ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS: Children from Hunter Hall School following their successes at the Carlisle festival.
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS: Children from Hunter Hall School following their successes at the Carlisle festival.
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£50,000 grant scheme for rural communities
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
RURAL communities throughout the UK could be eligible to receive funding via the Calor Rural Community Fund from energy provider Calor.
Retiring after 30 years in North West ambulance service
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
DEREK Cartwright, chief executive of North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, has announced his retirement after more than 30 years in the ambulance service.
DEREK CARTWRIGHT: Retiring as NWAS chief executive.
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
DEREK CARTWRIGHT: Retiring as NWAS chief executive.
Potholes cost drivers £915 million in repairs
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
IN these days of mind-bending technology, one would imagine that it would be fairly straightforward to develop some new road surface polymer that would retain its tensile strength during the heaviest use, perhaps even give and return to its usual shape, etc, etc …
Will the new VW Atlassell in the US?
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
AFTER the successful launch of the Atlas on the American market, Volkswagen is extending its model range with another SUV. This new SUV is based on the Atlas, has five seats and sports a coupé-like roof line.
The L200 — a lot of Barbarian
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
MITSUBISHI Motors in the UK is adding even more style and purpose to the multi award-winning Mitsubishi L200 with the unveiling of the new special edition Barbarian SVP II — the second vehicle to be produced by its SVP (Special Vehicle Projects) division.
Spoken history of Cumbriaproves fascinating
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
THE March meeting of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society took place at the Friends Meeting House.
25 YEARS KESWICK
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
A Keswick family’s dream holiday in Florida turned into a nightmare when they were caught in the middle of a raging storm which crippled the state. George and Jennifer Scott, of Eskin Street, were enjoying two weeks of American sunshine with their two youngsters and brother-in-law Peter Scott, from Penrith, when the weather took a severe turn for the worse. They managed to return safely home to Keswick and recalled how they were stranded for four hours on kitchen work-tops while their rented house was submerged under four feet of water.
LOOK, we all do it. Complain about politicians and councillors. Often it’s justified, sometimes it’s plain unfair.
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
One Cumbrian council revealed this week it had spent over £100,000 investigating 76 complaints, 14 against one member alone, many of them frivolous. This same Copeland Council recently heard some members asking for protection against threats, although it’s virtually impossible when councillors are usually prominent figures in their communities outside council meetings.
Weather’slegacy ofruined roads
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
THE recent extreme weather has left behind it a legacy of ruined roads.
Faith canmove mountains
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
BETWEEN 8th and 11th March a countywide mission took place in Cumbria.
Parking problems being allowed to persist
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
Sir, According to a rumour which has been going the rounds on Penrith’s Wetheriggs estate this winter, the council appears to be prepared to help alleviate the problem of congestion, due to illegally and irresponsibly parked vehicles, at the bottom of Mayburgh Avenue.
Governance decisionsneed support of residents
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
Sir, One of the main agenda items at our last council meeting was the community governance review for the Eden district second stage consultation for parish and town councils and parish meetings.
Pothole awaiting Dr Foster …
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
Sir, Potholes now abound in our roads all over Britain, Penrith not least. A deep, long one in Drovers Lane, Penrith, opposite the pillar box awaits Dr Foster’s visit (“he stepped in a puddle right up to his middle”), and another close by requires motorists to practice dressage techniques to avoid it.
Thanks for help after accident
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
Sir, Can I please use your letters page to thank everyone who helped me when I hit a pothole on my pedal bike on Friday, 9th March.
Don’t blame Emma …
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
Sir, In the Herald Storm Emma got the blame for the severe conditions on the East Fellside earlier this month.
Aircraft crash appeal
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
Sir, I am researching aircraft crashes and in the process of writing a book. I am asking readers who live in and around Nenthead if they remember a RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter which crashed in 1941 midway on the Allenheads to Nenthead road, sadly killing the pilot.
Facts on EU membership must be made clear
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
Sir, It is good and correct that the Herald should publish letters from members of the community concerning the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, in order to contribute to the ongoing debate as to the precise nature of the relationship with the EU that the UK wishes to have after its departure — a relationship that has to be agreed and accepted by the remaining members of the EU and not imposed upon them by the UK.
“Tax by stealth” claims
Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
Sir, It was reported (Herald, 17th March) that by 2022 Eden District Council will cease funding for public toilets in Penrith. But isn’t it also the case that EDC will cease funding of all community playground areas and of footway street lighting services throughout the district by the same date; and that the generally ill-equipped volunteers of parish councils are being pressed to take on those assets and services?
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