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mentary series, currently being shown ITV (Mondays, 9 p.m.), shows the reality of life behind the bars at HMP Manches ter (to give it its official title), the largest maximum security prison in Britain. The programme features harrowing scenes of violence, self-harm and mutilation and serious mental health issues. Inmates in clude the notorious Jonathan Vass, an ex paramedic jailed for 99 years for the killing of the mother of his child, Jane Clough, in a frenzied knife attack in the car park of the hospital where she worked.
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decide we must go “straight to the point” of an issue? To make clear what it is we
an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Ches ter. Subtitled “A Christian Account of Life and the Universe” (and everything? not quite Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhik ers Guide to the Galaxy”!), it is entitled: “Straight to the Pointlessness”. You can see the pun: how often do we
are a bit pedestrian: not everyone gets ex cited (although, sad person that I am, I do a bit!) studying the ways Christians ham mered out “orthodox” teaching in the 4th Centuiy. But once in while I come across a book that pulls me up and really makes me think, as I find myself challenged by a quite new way of looking at things. One recent example is by Mark Hart,
land, I get through plenty of theological tomes as well. It must be adrnitted that some of these
thrillers for relaxation (the latest Rob ert Goddard is brilliant; and so is what IS, sadly, the very last in the “Kurt Wal- lander” Swedish detective series by Hen ning Mankell). But, not least because I teach students training for Ordination or for Reader ministry in the Church of Eng
then somewhere on it you would find: “he’s always got his head in a book”. So, yes, I confess: I read a lot: mainly
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riety” was offered this week, which had met with approval of the audience every
THE “Fun, Facts and Fancies” section this week reported such trivia as “A pound of cork is sufficient to float a man weighing 11 stone” and “The long tails of the Shah of Persia’s horses are dyed crimson for six inches at their tips - a
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terested in what goes on in the minds of the people who commit these horrifying acts. Whilst watching Vass and hearing him speak, it’s so very hard to imagine that you are looking at someone who commit ted such unspeakable acts of violence and is seemingly unmoved by, or indeed sony, for what he has done.
programme featured another inmate David Charlton, an extreme example of how the prison system is clogged up with dealing with mental health Tssues. Many who could be receiving help outside the prison system are instead costing the coun try extortionate amounts of money as they are churned through the system repeat edly, simply because there’s nowhere else for them to go. For highlighting this alone the programme makes worthy watching. ’
second episode m the series, I questioned whether any good could come of giving these animals” any further publicitv nr exposure. Is it fair to the victims or in deed, the prisoners’ own families that their personal tragedies should be aired for the viewing public’s consumption? The balance, for me, came when the
Last Monday night, after watching the
PRESENTATION: Royal Forest Lodge 401 Ladies Committee present cheques to Hilda Tomlinson, warden at St Helens Church (front left) and Violet Leach, from the NWAA (front right).
50 years ago
RUN as a hotel for the past 15 years, Eaves Hall, between Waddington and West Bradford, was offered for sale by private treaty. There had been several in fluential inquiries and it was understood that the price asked was £45,000. The hall, which had 30 bedrooms and eight mairi
bathrooms, had been bought by Brook Bond Ltd., during the war. • Work started on the building of the
Slaidburn Eileen Wood was crowned May Queen of Slaidburn Newton and Dunsop
nally planned, but this was later changed to St Augustine’s. the annual festival and sports in
new RC secondary school at Billington. I he English Martyrs’ was the name origi
25 years ago
earmarked as premises for Clitheroe’s new town hall. The plan was to convert the premises into a Mayoral suite, in cluding parlour, town clerk’s office and council chamber.
CHAOS ensued at the beginning of Sabden Parish Council’s ACM: the re-elected Coun. Alf Parsons had to tell members that he couldn’t comment on last year’s minutes, because no-one could find them! A frantic search had been fruitless. There was a short adjournment while councillors went to search at home, but after a half-hour delay the meeting resumed and members passed a motion to read the minutes at the first meeting after they had been found”. • An empty antiques shop had been
TAKING responsibility is a big part of growing up, and all throughout their time at Whal- ley’s Oakhill College pupils are encouraged to do just that. It can mean taking responsi
bility in all sorts of areas, such as learning, sport, for themselves and for others. However, there are also some
special positions of responsibil ity for Year 11 pupils elected as head and deputy head boy and girl, house captains and prefects. Interviews took place recently
F you were to ask my wife (not partrier, please - we’re not in busi ness!) about my vices; and you had sufficient time to wade through the list;
are talking about; no going “round the nes“s’’9^Wi?
5 ®^tth IS that about’
mat, so far as the great verities of life are concerned, there must be some kind of point; some profound meaning. People of religious faith and people of “unfaifh” argue about the meaning of life, the uni- wrse and everything (the answer to which Adams assured us was “42”J
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to the pointless- “P *° believe
created us with some obscure purpose we inust strive to discover- h e h a s r r i^ ^ simply in order to love us
The implication is that we don’t need tn
sider, not the point of everything but its pomtiessness. The world/universe has no hidden purpose, because it has arisen out of God s love, not God’s need. God hasn“
about the same thing: for instancl we can have a well-developed morality (or not'I w i th e r ornot we invoke beliefin God But Hart invites us to pause and con
about the meaning that is invested in the universe itself, and particularly in th i ev^ution of self-aware human persons ^ think they are talking broadly
want to provide an answer that involves K
Obviously the religious believer will the atheist will want to speak
gift - from God to us; and in the way we live it, from us to others (what Jesus called
having “abundant life”), and from us back to God.
. sornetimes people face some horrific ex periences) - then we may find that we get things in a better perspective. All a sense of entitlement does is rnake
us bitter that we have not being given more; like those who put their “unwant ed” Christmas presents on EBay. We can simply be thankful for the gift of life, enjoy it as fully as possible, and strive to enable others do the same. . .You see: the whole point of a gift is that It is pointless; it need not be useful (that’s the whole point of the pointlessness), sim ply because it is an expression of the love and affection of the giver. So gifts are to be valued, not for financial or practical worth, but just because they are gifts. But a gift is only a gift insofar as it is accepted "[fth thanks and joy. Treat each day as a gift; it might just change your life!
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SHEPHERD, Clitheroe Parish Church
t h e REV. CANON DR PETER
WELL RUN- Clitheroe Round Tablers, from the left, Phill Horrocks, Jim Shervey, Paul Harrison and Craig Nicholls enjoy a well-earned rest after
comoletinEf the Manchester 10k Run.
There is a message here for everj'one, religious or not. If we accept life simply as a gift, instead of imagining it is something to which we are entitled - for a sense of entitlement is at the bottom of most of our disappointments and miseries (I’m certainly not saying that life is perfect;
for these positions for the com ing 2012 academic year and the successful applicants were as follows: head boy, Luke Nolan; head girl, Georgina Watson; deputy head. Boy Vincent Yiu; deputy head girl, Rachel Pai- ton; Martyrs House captains, Danielle Thompson and Daniel Tattersall; Scholars House cap tains, Mark Gore and Cameron Watson; sports captain, Joshua Livesey; prefects, Mark Holt, Hakeem Mahmood and Jonath an Tebb.
Five heads are better than one
HEADS UP: from the left, incoming head girl Georgina Watson (15), of Clitheroe, congratulated by outgoing head girl Megan Holt (16), of Ribchester, college prin cipal Mrs Riley, and outgoing head boy George Annice (16) of Cliviger, congratu lating his successor Luke Nolan (15), from Whailey.
A great run by the
Tablers in trainers GREY skies and wet weather could not dampen the spirits for four intrepid Clit heroe Round Table members who success fully completed the BUPA Great Man chester Run. Set in the heart of the city of Manches
ter, the race takes place over 10 kilometres out towards Salford and back to Deans- gate.
Horrocks, Jim Shervey, Paul Harrison and Craig Nicholls - raised more than £1,000 for the Round Table Children’s Wish char ity, which helps make dreams come true for children with life-threatening illnesses. • For more information about Clitheroe
Collectively the Clitheroe Tablers - Phill
Round Table and to see what events are planned, visit the group’s Facebook page (
www.facebook.com/rt552) or its website (
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