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NW top spot for Chipping’s in bloom entry


by Duncan Smith


THERE’S just no stopping those bloom­ ing folk in Chipping!


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- For the third year running the green-fin­ gered villagers have won the North West In Bloom competition and, to top off the result, the village has been nominated to represent the North West in the Britain in Bloom Awards next year. Representatives of the Chipping in


Bloom committee were delighted to learn they had notched up a hat-trick of victo­ ries. “It was wonderful to win again,” said


Katherine Jackson a founder member, of the Bloom Action Group. “We knew we’d been nominated for an award, but we didn’t know what until the village awards section came up. .


• ■ . . “North West in Bloom followed the


national Britain in Bloom formula this year, with medal awards. Elswick also won a gold medal, but we were awarded the Plantscape Trophy for the best village in the whole of the North West. It was a great -


feeling.” That feeling has been echoed throughout the village because so many people have taken the annual challenge to heart. Not jiist the 11 members of the Bloom Action Group, but other villagers


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PROUD MOiyiENT: Chipping in Bioom Action Group members Sue Harrison (ieft) and Liz Whatham with the Goid Medal award at the . North West in Bloom presentations in Southport.


who have volunteered to look after tubs


;; and hanging baskets, maintained the flow­ er beds by the bus stop and done all sorts


i of gardening and tidying jobs.' ■ “It’s fantastic news for us to win for the third year in a row,” said Chipping’s Rib- ble Valley Councillor Simon Hore. “Con­ gratulations to all involved.” ■ ^ Two members of the Bloom Action Group couldn’t be at last Thursday’s


’ awards ceremony because they were in Madeira celebrating their golden wedding anniversary. But Tony and Margaret Gar­ dener couldn’t wait until they got home to find out the result, so they phoned Kather­ ine during the event.. “We could hear them cheering all the


way from Madeira,” she said. “They even had a bottle of champagne ready as if they knew we would win.” rWhile everybody is overjoyed at the vil­


lage’s third title, the nomination for the Britain in Bloom Awards 2011 has posed soihething of a dilemma for the Bloom Action Group. . ; “We had considered giving the awards


a miss next year,” said media officer Barry Durham, “and just continuing to keep the village looking lovely, but the nomination for the national event has now caused us to have a re-think. “The big problem is that the ihain group


is quite small and most of us are either re­ tired or semi-retired. There is a lot to do to prepare for Britain in Bloom and we could really do with some young people coming forward to give us a hand.


: .“Everything done in Chipping is done


by volunteers - we don’t have town or parish councils coming forward to pay for gardeners to do the work like some other towns and villages in the area - so we re­ ally do need some help if we are going to go for a second national title.” If you would like to help Chipping in its


bid for a second Britain in Bloom title you can ring Barry on 10995 61611 or e-mail: chippinginbloom@live.co.uk. • To raise funds for whatever the vil­


lage decides to do next year, the Chipping in Bloom Action Group has produced two souvenirs: a DVD of photographs and movies of all the events up to the judging in'July and a calendar containing pictures of the village and local gardens by resi­ dent photographers Barbara and Barry Durham. Both items can be bought from Barry at 4 Kirklands. The DVD is £3 and the calendar £5.


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DIGGING FOR VICTORY: S t Leonard’s Guides and Guiders join Rotary Club of Clitheroe President John Spedding and Rotarian Roland Hailwood to plant the crocus bulbs in Langho.


WINTER is on its way, but the St Leon-


FUND-RAISER: John Foley, Ernie Sedgwick, Stephen Lowe, Peter Foiey, Emma Phiiiips and, front, Wilson and Sammy. Phillips at the gardeners’ question time in aid of the Jennifer Trust. A121010/2


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:'ard’s Girl Guides in Langho are already looking forward to a purple patch next spring. , .....


- , - They have just planted purple crocus


bulbs in Langho, both to ensure a bright start to 2011 and as a symbol of their involvement with the Rotary Club of Clitheroe in a worldwide Rotary campaign to eradicate polio. The significance of the purple crocus is that when people have been immunised


against polio they dip their finger in a purple dye to show the immunisation has been done and to avoid duplication. Rotarian Roland Hailwood, PR officer


for the Clitlieroc club, said: “We have been told very recently that Nigeria is now free from polio, and the countries of Afghanistan and India are now the main areas of concern. “So look out for the purple crocus next thousands and thousands are be­


spring - ing planted all over the country.” Spokes and spanners


WOMEN cyclists who want to learn more about maintaining their machine are be­ ing invited to a special workshop session run by Clitlieroe Bike Club. It takes place at the club’s workshop on


Wednesday, November 3rd, at 7 p.m., and the friendly club is encouraging any wom­ en, including non-members, to go along to gain some more bike-fixing skilTs. . • Club member Kate Lee said: “I can set


off into the hills with some peace of mind about simple repairs now and it would be ,■ great to see more women out there. . . .


. “Bike maintenance is straightforward;- once you know how and gives you con­ fidence to be an independent cyclist, so


.please feel welcome to come along.” . ,■ ., - Tlie session will be about whatever bike-


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related help is wanted and organisers say it might be useful to just get good at punc­ ture repairs, especially at this time of year as the hedges are being cut on local lanes.


• Kate added: “Show up and it will be fun. 'Anyway,'we have nothing to lose but our


chains!” •


ON YOUR BIKE: Enjoy peace of mind out on the road with bicycle ; repair skills. Here Clitheroe Bike Club’s Jane Nolan takes on The Rake.


Anyone wanting to attend can tele- .


phone Richard Paige on 0797 6312529 for ■ information about the venue. For general information about this familyjoriented ■ club and its activities, visit its website at: www.clitheroebikeclub.co.uk..


Clltheroo Advertiser & Times,Thursday, October 28,2010


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Gardeners rally round after allotment attack


ALMOST £900 was raised at a recent charity gardeners’ ques­ tion time evening in aid of The Jennifer Trust for Spinal Mus­ cular Atrophy (JTSMA). The evening held at Wad-


dow Hall, Waddington, was organised by gardening expert Peter Foley, of Waddow Lodge Garden, after vandals set fire to the allotment of Chatburn pensioner Ernie Sedgwick. Ernie, whose allotment is off:


Sawley Road, sells vegetables and bedding plants to raise funds for JTSMA in memory of his late granddaughter So­ phie. She lost her battle with the


devastating genetic disease six- years ago when she was just 12 months-old. Ever since, Ernie and his wife Joan have devoted their time to raising funds to help find a cure for the dis­ ease. Since the arson incident,


Ernie he has been inundated with offers of help and, apart from the £458-26 raised during the charity, evening, an addi­ tional £418 was raised before-' hand. These funds were raised by


Mandy Paul from Hudson’s Ice Creams in Chatburn. She


had placed a collecting box in her-shop and organised two table top sales in June, with


• help from Girl Guiding UK following their Clitheroe'Mar- ket bring and buy stall, and manned by Ernie’s wife Joan.


Lowe, who presents BBC Radio Lancashire’s weekly gardening and outdoors pro­ gramme each Sunday, acted as


During the evening, Stephen


• compere. Long term supporter of


JTSMA, Emma Phillips gave a talk about the condition on the night along with her two sons Wilson and Sammy, who


suffer from a mild form'of the disease.


An excerpt from the film­


ing of BBC Gardeners’ World with Toby Buckland and Carol Klein at Chatburn and Knowle Green, which featured Ernie and several of his friends, was then shown. This was followed with a talk by Peter entitled ‘How To


Brighten Your Autumn Gar­ den’.- ■ At the end of the evening


Ernie was presented with a new fork and spade, courtesy of Bulldog Tools at Clarington Forge, Wigan.


www.clithcrocadvertIser.co.uk Clithcroe Advertiser &Times,Thursday, October 28,2010


MEASURES to slash away at red tape have been warmly welcomed by Conservatives councillors in Ribble Valley and across Lancashire. Tliey breathed a huge sigh of relief


as the Conservative-led coalition gov­ ernment announced measures to rad­ ically reduce bureaucratic reporting for councils, aimed at slashing 4,700 red tape targets. Coun. Ken Flind, senior vice-chair­


man of Ribble Valley Conservatives, commented: “Local government has been burdened with central govern­ ment control which has demanded we spend millions of pounds on meet­ ing the last Labour government’s


Ribble Valley welcome for scrapping of council reports


demands for information and measur­ ing targets, instead of making sure the bins are emptied, home carers provid­ ed, school places properly funded and planning applications are adequately considered. “We welcome this bonfire of red


tape. It will be able us to make sub­ stantial reductions in our budgets as the need to reduce public spending bites, and at the same time direct scarce resources to protect frontline services. :


“This is all part of the new govern­


ment’s commitment to localism, giv­ ing control back to local government and power to act in the interests of lo­ cal communities.”


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targets, known as local area agrees ments, will instantly remove report­ ing on 4,700 Whitehall targets from councils’ daily workloads. Instead, local areas will be in control of their own delivery targets, answering to residents.


Springing into action ’ The abolition of centrally driven-


• i In addition, National Indicators ■ used to monitor council performance will be replaced with an agreed single list of Whitehall data requirements for local government. : New transparency arrangements will make sure councils remain ac­


countable to local people. ‘ - Announcing the changes. Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles said: “Na­ tional targets tend to mean that coun­ cils are constantly working on things


which matter to Whitehall, regardless of what local residents think. I’d much rather councils were tackling local issues. 2 “The money being spent on form


fillers and bean counters could be far better spent helping elderly people to stay in their homes.


" “So I’m scrapping the existing local


area agreements. I’m handing over control o f more than 4,700 targets to councils and their voters, to keep them or dump them as they see fit.”


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