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Today we are being asked to vote (those of us who can be bothered to vote of course) on the European Elections. We have seen many adverts in the press and TV by various parties, most a lot of rubbish to say the least. Of course the main parties, Con’s/Lab/Lib have come up with their normal “here comes that bogey party” routine, searching for any titbits to discredit their followers and supporters, which only makes the normal citizen more de­ termined to vote for that bogey man party in any future elec­ tions. Lets look at some points on why I will not be voting for the Con’s, Lab and Lib’s and cast­ ing my vote for a party who wants change in Europe. The EU, we were told, was about freedom of movement between member states and freedom of trade. The move­ ment of people did not take into account the people who


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just wanted to move for ben­ efits only. The freedom of trade is now governed by the faceless gnomes of Brussels, who die- . tate which member state and which company can trade with the world. No longer can we in x Britain seek outside the union, trade without express permis­ sion from Brussels. We were told that being a member of this union of states would benefit our businesses; this has now proved to be a lie. In an independent report issued this week, it has been revealed that we are in fact no better off in this Union. We are, in fact, worst off, being at the same trading figures as we were in 1975. But at the same time businesses spend mil­ lions on complying with EU regulations. The EU, we were told, would stop any future European wars, like we had in WWI and WWII. But what has the EU done over the past few dec­ ades? Spent thousands of mil­ lion of pounds on wars all over the place. Lets look at this warmonger EU list of wars they have been part of: Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria to mention a few. All anti-Government forces re­ ceived financial aid and arms and in some case military as­ sistance from the EU gnomes ofwar. Now they have handed out £ioom. of our money to sup­


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port and arm the pro-EU forc­ es that overthrew the Ukrain­ ian Government, Now the Conservative Party • and its members and support­ ers and leaders Cameron and Haigh are openly support­ ing the EU for a WWIII with Russia. Ofcourse they are supported by the other war­ mongers and their support­ ers in the Labour and Liberal parties. So who will you vote for today? The warmongers or a sensible party?


RonLoebell, Edisford, Clitheroe BEER FESTIVAL


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1 find it bitterly ironic and sourly condescending that the organisers of this year’s Clit­ heroe Beer Festival chose to send their patrons away with carrier bags displaying the slo­ gan “Buy CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide”, when the 2014 edition of said book does not list a sin- gle pub in Clitheroe. Our town has a variety of pubs, virtually all of them serving traditional hand-pulled cask 31e, and as a collective we are faring better than most against the nationwide trend of pubs permanently clos­ ing. Why do CAMRA insist on snubbing Clitheroe in their “Good Beer Guide”? What criteria is so specific that an entire town is deliber­ ately ignored? As someone who has worked in the pub trade for nearly 10 years, such an affront is a downright insult to the peo­ ple who work their backsides off around the clock all year round to accommodate the public. What CAMRA is doing by ex­ cluding Clitheroe from their book is not only refusing to acknowledge the efforts of the many people employed by the pub trade in this town, but also diminishing the wider portrayal of Clitheroe in terms of tourism and travel. Essentially, they are leading others to believe that Clithe­ roe is not worth visiting! Such an abuse of privilege was enough to convince me to boy­ cott the Clitheroe Beer Festival this year, as well as any other future CAMRA organised functions, until CAMRA open


their eyes and realise that Clit­ heroe has plenty of good beer on its own doorstep.


Jason Menzies


Assistant Manager, New Inn, Clitheroe


Editor’s Note: The previous letter was sent to CAMRA and to us. Below is the reply from CAMRA.


C a n ’t g e t a q u a r t in to a p in t p o t . . .


Hi Jason, I am the chairman of East Lancs CAMRA, and I


can understand where you are coming from, but I am guess- ingyou have not attended a branch meeting recently. This East Lancs Branch in­ cludes six borough councils - Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Rossendale, Blackburn-with- Darwen and, ofcourse, Ribble Valley (although only about half of the latter). As a branch covering this large area we have well over 300 real ale pubs (not to mention the many clubs selling Real Ale, such as the very good Conservative Club in Clithereoe) and trust me, our members do their damndest to sup in all of them. So with a such a large area and with so many pubs and clubs, how many Good Beer Guide entries should we have? Well quite simply CAMRA HQ al­ lows East Lancs 33 entries, so Rossendale area winge, Burnley area winge and yes, the Ribble Valley area winge as well (as do the other three). We have in East Lancs a mem­ bership ofwell over 1,600 and there are some very passion­ ate lads and lasses in the Rib­ ble Valley who go out drinking in the area on a regular basis. There are many villages with really good pubs in the Ribble Valley and I do think quite a few would walk into most are­ as’ GBG allocation, but wejust have the 33 and frankly there is not a lot we can do about it. A few years ago we produced a free leaflet promoting Real Ale in Clitheroe and if you had attended the festival Jason, you would have recieved the programme, which included a crawl round Clitheroe town centre including, of course, the New Inn. But more impor- tantlyyou could have picked up a bookletjointly produced by East Lancs CAMRA and the Forest of Bowland Area of Natural Beauty promoting the many superb pubs in Bowland (unfortunately, it does include some in Yorkshire). As a branch we do our best to promote all the Real Ale pubs and clubs in our area stretch­ ing from the borders of Great­ er Manchester, Rochdale,


North and West Yorkshire, maybe we don’t get it right all


thetimebutwedohonestly try our best. In the last three years our


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Branch Pubs of The Year have reached the last 16 best pubs in Britain and as I’m sure you are aware, The Swan With Two Necks in Pendleton has just won the CAMRA National Pub Of The Year. • Our last meeting was in The Brown Cow at Chatburn, but unfortunately I was in Der­ byshire for that weekend so could not sample some of John and Michelle’s excellent ales;


did you make it? If not, why ’ not come along to one of our meetings, the next one being at The Griffin Inn, Haslingden,


on Tuesday June 3rd starting ’ 7-45 pm. I have copied one or two of our Ribble Valley members in on this reply so they are aware of your concerns.


John Webster, Chairman East Lancs CAMRA ORNITHOLOGHY


Not all watchers aretwitchers! One definition of “twitch” in the Oxford English dictionary is a sudden spasmodic con­ traction of muscles or limbs. Hence, somebody demon­ strating short, sudden jerking or convulsive movement is described as “twitchy”. In response to “I am not a twitcher”, (letters 15th May) I fear that he or she is yet an­ other person who uses the term twitcher as a synonym • for birdwatcher. The term twitcher originated in the 1950s when it was used to describe the nervous behav­ iour of Howard Medhurst, a British birdwatcher, who be­ came twitchy during periods of autumnal easterly winds with the thought of what rare birds they may bring to these shores. The term has now come to ■ mean a birdwatcher who trav­ els, sometimes long distances, to see a rare bird found by somebody else, in order to add it to their life list. • In this sense, twitching is akin to collecting engine numbers or Stobart lorry names and is predominantly a male occupa­ tion. All twitchers are bird watch­ ers but not all birdwatchers are twitchers. I get annoyed when my bird watching and bird study activities are re­ ferred to as twitching and my­ self as a twitcher. Birdwatcher or birder yes, twitcher no. Tony Cooper


Regional Representative - British Trust for Ornithology,


Chairman of East Lancashire Ornithologists'Club.


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Talk by author Balderstone and District WI were given a talk by award winning author, Mrs Linda Sawley, who told members how she started to write nov­ els and how her writing career developed. The competition was for a souvenir of Clithe­ roe which was won by Jean Ryan and the runner-up was Pauline Bell. The raffle was won by Betty


Hughes and the runner up was Yvonne Hayes.


The next meeting of the WI


will be on Tuesday June 10th at 7-30 pm at Mellor Brook Community Centre. Anyone wishing to join the group will be most welcome. Please con­ tact Mrs Joan Woolmington on 01254 812226.


CHATBURN


Parish council At the annual parish


council meeting held in the village hall, Mr Whittaker was appointed chairman for the next 12 months. The borough councillor


reported that the Ribble Lane water leak was currently being repaired and it would not be necessary to close the road. Posters have been printed


for the Best Kept Village clean­ up and flyers will be delivered to every house in the village. Chatburn will participate


in the borough council cente­ nary tree planting scheme and identified a suitable site in the centre of the village. The playground fort will


be painted and the graf­ fiti removed during the week commencing May 19th and the roundabout seats will be ' replaced. The village committee has


donated £200 towards the replacement swing frame. The next parish council


meeting will be held on Mon­ day June 9th at 7-30 pm in the village hall, Downham Road.


CHIPPING


Committee trip CHAOS (Chipping Welfare


Committee) annual full-day trip is on Tuesday June 3rd to Chatsworth House and Buxton including a meal at the Pavilion Gardens. The coach will leave


Chipping bus stop at g-30 am (earlier than first advertised) returning by 8-30 pm. All residents of Chipping,


Thornley, Leagram, Little Bowland and Chaigley aged 60 and over are eligible to attend with partners. A list is in Brabins Shop,


names to be in by Tuesday May 27th, places allocated on a “first-come, first-served” basis. Contact Martin and Bar­ bara Butters on 01995 61586.


Gup cake competition first at coffee morning


A Christian Aid coffee morn­ ing was held in the Wadding- ton Methodist School Room and, for the first time, a cup cake competition was also organised. Our photo shows Mrs Katie


History Society The speaker at the final


spring meeting, was Mark Cornwell who gave a fascinat­ ing illustrated talk on the history of the Calderstones Hospital railway, a branch line off the Blackburn to Hellifield mainline. Built immediately before


the start of the First World War for the Lancashire Asylum System, the hospital was requisitioned by the War Office and became Queen Mary’s Military Hospital. A to­ tal of 56,800 servicemen were treated between April 1915 to June 1920, and the rail link into the hospital was vital. The next informal Sunday


session, on Sunday June 1st from 2 pm in St Mary’s Community Hall, will bean opportunity for visitors to seek information about local and family history issues, and access will be available to the society’s archive of census information, graveyard and otherrecords, togetherwith old documents, books, press cuttings, old photographs and society publications. - For more information visit:


www.chippinghistory.co.ukor call 01772 864289.


Young Farmers Members met on Monday


in St Mary’s Hall where they finalised arrangements for future events. Congratulations went to


Victoria Hargreaves and Jade


Clews Lamlie winning the adult section and Isabel Hatherell winning the prize forthejuniors. Mrs Doreen Edmondson


judgedthe cakes and pre­ sented the winners with


Thompson who gained 1st and 2nd places respectively in the County Horse Judging Competition. The Club’s Float in Goo-


snargh Field day, which will promote membership of the YFC Movement was agreed on for which Club President and sponsor of this year’s shirts, Sam Hardman Contractors, is kindly loaning his wagon. The club’s Charity Duck Race will be on Sunday June 15 th on Chipping Brook at 4 pm, ducks £1 each, tickets available from all members at future County and Bowland Region events and from Ccub members at the County Management meeting tonight May 22nd. Entries were finalised for


the County Rally on May 25th at Lancaster and members en­ tering the Vintage YFC Tractor section at Chipping Steam Fair were reminded to get polish­ ing their entries. Members also volunteered to act as Car Park attendants at the Fair on Monday May 26th to support the Army Cadets who do a marvellous job directing the large volume ofvisitors expected at the event. • The next Club Meeting is


on Monday June 2nd, details to be announced.


DOWNHAM


Maymeeting At Downham WI May


meeting, the bursary for Den­ man College, which is drawn


theirprizes. The whole event made a grand total of £272 which, together with the house-to- house collection, raised just over £1,000 for Christian Aid funds.


every three years, was won by Mrs Eileen Parker, with Julie Parker (no relation) as reserve. Eileen has done much for


the LFWI over many years and has held a range of positions. Both Mrs Parkers are past presidents. Barbara Lewis gave a re­


port on a visit to Hurst Green WI’s “Ready, Steady Cook”. Philippa McFall reported on Slaidburn WI’s 70th Birthday and Frances Garner reported on attending a National Con­ ference “Inspiring Women Together” for WI Presidents. The NFWI Resolution for this year, which is: “for every WI member to make their wishes regarding organ donation known in respect of organ donation”, was carried with two abstentions. Members Barbara Lewis,


Julie Parker, Christine New- house and Frances Garner, gave excellent talks on the subject of “Something That Changed My,Life”. The next meeting is at 7-30


pm on Thursday June 19th at Downham Village Hall and will feature “Gos on Tour”, which is a variety show. Visitors are always welcome.


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Rescue team talk Members of Dunsop Bridge


Women’s Institute met at The Bowland and Pennine Rescue Team’s centre at Smelt Mill, • continued on next page


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