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' Clttheroe Advertiser&TIme8,Thursday,Aprit8,2010 ' ■ Write to The Editor, Clitheroe, ■


Advertiser and Times, 3 King - Street, Clitheroe or email: ■ . ' ., duncan.smith@eastlancsnews.co.uk


leap into action ^ I never- realised how powerful the Press can be. No sooner had the secret'littef


^Litter fairies’


collectors of Sabden read the letter “Changing times” (Clitheroe Adver­ tiser, March 25th) from Mr Cromp­ ton, about the devastation caused by litter around Sabden and in the broolg- thah they stepped into action, -i :■ They cleared most of the mass of


litter that Mr Crompton wrote about. They carried out a Risk Assessment (can’t be too careful these days) and


- then braved the icy cold water of the Brook to remove the “bobbing beer cans” and collected enough to fill a skip for recycling.


' < The Environment Agency were so


impressed by this unselfish act that they designated Sabden Brook the second best quality water in the area.


checks on the water quality. I would also like to thank the army


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of litter pickers from Ribble Val­ ley Borough Council who magically remove the “takeaway litter”, at the end of the every weekend in order to make the roads passable for drivers on their way to work. Long may they keep this up. I hope the litter fairies keep up their good work as Sabden is enter-


- ing the Best Kept Village competition this year. I understand that the Parish Council will be organising a clean up day in a few months’ time and hope that Mr Crompton joins them and points out the litter that is causing the “degradation” of the village.


JOHN SHORTER,' Whins Avenue, Sabden


Let’s hear from ^youth of today’


. great town. With this in mind, you can imagine


Please doii’t'use wjppd as dog toilet


They will also be carrying out regular,, take their dog’s mess home.'•" - .


- xhe problem is almost entirely in the area near the Top of the Brow entrance - s e e the picture above in which th'epiles of dog mess have been marked with: white “flags”. The rest of the wood is lovely,- litter free and growing well, giving pleasure to lots of people. . -


FRIENDS of Greendale Wood in Grindl%oh”are hoping that ddgovm using' the open space on each side of the woodland paths as a dog toilet will bag up and - ^


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The area in question has now been cleaned rip (two big bags removed)! ii -S;,’ -; Spring is a beautiful time in any wood and Greendale Wood is for everyone to enjoy responsibly—and dogs too!


' ^ FRIENDS OF GREEhbMlE WOOD


tion of Clitheroe starts from within and we must make Clitheroe a pleas­ urable shopping destination and. stand out experience for visitors' and local people as soon as they arrive.” - 1 just hope his mantra includes the •


voice of Clitheroe’s youth; after'all: “The youth of today, are the future of tomorrow.”


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MICHAEL FOTIOS, by e-mail


Hospital deferral spells doom


?OLLOWING.a numb^ ofye^livr.^.NOT,wishing to be the prophet o f :


' recent deferral of a decision regard- " ing the Clitheroe Hospital develop­ ment means the planned work will •not go ahead.


" In my experienee, continued defer­


my excitement when I saw the front page headline in the Advertiser and ' Times (dated March 25th): “Team’s mission is to transform town’.’. How fantastic! A so-called “Dream;


Council, Lancashire County Council,- '' community ^oiip's and businesses has


been formed to breathe new life’ into' Clitheroe town centre.'.-' .. However my exeitement was short-; lived. Whilst not disputing the calibre and motivation of the personnel se­ lected to drive forward the so-called “Town Centre Masterplan”, I was a little disappointed by the article’s accompanying photograph;-;Which: showed an apparent lack o f “yo'uth” on the team.


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provided an extra dimension and may ■. op™?*!' P^s oeen., cutDacK.. .. „ _ , jg* veiy'important to put information -; have been more representative o f the .


of successful young entrepreneurs; I f simply thought that the inclusion one or two fresh faces would have


:; And before peo'ple start screaming,- Clitheroe is blessedwith a


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'/Mr Lloyd, one of the team’mem'--,i>?r-: bers, went on to say: “The regenera-;


discuss the issues;in tfe--^ Election but it'


younger people of Clitheroe.^^^r - .-vPsife-i- j iUKiP-Parliamentary <mrididate,'j£«without spin;:I^ Meariey’Syke^'" '1 P“bIic.ekeem of politicians is at an J


* » ar k v * * W K S' 1.-., wiu be the mam opposition. ... - U mampp i^ yi-


I wrote to the Priirie Ministefpoint- ing out that funds to develop 'our --


rals means cancellation. They will not tell us the project is cancelled before the General Election, as it might af­ fect the way you vote.


S ' b o S a i ' ' “■ . jroupi


: ^ Watch out for


political spin I read with interest the Liberal Dem- crat leaflet entilted “Clitheroe First”


- put through doors in the town last week concerning Lib-Dem policies for the General Election. ■.. I find in the leaflet the usual Liberal Democrat policy of overstating their


: support in.order to attract tactical vot- . ing-.in their favour. In the leaflet it is .claimed that the support for the par-


mg and working in the.south of Eng-,|vyoQn, pessimistic or cynical, but the ■ land; I recently returned to Clitheroe to live and was both shocked and sad­ dened by the number of empty retail.' premises on the high street and the ' general scruffy appearance of this.


i tiM is 48% Conservative, 35% Liberal i arid T5% Labour. It then said in tiny ;; type underneath that this emblazoned - claim is stated to be based on the re-. ults of the last five general elections. The result in the 2005 General


Election was Labour 22%, Lib Dems 23.4%. No 20% lead here. ''


.' The leaflet also ignores the massive


changes in the Parliamentaty bounda­ ries made since 2005. North Preston and Fulwood-has


gone- to a new constituency." Far­ rington, Bamber Bridge Lostock Hall


ceived stated thatmycorrespondence ':- V -T^-®® “f''^;^fj .^? ™nt2in a strong, ;jhad been passed tb the Department>i'?^i^°“-::-°{® -- of Health for a response.'iTwb weeks?®^?^^^^-^


hospital were there one minute and . South Ribble in the new Ribble, taken away the next.'The reply I re- -


eamoer unoge LostocK Hal been induded


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have passed and no repfy has b'eeri;“:S ^ .°^ ’ forthcomino


Far too much money' is wa'sted ‘ within the NHS on management and bureaucracy. The ,2008/9 accounts' -


. ecutive Committee Members cost the taxpayer£1,261,000.-


show that the East Lancs Primaty -- Care Trust Board Members and Ex- S t


, .-'i ;• i 1 PP^:•:-i


-A - -i^-.-r'^tiehind the Conservatives on a pro-- * e 2005 election/Well’


iL w r . r'-'- ' 'T'-four and Lib-Dems fought six), it is.


Followthedebateatwww.clitheroeadyertiser.co.uk one Conservative accused of lobbying


- for payments and four Lib-Dem MPs , - , repaying large sums of money from ■ 'benefits received from the Dolphin Square project - it is vital that all in­ volved in politics are accurate in our statements.


Speaking for myself and, I suspect,, many other councillors, we will b e | , monitoring all information put out


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/ locally in leaflets with a view to mak-S f ing sure the public are accurately in-:^ / formed and not subject to spin. ■ ' ^


■ COUN. SIMON FARNSWORTH, RVBCSalthillWard;|


' Clitheroe


path welcomed COMMENDATIONS and apprecia-


Grindleton field


- tion to the Footpaths and Highways ' Department, to whoever conceived and executed the path that extends the Ribble Way into, or towards, the village of Chatbum. Seemingly the copse or thicket of


trees was broad enough to offer a pathway through them - creating a rustic, rural atmosphere. Essentially, I suppose, considera­ tion has been given to the safety of


. people having previously to walk along a busy country road. As, for example, the new pathway on the op­ posite side of the road, down to the river. Additionally, there is the new en­


trance by the Grindleton bridge, that allows entrance and exit to and from . the fields, so the public is no longer exposed to the hazards o f passing traffic along the road. Of course the s.afety precaution is


paramount. But also the pleasure of being able to relax in a rural environ-


• ment. ROBIN PARKER


. St Chad’s Avenue, Chatbum


Ribblesdale pals enjoy reunion


EX-SCHOOL chums met up again at the Emporium last week as Ribbles­ dale “G” stream 59-64 enjoyed con­ versation and laughs about old times. / . Joining Bill Briggs, Wilf Hewitt, Pe­


ter Ford, Dave Threlfall, George Rey­ nolds, June Barker, Susan Hodgins, - Kath Farnsworth, Jennifer Driver and ■


:


Margaret Proctor for the first time was the former Carol Nyland, who still > •liyes locally; Caren nee Raynor, who' spends her time between Clitheroe « and Tenerife; Robert Lawson from ;i Billmgton; Stuart Hoyle from Earby;


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../ and Jeff Bowskill who travelled from U; Welshpool, mid-Wales.' V . ' While we have traced a few more, who couldn’t make it on the night, still off the radar are Susan Davies, Ann Wells, Christine Ascough,'Ju- ; ,dith Hargreaves, Marion Worthing-


>,ton, Hillary Dewhurst, Ann Steven- ,,,Mn, Sheila Duckworth. Plus Michael


.---■IJp.^n, Charles,Balshaw, David'and ; -Malcolm Rothwell, Martin Craee 'Dawd Ross,-Keith Weightman,,Toni •^ Parkinson and Roy Duckworth'


' ^ . STEVE RUSH, ^ before the electbrate'is correct ahd ':


i. ^ e t BilIBriggs on 01200 426307 or ' 5 y eprge Reynolds on 07855549227. - ■ ; ;


- 'If anyone knows the whereabouts ■


please con- - . A.,*


8 Bonnygrass Terrace, Woone Lane, Clitheroe..


F im ’s tactics were appaUing


SOME months ago I made the mis- take of answering my door to a “sur-: veyor’’,frorii a double glazing firm. ’ v ' Over the past six months I have had /several telephone calls from the firm.'


'/. - i Meanwhile; in February, my wife - became ill again and died of ovarian cancer. I have tried to explain this to ‘.them.'


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I had another-phone call and ex­ plained that my wife had died, told


the'person phoning where to go, and he laughed, especially when I told him my wife had died; “Calm down” he said, still laughing! Is there anyone else in the Ribble


Valley who is being hassled by such a firm? I shall be copying this letter to our MP Nigel Evans. This firm clearly represents the darker side of capital­ ism, which even Tories admit does ex­ ist, even outside the banking sector. The company rang me again to­


night, but the lady did at least not laugh. She promised to take me off their phone list. In my dreams!


J. S. Kent


Fairfield Close, Clitheroe


National shame ANIMAL Aid wishes to share some vital information with your readers before they place a bet on the Grand • National. Between 1999 and 2009,^30 horses.


Death toll is a


died at the annual three-dayjneeting. In 2009 alone, five hors’es were killed - a fact that went largely unreported. The death toll is on par with that .


of the Cheltenham Festival, which has killed the same number of horses over the same time period - the worst year being 2006, when 11 horses lost their lives. Readers may be shocked


. to learn that this year four horses died at Cheltenham. As part o f Animal Aid’s Horse


Racing Awareness Week (April 4th to 10th), a graphic billboard has been erected in Liverpool city centre to bring home the grim reality of what happens to thoroughbreds forced to compete in races that confront them with lethal challenges. Our message is simple: Don’t fund


the cruelty; don’t bet on the Grand National. For you it is only a harmleffi flutter, but horses could pay with their lives.


V FIONA PEREIRA, Campaigner, Animal Aid


chanty bags A WHILE ago I wrote about a col-v^ lection bag for a fake charity called ; “Supporting Arms”, today we have,.!, had one for “Helpmates Ltd”.


Beware of ^fake’ ..v


. ' Again on checking on the internet it is NODa charity and it does not . supply the clothes to the Third World . people; From the messages posted on .


: the net they operate all over the coun- - • try and have caused questions to be asked in the House o f Commons.but


MR G. A. REYNOLDS, ■


apparently to no effect.; . ' ; ALAHHEVWOOD,


' Pinder Close, Waddington


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Driiik-driver ■was five times over legal limit


A- CLITHEROE woman was nearly five times the.legal drink-drive limit when she


was breathalysed after a low speed collision with a hedge.. Blackburn magistrates heard that 36-year-


old Judith Elizabeth Hitchen left her home after a minor row with her partner. • ■


side, car park she drank a bottle of vodka before attempting the return trip.


Hitchen, o f Nelson Street, Clitheroe,


pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol. She was remanded on bail for the prepara­ tion of a pre-sentence report after the mag­ istrates heard she gave a reading of 165 mi­ crogrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath against the legal limit of 35.


v'-Mr Andrew Robinson (prosecuting) said police were called to the car park where a witness said they has seen the car travelling very slowly before coming to rest against a hedge. Hitchen was still in the driver’s seat. ; “The officer spoke to her and then had to assist her out of the car because of the state she was in,” said Mr Robinson. : Mr Nick Dearing (defending) said his cli­


ent, a dental hygienist, was deeply ashamed to be apfiearing in court. He said'Hitchen and her husband had


been’arguing because his business was suf­ fering during the recession. . . “The stress has built up and as a crutch she has been resorting increasingly to alco- Hol,’,’ said Mr Dearing. • “On this occasion she had gone out to


clear her head after a minor row with her husband. She bought a bottle of vodka and drank it all.” • . He said^when Hitchen decided to drive


to her home she had simply come to a halt against'the hedge after travelling a very snortdistance. . - : ■ .


ing company “Food for Thought” has been awarded the contract to run the Atrium and Bowling Green Cafes at Clitheroe Castle. The cafes will be run by Clitheroe wom­


WEDDINGS could be held at the his­ toric Clitheroe Castle as part o f a new catering and hospitality deal at the site. Buckinghamshire-based schools cater­


an Jenni Schumann (38), who is Food for Thought’s business support manager. The deal, which will secure around 10 full


and part-time jobs, will run for three years and play a pivotal role in positioning Clithe­ roe Castle as a premier visitor attraction. And Jenni Schumann said getting the site


licensed for weddings would be one of her priorities.


Jenni, a former pupil of Clitheroe Royal


Grammar School, graduated with a degree in hospitality management from the Uni­ versity of Central Lancashire and worked in hotels and conference centres across the UK, before forming the hugely successful Food For Thought. The mum-of-two stepped down as a di­


rector of Food for Thought three years ago and now works for the company in a busi­ ness development and consultancy role.


. She said: “I grew up in Clitheroe and am now bringing up my children in the town. We enjoy visiting Clithe'roe Castle, so man­ aging the catering facilities at the site is a fantastic opportunity. “The Atrium Cafe is a wonderful venue,


in a great setting, with wonderful acoustics, and the opportunities for developing hospi­ tality there are excellent.” As well as weddings. Food for Thought’s


plans for the Atrium Cafe include func­ tions, themed restaurant evenings, a Sunday carveiy, daily salad bar and jazz nights. It will also stock local and Fair Trade


produce, and work towards catering and hospitality accreditation, such as the Taste Lancashire Award. Coun. Robert Thompson, chairman o f


Ribble Valley Borough Osuncil’s communi­ ty committee, said: “Food for Thought has a great reputation for providing nutritious, home-cooked healthy meals, with the em­ phasis on personal service, as well as social and environmental responsibility. ■ “It is particularly pleasing that Jenni is a


local woman and we are looking forward to working with her and her team in the next phase of the Atrium Cafe’s development.”


But while she was on the Edisford river­


Castle to be venue for


OPPORTUNIST: Valley MP Nigel Evans Yoii said it Minister!


SEIZING a too-good-to'^miss opportunity, Ribble-Valley MP Nigel Evans urged a Government Minister to investi­ gate the latest sfac-month delay to plans for a new Clitheroe Community Hospital. . • - Speaking during Questions to the Secretary of State for


Health, the Minster, Mike O’Brien MP, said that Health Trusts must listen to the public; Grasping his chancej Conservative Mr Evans responded:


“I agree with the Minister wholeheartedly; Could I encour­ age him to have a word with East Lancashire Primary Care Trust for whom £12m. was made available for the rebuilding of Qitheroe Hospital? “Building work was stopped in November and the deci­


sion on whether to continue, which was due to be taken this month, has now been postponed until September. Does the Minister agree that since the people want their hospital they should be given it?”


■ . . Speaking later, Mr Evans added: “If it is the Govern­


ment’s view that Trusts should listen to the public then they should pay close attention to the events surrounding Clithe­ roe Hospital and ensure that the people o f the Ribble Val­ ley receive their new community hospital as promised.’’ .


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