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^ * Everyone loves a bargain!
Whilst f l ick in g through the television channels last Thursday evening; I came across an entertaining pro gramme on BBGi called “Pound Shop Wars”. Part one of a' four-part
series, as the name suggests, the programme gave an in sight into the rivalry between discount stores on the'high street, focussing mainly on the £1 or under products sold byPoundland, PoundWorld and ggp Stores. 7 . ' _ ’ We might not have any of those stores in the RibSle Val ley, but there are plenty in neighbouring towns.%h ">-*
• -• It seems the face of the na tion’s high street has changed post credit crunctf and one type of business that is dom
inating the street in many. “ V.
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As I See It... b y F a i z a A f z a a l
towns and cities across the country is the discount store. Part of the fun is the sheer
variety of goods you can pick up for just £1 or under, and it is understood that a record number of middle class peo ple are now shopping at pound shops in a bid to cut rising household bills. '
- -1 ■ 1In fact, it is not just middle
class people. A few months go it was reported that Pre mier League and ex-England football star John Terry had pocketed a few bargains after nipping into a Poundworld store. Despite earning around £i70,ooo-a-week, the Chel
sea captain picked up festive goodies for £1. Terry may have
- millions in the bank, but like many of us he knows a good deal when he sees one. Since the credit crunch,
it seems Britain has become a nation of bargain hunters with the sawiest among us spending hours a day - both online and in stores - search ing for the ultimate bargain. A few years ago people
used to brag about the huge amounts of money they were spending on luxury goods. Now, more and more peo
ple are showing off about the money they have managed to save by looking out for good deals. In the past, middle class shoppers turned their noses up on the rising tide of budget chains or supermarkets, but
the weak economic outlook has made lots of consumers increasingly price conscious, and this has had a significant
impact on our shopping hab its. - There is no longer a stig
ma ^attached .to shopping at stores such as-Pound- land, Poundworld, 99 Store, Poundstretcher or Bargains]
or snapping up bargains from a charity shop or budget su
permarket. Discount stores are no longer regarded as just new cheap stores, they tell us something about how the
world’s economy works these days. There is nothing better
than a good bargain. And let’s admit it, pound shops are fan tastic, especially when the money is tight.
Axe VAT on rescuers!
MEP Chris Davies, who rep- resents the Ribble Valley and the restof the North-West, has presented a3,000-name petition to axethe VAT paid by mountain and lowland rescue teamstothe European com missioner in charge of taxa tion.^
The petition calls for govern ments in European Union to be able to exempt search and rescue teams from paying VAT - allowing them to save up to 20% on vital lifesaving equip ment purchases. The European Commis
sion is currently consulting on changes to VAT law and Lib- eralDemocrat MEP MrDavies is pushing for the legal change as a matter of urgency. Mr Davies said: “Across the North-West, mountain
- rescue teams combine vol unteer time with charitable donations to provide a life saving service for climbers,
.walkers, runners and bikers. They are providing a vital pub lic service, one that allows mil lions of people to better enjoy
Chris Davies MEP (left) with Commissioner AlgirdasSemetaand Scottish Liberal Democrat MEP George Lyon.
our wild spaces and supports manyjobs in the tourist indus try. EU law already excludes lifeboats from having to pay VAT.
“What’s good enough for
those who provide rescues at sea should, also be good
enough for rescues in our ■ hills.” , As a keen fell runner him
self, Mr Davies is very well aware of the outstanding work of the UK’s volunteer rescue teams. Accepting the petition, EU tax commissioner Algirdas
Semeta told the MEP. that he was extending the consulta tion period until April 25th to give more opportunity for views to be expressed. - !MrDavies’spetitioncanbe
signed oriline at:
www.chris
daviesmep.org.uk .
Project to honour orphanage’s war dead
Young men from Blackburn Orphanage who lost their lives in the First World War will be remembered in a spe cial project being funded by the Heritage Lottery, Fund
-to mark the centenary of the start of the Great War. Child Action Northwest
has been granted £7,800 to work with children at nearby
Sent in by Mrs Irene Nutter, who lives . in Burnley, this glimpse of the pastwas taken in Downham, complete with its
famous ducks, in the early 1900s after a fairly heavy snowfall.
It was some years later when the pictur
esque village was chosen as the setting - forTV series “Born and Bred”, which ■
Downham’s born and bred ducks take to the snow the Ribble Valley, preferably from the
ran to four series and was on BBCi from 2002 to 2005. It was the perfect fit for
the fictional 1950s Lancashire village . of Or ms ton and brought a string of
well-known actors to Downham, filling many a starstruck local’s autograph book!
If youhaveany old photos relating to 100 YEARSAGO Quakers and women
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George Fox taught the absolute equality of the sexes on religion and church government and at a time when advanced education was supposed to beamale prerogative, the Quakers educated their * women in exactly the same way that they educated
: theirmen. The Quaker marriage ceremony exacts the same promises from the man as from the woman and classes the parties upon an equality. • Asa'result there is no case onrecordofaQuaker • divorce. While the community is no longer as strong ; in this country asformerly, it is remarkable that there are nine of its members in British Parliament”
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS AGO
‘ Mixed grill
“THEBUSYUVESthatsonianywivesleadthese ■ • • days have made them very appreciative of grilling -
as a quick method of cooking. This quick cooking produces results which we find attractive to look a t easy to digest and full of the natural flavour of healthy
foods. We have always been a great nation for fried • foods, it is the browned crispiness on the outside
’•with the softness on the inside that we seem to find ■ -
sosatisfactory.Grilledfoods,whendoneproperiy, have both these attributes, with the important
past 50 years or so, you can email a dig ital version to
duncan.smithi@jpress.
co.uk or send the original to: The Clit- heroe Advertiser, 3 King Street, Clithe- roeBB72EW. Please remember to in clude details of who or what the photo
shows plus your contact details. 25 YEARS AGO Resettled patients FEARS THAT HUNDREDS of patients from
additions of digestibility and reduced calories. Food ■, for grillintfheeds so little preparation that this, too, saves time. All that is generally needed is a brushinq • over ordunking in of melted butter.”
Brockhall and Calderstones hospitals will be resettled in the Ribble Valley have been quashed. It is estimated that there are 160 patients from Blackburn, Hyndburn orthe Ribble Valley who now live in the two doomed hospitals. According to Lancashire County Council’s Divisional Director of Social Services, only around 11 of those are Clitheroe patients. They will be resettled in the community over the next 10 years, with help from the Social Services department and supported with financial assistance from the regional health authority, which will be diverting money from large institutions towards localised community care.” ,
In the town of Loughbor ough in Leicestershire it was
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■ impossible to get a table on Valentine’s day.'
, - . . People would book the fol-
• lowing year’s meal as they left, leaving little chance of curry
■ on Valentine’s Day for those, -who were not in relationships and those new to the town !
r 1 Chocolate sales rocket, flower prices go through the roof and tables in restaurants
n what day are the local Indian restaurants fully booked to over
flowing?
•Salesbury School on a docu mentary DVD which will in volve the children taking a trip to the trench at the Mu seum of Lancashire, visiting Fulwood Barracks and study-. ing th,e records of the orphans
.who grew up and went to war. Along the way they will find out more about the 10
Author Melanie Warren w ill lead the project.
“old boys” of the orphanage who losttheir lives, and plant trees in their honour with plaques to commemorate the war dead in a special memori- al garden in the grounds of the
original orphanage, now the home of Child Action North west, in Wilpshire. A film will. be made of the project which will be distributed on DVD and online.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK It can only mean one thing
- Valentine’s Day, February... 14th. But do we really need to enter into all this to show that special someone that we love
them? • How do those not in rela
tionships feel? Do you, the.^ readers, love Valentine’s Day? .' I guess for some it will be
absolute necessity and for oth-...
,ers not so -we are all different. •' Some scientists did some
research that listed the four, essential thingshuman beings'. could not do without-air, wa ter, food, and
the.fourth one was the need to be loved.
prise - and by love they were not talking about the roman tic, fluffy, Hollywood love, but something deeper.. Love is patient, love is kind..
-It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
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■ - > It is not rude, it is not self-, seeking, it is not easily an gered, it keeps no record o f wrongs. . Love does not delight in
evil, but rejoices with the truth. ; It always protects, aways
trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. ’ " : ' “ Valentines might not be : our thing, yet love is only love.
if it is shown in our relation ships and our actions. Chris tians believe that God is love and that God showed this love to each one of us by send ing his only son, Jesus, to live, die and rise again so that we could experience something of God’s love here and now and share it with each other. • The challenge is to receive
it and to share it and with ref erence to my experience in the town of Loughborough - to be curried away by it 1: 7 V; REV. IAN HUMPHREYS ■ Methodist minister - for Trinity Church,
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Author, archivist and his torian Melanie Warren, who
, recently published the story, of Blackburn Orphanage, en titled “James Dixon’s Chil dren”, will be working with the pupils on the project. • She said: “It’s appropri
ate that we are working with Salesbury School, as that’s where the children-from Blackburn Orphanage were -pupils.
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“I think this will be a great way for the children to learn
•about history. By creating a memorialgardenwe areshar- ing the stories with the wider community for generations to come;'so they will never be forgotten.” .
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