well as his four-legged friend, Chris was also accompanied by his colleague.


park, the history of the town and be great to see more gigs like this oi) indeed showcases an archive of- up there; Pye’s photography taken-by my.;: DANIEL SNAPE,: - .; ' uncle, grandfather and great-grand- Clitheroe •;


; Builders deal with.this issue with ;;, feel so strongly'about losing this ; Foundation search


father spanning 150 years; ;■.; Maybe then people will see why' I


■ small part of our town’s history. JANE MILLER, Easiham Street, Clithcroc.


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Concert was just what town needed


I;J,USTj warit'tb say tha t (the 06117’ cert in the; Castle on Friday night


vides a fascinating insight into the .would also like to say that it would;......, , . ‘ ,


(www.oldclitheroe.co.uk) which pro-', . was just what the town needed. I = -


‘ \ l i Let s use bandstand more


for a new Trustee THE 'Working Lives Foundation is


■'looking for a new Trustee!: ; , We are looking for, a local volun-


;-'teer who can help us build up our' v sound archive of-people talking about their work and life. The only- ' definite commitment from Trustees'


;5 is:that they attend two meetings a', year and join in the responsibility for decisions made by our management group. They can choose to add more


' ;i;.. of their energy to our projects if they/ We.will be holding a short.event^


.S|'for;th^ jifabout becg j,Jwplunt^™ (Ted ,td‘the'event) ,’p le^ g/:c/p(HRY;(W


Kathryn Walmsley. A raffle was also held, which raised £100 for the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity. Mr Tattersall is pictured at the fund-raiser at the Manor House, (s)


After decades of public service for


the benefit of. local people, my father-in law lives quietly in retire-


■ ment. He and his wife both derive enjoyment and mobility from their beloved little car.


. At around 10-30 p.m. one evening recently, a group of youths walking


- away from the direction of the town, • and who were presumably walking home and,, therefore, living locally .were witnepd by a neighbour. One


' of the'se young men decided for no .apparent reason to .walk a'cross the road and gave my father-in-law's car


. £200 to repair, not to mention the ' inconvenience while the vehicle was


_ being repaired. "The matter was reported to the


/police, but I suspect that the mind- ,, less vandal has escaped detection.: ::;Furthermore,'I suspect.that he will /not read this letter, but perhaps par-


Mews, off - -


|tdetter.whyy6u(want't^ g'ljwith the Foundation in ho more than one side of A4 paper.


You should explain to me ihyour'


%,;;;We are keen to involve people of- <y any aghjromas upwards and from;


f a l l walks of life. L look forward to ON;:Friday, August 7th, my family-v- have a chance to go on stage;.Maybe - - 'and I attended the rock concert^jSThe Grand could also host'acourseP; vp„i(|,:|'| ij;-.j i .


(Freebird,,Kickst’art andj)^altz, , for kids and young people^about ')ciilheroe Invendon). H was a great ey'ening,":ggjjjpogi(.jQj, - gjggihg tbgether"ahd'--5. ' -.'-‘j'


lom ed on th . was great , ! i lh ^


c the light showlff f i I'think that.we should use.the''


bandstand more and have a night for children and young people't'o per-v form as well, so young bands can'


• involved, and mostly to Freebird .and Kickstart!'''-*'".;-^,•' 7. ;;


; ELIOT WILSON (piclurcd, above);, ,' Aged 10 , - Clilheroc'


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foy.h,s«,..-*..»«work. •;Mindless vandal


cost parents £200;, ;;:MY wife's elderly parents live in the


vicinity of'; Waddington Koad, ' Clitheroe', where they have lived for ; approaching 60 years." '


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l?:CEStle(Street)^ti ( : iharkirig yom envelope for the atten-; vTion of:Andrea; Duckworth.


/(.ents. of; youths in the area'may read t l ^ account and ask their offspring some pertinent questions and per­ haps stop this activity, which ! understand is not uncommon. JOHN SPENCER


EU is our fourth tier of government


, I .WOULD like to agree,' in the main;


:: with Kibblerous'er’s:well-written . piece last.vyeek about .the “ Ruling"


/.system bringing tiers to my eyes”. - ■ -


s


.'.ernmental system and whether it is' ,, cost.effective. There is, actually, a


, lour-tiered government in the UK which IS definitely not cost effective.


' . --Phe fourth tier is the European Union and while you might think it" does not,have much effect on our hestyle, it actually produces 75% of' our laws and legislation. Our own British Government just


t h e main, because he asks ■ -; a question about a three-tiered gov- '


• a hefty kick on the front wing, caus- ing damage which cost him almost


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r ; gest it; is very important. The E l i l assumes supreme command and i


■ I•^yould also agree with Kibbler ;Write to: The Editor, Clithcroc Advertiser and Time.s, 3 King Street, Cljtheroe BB72EW or.e-mail: ro).prcnton@castjM^^


Chris visits house with trusty friend Bobby iC


delivers the message. So I would su'g I


followed in order by the list Ribbierl ouser detailed last week.


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, ouser, th a t , £62 million paid tol : Lanashire County Council isalotol - money, and we should see far better! . results for if. But this pales irito! insignificance when we see the cost o


. lion) for EU membership. That! . equates to £1,077 per annum for| :; every man, woman and child livin


re tu rn for this vast amount of! money?


, | In shor t ^ nothing! What does!


■ happen is that we have lost the bulk! of our fishing industry due to the! Common Fisheries Policy and our! ; farmers struggle to make endsmeetf


under the Common Agricultural! Policy.


!


.-; In years 2000-2006 we contributed! money to 18 other member countries! of the EU.


!


,; In other words we paid out more! than any benefit received in return,! whilst 18 other countries received!


; more in return than they paid out.! Can the UK afford this situation? ! The answer very obviously is no.!


fought in two world wars, have! though of the current situation?! They fought and thousands lost| their lives, to stop us being con*! trolled by a European dictator. • F . Now our Government has volun-l teered us to be dictated to by faceless! beaurocrats in Brussels and for good | measure we have to pay outlandish! sums of money for the privilege. The! heroics and sacrifices made by ourl forefathers has been wiped out as! though i t did not matter and that! does bring tears to my eyes, whatj about you? STEVE RUSH, McarleySyke, Clilheroc.


Organic foods


taste much better A RECENT report by the FoodI Standards Agency concluded that! organically produced food is no more I


. nutricious than conventional food I grown with the aid of chemical fer-j


tilisers and pesticides. . ; | •" While I have no argument withi


the findings of the report, what isj disappointing to me is that it will


j


probably turn many “floating! eaters” off organic food without any I account being taken of all the other I factors involved, such as chemical! residues in food; animal welfare;! nitrate run-off to watercourse and I destruction of wildlife habitat; the I effect of chemical sprays on peoplosl health; th e finite nature of oil-j derived artificial fertilisers; and the I carbon footprint of all these Indus-1


/ tries. I know organic food prices can I often be higher,.but food produced! organically is still.much cheaper ml relative terms than it was 40 years!


' ago and, despite what the report sug-1 gests, I know it tastes better!, CHRIS WILCOCK,/, Low Moor, ; •• Clitheroe ' v ’


We in Britain are entering what! could be the most serious economic! crisis since 1929 and this money! would be much better spent in! Britain for the benefit of the British! economy and British people. . . What would our forefathers, who I


J Dream pedaller Richard I


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EU membership for the UK. In 20081 the cost to our country was £62 GTsi billion pounds (that’s billion not’mil.!


in Great Britain. For every taxpayer! living in Britain this figure becomes! £2,119 each. "What do we getin!


J J


A N D so th e day had finally dawned, literal­ ly, a t 5-30 a.m. in the P ro v en c e tow n o f M on te lim a r , famous for its nougat. As I lined up in the last


of several vast “s ta r t pens” with 9,500 other amateur cyclists, my ambition to ride a moun­ tain stage of the Tour de France to mark my 50th year of age was filling me with apprehension and adrenaline in equal amounts. ; At 7: a.m. the riders


started off, each start pen being released in sequence. So we waited... and waited... until even­ tually, at about 7.35 a.m., I locked my feet into the pedals and number 8084 wasoffl - I t was ■ an awesome


sight, "seeing a seemingly infinite stream of riders stretching to the horizon in front of me and a real “rush” as everyone sped away try in g to pu t as much time between them­ selves and th e “broom wagon” (elimination) as possible.' . . . I made good progress


up to the first 5km climb, Cote de Citelle (average gradient 4%), at about 10 miles covered and I mar-


(. CYCLE fan Richard Gunslon pedalled a , . dream to celebrate his 50lh birthday, sjfe jj T . The consultant engineer from MelIor,t, ; and previously Whalley, tackled the bru->i? I.tal 170km Montehnar to Ventoux stage" ^ I of the Tour de France,/which involves «climbs of twice the height of Snbw~do’n.7\ri; ; Richard, married to Keny and father(||' of four, daughters, has had a long fasci-'fe , naUon with the. world's toughest,cyclc%);


veiled at the beauty of the surroundings in the rising sunlight. On the rapid descent, progress was halted temporarily by two bunch crashes, sadly prematurely ending the day for several riders. I was riding to keep my


heart rate within reason­ able limits, because I knew that 90 miles and three further climbs (or “cols”) lay ahead, each climb ascending to between 700 and 1,000 metres. And that was before we :


got to the bottom of Mont "Ventoux (windy mountain) - one of the most feared climbs in European cycling. I t claimed the life of Tommy Simpson, a British racing cyclist, in 1967 and caused the great Eddy Merckx to need oxygen at the summit. After what I can only describe as the most


race.'So when Ihc chance came to line « up with hundreds oLamafeur riders to 1 tackle the Tour de France stage, he : grabbed it.


i A by-product of'theride was’" almosti


£400iin'sponsorship ;»forsWhalley.'t Methodist Church's 2010 project,'wluch:.; aim's to redevelop the life and role of the J church/Here is Richardls gripping! account of> riding the fearsome stage. a


enjoyable ride of my life,, 'With beautiful sunshine, closed roads, stunning, scenery and through some ■ quite charming historic .


•!^nch villages, I arrived, at Bedoin, nestling at the foot of “the "Ventoux”. It was about 1-30 p.m.,


35 degrees, I ’d covered about 90 miles in under six hours and only 14. miles to the finish. Prob-, lem was the 14 miles were all uphill, 'with a lot of it at an average gradient of 10%. Replenished with


water, I started off from Bedoin and covered the first 4km to St Esteve rea­ sonably quickly, for i t is here that the climb prop­ er really starts.' • As the group I was rid­


ing with rounded a bend. at the far end of the 'vil­ lage, I 'was surprised when three of the riders moved to the side of the road, got off and started walking!


Thereafter, it became a battle of wills - between me and the gradient of- the road I was attempting to ride.


. Each bend revealed,


what seemed like another impossible s tre tch of uphill road, as we wound our way, painfully slowly, up the mountain. '


/ All around, it'was like a


battlefield. Riders were. lying along both sides of the road, 'vainly trying to rest and recover in little areas of shade. Some were attended by the medical support teams and were suffering from heatstroke and/or exhaustion. Others were forlornly pushing some very expensive rac­ ing bikes up the hill! After about an hour of


- 1 got out of the saddle at about 2km from the water stop at Chalet Rey­


continuous climbing - tiying to keep my heart rate out of the “red zone”


I 1I


nard and, without warn­ ing, cramp shot through both thighs. I had no choice but to


get off and try to recover - all I felt apart from the cramp was disappoint- . ment that this “beast of a climb” had beaten me and forced me to get off my bike. After about 10 minutes 1 felt that I could restart - only to receive . further cramps as soon as I pushed on the pedals! •


;• There was nothing for i t b u t to take a much


. longer recovery period. . "While recovering, I


decided I may as well start pushing my faithful bike - along 'with numer­ ous other “walking wounded”. Finally the legs had


■ recovered sufficiently to ; start cycling again and I made it to the water stop at Chalet Reynard - only to find th a t they’d run out of water. Luckily I


. had a bit of liquid left in my water bottles, so drank th a t down and restarted - the final 7km to the summit.. At Chalet Reynard,


you leave the trees behind and enter the famous


• “lunar landscape” of the Mont "Ventoux. The sun bore down on us, bu t I could see the weather sta-


NO CREDIT CRUNCH GIMMICKS


RICHARD Gunson on Ihe road lo the Col de Ventoux (s)


tion at the finish now and just tried to pedal steadi­ ly to the top. ■ Focused on the u lt i­


mate goal, I almost did not notice the official pho- tographers, the camper 'vans parked at the side of the road and the impromptu “disco” set up by some keen Dutch cycling fans. Less than 2km to go and I paused to pay respect to the memo­ rial to Tommy Simpson. Then it was the last push to the summit. As I rounded the steep r ig h t.


hand turn to finally cross the finish line, the feeling of elation, combined with exhaustion, was unlike anything I’d experienced. I ’ddoneit! , The 'view from the top


is spectacular, b u t the thought going through my miiid was th a t I ’d completed the course in eight hours and 53 min­ utes - the Tour de France riders would do it, having completed around 20 sim­ ilar stages before, in less than five hours - deep, deep respect!


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