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In this week in history 25 YEARS AGO — 1994 PENRITH

Date: Tuesday 19th March 2019

A novel pilot scheme to try and set young offenders back on the straight and narrow is under way at Penrith’s Hunter Lane police station. Young criminals are being given the chance to see where their actions could lead them — with the help of a trip to the Deerbolt young offenders institution in County Durham. The visit to Deerbolt is part of an unusual project to show teenage offenders the other side of crime and also involves a look at the inside of a court and the police cells at Hunter Lane.

In this week in history 25 YEARS AGO — 1994 PENRITH

Date: Tuesday 12th March 2019

Penrith Chamber of Trade president Ken Elliott this week leapt to the defence of the town after it was described in a new guidebook as one of the North West’s least attractive towns. “The Rough Guide to England” claims: “The sprawling interwar estates on the outskirts of the town are a suitable introduction to one of the region’s least appealing towns.” Traders’ president Mr. Elliott was far from impressed when he heard about the book, saying: “Penrith is a lovely little town. The Devonshire Arcade and Angel Square are lovely shopping areas.”

In this year in history 25 years ago — 1994 PENRITH

Date: Monday 4th March 2019

Temporary caravan accommodation for the homeless of Eden is to be phased out at Pategill, Penrith, over the next four years and a housing association will take over responsibility by building houses for short term accommodation. Neither the association nor the site have been named, but a meeting of Eden Council’s Health and Housing Committee was told that 21 homes would be built and let to homeless people on six-month shorthold tenancies. Councillors had been about to begin a seven-year scheme to replace the Pategill caravans with chalet homes, but this had to be abandoned after legal checks showed that, unlike caravans, chalets would be subject to tenants’ right to buy.

In this week in history 25 YEARS AGO — 1994 KIRKBY STEPHEN

Date: Monday 25th February 2019

A young geologist from Kirkby Stephen is busy trying to raise sponsorship to take him on a scientific expedition to the from wastes of a remote part of Iceland. Christopher Gwinnett, who qualified with an HND in geology from Camborne School of Mines, has his sights set on a three-week expedition to Hofsdalur in Iceland.

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