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And, barring one period of uncertainty about his health, I can safely say that the past


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Do you remember supporting this sponsored swim appeal? This old photo was taken by


JphnBarty2oyearsago,back in January, 1993.


It was used to publicise the LifelineAppeal, forwhich money was bein^raised throu^ a sponsored swim at RibblesdalePoolinClitheroe. Picturedattheback,£romleft to fight, areBobKarman, Mrs


F. Thompson ,NeU Walker and Frank Thompson. The reportershereattheClit- heroeAdvertiser and Times would love to take a look at ’


I homes. ' Pictures showing local events,


any bid photographs readers may have stored away in their


j j jpress.co.uk.. m l o o k in g BACK


100YEARSAGO HECHIEFATTRACllONthisvyeekisthe


Escape Artist


oFsuisaADfflHr s u b w a y ^ Only IfaM at Sulw/ay ClitiietBe Prinroe (hrage, WlBJey Road, BB71 HU


me clwer tricks and amaang feats, such as J^cating himself from handcuffe and ropes.


ippearancs of tha artist Clompert, who performs ®


His greatest feat is his escape from a large tank p e d vvithvva^ into vyhich he is placed heavily handcuffedandchained.Lastnight,alocalman Mnsuccepullytriedtosolvethesecretofthe ^ k . Tonight, Clempert is to be secured byalocal plackOTiith. The sisters Brenton are engaging Buettiste and dancers. Other turns include Miss May


pherrard,comediehneandAshe,well-knovvnfemale OaSor^ Assocwtes Inc. sub;/Ay® « a tradernark of Dixlar's Assod^


»mpeipnator.Ofthepicturespnshow,thechiefisa gripping drama-The Revaluation of Marriage”.


50YEARSAGO Sawley Races-


THISWEEKSAWarecordnumberofentrantsfor


Savtieyhorseraces;“Hunters,puntero,turfaddicts andpeoplewhoenjoystheoccasional'flutter’ willbeouttobeatthebookiestomorrowwhena


recordentnrofBThorseswillberocingoverthe ^cks at the Pendle Forest and Craven Hunt point- to-point meebng at Sawley." Some of the seasons


2SYEARSAGO Battle to save council jobs


THE BATTLE BEGAN in eamestthis week to protect tofie^olecountiy, with the Masseygoldcupas the


^ u n d 260 Ribble Valley Couhciljobs now at risk from competitive tendering. Councillors and union representatives met behind closed doors onTuesday to hear how councils need to square up to meet the challengefrom private enterprise.Th^endorsed a plan calling for the introduction of high-powered management techniques into council-run services ^ ch as refuse collection, parks, recreation and leisure. Theyhope to protect bothclerical and manualjobs.Inapressstatementafterwards,Chief


wecutive Mr Michael Jackson said the council was aiming to protect jobs and still continue to provide a goodservicetoratepayers.


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works oubngs, school trips are alwaysweIcome,anditiseven better if the names of the peo­ ple pictured are known. •Anyonewithsuitableoldpho- tosshouldbringthemintothe officeat3KuigStreet,C]it- heroe. The pictures will be


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of the Cold War’s arms race as: “One nation’s security is an­ other nation’s insecurity.” So for 45 years firom the


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end of the Second World War to the collapse of the USSR theworld’s two superpowers spent mountains of cash play­ ing a game of leapfi:og with nu­ clear weapons. The USSR lost the race when arms spending broke its economic back. . It is 20 years since the Cold


War ended but the siren song ' of nuclear weapons still cap­ tures the attention of world leaders and the nuclear club has grown from the five na-; tions of America, Russia, the


•UK, France and China to in-; - elude India, Pakistan, North


enry Kissinger, a former Ameri­ can Secretary of State and Na­ tional Security adviser, explained the cause


Korea and almost certainly Is­ rael. Others will undoubtedly attempt to join them. One country stands out


fi-om the pack: South Afi-ica which has dismantled all the nuclear weapons it possessed. Poll after poll has shown


that the majority of people in this country are against nu­ clear weapons and the colossal amount of money that is spent on them and that will increase if our Government goes ahead and renews its fleet of Trident submarines.


; Serving armed forces of­


ficers do not question openly the decisions of their politi­ cal masters but a number of retired high-ranking officers have questioned the effective- nessof Trident when the only


hostile threats to Britain are from international terrorism : which can only be countered


and defeated by good intel­ ligence gathering, efficient policing and well-trained and equipped conventional armedforces. Nuclear war­ heads are too indiscriminate to use. Trident carries up to 40 bombs, each one eight times


more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima that obliterated a city and killed 140,000 civilians. Deterrence did maintain a terrifying balance during


the Cold War but that period ispast. Our nuclear arsenal costs-


billions of pounds ayearto maintain and a new Trident system will cost hundreds of billions of pounds at a time that the country faces difficul­ ties maintaining services and reducing the national debt. : , Tndent is called Britain’s


independent nuclear deter- - • rent. It is no such thing. Our


Government would never daretousesuchadevastat- -


ing weapon without clearance from the United States 1 The decision to maintain


Trident and to replace it is quite simply not a military buta


political decision. And so’ ’


it concerns you, me, our votes andMPs.


Should it be a religious


concern? Well, Jesus’S Easter greeting was and remains “Peace be with you”. It is the duty of Christ’s fol­


lowers to pray for and to pro­ mote his peace in ouf world and in so doing question the morality of holding such a catastrophically destructive and indiscriminate weapon as Trident.


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I the “offer” to come through. My husband and I visited a


three “preferences” and then have a three-month wait for


series of schools and read vari­ ous Ofsted reports to make sure that we were deaf about the schools on our shortlist.


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Our son is well aware that it is almost time to go to school,


■ but it has been so disheart­ ening not being able answer him definitively when he asks: “Which one is my big school?” I realise that the task is


huge and we were among more than 11,000 parents waiting with bated breath to find out if we’d been success­ ful at getting in to one of our carefully selected schools. In the few days running up


•to the announcement day, I couldn’t sleep properly, I had stomach ache from the wor­ ry. I had a permanent head­ ache thinking about all of the possible outcomes and what


I would do in each situation. Ijust couldn’t get out of my


mind the very real possibil­ ity that our son might not go to any of the schools that we were happy with. It felt like a Iottery;youmaywinbigoryou may have your hopes dashed. As parents, we had a say, but we had no control. Some people may think I’m


. siliygettinginastateaboutit. But we live in an area of Lanca­ shire where the good schools are excellent and the poor schools are not what we want fofourson.


To me the first rung on


the education ladder has to be sturdy, especially for boys.


There are studies to show that


isverydifficulttoengageboys in learning even in the most conducive of surroundings. . I’m happy to say that we were lucky to be in the 88% . who got their first “prefer­ ence", but we could easily have been in the not-so-lucly 12% should we have placed


have been putting our son’s name on waiting lists and go­ ing through the appeals proc­ ess, which doesn’t conclude until July. Yet more time to spend dodging the questions about which big school he would be going to. Surely, it’s time to develop


a system where you are guar- anteed to get a place at one of your top three schools.


our “preferences” in a differ­ ent order. Inthatsituation,wewould


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www.clitheroeadvertisor.co.uk Thursday,Apnl25 2013 Thursday, April 25,2013 www.clilhorooadvertiser.co.ul( CUIHEROEADVERttSERSTIMES I VAIiLEYMATTERS Caledonian success! Clitheroe and District Caledo­


nian Society brought home a great haul of trophies from the Lancashire and Cheshire Federation of Scottish Soci­ eties’ Festival of Music, Arts and Crafts held in Liverpool. There were entries in all


categories, resulting in the society winning the under 8s,


under 12S and adult trophies. The society was formed in


1965 and has more than 100 members of all ages.


The junior dancers meet


to practice Scottish Coun­ try Dancing every Monday at Pendleton Village Hall from 4"30 to 5-30 p.m. followed by Highland and senior dancers. AdultclassesareheldonMon-


. days and Fridays and there are - family events throughout the year.


Trophyhaul:SomeofthechildrenfromClitheroeandDistrictCaIedonianSocfetywiththeirtrophies.(s)


Snow and temperatures more akin to the Arctic than a Brit­ ish spring challenged the Sil­ ver Duke of Edinburgh Award group from Whalley’s Oakhill College as it trained for the qualification. But despite the testing con­


ditions and having to walk more than 50km carrying all food and equipment- a weight of around 15kg - all the adven­ turers made it safely home with barely a complaint. The first day of the three-


day expedition started near Hawes, where both groups (girls and boys) faced a moun-


Pupils’unexpected taste of the Arctic above 3°C and the night-time


temperatures plummeted to -5“C.


of the moors above Gunner- side, walking almost the full


- • Thenextdaybroughtsome S’now problem: Oakhill College’s hardy adventurers, (s)


tain climb over to Swaledale and their camp for the night. The boys took on a climb of Great Shunner Fell, and the


girls cUmbed fi:om Castle Bol­ ton to the bleak snowy moors above Reeth where the day­


time temperatures barelyrose THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK


vvelcome sunshine as the groups climbed once again to descend to finish points in Wensleydale.


The Silver explorers will


have their final assessed ex-1 pedition in the Peak District j in July.


Day two entaileda traverse


length of Swaledale, followed by another night under can-1 vas.


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