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parents when we go to school. However, if you live in Lancashire and rely on Lancashire County Council to get your children to . school this is not always the case. My friend’s children live in Ramsgreave (Ribble Valley) and go to secondary school in Clitheroe.. The reason they attend school in Clitheroe is that when they started school they had to go to a Clitheroe primary school, as there were no places avail­ able nearer to their home (ac­ cording to Lancashire County Council). The primary school was a feeder school to Ribblesdale, so it was a natural choice to go there where all their friends went. The eldest child started at Ribblesdale two years ago and was given abuspasstogetto school. When a choice of school was made for the second child, Ribblesdale was again chosen - a natural progression. My friend has now been told there is no bus pass available for the second child and, not onlythat, theywillhavetopay quite a large amount for transport and also that the second child will have to travel on a separate bus on her own and cannot travel with her elder sibling. This is a very daunting prospect for an 11-year- old. While schools are trying to make transition to secondary school easier for youngsters, it seems Lancashire County Council is doing its best to disrupt families, as these two children now leave home together to wait at the same bus stop and get on two differ­ ent buses that both take dif­ ferent routes to go to the same school. One pays, the other does not. Has the council lost its mar­ bles or is it just intent on split-- ting families? Budget cuts'should not take priority over the welfare of young vulnerable children. In my opinion this is not a jus­ tifiable saving at the expense of our children. Aconcernedparent Address supplied


TALKS


No pleasure to wie ld th e axe


I read Nick Burton’s letter (Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, Thursday September 24) about the ending of the autumn and winter evening talks in East Lancashire’s libraries with interest and I am responding both as a local county councillor and also as the cabinet member with


responsibility for the library service at County Hall. I can assure Mr Burton and all other library users that taking decisions like this gives me no pleasure whatsoever. But the simple truth is that Lancashire County Council is under unprecedented financial pressure and service reductions are now almost inevitable through no fault of the county council.


Reductions in Government support mean that cuts of £117 million were identified in February and a further £220 million needs to be found by 2020 to balance the books. More front line services, such as the library talks, are under threat and I would suggest that Mr Burton asks his local Conservative MP Nigel Evans to explain why Lancashire County Council is now being starved of the resources it needs. The talks at Burnley, Longridge and Clitheroe were reviewed in light of the staff time involved and the budget reductions forced on the county council by the Govern­ ment. I understand that many of the


. lectures did not, in fact, enjoy the full houses Mr Burton describes and in the difficult financial climate I have outlined, the unpalatable decision to close the autumn and winter programme was taken. Mr Burton is right: libraries should be cherished and the tough decisions which lie ahead of us will not be easy. Perhaps Mr Burton would like to point out to his local ToryMP that this is what austerity looks like and it is not going to get any easier.


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ments about the NHS 111 sys­ tem and the Royal Blackburn Hospital, so I thought I would


relate m y recent experience in order to somewhat redress the


balance In a considerable amount of pain, I decided in the end to phonemataboutio.3opmon


Friday night. The lady I spoke to asked all the necessary questions then consulted the doctor. She came back to me aiid asked if


I was able to drive toadoctor. I said I didn’t feel able to drive with that amount of pain, so she arranged for a home visit with a very pleasant and help­ ful doctor who said 1 needed to be in hospital .So he arranged an ambulance and immedi­ ate admittance to the Surgical- Triage Ward, where I arrived atabouti.30am. By about 2 am my condition had been assessed, dealt with and I was pain free. I can’t thank everyone in­ volved enough. Every single personlhad contact with all the way through was friendly,. helpful and professional. The whole 111 process went like clockwork from start to finish. Certainly there was some waiting, but not nearly as much as might be expected late on a Friday night. ... Thank you all


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End this bird killing season


Every year, around 40 mil­ lion pheasants are inten­ sively reared to be released for shooting... and the four- month killing season has started. Gun lobby spokespeople have already begun trying to fill newspaper columns and the airwaves with their sunshine and roses fantasy picture of their bloody sport. Cages, industrial hatcheries, giant sheds and release pens are all involved in mass


production ofthese feathered targets. Animal Aid continues to press for a ban on the purpose breeding of birds to be shot for sport, something which Hol­ land introduced in 2002.


A particularly vicious aspect of‘game bird’ production is the use of small metal cages, in which the egg-producing birds are confined. Animal Aid recently released shocking undercover footage showingjusthowwretched


and utterly depressing a time the birds have inside these metal prisons. A civilised country would not permit their use. In fact, a YouGov opinion polfwe commissioned last year found that 77% of re­ spondents opposed them. You can add your voice to


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