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■ THIS is the first time I have written a let­ ter to the papers, but reading last week’s “As I See It” article by Richard Shorras,


. headed “Wliy so negative?”, my blood started to boil. Is this man an elected representative


for Ribble 'Valley Borough Council? I do hope so because that means next May we


. can get rid of him and elect someone who acts for the people of this borough.


■ I would like to know who the people are who have given such a thumbs up to the urbanisation of this lovely rural area. How many people did you survey Mr Shcrras? How many replies did you receive and where do these people live? Come to that Mr Shcrras, where do you


. live? Are there plans to build a housing estate on your doorstep? Not to mention, as you say, some of these reports are sev­ eral years old, doesn’t this suggest they may be out of date? I’m sure there were little ads in the


Public Notice section saying you were inviting views on various strategies, go to your \vebsite, which apparently it now ap­ pears is defective, but most people lead busy lives and such low key advertising passes them by. It is only this year that people have


woken up to what is happening in their area and they do not like it. To write these people off as distrustful, jaundiced and negative is to totally miss the point and in some way attempt to place yourself above


: these people, that you are more informed and these people ignorant oiks. These are normal, intelligent hard


working people who moved to the Ribble Valley for a quiet, relaxed, less crowded way of life. Maybe housing is dearer here,


. but these people worked for what they liave and deserve to be heard not over­ ruled like rowdy schoolchildren. . The truth is your Core Strategy has been totally overshadowed by the pin pointing of land which COULD be built on. Developers take COULD to mean CAN BE. If a developer has a choice between an urban piece of land in say Burnley and a rural piece of land in the Ribble Valley, he will choose the Ribble Valley because he can get far more prof­ it per hectare here and so we now have building project after building project hit­ ting us. Your Core Strategy is a useless piece


of paper, we all know these people have big money and they will find a way to get round every planning issue you place in their way. You have opened the flood-


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_ gates to hundreds of houses, thousands of extra people to use the services you have pinpointed as being available, when they


. are at maximum capacity. Oh yes, somehow they will cope; The


schools will cram in more pupils until our schools are rated the worst in the area in­ stead of the best. Those that can’t get a' place will have to travel to schools outside the area, not very environmentally friend­ ly but hey, never mind! ' ■ Our doctors will have full waiting rooms, where you will be waiting an hour for your appointment because they have . had to shorten the consultation time. Our roads will be constantly choked instead of


. only choked at peak times, but hey isn’t every town the same? Our streets will flood and pollution -


from more traffic will rise. . . ; ■ People who live here love this area


they are speaking to you, begging.you not to allow this to happen.-Listen to them, donit write them off as “some people” ' start to realise they are “most people” Please before our towns and villages are ■ destroyed!


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' DAVID EARNSHAW,, . ■ Woodlaiids Drive, Whallcy


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■ Write to The Editor, Clitheroe ; Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroe or emaii; ^ •


duncan.smith@eastlancsnews.co.uk Follow the debate at www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk


‘As I See It^ m a d e Time will tell over m y b lo o d boil!


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THANK YOU Richard Sherras, Chair­ man of Ribble Valley Borough Council’s planning and development committee, for pointing out to many hundreds of Whal- ley residents, what a bunch of “resentful, prejudiced, biller, distrustful, jealous and - negative people we are-your words-see


the definition of “jaundiced”. ■\Ve must all be wrong and indeed, hive


lost siglit of the fact that “the draft core strategy consultation is asking for views on mere suggestions and nothing is being forced” upon anyone. Well, Mr Sherras, remember this


- time will tell. Regarding the gathering of evidence over the years, having lived in the main area of the village, where traffic congestion and flooding occur most, for over 25 years, I have no knowledge of any


- of my fellow neighbours being consulted on these matters. Shameonyou and your well-informed,


patronising team, that we, the local resi­ dents, have not been a part of your “mass­ es” of evidence gathered over tlie years. So who has? Name names, or have these also been a “test”, along with the recent objections to proposed new building projects?


TONY BROWN, ' King Street, Wlialley


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WE would like to pass on our thanks to all those involved in both the organisation and sppnsorship of the “Help for Heroes” charity ball held at the Moorcock on Sat­ urday. It was a fantastic evening with great


ROWDY BUNCH ON TABLE NINE Trapp Lane looks Honest Grandad!


food, great entertainment and most im­ portantly, lots of money raised for a great cause. Well done to all concerned.


SEEING the photographs of the Chat- burn bombings during the Second World War, I recall my grandfather telling me a story of his recollections of that time. He worked at the Horrocksford Lime


Company as a shot firer. My grandfather and a few of his workmates walked into the village to see the damage. While kick­ ing about in the debris, he found a roll of


ten shilling notes (he presumed from the Post Office). My grandfather, had however, when I


questioned him, handed the bank notes to a policeman.


NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED Bombing memory


I READ with interest, the story of the day the bombs fell on Chatburn. I was employed ,at Salt Hill Quariy as a


. horse man and had to work a large white cart horse and care for a smaller riding horse that belonged to Mr John Carter


Burton, the owner of Salt Hill and the Bellman quarries.


" On the day in question, the Bellman


quarry had a problem. The quarry was set back about a mile from the plant that processed the lime rock and the rock was transported across the field By a small die­ sel locomotive; but this day, the locomo­ tive had broken down.


over from the locomotive. My horse could pul 20 small wagons, with 200lbs of lime rock in each across the field on a small gauge track to the plant. It was on one of


- I was sent with my cart horse to take


these journeys that the fun began. I was half-way across the field with my


horse and wagons, when I heard the roar of an engine and in an instant, the roar was upon me. It was a twin engine plane with German markings. I could see the pilot, his face and goggles. Tlie plane flew on over the Bellman and Oxford plants, then turned right and on to Chatburn. I did not see the plane after that, but heard the bombs as they fell on Chatburn. I could not leave my horse and go up


into Chatburn, but as I was returning to the Bellman quarry, many of the men who worked there were going on foot. I had previously enlisted in the RAF


and soon after the bombing, I was called up for duty and remained therein for the next six years. In 1949,1 emigrated to the USA. - In the next 60 years, I must have re­


turned to Clitheroe a score of times, each time driving througli Chatburn and remi­ niscing about the past. I love Clitheroe and would like to say “Hello” to anyone who remembers me!


WILLIAM S.HINDLE, Crawfordville, Florida


Why two Mayors?


I HAVE for many years wondered why we have a Ribble Valley Mayor and a Clitheroe Mayor?


Surely, in this economic climate, this


borough could make do with one? What docs it cost for eacli of these ap­


pointments in allowances, transport and other expenses?'Someone at the council offices must know. Once again, it will be costing the rate payers. By only having one mayor for the area,


would the savings not be considerable? Let the cuts start here. NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED


like Beirut now IF any of you can remember what Beirut looked like during both the war and after, then why not take a look at Trapp Lane, in Simonstone, and see for yourselves the desolation that is going on there. And there is more to come. All this


without a bullet being fired. NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED


must stand alone I AM dismayed at the idea that in future Britain will be part-sharing its Armed Forces with France. It has been announced by the Minis­


try of Defence that we will be sharing, amongst other things. Aircraft Carriers, the training of Rapid Response Forces and training facilities with our neighbours over the Channel. However, it does not take a genius to


see that this proposal is not only an attack on our sovereignty as a nation state, but that it is also a very dangerous develop­ ment.


Surely our experience of the Falklands


War, when the French refused to supjDort Britain in taking military action against the Argentinian invaders, tells us that they are not suitable partners. I also fear that this could indeed be slip­


pery slope towards a further pooling of our Armed Forces which, in my opinion, could possibly leave us in a perilous posi­ tion in the event of any future conflict. • Nelson and Wellington would be turn­


ing in their graves. ; PAULNUTTALLMEP,


UK Independence Party (North West) Britain's forces news BILLINGTON Community


church n ews v Tlie service on Sunday in Billington Com­ munity Church was taken by the Rev. D. Johnson who spoke on Eternal Life. The Bible reading from Luke, “The Resur­ rection and Mar­ riage”, was read by Mrs Jean Chadwick. The hymns “I Will Enter his Gates” and “Peace is Flow­ ing like a River” were sung.


Communion was


and ali large retail a warm and won- stores throughout derful atmosphere, the country. Mrs appropiatc for the. Jackie Clements ■ ■ time of year. Tick-


The next meeting will be on Wednesday,


expressed thanks on . ;ets at £7 include behalf of the group.


December 1st for carol singing round the village. Mem­ bers wanting to sing , will meet at 6 p.m


light refrcshrrientj and are available from Roy Porter, Butcher, Chatburn


at the Coach and Further concerts are


Horses; other mem- arranged to sup- bers can meet for coffee and mince pies at 8-30 p.m. in­ side the Coach and Horses.


...... ......... _ Young farmers served and flowers Polton-by-Bowland for the communion Young Farmers met table were provided by Mrs Barbara and Miss Susan Mason.


The Remembrance service on Sunday at 10-45 a.m. will be taken by the Rev. Johnson.


Cafe bar Please note the cafe will not be open on Saturday morning, but will be open as usual next Satur­ day.


Tea party Sophie Holgate is having another lea


sis. It will be held at


on Monday night for a ghost walk in Slaidburn given by Simon EnTwistle. Thanks were given by Charlotte Wind-


Next week’s meeting is the County Bowling Competition, and members not com­ peting can go to the cinema. Members to meet in the vil­ lage at 7 p.m.


Please remember new members are al- ^


party to raise mon- Facebook page, ey for Cystic Fibro-.


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Greenfields, Neddy CHATBURN Billington. T h e re_________________


will be pie and peas, R pm pm h r a n rp home-made soups, n e iT iem D ra n c e


cakes and jams, it starts 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. Please sup­ port this very good cause.


BOLTON-BY- BOWLAND


Remembrance serv­ ice of the Chatburn and District Branch of the Royal Brit­ ish Legion will be held in St Helen’s


FANS Friends and Neigh­ bours, of Bolton- by-Bowland, were given an interesting talk by Mr William Whittaker, of Whit­ taker’s Chocolates, who explained the family business be­ gan 120 years ago in the family home in Cross Hills. Origi­ nally they were grocers then pro­ gressed to a bakery and finally his great­ grandmother learnt how to make choco- late from the local ^


and in 1926 the fam ily moved to Skipton where the business


• rem'ains today. Two . million chocolates , are made every day


,and production for Christmas begins in


vicar’s wife. The L>3rOIS mint wafer proved On December lOtli at to be very popular, 7-30pm^, the choir


The Waddington Bowling and Social Club is providing coffee at 10 a.m. and then everyone will form up at the church gate at 10- 30 to parade into church for 10-45 a.m. After church there will be a pa­ rade to the war me­ morial and follow­ ing the services the social club is again offering refresh­ ments. If anyone requires transport please tel. Mandy and Denis Brennan '01200441551. .


vember 14th.


from The Grand, in Clitheroe will perform Christmas carols and popu­ lar seasonal songs in the candlelit Christ Church, Ghatburn.,The su-


Celtic heads and gadrooned decora­ tion in the stone­ work. Close inspec­ tion of many stone


■ farmhouses will re- V veal where original


or by ringing 01254 The next meeting is 384893. Proceeds go on Tuesday, No- towards the church organ fund.


■ doors and windows were situated.


Band on September 23rd. Tickets for each event are £7, and are available as a block booking for only £20 for all four concerts, saving £8, and as an opportu­ nity for a present until December 9lh. Ring 01254 384893 for details.


ways welcome and C anC 6 r tUnClS for information on The half-yearly au- mcctings visit the tumn collection


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port this fund. Lan­ cashire folk music and humour from the Garage Band on March 25th, Jazz from The Mark Lewis Trio on June 24th, and all round­ ed off with The Last Night of the Chat- . . . . burn Proms with VVI the 2nd Rossendale Members and guests Scout Group Brass were welcomed to the annual mect-


vember 16th, in St. Mary’s Community Hall at 7-45 p.m. when Mike Pearson will be speaking on


tors welcome. For details tel. 01772 864289 or visit www. chippinghistory.org. uk


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Contributions were also received from the people who were unable to at­ tend and she also thanked the New Drop Inn for allow­ ing a collection box on their premises.


tion, support and generosity.


CLAYTON-LE- DALE


r i a n v f c ”.U w G i f tw r a ^ , members and visi- Ptysid_ent of Dayton-


le-Dale WI Mrs Joan Mottershaw welcomed members and two visitors to the meeting, when Mrs Elaine Cuzner gave a demonstra­ tion entitled “Gift Wrapping with a Difference.”


ing of Chipping WI She showed how ver- by Mrs Joan Por- satile and attractive


■ Church, Wadding- Sunday, No- The’clmirman


cer Research UK raised £3,180.91p from home col­ lecting boxes, en­ velopes, boxes in hotels and shops and donations. The total amount col­ lected for the year is £6,710.39p.


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committee mem­ bers sincerely thaijk everyone concerned for their generosity and continuing sup­ port.


CHIPPING


Local history At the meeting of Chipping Local His­ tory Society Kevin Illingworth gave a


made by the Chat- burn Group for Blackburn and Member Mrs Sheila Ribbje Valley Can- Shelly proposed Mrs Porter to continue as president for a


ter. Guest speaker, Rosemary Baker, gave a presentation intriguingly entitled “Tramp"er Vehi­ cles”. She explained this is a charity which allows disa­ bled people access to the Lancashire countryside. Mrs Barbara Debney ex­ pressed thanks for a most interesting talk.


plain brown paper can be when a quite simple decoration is applied and is very skillful with selotape and a glue gun. She went on to demonstrate how to wrap a round tin with colourful tis­ sue, make an enve­ lope for a voucher or monetary gift and wrap a bottle in an ingenious way. Everyone was fasci­ nated and inspired to tty at least one of


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further year and she willingly accepted. Mrs Porter thanked all members for the support she had re­ ceived during the past year.


Names should be given to Margaret Whittaker for those


Kelly won the com­ petition for a walk­ ing stick. Birthday flowers were pre­ sented to Mrs Deb­ ney.


fiirtiiprvpnrnnri clip The mcnu for the Christmas meal was


^ ,i aff e winners was PI-11


available for mem­ bers to make their choice and names are still being taken for the trip to BBC Manchester.


Mrs Mattie Elliso- The competition for nand Mrs Jennifer


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ditional farmhouses be on Wednesday, in and around the December 1st, Forest of Bowland”. . .which will be the His emphasis was Christmas party,


in particular door. heads immediately WinO above doors with A cheese and wine


on exterior features, Qi^gggg -,in the country. He'- 'qut;to b e \ great


/designs,- some of 'nisid’as'thelinel; Tli^coining turned


either side; not only do dales feature, but also different


drip mould, stops on ithe


- erilpIoyl75staffand.^-,•an'd:acoustl_cs;of..•,InteresUngt^^^^^^^ - 'Debney wishes to - supplychocolatesTo'.Uhis.lovely village ; ookoutformclud-..,,thank ail concerned Marks and Soericer • church will create • ms letted oorches. -' -for their oarticioa- •• ‘


April, they'currcntly. ..perb.siirroundings i.- also, showed many. Recess and Barbara ^ j g j| ‘j . f, ^


fascinating illus- noveinDerz4ui. The first meeting in trated talk on “Tra- The next ntyeting will 2011 will be Mon-


• ing the lunch group meeting at noon in the village hall car park on Wednesday, November 24th.


•!nrH^P^!,^^pirr:;Tltenext-eti^ Christmas meal on Monday, December 13th at Wilpshire Golf Club.


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quiz evening took place, in Chipping ' ..Village Hall when -


■ day, January 10th, at 7-30 p.m. in Salesbury Memo­ rial Hall, Ribchester Road, when visitors and new members are most welcome.


GISBURN


“HebJhTHeroes’’ Youpg farmors. charS.^


made o atm e a l parkin was won by Mrs Vivienne Dug- more, Mrs Wendy Leeming, Mrs Joan Pemberton. Raffle winners were Mrs Eileen Bagot, Mrs Marie Devoy and Mrs Joan Bingham.


. membe'rs. ‘ Senior Boys Cup - Richard Hartley;: Intermediate Boys Cup - Michael New- bould; Junior Boys


speaker and Mrs Aipe presented cer­ tificates and cups to


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At the recent District Public Speaking Competition, junoir girls gained second prize in the reading, with Annabel Coar 1st, Joanne Oldfield 3rd, chairman Re­ becca Harper 3rd.


. Cup - Matthew Mid­ dleton; Junior Girls Cup - Annabelle Robinson; Endeav­ our Cup -Annabelle Robinson; Girls’ Efficiency Cup - Annabel Coar; Boys’ Efficiency Cup - Michael New- bould; Attendance Shield - Joanne Oldfield; Bolland Trophy-Annabellc Robinson; Super- stars Boys - Joseph Ormerod; Super- stars Girls - Anna­ bel Coar; County Rally Cup - Michael Newbould.


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Chart toppers The meeting of Gis- burn WI began with members singing the contemporary version of Jerusalem accompanied by the CD of the new WI stars the Harmo­ nies, destined to be­ come a chart topper this Christmas.


All officers were re­ elected unanimous­ ly as follows Shaun Cole (president), Anne Lancaster (vice-president), Maureen Bowe ( t re a su re r and


After a tiebreak, Kath­ leen Calvert won the competition trophy, with Shaun Cole and Anne Lancaster runners-up.


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President Shaun Cole gave a round-up of the excellent events of the past year, thanking the com­ mittee and others who had contribut­ ed to such a success­ ful and thoroughly enjoyable year.


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