You’ve got to laugh as jokes keep coming in masterplan farce
Date: Tuesday 19th February 2019
I DO hope that Kevin Beaty, leader of the Tories on Eden District Council, keeps the jokes coming, at least until the council elections in May.
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Date: Tuesday 19th February 2019
I DO hope that Kevin Beaty, leader of the Tories on Eden District Council, keeps the jokes coming, at least until the council elections in May.
Date: Tuesday 19th February 2019
AS part of the Penrith Town Council’s consultation on its neighbourhood plan I have received in the post a booklet that is poorly put together and is missing a policy that we are being consulted on.
Date: Tuesday 19th February 2019
I NOTE that the small bridge over the local beck at Kirkby Stephen was demolished by the county council (Herald, 2nd February), all for wanting a minor repair.
Date: Tuesday 19th February 2019
I HAVE just paid my second visit to the fabulous new zero waste shop, Another Weigh, in Angel Lane, Penrith, and felt I must spread the word.
Date: Monday 11th February 2019
IN reply to John Warmingham (Herald, 2nd February), in this country we have representative democracy, not mob rule. Parliament is in a much better position to decide what is right for us than the “Man in the Clapham Omnibus”; and as far as one can tell, there is a majority in the House to stay in Europe.
Date: Monday 11th February 2019
I AM writing following my appointment to the Appleby horse fair Multi-Agency Strategic Co-ordinating Group (MASCG) as an elected representative of the local community.
Date: Tuesday 5th February 2019
WE are fortunate in this country that our legal system allows for a court judgement to be challenged on the basis of new evidence or when evidence on which the original judgement was based is shown to be unreliable or false.
Date: Tuesday 5th February 2019
IT would be difficult to find a more pertinent example of our conflicted relationship with our environment than the production and consumption of bottled water.
Date: Tuesday 29th January 2019
I WRITE in support of your editorial comment (Herald, 19th January) which was generated by our planning application in which we successfully campaigned to help preserve the Shire breed.
Date: Tuesday 29th January 2019
THE planning proposal for a new water bottling plant near Penrith (Herald, 29th December) is of great concern to local environmental group Penrith Action for Community Transition (Pact) in that it raises several issues including fundamental questions about the future sustainability of local industry.
Date: Tuesday 29th January 2019
I NOTED in your article “Benefits roll-out total disaster” (Herald, 19th January) that county council leader Stewart Young decided to blame independent providers of children’s services for some of the budgetary overspend, going so far as to state that “the local authority is extremely concerned about the profiteering taking place at the expense of the most vulnerable children. It is distasteful and extremely expensive.”
Date: Tuesday 29th January 2019
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