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M O T l C E B n A R l l i i u m d t


A weekly.look at local issues,-people and plncpo- Here we go again


the carpet, up pops Mr David Laws. ■ Our newly-appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury resigns from his post in


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; the wake of revelations that he directed more than £40,000 of taxpayers’ money over eight years to his secret gay lover.


. Claims for duck houses, moat clean­ ing and the lucrative “flipping” of homes seemed a distant memory until last week­ end’s episode of the murky soap opera of


. the pocket-lining skills of everyday West­ minster folk.


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. What I find distateful about the whole affair, is that certain sections of media, and particularly the.BBC’s 24-hour news


- channel, when the story broke, sought to . present Mr Laws as almost the victim of circumstances - that the whole matter arose out of David Laws’ desire to keep


. his private life private. That’s a load of nonsense! By his own


; admission in his syrupy resignation state­ ment, David Laws could not “escape the conclusion that what I did was is some way wrong” - i.e it’s a fair cop, guv.


.The dynamic duo of David Cameron PMfefdoHtil PmUh


and Nick Clegg had, reportedly, tried to talk Mr Laws out of resignation from his Cabinet job and after the Minister’s deci­ sion to go, Cameron told him in a letter that he hoped Mr Laws would, in time, be


A FARMER had a lucky escape after his


iooklngback lo o years ago


i ; sheep were struck by lightning. Arthur Hartley was walking through some of his , fields during a storm when a flash of light-


. ning struck two sheep in front of him. , • A BAZAAR in aid of the funds of


the Ribblesdale Benefit Nursing Associa­ tion was held in Gisburn. The organisers


: of the two-day event, which was held in a large marquee at Gisburne Park, aimed


■ to raise £500. Preparations for the event - began months earlier with the formation of an organising committee and a lot of / effort, time and hard work had been in-


■ volved by agroup of people to ensure the stalls were ready. .


O here we go again. Just as we thought tlie scandal of MPs’ e.xpens- es had been thoroughly swept under


asiseelt by Glen Pate


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able to serve again. This speaks volumes about how they regard the integrity of MPs on the scale of political process. Tlie whole sorry story lias yet to go be­


fore a Parliamentary inquiry but, in view of the key words from Mr Laws’ resigna­ tion statement, the conclusion should be obvious. And so should the conclusion of Mr Laws’ ditliering about whether or not he should stay as an MP. Of course he:


, shouldn’t - the whole trust has gone. So. what should happen now in the


whole issue of MPs’ expenses? We were promised a system, which would ensure that the taxpayers’ pockets would not be picked in future. That clearly is not hap­ pening. So we should be saying: Look lads and lasses, we just can’t trust you not to abuse the system, therefore we’re scrap­ ping it.'You get your salary at an increase, but after that, no more. You budget all your expenses out of that - it’s up to you. If you think that’s going to cost too much, then we’ll do the obvious thing and reduce the number of MPs-call it natural wast­


age in the same way that thousands of


■ public sector workers are going to be told .when our spending cuts start to bite. Back to David Laws, I find it ironic that - all this has happened to one of the men '


' for five years. ’ ,


• who negotiated the unholy alliance, which ■ handed my Lib Dem vote, alone with' thousands of others, to the Tories in an' undemocratic decision to put David Cam­ eron in power, and tlien compounded the * treacheiy by seeking to change Parliamen- ' tary rules and cement tlie regime in office '


- In view of the David Laws e.\penses sa»a and the fact that the Tory/Lib Dcm affi­


ance shows little stomach for puttins their stitched-uji deal before the elecforate for ratification, I suggest our MPs need a closer watcli than a five-year gap between elections.


r lie opinion, let’s bring in a system under which one-third of them retire every year and we hold elections every vear. That should concentrate minds wonderfully.


, sence passed my vote over to tlic Tories .without a “by your leave”. I’m still waiting


. ' for a reply and can only conclude that, like David Laws, they can’t escape tlie conclu­ sion that wrong has been done.


Fse fines for equipment’ 50 years ago


CLITHEROE cyclist Tom Hoyle did well m the national cycling time trial champi-


. onships at Lincoln finishing less than three


ol several local soldiers were relived in the Advertiser and Times on the 20th anni­ versary of the Dunkirk evacuation. Mark Edwin Exlcy, of Castle View, an old boy of aitheroe Royal Grammar School, told' of his escaj^ after several days in a cellar


minutes behind the leader over a 25-nii!c testing course. • Vivid descriptions of the experiences


' was hell on earth to get away”.


.thoughtforthewGGk 'ITH the General Election


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.‘ With regret to what might have been. ■ : Many others will be.looking forward ' ■ to what is hoped will be a promising fu-" ture. We talk of what could have been. We ■ muse over what we hope will be. But who knows the,future?


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f ' An honest view of life is not always a pleasant exercise. Our follies, our blun-"


. ders, our. defeats and our sins often re­ turn to haunt us. The “might Have beens” abound everywhere. Often, our past is a ■record of misery and mischief, failure and , folly, disappointment and shame.-


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,.';iWhat a contrast to our lofty ideas arid ' confident-hopes! So what of the future?,


■Weil, we are not as sure of it as once we ■


were:;We step into it 'not knowing what"" things will befall us., What surprises or tri-


I ▼ V y., of us will still be looking bad


not yet a month ago,- many ck


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Royal British Legion, said he wrote at the u,!!!';


ofChatburn “’‘■ough all right, although it 25 years ago


A TRAILER carrying three heifers ploughed through the railings at Bawd- lands, Clitheroe, and plunged 10 feet into the street below. Remarkably no one was hurt as tons of masoniy and 50 yards of railings finished up only yards from the terraced houses. • FINE weather during the months of


April and May coincided with an upsurge in vandalism in Waddington. At the Par­ ish Church meetings, members heard that, among several recently reported in­ cidents, glass in the village noticeboards had been smashed, plants uprooted and glass broken on one of the petrol pumps on the main street;


A PROBE into child road safety is calling for speeding fine cash to be


spent on children’s playgrounds. Lancashire County Council’s Over­


view and Scrutiny investigation into road safety for children and young people concluded that councils and police in the courity are winning the-battle, with a fall in tlfe nunibers killed and seriously in­


jured each year. ■ . Watchdog councillors recommended


that proceeds from speed cameras be used for local road safety initiatives - such as to build safe playgrounds to divert chil­ dren away from the roads - instead of go­ ing direct to government.


> County Coun. Peter Steen, chairman,,


of the task group, said: “We’ve done a detailed piece of work to look at what more could be done to support child road ■ safety in Lancashire and made a number of recommendations.


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als may befall us, we cannot tell. We know ‘ , not what an hour may bring forth.'


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__I he mistakes of our past'pursue us no differ--


they were crimes. Fire burns whether li In kindled by accident or malice '


punishes blunders as if , The innocent blunder of a moment


, m^ay ,wreck the chances of a lifetime. One ' senseless act can follow us to the end of


, to through life chased by our foes bred of our own blunders and indiscretions


"h rr blundered’ We he - “Partners in the county arc generally


working together better than ever. ■ “We think the government should look


this way: “The; Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear


..guard;’’(Isaiah ch52v 12, NKJV) :He goes before us all the way into the future. We don’t know the way, but He


. does, every inch of it. He prepared it, and He has trodden it.Tnat is enough.


; . We don’t know where we are going, but we know we are.going with Him. What more can anyone want? There may be uncertainty about the way, but there is no uncertainty in Him. The way is His. He is witli us. We have neither to find our way


nor make it. All we have to do is follow Him.-.: God is behind, but He never turns back.


God is in front and He knows where He is going. Thus led and thus protected we can move into the future with confidence.


PRANK ROBINSON,' , .. Harrop Christian Fellowship .


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i Burnley College Sixth Form Centre


again at measures which have worked in other countries such as limiting'engine .


sizes for new drivers. “And wliile we know speed cameras are not popular, we believe the evidence shows that when used properly they help to cut road deaths and that more should be done to promote their benefits.” The councillors also backed proposals for a single strategy to combat road deaths across all organisations in Lancashire and to seek backing from health services for future prevention plans. The report will also be used to show other councils what Lancashire is doing - the county is leading the way by develop­ ing road safety work tlirough Cliildren’s Trusts in each district, which check that services responsible for protecting chil­ dren are working well. County Coun. Steen added: “What is most promising is that we’re hitting our targets to cut the numbers of young peo­ ple being killed or badly injured. “But we think even more could be • achieved if we learn lessons from other councils and'other countries to make .sure everyone in the county is working towards the same agenda.” ■


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