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j g f sr S B © VALLEY VIEWS EXTRA WntetoTheEditor, Clitheroe AdvertiserandTimes, 3 King Street, Clitheroe BB72EW o r email duncan.smith1@jpress.co.uk Thanks for a Blooming good effort


Thanks have been expressed to everyone who helped to make Whalley look beautiful for the RHS Northwest in Bloomjudging day in July. Penny Robinson-Kerr, volunteer co-ordina- torfor Whalley inBloom,said: “The village and all the places thejudges visited looked amazing. We really appreciate the extra effort made by so many people to support Whalley’s entry into the Northwest in Bloom competition.” The results will be announced on October 24th at an awards ceremony in Southport. To find out more about RHS Britain in Bloom or its ‘Grass Roots’magazine visit: www.rhs. org.uk and select the communities menu then Britain in Bloom.


Mr Isaacs read out the


names and led the prayers and readings. Mr Peter Moorhouse provided the music for the hymns on piano accordian. Later, refreshmentns were


.served. Erected in 1927 as the war memorial for Rimington and Middop, the Institute serves as a much cherished hub of village life.


100Club Winners in Rimington Rec­


reation Association’s'ioo Club draw for July: 1st prize £50, Richard Sherras; 2nd £20, John Smith; 3rd £10, Martin: Jones. "


SABDEN


St Mary’s Hall St Mary’s new social com-.


mittee has a line-up of events planned for the remainder of the year. First up is a family quiz and fun night with music/ disco on Friday, September .


Whalley in Bloom continues to maintain its gardening at Whalley Abbey, the pots/plant- ers, winter planting/baskets in the village and fundraising efforts throughout most of the year. Anyone who would like to help should call Penny on 01254 823730 or any member of the team. FoIlowWhalley in Bloom on Facebook: Whalley in Bloom and Twitter: @whalleyin- bloom


“Blooming Wellies” by Whalley Rainbows, which was on display onKing Street,Whal­ ley, on judging day, is pictured. The Rain­ bows (four to seven year olds) are also grow­ ing siuiflowers in Whalley Abbey gardens to celebrate 50 years of the Britain in Bloom competition.


19th, at 7 pm. Admission is adults £5 and children 50p. There will be supper, but take your own drinks. On Friday October 24th a


Family Games Night from 7 pm is admission-free and just sop to take part many game such as pool, darts and many more. On Friday, November 14th,


there is a Motown Night with DJ Roman from 8pm with bar. Admission £5. Saturday; December 6th, is


the annual Christmas Fair and on Friday December 12th, so­ prano Grace O’Malley makes her first visit to Sabden in a Christmas Concert with fes­ tive music and entertainment and a line-up of artistes. Sunday Decemberi4th


sees the return of the popular Christmas Market from 3 pm. Already 15 stallholders ' have signed up to run gift and Christmas stalls. Anyone else who is interested please con-, tact Adam or Lisa Korol.


Duck race Sabden Football Club’s


Duck Race takes place on Sunday August 24th at 2-30 pm,withalmost£6ooofcash prizes to be won. There is a first prize of £200, kindly donated by Forbes Solicitors, plus several superb non-cash prizes, including an MOT and Service from J & L Autos, family meal at the White Hart, meal for two at The Well- springs and four Sabden FC football kits. This year 1,500 ducks are


expected to be launched down Sabden brook. Tickets are on sale now at the village pubs and shops and from players and club officials.


Barbecue There is to be a village bar­


becue and games night at Sab­ den Baptist Church on Friday, August 22nd, from 6-30 pm. In addition to free barbecue food there will be table tennis,


Pupils swop classroom for bowling green


Twenty-six pupils fromSabden’s two prima­ ry schools thoroughly enjoyed a “learn about bowling” session at the village’s bowling green. The Year 6 youngsters from Sabden Primary and St Mary’s RC schools, picked up


darts, table football and table games.


WWI Service A solemn commemorative


service on the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War was held in St Nicholas’ Church at 8 pm on Monday. The vigil was held from 10 to 11 pm and more than 50 people attended.


WESTBRADFORD


Bridge group Winners for Friday August


1st: 1 Mary Ann Renton and Eileen Wood; 2 Ken Holding and Pat Colman. The next meeting is tomorrow (Friday August 8th) in the Village Hall starting at 2pm. New mem­ bers are welcome but experi­ enced or improvers please. For details please phone Marilyn on 01200 422097.


Tractor run The second Pendle Witch


Road Run took place last Sun­ day. Despite a poor weather


forecast more than 30 tractors followed a route through the


Hodder and Ribble Valleys. The event was a tremendous success and thanks must be


given to Michael and Janet Fox


and their teams of volunteers, for organising the event. Mr B. Dugdale presented


basicbowls skills with help from club mem­ bers who were delighted with their students’ enthusiasm and budding talent for the sport. The club also provided refreshments for everyone.


a prize to Graham Wells from Kelbrook, for the best turned- out tractor, a Fordson Dexter.


Table top sale ATable Top Sale is being


held in the Village Hall on Sun­ day September 28th. Bookings for tables are now being taken. For information please con­ tact Pauline on 01200 423140 or Janet on 01200 426272. Donations of unwanted goods for the Village Hall tables will be greatly appreciated.


WHALLEY


Coffee time The Mothers’ Union at


Whalley Parish Church is to hold a fund-raising coffee morning on Saturday at 5 Victoria.Close, on the Calder- stones estate. There will be a bring-and-buysale. Midweek Holy Commun­


ion at the church is today at 10 am. Tomorrow there will be Holy Communion in the Abbey Chapel at 9-30 am and meditation in the Abbey library at 10-30 am A Book of Common Prayer


Holy Communion service will be at 8-30 am on Sunday and Parish Communion at 10am.


On Tuesday there will be Holy Communion and a meeting of the Renewal Prayer Group at Abbots Croft at 1-45 pm.


Stepping out There will be no evening


walk from English Martyrs’ RC Church, Whalley, but a programme ofSunday walks will begin on August 24th. The church will continue


to serve afternoon teas to visi­ tors betwen 2 pm and 4 pm on Sundays throughout August and September. Winners in the 200 Club


August draw were: £50,156; £25,106; £10,182. Mass on Saturday is at 5


pm, on Sunday at 11 am and on weekdays at 10 am except Tuesday.


Abbey meet The annual meeting of


Whalley Abbey Fellowship is today at the Abbey at 10 am.


Onthetable Bookings are now being


taken for tables at a table top sale at Whalley Village Hall between 10am and 3pm on Sunday, August 31st. Entry is free. Details from Honey on 01254822350.


Methodists This Sunday August 10th,


the Worship at Whalley Methodist Church will be led by local preacher, Mr Tim Bridgeman. The service will start at 10-30 am.


Motorists are advised that several roads in Clitheroe will close tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday, August 9th, for the 2014 Clitheroe Food Festival. From 5 pm today, the Mar­


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ket car park will be closed and remain closed until Sun­ day, August 10 th. Employers and residents on New Market Street are kindly asked to park elsewhere during the festival period. Vehicles left parked on New Market Street after 5 pm today are parked at their


own risk and may be forcibly removed to prevent accidents' occurring. • From 2 pm tomorrow (Au­


gust 8th), until 7 pm on Satur­ day, August gthi, the length of Market Place will close from its junction with King Street to its junction with Wellgate. This will immediately alter


the traffic flow on Friday af­ ternoon with diverted traffic from Railway View becoming onewayonlydownKingStreet from Buckleys Pharmacy to ■


the Platform Gallery. These closures will remain in place until Saturday at 6-30 pm. From 6 am until 7 pm on


Saturday, the length of Cas­ tle Street in the town centre of Clitheroe will close extend­ ing from a point a^acent to its


junction with Castlegate to its junction with King Street and King Lane. , Castle Street, New Mar­


ket Street, Market Place, King Street (down to Apricot Me­ ringue) will be closed to all


parking for Clitheroe Food Festival Access to Wellgate and


traffic from 6 am to 7 pm on Saturday.


York Street will be via Church Street as “Access Only” to limit traffic to a minimum. Railway View car park


will be closed on Saturday. Traffic from Whalley Road and Moor Lane direction fol-


. lowing the current one way system will be able to proceed


upMoorLaneonto Castlegate, turn left along and down Par­ son Lane, turn right along Sta­


tion Road and pass Clitheroe Kail/Bus Interchange. There will be no alterna­


tive routes available for the closure of New Market Street, King Street or King Lane. The taxi rank will be tempo­ rarily moved to outside the li­ brary until 6-30 pm. A Park and Ride facility at


Uitheroe Auction Market will be m place again to encourage


visitors to park out of the town centre.


This will be signpost­ PUBLIC FUNDS


An odd place to spend the cash? In these times of austerity and budget cuts by Lancashire County Council Highways, many of the Valley’s roads are without doubt in dire need of repair and resurfacing. Your readers can probably make a list of the roads they think need resurfacing or pot­ holes repairing, in whichever area of the Valley they reside. If roads have been repaired, it is more likely a bodgejob than a proper job. Prioritising which roads are in desperate need of repair should surely be one of Lancashire County Council’s main aims and from a layman’s point ofview, com­ mon sense would say that heavily used roads would be done first. Obviously common sense is not a word known at County Hall. I am amazed to see the fan­ tastic repair and resurfac­ ing work that has been done to Eaves Hall Lane at West Bradford (a no through road) at a cost to the taxpayer of £42,970.39 - a figure gleaned via a Freedom of Informa­ tion request. The photo above shows the quality of work by LCC employees; noneof the cheap road resurfacing I have experienced, where a load of sticky stuff has been put down, covered in chippings and rolled so as you drive over them they fly up and chip the paintwork on your car. I would love to know why this work has been done, rather than on roads which really would benefit road users. You have to ask who lives on Eaves Hall Lane?


ed from th e main ac­ cess roads in the town. All mini coaches, coaches and other large vehicles are being encouraged to use the afore­ mentioned facility at Salthill to stop the blocking of resi­


dential streets. The Food Festival starts at


9 am in Clitheroe on Saturday;


and further details are availa-. ble from Mark Beveridge, Rib­ ble Valley Borough Council's (lead of cultural and leisure services, on 01200 425111- .


J a n e t H ig g in s , ' via email


PUBLICHEALTH


Excess housing impacts health


Havingjiist exceeded 40 years in General Practice, I feel I am well placed to comment on the health issues affecting the proposed Waddow Viewdevel- opment. I think we were all shocked by


the figures revealing the awful levels of pollution in Clithe­ roe and their possible effects. The only mitigating factors preventing the figures being even worse, are the two “green lungs” placed so near to the town centre. I refer, of course, to the Castle Fields and to the Auction Mart Field at the end of Kirkmoor Road. To destroy one of these lungs could be catastrophic. It would confound the folly of the planners over the years who have missed chance af­ ter chance to improve the air quality in Clitheroe. We have the Tesco car park with no landscape plan, the sprawl of Ultraframe with no tree screening, the desert of Sains- bury’s car park, and so it goes on. Now we reap the rewards. Destroying the “green lung” is only part of the story. The de­ velopment will produce 2,000 or so extra car journeys a day and the route of that traffic is frightening. First of all, the traffic flow will pass the end of the access road to Moorland School, then funnel down to Well Terrace with Pendle Pri- maryjust a few metres away on the left and the Grammar School immediately adjacent to the right. Under normal circumstances the risk of asthma would be a concern but these are not normal circumstances. I have compared the rates of asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pul­ monary Disease (COPD) at the Castle Medical Group with those in my Practice in Great Harwood and was horrified by the results. The incidence of asthma is almost exactly 50% higher in Clitheroe than Great Harwood with the COPD rate more than 25% higher. If this proposed development were approved and I were the parent of an asthmatic child or the carer for a COPD sufferer whose condition subsequently worsened, I would feel that, at the very least, the Council had acted recklessly with no regard for Public Health. We are repeatedly told that our response to the Waddow View proposals must not be emotional. That’s fine, the vast majority of us can accept that Mr Robert Parker through his Auction Mart business needs to make a living by sending


thousands oflambs every year to the slaughter house. Will we remain unemotion­ al if, by enabling a Housing Development on his Auction Mart Field, Mr Parker sends


just one child to follow those lambs to an early exit? DrJohnRoyle,


Back Commons, Clitheroe GONE MISSING


Are souvenirs still available?


Once upon a time, not very long ago, you could go to the RVBC offices and in the recep­ tion area was a wonderful selection of tins, full of British mints. The tins were decorated with colourful illustrations of our town and also available were sturdy woven canvas bags with a scenic print of our old castle. I was in recently and enquired about the tins - they were not to be seen. I was informed that they were on sale at the station display unit, to which I then took myself. The courteously obliging ladies there did not know what I was referring to. I receive several favours from other parts and these attrac­ tive souvenirs of our old bor­ ough are an appropriate way of returning my thanks. Are they still available?


Robin Parker, Chatburn


RIBBLE VALLEY MP


Nigel Evans MP is everywhere!


We see him here, we see him there, we seem to see him eve­ rywhere! 1 have to congratulate the publicity team behind Nigel Evans as he has his face in every newspaper and he is on TV and radio making political comments at every opportu­ nity. He has been our MP for over 22 years, but we have only occasionally seen him in the press and rarely on the TV, so this recent flood of publicity is very unusual and very out of the ordinary. Is this a last desperate attempt to try and clean up his tar­


nished image I wonder, and convince the local selection committee to adopt him as the candidate for next year’s gen­ eral election? It’s a shame that Mr Evans has onlyjust realised that being an MP means working hard in the constituency and not just hav­ ing a ball down in Westmin­ ster! He is only now making comments about the massive amount of building in the Rib: ble Valley, but what did he do at the time that the planning applications were placed and hundreds of people were ask­ ing for his help? Absolutely nothing. Yet he had the cheek to say recently on the television that he was devastated about the housing development that was going ahead in Barrow. Mr Evans, many people wrote to you to ask for your help with regard to the Barrow develop­ ment and received a standard, paltry response (“I will pass it to the Minister concerned”). I turned up at one ofyour adver­ tised surgeries to find that you had left early and other people have complained that you failed to turn up at all. I do not believe that Mr Evans has changed his ways, but do believe that he has realised he is in danger of losing his seat and the very nice celebrity life­ style. His comments about his love for the Ribble Valley are very shallow - 1 am sure that he does love the Ribble Valley, but he loves himself more. . The voters are not stupid, so please stop treating us as though we are. Name and address supplied


BEAT-HERDER


Security poor at 2014 festival


1 have read the write up for the Beat-Herder festival and it seems to omit that heroin was being sold, people were “jumped” or “mugged" and chased for their belongings. Security was nowhere - my daughter and partner were not confronted at all when they had to pick up a friend from the festival and they went in separately NOT wear­ ing wrist bands. It is appalling that these things are allowed to happen and go unrecorded to innocent peo­ ple who have looked forward to this all year and saved for the ticket - having previously had great times at the festival in 2012 and 2013. 1 have tried to contact Beat- Herder but to no avail. Surely the people of Clitheroe do not want this sort of behav­ iour on their doorsteps! Denise Turner byemail


Editor’snote: Clitheroe Po­ lice told the Clitheroe Adver­ tiser Times that there were no formal complaints made ' about the festival.


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Police’s appeal over Billington burglaries


Two houses were burgled in Billington in the early hours of Saturday, July 26th. The offender entered the


properties through an un­ secured door and window respectively, stealing items of value from inside both homes. . Police officers are keen


to identify the man captured on CCTV stills in the area


around the time that the of­ fences took place. , They are also looking to


speak to anyone who knows the male’s identity, or who saw him in Billington near the time of the burglaries.' Anyone with informa­


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