mvw.clrtheroeadv0rtiser.co.uk Thursday,April24,2oM
i ' - . Thursday,Apnl24,2014
www.drtheroeadvertiser.co uk
CUTUEROEADVEBTISER&TIMES
WRITEtoVDIageNews.ClitheroeAdvertiserand'nmes, 3 King Street, Clitheroe BB72EW
EMAILvailey.villages@
eastlancsnews.co.uk CUCKontowww.clitheroeadvertiser.co.ukfbrvillage ■ news online
concerning upgrade’s and im- LEGALCOSTS
MP’s own Party; made this rule
.Mr Evans has been found not 4 i^ilty andffiepreposterous.xS charges against him thrown out, in the briefest oft ime s -,:;
■ calesjby a jury of his peers%~£ I feel sure that all his constitu-jt
.eats rejoice in this decision, -S whilst wondering what dim- ' : witted jobsworths felt the case worth pursuing in the first '- place and then had the brass. • neck to argue publicly, that it
was the right thing to do. . v . : The irony is that Mr Evans nowj
: faces a huge financial loss ow- J: •;ing to no fault of his own.un- ■ less of cpurse, he chose to sup port the Conservative Party - J (hewasnotanindependent * h then) when in 2011, Ken Clark ,MP QC, championed a change 4’ to the law, which removed the - r rights of defendants found not
guilty to recover their costs from the public purse. If he wants to adopt some worthwhile causes I suggest i he starts by trying to reverse J • .this peevish policy, moreo-
-4
yer, he could call for a statute ' 4 of limitations. Can there be no danger of a miscarriage of justice when witnesses are
HELPING YOU TO FIGHT BACK WITH OUR MONEY SAVING website
casting their minds back over decades? While reflecting on events
We know the
secret to HUGE discounts on
designer labels.
.he may remember how poor ■ ’ - -David Cameron’s judgement , : is when it comes to those he. - chooses to back, through hell-'■ and high water and those he readily discards. Having mulled things over,4 ’ :' - perhaps he will support those, in his constituency who sup-:’ ported him and gird his loins - to make a concerted effort to ;- fight the over-development in ’■ the Ribble Valley. . Sean Gallagher . Brockhall Village • ;
_ >. ABUSYYEAR What I’m doin:
on your bell I am fast approaching my first - year as County Councillor r
ling all
for Clitheroe and wanted to ■ update you as to some of the is sues that have come to me for attention.
A large number are concerned with the condition of our . . roads which I am working on • virtually daily."
\ =' r Along with my colleague Alan
Schofield, from Ribble Valley South West, we are looking .. at the rail network and are.; ; ^working closelywith officers?-*’
7v*\
saveyoumoneynow.co.uk 4 " . \ 7‘*’ „ • .j'f Chris Daggett
chris.daggett@jpress.co.uk Tel (01200) 422324.
lay advertising: (01282) 478110; ising: (01282) 422331
(01772)838100 .itvt «/
Duncan Smith .
duncansmithl@jpress.co.uk -j& j& if* News editor • f
provements. _ -. ’ In a joint venture between Clitheroe Town Council, Rib ble Valley Council, Lancashire County Council and the Police,
. the Town Team has had a , number of meetings to discuss various issues in the town by revisiting the Town Plan to
-. see which ideas can be imple-; . mented and any additional ones. ' As you will be aware the Coun ty Council has to make a saving of £300 million over the next
: fouryears, but we must ensure ■ vital services are not ended ■ or reduced to a serious level.
. These include rural bus serv- ■ ices, funding for the elderly, • policing and library services,
: including the very important Talking Book Service. There are traffic issues due in the most part to the large housing developments that • are coming to planning com-
- mittee, both at Ribble Valley •and County. . Specific areas of concern are Henthorn Road St Pauls - Street, Low Moor and others. A pedestrian crossing point
: is needed on Chatburn Road close to the Grammar School. The task ahead is not an easy one, but I will continue to , do my utmost to ensure that I pursue every issue and to . press for a positive outcome . ■ for those I am proud to repre sent at County Hall
- I hope this short summary of -
the issues listed will be useful and should anybody have any problems or need any help on •
anything at all please feel free' to contact me any time.” County Councillor Ian Brown, : Chatburn Road, Clitheroe
DEVELOPMENT
No demand for new homes
Regardingyour story last week headlined “Village housing ■
development is given green - light”.
So as I feared - what we all knew full-well would happen
again in the light of recent bit ter experience, has happened again. •
As sure as night follows day,
planning for construction of yet another batch of unwant- ' ed, unsuitable and unnec
essary houses has just been
waved through by the council, who now seem to have given
up bothering with even any token pretence of protecting Lancashire’s interests, herit- • age, environment or culture by actually examining these ■: - i
- "
applications at all... . . This week Uie offending items j are going to be dumped be-;:. >3 hind Pendle Street East in Sabden (and so this completes the encirclement of my house when combined with other recently completed develop- • merits), but as we all know, :. - • this is nowhere near an iso- ■■ lated attack - the out-of-touch central government seems hell-bent on covering much - of Lancashire with unwanted houses for no good reason. Meanwhile the local council : appears content tojust watch the dam burst and observe the destruction from a safe distance.
■ There is obviously no demand forlargenumbersofnew - houses in Sabden. Not from the indigenous population, nor from anybody else. It is clear from the rather . long-standing and static for- est of fading “for sale” and “ " to let” signs in Sabderi (and elsewhere in the Ribble Valley) that more people sadly seem ' to want to leave Sabden now than to move there. This may be because they don’t want to stay in a soulless concrete hyper-housing estate and perpetual building site(s). Sabden village was a delightful place. In the future, Greater
Sabden is far less likely to be the same. The politicians appear to be so breath-takingly out of touch
with both reality and public - opinion that they might as well be sitting on the moon as
down in London (in fact, that - might not be such a bad idea!). Arguably, there really is a
shortage of certain types of homes for certain types of
people in London itself-but this could easily be tackled in
- London ^ a far better solu- ' tion to this shortage would' 1 be to convert the massive- but-under-utilised Houses of Parliament site into expensive luxury flats to be used as sec- ’
ond homes for the MPs’non- taxpaying billionaire chums ; '
when visiting London from abroad - and also for their city -
. bonus-gorged banker mates.
ThepalaceofWestminsteris, ’ > after all, largely unused, emp ty space (as has been widelyre- ported recently, MPs normally only turn up briefly to allow * claiming their appearance money and travel expenses ; - *1
and then either go home,'or go to the heavily subsidised bars) and there appears to be very littlegoing onwhichis ofany
use to the public and taxpay- ■ ers, which these’MPs mock- ' ■
ingly describe themselves as ’ serving”. .
. . - • B B S Paul Watson -
paul.watson2@jpress.co.uk - 1 Content manager
EricBeardsworth -
eric.beardsworth@
jpress.co.uk: - , more easily and more effi
The one or two that turn up for meetings and debates could '
ciently carry out their postur ing and lying to each other in say, a phonebox at the end of ’ . '
. the rest can carry on boozing all day, as usual.'
in a pub up the road. MPs can surely afford London beer
prices on their generous ex- ' penses and salaries, without needing free beer and food : paid for by us in their heavily- ‘ subsidised Parliament bars ■ and canteens.
So this predominantly Lon
don-based housing problem ” would be addressed at source and there would then be no need or excuse at all for all these unwanted, unnecessary, unsuitable, largely unused housing developments infect ing Lancashire towns and vil lages.
Of course, getting anything useful to take place in the
unused, empty space located between many of our politi cians ears may prove far more challenging.
PaulBunyan, Pendle Street East, Sabden MPCOURTCASE
Evans coverage was ‘overkill’
I found to my astonishment when picking up last week’s Clitheroe Advertiser the over- ; kill usage of the paper’s valu- >; able space on the lucky-not-to- ;
-be-in-prison MP Nigel Evans. The use of more thanfive-and-.;
. a-half pages is considered, by all I have talked to, to be a down and out propaganda ■ campaign by the Conservative ■> Party and their supporters, to ■: make their tarnished golden bo yl ook go od. '
■
Can the 50,000-plus citizens ; : of the Ribble Yalley (two- thirds of the voters) who never wanted this Conservative can- didate as our MP be given in the future the same amount of ■ paper space?- ' ’ Will we see our collected
• thoughts and letters on our j r opposition to the continuation off this Conservative member :
=as the ME for the Ribble Valley, ■ being published as one lot? Or. will it be restricted to se lected letters and comments ■. being published in dribs and - drabs.
.
Democracy must be seen to , be done here,not just used as
a word. ’ , .
RonLoebelL' Edisford Road, Clitheroe p y a y :- -
. .:n .. . • , 'MBM&i
Katie Hammond , katieJiammondgjpresscouk;,,..
Reporter Julie Magee
Reporter - ’
v
julie.magee@
jpress.co.uk y g 44. Im Westminster bridge, while all Theycanjustaseasilydothis 4 ! CHIPPING
Fishandshops Last chance to book for the
trip to Boundary Mill shop ping complex and Banny’s fish and chip restaurant; at Colne, next Tuesday, organised by CHAOS (Chipping Welfare Committee). ; • The coach leaves Chipping
bus stop at 11 am, returning ; by 5 pm: There will be a £6-50 charge for a fish and chips lunch. The list for names is in Brabinsshop.
DOWNHAM
Soccer ladies DownhamWI welcomed -
guest speaker Gail Newsham, who has researched the his tory of the Dick, Kerr Ladies football club, who in their time were the most successful women’s British football team. During the First World
War, women went into the • factories to do the mens’jobs. ■ Dick, Kerr was an engi
neering factory in Preston that produced munitions, and the large numbers of women working there took part in sporting activities including football.; - - The Dick, Kerr Ladies
were the most successful of the factory teams, attract ing large crowds of male and female supporters, and were enormously successful at raising money for the boys at the front. Gail’s talk was moving and
interesting and can be highly recommended as an impor tant part of womens'social history. '
- ■ Julie Parker gave a report
on the Spring Council meeting • at Southport. ■ SusanWhittakergavea- report on the recent First Aid course organised by the W.I in the Village Hall.
- The next meeting will be
on Thursday May 15th, which will be members night and is a resolutions meeting. > •
GRINDLETON
They got rhythm Ribble Valley Jazz Festival-
will open at 7-30 pm next . Thursday (May 1st) at Grindle-
• ton Pavilion, with world music from Camerata Ritmata. There is a licensed bar. ■ ■ Tickets are available from ' The Grand, Clitheroe, 01200
421599 or go online to www.
thegrandvenue.cb.uk ■
Time Change A reminder that on Sunday '
the service at St Ambrose ' ■ Church will be at the later -’ . time of 11-15 a.m) The service ■ will be followed by the Church A.G.M; to which all parish- ioners are invited to attend.': *', Bacon butties will also be * ■;■•. •
Father and son bikers Nigel and Ben Rea organised a very special run out over the East er Bank Holiday, bringingj oy to some very deserving chil dren and their families. Nigel and Ben (pictured - above), who run Whalley-' -
HARROPFOLD
Fellowship On Thursday Harrop
Christian Fellowship began the Easter celebrations with sharing the reading of the ; Easter story followed by a celebration of the Lord’s Sup-, per in the Upper Room as it was Maundy Thursday. This was followed by the monthly prayer meeting. On Easter Day they celebrated the resurrec tion with a varied program ■ consisting of a medley of musical items by Ivor and Pam Roberson, of North Wales, fol lowed by a duet by Trisha and - Peggy Sue. Tlie Easter Message was ■- ■
given by Norman after which a delicious Easter meal was ■ put on by Peggy Sue, topped by a beautiful Easter cake. : This was enjoyed by all. On -• Thursday the House-group. will be held at the home of a Blackburn member. Next Sunday at 2 pm, we
will welcome the Rev. Lex ■ ' Thakur from Rochdale. All are welcome to our meetings.- - ■
KNOWLEGREEN
Biker breakfast ; ■ The popular Biker
Breakfast and Brew will be - held at thevillage church on •
Saturday, April 26th, from 9 am until noon: All bikers are 3 most welcome and there is /
• no charge for the full English •' breakfast. '
>' •' ■ .
These 'Easter bunnies’ rode big bikes! - dozens of delicious choco-
basedfamilymotorbike business Rea Racing Ltd, ropedinlots of family and friends for their special delivery “Easter Egg Run” to Derian House Children’s Hospice, at Chorley. Together they delivered -
LANGHO
St Leonard’s There was ajoint service on
Maundy Thursday evening at St Peter’s, Salesbury.- ■ Good Friday morning there
was Stations of the Cross at St Leonard’s, followed by the annual Family Walk, finishing at St Leonard’s Old Langho, for a short service at the Foot of • the Cross. , On Easter Sunday the
Church was full for family communion.’All the children received an Easter Egg. ; Later that day the draw1 •-
tookplaceforTheSpring- Draw. Mrs Anne Paley won the first prize. The 100 Club draw thismonthwaswonbyMr . David Holt. ■ ’ --
* ‘ - There will be a practice
for the Confirmation tonight - (fhursds(y)at7pm.'-. ‘ This Sunday, April 27th,:- '
there will be Holy Communion at 9 am followed at 10-30 am by confirmation of candidates from St Leonard’s and St Pe- ■ ter’s Salesbury, by the Bishop ; of Burnley, and at 6-30pm,f - ' some of the congregation will be at Gisburn Parish Church, -
; for a Service of Welcome for ’ ’ the she parishes joining the Blackburn Diocese from Brad ford Diocese. ■ - - • •
St Mary’s Blackburn foo’dbank has
said there is a need for tinned * meat, tinned tuna, tinned -, .3 fruit as well as the usual items.
-- late eggs to the youngsters, whose faces lit up. “Derian House is a fantas-
: tic place,” said Nigel, “and - - we thought they deserved a special treat over the Easter holidays.”
There is a box for donations in - the church porch. “The Peoples Choir” will
give a Springtime Concert in St Mary’s Church on Friday May 2nd at 7-30 pm. Admis sion is £5 which is inclusive o f ; refreshments. St Mary’s Ramblers next •
walk will be on Thursday May 1st and will start from Abbey Village go onto White Coppice ■ beforereturningtoAbbey ’ Village. It will cover a distance of approximately seven miles. Meet in the church car park at 9-30am or atthe “Hare and: Hounds” in Abbey Village at 10 am. The leader will be Bernard Hilton, tel. 247570. ■■■■■■ Wednesday Club will meet ■ on the 30th at 1-30 pm in the
-parish centre. This week ■ *,- Vincent Potts with a slideshow on “Begonias”. Vincent is a ... member of the parish and well known in gardening circles for his prize blooms. All welcome.
L0WM00R
Family walk Low Moor Club’s next fam
ily walk is this Sunday (April 27th), five-and-a-half miles around Whalley Nab through ' woodland and riverbank sec tions with a short climb. ' ' ■ Meet at the club 10 am and
drive to the starting point, Spring Wood; Route: Whalley, Nab Wood, Whalley Banks; • u Gamecock; Cock Bridge, Port- field, Spring Wood. • continued onnextpage
slimmingworld.com 0844 897 8000
tin m 3 mm
• FOOD & DRINK • ARTS & CRAFTS • GIFTS &- ACCESSORIES • FASHION • SOFT FURNISHINGS
> CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINMENT • FACE PAINTING - LIVE COOKERY DEMONSTRATIONS'
• Breda Murphy & Gareth Bevan, Food by Breda Murphy
■■■■■• Lisa Allen. Northcote Manor • Maunzio Bocchi, La Locanda - • Victor Yu, Yu & You
MASTER CLASSES • Cupcake Decorating with Cupcake Boutique
• Wine Tasting with Aged in Oak Wine Company • . „
BOWKER BMW EXHIBITING . ' . '
, • BMW...Harley Davidson - BMW Mini '• Maserati ROCKFMS • Cash for Kids'
ADULTS £5, CHILDREN £3.50 CONCESSIONS £4
FAMILY DISCOUNT AVAILABLE ' ?* ,* ”
■ * ,-w - j f
TICKETS AVAILABLE TO BOOK IN ■ ADVANCE TEL: 01254 827014
FR E E FAIR PR O G R AM M E ON PRESENTATION OF THIS. ,
ADVERTISEMENT ON ARRIVAL, ni
"Tel: 01254 827014 . ENQUIRIES: Stonyhunt College ’
;■ - ■■ 2-
' Hurst Green, Qitheroe BB7 9PZ ' ;i email:
OevCo@stonyhuretAc.uk:
.'FREE PARKING ; LIMITED DISABLED ACCESS
iR ib b le t e /alleys
.
, vy'
A
; *
---- r lm / y | .'
blimmmg World
l o v e , _
. Join a warm and fnendly group . - nearyoutoday... .... . .
TUESDAY - Clitheroe v
Clitheroe Rugby Club: Littlemorir Road
10am, 3.30pm & 5.30pm Tel: Vicky. 01254 246957
<S lim m in g , - know you’re amazing '
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58
