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sales Martial arts man Graham back in town Blues’ silent tribute to ‘legend’ Colin Graham Wardle has returned to his home town with a mission; to make martial
■ arts a family pursuit. After becoming an all-round martial arts expert in Shef field, Graham (35) is back in Clitheroe, striking out on his own with his first solo venture, called Valley Martial Arts. This week he welcomed his first customers - including members of his own family - to the CrossFit gym, Primrose Road,
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A pub in Clitheroe will :: remain as “a valuable com munity asset”, despite plans to build new houses on land directly behind it, say devel opers. An application to build
eight newhouses behindThe Craven Heifer pub, in Whal- ley Road, on land that until recently was usedfor private allotments, has been submit ted to Ribble Valley Borough Council by Blackburn-based Beck Developments Ltd. But a consultation car
ried out by the developers revealed that residents in the area considered the pub a valuable asset to the local community.
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Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans hasstronglyurged Planning Minister Nick Bolestostart listening to local people's fears and concerns over development in their area andtoactonthem.
The MP spoke in a Westmin ster Hall debate on planning reform attended by Nick Boles MP, the Minister for Planning. During the debate he put to the Minister the con cerns he shares with many of his constituents regarding the large number of planning applications received in the Ribble Valley, telling him the borough is “under siege” by speculative developers. • “I say to my hon. Friend,
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the Minister, that i f he is under any illusion or delusion that the planning system is working well, all he needs to do is listen to the hon. Mem bers who are speaking here today”, said Mr Evans. “I was first elected in 1992.
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I said to my executive that I hoped that after my days in the House, when I handed the Ribble Valleyover to my lucky successor, it would be in better shape, or at least in no worse shape, than when I became its Member ofParlia- ment. I was doing rather well until 2010, when the planning system started to change. We in the Ribble Valley are under siege.”
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Valley MP urges Planning Minister to hear and act on local people’s concerns Mr Evans toldfellowmem-
bers that there were “many wonderful, lovely villages and towns” in his constitu ency, but that “the whole area is under siege”. “We do not have.our core
strategy in place, and it seems as i f that is a green light to every speculative developer to put in a planning applica tion, with no protection for the local authority or for the people themselves. “Barrow in my constitu
ency, is a perfect example of a village where planning ap-
- plications have gone in that would more than double its size. The people are up in arms against that. I hope that the public will get protec tion against that application, which I think is barmy. “There are a number of
other areas. Clitheroe is the largest town; applications have gone in all over the place there, and many have been granted on appeal. Some body did suggest getting rid of the inspector, or the in spectorate;. That would make -
. me smile more than anything else, frankly.”
( Mr Evans continued: “The'
frustration for many of my lo cal councillors is that they go out and tell the people what they will do when they are elected; the people tell their councillors what they want when planning applications go in; and the councillor' stands up for them and says, ‘No, we don’t want to see 1,000 houses in Clitheroe’. -“However, the decision is
Clitheroe players stood in silence before their home game last Saturday, in tribute to Colin Wilson, long-serving former club secretary who died the previous day aged 72. In more than four decades at Shawbridge, he played a vital role throughout the club’s ups and downs and was described as a legend in his own time. Tributes were flooding in this week from players, officials,
Trading Standards officers are warning that people who buy meat on the black market could be risking their health. Products bought from illegitimate sources may have been poached, with the risk that the meat has not been han dled hygienically and could even be contaminated by veterinary drags. Lanca shire County Council Trad ing Standards and district council food safety offic
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ers have joined forces with Lancashire Constabulary’s wildlife crime officers to issue the alert in support of Operation Firecrest, a cam paign to tackle rural crime such as poaching, and theft of property and fuel. If have anyinformationregarding the sale of meat or fish from illegitimate sources, call Trading Standards in con fidence on 08454 040506 or ring Crimestoppers on 0800555111.
Crossroads draw winners
The Crossroads Care Ribble Valley 200 Club Christmas Draw draw tookplace at the Mearley Fold Day Care Cen tre and was performed by the Mayor o f Clitheroe, Coun. Kevin Horkin. The winning numbers and the prizes were:v i» N0.55 (£120); 2, N0.12 (£60); 3, N0.81 (£30). The 200 Club’s January drawhas also just been made and the prizewin ners were: i,No.99 (£40); 2, No.59 (£20); 3, N0.39 (£10). To
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A police officer was lucky to escape serious injury when he was pushed by a drunken man who had been on his works Christmas party in Clitheroe town centre. Blackburn magistrates
heard that the officer fell backwards, banging his head on a wall and pave ment, as he tried to arrest Mark Anthony Walker. • But the officer got to his
feet and gave chase as Walk er ran off, scaling a seven foot metal fence in his ef forts to escape. Walker (26), of Old Sta-
tionCourt,Clitheroe,plead- edguilty to being drunk and disorderly, damaging a car wing mirror and assaulting PC Henry Bellshaw with in tent to resist arrest. He was made subject to an electron ically monitored curfewfor six weeks between 7pm and
7 am, and ordered to pay £100 in compensation to the owner of the car, £150 to PC Bellshaw and £145 costs. Miss Catherine Allan
(prosecuting) said police saw Walker, who was clear ly intoxicated, shouting and swearingatafemale.Hewas very agitated and refused to calm down when officers spoke to him. “When PC Bellshaw
went to h an d cu f f the defendant he pushed him with considerable force, causing him to lose his foot ing andfall backwards,” said Miss Allan. Mr Jonathan Taylor
(defending) said Walker accepted he had drunk too much. “He appreciates the police have a hard enough
job without having to deal with him behaving in this manner,” said Mr,Taylor. :
. Nigel Evans atasite meeting with concerned Ciitheroe residents.
“It means frustration on
- the part of not only the peo ple, but the councillors. They shrug their shoulders and say ‘Well, what is the worth of being a local authority councillor if we are making these decisions on behalf of the public and then they are overturned?’ Or, even worse, the local authority is told: ‘Lis ten, you’d better accept this planning application, other wise it’s going to cost you a lot of money and you wifi lose’.” Mr Evans said he used to reassure
constituents.that
then overturned or, as in this particular case, the local au thority gets the feeling that i f it did turn the application down, it would go to appeal, cost it alot of money to defend its position and the applica-' tion would then be allowed. In many cases, local authori ties are allowing certain ap plications when their hearts tell them that they shouldnot.
the Localism Bill would give power back to local authori ties,’adding: “Now, when we look at what has happened,
” it seems as if there has been some Orwellian double speak.’ Localism sounds as if it is giving power back to the local people when in essence • it has not done that at All — quite the contrary. If people want to build houses, local ism is-fine. If people want to go against the building of the houses, localism does not. help them one jot. , “I was elected as a Con servative. I am a Conservative;
just as the name on the tin suggests, I want to conserve - I want to conserve what is best in our area. “Ifpeople in the Ribble Val
ley want to live in Manches ter, that is fine - they can go and live there. What we do not want is Manchester coming
. to us..We
do.not want to see these towns growing at such a rate that we do not even recognise them. “The Ribble Valley is one
of the nicest places to live in the whole country; it is one of the jewels. People want to live there for a certain rea son. I know what the Minis ter is talking about when he says that people deserve the right to have a roof over their heads. Everyone deserves a home; I agree with him on that, but we need to look at areas that neighbour places such as the Ribble Valley -
such as Burnley, Preston, Pendle and Hyndburn - and see what we can do to regen
erate some of the run-down areas there. “We need to ensure that
homes that are run-down are made available to people in those areas and that they do not have to flee those areas and live somewhere else.” Mr Evans concluded his
speech saying: “I believe that we ought to have a planning system that is based on con sent- the consent of the local people. I finish by referring not ju s t to housing, but to wind turbines. “When fairly well every-
.body in a local area is saying no to three wind turbines in a suburban area and the council turns the application down because it has listened to what the local people say, but it then goes to the inspec torate and the inspectorate passes it, there must be some thing wrong in the sys tem be cause we are not listening to the people. Minister, listen to thepeople.” \ Sp eaking from Westmin
ster after the debate Mr Evans added: “I welcomed the op portunity to put my concerns to the Minister and sincere ly hope that those concerns were taken onboard. Nobody can argue that there should be no development at all in the Ribble Valley, but the cur rent situation has no support within the community. “The planning system can
only survive if it has the gen eral consent of the people, and it is clear to me that the planning system has lost that support” .
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‘Lack of access to daughter’ led to breach
ofcourtorder A 49-year-old Clitheroe man contacted his ex-partner when he felt he had been let down by her over Christmas access to their two-year-old daughter. ButBlackburnmagistrates
heard that the text messages sent to his ex-partner by John Andrew Stevenson put him in breach of a non-molestation order. * However, Mr RichardPrew,
in mitigation for Stevenson, said the messages were not threatening in any way. “He was distraught and
crying when he texted her,” SaidMrPrew. “He was sitting waiting
for his daughter, with all her presents out ready, and his ex partner let him down. “It wasn’t the first time and
alltheirproblemshavebeenas a'result of problems with ac-r cess to the child. . “He would have nothing
to do with his ex-partner i f it wasn’t for their child,” Mr Prew added. Stevenson, of Manor Road,
Clitheroe, pleaded guilty to three charges of breaching a non-molestation order made
: in favour of his ex-partner. He was sentenced to six
months in prison, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to pay £165 costs. He was also made subject
to a restraining order for 12 months.
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Miss Catherine Allan (prosecuting) said the non
molestation order was served on Stevenson on December 20th and that the first breach had occurred just eight days later.
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