Ribble Valley Council Community Services Committee voted to recommend investment of £835,000 in constructing an full size football  artificial 3G pitch at Roefield, Clitheroe relaying the existing 3G  surface and refurbishing the existing all purpose area.

Conservatives' careful fiscal management and solid economic recovery means that austerity is coming to an end – But discipline remains

Ken Hind, Ribble Valley Council Leader has written to the Chief Constable and Police and Crime Commissioner Grunshaw expressing concerns about increasing crime and lack of police resources in the Ribble Valley. .

Ken Hind council leader of the Ribble Valley Borough Council welcomed the announcement to be made in the budget that local councils in England are to get an extra £420m to tackle a growing number of potholes.

Sue Hind, Ribble Valley Borough Conservative Councillor for the Edisford Ward where the Spar Supermarket on Edisford Road was the subject of a Ram Raid where a Cash Machine in which it is thought tens of thousands of pounds were stolen, states, “The residents of Clitheroe feel panicked.

Ribble Valley Borough Councillor Ged Mirfin, who represents Billington in which Ward Painter Wood falls has published some photographs taken by local residents of the signage warning HGV Drivers of the upcoming hairpin bend at the entrance to the village.

Councillor Sue Hind, who represents Edisford & Low Moor on Ribble Valley Borough Council has called for an extension of CCTV Cameras along Edisford Road and More Regular Police Patrols following a ram raid at Spar on Edisford Road using a JCB n which it is thought tens of thousands of pounds

Youth unemployment has halved since 2010; real wages for workers have grown for the seventh consecutive month; overall unemployment is at its lowest since 1975.