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Browsholme’s Amanda is the new High Sheriff
Amanda Jane Parker JP has been chosen as Lancashire’s next High Sheriff by HM the Queen. Having been announced as
the High SheriffElect, Aman da will be officially sworn-in to office at a special ceremony at County Hall, PrestononFriday April 10th. A former Clitheroe Roy
All eyes turned skywards for rare solar eclipse
All eyes turned skywards last Friday morning - or at least those with the correct UV protection did - to witness a near total eclipse of the sun. Unfortunately some fairly dense cloud meant the phenomenon was not seen m the Babble Valley as clearly
as in some other parts of the UK, but it was still a rare spectacle and one which enticed local photographers. We have had a number of images sent in by readers, two of which are featured above. On the left is Steuart Kelkngton s shot, one of a series taken from his home. Steaurt did not mind the cloud, writing: “The light cloud was good as it reduced the con trast and gave the sun some ‘atmosphere’.” On the right is another view of the eclipse, this one taken for the top of Wadding- ton Fell, by Jonathan Brown, from Clitheroe.
It’s still all right now, Andy
The death of somebody fa mous can wash over us, leav ing us totally unmoved (I won’t name names) or it can leave us feelingsomesenseofpersonal loss. So it was last week when
the death was announced of Andy Fraser. “Andy who?” you may ask. Well, Andy was a rock star
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at his peak in the late 1960s and early ’70s, and as a mem ber of the young band “Free” he co-wrote their pop-rock classic “All Right Now”. It sold millions and is still
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LOOKING BACK
50 YEARS AGO What’s inyourglovebox?
“DOUBTLESS YOU CAR has a glove locker. But does it contain gloves? 'Course not, probably it's cluttered up with an assortment of old dusters, pieces of string, old toffee papersand sundry nuts and bolts which mysteriously appear from time to time and ■ seemingly served little purpose when they wore in their rightful positions. Spring has arrived, so why not have a right old clean up and resolve not to use ' the glove locker as a depository for odds and ends, but as a place for a piece of equipmentthatfits likeaglove-yourcamera? Countless timeshave motorists cursed themselves for not having it with them, for it is always whilstout in the carthatthe photographic opportunity seems to occur."
25 YEARS AGO Urgent look at parking issues
“AS A MATTER of urgency, councillors are to take a
close look at parking in Clitheroe. Their decision has beenwelcomed by the town's traders,some ofwhom
still think that the former auction mart site should be turned into a permanent car park. Since the site was opened up as a temporary car park, more and more visitors have used it, raising the ultimate problem -where do they go once work on the town centre scheme starts? Due to building work now underway at the council offices, more spaces have been lost leading to problems with parking for council members and visitors and putting extra pressure on the Railway View car park which is also subject to waiting restrictions."
being played on the radio to day, for the simple reason that it was and still is a great pop tune, with rasping gui tar chords, wood-chopping drums, Fraser’s pumping bass
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■ line and amazingly soulful vocals from a white teenager named Paul Rodgers. Songs trigger memories,
and this one always recalls a summer holiday with a bunch of teenage Padiham lads head ing for Newquay in a battered 1950-something Bedford CA van that we’d bought for £60 from Arthur Pollard at his ga rage at Read. This zany vehicle with its wheezy engine, split windscreen, three-speed col umn change and a gear stick that occasionally, came off in your hand made it something of an adventure. We called it
“TheBeasfwithgoodreason. On the trip, I’d frequently
pick up my similarly battered 50-bob guitar and bash out the chords to “All Right Now” and everyone on board sang along and head-banged... like the fa mous “Bohemian Rhapsody" scene from “Wayne’s World”, but years earlier. It was in Newquay that we
carefree lads learned that she of our mates from our local pub, the Britannia at Padiham, had died in that dreadful plane crash in Spain. It hit us like a ton of bricks. That was the day we all grew up more than a lit- tle, and that’s why “All Right Now” is a bittersweet musical memory to this day. Now we’re all in our sixties and Andy Fraser, who became
famous at the age of 15, has died aged 62. It will be a pity if he’s remembered only for “All Right Now” because he wrote some tremendous songs for himself and other top artists; meaningful songs of compas sion and a sense of justice. From “Every Kind of Peo
ple”, a hit for Robert Palmer, comes this: “There’s no profit in deceit Honest men know that Revenge does not taste
sweet Whether yellow, black or
white Each and every man’s the
same inside." Pop songs may be merely
ephemeral, but as a philoso phy for living I reckon that’s exemplary. Thanks, Andy.
tephen Fry, national treasure, thespian “luwie”, and self- appointed fount of all knowledge and
wisdom, used an interview with Irish Radio - perhaps pointedly in a predominantly Roman Catholic country - to launch an attack on God: “Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world so full of
injustice?" Whatever one thinks of
Fry, criticised (among other things) for his foul-mouthed performance when host ing the nA FTAs (perhaps his mother never told him: “Now, Stephen, it’s not big to swear”!), many might think he has a point. Why does God cre- ate and preside over a world in which evil seems rampant, where the innocent suffer and, as Fry himself pointed out, children contract bone cancer? You probably won’ t be
al Grammar School pupil, Amanda plays an active part in the community and has been a magistrate on the east Lancashire bench since 2006. She has been'a governor at Thorneyholme Roman Cath olic Primary School, Dunsop Bridge, since 1999. Amanda and her husband
Robert live at Browsholme Hall in the Ribble Valley, the oldest surviving family home in Lancashire. Built in 1507 by the Parker family, the hall has been a tourist attraction for more than 40 years. It has recently become a popular wedding venue and hosts a variety of other events at it’s award-winning Tithe Barn development. Amanda has two children,
Eleanor (21) and Roland (20), who are both currently study ing at university. Commenting on her new
role she said: “I was absolute ly delighted and surprised to be chosen as High Sheriff of Lancashire. Being selected for
such a historic and traditional role is a great honour and an opportunity for me to make a difference to all Lancastrians.
is an important part of Lanca shire’s heritage.” A keen sports enthusiast,
Amanda is treasurer of the Lancashire Hockey Develop ment group and a founder member of the Lancashire HockeyUmpires Association. She added “I am particu
larly interested in sport activi ties for young people and feel very strongly that everyone should have the opportunity for a good start in life. “When I get out and about
around the county, I intend to raise the profile of the role of High Sheriff and of the many volunteers in the county whose work so often goes un recognised. “My first initiative will
be to create a website for the High Sheriff of Lancashire and use Facebook and Twitter to highlight and draw attention to organisations and individu als who contribute so much to our county.” The role of High Sheriff is
to “protect and assist in up holding the dignity and well being of Her Majesty’s judges and to represent the Queen’s executive powers in respect of the administration of justice in the county”. When she becomes High
“The High Sheriff of Lan
cashire’s role stretches back to the 10 th century. The office is held for a year and the role
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
surprised to learn that Fry is not the first to have asked this question; it has been discussed by assorted phi losophers and theologians for millennia - the most sus tained Biblical example be ing the Book of Job. There is a whole branch of Christian the ology (“theodicy”) dedicated to the issue. My own experience, speaking to many over many years, tells me that the “prob lem of evil” is one of the main reasons why those who reject God, do so. And I am not sur prised - it remains a signifi cant theological problem. But the issues, despite Fry’s
glib remarks, are not simple. Leaving aside the abuse (“ca pricious", “stupid” etc.), Fry focused specifically on God’s responsibility for injustice: Is God (assuming there is a God) responsible for injustice? Of course, it depends what form of injustice we have in mind. It is clear that a creator God is responsible a world
in which, for example, Chil dren suffer dreadful diseas es. The whole issue of what is generally termed “natural” (as opposed to “moral”) evil is complex but, broadly, it may be argued that God had to cre ate a world such as this (with disease, earthquakes etc.), in order for life, consciousness and morality to evolve, simply because that is the way physi- cal/chemical/biological sys tems work. But is God responsible for
injustice in its political/eco- nomic/social sense? Surely not. We alone are responsible for moral evil, and it is because God has permitted (indeed, re quires) free will that the choice of good or evil is our respon sibility entirely. Why is there poverty in a world of plenty? Because selfishness so often trumps compassion. Why are there wars and political op pression? Because there will always be those who wish to control others (the antithesis
of a loving God who creatively “lets-be”). The self is always the last idol to be vanquished. The story - perhaps apoc-
ryphal-istoldoftheinmates of the Buchenwald concentra tion camp who decided to put God on trial. His alleged crime: not protecting his Chosen Peo ple from evil. Witnesses were called and
evidence presented, and God was duly found guilty on all counts. After the verdict had been pronounced, an elder ly Jew said quietly: “Now it is time for our evening prayers”! Even in the face of evil and suf fering, God is still God, andre- ligious people are those who continue to hope that, in and at the end, and even in the face of truly horrendous evils, all (as Julian of Norwich put it) “shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well”.
The Rev. Canon Dr Peter Shepherd
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Sheriff, Amanda will take over from Dr Barry Johnson DL, who ends his term in office on Friday April 10th.
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