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• \ ■ As Prime Minsiter Brown finally X . AJbites the bullet and names his day of reckoning as Thursday, May 6th, so be­ gins a month of campaigning and cajoling as each o f the political parties attempts to v woo you and win your vote. ■ Labour are looking for a historic fourth term, but will the dour Scot be able to turn around his lacklustre performance of late and rekindle'memories of past glories strong enough to secure hopes of others yettocome. ■ Meanwhile the Convervatives are, for the first time in a long' time, seriously op­ timistic of regaining power.' After more than a decade out in the cold, they are keen to throw off the unwanted title o f : “the Opposition” and start using real am­ munition again, instead of firing political blanks. But is the dashing old Etonian Mr Cameron seen to have a trustworthy trig­ ger finger, especially “oop North”? Then there are the Liberal Democrats,


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ANIMATED pictures were the new form of entertainment on show at the Empress Rink in Clitheroe. A series of scenes were shown of sentimental, humorous and sporting themes including the Ox­ ford and Cambridge boat race. The oc­ casional change to skating was welcomed and it was noted that if the standard of picture was maintained, big houses would be assured. • Clitheroe Parish Church choral and


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orchestral society gave a concert in the school room. Under the direction of Mr ;H. B. Shaw, who had taken over as or­ ganist and choirmaster following the res­ ignation of Mr C. Dybell, the programme started with Andreas Romberg’s cantata “The lay of the bell” and there was a fit­ ting end to the concert provided by the . choir and orchestra who joined together for Wagner’s “Hail Bright Abode”.


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There may yet be others, as nominations do not close until 5 p.m. on April 20lh. The “goalposts” have also moved since


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forming a Government. Yet if there is a hung Parliament after May 6th, it will be the Lib-Dems who find themselves sud-


■ denly very influential indeed, holding a whole handful of political aces. . Then there are the rest - UKIP, ther


Greens, the BNP and a whole host of oth­ ers, some campaigning on a single issue, some even for comic effect, but all mak­ ing up the colourful tapestry of the British democratic process. Here in the Ribble Valley, Conservative


Nigel Evans is planning to keep the seat he first won way back in 1992 and held at the last General Election with a 14,171 major­ ity. All hoping to take it off him are La­ bour’s Paul Foster, the Lib-Dem’s Allan Knox and UKIP candidate Steve Rush.


last time, with some significant boundary changes to the Ribble Valley constituen­ cy.; It. has gained.from Preston the wards . o f Bamber Bridge North and East and


' Walton-le-Dale, and the part-wards of Bamber Bridge West, Lostock Hall, Sam-


. lesbuiy and Walton and Tardy Gate, and from South Ribble the wards of Farington


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East and West. On the flipside it has lost the part-ward of Ingol to Preston, and the wards of Cadley, Garrison, Greyfriars and Sharoe Green and the part-wards of Col­ lege, Preston Rural East and Preston Ru­ ral North to Wyre and Preston North. - That could change the political makeup


of the constituency, although a clever ex­ ercise by the BBC, matching 2005 votes to the new 2010 constituency, still shows Mr Evans well ahead, though with Labour beating the Lib-Dems to second place. But that was then and this is now and a


lot has changed in the past five years. If you are still undecided, you have less


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Pack up your pets this siunmer


FANCY fetching your ferret for a fortnight’s fun and frolics in France? New European Union rules will allow


50 years ago


IT was no proud victoiy for Clitheroe FC when they entertained St Helen’s Town at Shaw Bridge. They should have had more goals than the solitary one with which they had to be content, for they certainly had their chances. Clitheroe brought in a new outside left in Kenyon, who had been with Blackburn Rovers’ A team. Clitheroe’s most dangerous forward was Francis, who scored in the 65th minute. • Former Whalley cricketer Frank


Hopwood, of Billington, one of the Lan­ cashire League’s best amateur batsmen, was not able to assist East Lancashire for a season. He was taking an examination for the Chartered Institute of Secretaries


and his studies prevented him from prac­ tising.: • More than £33 was raised for World


Refugee Year at a Waddington WI coffee evening and bring-and-buy sale.


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lU L L the other leg^ shouted the 'h e ck le r s in th e crowd at the “Hyde Park Comer” o f Athens,


r ■ St Paul had joined the pagan philosop- ers debating religion and told them about Jesus, crucified, and then encountered


; mysteriously on the other side of death. . Naturally they laughed, but a few


thoughtful members of that Athenian au­ dience were open-minded enough to join


: Paul forfor a deeper inquiiy into the foun­ dation event of the Chnstian Church. ' 1 ■


: It is important to know that belief in the resurrection was hard to grasp in those days 2,000 years ago. Even some of the earliest converts had their doubts and Paul had to write to the Jesus movement in Corinth to remind them of the “facts’’ - giving details of names and numbers'of; .witnesses.


• ' . As a typical male chauvinist, he forgot


' to mention that Jesus’ first appearance was to a woman-Maty Magdalen! . . , vt We need to be clear that given the po­


litical and religious culture of their day, belief in a living Lord Jesus would never have got off the ground if there had not


been some dramatic event as the spark point. , But against such natural doubts it is


worth remembering that belief in an after- is


hard-wired into the human psyche.


TOe director of the British Museum, Neil McGreggor, in hls Radio Four series “A history of the world in 100 objects”, de­ scribed the care with which, 3,0000 years ago, the Egyptians buried their dead with


. death of his mother, “despite my convic­ tion that there is no afterlife, I cannot ‘ believe that my mother has ceased to ex­ ist . And marathon runners for Cancer Research say: “I bet my gran is watching m e - Im doing this for her!” . And in this sceptical age the debate con­ tinues - not just about the resurrection of Jesus, but about the very existence of God,


utensils and food for the next life. .


composer Tchaikovsl^ said, on the


and that is good. Naive clinging to pop-up Marys or dancing suns leads to illusion.


: .Christianity is not about escaping from ^


reality, but about coping with the hardness of life on a'fragile planet in a fragmented global community. ; The philosopher Thomas Hobbes said:


“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” - and C. S. Lewis rec­ ognised that our inbuilt sense of justice postulates that there must be something more. Neil McGreggor describes the beauty


o f an ancient copper vessel that was evi­ dently designed for ceremonial feasts, near burial sites, through which the par­ ticipants believed they were partying with


. That is the opposite of what Christians do eve^ Sunday^ Symbolically we meet to


their dead. ' ; feast with out living Lord.


- IAN ROBINS, Anglican priest .


. . 25 years ago


TV personality Mike Harding, as na­ tional president of the Ramblers Asso­ ciation, and Countryside Commission chairman Sir Derek Bamber, were invit­ ed to open the 42-mile Ribble Way. The route had been devised by the Ramblers Association, and was expected to bring thousands of walkers to the area. • An appeal for new premises for a


preschool playgroup was answered after being featured in the Advertiser. Mrs Liz Trotter wantedto set up her own group after being unable to get a place at one of the town’s four playgroups for her son. Clitheroe Cricket Club came to the res­ cue and offered her use of the clubhouse three mornings a week. ■ • Cyclist Alan Gomall saw his chance o f winning the Lancashire Enterprise


, Easter tour end with a puncture. He fin­ ished second overall.


family pets to take continental holidays for years to come. Agreement has now been reached to ex­


tend the “Pets’ Passport” scheme for cats, dogs and ferrets that have been vaccinated against rabies. British pets are likely to ben­ efit the most as they make up 60% of all the


■ animals in Europe taking advantage of the arrangements. Liberal Democrat Euro-MP Chris Davies says that it is an idea that the UK gave to the


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A TARANTULA,.a vampire bat, aporcu- . pine, and an armadillo have all arrived at Stonyhurst College. ; • - Luckily they are not crawling or flapping


around the historic Hurst Green school, but are on display there.


"rs’They are part of a remarkable' and fa-. Imous personal.'collection of animals, - , birds, crustaceans and insects collected by Charles Waterton, a Stonyhurst old.b'oy ,


is 10 years old and ended the misery of quar­ antine for thousands of pets and their own­ ers. More than 600,000 have crossed our • borders since then. The arrangements were copied and extended throughout the EU in 2005 and have proved a great success.’! . Rabies incidents across Europe have fall­


rest of Europe. He said: “The UK’s Pets’ Travel scheme


en from 2,679 cases in domestic animals in 1990 to just 251 in 2008, with none attrib­ utable to animals with “passports”. Pets’ “passports” are usually embedded with mi­ crochips to provide proof of vaccination.


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CHATBURN book- • worm Thomas Wilson has earned our high­ est Relay Reader ac­ colade. . ' A pupil at Chatbum


.who attended the college in the late 1700s. .■;. . One of Britain’s first natural historians, he .. i is described by Sir David Atfenbofough as “one o f the first people anywhere to.rec-. .■ ognise that the natural world needed pro-


K-Yeafs’ahead o f his time', Waterton es- . -tablished the first,bird sanctuary and was the first to protest about the effects of acid. > : 'rain on plants and trees.


itection as humanity,made more and more’ demands on it.” ■ '


. Oyer the next five years Waterton’s en:... . 'r


i tirexpllection Of spme"l,000. specimens collected firom Europe, Africa, India', Aus-w.


;tralia and South America will be returned : ;to■the.RibbleiVaIley;c611ege;h'aving.been:;


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shire/of40 years. jJ,*.'''' ’’!'’'/', - 'v7' Js^The cjpllege'curator, Mrs Jan Graffius,.v.' has'ereated a new; display; which, can be;V-


seen in the surrim'er.when the college opens,,!/


■for public toiirsr To mark the return of his collection to Stonyhurst, a new portrait of Waterton has been unveiled, painted by


. another former Stonyhurst scholar Helena Callinicos.


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• CE;Primary School, " Thomas has been ■ awarded The Pauline D r iv e r ; Marathon Award.'A' ’ It is presented to


' youngsters who have completed a book reading marathon by ■ reading ‘ an, addi­ tional 26 books on'cc


■they have completed the bronze, silver.and •


jgold stages of the Re­ play-Reader Award scheme.-''':’.’., . ■ Thomas/who enjoys


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