[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by taddy

I have been a member of (a certain) nationwide angling society for many years, twice a year I receive a magazine with all the latest club news and maps of the latest waters that the club have obtained fishing rights on.

Imagine my surprise when opening the latest newsletter yesterday to find that the society had purchased the fishing rights on the river Hyndburn from the Dunkenhalgh to the bottom of Lower Barns Street in Clayton, what is even more amazing is that it is now so clean as to be classified as a trout stream and that fish passes are to be introduced to allow migratory fish, I.E Salmon and sea Trout to bypass the various weirs.

The European Union and the Environment Agency are to be congratulated, if it wasn't for the E.U. directives on water quality this minor miracle would not have come about.

Think about this when or if David Cameron and his cronies call an in/out vote on the E.E.C. As ever, (even happier), Your's Taddy.

Its nowt to do with the E.U. Enviromant Agency, more than likely its because Broad Oak Mill closed and stopped the pollution into Warmden Brook, and all the mills on the Factory Bottom closed and stopped the pollution of Woodnook Water, which join together at the corner of Cross St to form the Hyndburn. All that happened before the power grabbers at Brussels thowt owt about our rivers water quality. Bet they don't even know where Hyndburn is.