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Cement works bosses refute claims by Clitheroe residents that smoke is poisoning town

The smoke seen from Hanson Cement, which many residents say is more than just steam Residents in the Ribble Valley have raised concerns about air pollution levels in one of their towns which they claim are being made worse by a cement works. Luke Tyrell, who lives in Clitheroe claims that Hanson Cement, previously Castle Cement, on West Bradford Road, is pumping nitrogen oxide into the atmosphere and poisoning the area. Mr Tyrell, who lives close to Bawdlands, said the issue had been ongoing for more than a decade, with thick black smoke coming from the cement works being passed off as steam by bosses of the company.

Ribble Valley festival returns online for May Day holiday

FAVOURITE: Kyla Brox is one of the headliners of this year’s jazz and blues festival THE Ribble Valley Jazz and Blues Festival will go ahead this year - as an online event. All three days of the festival will be streamed for free over the May Day Bank Holiday featuring some of the biggest names on the British jazz and blues scene. Singer song-writer Kyla Brox will provide the vintage fizz when she headlines this year’s three-day jamboree on Bank Holiday Sunday. Organisers, who have attracted acts from all over the world to Clitheroe in the last decade, were forced to cancel last year’s festival due to the Coronavirus health emergency.

Government face-to-face meetings ruling met with concern across Lancashire

A government decision that could force councils to return to face-to-face meetings from next month has been met with criticism and concern across much of Lancashire. Ministers have said that powers introduced last year enabling local authorities to stage remote meetings as a result of the pandemic will end, as planned, on 6th May. In a letter to town and county halls late last month, local government minister Luke Hall said that the success of the vaccine rollout and a fall in the number of Covid cases should ensure a “significant reduction in risk for local authority members meeting in person”.

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