Global refugee crisis decades in the making
Date: Monday 20th March 2017
Sir, I would like to thank everyone who wrote in with their views on my recent column. In it I tried to describe, in 800 words, just how complex this situation is.
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A fantastic community effort, but next time I’ll be a crayfish
Date: Tuesday 29th December 2015
Sir, So, here we are again with more of our furniture outside the front door than in the house.
Weather events are caused by global warming
Date: Tuesday 29th December 2015
Sir, Over the years climate change deniers have fed us with their black propaganda asserting that man-made climate change is some kind of left wing conspiracy.
Time to take a good look at our own habits
Date: Tuesday 29th December 2015
Sir, Amidst the suits and limos, and expenses paid jets and lunches of the Paris climate change summit, there have been a number of interesting statements that merit further clarification.
Honest people trying to do their best in trying circumstances
Date: Monday 15th April 2013
Sir, I have become increasingly concerned with the demonisation of those in our community who claim benefits.
Bright spot
Date: Monday 15th April 2013
Sir, Doom, gloom and what seems like a prolonged winter! Whenever I go into Penrith, I walk round to our “Spanish quarter” in Queen Street. My mood is immediately lifted by the colour and decorations, and I am put in mind of lovely warm sun. Just the tonic! Yours etc,
At least Batmobile would have been free of charge
Date: Monday 15th April 2013
Sir, When I read your headline (Herald, 6th April) about Mr. Rhodes I was reminded of the quote variously attributed to A .A. Milne and an American baseball player from the 1920s: “Sometimes I just sits and thinks — sometimes I just sits.”
Let’s see some action over chief constable impasse
Date: Monday 15th April 2013
Sir, I find it totally unacceptable that our crime commissioner had the audacity to engage in hiring a chauffeur at such high cost to us ratepayers (Herald, 6th March).
Alston spic and span for royal visit
Date: Monday 8th April 2013
Sir, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the community of Alston Moor and the council’s street cleansing contractor, Enterprise, and its recycling contractor, CWR, for pulling out all the stops to spruce up the town in preparation for the visit by Prince Charles to Alston on 28th March.
Town council given £250 by anonymous donor
Date: Monday 8th April 2013
Sir, You report (Herald, 30th March) that “the repeated refusal of Appleby Town Council to pay its former clerk £600 in unpaid wages and holiday pay has cost taxpayers an additional £267.84”.
Send a message to ministers over draconian penalties
Date: Monday 8th April 2013
Sir, I would like to preface this letter by saying the views expressed within are my own and are not necessarily shared by everyone in my political party.
Fond farewell to long-serving animal charity trustees
Date: Monday 8th April 2013
Sir, It is with great sadness that Eden Animal Rescue is bidding farewell this month to two of our founder trustees and members, Jean Corner and Tricia Graham.
Village pub’s downfall not through lack of support
Date: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Sir, I was deeply saddened and shocked at the attitude of EDC (Eden Doesn’t Care) in your article (Herald, 23rd March) regarding the change of use of the Crown Inn, Blencowe.
Very different Britain lies ahead
Date: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Sir, it’s about time that wind power enthusiasts like S. Jackson (“Britain independent or Britain beholden”, Herald, 23rd March) realised two facts, which destroy their arguments.
Railway use at record high
Date: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Sir, Dr. Beeching got it right in part; the operation of many minor railways he proposed for closure could not be justified. But he went too far, and the Labour governments of 1964-70 went much further.
Jumping the gun over Newton Rigg?
Date: Monday 7th February 2011
Sir, Your front page coverage and editorial (Herald, 22nd January) about the future of Newton Rigg was thorough as usual, but the headline telling us that Askham Bryan College was “set to take control of Newton Rigg” was rather premature.
Happy to pay a high price for alcohol but not fuel
Date: Monday 7th February 2011
Sir, Although I am only an occasional motorist these days, I am as concerned as most about the rising cost of fuel, not so much for its impact on me personally but for the effect it will inevitably have on the cost of goods transported by road.
Long period in the wilderness
Date: Monday 7th February 2011
Sir, I went to the demonstration in Grizedale Forest to lend my voice to the hundreds, possibly thousands, of people who gathered there to tell this Government to keep its hands off publicly-owned forests.
Warning over sale of forests
Date: Monday 7th February 2011
Sir, Anyone who is not yet convinced of the probable consequences of the proposed sale of Forestry Commission land to private owners would be well advised to study the history of Greystoke Forest.
Kirkby Stephen housing proposal “intolerable”
Date: Monday 11th October 2010
Sir, Further to your report, “Kirkby Stephen plans for 60 new homes”, Herald, 2nd October), we love Mr. Story’s optimism but our “strong local community” is against the proposed building on a green field behind South Road.
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